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Title: 14yo German student gets 20hrs community service for calling teacher ‘retarded’ online
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URL Source: https://www.rt.com/viral/345797-court-student-retarded-teacher/
Published: Jun 8, 2016
Author: staff
Post Date: 2016-06-08 02:13:18 by Tatarewicz
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RT... A 14-year-old special needs student in Dusseldorf, Germany has been sentenced to 20 hours community service after she posted a picture of her teacher on Facebook with the caption “most retarded teacher ever.” The 64-year-old, who hasn’t been named, filed a case against the pupil at the special needs school in which he teaches after a third party alerted him to the picture. Upon learning of the offending post, instead of using the school’s disciplinary system, the teacher decided to pursue the student in court. The court was told on Tuesday how the teen, whose name has not been revealed either, secretly photographed the teacher during a class in November 2015 before posting it online. The judge described the girl’s behavior as “unacceptable” and sentenced her to 20 hours of community service. The teenager will continue to attend the same school. According to Die Welt, if the girl had been over 18 she could have faced up to one year in jail or a fine. The girl told the court that she was remorseful for what she had done. As such a case has rarely been brought before the court, it resulted in swathes of journalists and photographers outside the court, according to the judge. “Now you know how it feels to be put on public display,” the judge told the student, according to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Poster Comment: "Retarded" scribes and apparently the bumpkin on the bench,neglected to note WHY the girl described the teacher so: prank, low mark, not understandable? For everything there is a reason.
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#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
Der Spiegel says that the student was displeased at the teacher's decision to publish students' pictures on the school's homepage. The court was of the opinion that the student could have found other means of expressing her displeasure over the teacher's postings. Interestingly,the teacher decided to pursue criminal sanctions rather than a civil remedy. From a distance, this seems kind of small and vindictive on the part of an adult, but having spent some time in front of a classroom full of kids, I suspect there was probably more that a little bit if history between these two in the past. It's pretty sad though that the community: school, teachers, students, parents weren't asked to be involved. That's the way things go these days everywhere. When injured in any way, we run home to mama engaging the machinery of the nanny state to fix our boo-boo's. "If ignorance is truly bliss, then why do so many Americans need Prozac?" - Dave McGowan
Judging from the teacher's reaction to this rather silly matter, I'd say the teacher really IS retarded.
I suppose the teacher can be given a couple of points for using the incident to teach that actions can have legal consequences so should be considered whenever others can be affected.
It takes a retard to teach other retards.
These kinds of things happen when teachers lose the trust of their students. Once a teacher loses the confidence of students, all sorts of things go awry.
"If ignorance is truly bliss, then why do so many Americans need Prozac?" - Dave McGowan
We still don't the reason the student was "displeased" about the portrait publishing; could be legitimate concern about harassment potential, privacy, no permission asked or whatever.
We probably never will as this case will soon drop off the radar. Interesting case though for a number of reasons. We learn today that the student involved was a "special needs" student. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3629075/Teacher-takes-pupil- special- needs-school-court-Germany-girl-posted-photograph-tag-retarded-teacher- ever.html "If ignorance is truly bliss, then why do so many Americans need Prozac?" - Dave McGowan
Sounds like student wasn't asked if OK to publish her pic and considered the publication a violation of her privacy rights, apparently not wanting it known that she is "special needs." But then teacher claims his privacy was violated. Girl could be autistic, dyslexic, but likely not a dummy, having tried to teach the teacher a lesson.
#2. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
"After tomorrow those SOB's will never embarrass me again. That’s not a threat. That’s a promise.” – LBJ to his mistress Madeleine Brown on the eve of JFK assassination 
#3. To: randge (#1)
#4. To: Tatarewicz (#3)
#5. To: Tatarewicz (#3)
#6. To: randge (#5)
student was displeased at the teacher's decision to publish students' pictures on the school's homepage
#7. To: Tatarewicz (#6)
We still don't the reason the student was "displeased"
#8. To: randge (#7)
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