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10-year-old student forced to stand outside in rain, cold as punishment, mother says [GA]
WSB Atlanta ^ | November 16, 2018 4:22 AM Updated: November 16, 2018 6:25 AM | Staff

Posted on 11/16/2018 8:35:47 AM PST by Red Badger

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. - A 10-year-old DeKalb County boy says his gym teacher forced him to stand in the cold and rain for more than 30 minutes as a form of punishment. And he didn't have a jacket.

The boy's mother is furious and wants answers. She said her son’s teacher made him wait up against the wall on a day where it was around 41 degrees and pouring rain outside.

“Everybody saw me like soaked,” the boy said.

The boy described pulling his hands up into his shirt and holding his fists under his chin and biting his fingers to try and stay warm.

The mother wants that teacher off the job.

Tara Gilmore told Channel 2 Action News this all started over some kind of dance move her son did on the floor of the gym at Henderson Mill Elementary School on Monday.

“I think best case he would do the right thing and turn in his resignation,” Gilmore said.

Gilmore said her son, Joe Austin, even considered walking home.

Austin said he understands why his mother is so upset.

“I shouldn't be out in the cold with only a t-shirt with short sleeves,” Austin said.

Channel 2 Action News reached out to the school district.

In a statement, DeKalb County Schools says: “It's highest priority is the health and safety of our students. Furthermore, our staff is always expected to abide by certain standards of conduct.”

A district spokesperson went on to say it is investigating the incident as a personnel matter and will take appropriate action based on the findings.

Photo Credit: WSB-TV WSB-TV


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: childabuse; dancing; education; georgia; homosexualagenda; mediabias; publicschools; teachers; trump; whiteprivilege; whiteprvilege
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To: Red Badger

How is this NOT child abuse?


21 posted on 11/16/2018 8:56:48 AM PST by V_TWIN (Contrary to popular belief Height does not = superiority.....physical OR mental.)
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To: madprof98

I have no problem with that, but this was a dangerous, and potentially deadly ‘punishment’ that teachers are not authorized to do. Would the English teacher have the ‘power’ to do this?....................


22 posted on 11/16/2018 8:57:43 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: V_TWIN

It is in my book..............


23 posted on 11/16/2018 8:58:58 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

“I’m on the side of the gym teacher here. Maybe the gym teacher is trying to help instill BEING A MAN into this little boy INSTEAD OF A FRUIT CAKE like his mommy is doing, AS SO MANY SINGLE MOMMY’S ARE DOING!!!!.
Get a grip, people. This little boy probably doesn’t have a father in his life SO SOMEONE NEEDS TO STEP UP AND SET THIS LITTLE FEMBOY STRAIGHT!!! “

He’s only TEN years old-——the teacher was wrong and the mother was wrong going to the press.

Calling the poor kid a FEMBOY it over the top.

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24 posted on 11/16/2018 9:01:35 AM PST by Mears
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To: Red Badger

But they’re not going to fire him. Union.


25 posted on 11/16/2018 9:01:53 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: CivilWarBrewing
That's right. Come to the defense of the boy being disciplined. That's how our society ends up full of FRUIT CAKES who can't be disciplined by teachers no matter WHAT they do. My mom would've told me I deserved it and to BEHAVE in school OR ELSE!

WOW. JUST. WOW. SMH.

26 posted on 11/16/2018 9:08:03 AM PST by rockabyebaby (The next four years will be YUGE!)
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To: Red Badger

I got the paddle by the vice principle in 7th grade because my friend wanted to pass notes about the hot teacher. But that was a long time ago.


27 posted on 11/16/2018 9:09:10 AM PST by McGruff
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To: CivilWarBrewing
I'm on the side of the gym teacher here. Maybe the gym teacher is trying to help instill BEING A MAN into this little boy INSTEAD OF A FRUIT CAKE like his mommy is doing, AS SO MANY SINGLE MOMMY'S ARE DOING!!!!. Get a grip, people. This little boy probably doesn't have a father in his life SO SOMEONE NEEDS TO STEP UP AND SET THIS LITTLE FEMBOY STRAIGHT!!!

I'm glad you weren't my parent growing up. WOW. JUST. WOW.

28 posted on 11/16/2018 9:10:12 AM PST by rockabyebaby (The next four years will be YUGE!)
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To: McGruff
I got the paddle by the vice principle in 7th grade because my friend wanted to pass notes about the hot teacher.


29 posted on 11/16/2018 9:10:43 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: McGruff

Yes, that was the way we did as well.................


30 posted on 11/16/2018 9:10:55 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Red Badger

How much more of this has to happen for parents to wise up and homeschool (or unschool). Or a good Catholic school.

Public schools are prisons and many teachers are little more than child abusers (to the white boys at least).

Do the right thing before the damage done to you child is irreparable.


31 posted on 11/16/2018 9:12:07 AM PST by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Red Badger

This may or may not be the person involved:

O’Donnell, James
Teacher, Health and Phys. Ed.
james_p_odonnell@dekalbschoolsga.org

http://www.hendersonmilles.dekalb.k12.ga.us/STAFF.aspx

http://decatur.11alive.com/news/education/488072-pe-teacher-breaks-world-records-help-keep-kids-active


32 posted on 11/16/2018 9:12:55 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Red Badger
If this had been my kid, there would be a gym teacher in the hospital.................

A half hour in cold rain won't kill a kid, but it will get his attention. Had one of my boys (they're 42 and 39 now) complained of this treatment I'd have asked "What'd you do?" Behavior is supposed to have consequences.

33 posted on 11/16/2018 9:13:08 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Dude, you got way more out of that article than I did! From your many responses to this post, I get that you think the solution to our country’s ills is more punishment. Weird!


34 posted on 11/16/2018 9:13:18 AM PST by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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To: Red Badger

I had MUCH worse punishments than that.

I went to Catholic school.


35 posted on 11/16/2018 9:16:01 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

That’s a private school, so it’s paid to do that..............


36 posted on 11/16/2018 9:17:23 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: MichaelCorleone

Yup, they are preparing their kid to be just another entitled snowflake.

People pay hundreds of dollars to sit in the rain at NFL games for 2 1/2 hours.


37 posted on 11/16/2018 9:17:24 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Red Badger
It has been my experience with ‘gym’ teachers that most are sadists.................

I must'a had good ones, then. They'd work you hard but give praise commensurate with the effort you expended. And the usual result of misbehavior was running laps, weather notwithstanding. This WAS back in the '50s, though.

38 posted on 11/16/2018 9:17:51 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: rockabyebaby
When FReepers are standing united AGAINST students being punished in school then were are FINISHED as a society.

Seriously. One of the biggest problems today is that most boys' FATHER FIGURES ARE THEIR MOTHERS.. AND WE WONDER WHY THERE ARE SO MANY EMASCULATED, FEMINIZED METROSEXUAL BOYS TODAY... SICKENING!!!!

But perhaps a society full of homos, crossdressers, transgenders, manly females and girly men is all just GOD'S PUNISHMENT FOR FEMINISM.

GYM teacher punishes boy.. MOMMY TO THE RESCUE! This is a HORRIBLE lesson for the kid and only REINFORCES EMASCULATION!!!

39 posted on 11/16/2018 9:19:10 AM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: JimRed

Mine were in the 60’s and early 70’s.

Looking back, as an adult, I now believe they were not only sadists but homos as well..............


40 posted on 11/16/2018 9:19:46 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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