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Wed Oct-13-10 05:34 PM
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4th-Grade Girl: Teacher Threatened Me

4th-Grade Girl: Teacher Threatened Me
Lake County Teacher Under Investigation After Outburst

MOUNT DORA, Fla. -- A Lake County elementary school teacher is under investigation after reprimanding a fourth-grade girl for calling him "teach."

VIDEO: Student Describes Incident

Harold Nelson, 53, is accused of telling 9-year-old Triangle Elementary student Jamiel Bostic that she might leave "crying to her mother" because of her "disrespectful" comment, according to a Mount Dora police report.

"Every time I think about it, it makes me cry," said Jamiel, who added that she gets a lot of A's and loves going to school.

She said she's afraid to go back to a tutoring program following the after-school confrontation with Nelson, who teaches math.

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/25372149/detail.html

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JuniperLea

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Wed Oct-13-10 05:36 PM
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1. Ah jeeeeeez!

Sounds to me that this apparently "otherwise" good student was using a term of endearment!

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DeSwiss

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Wed Oct-13-10 05:57 PM
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2. K&R

Jackass.

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Mimosa

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Wed Oct-13-10 06:01 PM
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3. Teach is a friendly term.

OK, I'm going there....the student is black. Watch the video. The teacher is white. I bet he wouldn't have treated a white girl like that.

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backwoodsbob

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Wed Oct-13-10 06:04 PM
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5. wtf?

that didn't take long

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Mimosa

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Wed Oct-13-10 07:24 PM
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7. I'm saying the teacher might not have acted as meanly to a white girl

Edited on Wed Oct-13-10 08:01 PM by Mimosa

I had a hunch. Then I watched the video.

That's why it didn't take long.

Middle-aged white man thought black grl was being disrespectful. She wasn't. He over-reacted. The video is at the link below.

http://www.clickorlando.com/video/25373319/index.html

Half the misunderstandings on D.U. would be avoided IF people actually clicked on links in OPs and checked out the information therein.

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Cleanelec

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Wed Oct-13-10 06:03 PM
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4. When I was in school they didn't threaten

They just busted that ass.

Then you got in trouble again when you got home.

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deaniac21

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Wed Oct-13-10 06:08 PM
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6. Incredibly interesting.

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Radical Activist

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Wed Oct-13-10 07:50 PM
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8. That's pretty mild compared to some things I remember.

Children don't always know when an adult is crossing a line and that it's time to speak up about it to other adults.

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