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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTexas Teachers Mock Special Ed Students With "Ghetto Awards"
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Texas Teachers Mock Special Ed Students With "Ghetto Awards"
By Joan Shipps, Raw Story
They insist they didn't mean to degrade anyone.
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http://act.alternet.org/go/61554?t=24&akid=13186.1924881.Pho3id
Why should references to the ghetto be misinterpreted. Geez. Some are so easily offended.
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Texas Teachers Mock Special Ed Students With "Ghetto Awards" (Original Post)
Panich52
Jun 2015
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valerief
(53,235 posts)2. Teacher info from alternet link and middle school site. How bizarre.
Tim Couch tcouch@ssisd.net English (903) 885-7741
Stephanie Garner sgarner@ssisd.net Special Education (903) 885-7741
A 14-year-old Sulphur Springs Middle School student came home from school this week with a certificate that read 8th Annual Ghetto Classroom Awards on top. The document stated the boy had specifically earned a huh? award this year for expressing so much confusion in class. Teachers had handed the certificates out to a classroom of students receiving supportive services for learning disabilities
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Fox 4 reports that one of the teachers who signed the Ghetto Awards at Sulphur Spring Middle School this year is Tim Couch, who also works as pastor at the Cross Branch Cowboy Church in Sumner, Texas. The other teacher is named Stephanie Garner.
Kids are especially sensitive to being ridiculed. These teachers are assholes.
From the middle school web page:
Sound Judgment
sound judg·ment
The ability to assess
situations and make
wise decisions for
the best possible outcome.
sound judg·ment
The ability to assess
situations and make
wise decisions for
the best possible outcome.
cali
(114,904 posts)3. this is foul on so many levels. ugly, rank and, yes institutional racism
directed at vulnerable little kids. Both teachers should be fired, and an investigation launched. Among other things these racist pig shitstains forged the principal's signature.