Ohhhhh I would be so pissed I don't know if I could handle things as intelligently as this father.

I can't believe the other staff and teachers other than Jodi weren't fired. Such bullshit. They should all be fired and should never be able to teach again. Period.

The crooked picture behind the guy in the video is killing me.

Oh yea, if I was that guy I would have hunted those people down and made them disappear.

In California if a parent had been recorded doing this stuff they would have likely lost their child to child protective services.

>> ^zombieater:

I can't believe the other staff and teachers other than Jodi weren't fired. Such bullshit. They should all be fired and should never be able to teach again. Period.


I have a problem with firing every teacher...mostly that there aren't enough teachers and your forcing all the kids the suffer. I mean yes the shit they said was awful, but you have to approach these kinds of things with a scalpel not a hammer.

I like the idea of all policemen wearing wires like that one guy, this is an interesting idea. I'm starting to think maybe more and more people should do this.

>> ^Yogi:

>> ^zombieater:
I can't believe the other staff and teachers other than Jodi weren't fired. Such bullshit. They should all be fired and should never be able to teach again. Period.

I have a problem with firing every teacher...mostly that there aren't enough teachers and your forcing all the kids the suffer. I mean yes the shit they said was awful, but you have to approach these kinds of things with a scalpel not a hammer.
I like the idea of all policemen wearing wires like that one guy, this is an interesting idea. I'm starting to think maybe more and more people should do this.


Perhaps you're right, but as a teacher/professor this is truly disgusting to me. It's shit like this that makes people lose faith in the educational system. They feel it's systemic when it may just be asshats like this that need to be completely removed from the system.

>> ^zombieater:

>> ^Yogi:
>> ^zombieater:
I can't believe the other staff and teachers other than Jodi weren't fired. Such bullshit. They should all be fired and should never be able to teach again. Period.

I have a problem with firing every teacher...mostly that there aren't enough teachers and your forcing all the kids the suffer. I mean yes the shit they said was awful, but you have to approach these kinds of things with a scalpel not a hammer.
I like the idea of all policemen wearing wires like that one guy, this is an interesting idea. I'm starting to think maybe more and more people should do this.

Perhaps you're right, but as a teacher/professor this is truly disgusting to me. It's shit like this that makes people lose faith in the educational system. They feel it's systemic when it may just be asshats like this that need to be completely removed from the system.


I was gonna retort but you said I might be right. That's a foreign response to me...I don't like it take it back!

EDIT: Ok you can hate me now cause when she called him a bastard I laughed wayyyy to hard. Come ON! Bastard is a funny word!!!

New York city has a building where they send all the terrible teachers that they're unable to fire, and the teachers there get paid to just sit there everyday doing whatever they want.

Hopefully whatever area this guy lives in has something similar.

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He's naive to think Jodi and all would give a single fuck about what he has to say.

>> ^chilaxe:

New York city has a building where they send all the terrible teachers that they're unable to fire, and the teachers there get paid to just sit there everyday doing whatever they want.
Hopefully whatever area this guy lives in has something similar.


Umm what? You can't claim this without providing a citation and expect us to believe it.

^ its called a public school

I actually think he's overreacting to the supposed 'alcohol abuse' part of the story.

>> ^Yogi:

>> ^chilaxe:
New York city has a building where they send all the terrible teachers that they're unable to fire, and the teachers there get paid to just sit there everyday doing whatever they want.
Hopefully whatever area this guy lives in has something similar.

Umm what? You can't claim this without providing a citation and expect us to believe it.


Listen and weep: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/350/human-resources

It's Act 1: The Rubber Room.

A triumph of self control. There's no way I wouldn't be in prison if I was him.

That was so gut-wrenchingly awful

>> ^Yogi:

>> ^chilaxe:
New York city has a building where they send all the terrible teachers that they're unable to fire, and the teachers there get paid to just sit there everyday doing whatever they want.
Hopefully whatever area this guy lives in has something similar.

Umm what? You can't claim this without providing a citation and expect us to believe it.


Here's a New Yorker article about the Rubber Room.

@petpeeved thanks, I hadn't remembered that's what they call it.

I don't tend to advocate litigation, but this guy should sue. Sue for damages and stress, and also sue for enough money to send Akian to the best special needs school around to try to undo some of the damage Cherry Hill caused.

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I didn't even do anything wrong and I'm a little cowed by this guy >.>

I think we can all hope that she falls down a hole in the sidewalk and a taxi parks on top of it.

This is child abuse. Child abusers shouldn't be allowed to teach. End of.

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the 'Rubber Room' (or similar) is addressed in the documentary 'Waiting for Superman' as well.

There's a TON wrong with the US public school system. Special-needs kids are getting lumped into classrooms where their needs aren't being met. Considering how Autism diagnosis is on an upward trend, I expect to hear more stories like this father's.

A good solution would be to train more teachers that specialize in tending to Special-needs kids. Unfortunately, one party here in the US would rather try to figure out how to get taxpayers to pay for their kid's private education instead....

>> ^Quboid:

I don't tend to advocate litigation, but this guy should sue. Sue for damages and stress, and also sue for enough money to send Akian to the best special needs school around to try to undo some of the damage Cherry Hill caused.


There's a very good chance that the tape he made would not be allowed as evidence in a trial. There is an endless, complicated list of rules and regulations when it comes to recording another person without their knowledge. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if anyone who might lose or have lost their job over this sued the father and won. That's another reason why it's tricky to fire teachers. If they are accused of something, there better be rock solid evidence because civil lawsuits can be a lot quicker and easier then criminal trials. For example: if someone is accused of child abuse, it can be hard to convict them on witness testimony alone, because child abuse is a very serious crime, and people want to be sure that they're prosecuting the right guy. But in a civil trial, where that same abuser is suing the school system for firing him, the evidence can be minimal: "Did you fire Mr. Soandso?"..."Yes"..."was he convicted"..."no"... case closed.

Point being: if we fired everyone who we thought deserved it, we might actually be spending a ton more on litigation than we are on teacher's salaries.