Posted on 04/30/2017 4:07:11 PM PDT by heartwood
(CNN)The 11-year-old girl was relentlessly bullied. And the culprit, police say, were her teachers.
One of them told the girl to "go kill herself" and threatened to fail other students if they didn't fight the girl, police said. And when that teacher was removed from the classroom, a second teacher allegedly kept up the abuse. The two Louisiana teachers, Ann Marie Shelvin and Tracy Gallow, now face criminal charges.
St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz said he learned of the accusations back in February after the girl's mother filed a complaint. The mother returned to the sheriff's office in April to say the abuse was continuing. Deputies said Shelvin, a teacher at Washington Elementary, threatened to fail three of her students if they didn't fight the girl. She also allegedly told the bullied girl to "go and kill herself." In a police report obtained by CNN, a student involved in the incident told deputies that Shelvin forced her to start a fight that resulted in several students sent to the principal's office.
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I don’t think they would do a black child this way, is what I was trying to say. If they did, then I want to know the whole story, which isn’t being provided. Black yoofs tend to cause a lot of problems in school, and everywhere else. White children tend to not cause problems.
That's a bit of an over-generalization...
the problem is they are relying upon the school board to do the right thing. why not also report to the police, and/or a good lawyer
Not if you went to school with them. I grew up in Los Angeles.
Over generalized, and prejudiced.
Why don’t you define prejudiced for us? It isn’t prejudice if you have lived it first-hand. This isn’t some abstract bigotry; it’s a learned experience.
That's my point. I didn't go to school with them (black kids), and yet there were plenty of problems caused by the "white kids" I did go to school with...
It could be anything, including a dispute with the mother that predated the child’s school attendance.
Oh, BTW,I am considered a “mulatto”. I am 1/8 black. Better find another reason to get outraged.
Historically speaking, 1/8 black is an “octoroon.” However, that sort of ancestral hairsplitting is not really appropriate for civilized people.
You are judging a whole group by the color of their skin.
BTW, the welfare state, which destroyed the black family, and is in the process of destroying every other family, was voted on and accepted by a large majority of the rest of the population. Any of us who voted for a politician who did NOT speak out and vote against the welfare state, bears some personal responsibility for the current state of the family, especially blacks.
By admission, you didn’t go to school with them. So, you know all about it?
Could be anything from "she slept with my boyfriend/husband" to "she glared at me once".
I work at at school and it’s always been my opinion that half of the teaching staff are there because it is a respectable way to hide from adult society.
Some teachers are wonderful, but some are there to be the despots of their own little kingdom. Children have no voice; no one will believe them.
I’ll fix it. BLACK teenagers from inner city and broken families cause more trouble than non-black teenagers with the same demographics.
I’m torn between that and the hypothesis that the teacher chose a student as class scapegoat each year. Perhaps this girl did something to annoy Ms. Shelvin in the first few days of class and “won” the position.
This sort of thing is why I have a deep, visceral objection to schools. I should go read more about rain-drenched 1840s pioneer misery, so I dream about that (again) instead of junior high.
Well, you’re the expert. Forgive me.
Had a teacher try to bully me in high school. Didn’t realize it at the time — just pushed back. Frankly thought nothing of it.
Then I told my Dad what had happened. He realized what was going on. (Dad is a very wealthy and now retired professional, but he grew up poor and tough.)
BAD day for the teacher followed...
It’s one thing to be theoretical and another to live amongst tightly packed racial areas.
For those who don’t know: there are many African-Americans who despise Hispanics. Hispanics often call African-Americans names, and there are often fights at school between the two minority groups.
I stood in the Post Office and listened to a Hispanic man in front of me rant that he was going to “hurt a white person today” in a very aggressive tone. He was tired of waiting in line, you see. He proceeded to give ugly looks to every white person in line.
Last month, at our 90% Hispanic middle school, students put a LIVE bird they had caught in the cafeteria microwave and turned it on. It was an action planned by at least a table-full of kids. Adults who were eating in the cafeteria discovered what had happened when the microwave started smoking. This was done with adults in the cafeteria, in plain view of the student body.
So blackbetty’s comments come from living it. As have I. Unless you’ve lived in a ghetto or barrio, you don’t know. It isn’t prejudiced to acknowledge the truth: that all races harbor some animosity toward other races. It’s fact.
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