Posted on 07/21/2002 12:09:06 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:55:49 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Parents in a California suburb have filed a complaint against a local public school system after a middle school teacher tied up her students with masking tape during a history lesson on slavery.
The parents' attorneys claim the eighth-grade teacher, whose name was not released, bound her students' hands with masking tape and duct-taped each of the students to the floor as part of an exercise to show students how slaves felt as they were transported to America on slave ships.
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
Why else would someone do something that ridiculous?
There is also the federal law: the Hatch Amendment (after Gov. Orrin Hatch), forbidding any types of psychological testing, manipulation, i.e.:
(Values clarification, use of moral dilemmas, discussion of religious or moral standards, role playing, open-ended discussions of situations involving moral issues, survival games including life/death decision exercises, contrived incidents for self-revelation, sensitivity training, group encounter sessions, talk-ins, magic circle techniques, self-evaluation, auto-criticism, strategies designed for self-disclosure including the keeping of a diary, journal or log book, sociograms, sociodramas, psychodramas, blindfolded walks, isolation techniques, death education including abortion, euthanasia, suicide, use of violence, discussions of death and dying, curricula or books and reading materials pertaining to religious beliefs (including elements of witchcraft), drugs and alcohol, nuclear war, nuclear policy, nuclear classroom games, globalism, one world government, curricula discussing anti-nationalistic views, evolution, discussion and testing on interpersonal relationship, discussions of attitudes towards parents and parenting, health education including human development, and education in human sexuality including birth control and pre-marital sex)
upon school children with WRITTEN parental consent. The Hatch Amendment to the General Education Act, and under its regulation, as published in the Federal Register on September 6, 1984, became effective November 12, 1984. These regulations provide a procedure for filing complaints first at the local level and then with the U.S. Department of Education. If a voluntary remedy fails, federal funds can be withdrawn from those in violation of the law.
Sadly, colleges are still inculcating their student teachers with pscyhologically manipulative methods to be used on their students once they have become teachers. These student teachers are not warned of the Hatch Amendment or other state laws restricting its use. Nor are student teachers informed about the negative ramifications to children's emotional well-being. Nor are they told that what the teachers are doing is, in effect, putting themselves into a "counseling" role, a role for which they are not prepared or trained. Nor are these teachers trained with how to deal with how other children may negatively react to what occurs during these manipulative and emotional methods.
make that WITHOUT WRITTEN parental consent.
Parents who still have their kids in public schools need to have a copy of the Hatch Amendment Letter on file with the school.
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