It CAN happen in your local school - Broward teacher who hit kids may lose job

It CAN happen in your local school

Feb. 1, 2007

Broward teacher who hit kids may lose job

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/16592894.htm

The Broward School Board is considering whether to fire a Fort Lauderdale elementary teacher who admitted hitting students.

When special-education teacher Arlene Johnson needed to control her students, she would hit them with a belt or a ruler and ''jack them up'' by shaking them or grabbing them by the shirt, she told Broward school district investigators.

The students, second-graders at Sunland Park Elementary in Fort Lauderdale, told their parents last April that Johnson was hitting them.

Now the district's acting chief is moving to have her fired.

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"I sent my daughter to school thinking she was safe," the alleged victim's mother said. "How wrong I was." ************************** "Why are you posting all these articles on this blog?" This is a question I have been asked several times since I began posting these articles. My reason is simple- I am posting these articles in one group so we can be forced to recognize that yes, this is happening. This is happening at an alarming rate. Notice how many articles are posted per day? I am NOT saying if you send your child to public school he will be shot, sexually abused, or any other manner of terrible experience. What I am saying is that there is certainly the risk of this happening. It is time we all began to admit this IS happening. When I began this blog I, like many Americans, was focused on school violence. While school violence is a major problem it is apparent that sexual abuse by teachers is an even bigger problem. Why aren't we discussing this issue? I think it is too hard. No one wants to admit it is happening at an alarming rate. But, it does exist... whether we want to admit it or not. ************************ Something to think about, if there were this many cases of abuse from homeschooling parents each day do you really think homeschooling would be legal?

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