Reason 125 to HomeSchool: Teacher Won’t Help Students Bully Kid in Class
John Rosi is a career-long slacker who works as a union-protected teacher in Washington State. And he participates in classroom wide roughhousing and bullying of a single student where kids hold him down, stuff socks in his mouth until Mr. Rosi threatens to fart on him. Gadzooks. And he can’t be fired.
From KSDK here:
A Washington state family wants a middle school teacher fired after their son was picked on in the teacher’s classroom.
Cell phone video, shot by students, shows the then 13-year-old being dragged around the classroom.
It also shows several students stacking chairs on top of the boy, a classmate putting a sock in his mouth and others sitting on him while he is held by his arms and legs.
All of it happened in front of a teacher, who at times participated in the incident.
Following the incident, the boy, now 14 and attending a private school, told his parents he was thinking about suicide.
School District Superintendent Chuck Cuzzetto said the teacher displayed “inappropriate classroom management,” but the district decided against firing the teacher because of his “body of work” over an 18-year teaching career in the district.
“It’s an isolated situation in an 18-year career. That’s horrific, and it deserves some pretty significant action fast. And that’s what we did,” Cuzzetto said.
The teacher, John Rosi, was suspended for 10 days without pay by the district and moved to a different middle school within the district.
The Kinneys not only want the teacher fired, but the incident investigated as a potential crime to see whether the teacher or district did not report the incident properly.
What would you like to bet that this school district has dozens of “zero tolerance” policies in place that would jeopardize students if they broke on of those rules? Like drawing pictures of guns or possession of a pocket knife? Would the school district take into consideration “the student’s body of work over xnumber of years?” Hell no, of course not. School districts must have a zero tolerance policy against teachers assaulting children. Period. Thanks to Dan for the tip on this.
