Posted on 04/23/2004 6:09:36 AM PDT by mhking
A teacher at a Newton County school has resigned after officials say she admitted she told two students to throw a 14-year-old girl from a classroom window.
The teacher, a 63-year-old Conyers resident, was not immediately arrested after the Monday incident, which took place at Sharp Learning Center. But the Newton County Sheriff's Office is investigating.
The student, whose name was not released, was taken to Newton General Hospital on Tuesday night for neck pains and cuts to her body, said Newton County Sheriff's Office investigator Marty Roberts.
According to an incident report by resource officer Brian Chiappetta, the incident took place in the morning during second period. The students were in class when the teacher took a photograph of some of the students, the report said. When the girl asked why the teacher had taken her picture, the teacher allegedly responded with a disparaging remark about the girl's appearance.
The girl became upset and began to use profanity and hit the office assist button on the classroom wall, the incident report said. The teacher then allegedly told two 14-year-old boys to pick up the girl and throw her out the window.
The two boys later told principal Kenneth Daniels that they threw the girl out the window because they did not want to be written up for disobeying a teacher.
The teacher resigned Wednesday, Roberts said.
Roberts said he has been told that the school board will leave it up to the girl's parents to pursue criminal charges against the teacher. But he said his investigation is ongoing.
"I've had incidents involving schools, but I've never heard of such a thing where the teacher instructs students like this," Roberts said.
Good point. If I was defenestrated, wouldn't that mean I had a window removed? Or would that be a fenestectomy?
If a teacher is having trouble in the classroom, he/she can push the "office assist" button, and someone from the office will come into the classroom to help out.
Add in the fact that our legal system and poor parenting have essentially eliminated any reasonable discipline in the schools, and you have to expect that our educational system will suffer.
Secondly, whether the girl was disreputably dressed, or merely unattractive, is irrelevant. It is not the teacher's place to make disparaging remarks. If her dress was so inappropriate she should not have been in the classroom, the child should have been sent, with an escort if necessary, to the appropriate disciplinary authority. Tossing the kid out the window is not the same thing as sending her to the Dean of Girls (that's what we had in my day 40 years ago) to be disciplined. If the child behaved inappropriately, by all means apply the proper, legal discipline.
You know, I DID think about what I would have though 40 years ago when I was in high school (and working hard for Goldwater, thank you), and I would have said the same thing. You may be in awe teachers, but I'm not now and I wasn't then. In those days I thought 3 out 4 did not belong in a classroom, whether because of stupidity, incompetence (not the same thing), mendacity or other unsuitable personality traits or personal habits (ever spend an hour a day in a closed classroom with a teacher who regarded bathing and soap as personal enemies?). My view has changed little subsequently, although I would say in my own children's experience perhaps as many 2 out of 5 were competent, if you include some amazing vocal music teachers.
KRAMER: I don't know.
JERRY: Maybe they're admiring your spot.
KRAMER: They're all looking up.
GEORGE: Hey, there's a guy up the roof.
KRAMER: Whoa. That's the guy that I told where the elevator was.
GEORGE: Oh well, I hope he doesn't jum...
GEORGE, ELAINE, KRAMER, JERRY, & STAN: Oh my!
(By everyone's reaction we see he has jumped. Then we heard the thud of the patient on George's Car.)
GEORGE: My car! My caaaaarrrr!
The story has a lot of odd touches to it, which makes me suspicious that the whole story isn't being told, but it seems to me that that, unless there was prior permission for the photography, the teacher was out of line from the beginning.
"According to the students, when the victim asked the teacher why she had taken their picture, she allegedly answered by saying, “So I can show the world your ugly a----.”
There once was a man from Nantucketstrate ....
Only doing their job. Very old excuse for violating human rights and decency. Apparently the new generation is the same as all preceding ones.
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