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In Canadian school food news, a teacher at École ÉlÉmentaire catholique Sainte-Marie , a French Catholic school in Ontario has been “relieved of her duties” after she allegedly forced an eight-year-old girl to eat food from a garbage can. As CHCH reports, the girl’s family is not only angry about the incident itself, but the way the school immediately handled it.

This whole ordeal started when the third-grader threw an old banana into a trash can. Apparently this didn’t sit well her teacher, Renee Oettershagen. The girl’s grandmother, Ann Marie Stewart, relayed to CHCH her granddaughter’s account of what happened next, “[Oettershagen] peeled the banana with her bare hands that had been in the garbage can, broke off a piece, ate it, then instructed my granddaughter to eat the rest of the banana.”

 

 

 

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Originally Posted by ksazma:

Teachers getting stubidee nowadays. Only the other day a teacher in Broward County, FL forced a 10 years old to unclog a urinal with his bare hands.

There should be a lawsuit against the teacher and school board.

FM
Originally Posted by skeldon_man:
Originally Posted by ksazma:

Teachers getting stubidee nowadays. Only the other day a teacher in Broward County, FL forced a 10 years old to unclog a urinal with his bare hands.

There should be a lawsuit against the teacher and school board.

In our case, the teacher was charged and placed on $1k bail.

FM
This list is a few years old from 2008.
do any of you know if this still happen today?
do you agree with corporal punishment?
 
Source:
Corporal Punishment in Public Schools, by State

The following table lists the states allowing corporal punishment in schools according to state name and the number of students hit.

States Allowing Corporal Punishment

StateNumber of
students hit
Percent of
total students
Alabama33,7164.5%
Arizona16(1)
Arkansas22,3144.7
Colorado8(1)
Florida7,1850.3
Georgia18,2491.1
Idaho1110.4
Indiana5770.5
Kansas50.01
Kentucky2,2090.3
Louisiana11,0801.7
Mississippi38,1317.5
Missouri5,1590.6
New Mexico7050.2
North Carolina2,7050.2
Ohio6720.04
Oklahoma14,8282.3
South Carolina1,4090.2
Tennessee14,8681.5
Texas49,1971.1
U.S. total223,1900.46
NOTES: Figures are from 2008.
1. Less than 0.1%
Source: The Center for Effective Discipline, Columbus, Ohio.
 
States Not Allowing Corporal Punishment

The following table lists the states that do not allow corporal punishment in schools, according to state name and the year in which corporal punishment was banned.

StateYear
banned
Alaska1989
California1986
Connecticut1989
Delaware2003
Hawaii1973
Illinois1993
Iowa1989
Maine1975
Maryland1993
Massachusetts1971
Michigan1989
Minnesota1989
Montana1991
Nebraska1988
Nevada1993
New Hampshire1983
New Jersey1867
New York1985
North Dakota1989
Ohio19941
Oregon1989
Pennsylvania2005
Rhode Island1977
South Dakota1990
Utah19922
Vermont1985
Virginia1989
Washington1993
West Virginia1994
Wisconsin1988
1. Corporal punishment is permitted in Ohio schools if a school board follows several procedures before voting to allow it. Parents in districts which allow it may refuse to have their children paddled.
2. Corporal punishment is permitted in Utah schools if a parent or guardian gives written permission for its use.
Source: The Center for Effective Discipline, Columbus, Ohio.

 

FM

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