It's early days yet, but we may have ourselves a Mother of the Year. It takes someone specially ill to come up with a way to do child and animal abuse at the same time.
Bad grades? Your hamster must die!
Fri, 2010-01-22 17:25
#1
Bad grades? Your hamster must die!
Fri, 2010-01-22 18:11
#2
Holy crap. The way that sentence is worded makes it sound like she killed his hamster with the hammer, which is bad enough. But if you read the article, in fact, she made the BOY kill the hamster with a hammer.
My god.
Fri, 2010-01-22 19:26
#3
And then, in ten years, she'll say she had no idea why the kid ended up shooting up the school.
(Obviously, I hope he doesn't...but this kind of thing does do that to people.)
I"m glad Children's Services got involved...that woman should NEVER parent again.
Fri, 2010-01-22 20:12
#4
Pogo
My daughter brought home a mouse without permission and we were stuck with it for a year and a half until nature took its course. If I had given my daughter a hammer and told her to hit the rat, I am sure we would be talking about a different story than above.
Fri, 2010-01-22 20:30
#5
Bad as that is, did you see the other stories on that page?
Fri, 2010-01-22 20:36
#6
bagkitty
Yep, you need a license to drive a car, but anyone past puberty can have a kid.
Fri, 2010-01-22 23:14
#7
I've been thinking about this all evening - it's hitting me hard because I have an 11 year-old boy, so of course I'm totally projecting and imagining someone doing a thing like that to him.
When I think about how fragile his emotions are at this age, how sensitive he is, how he grieved when his pet mouse died...
It's just such horrific abuse. What the hell is wrong with people?
Fri, 2010-01-22 23:15
#8
My daughter brought home a mouse without permission and we were stuck with it for a year and a half until nature took its course. If I had given my daughter a hammer and told her to hit the rat, I am sure we would be talking about a different story than above.
I have no idea what you mean by this. Could you elaborate?
Sat, 2010-01-23 00:15
#9
Pogo
Just that a hammer would more likely be swung at me than her mouse.
Sat, 2010-01-23 04:38
#10
Sick.
Sat, 2010-01-23 09:21
#11
Sven
Some people shouldn't be parents.
Sat, 2010-01-23 09:34
#12
Interestingly, the same site has a story from the year 1010.
http://www.truecrimereport.com/2010/01/john_freshwater_gay_bashing_sc.php
Sat, 2010-01-23 09:39
#13
Sven
Interestingly, the same site has a story from the year 1010.
http://www.truecrimereport.com/2010/01/john_freshwater_gay_bashing_sc.php
Why is it so difficult to fire teachers like that? They have no business being in that profession.
Sat, 2010-01-23 10:52
#14
Fireing the guy is underway, but it's a long process. And perhaps it should be. One could imagine a bunch of Christian zeolots going on a witch hunt to have secular minded teachers fired on trumped up charges.
Although, when we have clear examples of assault, one wonders how it is that the man hasn't lost his job because one can't teach from a jail cell.
Another side note in that story was the law suit the board had to settle. Did you see how much the board paid, how much the lawyers got, and how much the kid got? It mirrors the settlement a co-worker got from the Air Transat flight that ran out of fuel over the Atlantic, and glided into the Azores. I'm not against lawyers making not just money, but good money, but this is insane.
I mean, heck, it's a job you can do sitting down.
Sat, 2010-01-23 14:22
#15
Sven
Another side note in that story was the law suit the board had to settle. Did you see how much the board paid, how much the lawyers got, and how much the kid got? It mirrors the settlement a co-worker got from the Air Transat flight that ran out of fuel over the Atlantic, and glided into the Azores. I'm not against lawyers making not just money, but good money, but this is insane.
I'd love to know what kind of arrangement resulted in that kind of payment to the lawyers. It clearly wasn't a contingency-fee arrangement (even then, plaintiffs' lawyers typically take 35% - 40% of any award).
That's one of the reasons a "losers pay" system is better (if the school was successfully sued, the entire award of damages would have gone to the victim AND the school, separately, would have had to pay the victim's attorney's fees on top of that).
Still, to me, the money is a side issue. This teacher should be canned immediately and should never teach again.
Sun, 2010-01-24 01:23
#16
Pogo
Some people shouldn't be parents.
Sorry if that sounded wrong. What I meant is that there is no way in hell that my daughter would be forced to kill her pet. I have brought her up to be her own person and she would never have allowed me to force her to perform such an act. Furthermore she is a devout animal lover. So when I say she would strike me first I am not saying that this is a possibility just that her striking the pet is far more of an impossibility..
Sun, 2010-01-24 01:44
#17
I don't think he aimed that at you, Pogo - I think he was just commenting on the opening story.
We all know you'd never do a thing like that. :) I just didn't get what you meant by your post - but I totally get it now. No worries!