Teacher Reassigned for Anatomy Drawings
Posted on: Friday, 26 January 2007, 18:00 CST
YONKERS, N.Y. - A teacher has been barred from classes after having his seventh-grade students draw male genitalia on the blackboard during health class, a school spokeswoman said Friday.
The teacher, whose name was not made public, was assigned to administrative duties and Superintendent Bernard Pierorazio will ask trustees to fire him, said Yonkers school spokeswoman Jerilynne Fierstein.
"There was no way we were going to let him be in front of children," she said.
Fierstein said the state's seventh-grade curriculum calls for lessons in human anatomy and sexuality, but "as a teacher you have to be sensitive and you have to look at the age-appropriateness of any activity that you ask a child to do. And this was just not appropriate."
Fierstein said the administration learned of the drawings, which occurred in a class of boys and girls at the Pearls Hawthorne school, when a parent complained.
Trustees will consider the teacher's firing at a March 21 meeting, she said.
Pierorazio issued a statement saying, "I will not tolerate insensitive, inappropriate behavior by any staff member toward our students. Every student's physical and emotional well-being is paramount in our decision making, therefore immediate action was taken."
Source: Associated Press/AP Online
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Posted by Darrin on 02/20/2007, 14:59 this is a load of bull...in one state they had a kindergarten class being taught about homosexuality, but in this case something can't be taught that's already in the majority of health and anatomy textbooks? i wouldn't suggest the teacher's approach, but i think we've all had the birds and the bees slide show back in elementary. this is ridiculous. parents need to realize that their kids are usually already experimenting sexually at this age, and the teachers are just trying to educate and prevent, hopefully, any of this activity. |
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