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Teachers Fired After Putting Diaper On 5 Year Old

I'm very glad that these teachers were fired because people like that don't deserve to be educating our nation's children.

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What absurdity is this? Those teachers should be ashamed of themselves! I hope what happened to the five-year old don't mess up her mind with her ex-teachers nonsense.

Edited: Felipe on 18th May, 2013 - 3:47pm

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In my opinion, we are making a mountain out of a pebble. Not more than 50 or 60 years ago, teachers would put donkey ears on students that didn't do their job properly and forcing them to stand for an hour or more behind the blackboard. Nobody ever died because of that and, correct me if I'm wrong, that generation had an education and a sense of respect like the new teenagers never even dreamed of. Let's stop overprotecting the kids. I hate any kind of abuse and I'm the first one protesting and pointing the finger against those that pass the line. But now is becoming too much. They put a diaper on the girl because she was behaving in a childish way (ok, I concede this point is highly arguable since a 5 years old IS a child). So what? Was the child hurt in any way? She felt humiliated? Good: next time will behave in a proper way.

I know most people will disagree with me but, with all my respect, I really don't care. I'm tired of this silly behavior I see from too many parents nowadays. "Don't raise your voice, the kid might be shocked" Or "Yes, he is setting fire to the house, but we have to kindly ask him if he would please stop otherwise he will not feel loved" And all the rubbish like these. How are we supposed to control the kids then? Is us having to give the rules or them decide by themselves what they want to do or when they will choose to "Please" Stop?
I got my good deal of shouts and even some soundly slap on my face from my father when I was passing the limit. Believe me or not: that didn't cause any irreversible trauma in my psyche and I live my life in a serene way. Maybe is the opposite. Because of some hard intervention I avoided dangerous or clearly rude behaviors in my youth. And I never dared to tell my mother or my father to "Truck off" While I personally heard many children do that in my place, specially the English speakers.... Is this what we want?

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If he really was acting like a baby then why not, maybe it might be a wake up call for him to start acting like a 5 year old and not a 2 year old. I don't see what the big deal about this is... Definitely not worth getting fired over.

Old Year Diaper Putting Fired Teachers

Are you a parent? What those teachers did was humiliating and they have no right to do so in my opinion. There are better methods to try to get the point across, not to mention we are talking about a 5 year old little boy!

Teachers Fired After Putting Diaper On 5 Year Old

Pandora, you have a point in saying it was just a 5 years old child and on this subject I find myself in disagreement with the teachers. But I don't see how what they did could bring to getting fired.
In schools in my country is common habit sending turbulent students out of the classroom and force them to stand next to the closed class door for even 30 minutes. Is that humiliating? Of course it is. Any other teacher passing by will scold you and other students will laugh at you. But that's exactly the reason why it was often enough, for the teacher, threaten to do that to keep the most "Nasty" Students quiet.
Nobody got ever traumatized because of being sent out of the class (it happened to me a few times also) and it helped giving us discipline.
Now, we are getting to the point in which it will be not allowed to show a yellow card to a player because he might take offense.

Moreover, even if the teachers were wrong, firing them is a mistake for another reason: it will cause all the other teachers to lose power and authority over the children at school because being fired will always be the weapon with which their students, and the parents, will try to follow their own rules.

Teachers Fired Putting Diaper 5 Year Old

The aide was fired, the main teacher was suspended. As an educator myself, their behavior in my view was totally unacceptable. The examples you are giving about putting a student outside the classroom is an acceptable form of discipline and the act in itself is not humiliating.

Now by the other hand, putting a hat over a student's head that says "Stupid" Or in this case using a diaper, it is not a form of discipline, but simply humiliation and bullying. Teachers are supposed to know better and it is my guess this is probably not the first time these teachers act this way.

After all, how come they had a diaper with them? (unless one of them is a mother) but it is my guess they have one just for this purpose.

Using humiliation is a destructive form of discipline on a 5 year old child or any other age for that matter, it causes them to feel worthless, not valued and if the purpose is to teach them a "Lesson", the only lesson they are learning is that they are not good enough.

When you do discipline a student, of course he/she is supposed to feel bad about what they have done but not at the cost of their self-esteem.

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I don't know. I'm not saying I find acceptable what they did to the girl. A 5 years old is too young to be tagged as "Childish", whatever she did. She IS a child and has the right to be childish.
What doesn't convince me is the hard punishment that the teachers got. Calling them in the principal room and scolding them should have been enough, unless this was not the first time the two were responsible of similar actions. Firing or suspending someone should be an extreme solution but looks like it is done very lightly sometimes.