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Perhaps she should have asked for advice on how to conduct herself professionally instead:
A New York City teacher has been fired after asking for relationship advice about her two boyfriends from fourth graders, investigators say.
Substitute teacher Cassandre Fiering, 45, even had the students role-play conversations with her about how she should talk to the men, who were both in their 30s, according to the kids – who were ages nine and ten.
She allegedly told them that they were her ‘munchkins’ and invited them to dress up like ‘demons’ and scare one of her boyfriends and ‘toilet-paper’ his house.
The bizarre counseling session happened in June 2013 at Public School 189 in the Bronx, New York, DNA Info reports.
A report from the city Department of Education Special Commissioner of Investigation also alleged that she touched one student on the shoulder and touch two others on their thighs.
Ms Fiering says she was stuck with five fourth graders all day with no lesson plan. The rest of the class had gone on a field trip.
She was paid less than $155 for the day.
I am posting this video as an example of how easily our children can be lead. It is for this reason that teachers must make a concerted effort to resist divulging their own political views or preferences. It is not for our students to be puppets for our agendas. It is vital that they be given the opportunity and basic analysis skills to make up their own minds up regarding topical issues.
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The teacher in this video was unfortunately fired for her attempted intervention. I find this to be an outrageous overreaction to what was a most challenging situation.
I have the following points to make:
1. How many of us teachers were ever trained on what to do to break up a fight between students. Do you try to intervene? Do you simply wait for security? Do you take a proactive approach or a passive one?
2. This is not your average student fight. This is ultra violent and extremely serious. When the teacher chose to intervene, it was at a point when the child on the bottom looked like he was about to have a serious concussion.
3. I’ve heard people argue that she should have called for security and left it at that. Really? Can’t you see what is going on? What if one of the students involved got a blow to the head which left him brain damaged? How would we view the teacher if all she did was send a child out to alert security?
4. A television reporter suggested she should have physically restrained the fighters. Are you serious? We are teachers not bouncers! She was brave enough to do what she did. Getting in the middle of the fight wouldn’t have been wise. In fact, it would have been suicide.
5. I’ve heard comments made about the unacceptability of hitting students with a broom. This very argument was made by one of the students at the school:
Bernard Barton III, a 19-year-old senior at the school, said the teacher went too far.
“The lady she should have never grabbed the broom. She could have just grabbed the security guard,” Barton said. “He could have got hurt from her hitting him with the broom like that and she should have gotten charged for it.”
Firstly, do you honestly think this teacher goes around hitting her students with brooms? This was an absolutely exceptional case that required a response that goes against the natural character of the teacher involved. Secondly, she didn’t use inappropriate force, she used the bristles for goodness sakes!
6. By firing the teacher they again make the teacher the focal point. This is quite disturbing. Surely the fighting students must be the story here, not the desperate teacher.
7. I want the people that fired her to not only explain why they fired her but to explain what they would have done in such a situation.
Fire this teacher? I would have given her support and guidance, offered her counseling and considered a raise!
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I read with sadness about the awful killing of teacher Anne Maguire at the hands of an angry student. Although it is a relief to read that this sort of senseless behaviour towards a teacher is very rare, I hope the perpetrator is made an example of.
I also wish to pay tribute to all teachers that have been subject to threats, acts of violence or bullying from their students. Many of us, myself very much included, would take a bullet for our students. It is very sad to hear about what some teachers have had to put up with.
British police have arrested a 15-year-old male pupil after a female teacher was stabbed to death at a Catholic school in a rare attack on educational staff.
Anne Maguire, a 61-year-old Spanish teacher, suffered multiple stab wounds in the Monday incident which was witnessed by other children at Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds, northern England.
Prime Minister David Cameron was among those offering their condolences.
I’ve had the pleasure of graduating on 3 occasions. First from high school and then subsequent university degrees in Arts and then Teaching. On all 3 occasions I felt like backflipping on stage out of joy, but would have ended up falling on my face.
Just like the student in the video above.
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The following things make me very concerned by the completely outrageous actions by Middle School teacher, Felicia Smith:
1. How can a teacher, who is supposed to impart wisdom to her students, behave with such flagrant stupidity?
2. For a teacher to do this one wonders if she thought she could get away with it. Is it common for such behaviour to go unreported?
3. What an awful excuse this teacher provided for her inexcusable actions! Her students may have urged her on, but so what?
4. And if the lap dance wasn’t enough, she allowed this student to repeatedly slap her buttock. Not only does this contravene the basic rules for proper treatment of women, it also gives the signal that any of her other students can do the same to her whenever they see fit!
I just can’t get over this story:
A MIDDLE school teacher in the United States has admitted she gave one of her students a lap dance in front of the rest of his class.
Felicia Smith, 42, has been charged with engaging in an inappropriate relationship with a student, KHOU News reports.
According to a male student at the school in Houston, Texas, Ms Smith grabbed his journal and stopped him from talking to his friends as he walked into class. When the bell rang, Ms Smith placed a chair at the front of the room, and the boy’s classmates told him to sit on it.
Music started to play. Then Ms Smith gave the student a “full contact lap dance”, grinding against him and rubbing her hands all over his body. The teacher also got on her knees and placed her head between his legs, KHOU reports.
The boy says he “slapped Ms Smith on the buttocks” several times.
At the end of the dance, which apparently lasted about four minutes, Ms Smith hugged the student and said “I love you baby, happy birthday.”
When she was questioned by police, the teacher admitted to performing the lap dance, saying she did it at the urging of his classmates.
Investigators have reviewed video footage of the incident, which is being kept on file at the District Attorney’s office.
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This story gives me so much pleasure:
Many adults would have dismissed a Grade 3 girl’s desperation over losing her tooth in the school playground. But her principal took it seriously, writing a letter to the tooth fairy with the school’s official letterhead.
Avery Patchett’s loose tooth popped out last week while she was in class at James Hill Elementary School in Langley, B.C. Her teacher got her a “tooth chest necklace” to keep it safe so she could take it home, said principal Chris Wejr in an email to The Huffington Post B.C.
But Avery fell during recess and knocked the tooth onto the ground. She and her two friends searched for several minutes but couldn’t find it, leaving Avery very upset that she wouldn’t be able to show it to the tooth fairy, said Wejr.
The principal reassured her that he had a plan, one that he had used for another student who lost a tooth at school. Wejr sent Avery home with the official letter above.
Avery’s mother, Debbie Patchett, told HuffPost B.C. she was deeply touched by the principal’s “kind and compassionate gesture” to turn “what could have been a sad memory into such a wonderful memory for our little girl.”
The tooth fairy left Avery $5.
“What is small to us may be huge to a child so it is important to stay in the moment and give children the care they need,” explained Wejr. “We need to model kindness and show them they matter.”
The tooth fairy letter is being shared on social media, which Wejr says is a useful way for parents and the community to see the positive things that teachers do in schools every day.
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