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Title: Pre-K teacher sends note complaining about students’ ‘unpleasant smells’ (massive chimping ensues!!)
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Yahoo! News
URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/oddnews ... smells%E2%80%99-201931723.html
Published: Nov 22, 2013
Author: Charlene Sakoda
Post Date: 2013-11-23 18:44:28 by X-15
Keywords: None
Views: 230
Comments: 8
Some parents of students at the B.U.I.L.D. Academy in Buffalo, New York had complaints of their own after receiving a handwritten complaint letter from their children’s pre-kindergarten teacher. The note sent home with some students read in part, “Several children in Pre-K ages 3-4 are coming to school (sometimes daily) with soiled, stained, or dirty clothes. Some give off unpleasant smells and some appear unclean and unkept.” The teacher went on asking that parents address the matter as, “It is a health and safety concern. It also makes it difficult for me to be close to them or even want to touch them. Enough said.” It’s a message that has many outraged saying that the teacher needs to exercise more compassion as an educator in the Buffalo community, which according to the U.S. Census Bureau from 2007-2011 had 29.9% of its population living below the poverty level. Others said that the situation warranted a phone call to the parents or a school social worker. As reported by WIVB News 4, the teacher’s note was sent without the principal’s permission and the school’s nurse is equipped with clean clothes for any student to wear should they need them. Kimberly Wells found the note in her granddaughter’s backpack. "The first thing she asked me is, 'Do my teacher think I stink?' I told her, 'No, you don't,'" the grandmother said. Understandably, Kimberly was upset with how the situation was handled telling WKBW Eyewitness News, “She's teaching the kids how to segregate other kids. You're showing how to outnumber another child. That’s not right. That’s not what we’re in school for. That could have been, hell, she could have called the parent on the phone. She could have had a meeting at the school face-to-face." Kimberly also told WIVB that she attempted to address the teacher about the issue, “I did try to talk to the teacher about this and she didn’t want to hear nothing I had to say.” The Superintendent of Buffalo Public Schools, Dr. Pamela Brown, would not answer questions about whether any action would be taken against the teacher, but she did tell media, “I think it's extremely important that we always demonstrate respect for all of our children and for all of our families." Poster Comment: So, being poor means that parents can't bathe their offspring or wash their clothes?? That's what I got out of the butthurt flowing from the parental units.
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
There are a Lot of COLOR Pictures at the site.
"If we don’t adhere to the Constitution on matters as significant as presidential eligibility, then the Constitution ceases to be a meaningful document for guiding our nation."
No fair peeking!! You're supposed to draw conclusions based upon the article's omission of pertinent details!!!
#2. To: ndcorup (#1)
-Alex Kurtagic
#3. To: X-15 (#2)
Well, my first thinking was that they were Mostly Lithuanians. But a few things made me reconsider. So I HAD to Peek! But NO, they weren't French!! "You're supposed to draw conclusions based upon the article's omission of pertinent details!!! "
"If we don’t adhere to the Constitution on matters as significant as presidential eligibility, then the Constitution ceases to be a meaningful document for guiding our nation."
#4. To: ndcorup (#3)
What, no love for the Ancient and Lost Tribesmen of Borneo??
-Alex Kurtagic
#5. To: X-15 (#0)
Kimberly Wells is Caucasian and she's the grandmother of one of the students who had a letter sent home with her about personal hygiene problems and dirty clothes. Kimberly Wells complains about the teacher not calling the parent on the phone and arranging a one-to-one meeting but how is the teacher get a hold of the MIA parent since Kimberly Wells appears to be the child's caretaker. Kimberly Wells looks like she might have some issues about meeting basic appearance standards when going out in public herself. The teacher was trying to give a heads up to these negligent parents and caretakers, who were failing their kids, not teaching them good habits about personal hygiene or providing them with clean clothes. How is a 5 year old supposed do her own laundry or press her clothes or run a bath at night. Geez Louise. And the Superintendent and Principal flapping their jaws about how teachers need to respect and encourage students were as useless as the parents. If these kids continue to come to school dirty and smelly in later grades, they will be ostracized by the other kids. No one will want to be their friends. Kids can be cruel and these lazy parents and politically correct useless educators are not doing anything to prevent the hurt feelings that most certainly lie ahead for these kids in the future. “She's teaching the kids how to segregate other kids. You're showing how to outnumber another child. That’s not right. That’s not what we’re in school for. That could have been, hell, she could have called the parent on the phone. She could have had a meeting at the school face-to-face." Kimberly also told WIVB that she attempted to address the teacher about the issue, “I did try to talk to the teacher about this and she didn’t want to hear nothing I had to say.”
#6. To: X-15 (#2)
Like this, for instance? 'Do my teacher think I stink?' No fair peeking!! You're supposed to draw conclusions based upon the article's omission of pertinent details!!!
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
#7. To: X-15, 4 (#0)
Aren't personal hygiene coordinators included in Obama's Gold health care packages?
#8. To: Jethro Tull, Dakmar, scrapper2, James Deffenbach (#7)
Ask and ye shall receive: Obamacare Shower Program..... Aren't personal hygiene coordinators included in Obama's Gold health care packages?
-Alex Kurtagic
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