They see me rollin’ …. they stealin’
(via ‘Monster Closet’ Used To Punish 4-Year-Old Pre-K Students, Parents Outraged)
“A Houston, Texas teacher and teacher’s aide have been removed from their classroom for allegedly disciplining their pre-K students by placing them in custodial closets they nicknamed “monster closets.”
Kelon Chaney, a 4-year-old student at Varnett Charter School, received the disciplinary action when he laughed at another student who had been placed in the closet for acting up. The “monster closet” dubbing was inspired by a book they were reading in class titled “After School Monsters,” MyFOX Houston reports.
“There was a monster and the monster was going to eat me,” Chaney told the station.
The educators are accused of holding the closet door closed with their feet while the disciplined children cried inside in the dark for about five minutes at a time, according to KHOU. Chaney reportedly cried so hard in the closet that he threw up and was sent home.
“You are taking a 4-year-old and putting them in a dark closet, and that’s like torture,” mother Kelicia Johnson-Chaney told KHOU. “That’s torture even to an adult that is afraid of the dark. Who locks anybody in a closet?”
KHOU reports that the educators have been suspended without pay, pending an investigation.”
This is still happening in classrooms around the country. We need to stand up to any teacher doing stuff like this. As teacher we need to set our own standards or others will do it for us. That means helping fellow teachers and also making sure if we see others doing stuff like that that we pull them aside or report them to administrators. No one is served by practices like this. It also just fuels the Anti-teacher rhetoric.
What a bitch!
