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Boy, 10, punished for calling teacher 'ma'am', parents say
WAVY.com ^ | Aug 27, 2018 | KLFY News Staff

Posted on 08/28/2018 7:56:14 AM PDT by fredhead

TARBORO, N.C. (KLFY) -- Parents of a fifth grader are concerned after their child was punished for referring to his teacher as "ma'am."

Teretha Wilson said she noticed something was wrong Tuesday when her 10-year old son Tamarion got off the school bus from North East Carolina Preparatory School.

"I asked him what happened. He said he got in trouble for saying 'yes ma'am'," explained Wilson. Confused by his response, Tamarion pulled out a sheet of paper with the word "ma'am" written on it four times per line on both sides. He says his teacher told him to write the word on the sheet because he kept referring to her as "ma'am" despite her instruction not to.

As part of his punishment, Tamarion had to have the paper signed by a parent. "He had a look on his face of disappointment, shame," said his father, McArthur Bryant.

Wilson and Bryant said their children were taught to refer to elders as "ma'am" and "sir," and that Tamarion was not intending to be disrespectful.

"At the end of the day as a father, to feel kind of responsible for that...knowing that I have been raising him and doing the best that I can, it's not acceptable," said Bryant.

(Excerpt) Read more at wavy.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: again; schools
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So parents teach their child to show respect to their elders, and the child get punished? What the......?
1 posted on 08/28/2018 7:56:15 AM PDT by fredhead
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If this little episode doesn’t epitomize the cultural clash we face here in present-day America, I don’t know what does.


2 posted on 08/28/2018 8:00:39 AM PDT by Joe Brower (Those with intellect bear the burden of thought.)
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Another “teacher” who should be nowhere near children.


3 posted on 08/28/2018 8:01:30 AM PDT by nickedknack
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Didn’t notice in the article what this so-called teacher wants to be called, or what the specific objection to “ma’am” was.


4 posted on 08/28/2018 8:03:16 AM PDT by Will88 (The only people opposing voter ID are those benefiting from voter fraud.)
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To: fredhead

Shoulda just called her a hoe or beotch .....much more acceptable these days.
We’ve got to get the public schools back under control....right now, they’re evil brain washing centers and killing fields.


5 posted on 08/28/2018 8:03:36 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: fredhead

So what was the proper address for the teacher?


6 posted on 08/28/2018 8:06:14 AM PDT by fightin kentuckian
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To: Joe Brower

How do we as Americans get our country back??


7 posted on 08/28/2018 8:09:10 AM PDT by bantam
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“How do we as Americans get our country back??”

Take back education, including the universities..


8 posted on 08/28/2018 8:10:49 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: fredhead

Our property taxes have more than doubled in just the last 4 years. Our public schools are now receiving more than 3 times per student in inflations adjusted dollars than what they were when my wife and I were kids. Yet our liberal State Supreme Court decided that schools were still not receiving enough funds and began charging the legislature $100,000 per day in “contempt” fines. While more and more money has been thrown at public schools the quality of education continues on a downward spiral.

And then we get stories like this one that tell us the primary reason why. Liberal teachers who are not worth the ink that is written on their diplomas are pushing leftist nonsense instead of teaching the basics of education. It is long past time that the government began hiring private enterprise to run schools. Our public school system has devolved into something that is a bizarre distortion of what they should be.

Teachers like the one featured in this story have no business even being near children.


9 posted on 08/28/2018 8:11:56 AM PDT by fireman15
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Then just start addressing her as b*tch.


10 posted on 08/28/2018 8:15:40 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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Where is the CONSERVATIVE flavor ACLU to sue this school district for abusing a 10 year old?


11 posted on 08/28/2018 8:16:39 AM PDT by LeonardFMason (426)
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How do we as Americans get our country back??

Prepare. Arm yourself. Devise a water supply, even if it means moving. Canned food, dried food, coffee, basic medicines, ammo, ammo, ammo, ammo. Find good people and talk things through. And ammo.

12 posted on 08/28/2018 8:24:00 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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what state is that?


13 posted on 08/28/2018 8:24:36 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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North Carolina.


14 posted on 08/28/2018 8:33:29 AM PDT by fredhead (Duty, Honor, Country.....Honor, Courage, Commitment)
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There is so so much we aren’t being told in this “news” piece. I immediately assume that this teacher is a biological female who thinks she is a man and is angered by the boy’s refusal to play along with her mentally ill charade.


15 posted on 08/28/2018 8:34:35 AM PDT by 762X51
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so here ya go, go in screaming, tell them to friggin f off, like in uncle buck toss her a quarter and have a rat gnaw off her brain, then stand outside her class and chant mam bam no mam...


16 posted on 08/28/2018 8:35:06 AM PDT by aces
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Next time, he should call her the b word.


17 posted on 08/28/2018 8:37:55 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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We have so many teachers and other school staff that are not fit to be supervising children.

I use the term, “There’s a sickness in the land.”, and I use it for a damned good reason.


18 posted on 08/28/2018 8:39:42 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs)
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https://www.eurweb.com/tag/mcarthur-bryant/

The family is African American, want to bet the teacher is a white SJW imbecile?


19 posted on 08/28/2018 8:49:27 AM PDT by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business)
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It’s traditional in the South address to your elders this way. Maybe the teacher is hung up about the Confederacy, racism, or something from bygone days. Anyway, todays liberals don’t know the meaning of RESPECT. Everything offends them.

In fairness to the other side, the manly gender often said things like: “wham, bam, thank you ma’m” back in the bygone days. It was concise, to the point, and non-ethnic. I’ll let you decide if they were rapists, racists, homophobic, or just plain disrespectful of the opposite sex.

Maybe it was the uncontrolled violence, lust, or “reefer madness” of the day that pushed them to use such terminology. I don’t know, but our elders (and a few bikers) expected to be treated with respect or we got our a$$ whooped. So we learned to show a little respect while in the public eye to avoid any misunderstandings. Too bad liberals can’t understand this. /s


20 posted on 08/28/2018 9:01:13 AM PDT by Texicanus (GOD Bless Texas and the USA)
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