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Teacher Treats Kid Like Dog for Punishment
A seven-year-old was forced to get down on all fours and crawl around his classroom like a dog because his first-grade teacher said she was at her wits end with him.
But the boy’s mom, Holly Casey, told the Tampa Bay Fox affiliate that she’d never heard any complaints from the teacher about her son having behavior issues. Casey says her humiliated kid doesn’t want to go back to school where the other kids laughed at him while he played dog to suit the teacher’s requests.
Can you blame the kid? He was degraded in front of his classmates – a classic way to ostracize a child. One of the favorite defenses for teachers coming up with cockamamie methods of discipline (which often crops up right here on Strollerderby) is “what else are we supposed to do?”
The answer is very simple – not this.
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Ri-chan commented on Nov 13 09 at 1:20 pmThat’s a little to close to BDSM for me (and therefore equal in my mind to a sexual act with a child) it grosses me out.
Rita commented on Jan 16 10 at 1:13 amObviously a bad choice, but the point is still there. Teachers don’t have any real ways to discipline children. They can try detentions/suspensions/expulsions, but they are harsh punishments for simply acting out and can be fought by parents. Or in detentions case ignored completely.
mystic_eye commented on Feb 09 10 at 8:13 pmHere’s what the teacher should have done: taken the kid to the office and had the office call the kid’s parent to come get him, then have a teacher/parent conference to discuss the issues.
And the parents should have been told after the first “problem” not when the teacher gets to their “wits end”
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