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Texas band director on administrative leave for unorthodox punishment
Categories: Teens & tweens, In The News, Education
A Texas band director is on administrative leave after the school found out about his inappropriate punishment of a student.On January 4, an 11-year-old band student forgot his instrument and as punishment, the band director made him hold out his hand while the rest of the students emptied their spit valves into his hand. The boy's father just became aware of the incident because his son requested to be transferred out of band class.
The teacher is now on administrative leave while the school investigates the incident.
Once again, this is one of those stories where I have to say, What is going on with some of these teachers? Are they crazy? What would cause a teacher to think this was a good idea or acceptable behavior? Is there anyone who would think this might be appropriate? It's unsanitary and downright gross. It is also teaching students to demean their fellow students.
The boy's parents are extremely angry, but stated that they are pleased with the responsiveness of the school. The other unfortunate part of this story is that this boy has now dropped out of band class and probably has given up his plans to play the trumpet. This is another example of how teachers can affect children's lives forever, and sometimes not in a positive way.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Bridget 1-16-2008 @ 12:52PM
As a former teacher I think that its very hard to keep good teachers in the profession. Long hours with little pay run off a lot of highly educated and good teaching professionals. As a result, I think some teachers who stay in the profession feel they have no other career options, and become bitter, disgruntled and ineffective, often taking out their bitterness on the students. It really is a sad and disturbing state of affairs.
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Jacki 1-16-2008 @ 1:06PM
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Michelle 1-16-2008 @ 4:36PM
This student is my nephew. This did happen. It is not a case of a bratty or disrespectful student. The teacher admitted to his superiors that he did this to teach my nephew a lesson. He is on paid leave and I stress paid because he's been on paid leave for 2 weeks now. Nice little vacation using tax payers money. With 3 teachers in my family I understand the long hours, the unappreciative parents and the POOR PAY and we all have our bad days but this was more than just a bad day. A man that is in charge of 11 year old students used poor judgment and put my nephews health at risk. I guess the lesson learned here is that humiliation and health hazards are appropriate forms of punishment for something as minor as forgetting an instrument.
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