Posted on 07/02/2009 7:41:09 PM PDT by GSP.FAN
YAKIMA, Wash. -- A teacher who sent a 5-year-old student home with a bag of feces in his backpack was issued a formal reprimand, according to a document released Thursday.
The student at Apple Valley Elementary arrived home April 17 with a bagged up piece of human feces in his backpack and a note that read, "This little turd was on the floor in my room."
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Product of the Teacher’s Union?
I’m sure there is a better way to handle a child who craps in the classroom... you would imagine a highly trained unionized teacher would know how... (shrugs)
Come on, now! You’re being far too hard on the teacher. I mean, how often does a grade-school teacher get to give parents a piece of her mind?
Oh excuse me, when you said bag of poo I thought this was an Obama thread.
My bad....
Please carry on.
G-D!! I truly hate those union teachers. Reprimand??
While I don’t endorse wrapping up poo and sending it home with a note, if a kid has such a problem with “accidents” that the parent has to send extra clothes to school, perhaps the parents should work on fixing the kid’s issue before sending him to school and making him a teacher’s problem.
Fixing the kid’s issue?
I think the teacher has a issue.
I’m no more willing to credit KOMO with getting all the facts behind this than I am when the cover any other story.
I can’t condone what the teacher did, but perhaps there is more to the story than a little angel having another accident.
You might be right,i posted the original story months ago,and perhaps there is more to the story..
A teacher sending home a 5 yr old with a note and a bag of poo is not right, end of discussion.
I will stick with Occam’s razor until proved otherwise..
Agreed, it’s not right.
Perhaps Occam’s diaper would be more appropriate here.
I kind of side with the teacher. Although it was stupid. If we got rid of all the stupid teachers who would be left to educate our kids? Slow learners make better teachers than quick learners I have heard. Or maybe teachers just like to tell themselves that.
I remember many of the details from the earlier stories. The teacher is nuts and should be fired. This was a special ed kid who spent part of his time in a special ed classroom where there were apparently no unusual problems with his potty habits. This teacher, in a regular classroom, apparently never discussed the problem with the special ed teacher, which would have been a pretty obvious measure — a special ed teacher would be thoroughly apprised of the child’s specific problems and would likely have been able to suggest a solution. But the fact that the accidents were only happening in this nutcase teacher’s classroom suggests to me that the little boy didn’t really have a problem — more likely the teacher was being inconsistent with potty breaks for kids who needed them, perhaps telling them to wait when they indicated the need and then forgetting about it. A special ed kid might not ask again, after being told to wait.
Thank you! I didn’t know all of that from earlier. With a child in Special Ed (almost exclusively), I have found that a lot of General Ed teachers have NO CLUE how to deal with special students. It is disgusting.
Yes, but you’d think a teacher who’d been teaching for 30 years would have the sense to ASK the child’s special ed teacher for advice on how to handle it. My impression is that this teacher is lot more “special” than this child.
Did you read the whole story?
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