Embarrassing Complaint Against School (made kid w/broken leg crawl in snow)

[The Straight Story]

Embarrassing Complaint Against School


CHICAGO (CN) - Parents say teachers at an elementary school in suburban Skokie forced their son to crawl through the snow from the playground back to his classroom after he broke his leg.

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The Chandanis say that on Jan. 3, 2010, snow blocked the path from the school doors to the playground, so that "there was no access from the playground to the school building without crossing the mound of snow."

Their son Rahul fell and broke his leg while trying to get to the playground that day, the family says.

They say that the school employees who were supervising the playground "told Rahul Chandani that if he could not walk, he needed to crawl across the playground and through the school."

The family says neither supervisor called for an ambulance or called the school nurse. Nor did they help Rahul into the school or contact his parents about the injury, the family says: They made Rahul crawl across the playground and through the school to his classroom without any assistance.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/01/09/42850.htm

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Monsters

Something similar happened to me as far as the callous attitude when I was seriously injured. I fell off a chair at work. (I lost my balance when shoving a 300 lb filing cabinet away to prevent it from falling forward on me.) I tore my ACL (major knee ligament). I couldn't stand, couldn't really move my leg due to the excrutiating pain. My boss found me splayed on the carpet, recognized that I was hurt. He didn't offer to help me get an ambulance or help me get up. He did offer to get me a cold can of soda to hold against the knee. I deferred, asking for whiskey. He didn't understand that I needed to numb the pain to get in a chair to get to a telephone to call my doctor. Not only did I have to badly hobble to the elevator, to the parking lot, to my car, but I have to drive with a stick shift (left knee, use your imagination how that felt) in the rain and dark to the doctor during rush hour traffic. I was out for 8 days when I found out my boss replaced me. I had to have physical therapy for two months, had to learn how to walk all over again, and somehow avoided surgery. My boss' insensitivity hurt as much as my leg.

I hope the parents really go after the teacher, the school, and the Board of Education.

[RKP5637]

3. Sociopaths have invaded the corporate world at many levels. Yep, the

parents should definitely go after the teacher, the school, and the Board of Education.

[WingDinger]

12. In fourth grade, I had a serious bladder infection. teachers made me pee my pants in class.

Not allowing a trip to the bathroom. OFTEN.

[Submariner]

2. I was dragging both my feet while walking

into class when I was in the 4th grade at catholic school. Taking baby steps because my legs felt numb.

My teacher, the nun, told me to stop walking like a cripple or god will strike me with total paralysis for making fun of crippled children. I told her I wasn't making fun of anyone, but that my legs wouldn't work. At recess an hour later, I fell down a whole flight of metal stairs and got kind of banged up.

A few hours later at Children's Hospital I was diagnosed with polio. I found out that day that elementary teachers can be real assholes.

[Quantess]

4. I imagine the kid was crying and moaning & groaning.

Did they think the kid was a big faker, or something?

The pain of a broken limb increases exponentially when you have to move it, so I imagine he was visibly suffering, if not screaming and crying, while he was crawling back to class.

Plus a head injury, too? Wow, these supervisors must really love lawsuits. That was unfathomably dumb of them.

[Zalatix]

5. When can parents start paddling teachers?

[Cheap_Trick]

6. I'm sure that Rahul not being white

had something to do with it.

[Warpy]

7. I read about this last week

and this is one lawsuit the school system is going to lose, bigtime.

My guess is that poor little Rahul will have his tuition paid at a good prep school out of this horror show. I can't believe teachers would be so utterly witless, not to mention cruel.

Then again, my mother told me to crawl when I told her I couldn't walk. Later she realized I was sick. It was polio.

[no_hypocrisy]

8. Jesus, Warpy!

I'm so sorry you had to go through that.

[WingDinger]

10. Republicans have made touching a child tantamount to molestation.

Many of those school workers are skeered to tie a kids shoes.

Kinda making the kids dangerous, and the enemy.

[WingDinger]

9. Should have given him a bootSTRAPPING, for not pulling himself up.

[Jennicut]

11. I sub at a couple of elementary schools in CT.

Sometimes as a para (teacher's assistant) and sometimes a substitute teacher. That would never ever fly at the schools I have subbed at. In fact, we carry walkie talkies, first aid supplies and have 2 to 3 teachers out at all times just in case a child gets hurt and we have to take them inside. I sub at my daughters' school and if anyone ever acted like that to my 6 and 7 year olds I would flip out too. This kid was in kindergarten. He was 5? 6 at the most. Poor kid.