Our daughter had a teacher like that in the first grade. She was dreadful.....nicknamed the child Messy Jesse because, well, it rhymes! She duct taped a child to his chair to teach him to sit still. Cruel and mean spirited. And protected by tenure.
We were able to get her away from our child, but not out of the school.
I had a fifth grade teacher who sprayed Glade air freshener around the room everyday because she claimed the class stank of body odor.
Tenure won't stop a projectile. And some day, one of these teachers is going to mess with the wrong child....or his/her parents.
There was a similar teacher who taught 4th grade near us. She would scram and belittle the students, handing out extensive write-off punishments for little reason. Parents who would stand outside her room without the teacher’s knowledge would be shocked at the way she treated the kids. One friend’s daughters, who are generally so quiet and shy that you would hardly know they were in the room, kept getting write-off punishments and FINALLY after about 12 years of her abuse, she was removed from elementary school and placed in a high school setting. She should have been fired, but you know how the teachers’ unions are.
Back in the day, when I was in first grade, I walked in excited to be in school. (My grandmother was the cook in the two room schoolhouse)
As I walked into the classroom who do I see by the spitting image of Almira Gultch of Wizard of Oz fame.
I was so scared of her that it wasn;t until around November that I fimally got the courage to go up to her desk and ask her what number came after 99.