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WHY the teacher allegedly put the childs book bag in the trash?

Cause she was a nut case?

My son had a teacher who used to tip over kids' desks if the were messy. Not clean enough? Tip 'em over again. And again.

I came home to find my little fella, who had received a medal for perfect academics the year before, fondling the medal, crying and saying he'd never be able to repeat that work.

At a parent-teacher meeting a parent said her daughter was tearing up homework over and over, saying "It's not perfect, it's not perfect." We're talking kids who must have been petrified of whatever the heck this teacher did when they delivered a less than perfect response or paper.

I went thru 12 years of Catholic school in the 50s and 60s. I know what school discipline is and I wasn't afraid to have my son experience the same. However, this lady was crazy and I learned from several other parents that their kids were all displaying signs of nervous behavior. To top it off, at this same conference, the teacher yelled at the parents!

I'm the daughter of an elementary school teacher and not once did my mother need to yell at the parents - including the ones who came to school ready to fight w/her over some imagined wrong to their precious kid.

Yeah, maybe the kid did something wrong. They do that sometimes. And maybe the teacher's a flaming nutcase.

btw - nothing personal, prairie, just me off on a rant. My little guy was the sweetest thing and this teacher made him a nervous wreck for a few months until I realized what was going on and got him out of the situation.

Well, certainly in this case, she appears to tilt heavily toward nut-case. I mean she beat the crap out of parent with a chair, not too much to argue in her defense there.

I was curious as to why the backpack was in the trash. The B/C sticker is one of the best possibilities suggested here. There's just a lot of factual holes in this story, as it's written. And my curious nature raises questions. :)

Prairie

It ain't just teachers who are 'snapping'. Its happening all over the place. In the last 2 years alone, I've seen instances of road rage that would blow your mind - on I25 doing 90+ mph, no less. I've seen a p.o.'ed yuppie type deliberately knock over a rack of stuff in a store for some perceived wrong a store clerk did to him. Last week, a mother of 3, tried to run over a couple of other kids on the block when they did not get out of the way quickly enough to suit her....Yep, I said 'tried to run over'....my oldest son was one of them.

These are just a few examples that I've seen. My sister, who lives in Virginia, has called me more than once with eye popping people-out-of-control stories. There's something very wrong going on across this country. Almost like there is something we've all been exposed to and the effects are now being manifested.

I know...I know...tin foil hats and all that.