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Kindergarten student locked in closet for punishment
LOCAL 21 NEWS ^ | 15 JANUARY 2014 | LAUREN GROSS

Posted on 01/15/2014 6:46:35 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist

MEMPHIS -- The Shelby County School district is speaking out for the first time about accusations that a teacher locked a 5-year-old in a closet for more than an hour.

The kindergartener was found only after the teacher went home and a sub came in.

A.B. Hill Kindergarten teacher Kristin Oshfeldt is suspended with pay while the Shelby County School district investigates some pretty horrifying accusations against her. Five-year-old Akeelah Joseph says Oshfeldt locked her in a dark classroom closet at A.B. Hill Elementary.

“I almost peed on myself because I couldn’t make it to the bathroom,” said Joseph.

Akeelah’s mother says she was found in that closet by a substitute teacher after Oshfeldt went home sick.

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1 posted on 01/15/2014 6:46:35 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

The Sensory deprivation will help the child get in touch with themselves. /sarcasm


2 posted on 01/15/2014 6:49:00 PM PST by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

There’s a story in our family about a relative a hundred years ago who was put in what was called then the “cloak room” for punishment. In those days you went to the cloak room for a day. He had to go to the bathroom so he peed into the teacher’s umbrella.

Nobody sued the school system.


3 posted on 01/15/2014 6:49:42 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: ladyjane

I spent a whole school year with my desk moved into the cloak hall. Nothing wrong with me today . . . well, mostly.


4 posted on 01/15/2014 6:52:06 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Lawyers are having fistfights to be the first to her door.


5 posted on 01/15/2014 7:03:19 PM PST by fso301
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To: WorkingClassFilth

That’s amazing.

Were you able to hear the teacher? able to do school work?


6 posted on 01/15/2014 7:03:24 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: WorkingClassFilth

Someone at the school would be in for it, if it was my five year old.


7 posted on 01/15/2014 7:03:26 PM PST by corlorde (forWARD of the state)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

We had a girl “punished” in the cloak closet and we all went home. Her mom called my mom....and I remembered that’s where she was. 1950’s


8 posted on 01/15/2014 7:07:56 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

This was severe punishment by today’s standards, and therefore possibly traumatic for this little girl, given the ease in standards today.

In other words, few of us grew up when children were treated as the center of the universe at home. Misbehavior at school wasn’t tolerated, paddles were nearby, and double trouble when you got home to mom and dad. We were loved, yes, but our parents had a life too, so we behaved to fit in it. Or else.


9 posted on 01/15/2014 7:07:56 PM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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To: WorkingClassFilth
lol I squirted my 7th grade substitute math teacher with my squirt gun to impress the boy who sat behind me. Can you imagine what would happen if I did that today?

The only reason I didn't get in trouble is some boy did something worse. He threw an eraser and broke the sheriff's daughter's glasses.

10 posted on 01/15/2014 7:10:41 PM PST by Aliska
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To: corlorde

I bet they would.

However, my parents would have said, “If you don’t like the punishment, mind your teacher”. But that was why kids use to mind back then.


11 posted on 01/15/2014 7:13:19 PM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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To: corlorde

Me too. Some of the comments here are disgusting.


12 posted on 01/15/2014 7:14:50 PM PST by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Locked? Good grief, think what could have happened if there was a fire.


13 posted on 01/15/2014 7:17:46 PM PST by tioga (Wise men still seek Him.)
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To: corlorde

Hubby and I would probably be a bit miffed as well though our current five year old can be a bit of a pain. Really. His teacher seems to “get” him though, so maybe he will avoid the closet or potty room or wherever might be a place to put a little monster child. I was at the school recently, and I took the sweet little five year olds to lunch. When we were lined up in the hallway returning to the classroom, some of the children were leaning against the wall and a janitor’s closet door. The teacher walked up and noticed these children leaning on the janitor’s closet door, and she told them they should not do that because the door might open and they would fall inside. The boys looked at each other and got a look of fear. They said, “oh, don’t lean on that door. The Mop Monster might come out and get you!” I looked at the teacher who looked just a tad guilty. She nodded at them, looked at me, and said, “They have vivid imaginations at this age.”


14 posted on 01/15/2014 7:24:26 PM PST by petitfour
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
The district’s policy actually bans physical punishment of any kind, and that includes locking someone in a closet.

“You don’t do a child like that. If you’re going to punish a child you tell them to stop and behave or you’re going to write them up and send them to office. You don’t put a child in a closet period,” said Wanda Joseph.

Well perhaps this is why there is no discipline in schools today. And there being no discipline in schools today is why the schools are failing.

Wanda’s grasp of the English language demonstrates that the schools system in this country has been in desperate straits for some time.

Yes wanda, telling a child to stop and behave, that works every time. /S

15 posted on 01/15/2014 7:30:37 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Good. Grief.


16 posted on 01/15/2014 7:44:18 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: petitfour

Terror works. I asked a high school asst. principal how he maintained discipline. He leaned over and whispered,”Terror.”


17 posted on 01/15/2014 7:45:51 PM PST by meatloaf (Impeach Obama. That's my New Year's resolution.)
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To: Aliska

I remember when Tommy M. hit Sister Catherine, square in the face, with a Frito Bandito eraser.(Not on purpose, of course)

Now, that was a scandal!


18 posted on 01/15/2014 8:28:16 PM PST by logitech (It is time.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I know using the closet for punishment would not be tolerated these days, but my kindergarten teacher did it all the time. This was back in the forties when teachers had no aides and huge classes. My class was part of an experimental program in which we started kindergarten at four and a half years old.

I don’t remember any of the parents objecting to the teacher’s methods and the kids all loved her. Of course she never left a child in the closet and went home like this idiot teacher.


19 posted on 01/15/2014 9:43:05 PM PST by chronicles
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
I was locked in a closet in Kindergarten.

When I get out of here somebody is going to be sorry!

20 posted on 01/15/2014 9:49:30 PM PST by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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