Monday, October 25, 2004

I would be going berserk

Now, one that's a lot less funny.

REMEMBER, ZERO TOLERANCE IN SCHOOLS IS ONLY FOR STUDENTS: A teacher and a "family worker" at Public School 186X in the Bronx, New York, have been accused of improperly searching students after another teacher reported a missing ring. Attention was focused on four boys aged 10 and 11, who were made to strip and then jump up and down on the theory that the ring was hidden on their bodies, and jumping would dislodge it. Julio Passaro, the family worker, was suspended without pay, and the unidentified teacher was reassigned to the school's special education students. (New York Newsday) ...On the theory that special ed students won't be able to complain when it happens to them.

The McMartin preschool was shut down over child molestation charges. Pastor Roberson in Wenatchee, WA went through hell, along with his wife and most of his congregation, over child molestation charges. This incident is different in that it actually happened.

I hope the NYPD and New York District Attorney are giving this matter very serious attention.

And transferring the teacher to a different set of students – isn't that one of the things that got the Catholic Church in deep kim-chee?

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