I found this site while looking for information concerning teachers bullying students because my twelve year old son has been targeted. He is experiencing self esteem issues and has come home for the last week crying because his teacher has embarrassed him in front of others (making him sit on a desk in the middle of class, making him sit in front of the class sucking his thumb, having been shoved by the teacher down the hall and made to stumble and fall. This teacher has yelled at him so loudly that I have had other parents call me because their own children believe he is being treated unfairly. This teacher has also put my child in numerous detentions for n apparent reason and repeatedly told him to shut up whenever he asks a question. Upon our last visit to the school we enacted the 504 plan because he has a mild version of ADD and I thought perhaps I could garner some protection for him. Now the teacher is telling him he is retarded and she talks to him as very slowly as though he cannot understand. She does this in front of the other kids. I am so angry and I feel so guilty that I may have made it worse for him.
I find it criminal that the parents have no where to turn. The administrators stand behind the teacher and I can be prosecuted if I don't force my child to go to school. I am a Registered Nurse, My husband is a Police Officer and I we are astounded that we must hire a lawyer to protect us and our child. Why are these teachers not psychologically evaluate on a yearly basis? Nurses and Police are.