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Principal Jerry Bostic says the school district forced him to retire.
Earlier this week I told you about a 9-year-old North Carolina boy who was suspended for sexual harassment after a substitute teacher overheard him tell his friend he thought she was cute.
As I wrote, the boys mother, Chiquita Lockett, says the the principal of Brookside Elementary called her last week to say that a substitute teacher overheard her son, Emanyea, tell another student a teacher was cute. The principal, Jerry Bostic, allegedly called this a form of “sexual harassment” and suspended the boy.
Lockett was outraged, I was outraged — I just couldn’t understand how an innocent comment made between two third-graders constituted sexual harassment. Apparently, neither could the school district …
As WSOCTV reports, Principal Jerry Bostic says he was forced to retire yesterday. Continue reading »
Emanyea Lockett told a friend his teacher was cute and the principal suspended him.
This is absurd but apparently true.
A North Carolina mother says her son was suspended for calling a teacher “cute.”
As WSOCTV reports, Chiquita Lockett says the the principal of Brookside Elementary called her last week to say that a substitute teacher overheard him tell another student a teacher was cute. The principal allegedly called this a form of “sexual harassment.”
Emanyea was promptly suspended. His mother is understandably outraged.
“It’s not like he went up to the woman and tried to grab her or touch her in a sexual way,” Lockett said. “So why would he be suspended for two days?” Continue reading »
Screenshot of Derek Howard on Marcus Williams Jr's Cell Phone
Let’s be clear about something … I am not the most patient person in the world. And I don’t love everyone equally. From the moment my children began to make friends, there were some kids I adored and some who fell into the ‘not my favorite’ category. I know I couldn’t be a teacher for a million different reasons. I know it is a hard job. I know some kids inspire and some make you want to pull your hair out.
But really, people? Really? A teacher calling a kid … one of their students a ‘future welfare recipient’? This just makes me nauseous. I don’t care if you don’t like the kid. I DON’T care. He’s still a kid. It is your JOB to TRY to guide them, to motivate them — even when it doesn’t seem possible. And you know what? I’m thinking that a kid who is smart enough to catch a teacher saying that on camera might not be worrying about welfare.
It happened at a Kansas City High School. The student, senior Marcus Williams, Jr, claims basketball coach, Derek Howard, has harassed him for two years. This past week, as Williams was taking a picture with classmates, Howard apparently stopped to tell him to label the picture ‘future welfare recipient’. Since Williams had been looking for proof of the abuse from Howard, he pushed ‘record’ on his cell phone and asked Howard to repeat himself. And, well, he did.
Here’s the video. And my thoughts. Discuss.
The boy who recorded this is so brave!
Snap your fingers.
That long.
That’s how long it would take me to be down at my kid’s school making hell after viewing this video.
As reported on Shine from Yahoo, 15-year-old Julio Artuz told people his teacher was bullying him in his special needs classroom, but nobody believed him. So he caught his teacher berating him on his cellphone.
NBC affiliate in Philadelphia got their hands on the footage and released it.
Update your status at your own risk, teachers.
Another teacher has lost her job for posting not so nice things about her students on Facebook.
This time, I don’t feel bad for her. We’ve heard these stories before so you’d think that by now teachers would consider Facebook off-limits when venting about their jobs. Even if your page is private, you never know which one of your “friends” will take a screen shot and report you. Someone is always watching. Always. Continue reading »
A Chicago teacher is facing a lawsuit after she posted mocking photos of a 7-year-old’s hairstyle on her Facebook page. On school picture day Ukailya Lofton came to school wearing her hair in braids with Jolly Rancher candies tied to the ends, a style she’d seen in a magazine.
The girl’s computer teacher asked the little girl if she could take her picture with a cell phone, and then posted the photos to her Facebook page with mocking commentary.
Add one to the Teacher Hall of Shame. Why do teachers think it’s OK to mock and belittle their students?
Do blogging teachers hurt their students?
The NYT has a lovely essay up on what happens when teachers blog. What happens, for the most part, is that they let off some steam and open up a window to the world of public school classrooms. Most do so anonymously, under pseudonyms like Miss Brave and NYC Educator.
Teachers blog about the school administration, the city government’s education policies, collegaues they love or loathe. And of course, they blog about their students.
It’s the last part that gets me. Even doing it anonymously, I wonder how it affects students in their classrooms. My concerns aren’t limited to the big ones like exposing children to unwanted publicity on the Internet, or worse, inadvertently putting them in harm’s way.
Most of these blogs are anonymous, and that anonymity protects not only the teachers but their students. More insidious is the worry that a teacher who blogs might become a blogger first and a teacher second. What will class be like if the teacher is always on the lookout for that next great anecdote, crafting blog posts in her head instead of lesson plans?
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