Tuesday, May 1, 2012

THE SECRET RECORDINGS ARE IN HIGH GEAR « Teachers Fight Back

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THE SECRET RECORDINGS ARE IN HIGH GEAR

Here we go!  Several more incidences of kids and or parents secretly taping their teachers have been cropping up on the news.  Let the madness begin!
One such incident is particularly troubling.  A New Jersey teacher who oversees a classroom where a father says his autistic son was verbally abused by adults has been placed on leave. The You Tube secretly recorded audio caught one adult calling his autistic son a “bastard”.
The teacher denied that she was in the classroom at the time.  Assistants were allegedly in the room and supervising at the time of the incident. An investigation by the district also found that the teacher wasn’t present.
The superintendent said that she put the teacher on leave to minimize the “disruption to our school”.
I’ve written before about the fact that teachers are not accorded the same “presumption of innocence” as