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Teacher sues school district over fear of kids. | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 5453499  United States01/13/2013 11:09 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 32028746  Hong Kong01/13/2013 11:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm interested on what GLP thinks of this situation? Quoting: Delbert_Boogerbelt Seems idiotic to me. Should McDonalds be forced to keep me on as fry chef because I'm afraid of fake meat byproducts? Teacher claims discrimination over her fear of kids MARIEMONT — A longtime French and Spanish high school teacher is suing the Mariemont school district, alleging it discriminated against her because she has a disability – she has a phobia of young children. Maria C. Waltherr-Willard, 61, of Greenhills says the district in which she worked for 35 years discriminated against her when it reassigned her in 2010 from its high school to its junior high and then pressured her to resign. The suit claims the discrimination is based on her age and her disability, a rare phobia called pedophobia, which in this context means an extreme fear or anxiety around young children. Full story at link... [link to news.cincinnati.com] If you were hired as a fry chef, and stipulated you had an actual medical condition from dealing with meat, you would have a case against Mcdonalds, just as this teacher, who as strange as it sounds, cannot deal being around young children has a case as she has a pre-existing medical condition. THere is a massive difference between junior and high school. Young kids are nothing like teenagers. If her condition interferes with her ability to lead a normal life, why shouldnt she have some protections? It is ridiculous but there are a lot of ridiculous things claimed by people all over the United States that have the same, or less legitimacy. |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 5453499 United States01/13/2013 11:18 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | How the hell does she shop? How does she visit her family? How does she function in public at all? I'm in the camp that thinks if you have a life debilitating phobia of something you should not entertain a career in that field. She is also claiming age discrimination even tho the person hired to replace her was in their 50's. |
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Texan Buckeye  User ID: 1533753 United States01/13/2013 12:03 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I agree with OP, but it doesn't really surprise me. The school districts out here don't seem to know how to deal with kids either. If a teacher feels threatened, they send the kids to alternative school. A lot of the so-called threats are things teachers used to handle easily when I was a kid and even when my kids were in school. Even just simple back-talking will get a kid sent to alternative school. Alternative school here is more like a cross between boot camp and juvie. They even send kindergarten kids there. It's a bad start all the way around. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 32028746 Hong Kong01/13/2013 12:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | She taught foreign language classes. They eliminated them in place of an online course. Guess it would have been cheaper to let her finish out her $80,000 a year job siting in the teachers lounge. Quoting: Delbert_Boogerbelt But the progtards think teachers are underpaid. WHere do you learn her salary? Teachers with 35 years in their field today, are not earning the same salary as newly hired teachers, or even teachers hired ten years ago. THose teachers are most definitely underpaid and over worked. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 32028746 Hong Kong01/13/2013 12:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I agree with OP, but it doesn't really surprise me. The school districts out here don't seem to know how to deal with kids either. If a teacher feels threatened, they send the kids to alternative school. A lot of the so-called threats are things teachers used to handle easily when I was a kid and even when my kids were in school. Even just simple back-talking will get a kid sent to alternative school. Alternative school here is more like a cross between boot camp and juvie. They even send kindergarten kids there. It's a bad start all the way around. Quoting: Texan Buckeye Then teach your kids that they should treat others, especially educators with some respect and not back-talk. THat is of course extreme and doesn't happen(kids being sent to juvie for a simple incidence of talking back to a teacher, it literally happenes everyday, thousands of times a day), but if it did, then the solution would be to be a decent person, and raise a decent kid. Not some self-entitled asshole. |
| Texan Buckeye User ID: 1533753 United States01/13/2013 12:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | She taught foreign language classes. They eliminated them in place of an online course. Guess it would have been cheaper to let her finish out her $80,000 a year job siting in the teachers lounge. Quoting: Delbert_Boogerbelt But the progtards think teachers are underpaid. WHere do you learn her salary? Teachers with 35 years in their field today, are not earning the same salary as newly hired teachers, or even teachers hired ten years ago. THose teachers are most definitely underpaid and over worked. That's not necessarily true. It depends on the school district and the teacher's level of education. |
| Texan Buckeye User ID: 1533753 United States01/13/2013 12:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I agree with OP, but it doesn't really surprise me. The school districts out here don't seem to know how to deal with kids either. If a teacher feels threatened, they send the kids to alternative school. A lot of the so-called threats are things teachers used to handle easily when I was a kid and even when my kids were in school. Even just simple back-talking will get a kid sent to alternative school. Alternative school here is more like a cross between boot camp and juvie. They even send kindergarten kids there. It's a bad start all the way around. Quoting: Texan Buckeye Then teach your kids that they should treat others, especially educators with some respect and not back-talk. THat is of course extreme and doesn't happen(kids being sent to juvie for a simple incidence of talking back to a teacher, it literally happenes everyday, thousands of times a day), but if it did, then the solution would be to be a decent person, and raise a decent kid. Not some self-entitled asshole. Oh, you have NO clue what you're talking about. My children are grown now, and NEVER talked back to teachers or elders. If you think my example is extreme, I welcome you to come here and see for yourself. |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 5453499 United States01/13/2013 12:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | She taught foreign language classes. They eliminated them in place of an online course. Guess it would have been cheaper to let her finish out her $80,000 a year job siting in the teachers lounge. Quoting: Delbert_Boogerbelt But the progtards think teachers are underpaid. WHere do you learn her salary? Teachers with 35 years in their field today, are not earning the same salary as newly hired teachers, or even teachers hired ten years ago. THose teachers are most definitely underpaid and over worked. I learn her salary in the article you moran. Learn to read. According to her personnel file, Waltherr-Willard scored high marks in all of the written evaluations she received over the years, including the latest in 2010. She had a continuing contract with the school district, which is similar to having tenure, and made about $84,000 a year. |
| Light to Go User ID: 8545334 United States01/13/2013 12:17 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | How about fear of the school department enforcing drugs onto our children. Creating a generation of junkies. Untroubled, Scornful, Outrageous-That is how Wisdom wants us to be! White Genocide: 1900AD @ 35% - Today less than 8% of the earth's population Sophia's Correction |
