Teacher Suspended for Putting Foot on Black Student's Neck

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10-year-old's mother wants Texas teacher to keep her job.

On the same day Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes, a white teacher in north Texas apparently thought it would be funny to stage a photo of herself with her foot on the neck of a 10-year-old Black student.

https://www.newser.com/story/305243...taged-photo-with-foot-on-black-kids-neck.html
 

Poor choice maybe in todays hang-em-high climate, but lets see it for what it really was and not sentence her to death....
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The boy's mother says her sister posted the photo on Facebook and she wishes she hadn't shown it to anybody. She tells NBC 5 that the photo was staged after the teacher joked about putting her foot on the boy's neck if he didn't bring a signed paper back. "It was a joke between me, her and my son, and nobody knows the relationship that we have, except the three of us," says the mother, who has known the teacher for years. She says the teacher is a "good person" who doesn't deserve to have her life "destroyed" and she has reached out to the district to urge them not to fire her. Other relatives say the teacher should have known better. "With what’s going on in the world right now, that ain’t nothing to play about at all," the boy's uncle tells WFAA. (Read more Texas stories.)
 

Have I done done stupid, regrettable things. Oh God, YES. But this was pretty stupid. If you're a school teacher, you understand how parents overreact. And you know things rea going to get blown way out of proportions.
 
I cannot imagine the mother defending the teacher, but this is what the mother said;

The boy's mother says her sister posted the photo on Facebook and she wishes she hadn't shown it to anybody. She tells NBC 5 that the photo was staged after the teacher joked about putting her foot on the boy's neck if he didn't bring a signed paper back. "It was a joke between me, her and my son, and nobody knows the relationship that we have, except the three of us," says the mother, who has known the teacher for years. She says the teacher is a "good person" who doesn't deserve to have her life "destroyed" and she has reached out to the district to urge them not to fire her.​
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Seems like the mom and teacher have a great relationship, but both need to take into account that the 'joke' involves a 10 year old. No matter the friendship between the teacher and mom or how well the teacher and son get along, he's not old enough to understand whatever distorted sense of 'humor' was in play that trivializes a horrific murder.
 
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officerripley said:
Why would the Union (I assume you mean the teachers' Union) get a lawyer for the mother?
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Suspending a public school Teacher is scrutinized under the Due Process Clause. I have no reason to believe a collective bargaining agreement would not include a Fair Represenation Clause to comply with Vaca v. Sipes.
 
ohioboy said:
Suspending a public school Teacher is scrutinized under the Due Process Clause. I have no reason to believe a collective bargaining agreement would not include a Fair Represenation Clause to comply with Vaca v. Sipes.
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But the orig. comment (#9) mentioned the *mother* getting a lawyer. Unless I missed that the mother is a teacher too?
 
Opps! I did not realized the mother was defending the teacher. So I retract the lawyer comment and now suggest the mother needs therapy.

"She tells NBC 5 that the photo was staged after the teacher joked about putting her foot on the boy's neck if he didn't bring a signed paper back."
 
I think the mother’s sister deserves a swift kick in the pattoot for posting the picture on FB.

This may not have been a private joke that the 10 year old could appreciate and we don’t know the whole conversation that went with it. All this media attention probably has done more harm to the kid.
 
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