How My Son Was Humiliated and Tormented by his Teacher and Aide

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If any video deserved to go viral it’s this one. If you didn’t believe in home schooling before you may very well change your mind after watching this whole video. Don’t skip it, watch the whole thing:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfkscHt96R0[/youtube]

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Read this before going too nuts about this. http://freenj.blogspot.com/2012/04/be-suspiscious-of-this-story.html

I trust the blogger on this one. He’s dead on 99% of the time.

Here’s the link to his petition:
To the New Jersey Legislature and Congress: Pass legislation so that teachers who bully children are immediately fired

Note that it already has thousands of signatures.
Also read some of the personal experiences of others who as children who were mistreated in the same school.

I feel sorry for this boy and his father, and very angry over how Instructors could behave this way to special needs children. I spent some of my free time volunteering as an aide for special needs services staff to help either calm or protect such kids when I wasn’t in school ontop of being an Instructor for Sun Yi’s Academy of Kansas and this greatly angers me. No one who treats any kid this way should be teaching ever again.

And here’s a curious question for you Firsthat, you try to use a blog to put out this man is “misrepresenting” facts? That’s a bit vague since you didn’t provide any counter-proof of this mans video or what has happened, let alone a counter point to other parents who have filed complaints against this school for similar problems his kid is indeed in. The only time mis-representing something happens is when truth needs to be silenced for someone’s agenda and frankly reading more about this man’s story and looking up the school’s actions seems to carry more weight that he’s telling the truth over your opinion.

And a curious one, why is the blog attacking his political stance? If a child of either political side, is being harrassed or used as a punching bag either metaphoricaly or physically in school especially by Teachers it should never be tollerated. Ever. Politics in this does not matter, Teachers were slapped with citations and this “Jodi” was indeed fired over student mistreatement. All the Teachers in the room should not be redirected to handle other students or be rubber roomed, they should lose their jobs and teaching license for being unfit and a liablity to any Insitution of Education private or public.

And to top it off, it doesn’t help this blogger you link to of trying to dismiss this event especially when I’m getting ear fulls from Family members in New Jersey over this problem from other Schools over my cousins being bullied.

I was just your average junior high student when a teacher decided to single me out just to get a laugh from the rest of the students. He would sing a little rhyme:

Will, Will, the dog faced boy.
Crawls on his belly like a reptile.

He didn’t just do this once. It happened several times and stuck with me for a few years after that. I have never hit anyone in anger, but if I ever meet that man even 35 years later, I will deck him. Then I will show him the pictures of my beautiful daughters, wonderful grandkids, lovely wife, my two college degrees, my history of volunteerism, and my successful career. I am not a super person, but I am 100 times better than that sorry excuse for a teacher/human who helped push a young boy into depression.

He did all of that just to feed his ego by getting a laugh from the other kids. This is why people distrust our school systems. It is bad enough when the teachers do not stop abuse of students, when they become the abuser, it is abhorent and they should be fired on the spot.

The teacher calls the 10 year old kid a bastard…That’s out of line. period!

As the author of that blog post, I don’t have any allegations to make that might dispute this specific claim, and I don’t mean to imply that I do. (I thought that was clear.) As I said in my post, I wouldn’t put anything past the Cherry Hill NJ Public School teachers.

But Stu Chaifetz is a loon. He has no credibility with me and he shouldn’t with you. He’s spent the better part of a decade rattling around NJ trying to attract as much public attention as possible to himself and his causes. I think it’s entirely possible that he’s finally gotten his wish and now has a legitimate way to portray himself as a victim. But he’s tried for so long to take on that role that I’m instantly dubious.

I’m very critical of the teacher’s union as a rule. But NJ has the toughest (frankly, overly tough) rules on ‘bullying’ in the country and adding another log to that bonfire doesn’t seem to me to be a prudent course of action regardless of the circumstances. Sometimes the best course is to hold people individually responsible for their actions instead of trying to write a new law to prevent every wrong.

But a new law is exactly what Stu is after. It’s his first solution to every problem. If you ask him he’ll probably want it named “Stu’s Law” ala “Megan’s Law” or the “Chaifetz Anti-Bullying Bill” or something. Anything to get a bit more attention.

I’m not trying to invalidate his specific claim, or any evidence he has to support it. but I’d take a VERY close look at any “evidence” from him before I started taking any action. He’s more than proven himself to be completely unreliable.

Again, another assumption. Proof that he’s a loon or go back to your corner and be a troll. You’re in the wrong place if you think throwing accusations is enough to justify an opinion. I get it you don’t like this mans politics, all I’m hearing from your blog is a big, “Waaaaa.” It still does not change the fact the School his kid is in has had other Parent’s complain about mistreatment and staff have been shuffled with one being fired. Until you can prove that this man is either lieing or a fraud, you’re barking up the wrong place with your trolling accusations against him.

People could say the same about John Walsh who’s life changed after his son was murdered.
Or about the parents of Natalee Holloway.
Or the parents of Madeleine McCann who has been missing for years now.

Personally I’d rather see a parent or mate make changing things through the system that caused the problem their priority after such bad acts than see them sit back and act ”offended” while merely setting themselves up to sue.

Yeah, how about that.
The ”squeaky spoke gets the oil.”

Hey Will,

Same thing happened to me, but in 4th grade. Stupid female teacher singled me out for torment. That it was not my imagination is shown by this : Other kids asked me why “Mrs____ is always being mean to you?”; do you realize how bad a teacher’s torment has to be to get people as self-centered as the typical 10-11 year old to notice?

I never told my parents , because I thought they’d automatically side with the grown up, plus I thought they’d be disappointed to know I was so disliked by someone, even if they DID take my side. So I just gutted out the whole year till I escaped her by going into the 5th grade.

I did get justice, passively and …kinda….Seems a few years after my torment (I guess I was in junior high then) , a victim finally came forward. Mrs____ ‘s contract was not renewed , and she was out of that school. It was learned that EVERY year, she would single out one child to torment daily. That’s not the justice part, though. That came years later , after high school, after college, after marriage. I was visiting my parents, and Lo and behold who’s on the front page of the local paper (I should note this is a town of less than 25,000 people) : It’s Mrs _____, the subject of a human interest story on her 30 year’s service as a wal Mart cashier. Now, I am not putting down cashiers in general or WM ones in particular-it’s a respectable, honest job-but knowing that %^$#@ spent all those years after being terminated standing all day, dealing with cranky customers , and NOT being able to torment kids , seemed to me poetic justice.

(PS . Upon learning of Mrs ____’s firing, my parents asked me about her. I think they took it pretty hard that I had not told them at the time what she had done to me, daily, for 9 months. They swore they would have “done something”, so maybe my silence reflects more on a child’s thought process than on how my parents actually were.)

I’m sorry but I don’t engage in debate with anonymous blog commenters – particularly when I have no stake in the debate.

I left my comment here as a courtesy since this is a sight whose views largely coincide with my own. It was an opinion regarding Stu Chaifetz credibility, and I never presented it as anything else. If you’re the kind of person that agrees with Stu that the best way to handle any problem is to pass a law against it, then by all means discount my opinion accordingly. In fact, you can discount my opinion completely for any reason you like and I won’t lose any sleep over it. Believe him or not. It’s no sweat off my back.

I was only trying to help you guys out a little by filling you in on his background.

Tom From RadioFreeNJ
YOUR MIND IS ALTERED, YOU TRY TO PROTECT THE UNIONS WHO PROTECT THOSE DEGENERATED TEACHERS?
WE DON’T NEED EXCUSE for those being protected, using their protection to hurt the kids and let the madness of their core soul sick directed at children those who need most caring most skilled understanding,
the wired tell all, don’t you dare change anything to make a father hurt so bad to discover how sad
they made his son’s life.
if you TOM take the side of the teachers by diminish this father,
you are lower than the teachers

@Tom From RadiofreeNJ:
Sorry I got you involved in this, Tom. I’m from NJ and while I don’t know the person in question personally and while I agree with your blog post and wouldn’t put anything past the folks in Cherry Hill (or any other school system in this state), I hope that people find a better star to which to hook this particular chariot. And I agree with what you said — the absolute last thing this state needs is another law.

@Tom From RadiofreeNJ: Tom, thanks for your balanced feedback on this one. I watched it and I can’t dispute the evidence or defend any actions of the teacher but it appeared to me that this guy had some sort of edgeness that made me uncomfortable.

Our church has an organized visitation program for our elderly parishoners who happen to be in nursing homes.
Guess what?
It makes a huge difference to have people who are not their potential victims as witness to the quality of care.
All of the patients are helped by our visits, not just our own friends.
The staff must turn people, feed them, change them and their bedclothes.
Put them in a chair.
Take them outside in good weather, and so on.
Putting a wire on one’s own son sounds off the rails to some.
But maybe if those teachers had all had a fear that they could be watched/heard at any time this nasty treatment would not have happened to begin with.
Nanny-cams have also caught all sorts of maltreatment.
Why blame the parent?
Even Jesus warned people that a hired sheep herder would not care for a flock like their own shepherd would.

yes there is abuse toward the one who cannot tell, and the same wire tap technology
was apply with hidden camera under bed of elderly and discover a terrible mistreatment nobody could suspect to happen in a hospital on special care, it was eye opening for the GOVERNMENT IN THAT COUNTRY, WHICH MADE SPECIAL RULES TO ERASE IT,
I personaly saw one MAN NURSE, smack a nother man confuse who had spill his plate on the floor, right when I WAS PASSING BY LOOKING SIDEWAY AT THE NOISE OF THE PLATE FALLING DOWN TO SEE THE NURSE SMACKING THE OLD MAN AS SOON AS IT HAPPEN,
I turn about to tell the nurse in chief, and she got mad at me, asking if I was working for the police,
THOSE BULLY TYPE are so sure of their jobs, THEY USUALY DO THUG JOBS FOR THE UNIONS WHEN REQUIRED , IT ‘S NOT HEALTHY FOR THE WORKERS
THEY THINK THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH ABUSES, SO THEY DO IT, FOR SOME OF THEM,
AS THE OTHER WORKERS SHUT THEIR MOUTH AND LET IT HAPPEN, BECAUSE AFRAID OF BEING BULLYED,

To me this particular incident is indicative of how our educational system has become a complete and total failure. I know that there are many fine, highly motivated teachers out there doing their very best to properly educate the children in their care but there are also just as many nitwits who should not be allowed anywhere near a child.

For example, I didn’t go to college until I was in my mid thirties and the university I attended has a nationally recognized teaching program but many of those who graduated with teaching degrees never attended that program. These young men and women would start their collegiate careers by majoring in Math, Biology, Chemistry, preLaw, preMed, etc…but then they discover that they aren’t able to handle the course load what with all the partying they do and the poor primary education they received (up to 60% of college freshmen require remedial education) and will end up changing their majors two or three times to a less demanding disciplines.

Eventually they will end up graduating with a general studies degree and will take the teachers exam, receive a teaching certificate and go on to get jobs educational system. This is who is doing the majority of the teaching, under trained, under educated young men and women who never wanted to become teachers in the first place. When you couple this with the a Dept. of Education that has done everything in it’s power to assure that real education and critical thinking is no longer taught in America what do you expect to happen?

There is an excellent book by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt titled “The Deliberate Dumbing Down Of America”, you can download a free pdf of the book here the book documents what has happened to our educational system. As it is over 700 pages in length I don’t expect many of you will take the time to actually read it but you can also see several interviews with Mrs. Iserbyt on youtube, my favorite is here. I hope that some of you will take time to educate yourselves on what is, and has, really been going on with the educational system in the United States.

@Poppa_T:

You called something to mind from my college days, Poppa-T.
When I went to university it was the early and mid 1960’s.
Teachers up until then had been excellent for the most part.
But college campuses were seeing a fight between those who wanted to hold the high quality line for teachers and those who wanted as many as possible to get that ”piece of paper.”
The paper-pushers eventually won and the expertise of teachers immediately took a huge downturn.
My own baby brother saw the first influx of crappy babysitter-type teachers who had no science or math ability at all.
So sad.

@Nan G: Well put Nan. I went to College in the Midwest from 67-1971. Imagine what it was like in the late sixties. Our college professors and students where so divided, as was America, due to the Viet Nam War. Sadly my generation has hurt America with our selfishness and liberal attitudes and have passed this on to the next generation. For me, I worked 50 hours a week in a foundry and went to school year round to only get pimped by the lottery. Ended up as a corpsmen out here in San Diego and oddly enough this training provided me with a career in Medical Sales which I have now retired from after 35 years. I have said that during that time there was NO middle ground for meaningful discussion and sadly I think what we see today is the same.

I just saw this story on Fox. The school says it was not the teacher’s voice on the recording. IF that is true, then Stu Chaifetz is trying to get an innocent person fired.

He’s an animal rights loon and an anti-hunting activist.

http://animalrights.about.com/od/organizationsandactivists/a/PigeonShootInterview_2.htm

Supposedly he’s run for Congress and Lost, ran for Cherry Hill School Board and Lost, and ran for the Assembly and Lost.

@Hard Right: OK who was it then, one of the autistic kids in the classroom??

@Common Sense:
I’m all for evidence.
If voice analysis proves it was two other broads and neither was the paid teacher, so be it.
But the non-denial denial via her union without any proof is troubling.
Why not come forward and SPEAK so all can tell it isn’t her voice?

@Nan G: I agree, I think any assumption that this was not the teacher must be supported with clear evidence that would refute the recording. I must agree that this guy comes across a bit troubling but what I hear must be proven a fraud.

my beloved older sister who became the mother of us 5 young children after the lost of our parents, she was very tiny person, and could fight the devil itself to protect me as the youngest child,
she grew up to one day needed a surgery and woke up paralyse at 35 years old, she staye a good while at the recovery hospital, one day I come in to visit and hear the nurse who where not yet nurse just on training, they where changing her bed making jokes that her bladder was not fonctioning at will,they treatening her of punishment,as I over hear, my sister is unable to speak at that time, a blockage in her throath, which corrected after quite a long time after , they knew she could not express herself then,
I went bazurk after them, one of the few times in my life that I lost it, my heart was broken to see her so vulnerable at the mercy of those insensitive people, I could have kill them for what they did.
my sister gave us her days of youth where she could have been living her own self life,
so I took on me to help her recover, that day she murmur to me, don’t say nothing, because it;s going to be worse,

@Common Sense:

Don’t know, but everyone is assuming it must be the teacher. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. From what I read, one of the voices was the aide and she was fired.

Also, my post above was merely to touch on what was mentioned previously- the guy is a bit off. That doesn’t mean it didn’t happen or is some sort of scam.

@Hard Right: I am in agreement. At this point I believe that the ball is in the court of the school or the teachers union to provide conclusive evidence that what is being recorded is NOT the voice of the teacher that is still employed. I would believe that voice identification technology would be a tool that could possibly be utilized. I also believe that full cooperation of the accuser would speak volumes towards the truth.

@Common Sense:

Sounds like they were more concerned about the union than the father. That may change now.