Posted on 06/29/2018 7:17:41 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
“We hope the school will learn that they need to be more sensitive to what students are dealing with and not make fun of them in what is supposed to be a safe environment."
A mother from Connecticut is shocked after her son was given the "ADD award" by his social studies teacher.
Tera Cooper first told NBC Connecticut her 13-year-old son was given a certificate by a teacher at Plainfield Central Middle School titled the #ADD award. The paper reads “Most likely to be distracted by…look something shiny!” with a zombie holding a balloon. The zombie is also holding a gold ribbon that says “good work.”
“He had tears in his eyes. He’s embarrassed because he had to accept it in front of his entire class,” Cooper told NBC Connecticut.
In an email exchange with Newsweek, Cooper said her son, who is in seventh grade, received the award on Friday, June 22 in his social studies class. She said her son went to take a nap when he returned from school, which was unusual for him. Cooper said she found the award along with several others from the teacher.
“As I was cleaning up the house I noticed the awards, he had three. That’s when I saw the #ADDaward I was shocked. I woke up him up and asked him off his teacher really gave this to him since her name was on it and he said yes. I immediately contacted the school via email and the principal set up a meeting the next day on a Saturday,” Cooper wrote to Newsweek.
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It’s The People’s Republic of Connecticut, so as long as it was done to a white boy, all is A-OK.
That is definitely true. I have had many adults tell me that was there experience back in school. They were usually highly intelligent plus highly energetic , and still are to this day. These people knew they were acting up, and trying to entertain people, but mostly because they were bored and everybody else seemed bogged down.
Good point...
I’m guessing the teacher is a liberal, and will be protected by the union.
I remember an incident in which a liberal acquaintance spotted a woman with her son who had an obvious neurological problem, possibly cerebral palsy.
The liberal remarked at how funny the kid’s movements were. I gave him a ration of **** over his comment.
Liberals are supposed to be tolerant and accepting of people who don’t match their idea of normality, but in fact they are the opposite. Simply put, they are hypocrites.
Obama demonstrated the same attitude when he was discussing his lack of bowling ability on the Leno show. He compared his poor score to the Special Olympics, and they both had a jolly good laugh over that.
But compare that with Trump when he allegedly mocked a disabled reporter. The liberals went nuts, but almost totally ignored Obama’s remarks.
I hate liberals.
That’s sure enough one way to get short term conformity. But just ask what some folks on FR think about the whole idea of modern public school.
Course language is becoming very common in the people that used to command respect. People who were supposed to be professionals.
Our culture is in rapid decay. I worries me.
The modern crowd calling itself liberals generally isn’t liberal at all. It’s illiberal.
“I got them all the time, typically in the form of a chalkboard eraser impacting my head.”
Hmmmm! Are you my son? :-)
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Q: How many ADD kids does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Let’s go ride our bikes!
Probably not and you’d have to be pretty damned old
“————————you’d have to be pretty damned old”
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I am.:-)
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That’s another thing—my last year in private school/beginning of HS the coaches would literally slap us in the back of the head hard enough to rattle the brain if they heard you say anything worse than crap in mixed company.
Well, it’d be weird as my dad passed away about 15 years ago.
You DID have a mother,I assume.
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To put such comments in writing is either poor emotional control or extremely poor judgment.
Either way he/she should not be in the classroom.
I lived that story.
INCLUSION is for EVERY student with the obvious exception of someone who is violent. Inclusion has been proven for the last 30 years that is benefits ALL the students.
I had a teacher call me the whistla - “Hey Whistla”(Mass. - I whistled in class a couple times as I had just learned to) and pretty soon as I walked down the halls, I had just about every kid calling me that. This was in 3rd grade and I was already the shy type so I took it pretty hard.
It’s one thing for another kid to make fun or create a nickname, it’s another for an adult in authority position to do it.
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