Post by deeniereenie on Oct 22, 2017 9:59:59 GMT -5
www.cbsnews.com/news/pittsburgh-teacher-beaten-cellphone-dispute-school/
Teacher takes phone from a 4th grader at a school that has a strict no cell phone policy, student BITES teacher, teacher goes to clinic to get wound checked, parents follow. Then as teacher leaves school at end of the day, she gets a brick thrown at her, and then dragged from her car and beaten.
This makes me sick to my stomach, and unfortunately, I am not terribly surprised that a parent would resort to violence over something like this.
I have dealt with some fairly aggressive parents, and it can be intimidating. I have one this year who scares me. He came to school a few weeks ago with his child, 30 minutes after school had started, walked up to my classroom door, and asked his daughter which one of us was her teacher (had an assistant in my room at the time). She pointed to me, and he wagged his finger at me and pointed to the hall! Excuse me? I am in the middle of my morning meeting with my kids, I am not going to respond to your demand right away! So I told him I would be with him in just a moment, when I had a chance. He stomped his feet in the hall, sighed, etc, while I got to a place where I could meet with him. NO WAY in hell was I going to jump up and go in the hall, assistant in the room or not! When I met with him, the first thing he said was "this is going to stop today". I had no clue what he was talking about... apparently his daughter was telling him boys were chasing her on the playground and smacking her on the rear and kissing her... there are 3 of us at recess, none of us had seen this, nor had she told any of us. I explained to her that she needs to let us know if something is happening, so we can take care of it then, and explained to him that there are 3 teachers, but almost 100 kids, on a big playground, and we can't see everything, but that I would keep an eye out. (side note, later that week, I saw HER chasing a boy that she had accused, smacking his bottom, and grabbing his face...) Thought we were good. He asked when the book fair was, told him he could take her that morning, so she is gone another half hour, when she comes back to room, she walks in and right back out 3 times, the third time I followed her into the hall, took her hand, and told her it was time to come into class, dad SCREAMED at me to stop pulling on her.... I was holding her hand, she was yanking back, and if I had let go of her she would have fallen. I was trying to get my balance, and let her get hers, and he put his hands up like he was going to push me. I very calmly (not the way I felt inside!) told him I was simply trying to coax her into class (BTW this child cried all day every day for the first 2 weeks), he yelled back he didn't care, not to touch his child. I then told him if he wanted to take her for a walk to calm down, I was going to close my door and continue with my day with the rest of the students. He went down to the office, and demanded his child be moved from my classroom, principal told him she would move her one time, and if he didn't like the new class, it would be too bad, she called the teacher she was going to move her to the office, girl cried that she didn't want a new teacher, and dad took her home. I was pissed that the principal didn't come get ME to defend myself, but that is water under the bridge. When I asked her later what we were going to do, she said she was going to let the parents tell her the next day what they wanted. Little girl got off the bus the next day, they didn't call, so she is still in my room. (which I don't have a problem with, she isn't the issue). Report cards went home Wednesday. Girl comes in Thursday morning, and the first thing she says to me is "my dad is coming at 8:00 to talk to you about my grades". I went to the office and told them I was absolutely not going to meet with him alone, or in my classroom. Mom ended up coming up to drop off her lunchbox, and office staff asked if she wanted to meet with me about anything, so I avoided dad. Mom said "we just don't know why she has an F in reading." Well, I send home a grade sheet each week with their scores, and what they missed, I sent home a progress report and checklist with their report card, I told you at meet the teacher how we do grades, and how I don't care about the grades, I care about progress, and IF YOU HAD BOTHERED TO SHOW UP FOR ONE OF THE 3 CONFERENCES YOU SCHEDULED we could have talked about this then.
A Pittsburgh public school teacher was seriously injured Wednesday after she was followed in her car and assaulted after school, allegedly in a dispute over a child's cellphone, CBS Pittsburgh reports.
According to police, Daishonta Marie Williams, 29, was arrested Thursday morning. She is facing charges of aggravated assault, stalking, terroristic threats and recklessly endangering another person.
According to police, Daishonta Marie Williams, 29, was arrested Thursday morning. She is facing charges of aggravated assault, stalking, terroristic threats and recklessly endangering another person.
This makes me sick to my stomach, and unfortunately, I am not terribly surprised that a parent would resort to violence over something like this.
I have dealt with some fairly aggressive parents, and it can be intimidating. I have one this year who scares me. He came to school a few weeks ago with his child, 30 minutes after school had started, walked up to my classroom door, and asked his daughter which one of us was her teacher (had an assistant in my room at the time). She pointed to me, and he wagged his finger at me and pointed to the hall! Excuse me? I am in the middle of my morning meeting with my kids, I am not going to respond to your demand right away! So I told him I would be with him in just a moment, when I had a chance. He stomped his feet in the hall, sighed, etc, while I got to a place where I could meet with him. NO WAY in hell was I going to jump up and go in the hall, assistant in the room or not! When I met with him, the first thing he said was "this is going to stop today". I had no clue what he was talking about... apparently his daughter was telling him boys were chasing her on the playground and smacking her on the rear and kissing her... there are 3 of us at recess, none of us had seen this, nor had she told any of us. I explained to her that she needs to let us know if something is happening, so we can take care of it then, and explained to him that there are 3 teachers, but almost 100 kids, on a big playground, and we can't see everything, but that I would keep an eye out. (side note, later that week, I saw HER chasing a boy that she had accused, smacking his bottom, and grabbing his face...) Thought we were good. He asked when the book fair was, told him he could take her that morning, so she is gone another half hour, when she comes back to room, she walks in and right back out 3 times, the third time I followed her into the hall, took her hand, and told her it was time to come into class, dad SCREAMED at me to stop pulling on her.... I was holding her hand, she was yanking back, and if I had let go of her she would have fallen. I was trying to get my balance, and let her get hers, and he put his hands up like he was going to push me. I very calmly (not the way I felt inside!) told him I was simply trying to coax her into class (BTW this child cried all day every day for the first 2 weeks), he yelled back he didn't care, not to touch his child. I then told him if he wanted to take her for a walk to calm down, I was going to close my door and continue with my day with the rest of the students. He went down to the office, and demanded his child be moved from my classroom, principal told him she would move her one time, and if he didn't like the new class, it would be too bad, she called the teacher she was going to move her to the office, girl cried that she didn't want a new teacher, and dad took her home. I was pissed that the principal didn't come get ME to defend myself, but that is water under the bridge. When I asked her later what we were going to do, she said she was going to let the parents tell her the next day what they wanted. Little girl got off the bus the next day, they didn't call, so she is still in my room. (which I don't have a problem with, she isn't the issue). Report cards went home Wednesday. Girl comes in Thursday morning, and the first thing she says to me is "my dad is coming at 8:00 to talk to you about my grades". I went to the office and told them I was absolutely not going to meet with him alone, or in my classroom. Mom ended up coming up to drop off her lunchbox, and office staff asked if she wanted to meet with me about anything, so I avoided dad. Mom said "we just don't know why she has an F in reading." Well, I send home a grade sheet each week with their scores, and what they missed, I sent home a progress report and checklist with their report card, I told you at meet the teacher how we do grades, and how I don't care about the grades, I care about progress, and IF YOU HAD BOTHERED TO SHOW UP FOR ONE OF THE 3 CONFERENCES YOU SCHEDULED we could have talked about this then.
