Comments on: More kindergarten cruelty

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:05:57 +0000

I remember being in 7th grade (I’m now 49) and the teacher telling one of the worst anti-Semitic “joke” that is still the worst ever. I won’t repeat it, but it had to do with the Shoah.
When my mom complained to the school, they moved me and didn’t do squat to him!

By: Pajamas Media » Kindergarten Cruelty: Not Child’s Play

Pajamas Media » Kindergarten Cruelty: Not Child’s Play — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:57:03 +0000

[...] talking to teachers and reading the dozens of comments on my blog posts here and here, I see a [...]

By: BlackOrchid

BlackOrchid — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:36:45 +0000

Oh my God, she claims to be moving to Pennsylvania!

Grrrrrrrrrreat. My eldest starts Kindy next year!

BTW, if she DOES move here, she might not get hired by a private school, but there are plenty of Catholic parochials that would LOVE to have her I’m sure.

She’ll fit right in at one of those.

By: Sister Howitzer

Sister Howitzer — Sat, 31 May 2008 01:12:58 +0000

Slate has a link to the incident report.

By: Mike, a diag in Texas

Mike, a diag in Texas — Sat, 31 May 2008 00:46:24 +0000

With one class I was so desperate that I put a box with a black circle on it and told them it was a camera.

It really worked. Think of it as a placebo for the entire class.

By: Hube

Hube — Fri, 30 May 2008 21:55:48 +0000

We have nanny cams. Perhaps its time for teacher cams. Wire all public school classrooms with web cams so parents can check on whatâ€™s happening with their kids any time they want.

The other benefit would be that kids would behave better knowing that their actions were monitored along with the teacher’s. It sure would decrease the “teacher said/student said” arguments that arise too often in parent conferences/meetings.

By: Pauli

Pauli — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:46:20 +0000

That teacher was busted bigtime. Good for the parents. Hopefully she will get a really good job in another state at McDonald’s or maybe evenWal-mart.

By: Walter E. Wallis

Walter E. Wallis — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:25:39 +0000

In 1949 I spent several months as basic training cadre [the equivalent of DI]. At that time, abusive instruction was deemed unprofessional. Explaining and demonstrating the correct performance was [and still is] the only way to teach. One learns from the cursing, in your face screamer only how to avoid triggering an outburst. In my family, I applied the “hair on fire” rule to yelling.

By: Eleanor

Eleanor — Fri, 30 May 2008 04:48:05 +0000

Why not just bring back the dunce cap?

And put it on the teacher.

By: Bart

Bart — Fri, 30 May 2008 02:56:38 +0000

I once visited a day care center that had a bank of monitors in the lobby, one for each classroom.