Quote From: istillbelieveAnna has suffered no more then any other public shcool teacher. Should teachers take every student to court who have embarrassed or pulled pranks on them??? Come on, grow up Anna! This kind of thing happens every single day and good, caring and COMPASSIONATE teachers find other ways to deal with the problem. Why didn't Anna FIRST try some of the many ideas Dr, Phil had for teaching these kids a lesson? She wants MONEY!!! And she wants to ruin the life of a child for REVENGE! The sad thing is that these 2 things will not make her feel better nor will they allow her to move ON....
As to her being afraid??? Was she attacked physically? Was she threatened? She never gave a single reason as to why she was so afraid. Her pride was hurt and she was embarrassed...............I'm sorry but BIG DEAL! She CHOSE to work in the public school system. Embarrassment and damage to ones pride is par for the course in that enviroment. Maybe she would be better off teaching at a daycare.
I am not trying to be insensitive to Anna and I don't think what the students did was okay by any means. There should be appropriate punishment and amends made to Anna. But she is taking this whole thing to far. To the EXTREME! As a victim of physical violence I didn't have the bitterness and revenge that is in Anna's heart even after a brutal rape and stabbing. I choose to forgive! Only then could I move ON...........................
I think Anna should continue to pursue the court action!! Dr. Phil dropped the ball royally on this one, with what all the kids are getting by with in and out of school these days. And I lay the blame on parents who think they are being good to their children. Have you heard of 'Tough Love'??
Anna has suffered no more then any other public shcool teacher. Why should ANY teacher have to suffer?? They are there to do a job, and reading this board tells me there is all too much of it. All of the decent teachers will leave, and who can blame them?
Our former daughter-in-law is a teacher, and way up there among the best. She is there for her kids 24/7. And she gets lots of calls, the kids do love her. She works in 'surburbia', not inner city. One Sat. PM she was working at the school on the bulletin boards in her classroom. She heard a strange noise, and upon investigation saw several former students of hers defacing the school, outside. She went out and talked to them, they just laughed at her. She told them that she will be forced to call the police if they don't stop. They said 'Go ahead!' Feeling she had no choice, as backing down now would not be fruitful, she did call them. The police came with sirens blasting, you could hear them for blocks away. The boys ran away.
On Monday she talked with the principal, and told him what happened, and who the boys were that were involved. As it played out, the parents were called and every single boy's parent told him that their child was not at the school, and had told them they were not involved. These were not dope users. These were professional people who are accustomed to getting their own way, or as someone said, just write out an meaningless, unfelt apology and get out from under it. They didn't even do that; just lied to their parents who believed them and not the adult teacher. The dil stood by the truth, and the school board was involved. The parents involved threatened to sue the school board, the principal and the dil teacher!! The board and principal told her to back off or they will have to leave her go. There was several thousand dollars of damage to the school, and she never complained, but I saw how badly they treated her!! Her father was terminally ill, and she wanted to spend a few days helping her Mother, they told her come to work, or you will be replaced. He died 2 days later, and she was deeply shaken by this. I saw what this whole experience did to her, and I firmly believe that young people need to be taught empathy, responsibility for their actions, and just several more issues that are being neglected when you say, Anna has suffered no more then any other public shcool teacher.!!!!
Anna stick to your guns! That was NO SMALL PRANK they did on you. There needs to be some precedence set here, and you are no ordinary teacher. You are in management. You have the power to do it.
Kids across the country are playing pranks and harassing teachers. Tericka, a high school science teacher who loved her job, lived in fear of her scandalous past catching up with her and getting her fired. Students eventually found out about her shocking past and the news spread throughout town like wildfire. Are other teachers taking her side, or do they feel her punishment was justified? How can she move forward? Then, Anna, an assistant principal, was harassed on the Internet when two students created a fake MySpace page alleging to be her. She says they completely attacked her character and need to be held accountable for their actions. Was this just a practical joke gone bad, or were these students out for revenge? Find out what Anna did to show these kids that some jokes just aren't funny. Could the mischief your kids get into end up costing you thousands of dollars? Talk about the show here.
