Posted on 05/14/2008 3:29:38 AM PDT by Man50D
A 6th-grade teacher in Jackson, Miss., asked her class to take a survey to determine which of their classmates were most likely to get pregnant, die and contract AIDS before graduation from high school.
Now the father of the honor student selected as most likely to get pregnant wants the teacher fired, according to local station WAPT.
Curtis Lyons said he found out about the survey when his daughter came home from Chastain Middle School Monday.
"She was humiliated," Lyons said. "She's an honor student."
According to the father, students were given a survey in science class that asked them to select students they thought were most likely to die, get pregnant, or contract AIDS.
The names of all students were included on the survey and the class associated the names with the scenarios.
Once the results were tallied, Lyons said, the teacher told his daughter that the statistics showed that her classmates believed that she was one of four girls most likely to become pregnant.
"I don't think she should be teaching kids," Lyons said. "Those questions were out of place and inappropriate. I want to know what was the lesson in that?"
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I think maybe daddy should find out why she won...
This is disturbing, the teacher should be fired!
If the fathers first instinct is to attack the teacher, the kids may have a point.
Sadly, too many teachers simply want to BE a student, rather than teach. The teacher here seems to want to get into the yearbook-thing, and be part of the "let's nominate our classmates" thing, and gets to disguise it by saying that she merely wants to get students to think about such things, hiding behind liberal elitism and "open-mindedness". There are better ways to fear-monger pubescents about sex and AIDS... not that I think this should be part of a school's curriculum, mind you.
How would you have handled it were it your daughter? Wouldn't your first instinct be to protect your child?
Yeah. Have the kids do the outing for you. That's probably safer path, career-wise.
Or maybe not.
Maybe the teachers should just focus on reading, writing, and arithmetic.
If a teacher somehow becomes aware of a students promiscuity the teacher should inform the school administrator and a decision should be made to determine the truth of what has been learned and if found to be credible the information should be passed on to the parents.
Kids can be cruel. They’d mark the one least likely to be what’s described in the idiotic survey, as their choice.
First of all, this absurd ‘survey’ is relying upon the reasonable, seasoned and logical sense of children (har har) and fails to account for the fact that kids (and lots of adults for that matter) are too quick to be smart asses and say something like “hey, I think so-and-so is gonna get AIDS, lol” or “hey, she looks like a slut, bet she gets knocked up!” without ANY regard whatsoever as to whether their off-the-cuff comments reflect reality or their own immature attitudes.
If a teacher is stupid enough to allow such behavior to run rampant by passing out some ‘survey’ which encourages kids to sneer, smear and slander any of their classmates that they choose, that teacher has NO place in a classroom, the ‘survey’ should be banned from any and all teaching environments, and the local school district should be facing a massive civil suit by the parents of the child or children who have been needlessly humiliated and slandered, perhaps slandered and unjustly labeled for life. Those sort of things do not always just disappear, are not always quickly forgotten, they linger and cause a lifetime of grief in some cases.
Fire the damn teacher, sue the bloody school, and hold the sumb!tches to account!
If my child fell when trying to walk I did not help her by running to pick her up. Protecting my children is helping them learn to pick themselves up.
My instinct would be to use this as an excellent opportunity to discuss abstinence with my daughter, to discuss “that we are in the world, not of the world”, and discuss how the teacher may have accomplished the same lesson that many of the children in her class will get pregnant and have STDs.
Attacking the teacher simply teaches my child to disrespect authority and to manipulate me into acting for her. It weakens my child’s ability to handle life instead of using this to make my child stronger.
I don’t see the scientific aspect in this lesson. I have to say this teacher sounds wildly stupid.
They teach what they know.
Kids can usually think this stuff up without the teacher’s help.
“If the fathers first instinct is to attack the teacher, the kids may have a point.”
Who should he go after? Perhaps he should publicly humiliate his daughter over her being picked. Oh wait, the teacher already did that.
“Kids can usually think this stuff up without the teacher’s help.”
Yes they can. When I was growing up the teachers were mature enough to tell the kids to knock it off too.
‘Cause middle school kids would NEVER use something like that to gang up on an another student who isn’t popular or different right? The teacher is an idiot.
Agreed. This is stupid beyond belief. For teachers to get involved with the student’s childish popularity contests is insane. As the 8th grader said to Detroit City Councilwoman Mrs. Conyers, ‘you’re the adults’.
Well, we know who is on the list, “Teacher most likely to face a lawsuit”.
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