Boy Allegedly Forced To Lick Teacher's Toes For Candy

[The Straight Story]

Boy Allegedly Forced To Lick Teacher's Toes For Candy

POSTED: 7:47 am EDT June 2, 2005
UPDATED: 7:53 am EDT June 2, 2005

A mother in Georgia is accusing a teacher at her son's elementary school of having him lick her toes in exchange for some candy, according to Local 6 News.

Denise Strozier said her son was given candy after he licked the toes of his fourth grade teacher at Temple Elementary in Carroll County.

Strozier said she learned about the alleged toe licking incident after reading handwritten messages in her son's yearbook.

The teacher allegedly wrote, "don't lick anyone else's toes" in the boy's yearbook.

http://www.local6.com/news/4558912/detail.html

[mopaul]

1. i'd do it too if it was a klondike bar

[funflower]

32. This is the kind of thing that shouldn't be tolerated at Abu Ghraib, let

alone a fourth grade classroom!
:mad:

[Catma]

2. What would you do for a Klondike bar?

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[Catherine Vincent]

3. If this did happen, this teacher should be arrested.

and forced to lick the toes of the Police Chief!

[Name removed]

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[funflower]

7. NOT funny.

If this is true, the teacher is a child molester and the child is a victim who will suffer for the rest of his life. I never understand people who trivialize the far-too-common problem of sexual exploitation of children by some of the teachers we pay to protect them.

:cry:

[immoderate]

8. I agree with you...

Except that what I said was still funny.

--IMM

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[immoderate]

21. You nailed me pretty good.

I kept that separate from the 20 years I spent in the classroom. But my fraternity brothers are still my best friends, 40 years later.

--IMM

[funflower]

31. You taught children for 20 years and you think it's funny to imagine a

little boy who was forced by classmates and a teacher to lick the teacher's toes actually did it because he wanted to look up her skirt?

I can sympathize with the frustrated high school teacher who duct-taped an unruly teen to the chalk board (actually thought that one WAS funny), but this woman humiliates young children for fun. That is sick, sick, sick.

[immoderate]

34. No.

I thought my joke was funny.

That is different than whatever trauma (if any) this child experienced. I don't know anything about the case but what was in the OP. This teacher should be glad that I wasn't her supervisor.

That said, be warned that there is little that I consider above humor, and my fraternity brothers agree. This is DU, and not the classroom. While I would have no patience with sick teachers, I don't feel the same about sick humor. I hope you can see the difference.

On edit: The story is third hand at best. We have no idea what really happened. We have no idea how the boy was affected, if at all. I can't see the point of me crying about it.

In my years in school as a student, I had seen teachers humiliate students. That affected me such that I made sure none of my students were humiliated, and everyone in my classroom was respected. But again, we're not in the classroom now.

--IMM

[funflower]

35. I'm all for sick humor, so long as it doesn't involve children.

Dead cat jokes I can live with.

But then I was a GDI.

:-)

[immoderate]

37. Exactly.

You see any children?:shrug:

If she wasn't good looking, I hope it was good candy!:hide:

--IMM

[funflower]

41. I hope she gets retired. Then she can put her good looks to work in a

place where they're appreciated - by adults.

[GiovanniC]

25. What Exactly Is Sexual About Toe-Licking?

[funflower]

29. For God's sake, do you think it's a normal thing for a fourth grader boy

do to an adult woman?

[GiovanniC]

39. You'll Notice I Didn't Ask

"What is abnormal about a fourth grade boy licking an adult woman's toes?"

I asked "What is sexual about it?"

[funflower]

43. Generally speaking, I think of licking people as rather sexual.

And if someone made my child do that, I'd have to waste 'em.

But that's just me.

[GiovanniC]

45. Depends On Where You Lick Them

[funflower]

48. Where would it not be sexual - or at least very odd?

Almost any lick could be at least mildly sexual. Certainly too sexual for a child this young and a teacher.

If not overtly sexual, it's just extremely weird.

There was a teacher/coach here in Oregon this year, who licked athletes' bleeding wounds. I think he was finally charged w/ child endangerment or something, as this weird practice risked the exchange of blood-borne pathogens. Weird, weird, weird.

[GiovanniC]

50. And I Didn't Say It Wasn't "Weird"

I merely asked what exactly made licking a toe "sexual". I didn't wonder if it was normal for a kid to lick someone's toe. I merely asked how it was "sexual".

[AtTheEndOfTheDay]

46. You're pretty naive asking that question.

Google foot fetish

[GiovanniC]

47. I Know What a Foot Fetish Is

If someone licks my hand, is that sexual too?

Maybe I have a hand fetish.

What if someone licks my shin... is that also sexual?

How about licking my finger... maybe that's sexual also? Man, my wife puts frosting on her finger and lets the baby lick it off... should I call the Department of Children's Services? Maybe she has a secret finger fetish... I shudder to think of it. Forcing the baby to lick her finger for sweets... just to get her rocks off.


What, specifically, is "sexual" about licking a toe?

[Democracy White]

5. Closet pedohile?

With a bit of an BDSM fetish? I think this woman should be locked up! After all wouldn't this be considered molestation?

Dee

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

6. Pardon me while I plant this mental image in your impressionable minds

http://www.whitehouse.gov/firstlady/initiatives/librarianandteacher.html

Laura Bush: Librarian and Teacher

"As a former public school teacher and librarian, Mrs. Bush has a special place in her heart for books and libraries. She knows that a love of books -- of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and losing oneself in its fascinating stories -- goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning."

:evilgrin:

I'm just sayin'...ya know?

:evilgrin:

Laura Bush raises her voice (a bit)
By Judy Keen and Richard Benedetto, USA TODAY

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-06-29-laura-bush-cover_x.htm

"The Betty Crocker hairdo has been replaced by a sleek coif with streaks of blonde. Her toenails, peeking out from comfy espadrilles, are bright red."

:evilgrin:

[Career Prole]

9. For the love of all that's holy STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111

I'm a man, not an animal! :cry:

[Richard D]

11. Yuck

What is it about her face that is so inhuman and just plain weird?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

12. I'm guessing it's the Xanax...

...as Pink Floyd would say, she appears to be "Comfortably Numb"...

:evilgrin:

[KansDem]

38. I know...whenever I see her...

I immediately think of the letter "V"...

She's so...so...well...

"V"-like

I don't know how else to explain it.

[SmokingJacket]

10. Yet another "schools are lunatic asylums" news story...

Do you remember a few years ago when "dumb criminals" was the hot news theme? Now it's "Public Schools are Dangerous and Out of Control."

[funflower]

14. Actually, the mistreatment of children by school employees is

greatly underreported and almost never makes it past the local media. I'm all for schools and am a former teacher myself, but the fact is that some people are attracted to working in schools because it provides them with access to child victims. There is nothing sacred about a teaching certificate that puts its holder above suspicion. This is, of course, also true of soccer coaches, scout leaders, camp counselors and so on.

Rather than blaming the media for shining some light on this tragedy, we should be asking why the hell this wasn't caught sooner and how many other innocent children were victimized by this individual.

I have no reason to believe the school in this story is a "lunatic asylum," but, if this is true, this teacher is clearly a lunatic.

[SmokingJacket]

16. Schools have always been like this -- they're almost certainly

better now, in fact. There's much more oversight, plus the threat of lawsuits if teachers screw up, which was not the case when I was in school.

And what happens to kids in school is NOTHING compared to what happens in the home.

I once helped recruit teachers to work in rural schools, and it killed me to hear the young people spouting their beliefs about how dangerous public schools are. In fact, kids are FAR safer in school than at home or in the street (or in *ahem* churches). Yes, there are bad teachers and nutty situations, but no more than ever.

My personal, admittedly unproven, theory: the right wing has it in for public schools. They'd like them dismantled, ultimately. And the first line of attack is to completely undermine the public's faith in them.

Perhaps I'm paranoid. But there really are a lot of these stories, so you have to wonder what's behind them...

[funflower]

30. No doubt the RW has it in for schools, but that doesn't make this woman

anything but a predator (presuming this story is true). Unfortunately, she has apparently helped the RW undermine her profession, as well as our public education system. She should get no grace from the press, the school district or anyone else.

[funflower]

36. Actually, only some segments of the RW hate public schools. The

others LOVE their potential for flag-waving indoctrination and military recruiting.

[retnavyliberal]

44. Well, it is good to see that we don't have to deal with any of those pesky

investigations. We can just take this teacher out and toss the rope over a branch in the nearest tree.

Something just does not ring true to me about this story.

[funflower]

49. I HOPE it's not true. I think it should be investigated fairly, but it

should NOT be swept under the rug or laughed off as some sort of acceptable 4th grade hazing.

[elehhhhna]

22. ...and FEMALE teachers are the spotlighted perverts, lately. Hmmm.

Seriously, If the teacher wrote that, the kid probably did something goofy/creepy like toe licking either her or another kid.

Asking a middle schooler about this sort of cryptic note could elicit lots of weird butt-covering stories.

[Name removed]

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[WildEyedLiberal]

40. If your comment was directed at any other ethnicity/religion

You'd be flamed to high hell and deservedly.

But everyone knows all Irish/Catholics are sick, sexually-repressed pedophiles, so that's okay.

I'm sure glad progressives are so much more tolerant than conservatives. :sarcasm:

[underpants]

17. Dick Morris career day?

:bounce:

[KamaAina]

23. Or perhaps they could rename the school in his honor

"Temple Elementary" is kind of a blah name, don't you think? "Dick Morris Elementary" is much zippier. :-)

[AspenRose]

18. Ewwwww. Just, ewwwwww.

Yet ANOTHER good reason to homeschool....it ain't just for fundies anymore.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=251

[gulliver]

19. Why the need for candy?

;-)

Kidding.

[Fridays Child]

20. Really, the most bizarre thing about this story is...

...that it didn't happen in Florida.

[RPM]

27. Yup! n/t

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

24. Kinky. Another story to divert the public's attention.

Teacher get's toes licked. Boy gets candy.

Thousands of children die of hunger every day.

Which story makes the news?

[Ezlivin]

26. Were the toes properly cleaned first?

[HamdenRice]

28. It depends on how pretty her feet were ...

whether this was a bad thing -- after all, all men have a secret foot fetish, even 9 year olds.

[latebloomer]

33. And she WROTE about it in the yearbook?

Bizarre!

[ContraBass Black]

42. If he was forced, how was candy involved?