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When I read your leadline, I thought about the kid who menaced his peanut-allergic elementary school teacher with a peanut butter cookie.
posted by
majroj
on May 10, 2004 at 12:17 AM
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There is a common thread here:
In each instance the teacher was left in place to perpetuate their behaviors; then principals just silenced the parents.
I had some really bad ones, and I had some really good ones. The good ones didn't get rewarded. The bad ones didn't get fired except one, who was arrested for sharing marijuana with students during the weekend.
posted by
majroj
on May 9, 2004 at 10:33 PM
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I had two high school teachers who mistreated me.
One was the typing teacher. She wanted me to cut my fingernails because they made noise on the typewriter... as if the typewriter wan't already noisy.. she would constantly mispronounce my name as well. I told my mom ( a teacher) about it and she told me to misprounounce her name as well.. I changed Loftin to Laughtin... She was infuriated and since it was two days before parent teacher conference, she said she would tell my mom what a horrible child I was.... Mom could not wait. But when she saw the smug smile on my face as my mother and I entered her classroom, she sang my praises. It didn't hurt that my mom was a very big strong looking woman.
The other a male Trig teacher, would pinch me and say, let's see if Dreah is as smart as she is pretty.... grrrrrr... damn that still burns my butt. I got C's the first and second semester.. I loathed him so much I could not concentrate on what he was teaching. Third semester he pinched me one day and I threatened his life.. I expected another C on my report card and found a big ole F. My mother and Godfather ( a minister) came to school the next day and we had a very nice conference. He made a deal that if I passed the Trig regents he would give me and A for semester 4. I got a 67 on the test and he game me an A. He continued to harrass young ladies for years.
sorry for being longwinded... what horror stories I bet we all have!
posted by
homegirl
on May 8, 2004 at 1:45 PM
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