Teacher Caught on Tape Bullying Student. Is a Camera a Kid's Only Advocate?

This is what happens when you Unions to much power

Welcome to the public school system wherein the sports stars, the wealthy, the popular ones (often the same as the wealthy and/or sports stars) and the teachers are always telling the truth (in that order if there's a conflict). My friends and I have sworn not to allow our children into public school when and if we have them because of experiences like this one.

My parents did the same to me when I told them my ninth grade science teacher was lying about the things I was doing. "He's dangerous and violent." Funny thing was that I'd never been violent... EVER. "He was throwing furniture across the room." Odd that there was no collateral damage given that she was talking about heavy desks in a crowded classroom full of students!

The same thing happened in elementary school. I'd never shown any aggressive tendencies but there were these two or three smaller kids who would bully me to the point of fighting back. They'd say I started it and I'd get into trouble because they were smaller and there were more of them so they had to be right, right?

Wake up parents! These people CANNOT be trusted!

This is what happens when government is allowed to run amok with unlimited resources. Pretty soon, you get burecrats hiding behind other burecrats trying to protect a system that is lining their own pockets, while failing in the missions they are entrusted to execute. This situation is very similar to the autistic child who was bullied by his teachers in NJ. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that those same teachers were given some kind of recognition, and sent on the GSA's taxpayer funded vacation to Vegas as a reward.

To make matters worse, we now have a president who thinks throwing money at these problems is the solution, driving us more in debt. More money is clearly not the answer...a more streamlined system to which the taxpayers start holding people accountable is.

"Our school district takes all bullying, harassment, and intimidation allegations seriously...we do not tolerate it."
That's right. And to teach him a lesson we're putting him on full paid administrative leave.

Let's make this easy on everyone. Put cameras and audio recordings in each and every classroom. I agree....NO ONE.....student/child/parent/teacher/care giver.....should abuse/bully/mistreat anyone else. Teachers are bullied by students every day.....now it appears that teachers do the same thing. Maybe if we all just treated one another a little better.....as well as being made to take responsibility when we screw up....then we couyld (teachers) get back to the task of.........teaching!

How is it a "murky issue" for school administrators. There is a clear line that a person in authority over a child should not cross, no matter how unruly the situation. If the teacher can't handle it then either they should get assistance or get out of that classroom and teach in an environment more suitable to their skills. It's that simple.

What do you call a pedophile cannibal serial killer with tenure?

employed!!
badum tshhh thank you, thank you i'll be here all night.

What's blurry about calling a child names, getting in their face, explicit adult conversations? Blurry? I don't think so. This is at the very least inappropriate behavior - at the most abuse. Get real. No way for kids to be treated. They should be able to trust their teachers. This is sick stuff. It's bullying. Plain and simple.

my son & his neighbor were disciplined because they taped a bus driver screaming at my son in his face pointing less than a quarter inch from his eyes. Nothing was done many kids have been removed from the school due to the same type of issues 2 I know personally not to mention my 4 children. Mrs Acosta is the principal at Foothills elementary school in Glendale AZ & did nothing but suspend my child who has a whole bus full of witnesses that said he was not the boy that cussed even kids he was not friends with defended him.

It happened to a young boy in the Atlanta city schools and the parents attached a wire to the boy's collar. They picked up not only verbal physical threats, but also alot of unnecessary chatter like Mr. Cheifetz recorded. I hope the teachers mentioned won't all seem to be white, racist teachers;in the Atlanta boy's case the teachers and aides were all black and the boy was white. However, in North Fulton Co., the teacher was white and she didn't care what her students thought either. I like Mr. Cheifetz believes, I know these teachers either think the students are total idiots and can't understand anything or if they do, they can't do anything about it. I used to work at an institution and heard some of the most demeaning statements geared toward the students (as they were called then). I too was bullied in school because I had a LD,was overweight, and non-assertive. I had a h.s. teacher who bullied me and the other white and Jewish students everyday with "Let's hate honky" lectures (this was during the 70's) and "Let's laugh at the 'retard'" when he was supposed to be teaching math.The other students he favoured could never got above 3rd grade math (much less algeebra).Not only was he not fired, but was promoted as vice-principal by the time my younger brother came along and proceeded to make life miserable for him too. Not only did we survive, we graduated from a university and college later, mainly because we later had better teachers who cared and that young man in Atlanta got transferred to a better school-via help by Bernie Marcus. There are better schools out there-or else home-school.

I'm getting tired of all these teachers on here complaining about how underpaid they are for what they "go through". Avg. salary in the US is $46K. But that's for 9 months of work. On an annual basis that's $61K a year. Get to leave at 3 PM, usually with a "lesson planning" period and lunch break. I haven't seen a lunch break away from my desk in years. Oh you have to go home and grade papers at night? Boohoo! My laptop is open at night too, and I'm usually doing a little more than drawing smiley faces and "Good Job!"s at the tops of my reports. Most teachers I know do something awesome in their free time as well for extra cash...tutor, coach a sport, officiate atheletics. Real hard life, I'll tell ya.

And thats just salary and working hours. Lets not forget most states have ridiculous govt. pension plans for their teachers. I have a cousin who retired from the Maryland state education system at 49 years old. Full pension, full benefits, for life. I'll be lucky to retire at 65.

Autistic child vs the unions. Which side will the liberal media take?

this is from Nov. 2011?

Teachers have always bullied kids, this one just got cought. Teacher attitude has a big percentage of how your kid does on his grades in their room. Instead of useing phycology, if they have it in for him, you can forget the good grades. Most teacher are paid according to the ammount of education they have. It's a fact some people need more education than others and it's a good chance you kids teacher is a bully because he over education for the job he has.Teachers of this sort need to move on to harder classes according to their education and pay level, I don't think a second grade teacher should make $80-$90 thousand a year just because he has a doctrine degree, he should move to higher level of education insted of sitting around being a education BULLY because the goverment has too much emphansis on education.

Why do people procreate anymore? Why would you want to bring a child into this insane world we live in? And with all the stress as it is, if you are in a relationship, that stress added to it to maintain it, and then you throw a child into the mix? What for? I think people have kids for all the wrong reasons - filling a void, societal conditioning, family pressure, someone to have power over, and so it goes. I rarely ever doubt someone says that they want to have a child so they can learn more about life and what it's like to be selfless. They just want one. Get a pet!

I too would like to know what precipitated this outburst. A teacher doesn't get riled up trying to explain prepositional phrases, the Civil War, Newton's law or whatever. The student must have done something unnecessary to the day's goals.

Yes,we as teachers are suppose to protect our students because we are their voices. But while working in Gwinnnett County GA, I spoke out about what I considered mistreatment of some autistic students by another teacher. I lost my job several months later. GOOD JOB DAD.

its simple really,,cheap web cams and recorders in all classrooms, and impartial viewing by non teachers and non parents,it shouldn't take long to weed out this behaviour,oh and if you are caught being abusive,,fired on the spot,,

Regardless of how a teacher may have been treated by his/her teachers as a young child does not give credence as an excuse for abuse. There is not an excuse in this universe that is good for the abuse this child and other autistic children or children of special needs received from ignorant teachers. They should all be fired on the spot and it should be absolutely not tolerated by the school system. If the teacher is not fired, the superintendent of the school district should be fired along with the teacher immediately. Allowing this type of behavior in school is unacceptable. I would call the police and file against the teacher for child abuse, sue the school for the principle, and call the newspaper and get a reporter on this to cause a stir and put a stop to it, and hopefully initiate a political stance in the schools that this behavior is unacceptable and intolerable and immediate firing will ensue should this happen in another school. And place camera in every special needs classroom.

Lets start with some honesty; when a kid picks on another kid, it is bullying, but when an ADULT "picks on" a child it is some form of abuse, period! I was abused by 3 different grade school teachers and 1 high school teacher. I was always a good kid and good student, so it's not like I was a troublemaker or anything. In grade school, the "bad" teachers would belittle me in front of the class, even smile and turn their back while I was pelted with rocks by the other students. One teacher yelled that every word out of my mouth was a lie and I should never speak again. A "popular" girl raised her hand and informed the teacher that what I had said was true, and HER MOM could be called to verify it too. The teacher just said "oh." and went on teaching, like nothing had happened. I dreamed of the day I could quit school and end the torment. My mom thought it was too ridiculous that teachers would behave that way, and told me to "stop being hysterionic!" Our moving to a new area is the only thing that saved me. In my senior year I had another teacher who bullied me through two semesters of a required course. two weeks before graduation, he took my term paper, smiled and dropped it in the garbage without opening the cover. He flunked me for the semester because he could and no one in the school would help me. I had to repeat a whole school year because I had no money for summer school fees. Some teachers are just evil. I believe that karma and/or a special place in hell exists for people who abuse children. There is an even deeper place for those who abuse children who are differently abled.