Tuesday, April 5, 2011
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I'm sure by now most of us have heard about the first-grade teacher from Paterson who called her students "future criminals," on her Facebook page (http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/04/paterson_first-grade_teacher_s.html). Although I have heard the story a couple of times now, I am still in shock. I am in shock that a teacher of young students said these awful comments, and I am also in shock that a teacher (a very highly educated person in my opinion!) wrote these comments on her Facebook page! We all know that social networking websites are not 100% private, and I really just don't know what this teacher was thinking!
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I think the bottom line is that she clearly WASNT thinking. What a shame. At that age children take everything that you say so literally. If she is writing that on Facebook what is she saying to them in the classroom? As one of my second graders so wisely said yesterday, "breathe and ignore it" when they get to you but, by no means call them names, especially criminals, especially on the World Wide Web for the world to see.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Shari, she was obviously not thinking! Everyone gets frustrated now and again and I certainly hope her post wasn't indicative of how she treats her little but the Internet is no place to air your thoughts!!!! You never know who sees what you write. It's a good lesson to us all to be careful with what we post. She should know better and her students are so young and impressionable too. Unexcusable!
ReplyDeleteI hope she was venting and does not really think that way. It is too sad to think a teacher would think that way about 6 year olds. How can you?
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