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.’”

















