An old next-door neighbor of mine was a first grade teacher. One day, as she was sitting down at her desk, one of her “students” pulled her chair out from under her. When she fell, she hit the back of her head on the concrete wall causing a concussion. A few days later his (single)mother was on the playground bragging and laughing about it...
This was 10 years ago in a west Atlanta suburb.
Oh, that’s sick. That the mother was laughing is pretty disturbing. About 6-8 years ago, one student in our kids’ grade school put her pencil on another students chair with the pointy lead end up, and the girl sat straight down on it. It entered her body and went into her pancreas I think. She was in the hospital for a considerable amount of time. No one was laughing about this incident, though, and the girl holding the pencil really didn’t seem to understand at the time the danger involved. The whole thing was very unfortunate. Kids just ain’t that smart.
Yeah and the day after my mother died I was riding my bike, laughing, talking with neighbors, doing anything to avoid the pain.
I was 22. You’re talking about a first grader. I’m sure they were having serious trouble coping.