IWA For Sunday 120708

This Lady is too stupid to be a teacher.

Hey folks,

It's Sunday. TIME for the IWA. I saw this Saturday morning while checking Emails and scanning news for today's Blog, and I just sat here and read it THREE times. I read it. Thought "What in the Hell is this lady thinking." Read it again. Thought "This Lady is a complete Moron. She should be fired immediately." Then on the third read, I found myself questioning who was the bigger Idiot. The Teacher, or this Moronic Superintendent, for NOT issuing ANY discipline whatsoever. I also find myself in the camp and would without hesitation join the NAACP on this one.

OK. So what am I talking about? You are a History Teacher. You are teaching a Seventh Grade Class about Slavery. What do you do? Do you show them historic pictures of Slaves in chains? No. Do you show them Documentaries? No. Do you show them historic documentations {Bills of sales for people, ownership documents, the written laws at the time} No. What do you do? You tie up two Black Girls and make them crawl under their desks. {Sigh}

According to the AP - Teacher sorry for binding girls in slavery lesson by JIM FITZGERALD, Associated Press Writer Jim Fitzgerald, Associated Press Writer – Fri Dec 5, 6:27 pm ET

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – A white social studies teacher attempted to enliven a seventh-grade discussion of slavery by binding the hands and feet of two black girls, prompting outrage from one girl's mother and the local chapter of the NAACP. After the mother complained to Haverstraw Middle School, the superintendent said he was having "conversations with our staff on how to deliver effective lessons."

"If a student was upset, then it was a bad idea," said Superintendent Brian Monahan of the North Rockland School District in New York City's northern suburbs.

The teacher apologized to the mother who complained and her 13-year-old daughter during a meeting Thursday that also included a representative of the local NAACP. But the mother, Christine Shand of Haverstraw, said Friday she thinks the teacher should be removed from the class.

Maybe extreme, but I actually AGREE. This Teacher is too stupid to BE a Teacher.

"I think the teacher should have gotten some discipline," Shand said. "I know if that was me, I would be uncomfortable going back to that class. Why should my daughter have to switch?"

I'm with ya Ms. Shand.

Monahan refused to say what, if any, measures were taken against the teacher, Eileen Bernstein, who was still working on Friday. The school district said she was not available for comment.

WHY? I guess this is OK in the eyes of the Mr. Monahan. As a matter of fact, this next statement is a little disturbing.

"We encourage our teachers to deliver the curriculum in a variety of ways, to go beyond just reading the textbook," the superintendent said. "We don't want to discourage creativity. But this obviously went wrong because the student was upset."

Wait a second. So what does that mean? Does that mean that as long as a Student doesn't complain, ANYTHING GOES? What a patently absurd statement that is.

On Nov. 18, Bernstein was discussing the conditions under which African captives were taken to America in slave ships. She bound the two students' hands and feet with tape and had them crawl under a desk to simulate the experience, Monahan and Shand said. Monahan said the girls were not the only blacks in the class.

SO WHAT?

Gabrielle Shand burst into tears at home, her mother said.

"There are other ways to demonstrate slavery," Christine Shand said Friday. "It doesn't matter the color of the kids, it's just not right to tie them up. My daughter is still upset, still embarrassed. She didn't go to school today."

In the day and age we live in today, just this LIVE demonstration of BINDING two YOUNG Teenage girls in front of a bunch of puberty crazy Boys is another aspect of this that no one seems to care about. Young Boys start fantasizing about Girls they just see with a tight little shirt or short skirt walking down the hall. Imagine some of the things going through their mind while they watch this FEMALE Teacher tie up two Girls rendering them helpless. ANY WAY you chose to look at this, it is just flat out WRONG.

Wilbur Aldridge, director of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said the history demonstration, first reported in The Journal News, "went wrong when she started to do that binding."

AMEN! I'm with you.

"I don't care what color, no one should be put in the position of having their hands and feet bound," he said.

Well said Mr. Aldridge. Well said.

Aldridge said he feared that the teacher still "didn't get it" after their meeting. He said the teacher apologized "because Gabrielle was upset, not because she admitted she did something wrong."

One of the problems here is that this Superintendent seems to be encouraging this type of thing. It is not wrong until a Student complains. Maybe Mr. Monahan should be the one removed.

At any rate, CONGRATULATIONS Eileen Bernstein, for being this stupid and seeing nothing wrong with it, you ARE the Idiot of the Week. If I were in your District, I assure you, I would be standing on the front yard of that school, SIDE BY SIDE with Mr. Aldridge. I would be doing everything I could to educate the other Parents of kids in your class. If the school will not do anything, then the Parents should refuse to let their kids go to your class. No kids. No reason for you to be there.
Peter

Sources:
AP - Teacher sorry for binding girls in slavery lesson