Teacher allegedly forced students to take off their underwear

News-Democrat ^ | April 13, 2011 | Elizabeth Donald

[Sopater]

Maybe he should have simply checked their shoes.

[Wuli]

“yep, should have just sent all the students to the nurse.”

And, then the nurse would done what?

1. Just because its the nurse they could have personally “inspected” each child, and that would have been alright?

Or

2. Just because its the nurse THEY would have been “allowed” to do what the teacher did?

“The nurse” option makes no sense; it presents nothing that is actually different.

So the teacher couldn’t get any of her seven charges to fess up. So how about the teacher simply having called for a janitor and gotten back to teaching? What’s the worst that would have happened? One of the special-ed kids would have gone home with “tracks” in their underwear? Wouldn’t have been the first time or the last and the parents probably know it.

Obviously whatever “slipped out” had not obviously shown any traces the teacher could see on the children’s clothes, so it does not sound like there was a danger of the issue spreading from one place one of the children might sit to another.

Even a sealed note home to the seven sets of parents would have been commendable; as in: “Today we had an incident in the classroom, and I was unable to determine the source, but it was definitely one of the children in the room. So, just in case your child might be having a problem, please ............................”.

[Wuli]

“If the kid comes home like that, what are the parents going to say about the school letting the kid sit there like that?”

Why should the parents assume the teacher “let” the child that had the problem “sit there” as you say?

Even “special-ed” kids have enough training, from home even, to go to the bathroom and to know when they need to go to the bathroom.

So, instead of blaming the teacher, why wouldn’t the parents ask their child: “Why didn’t you tell the teacher you had to go to the bathroom?”

[Mariner]

Completely reasonable action by the teacher. And, he should have whooped the kid that did it.

[Coleus]

To determine which student had soiled his pants, >>>

I’m sure the smell would have given him away in a few minutes or so. The teacher should have called the custodian and had the mess cleaned up and just moved on. She probably didn’t have her lesson plan completed for the day.