First-grade teacher accused of choking nine students (witch hunt?)

NBC Washington ^ | 02/09/2011 | NBC Washington

[Our man in washington]

A first-grade teacher in Silver Spring, Md., was accused of choking nine students, NBC Washington's Pat Collins reported.

[Captain Peter Blood]

I agree with you. Need more info about this.

[BenKenobi]

I’ve heard it was quite common, but haven’t experienced it myself, so I can neither confirm, nor deny.

[ConorMacNessa]

I was in Catholic school for ten years. Nonoe of the nuns in any of my schools used corporal punishment. I believe they did in an earlier era.

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[2nd Amendment]

The question is . . Did it improve classroom discipline? If so she needs to be commended.Back in the 50’s my teachers whacked me on the head with notebooks, roped students to their seat, taped mouths shut, wrapped knuckles with a ruler and other masochistic sadistic pathological, psychotic disciplines. You know what . . we learned our ABC’s and learned to count, and read and went off to college. Now we care for the students oppositional defiance syndromes, self image,etc.

[MeganC]

My 2nd grade teacher, Mr. Stowell, liked to send me to the office for no reason whatsoever because, IMHO, he got a sadistic thrill from my father’s anger at me and he knew my father would be beating me for what I was falsely accused of.

One day I told my parents I was never going back to school because if I was going to get beaten for something it may as well be for skipping school. Only then did they take me out of Mr. Stowell’s class and after that I had no problems.

When I was 17 I heard Mr. Stowell was going to retire. I visited him at my old school after school one day and said hi. Then I slapped him so hard his glasses went flying and broke and I bloodied his nose.

I wasn’t surprised that he didn’t call the poilce on me.

[Joe 6-pack]

"I never attended Parochial schools, but don’t nuns whack students with rulers. Or is that an urban myth. Inquiring minds want to know."

I went to a Catholic elementary school, and I was the recipient of one steel ruler across the knuckles, and a few backside paddlings.

That was back in the 70's.

[Joe 6-pack]

LOL....I had a Trig teacher in HS that could chuck a chalkboard eraser with sniper like accuracy. He'd do it if you looked like you were dozing off in class or if you weren't paying attention.

I don't recall him ever missing his intended target.

[El Cid]

Back in the 50’s my teachers whacked me on the head with notebooks, roped students to their seat, taped mouths shut, wrapped knuckles with a ruler and other masochistic sadistic pathological, psychotic disciplines. You know what . . we learned our ABC’s and learned to count, and read and went off to college.

...pffftt...
In my day, our school used these tools to instill discipline:

[combat_boots]

So, you DO admit you were trained in the school of the Spanish Inquisition, then. ;>

For God, the Cid, and Spain!

[combat_boots]

I thought all things Middle Eastern were de rigeuer these days. I specifically remember the story of an ME teacher who threw 2 boys who were acting up out of the window.

She was not disciplined for that and had no more problems with anyone.

IIRC, this was last year.

[2nd Amendment]

I remember in 9th grade a biology teacher who got fed up with a student googin’ arounf andlaughing at him. He cold-caulked the kid and left him in a pile on the floor. Needless to say he had no more difficulty out of said kid for the rest of the year!

[mrs. a]

I went through 12 years of Catholic schools in the 60’s and 70’s. The nuns were the ones out on the playground with us, playing foursquare and tetherball and dodge ball. The lay teachers were the sourpusses!

We preferred our nuns - except when the Vikings lost (their order was based in Minnesota.) That was usually “pop quiz” day.

That’s about as nasty as they got...

[T Minus Four]

I was in Catholic school for all 12 years and graduated in ‘75. I never saw a nun or lay teacher lay a hand on a child. They resorted to humiliation and verbal abuse :-)

But the public school kids had plenty of stories about being ‘paddled’!

[T Minus Four]

OK wait, some of the “bad boys” in the younger grades got yanked around by the ear-lobe.

[combat_boots]

LOL.

People in their 20s grew up in The Simpsons world. It’s one thing not to trust someone over 30. It’s another to look at your elders with derision and think them stupid.