Posted on 04/07/2005 10:50:56 AM PDT by SmithL
A Knox County teacher is back on the job after making a pre-school student relieve herself in a bucket in front of other students.
It happened in early March to a little girl at the Sam E. Hill Family Community Center.
Sheila Knight was put on leave while the school system looked into the allegations.
DCS also investigated and found no evidence of abuse.
Knight later admitted to the accusations, called it "a severe lapse in judgment," and got a strong written reprimand. School officials say that was the strongest punishment allowed at the time.
Knight, who has worked for Knox County Schools for almost 20 years, is back on the job.
The student is in another classroom.
Homeschool the kids!!!
They will be fed, no violence, no bullying, no drugs, no sex, no lockdowns, etc.
Allowed by whom? That's right, the teacher's union. Teacher's unions keep psychotic people like this woman in charge of your children.
In other words, blame the lawyers.
No bathrooms?
That this teacher still has a job is what's sick.
"Homeschool the kids!!!
They will be fed, no violence, no bullying, no drugs, no sex, no lockdowns, etc."
I was homeschooled, and it was nothing but peeing in buckets, violence and drugs. good times. ahhh, good times.
It's time to change school policy.
What's wrong with this girl's parents too? I would have pulled that child out of that school the day this happened.
not MY baby! uh-uh!
If this nonsense keeps up, "going daycare" will mean the same in slang as "going postal"
Being forced to pee in front of your peers sounds a little abusive to me.
What in SAM HILL is going on in that teecherz mind?......
What in Sam Hill is going on over there?!
This is why 10 lashes with a bullwhip is a good idea.
Allright, this woman has been on the job for 20 years. If she has not had a severe lapse in judgement before, then perhaps this would be a clue to both her and the school system that she can no longer handle the stress of dealing with young children and needs to seek out early retirement. She definitely does not belong back in the e]classroom and should have been redirecting her own career when she knew she was having a hard time dealing with the children.
Anyone who did this in the private sector would be fired.
Amen to that.
When my dd was 4 and in a Quaker-run preschool, I forgot to put a fork and napkin in her lunchbag one day and her teacher forced her to either skip lunch or eat her spaghetti lunch with her fingers. My dd, being the perpetually-ravenous child that she still is, went ahead and ate her lunch with her fingers and was then denied a napkin or paper towel to wipe them off, so she, being the intrepid kid she still is, wiped them off onto her clothes.
After I finished jumping up and down and complaining to the headmistress, the teacher was reassigned to older kids and my dd didn't go back.
These kind of power-mad "teachers" are far more common than many of us think. After run-ins with 4 more of these types over a few more years, I gave up on all parochial, private and public schools (I'd tried them all).
It's much better to homeschool - then you get to be the dictator. Why leave the fun to others ? ;)
Most parents spend more time choosing what car or TV to buy than they spend choosing what school to send their child to.
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