Parents Angered After Teachers Frisk Kids
Posted on: Wednesday, 27 February 2008, 15:00 CST
Parents of several elementary students in Hopkinsville, Ky., are outraged after teachers frisked their children to find a missing $5, a report said.
Seventeen third-grade students at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School were physically searched after $5 was allegedly stolen from the teacher's desk, the Hopkinsville New Era reported.
They are sweeping this under the carpet. They want MLK to be known as a model school, parent Heather Crosslin said.
School principal Sarah Newman plans to give written reprimands to teacher Gwendolyn Parker, substitute teacher Patricia Dawson, student teacher Cassandra Fann and kindergarten aide Chris Dudley for the Feb. 15 incident, school district spokesman Regan Huneycutt said.
No further disciplinary action has been planned, the report said.
The report said parents received a letter from Newman regarding the incident, but some felt it was unsatisfactory, lacked disciplinary plans and did not give reasonable cause for what happened.
Source: United Press International
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Posted by SDM on 03/05/2008, 23:36 I totally agree. As a parent whose child attends this school, and is even in one of the participating teachers' classroom, I am outraged and want an explaination as to why they only got a "slap on the wrist". I think an outside party needs to be brought into the situation to correct it, and soon! |
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Posted by JohnC on 03/05/2008, 19:46 Did the teacher have the serial # written down somewhere else? The Federal Reserve didnt print just 1 five dollar bill. This is unexcusable, the teachers involved in this need to be fired, not given written warnings. They violated the constitutional rights of all of these children (Amendment 4). This can not go with a mere slap on the wrist, what if it was your child? |
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