Monday, March 2, 2009

I can not believe it.



As you know there are many kinds of abuse. Abuse is a maltreatment, a corrupt practice. I also think that abuse is an improper use of power.


What do you think when a teacher is abuse by his/her students, and the abuse is totally extreme that the teacher has to leave her job and look for another place were to work because no body helped her. This problem happened four years ago to one of my friends who works for the District 75, which is Special Education. The principal new what happened but didn't take any action against the student. So the teacher calls to 911 and reported the problem. The police came to school and after the investigation arrested the student. But what a surprise the student came back to school next day. He went to look for his teacher and said "hi, I am back", and laugh on the teacher's face. How do you think this teacher felt in that moment?. Of course she felt humiliate by the student. She is human. She has feelings. So she decided to asks the principal to remove the student from her classroom. The principal answer was "he will be remove for three days;after three days he will come back to the classroom. During these three days the student was in another classroom. He said that he new the police just made believe to do something against him but he is in a Special Education because he has problems. He also said that he knows that he has an IEP, and it explains his ADD problem.Also he is a teenager so they can do nothing against him. No body can blame him for what he did. What do you think about this?. I'm sure if this problem were reverse. The teacher abusing her student. The Principal's reaction were different. Like many cases, but because is the student who abuse his teacher no body say or do anything to help the teacher.


You must be asking what this student did to the teacher that she had to leave her job?, and how this happened?. Well according to what Mary my friend explains me; the student was disrupting the class when she was reading a book. He was screaming, throwing paper balls and disrespecting her. She asked the student to please stop disrupting the class. The student's answer was make me. For a second time she asked the students to stop or leave the room. The students responded make me to stop or make me leave the room. So Mary, looked for help by calling the crisis team. When the student saw her calling he jumped over her and pulled her hair, slapped her face and spited on her body, by that time the crisis team was in the class room and restrain the student. Mary, wrote the incident report and asked the principal to take actions with the student, but she refused.


Don't you think that Mary, not only as a teacher, but also as a human been was physically, psychological and emotional abuse by her student?. What do you think Mary, should do?. If you work in a special education school you know that what I'm writing happen to teachers in many special education schools. This is nothing new.

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