Poison Attempt on Teacher »
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Two students were arrested on felony charges that they tried to poison their science teacher by pouring a fabric freshener into her soda, authorities said Monday.
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STONERS1 year, 4 months ago
The teacher, 51-year-old Jacqueline Hutchins, was not hurt, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said. She noticed an odd taste when she sipped her Pepsi on Friday.
Other students told deputies the boy and girl, both 15, huddled around the teacher's soda and talked about putting the Febreeze fabric freshener in her soda, authorities said.
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fretslinger581 year, 4 months ago
No joke. The values are either hidden or twisted. Scary stuff.
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johnkamis641 year, 4 months ago
I don't know about you gents, but it seems to me that far too few students meet the Board of Education.I met the Board many times,(Nothing serious!!!)[I'm still finding splinters]
butt I've never been in trouble.
When kids find out there are NO consequences for thier actions; they lose respect for the system.(And you wind up with Le Shrub!!!)
And now ya see why I try to avoid serious subjects...
JK
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Pupi1 year, 4 months ago
I agree- discipline- at home and in the schools- is sorely lacking. What's with parents these days??
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kriicket1 year, 4 months ago
I'll give a good guess as to what is wrong with some parents today...they don't look at school as an education for their kids, they look at school as an 8 hour a day free childcare! I am not a teacher, but I did spend one school year as a substitute...and worked almost every day.
This particular kid I am referring to is a good kid, but his granddad had dropped him off at school, only for them to realize the boy had left his lunchbox at home. He told the boy to wait outside for him to bring it back. Well, once kids are dropped off at school, they become the sole responsibility of the school, and they aren't allowed to loiter around outside (this is elementary school btw). One of the teacher told him to go inside and wait in the hall outside his classroom. His granddad came back up to the school with the lunchbox, and totally went off on the kid. I heard him tell the boy that he was to do what he (the granddad) told him to do and not to do what the teachers told him to do. (cont.)
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bill29361 year, 4 months ago
I have long believe that when they have these kids doing community service (like picking up trash along the road)for some crime, they should have the parents out there picking it up with the kids. It would serve two good purposes. One the parents out there will insure their kids not do this again, and the parents that see this happenning will have a real "come to Jesus" meeting with their kids to inform them that they don't want to be out there picking up trash on a Saturday.
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STONERS1 year, 4 months ago
Well call me old fashion but back when I was living at home we got ours when we stepped out of line from our parents,we knew better but now its abuse and stories like this come out all the time.If they dont get punished then why not do it,they have nothing to fear.
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kriicket1 year, 4 months ago
exactly !! Been there, done that....more times than I care to admit. I was very much a rambunctious tomboy growing up and was constantly getting into trouble...you know the saying about how trouble finds you? Well, that was me, through and through. I remember writing something bad on the wall about someone at school. A couple of my classmates egged me on to do it, then they were the ones who turned me in. After that, I didn't bend down to peer pressure anymore. The punishment my parents had, was they had to endure the embarrassment of the ugly things I had written, because they had not taught me things like that. I had to write down on a piece of paper what I had written on the wall, take it home to my parents for them to sign and send back to school. Not only did I get a "whuppin'", but my dad took me to the house of the person I had written about and I had to apologize to that person and the parents for what I had written....talk about punishment to fit the crime...
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djapollo2k1 year, 4 months ago
I was taught by nuns and Jesuits. I thought back then that the disclipline was much too severe, sometimes draconian: forcing the disobedient to kneel on marbles; beatings with rulers; terrible humiliation if one didn't come up with the correct answer...on and on. Really tough boys would pee their pants out of fear.
I was taught, however, to deal with pressure and even violence with grace and creativity. Didn't learn "respect," but I did become very strong and durable:) Never give up.
And I learned a great deal including self-discipline which in the end enabled me to be genuinely free.
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uncle-dave1 year, 4 months ago
This is the second story of this kind that I've heard in the last two weeks. There was another case involving girls putting strawberry lip gloss on thier teachers soda can knowing full well that she had a severe allergy to strawberries and could have died from it, however she wasn't harmed.
I too am a victim of a Catholic grade school education. I attended school in the 50's when corporal punishment was not only allowed but encouraged by our parents. Suffering physical pain and public humiliation at the hands of the nuns was par for the course. I wonder how these children would have reacted to those conditions.
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annadurfee1 year, 4 months ago
And you wonder why teachers want to be paid more? Our(yes, I'm a teacher) freakin' lives are in danger! Hello, hazard pay?
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david_nwpa1 year, 4 months ago
Kids need to quit being taught that they have to understand Adam and Steve.
What does that comment have to do with discipline? True discipline comes from within. It is the desire to modify one's behavior for one's own betterment. Punishment comes as a result of lacking discipline. Good motivation is internal and relies on a person's desire to be a role model for others.
What does your pejorative and insulting comment have to do with either the points I made or the article?
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SlapALib1 year, 4 months ago
Trying to teach kids sensitivity PC BS is destroying this nation. When character was stressed, the US led the way in education. Kids don't need to be taught feelings they need to be taught to be discipline. That's right taught discipline. Discipline just doesn't magically manifest itself. It is learned. And the current environment in the government school system is not reinforcing discipline. It reinforces the same slick fast food society values that have run rampant in this nation.
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sjames3521 year, 4 months ago
I've been a victim of a student putting something in my drink that wasn't healthy (hand lotion in my tea) & that student wasn't punished; all she had to do was apologize. She stated that she didn't mean anything by it. Now she's a police officer.
Most parent's hands are tied when it comes to punishing their children. Some people will report you if you try because they feel you might be hurting the kid. They don't care if the kid deserved it or not. I was told by a social worker that if a parent hits on the buttocks, that was acceptable; otherwise not.
Most teacher's hands are tied because of the gov't & the administration at the school. "We don't want to hurt their feelings--it will make them feel bad about themselves." We do have to report any so called "abuse"; otherwise we get in trouble with the law.
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Poulenc1 year, 4 months ago
Stories like these are pretty horrible--but I don't think they should be taken as a call to arms.
There will always be emotionally wayward, under-attended kids who act out in ways dangerous to themselves and others. The solution is to pinpoint the troubled, and to get them help--which means being a vigilant parent, of course. I don't believe that the authoritarian approach-- "the belt," as one poster put it--works in the long run.
I for one can't imagine causing children of mine physical pain and the humiliation that goes with doing it.
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BronxBomber1 year, 4 months ago
You mean "Spare the rod, and spoil the child"? In some cases, certain children really need punishment, & discipline from their elders.. but never to the point of abuse though.
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SilverPaladin1 year, 4 months ago
I had an Electronics Course while I was in High School at our Vocational School nearby. I was about the only student that worked in that class and happened to win Student of the Year in that category (which I was proud to get because it was the only award I ever got in school). To get back to the topic some of the students from there slipped laxatives into our teacher's coffee.. he told me this when I went back to talk with him after I had graduated. I have a lot of respect for all the teachers out there high school and college the ones around here really helped me out and I wouldn't be where I was today without their help and knowledge.. hopefully these situations (whether they involve bad teachers or students) start getting better so as to increase the welfare of our future generations. A nice bit of closing advice I would recommend not leaving any of your open drinks out of your sight. ^_^
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lvrofwolves1 year, 4 months ago
When I was growing up, if you did something wrong at school, not only did everyone in the class know it, but also heard the
SWAT in the hallway, and that wasn't even the worse, the worse was when you got home, there was punishment then too..either another few swats, grounding-(where most kids didn't have TVs in their bedrooms let alone cell phones and video games...then even when you weren't in school, you had to be careful outside in case some neighbor saw you doing something wrong and would call your parents. children back then had much more respect for authority and their parents, maybe that respect was out of fear..but big deal! we survived!
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choppywatters1 year, 4 months ago
Sounds to me like they were just trying to soften her up!
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thomas9981 year, 4 months ago
Maybe the reasoning was more simple. Students weren't allowed to drink Pepsi, lord in my town they wont even let student take softdrinks to school in their lunch boxes. So the students did a little Boston Tea Party protest. Why should she be drinking in front of them and they had to beg for a hall pass to get nasty tap water.
The peasants revolted....
Or maybe she was a worthless old bat that was too busy sucking on the government teat to actually teach the poor little fellows so they figured if they got rid of her they might get a better teacher that cared....
Or maybe they were just little b@st@rd that should be locked up for life before they kill someone.
Take your pick, I'm a romantic at heart so I'll just believe she was a worthless old bat.
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hugine0011 year, 4 months ago
I've been substitute teaching for the last two months, and boy does that job suck. I got into teaching all naive and hoping to make the world a better place, and I've finally realized that kids are ******s. My theory is that we coddle them too much and make them all out to be winners, so that they end up thinking they deserve things they must earn. And parents don't care.
I've had some scary experiences...huge football playing guys screaming in my face because I told them to stop making out with their girlfriends in class...12 year olds screaming that they lost their engagement rings...my students hitting on me because I look their age. Take a look in the Philly schools - teachers are regularly assaulted by their students there and have been scared to report it.
Why is the safety of our teachers not one of our priorities?
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thomas9981 year, 4 months ago
Yeah we coddle them to much lets stomp all over their hopes and dreams, think how wonderful it will be when they are all depressed learning that the most they can ever hope for is to be a greeter at the local Wal-mart.
As for making safety of our teachers a priority? Are you kidding me, letting students eliminate the teachers sounds like the best for of educational reform I've ever heard of... the really bad teachers will get removed from their position in the only manner possible. Lord knows you can never fire them with the NEA making the teamsters look like sissies. Death is the only way those worthless old bats will every stop "teaching", cause if they were forced to get a real job... well we all know they'ld would greeting you at Wal-mart.
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kriicket1 year, 4 months ago
I know what you mean, I used to be a substitute teacher also. I thought it would give me a real idea about how schools and classrooms really are run....and it did...after that, I never wanted to teach school again.
I was appalled at how disrespectful some of these kids can be. The phrase "born and raised in a barn" certainly rung true for some of these people....and all I can think of, is that if I had ever behaved that way....I would have brought a lot of shame on myself and my family.
Nobody knows what shame is anymore...not unless you are caught doing something wrong...then the only shame that is felt is being ashamed that you got caught.
I know kids pull pranks...but disrespect is not a joke, and there is nothing funny about it.
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crash19681 year, 4 months ago
Please this is nothing but a childish prank its Fabreeze for godssake I'm sure these kids were not trying to Kill the teacher its basically the same as putting visine in someones coffee and the Felony charges will surely not stand up in court this is another news media hype and scare tatic gimme a break.
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thomas9981 year, 4 months ago
it kind of depends on the intent of the kids, if they intended to kill or harm her then it would be valid to go for the felony charges.
And yes, it was only Frebreeze which is basically cyclodextrin which is not harmful to humans even if you drink it. But there are cases where a person was convicted of dealing drugs when in fact he was trying to pass off oregano or some such spice as pot. Intent is the key, not the likelyhood of success on the part of the acting party.
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kriicket1 year, 4 months ago
Keep up the good work my little winged friend.....you are teaching...just not in a classroom. ;-)
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runningspirit1 year, 4 months ago
What happened to the good old days when kids put exlax in the teachers Coca Cola?
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lasizz1 year, 4 months ago
I'm a second year teacher, and I can only relate to the total lack of respect that these kids show. Last year I was cursed out on a daily basis, had things thrown at me, and that was a good day. I am by no means the greatest teacher out there, but I'm not stupid either. I'm learning the things college doesn't teach and I'm seriously reconsidering my career choice. These kids have this feeling of entitlement that I can't figure out. I started teaching to help kids, and I had a professor laugh at me and tell me I was nuts, and I tend to agree with him more days than not.
It's everyone's fault though, parents, teachers, kids, society... These kids are handed everything, and are coddled beyond any form of the word. The IEP's, the fact that most don't have to do their own work, or any work. Any homework is considered "too stressful"... It's insane and it's not helping our kids, as we can see!
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thomas9981 year, 4 months ago
Your getting closer to the real problem... "I'm learning the things college doesn't teach..."
The problem is colleges require to many classes on how to teach, how to teach the gift child, how to teach the special child, how to teach the stupid child... And maybe, just maybe the program will have a few classes in the actual subject matter the teacher should know.
I do recall at my University the college of education was the one where all the people enrolled that were flunked out of the real colleges like engineerin... I recall education degrees were real popular with the football and basketball players... I wonder why, could it be because the program is/was a joke?
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david_nwpa1 year, 4 months ago
I am a second year teacher too. I earned my students' respect from day one and have kept it. You have to be somewhat of an entertainer at first. Use laughter frequently, but humor sparingly. In other words, let the students warm up to you. Let them know that they do have someone who is attentive and willing to listen to their problems. Stick it out. You are almost through the toughest year in the profession. You can make it and you can make a difference. The results of your effort will not be known to you until years from now. However, you are helping form the next world leaders.
Your professor is the fool for not believing that you can make a difference. For example, I wrote a letter of recommendation for one of my students. As a result, she is the first person in her family to ever go to college. How is that for making a difference in her life?
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