Teacher's "Discipline of first graders a bit too far?
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First-Graders Made To Clean A Bathroom
A charter school run by the United Federation of Teachers hired a new consultant this week after the principal raised the ire of parents by allegedly ordering a group of first-graders to clean up human waste in the bathroom.
The president of the teachers union, Randi Weingarten, apologized to parents at the school in the East New York section of Brooklyn on Tuesday night. The first-year principal, Rita Danis, also told the group of about two dozen parents that she was sorry.
Last month, Ms. Danis instructed four first-grade boys to tidy up the bathroom after she found them mucking it up. Two of the boys went home and allegedly told their parents that they had been forced to clean up feces.
"This is not something a 6-year-old should go through," the mother of one the boys allegedly involved in the incident, Shalese Lucas-Chisholm, told an NBC TV reporter before the Tuesday meeting. Her 6-year-old son, Bijean, added, "When I was asked to do it, I felt a little unhappy." Another parent said the incident had brought down her son's self-esteem.
The school, which is publicly funded but operated by the union, disciplined Ms. Danis and explained that she should not have made the students clean the bathroom. She also was disciplined for failing to report the incident to the school's board of trustees until November 22, about two weeks after it occurred.
"The school leader, who is an exemplary instructional leader, made two errors in judgment - for which the school is taking responsibility, and for which she has been disciplined," Ms. Weingarten said in a statement issued last night.
Right, Well. I can understand the teachers dismay at the children and what they did. On one hand, the children *did* do something wrong. But, on the other hand, should they have been told to do this? Is this a bit too far? Did the teacher stretch her authority? Perhaps the custodians could have cleaned up the mess.
IMO I think, that the teacher should have had the custodians take care of it and deal with the students in question alternatively. Another thing, in reference to the bolded part of the above text: "When I was asked to do it, I felt a little unhappy." Now, they shouldn't (IMO) have messed up the bathroom. But, IMO he (may) had a guilty conscience.
How far should a teacher go? What are a teachers rights when dealing with our children, who happen to behave badly.
--Lucas
First-Graders Made To Clean A Bathroom
A charter school run by the United Federation of Teachers hired a new consultant this week after the principal raised the ire of parents by allegedly ordering a group of first-graders to clean up human waste in the bathroom.
The president of the teachers union, Randi Weingarten, apologized to parents at the school in the East New York section of Brooklyn on Tuesday night. The first-year principal, Rita Danis, also told the group of about two dozen parents that she was sorry.
Last month, Ms. Danis instructed four first-grade boys to tidy up the bathroom after she found them mucking it up. Two of the boys went home and allegedly told their parents that they had been forced to clean up feces.
"This is not something a 6-year-old should go through," the mother of one the boys allegedly involved in the incident, Shalese Lucas-Chisholm, told an NBC TV reporter before the Tuesday meeting. Her 6-year-old son, Bijean, added, "When I was asked to do it, I felt a little unhappy." Another parent said the incident had brought down her son's self-esteem.
The school, which is publicly funded but operated by the union, disciplined Ms. Danis and explained that she should not have made the students clean the bathroom. She also was disciplined for failing to report the incident to the school's board of trustees until November 22, about two weeks after it occurred.
"The school leader, who is an exemplary instructional leader, made two errors in judgment - for which the school is taking responsibility, and for which she has been disciplined," Ms. Weingarten said in a statement issued last night.
Right, Well. I can understand the teachers dismay at the children and what they did. On one hand, the children *did* do something wrong. But, on the other hand, should they have been told to do this? Is this a bit too far? Did the teacher stretch her authority? Perhaps the custodians could have cleaned up the mess.
IMO I think, that the teacher should have had the custodians take care of it and deal with the students in question alternatively. Another thing, in reference to the bolded part of the above text: "When I was asked to do it, I felt a little unhappy." Now, they shouldn't (IMO) have messed up the bathroom. But, IMO he (may) had a guilty conscience.
How far should a teacher go? What are a teachers rights when dealing with our children, who happen to behave badly.
--Lucas
