TEACHER FIRED FOR LETTING STUDENTS PICK ON CLASSMATE

A New York City teacher was fired for having her eighth-grade students write on a blackboard all the reasons why they disliked a classmate. Madeline Luciano was fired from P.S. 18 after she came up with the absurd assignment on June 4, 2014, when the 13-year-old girl came back to her classroom after dropping off paperwork. When the student returned, she noticed her school bag was missing and told Ms. Luciano. The girl had complained in the past about bullying. The school bag was eventually found, turned inside out with the pages of her student portfolio torn. Luciano asked the class what happened, and many students responded that they didn’t like the girl, calling her “annoying” and “stupid.” The teacher said she then told students to write a letter, as an assignment, indicating why they didn’t like the girl. One student got up and started jotting down the class’s comments on the chalkboard. One student said that the complaints about the girl included her “attitude and how fake she is around people.” Someone said she was an “ugly person” and “that she annoys people.” Luciano told investigators that she stopped the exercise when the girl started crying and she realized the assignment was inappropriate.
* Nice to see America’s teachers are feeling energized by spring break and are ready to get back to being awful.
* Fortunately the girl was only 13. You don’t get scarred for life until you’re 14.
* On the bright side, the teacher no longer has to deal with the annoying, stupid, fake girl who’s an ugly person.
* This girl could be headed for a career in politics.
* One surprise here is they still have blackboards.
* What was the extra credit? To bully someone new this week?
* My teachers didn’t need to ask for help. They told me what they thought of me directly.
* “As my last assignment, I’d like you all to write letters of recommendation for my next job.”
* Even the teachers union wasn’t going to stand for this.
* PHONE TOPIC: The school event that scarred me for life.