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Quote:MARIETTA -- A Cobb County special education teacher was charged with cruelty to children after putting a student with autism in a trash can and comparing him to Oscar the Grouch.
According to the warrant issued by Cobb Schools Police, an employee at Mt. Bethel Elementary witnessed special needs teacher Mary Katherine Pursley holding a second grade boy upside down by his legs above a trash can. The witness saw Pursley lower the boy into the trash can up to his shoulders.
Police say the incident happened during the after school program. The boy came inside upset about another student bothering him. He was screaming and would not calm now. According to the warrant, that's when Pursley talked with the victim about Oscar the Grouch and his "trashy behavior" and told him, "if he has trashy behavior like Oscar, he'd go in the trash can."
After hanging him upside down inside the trash can, Purley allegedly asked, "Are you going to stop yelling now?" The boy was crying, yelling, and screaming "stop".
The unnamed employee stepped in to confront Pursley and immediately notified administrators and police.
Pursley was removed from her teaching position, and a warrant was issued for Cruelty to Children in the 1st degree.
The Cobb County school system released a statement in reaction to the arrest:
The District is aware of a teacher charged by police with Cruelty to Child. It is a personnel matter under investigation and no comment can be given. Safety and security of Cobb students continues to be our number one priority. Our attention is on making every remaining day of school for our students safe, healthy, engaging, meaningful and focused on academic excellence.
A district spokesman did confirm Pursley is currently a special education teacher at Mt. Bethel Elementary School. She's been with the district for 21 years. Right now, she's on paid administrative leave during the investigation.
The Cobb County Sheriff's Office confirms she was released Tuesday on a $5,000 bond.
Where are the cops when theyd need to do their jobs. Theyre conviniently around to bust a back-talking kid, but when teachers r stuffin em in trash cans...aint nobody there.
Some people's lives are just so wrong. Anyone who works with little kids (especially special education) needs to have a lot of patience and love. The problem is that teachers are too greedy and want the perks of paid health insurance, tons of vacation time, lots of children to make miserable...
She ought to be fired and banned from working with children.
Username, shut the fuck up. Cancer, go fuck yourself, you're just a stupid fucking shill anyway. Teachers like that are the reason there are school shootings. I think a well-deserved new one is due any day now. Let's hope the bastards get what they deserve.
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Max Stirnir Wrote:"In the time of spirits thoughts grew till they overtopped my head, whose offspring they yet were; they hovered about me and convulsed me like fever-phantasies -- an awful power. The thoughts had become corporeal on their own account, were ghosts, e. g. God, Emperor, Pope, Fatherland, etc. If I destroy their corporeity, then I take them back into mine, and say: "I alone am corporeal." And now I take the world as what it is to me, as mine, as my property; I refer all to myself."The Ego and Its Own, pg. 15
Charles Manson Wrote:“Look down at me and you see a fool;
look up at me and you see a god;
look straight at me and you see yourself”
HeartofShadows Wrote:"Life is nothing more than a druggie trying to get their quick fix of happiness while dealing with the harsh withdrawal of reality"
Osip Mandelstam Wrote:"I divide all of world literature into authorized and unauthorized works. The former are all trash; the latter--stolen air. I want to spit in the face of every writer who first obtains permission and then writes."The Fourth Prose, 1930.
Lukas Foss Wrote:That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
(05-11-2015 09:47 PM)Missile Wrote: The teacher unions won't let that happen unfortunately
That's another thing; why the fuck do teachers need a union? It's the STUDENTS who are being oppressed.
"Oh boo fucking hoo, they're not paying me enough!"
Oh yeah? Well how about being dragged against your will into an alien building packed shoulder-to-shoulder with 9000 other strangers being forced to work against your will for no pay in legal gulags for the 12+ years of your life?
Teachers need to stop whining.
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Dear Tumblrites:Despite your wrongly self-diagnosedPTSD, no line ofscientific evidencesuggests people can be triggered over theinternet. Triggering works through thesenses(i.e. smell, taste, touch, vision, hearing.) but it goes throughreal time; if you're not experiencing it in real life as it'sACTUALLY HAPPENINGin yourACTUALlife, youCANNOTbe triggered. The only exception to this is if you have aseizure, but then again, that's triggered byepilepsy(i.e. rapidly-changing flashing lights)NOT PTSD. Remembering a bad incident is NOT the same thing as having aflashback. When you remember, youthink; when youflashback,youfeel.
#HashTagsAreForIdiots
Max Stirnir Wrote:"In the time of spirits thoughts grew till they overtopped my head, whose offspring they yet were; they hovered about me and convulsed me like fever-phantasies -- an awful power. The thoughts had become corporeal on their own account, were ghosts, e. g. God, Emperor, Pope, Fatherland, etc. If I destroy their corporeity, then I take them back into mine, and say: "I alone am corporeal." And now I take the world as what it is to me, as mine, as my property; I refer all to myself."The Ego and Its Own, pg. 15
Charles Manson Wrote:“Look down at me and you see a fool;
look up at me and you see a god;
look straight at me and you see yourself”
HeartofShadows Wrote:"Life is nothing more than a druggie trying to get their quick fix of happiness while dealing with the harsh withdrawal of reality"
Osip Mandelstam Wrote:"I divide all of world literature into authorized and unauthorized works. The former are all trash; the latter--stolen air. I want to spit in the face of every writer who first obtains permission and then writes."The Fourth Prose, 1930.
Lukas Foss Wrote:That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
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(05-11-2015 09:47 PM)Missile Wrote: The teacher unions won't let that happen unfortunately
That's another thing; why the fuck do teachers need a union? It's the STUDENTS who are being oppressed.
"Oh boo fucking hoo, they're not paying me enough!"
Oh yeah? Well how about being dragged against your will into an alien building packed shoulder-to-shoulder with 9000 other strangers being forced to work against your will for no pay in legal gulags for the 12+ years of your life?
Teachers need to stop whining.
but what about solidarity of teh oppressed? teechers+students unite!
(05-11-2015 09:47 PM)Missile Wrote: The teacher unions won't let that happen unfortunately
That's another thing; why the fuck do teachers need a union? It's the STUDENTS who are being oppressed.
"Oh boo fucking hoo, they're not paying me enough!"
Oh yeah? Well how about being dragged against your will into an alien building packed shoulder-to-shoulder with 9000 other strangers being forced to work against your will for no pay in legal gulags for the 12+ years of your life?
Teachers need to stop whining.
but what about solidarity of teh oppressed? teechers+students unite!
LOLNO
Aren't unions uncapitalistic?
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TRIGGER WARNING: THIS TRIGGER WARNING CONTAINS TRIGGER WARNINGS!
Dear Tumblrites:Despite your wrongly self-diagnosedPTSD, no line ofscientific evidencesuggests people can be triggered over theinternet. Triggering works through thesenses(i.e. smell, taste, touch, vision, hearing.) but it goes throughreal time; if you're not experiencing it in real life as it'sACTUALLY HAPPENINGin yourACTUALlife, youCANNOTbe triggered. The only exception to this is if you have aseizure, but then again, that's triggered byepilepsy(i.e. rapidly-changing flashing lights)NOT PTSD. Remembering a bad incident is NOT the same thing as having aflashback. When you remember, youthink; when youflashback,youfeel.
#HashTagsAreForIdiots
Max Stirnir Wrote:"In the time of spirits thoughts grew till they overtopped my head, whose offspring they yet were; they hovered about me and convulsed me like fever-phantasies -- an awful power. The thoughts had become corporeal on their own account, were ghosts, e. g. God, Emperor, Pope, Fatherland, etc. If I destroy their corporeity, then I take them back into mine, and say: "I alone am corporeal." And now I take the world as what it is to me, as mine, as my property; I refer all to myself."The Ego and Its Own, pg. 15
Charles Manson Wrote:“Look down at me and you see a fool;
look up at me and you see a god;
look straight at me and you see yourself”
HeartofShadows Wrote:"Life is nothing more than a druggie trying to get their quick fix of happiness while dealing with the harsh withdrawal of reality"
Osip Mandelstam Wrote:"I divide all of world literature into authorized and unauthorized works. The former are all trash; the latter--stolen air. I want to spit in the face of every writer who first obtains permission and then writes."The Fourth Prose, 1930.
Lukas Foss Wrote:That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
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(05-11-2015 09:47 PM)Missile Wrote: The teacher unions won't let that happen unfortunately
That's another thing; why the fuck do teachers need a union? It's the STUDENTS who are being oppressed.
"Oh boo fucking hoo, they're not paying me enough!"
Oh yeah? Well how about being dragged against your will into an alien building packed shoulder-to-shoulder with 9000 other strangers being forced to work against your will for no pay in legal gulags for the 12+ years of your life?
Teachers need to stop whining.
but what about solidarity of teh oppressed? teechers+students unite!
LOLNO
Aren't unions uncapitalistic?
Well, to give an actual serious answer, I don't think they're uncapitalistic at all (at least in regard to the free market variety of capitalism).
If unions can harness enough collective bargaining power in a free market (that means without government interference in their favor) to corner their employer into giving into their demands, more power to them. It fits perfectly fine with someone who accepts freedom of contract and whatnot.
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