Wednesday, March 7, 2012

The article I am writing about is called "Teacher apologizes for calling student a b-word. The article http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=8569859 is about a teacher who called a student out of her name. He called her a b. A math teacher named Mr. Lewis who works at Pencader Charter School in New Castle used profanity to show his frustration with a student. There were two videos made by the student. The student that recorded the videos is named Joey St. Pierre and he was suspended for 10 days for recording it. Mr. Lewis says he didn't give his consent to be recorded, but St. Pierre's mother claims her son did nothing wrong. One video was deleted and one was saved. On the second video the teacher didn't seem very apologetic for his actions in front of the class. Lewis said “I don't care. Makes no difference to me. I don't back down and I don't make excuses for my actions." Mr. Lewis said "If Mrs. Lewis or Mrs. Frazier came to me and said 'did I call her a b-----? I'll say yeah. I said she acts like spoiled b---- and she does." The mother was very upset and disturbed with the teacher’s choice of words. She said "That's abuse. You don't curse at a child because you are having a bad day. You got into the educational profession to teach and instruct." The student said she was only asking the teacher for help in math when he snapped on her. But Mr. Lewis sat down with the news and apologized. He claimed that he is not a monster and is far from that! He does not want what happen to effect or determine his 41 years of teaching. I think that the teacher was wrong on many levels. And I think that he needs to be fired immediately. I don't think that his actions should be excused or over looked because he was out of line. A lot of teachers use profanity and there is no consequence. This is a big issue and I think that this should be looked into. I do understand that some students do get out of control and are hard to handle, but what he did was just unacceptable.

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