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Mom Demands Apology For Teacher Stapling Letter to Son’s Shirt (WATCH)

By Bridget Tyler on March 9th, 2011

As parents, we want to stand up for our kids, and sometimes it can be tricky to figure out when we need to step in and when a teacher is just doing their job. Rose Innocent of Miami Dade, Florida, doesn’t have an questions about whether or not she thinks her seven year old son’s teacher was wrong when she stapled a disciplinary note to his shirt in front of his classmates though – she believes it was wrong and she wants an apology.

“This is totally wrong. This is inappropriate. This is ethically wrong,” Innocent told her local CBS affiliate station. The second grader had been talking in class and the school feels that his teacher’s explanation, that she thought he wasn’t taking disciplinary notes home to his parents and wanted to make sure this one got there, is adequate.

Innocent doesn’t buy it.

“He was upset, he said the kids had been laughing at him,” Innocent told CBS. “He was embarrassed and humiliated.”

“Everyone was starting to laugh at me,” the child told his mother. “That’s when I got the feeling; I was angry and mad.”

Innocent believes that the teacher was deliberately embarrassing the child because she was annoyed with his disrupting class and she wants an apology.

“The words that came out of her mouth were, ‘if the shirt is the problem, I will go ahead and replace the shirt for you,’” Innocent said. “I didn’t get, ‘I apologize I shouldn’t have done that.’”

  • steve

    the teacher was wrong. she should have stapled the note to the mom who has the audacity to ask for an apology. it is the mother who is unable to raise her children properly. the mom stated she has received numberous notes from the teacher. apparently this rug rat disrupts class and many other kids wanting to learn. the kid and mom should be suspended until he can behave. the TV media should also be suspended for giving this misguided mom coverage.
    think of the kids who are disrupted in class every day. they have no rights, or redress against a child who continually disrupts class, and wastes the students who want to learn. just the trouble maker has the rights. what message is the news media sending us.

  • Jill

    While it is true, the teacher has probably had enough of the disruptions which steal the focus of the other students, why couldn’t the teacher have mailed the notice to the parent or called the parent? I take my students into the hallway and let them explain to their parents for themselves what they have done. There’s nothing like talking to your mom while your teacher listens to get things into perspective. It’s really hard for mom to get back on the phone with me and justify what their child has done when she just heard it from her own child.

  • Pwll

    As a former teacher I’ll go with Jill. The teacher was totally out of line. She’s having problems with discipline in her class because she doesn’t know how to treat her students with respect. If you respect and understand your students, they will respect you. Singling out a child for ridicule is bad teaching. And as for Steve’s comments, hope he’s never in a classroom.

  • Jillian

    This is appalling! Shame on the teacher, principal and school district to defend and cover up the inappropriate actions of this. The teacher is the one with the power and humiliated a child who will remember this forever. It saddens me this has happened and the fact that the adult cannot accept responsibility and say, “I am very sorry. This was wrong and egregious!” There’s just no excuse, period!

  • Ron

    lets not be so hard on Steve. He is a student in that child’s class

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