Posted on 11/10/2005 1:55:38 PM PST by Abathar
ELIZABETH, Pa. -- Angry parents told a school board it should fire an elementary school principal who publicly shamed an 8-year-old girl falsely accused of stealing $5 from another student.
William Penn Elementary School Principal Marlene Whitby paraded the girl from class to class last month, calling her a liar and thief. Soon after, the student who made the theft accusation recanted her story.
Whitby apologized privately to Katie White after the family complained to school administrators, but not publicly, said Ryan White, the girl's father.
Elizabeth Forward School Board members told angry parents at a meeting Wednesday they are "appropriately" handling the issue.
The president of the board, Lowell Meek, said he understood White's anger.
"If you understood my anger, (Whitby) would be gone," White said.
White said he spoke to Whitby and she acknowledged that she didn't look at a school bus video or talk to the bus driver to verify the theft accusation.
Tom DeRosa, a Forward Township supervisor who has a third-grade daughter, asked the board why it has taken nearly a month to investigate Whitby.
"There's no mystery about what happened," DeRosa said. "It should have taken one day."
Whitby, who remains the school's principal, didn't immediately return a message left at the school Thursday.
School board officials have refused to say what kind of discipline Whitby could face.
I have never sued anyone in my life; but, I would sue this school board and see that this neanderthal principal is fired. The principal is indeed a bully and unfit to supervise the education of a lab rat, much less our children. Oh, I forgot, to some educators kids and lab rats are one and the same.
I agree, a lot of them do think our kids are lab rats - Usually they are the ones that want Ridalin handed out like candy also.
Yeah that's going to help em in a couple of years when they are giving each other blowjobs in the back of the bus. Keep tearing down adult authority. It's working splendidly. What if Sister Mary rapped the wrong girl's knuckles in class back in the day? Lawsuit? Get fricking real. Little darlings today are the center of the universe and the worse for it.
Those who don't teach justice shouldn't have any authority.
Lawsuit?
Sweetheart, I didn't say anything about a lawsuit. Try reading my post.
Get fricking real.
Real is justice, not unquestioned authority - unless you live under a Communist regime or perhaps in Iraq during the days of Saddam Hussein. Is that your cup of tea? If it is, you could always relocate.
When an individual in authority is wrong, that individual should be corrected, in a just way. What I have suggested in just.
If people in authority are allowed to do whatever they want to children without question, I suppose you think what pedophile teachers and priests have done is just dandy. After all, they ARE in authority.
How sick.
oh gd now I'm supporting pedophiles. Pbbbt. Shouldn't you be teaching your kids about how they are the center of the universe or something?
You absolutely are if you believe those in 'authority' can do what they wish to children without being held accountable when they do the wrong thing.
Like I said Mensabreath, how do you go from a Principal trying to instill morals to pedophilia. Just buzz off. Stop tearing down LEGITIMATE AUTHORITY. It's ruining this country. If she screwed up settle it privately. Don't teach these little darlings that crime pays. Someone got the dough. If not in this case, the next one. They steal like pirates at my kids school. They being a class of people with little or no moral compass being provided by their parents. Kick ass and take names Principals of America.
Maybe you didn't get your knuckles rapped hard enough as a kid, softie. The little darlings will recover.
You feel free to push the abuse button. You came back a week later looking for a fight. Buzz off.
Looks like the idiot child is the principal. Not the youngster
Are you saying it is moral to charge someone without evidence, and refuse to behave justly when the real pepetrator comes forward? You have a twisted sense of 'morals,' it seems.
Stop tearing down LEGITIMATE AUTHORITY.
Since when is 'legitimate authority' allowed to go unchallenged when they accuse and punish someone without evidence, then refuse to behave justly when the real perpetrator comes forward?
Don't teach these little darlings that crime pays.
Instead, teach them that those in authority do not behave in a just and moral manner.
Maybe you didn't get your knuckles rapped hard enough as a kid, softie.
When I did, it was justly deserved. Apparently, you experienced 'knuckle rapping' when it was not justly deserved, and you've grown up thinking that was okay.
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