where do I find info on teacher verbal abuseing students find articles on sexual misconduct or abuse only?

Question

My daughter's history teacher and I quote said this to the class "if i was in a room alone with Lydia and a monster and I had a gun with 2 bullets I would use both bullets on Lydia!"
My daughter has always had good relationships with her teachers is a honor role student, polite and good natured.Why this statement came out of a mouth of a teacher has dumb founded me and still after talking with the principal and teacher she is still in his class he is the only history teacher at the high school and can't transfer .Do i change schools or press charges for verbal abuse from teacher?

Answer 1

First thing I would do is call my local news station. You'd be VERY surprised at how a little bad publicity can get the ball rolling toward a solution. I swear if that was said about my child I would go postal. Call the police & see what you can do...then call a lawyer as that was abuse!! Then call the principal back & let him or her know that the appropriate legal action is being taken. Don't try to reason with the school. If they didn't take it seriously to begin with you have even bigger problems on your hands. Let your lawyer handle it from here. I would love to know how this turns out. I'm appalled. Good luck!!

Answer 2

Calling the local police department and working with them to press charges, and calling the local news outlets, is a great start. Before calling the news outlets you might want to work with your daughter to find other students who have experienced verbal or other abuse from this teacher, and see if they or their parents want to come forward with their experiences. I would also suggest not stopping with the principal - go to the school district itself and even the local superintendent of schools, and keep calling and writing letters to them until someone does something.

Document everything: write down dates and times of conversations that you have with school administrators about it (and the teacher himself), and any details you think are important about the conversation. Write down as well anything you know or find out about other inappropriate things he has said or done. Send copies of them to everyone - newspapers, news stations, the superintendent of schools, the PTA, other parents, anyone you think might be concerned about it. And ask Lydia to help - it will be really great for her to not only know that you are going to bat for her, but to learn how to stand up for herself within a bureaucracy. She could talk to other kids and write letters explaining her negative experience with this teacher, for starters.

Meanwhile, you don't necessarily have to switch schools to get her out of the history class. You might try looking at local community colleges to see if they have a comparable history class, and insist that the school district let her take that instead. It depends on what the school's requirements are; they might be willing to waive their requirement for this class instead or substitute another history class that they offer, if they have enough variety.

Answer 3

It's actually a threat. Therefore you could possibly press charges for harassment. It's not in anyway sexual abuse.