The eight-year-old was singled out last November and taken to the nurse's office at Peaster Elementary School where he was forced to remove his clothes, the suit alleges, the Courthouse News Service reported.
The two school officials then "began violently washing his body with a washcloth, scrubbing him over a large portion of his body, stuck cotton balls in his ears, all while ridiculing and harassing him about being 'dirty,'" the complaint claims.
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Some people just plain need to be told and shown how to fix it. He probably did not learn this at home. However, it could have been done with kindness and love. It's the parent(s) that need the harsher lesson.
The school should sue the parents.
Even if this is true, it is NOT school employee's place to 'fix' it.
If it was as bad as they say, the school nurse should have called the parents to come pick him up or whatever.
And, TWO employee's have that much spare time to 'shower' an 8 year old?
Whichever is the case, they are wrong for putting their hands on him, period.
What is wrong with this?
When teachers teach, someone is going to complain?
They should be thankful.
Pathetic hygiene SHOULD be ridiculed
and chastised.
The tone and spin of the article would put you on the side of filth and foul smelling bacteria laden children as righteous, and clean decent lifestyles as bad and wrong.
No doubt the article is a misrepresentation from a nasty libtard.
I don't have a problem with this.
good
This, uh, stinks!
The child should have been sent home and a call to social services should have been made.
I agree 845. I'm sure that it was very embarrassing for the child.
I agree 845. I'm sure that it was very embarrassing for the child.
June 17, 2012 9:07 PM
You two make the most sense...except for me wink wink lol
And you wonder why teachers struggle. He probably smelled like a dumpster so the teachers did the RIGHT thing by the child and cleaned him up. Now they are being sued for giving the kid a shower. HOW ABOUT THE PARENTS DO THEIR JOB AND BATHE HIM INSTEAD.
HOW ABOUT THE PARENTS DO THEIR JOB AND BATHE HIM INSTEAD.
June 18, 2012 9:25 AM
That is the only true thing you have said, 'it is the parents job, and NOT the teachers'.
They might have thought they were doing the 'right' thing but it reeks of assault.
those teachers were way out of line. if the child smelled, that probably means he was not being properly cared for at home and in situations like that, Child Protective Services should be called. He is 8 years old. its not like he has a choice on who raises him and how. Sounds to me he needs a new family who cares how he looks/smells when leaving the house.
i'm sure there's more to this story than is being reported.
@9:45 it wreaks of assult if you are a money hungry person who preys on others whenever they can pounce. They took the kid to the shower and cleaned him off which I am sure he desperatley needed if they took him to the shower in the first place. It does not say they touched him in an innapropriate manner, only they scrubbed him down because he wreaked of stink. If the child had used the bathroom on himself would that be an ok reason to shower him? Seriously, this is why teachers hate their job anymore. Damned if you do wash the kid, damned if you don't and let the kid sit there and stink and get made fun of. Wake up people.
I am sure this is in no way shape or form solely about money....since the child was stinking so badly I am sure he must shower on a regular basis.
Pretty sure the parents should thank the teachers since they had to do the parenting in this situation.
i hope the judge rejects the suit and takes away the child(ren) and makes the parents get a vasectomy and/or tubes tied.
the school IS charged with keeping students healthy. one way of doing that is to make sure they are clean.
if the parents dont like it, they can home school or private school their kids.
I to agree with 8:45. A little compassion and common sense, for the sake of the child, should be the norm. The child's parents on the other hand, should be chastised and brought to the attention of the state for willfull child neglect. The teachers were way out of line in this case and should be repremanded by the school. Example? Would you want them to do this to your third grader if he were dirty? Not likely!
The two employees need to be fired and charged for sexual assault. For those who think otherwise, you are ignorant.
With all the perverted teachers who sexually abuse children these days (especially ignorant Eastern Shore teachers), maybe the 2 people giving this boy a shower and scrubbing him down we're getting sexually aroused by it.
You primitive & uneducated Eastern Shore hillbillies are sick in the head!
@7:48 let me get this straight. In the article it says absolutely nothing about the child being molested, touched in an innapropriate manner, or for that matter in bad way what so ever. You think the teachers should be condemed for helping this little boy? He should have been left in class to sit in his own stink, where I am sure most kids made fun of him. Disrupting the class because others around him have to sit and smell that too. If the kid had used the restroom on himself then what? Is that crossing the line too? This world is so liberal you will be sued either way. Get a grip you idiot and take a step into the real world. This is a money grabbing scheme and that's all it is. Let's again blame the teacher's who have to sit and smell this crap all day literally yet they are powerless to do something. And then you wonder why your kids dont learn or behave. It is because of people like you @7:48.
@ 10:05-The child was assaulted, possibly sexually assaulted. How would you like it if me & my friends thought you smelled (which I'm sure you do from time to time) and we disrobed you and threw you in the shower and scrubbed you down against your will.
The answer is that it would be - ASSAULT! The proper and LEGAL thing to do would have been to send the child home.
@10:36 so instead of making the child healthy, you would just pack his stuff and send him home TO THE PARENTS WHO DO NOT BATHE HIM....makes a ton of sense. The child was assulted since he was given a shower. And there is a tad bit of a difference in me being held against my own will as a grown person, and a child being taken to the shower against their will. Do you make your child go to bed even if they refuse? Is that an assult? At some point you have to conceed that most normal adults in the school system are there to benefit the child. The child could have been sent home to deal with the same situation he had been his whole life. There is something wrong with that equation. Let's sued the only people who were looking out for the well being of the child. What a joke society has become.
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