Mmmm, children tasty.

[Peaches O Malley]

Just for the record, I promise not to bite my students. :roll:


Teacher Fired After Allegedly Biting Pupil
Tue Mar 14, 11:25 PM ET


School officials on Tuesday fired a middle school teacher charged with biting a student who would not spit out a piece of candy.
Caroline Kolb has pleaded not guilty to an aggravated assault charge for allegedly biting 14-year-old Garrick Hudson on the back during a classroom scuffle Jan. 11.
School officials conducted a probe and fired Kolb for insubordination and conduct unbecoming a teacher, The Courier-Journal reported, citing a copy of her termination letter.
Administrators had previously warned Kolb to avoid being physically confrontational with students, according to the letter.
A call Tuesday to Kolb's attorney was not immediately returned.
The student's mother said Kolb told her son to stand in the hallway after he disobeyed her order to spit out the candy. When the boy tried to retrieve his books, they got into the scuffle.
According to court records, the boy was treated for a bite wound.

[Mistress Lisette]

Good grief! Over candy? Did she feel that threatened over the boy's candy munching? :roll:

[Galleywench]

Good grief! Over candy? Did she feel that threatened over the boy's candy munching? :roll:

Dunno about threatened but I can tell you that jay loathes gum chewing and I've seen him within seconds of strangling people for chewing it near him.
Maybe she has a "chew" thing!

[Jess Devyne]

Dunno about threatened but I can tell you that jay loathes gum chewing and I've seen him within seconds of strangling people for chewing it near him.
Maybe she has a "chew" thing!

He and I would get along for sure. I can tolerate it if it's done human-ly. Those that insist on the chomping, snapping, popping/cracking, lip smacking....gggrrr!

I used to work next to a woman, we were both legal secretaries in a fairly prestigous Denver firm, she used to sit and chomp on her gum, crack it and pop bubbles. I couldn't take it anymore, I had asked her before to be a little more considerate of those around her, but it fell on deaf ears. I walked to her desk, tissue in hand and MADE her spit it out. Mind you, she's 10 years older than I, and the look on her face was classic, but she never did it again.

As far as the teacher biting the student, if that had been my child, they would have been yanking my canines out of her ass!

[Peaches O Malley]

Originally Posted by Jess Devyne: As far as the teacher biting the student, if that had been my child, they would have been yanking my canines out of her ass!


*rotfl* *rotfl* Jess! You are too funny! Hope all is well, we miss ya!!

[Savantage]

Good grief! Over candy? Did she feel that threatened over the boy's candy munching? :roll:
Whatever happend to "did you bring enough for the class?"

[Dmitri]

Maybe she has a "chew" thing!

It's a chew thing, you wouldn't understand it....

[Jess Devyne]

*rotfl* *rotfl* Jess! You are too funny! Hope all is well, we miss ya!!

All's good! I am trying to get things together to come visit again before I have no free weekends! I will keep you all posted....I miss you too!

[Rose N. Crantz]

Whatever happend to "did you bring enough for the class?"

Yeah, no doubt! *rotfl*

[daBaroness]

It has nothing to do with the candy - it has everything to do with the fact that bleeding heart parents who won't discipline their own children have hamstrung teachers and school administrators. Ultimately our children are being cheated by the kids in the classroom whose bad behavior demands all the time and attention of the teacher and learning time becomes begging the kid to behave time. Teachers have no rights in the classroom anymore - I've known teachers who have had limbs broken and been assaulted, some brutally, by students and they have no recourse.

My son's 4th grade teacher admitted that up to 50% of her teaching time was wasted with useless attempts at getting unruly children to merely sit down and shut up so other children could learn.

I'm astounded by what teachers of children as young as kindergarten often have to deal with - foul mouths, beligerance, disrespect - and ultimately it means that the children in the classroom who do behave and want to learn are being cheated. Frankly - it pisses me off!

I've long felt that the abolishment of corporal punishment in schools wasn't a good thing - not even the worst-behaved kids in my classroom got so far out of line as to put themselves in line of the principal's paddle, muchless suspension or expulsion. Sometimes a little fear generates healthy respect and keeps people - particularly kids - from crossing boundaries.

My sons are now 14 and 21, and while I was never a big believer in spanking or physical discipline, I didn't hesitate to raise the idea of the threat of it - and for them it was enough. I don't know exactly how I did it, looking back, but my kids never acted out in public (or in private much) because I didn't expect them to and they knew it. I expected good behavior and was consistent in disciplining them when I didn't get it.

I see little ones in the stores basically misbehaving their way into getting what they want - walking all over their mamby-pamby parents and it sickens me because I know if they're doing that at three, by the time they're 10 they're going to be a huge problem to some poor teacher and prohibiting some other child from getting the time, attention and education they deserve.

The only thing that teacher did wrong was she should have bitten the mother!!!! ;-)

[Savantage]

yeah I agree when I went to school detention, suspension, and expulsion were not meant to be fun I've listened to kids now and they think it's fun and cool even my kids caught holy-you-know-what for getting in trouble at school. If teachers and school officals were able to take back control and parents need to step up to help enforce school rules (that's why the handbook year after year is sent home) then there might be a fighting chance, but biting a student is a bit extreme even in my book; that's something that is so toddler(?).