Teacher sued for calling teen "ugly"
Categories: Teens & tweens, Health & safety, Education
A teenage girl is suing her teacher for calling her ugly. According to reports, the freshman was called ugly by her teacher and kicked in the rear end by her choir teacher .
The alleged altercation took place in front of Jade Ray's classmates. Ray says she was humiliated and is seeking $75,000 to make things right. Ray wanted to be a part of a group singing Valentine grams and asked for permission of her teacher to do so.
Teacher Heather Hargett 's response? Calling her ugly, a brat, and then kicking her in the rear and ordering her to leave the room. That doesn't sound like any of the teachers I ever had in school! The fourteen-year-old's claims are being taken seriously by school officials.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
pamela 7-25-2008 @ 3:27PM
that teacher would have been "ugly" too after i was done with her!!!!
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Mihir 7-25-2008 @ 6:18PM
let's not just jump down this teacher's throat without hearing her side of things. remember...kids lie just as well as adults.
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sweetchuckd 7-25-2008 @ 7:21PM
I'd like to see teachers becoming more accountable and serving us as role models for children. I also came across some interesting commentary about this story on http://detentionslip.org.
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Mihir 7-25-2008 @ 11:31PM
teachers are already "serving us" by educating kids. it's not their job to be a role model, that's the parents' job.
Mar 8-02-2008 @ 8:17AM
Teachers somehow are starting to revoke the law that happens to state that there should not be physical abuse to their student...
That teacher is obviously a horrible teacher and deserves to be sued for their actions. Being called "ugly" and then kicked is definatly embarassing and I feel for the girl who had this happen to her.
I can remember back to a time when I was sitting in class with a horrible substitute teacher who though was quite mean and annoying, I still showed her respect because she was my elder. I never acted out in school and for making one mistake ... A simple mistake that anyone else could've made- Using a the booklet to put the answers in, instead of the answer sheet, I was called stupid and many other things by the sub. teacher, and it was definatly embarassing.
Any teacher who can harm a young person this way should have their teaching degree taken away from them, because thats not teaching- thats abusing.
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