Comments on: >Teacher Allegedly Put Hit Out on Student After Questioning the Student’s Sexual Orientation http://blog.glsen.org/teacher-allegedly-put-hit-out-on-student-after-questioning-the-students-sexual-orientation/ the GLSEN blog Thu, 28 Jun 2012 22:06:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anonymous http://blog.glsen.org/teacher-allegedly-put-hit-out-on-student-after-questioning-the-students-sexual-orientation/#comment-75 Anonymous Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:57:29 +0000 http://ec2-50-17-9-83.compute-1.amazonaws.com/?p=109#comment-75 >This particular incident is especially troubling because it happened at a Metro Atlanta school, most of which have personnel policies that specify sexual orientation nondiscrimination in hiring and services. <br /><br />But it also happened in Clayton County, a system, just south of the airport that has been going through massive trouble in keeping qualified teachers and last year lost its accreditation. They left in droves a few years back when the superintendent tried to make the teachers sign their contracts early, before they could see if other systems had better offers. The Board could not get along well enough with itself to do its job.<br /><br /> Mundy's Mill is not in a low income, inner city area where disrespect of students might be expected and thus nipped in the bud, but in a middle class suburban area. The teacher should have known better. But then I am not even sure he was a real teacher. I did not see his certification mentioned in the article. He might have been alternate certified. <br /><br />The act just shows that when your school system is run poorly, the teachers are more likely to act inappropriately and take out their personal issues on the children. >This particular incident is especially troubling because it happened at a Metro Atlanta school, most of which have personnel policies that specify sexual orientation nondiscrimination in hiring and services.

But it also happened in Clayton County, a system, just south of the airport that has been going through massive trouble in keeping qualified teachers and last year lost its accreditation. They left in droves a few years back when the superintendent tried to make the teachers sign their contracts early, before they could see if other systems had better offers. The Board could not get along well enough with itself to do its job.

Mundy's Mill is not in a low income, inner city area where disrespect of students might be expected and thus nipped in the bud, but in a middle class suburban area. The teacher should have known better. But then I am not even sure he was a real teacher. I did not see his certification mentioned in the article. He might have been alternate certified.

The act just shows that when your school system is run poorly, the teachers are more likely to act inappropriately and take out their personal issues on the children.

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