I remember the pain as if it occured just yesterday: a teacher in my 8th grade math class made fun of my blind eyes in front of the whole room. Because I have bad muscular control my eyes dart and wander and the teacher (who was barely out of college and a young woman who ought to have known better) said: "What are you looking at?" And then she crossed her eyes to make her point cruelly comedic for all the other 14 year olds in the room. I was so ashamed I got up and left. I wandered the hallways of the school with tears in my eyes–my apparently apalling eyes. I remember feeling the heat of embarrassment in the roots of my hair. And so of course I have just read the following excerpted news article from Inclusion Daily Express with deep distress. Shame on Jeremy Hollinger.
Teacher Allegedly Degrades Students On Facebook
(WALA)
October 20, 2011
MOBILE, ALABAMA– [Excerpt] A Mobile County Public School teacher is accused of making a spectacle of special education students. A mother transferred her child from Eichold-Mertz Elementary School after she said he was made fun of by his second grade teacher.
Teachers should be helpful, uplifting and positive toward their students, but a parent claims a picture is showing the exact opposite.
Celeste Dennis said, "It hurt. It genuinely hurt me."
Dennis was outraged after seeing what her child's teacher, Jeremy Hollinger, posted on Facebook.
She added, "My son wears a helmet for seizures during P.E. He had a picture of himself with my son's helmet on making fun on him like that was some type of a joke."
What upset Dennis even more were derogatory posts about children in her son's special education class.
Entire article:
Teacher allegedly degrades students on Facebook
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