Sandpaper Spelling Assignment At Florida Middle School Leaves Kids Bleeding, Parents Outraged

[HiPointDem]

171. there are plenty of problems in education. i doubt very seriously that this teacher is one of them.

for anyone who actually knows anything about the subject, there are too many red flags in this story.

1. the various reports can't even get the story straight.
2. it's florida, capital of education deform.
3. the administrator acts like he never heard of this technique, though it's quite common (common enough to be mentioned on the government's Head Start website, for example; common enough that there are 1 million hits on the internet.)
4. She's a 27-year veteran teacher, with a satisfactory rating. The worst thing the papers can find on her is that she threw a 'soft shoe' at a student 11 years ago. Sorry, there are too many scenarios I can think of where such an incident could be completely innocuous.
5. if the boy's finger was burning, he could have stopped doing the exercise, or not pressed so hard (he was clearly pressing too hard). SHE WASN'T HOLDING DOWN HIS FINGER.
6. He says he came to her with a bleeding finger and she told him to sit down, shut up and do the work. I don't believe it. MANDATORY REPORTING OF ALL CLASSROOM INJURIES, AND ALL BLOOD EXPOSURE. A FIRING OFFENSE.