The random thoughts of a genius...er...gene nash.
as trump would say, 'you're fired!'
Published on October 6, 2005 By Gene Nash In Current Events
When a substitute teacher in Lake County, Florida heard beeping coming from a student, he acted before he thought.

He asked the student what the beeping was, but before the 9th grader could answer, the teacher grabbed the offending item and ripped it from the boy. It seems he thought it was a cell phone.

Instead, it turns out the boy is a Type I diabetic, the ripped item was an insulin pump, and the teacher pulled it out of the tube connected to the boy's leg. It had been beeping as warning the insulin was running low.

The student went to the school clinic to have his pump reattached. The teacher went home, fired and banned from teaching in the county.

Good.

This is just one more example of what happens when the school-yard bully attitude of "this is my turf and I am ultimate arbiter of everything in it" is allowed to flourish.

We'd have a lot fewer incidents of dictatorial teacher abuses if all incidents were handled so quickly and decisively.

I wonder what feeble excuses this teacher made for his assault. Then again, considering some of the events I've seen recounted on JU, I don't have to wonder too hard.


Comments
on Oct 06, 2005

This is just one more example of what happens when the school-yard bully attitude of "this is my turf and I am ultimate arbiter of everything in it" is allowed to flourish.

As you may already know, my son and his classmates are subject to that 'it's my class and i'll do what i want' on a daily basis.  I hate that teachers are allowed to do that....they won't tolerate it from their students, so why should we tolerate it from them?



on Oct 06, 2005
I heard this on The morning news.  Makes you wonder about brain dead administrators and their zero tolerance policy as well.
on Oct 06, 2005
ummmmm maybe the "teacher" thought the kid was a suicide bomber?
on Oct 06, 2005
The teacher should get a large dose of insulin.
on Oct 06, 2005
She never had what it took to become the apprentice anyway.