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In reply to the discussion: 4th graders who flunk reading have faces marked [View all]CoffeeCat
(24,411 posts)Some kids ARE slow readers. Some kids are late bloomers. One of my daughters is a straight-A seventh grader who reads three books a week. She was a late bloomer who had trouble reading in elementary school.
I can't IMAGINE what this stupid teacher was thinking. The humiliation of allowing OTHER students to mark up this child's face. These are eight and nine year old kids!
This act was abusive. It was a severe boundary violation, teaching these kids that their bodies deserve violation by a mob of students who were probably laughing, mocking and taunting them as they treated their faces like an object that deserved to be vandalized--like spray painting graffiti on a cement wall.
This teacher showed such poor judgment and obviously lacks empathy and critical thinking skills. She sounds like a complete idiot who probably has some very deep issues of her own.
If I were the parent, I'd be lawyering up. Intentional infliction of distress, humiliation, harassment--just to start.