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Re: Update: Am I fit to teach?
Posted by questioning on 5/10/08
Lisa, I'm not proud of what I said, because I lost my cool and made a
huge disgrace of myself. I teach and coach at the high school
level, so this incident was in no way school related. I was at the store after practice, and I observed a young boy
who was throwing a temper tantrum, while simultaneously tearing
items off the store shelf and dumping them on the floor. The
child's mother would not let him have a candy bar, but did
nothing to reprimand the child. I turned to the boy and said "If you were my kid, I would kick
your little ass and break your neck." I would never break a
child's neck; my comment was purely intended to imply that my
own child would be physically disciplined, not meant to be a
literal comment. Just for the record, I've never had a physical
or verbal confrontation with a student, so I don't want folks
here implying that I have anger management issues. I simply got
tired of seeing children act inappropriate in public, but in
retrospect I could have handled myself much better. The police were called, but no charges were filed. The parent
and another adult in the store insisted that I be terminated, as
I was "unfit" to teach the children of the community, despite a
stellar reputation in the classroom and working with kids in our
athletic program. I do not have tenure and my contract was not renewed. There
were no specific reasons given. There is nothing the union can
do, as the district representative herself said that while she
respects me as a person, she even agreed with the district's
decision on this one.
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> I missed your original series of posts.
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> What did you do or say to be "over the top"?
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> Did you ever identify in what state this took place?
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> Did this happen in a Bible belt community?
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> Is your state a "right to work" state?
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> Are the teachers unionized?
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> Are you able to challenge your nonrenewal in court?
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> I can't imagine a teacher's verbal reprimand of a misbehaving
> child in a grocery store to be tantamount to career suicide.
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Posts on this thread, including this one
- Update: Am I fit to teach?, 5/10/08, by questioning.
- Re: Update: Am I fit to teach?, 5/10/08, by No, you are not.
- Re: Update: Am I fit to teach?, 5/10/08, by it makes perfect sense.
- Re: Update: Am I fit to teach?, 5/10/08, by Missed it... what did you do? nfm.
- Re: Update: Am I fit to teach?, 5/10/08, by Lisa.
- Re: Update: Am I fit to teach?, 5/10/08, by questioning.
- Re: I'm not surprised at all, 5/10/08, by If you look at it from their point of view.
- Re: Update: Am I fit to teach?, 5/11/08, by Lisa.
- Re: Update: Am I fit to teach?, 5/12/08, by justcommonsense.
- Re: Update: Am I fit to teach?, 5/12/08, by Lisa.
- Re: Update: Am I fit to teach?, 5/12/08, by liar, liar...
- Re: to liar, liar, 5/12/08, by yes, someone could call the police.
- Re: Update: Am I fit to teach?, 5/14/08, by Tina.
- Re: Tina, 5/14/08, by another perspective.
- Re: Update: Am I fit to teach?, 5/14/08, by Teacherguy.
- Re: This OP didn't just reprimand a child. He threatened to, 5/14/08, by break the child's neck. There is a BIG difference. more.
- Re: This OP didn't just reprimand a child. He threatened to, 5/14/08, by Bob/VA.
- Re: Tina, 5/14/08, by Tina.
- Re: Tina, 5/14/08, by yet more prespective.
- Re: Tina..."free speech????", 5/14/08, by Oh Brother!.
- Re: Tina, 5/14/08, by Tina.
- Re: Tina, 5/15/08, by more perspective.
- Re: perspectives, 5/15/08, by mike.
- Re: Tina, 5/15/08, by You assume "We're all educated intelligent people".
- Re: Update: Am I fit to teach?, 6/11/08, by jd.
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