Who Do You Tell When the Bully Is the Teacher

This school district is the next one over from ours. It is rural and good ol' boy system and PATHETIC!!!! I wrote a post about it too. I am so disgusted by the reaction of the school and also the community. I can't believe that parents are not flooding the school board with calls and threats not to reelect. It is a sad day. Most people in that area fall below the poverty line and are also uneducated (according to Ohio statistics). I think that the school leaders know they can get away with this. I wish I voted in that area.

One thing I want to make clear is that I do not think that all teachers are bad. Like any other profession - there are the good and the bad. People should be educated on how to deal with special needs students. if a teacher doesn't agree with the philosophies of the school then they should find a place where their opinions do mesh with the philosophies of the school and the district.

In general I think teachers do a wonderful job and that it is a highly under recognized over stressed career.

My nephew is a Downs child that is only 8. My sister and her husband already had to move him to a different school because the teachers were so mean to him.

When the teacher is the bully, you tell the vice principal. When s/he blows you off, you tell the principal. When s/he blows you off, you tell the district. When they call the principal, the principal calls you in and threatens your other children's access to accommodations they need to 'fit in' at school. And the school calls CPS on you. How do I know? I lived it. We now homeschool our 3 children and they are progressing far more rapidly than they did before.

You guys, you have no idea how common this is. I have to do something.

I am a veteran teacher and remember bullying teachers when I was in school. There is no excuse for this kind of behavior. Teachers should be champions of students, not bullies the children fear. The comments these two women made to the child were hateful and continuous. They did it in front of each other, and neither was shocked by the other’s words. This confirms that it was not the first time it had happened. They obviously have a history of verbally abusing their students, and it sounds as if they enjoyed doing so. I wish they felt shame about their actions, but I would be surprised if either of them does. The teacher should lose the privilege of working with children. However, she should not be provided with a county office position just to separate her from children. If she had struck the child, there would be no question about her fitness to hold a job in the education field. The verbal abuse she has subjected this child to-and most likely countless others-will last much longer than any bruises she could have inflicted. She should be fired.

My son was bullied by his 1st grade teacher. The principal would not do anything about it - wouldn't even let us change teachers. She told us to our faces that our son "wasn't as smart as we thought he was" and that he "needed to be taken down a notch or two." I am still not sure how a 6 year old could be over confident. We recently had him take an IQ test and the composite score was 133. There are days when I'd like to have a chat with that teacher, but I'm really trying to let it go.We removed our son from the school and sent him to a charter school. Things were much better, but now, over 5 years later, we are still seeing the consequences of her treatment of him. I hear that she is now in a team teaching situation, but still with 1st and 2nd graders. Absolutely no consequences for her behavior. It makes me crazy.

By the way, when we went right up the chain of command..it just continued..political sometimes!

If you knew how often I have seen this and been subjected to this kind of behavior (friends and family), nothing new to me. I have actually had a couple of relatives over the years who had graduate level teaching degrees who would totally admit to participating in this awful behavior.."I just couldn't stand the kid" etc. A sign of emotional and intellectual immaturity.

I had a vision impaired brother who was so damaged by the time he was out of HS because of this behavior..still makes me sick.

It can be slights, not calling on the child, standing in front of them..the malicious attention seekers. Time for the educational system to get rid of these teachers and deal with the children who imitate this behavior.

I know a kid who was at the very least dyslexic and probably had other learning issues. He was picked on by a teacher. He never recovered. He talked about going to vet tech school, but couldn't make it through high school. He got married at 19, with no job, no car, no prospects and a baby on the way. He and the mother fought a lot. One of the fights, she used the baby as a shield. Now, the kid is in prison. I don't condone the wholesale bashing of teachers, but that one teacher had a lot to do with this kid's downfall and I hope she is suffering somewhere.

I was bullied by teachers and college professors. It made me stronger in a lot of ways but, it still sucked at the same time.

I had the same problem in middle school. The teacher refused to answer questions, made me sit alone at a desk in the back of the room, and I had so much homework my father had to carry my backpack. All because she had a run in with my mother a few years before. No one believed me and I almost failed the class till another student mentioned what was happening to his mother who was on the school board. I was moved to another class an my grade went from an F to an A in just a couple weeks.

If you do not want to teach get the H E double hockey sticks out of the classroom.

I had a sixth grade teacher who bullied me in school,and this was back when they

did'nt have any way to prove that she was doing it.My parents did'nt believe me so I

suffered until the end of the school year.I found this Lady again years later on the internet I told her who I was, and I told her off.I don't think she cared but it made me feel better!

Obviously this teacher is a giant douchebag, but I'm against the recording of teachers and playing back sound bites that could seriously be taken out of context. As a teacher, I did tell kids at times that they were being lazy (of course, I framed it as a choice, not like this teacher, who seems to frame it as an insult). It chills me that someone could have recorded that and it could end up in the public sphere.

Of course, those parents might not have felt they had any other alternative. And that's definitely an awful place to be.

i watched it and got angry too. i'm so glad that bullying is getting national attention. it's been like this for years. :(

It's terrible when you can't trust adults, especially those in authority.

Unfortunately, it isn't new. Back in the 70s, my second grade teacher was a bully. She pulled my hair a number of times and, almost daily, called my dad a baby killer (he was in the Army and in Vietnam at the time.) I never told anyone. I did spit in lunch once when she wasn't looking. ;)

This is sad, and terrible. Sickening! The worst part, is that I wonder how often this does happen? This is not the first child who was bullied by her teachers, and it makes me ill to know that it took that much effort and abuse for the school district to do something. Why aren't we finding ways to stop this behavior from adults?

That woman should NOT teach or be near children again. Both of them. No excuses for their behavior, there just is not a single reason for it.

I did watch it. And I was ... mad. Horrified. Angry. Sad. Back to mad. And then I stayed mad. My husband was equally upset, though quieter about it as I'm the loud one in our relationship.

I explained to him that if something of that nature ever happened to our sons, he would be bailing me out of jail. Want to watch me get all Mama Bear on you? Bully my child -- as an adult to a child. I get upset enough when kids are mean to my kids -- but ADULTS? Oh man. OH MAN.

Thank you for writing about this, because I've been stewing all morning.