Posted on 03/04/2006 7:16:11 AM PST by ncountylee
Last month a friend of mine was put on admin leave due to a report from a child. She had a bad bad case of laryngitis and a group of kids in her class were talking in the back. She TOSSED a white board eraser in their direction. The eraser bounced off the table and landed on a kid's shoulder. Just sitting there. Everyone laughed and the teacher quietly said something about getting to work. The kid went home and told his mother that she threw a book at him and hit him in the head with it. She was suspended with pay following an investigation. After the police interviewed all 28 other students and got 100% confirmation of her story, she had to go back to class, apologize and attend anger management sessions.
I'm comfortable with my personal policies.
I bet a few can remember getting a "ripple sole" on the butt.
Again, there is a difference between restraining a child and what was done in this case. Do you have an example of when it is necessary to tie, blindfold, gag and bound a child to a weight bench for several hours?
What grade do you teach?
Yes, if everything is true as reported, the coach did something wrong. In everyone of your examples, the coach acted improperly
"used athletic tape to restrain the 13-year-old boy, covering his eyes, mouth and whole body"
if the kid was so out of control, and such a danger, the 2 coaches who were watching should have helped the coach who did the taping. actually, 2 coaches should have restrained the kid in a legitimate way, and the third should have called the police.
taping the kid's eyes and mouth sounds more like a sadistic punishment. and the fact that 2 coaches apparently stood by and didn't help the perp, suggests that the kid was not that dangerous.
Read my posts. I've already answered your question. Several times.
Of course...to be suspended with pay kinda makes the situation worse!
8th, but I should be teaching high school next year. I teach in the special education department, kids with learning disabilities, emotional disturbances and just plain goofy. I have had to restrain numerous kids in my time. Always by the book.
i responded to your earlier post before i read this one. i misinterpreted what you were saying.
And you believe this happened because.......?
Why do you think that the "coach" had the authority to deal with those scenarios? Why would he be judge and jury? If the kid assaulted someone, then there are rules for what happens next. What if he decided to hang the kid? That would have been fine?
So it's ok to condemn the child, but heaven forbid someone jump to a conclusion about the coach.
I like your tagline a lot! For fun, I used to replace all of those great words with their negatives. Then I realised that that list of negative words describes liberals perfectly. Examples: Untrustworthy, Disloyal, etc.
If it's not too much trouble, refer me to just one.
the article (at least the mother in the article) states that the boys eyes were taped. why tape anyone's eyes?
I wasn't speaking about the mother who kept her kids in the cage, and I wasn't defending this coach. I was simply calling for the kind of objective analysis of objective facts we would all want before we took action. If my kid came home with the story this kid apparently recounted to his mother, I would want to confirm that it was true before taking matters into my own hands. If I went to the coach, asked what happened and why, and he told me he the story just as it was reported, and that is was done only because the kid was disruptive, I might very well administer some frontier justice as well. But there have been too many recent cases of false accusations against people, including teachers. The case of the girl in Florida, I think it was, who accused a male teacher of sexual advances, which, after the father took "action," proved to have been invented by the girl, comes to mind.
I don't think a lot of people realize how violent a person can become. It's one of those you have to see to believe situations.
"I've seen it dozens of time in school and in 13 years in the Navy. I've been taped myself, and I've taped others"
in the navy, do they tape people's eyes, as this coach is reported having done?
that would seem very strange.
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