Posted on 11/16/2018 8:35:47 AM PST by Red Badger
DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. - A 10-year-old DeKalb County boy says his gym teacher forced him to stand in the cold and rain for more than 30 minutes as a form of punishment. And he didn't have a jacket.
The boy's mother is furious and wants answers. She said her son’s teacher made him wait up against the wall on a day where it was around 41 degrees and pouring rain outside.
“Everybody saw me like soaked,” the boy said.
The boy described pulling his hands up into his shirt and holding his fists under his chin and biting his fingers to try and stay warm.
The mother wants that teacher off the job.
Tara Gilmore told Channel 2 Action News this all started over some kind of dance move her son did on the floor of the gym at Henderson Mill Elementary School on Monday.
“I think best case he would do the right thing and turn in his resignation,” Gilmore said.
Gilmore said her son, Joe Austin, even considered walking home.
Austin said he understands why his mother is so upset.
“I shouldn't be out in the cold with only a t-shirt with short sleeves,” Austin said.
Channel 2 Action News reached out to the school district.
In a statement, DeKalb County Schools says: “It's highest priority is the health and safety of our students. Furthermore, our staff is always expected to abide by certain standards of conduct.”
A district spokesperson went on to say it is investigating the incident as a personnel matter and will take appropriate action based on the findings.
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Yeah, and to hell with the whiny brat if he contracts pneumonia and dies. That’s what he gets for yeeting and dabbing in gym class!
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did it kill him or make him sick? he’s ten not an infant or elderly.
what kind of “dance” by the way , was he doing on the floor?
There’s a difference between punishment and reckless endangerment.
If you hired a babysitter and they did this to your kid, you would be livid, and don’t try to tell me that you wouldn’t.
One of the dumbest comments on this thread........
“he was not beaten with the sharp side of a ruler until his knuckles bleed”
Yeah, that would actually be less dangerous. Nobody dies from having their knuckles beaten. People do die from exposure to the elements.
Posters who are comparing this to regular old “corporal punishment” seem to be missing that distinction. The objections aren’t really about how painful or uncomfortable the child was made to be, they are about what seems to be reckless disregard for the child’s welfare.
I was raised by a single mother. She worked in a neighboring school district and knew exactly what went on in schools both from teachers, students, and administrators. Her motto was “you had better not get in trouble at school because you will get it again when you get home.” But the one thing she couldn’t stand was group punishments, when the teacher punished the whole class for the misbehavior of a few. One time my class got after school detention for a few kids running in the library. I had dance lessons after school (in a building next door to the school), which my mom had paid for, and I hadn’t been running in the library. I knew what my mom’s priorities were and went to dance lessons. The teacher came to the other property and dragged me by my hair to the library and added 2 hours onto the detention. I asked if I could call my mom to let her know where I was and why. I was refused. At 6 p.m. the police showed up and rescued me after my panicked mother couldn’t find me home doing chores and homework, and it was dark and snowing outside. My head was bleeding from where some of my hair had been ripped out by the teacher dragging me across the parking lot. My mother was livid and reamed the school a new one and threatened to sue them. Between my mom and the police the teacher got transferred to an administrative position away from children.
I really have low tolerance for teachers physically abusing children, and I think leaving a child in the rain and cold is abuse.
he didn’t get sick, and a healthy pre-teen will hardly be harmed by rain..cold outside or not.
I think the problem most have here is that women on their own, are pretty bad at parenting...especially boys.
Raising a spoiled self indulgent whiny man, who by the way, ultimately grows up to treat women poorly, has been the death of our country. The single mom as hero is a JOKE.
And I’m a female.
Of course there should be appropriate boundaries for how teachers deal with distributive students. The issue is who called the news? Another single mom social media loving attention whore, I bet.
Oh noes, he coulda died. kelly, you are an over the top, screaming liberal hiding out on FR. Rain doesn't freeze at 41 degrees, you stupid woman.
The kid may or may not have deserved this punishment, I don't know, I don't have all the facts, nor do you, so you are wrong, wrong, wrong.
Did he die?
Tare Gilmore is the mom.
Joe Austin is the kid.
Gilmore/Austin
This was random and inappropriate punishment bordering on abuse.
The parent has a right to be angry.
A schoolteacher is not (contrary to the beliefs of some parents) a child’s “babysitter,” nor was this brat a baby. A half hour in the cold is hardly deadly, as some here contend. Better that than growing up into a real snowflake.
His safety was at risk?
There are more snowflakes on this forum than on social media.
Are you against 18 year olds being made to run miles in cold and rain in the military too?
He stood outside for 30 minutes and IS FINE! Damn.
There’s a white kid left in DeKalb county?
“A schoolteacher is not (contrary to the beliefs of some parents) a child’s “babysitter,” nor was this brat a baby.”
A schoolteacher is very much responsible for the welfare of the children that are in their custody, just like a babysitter would be. Of course, babysitters don’t strictly sit with babies, either.
“A half hour in the cold is hardly deadly, as some here contend.”
Something doesn’t need to be deadly to be reckless.
Must be on the northeastern side..............
“he didn’t get sick”
Thankfully not, but the teacher had no way to know that would be the outcome.
“a healthy pre-teen will hardly be harmed by rain..cold outside or not.”
You actually have no way to know that, either.
“Raising a spoiled self indulgent whiny man...”
I really don’t think that common sense caring for a child’s welfare is what causes spoiled children.
Clearly, you missed the point.
No. They're adults who know what they're getting into. They know what's expected and required of them.
A 10 year old is not an adult. He didn't make this choice. It was imposed on him by an adult who went too far.
Maybe the teacher should have just beat him into unconsciousness so he learns his lesson.
I can engage in straw man hyperbole too.
Yep, another one of those. And yet most of the FReepers commenting on this forum are bent out of shape about the possibility of the kid FINALLY getting some discipline.
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