Nova
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I apologize. I thought you meant THIS case.
Going by reading the article, I hadn't seen any parental hysteria.
I am a parent. I would have brought this to the attention of the administration. I feel it's inappropriate for the children as third graders.
I would not have been hysterical and I would not have asked for the teacher to be fired.
But, what they decided to do with the information would be out of my hands.
I am talking about THIS case. Somebody called the press. I doubt it was the principal; although it's possible, I doubt the CEO fired the teacher unless s/he was getting heat from somewhere.
And you can find any number of posts upstream saying the teacher in question not only made a mistake, but is obviously a hopelessly incompetent educator and had to be fired. That is the hysteria to which I referred.
Because another way to look at it is that this teacher was still trying to find creative ways to interest his students. Yes, he overreached in this example, but at least he wasn't just passing uneducated kids on to the next grade level.