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What is the name of your state? New Mexico
A male teacher age 32 has been teaching a course called "Teen Court" for 4 years. In this time, I have heard stories from the children that has worried me. The children are between the ages of 11 and 14 years old, and consider him to be a fantastic teacher. However, I do not agree. The state in which I reside has a Teen Court program in which peers "try" other students charged with misdemeanors such as vandalism, public drunkeness, tresspassing, etc. I was part of this program when I was in high school and considered it to be successful. In my current middle school, the teacher has taken it to a disgusting level. The curriculum includes talking about practices used for the death sentence (electrocution WITH PHOTOGRAPHS, gas, lethal injection); serial killers, their motives, and practices; body decomposition after life has been terminated; and domestic abuse along with a mock-trial involving a rape case and a lesson involving the students cover themselves with make-up to simulate bruising for photographing. Several times, there have been condoms as a prop in trials and speeches, and the teacher routinely brings a sword to school to show off his martial arts skills. Lesson plans include the previous night's "CSI" senationalist television show as well as episodes of "X-Files" and "ER". Powerpoint presentations such as the "9/11 Coincidence," (in which things of little scientific consequence are treated as brutal fact) are part of the lesson procedure. While the children weep over the deaths of 9/11, they will simultaneously consider gruesome acts of serial killers, "Cool." Last week, he showed a film on the guillotine and how it was used on people. While this may be a college class, or maybe a high-school class with the appropriate background in psychology, I believe this is beyond the scope of the students' ability to cope. Kids at this age think these things are "cool," and may have very nice things to say about the teacher who teaches these things, but I do not believe the middle school is an appropriate forum for this "hobby" of his. He allows the students to use profane language in the class and has said on more than one occasion, "Whatever goes on in here, stays in here." I have spoken with several vice-principals, and the superintendent on this matter to no avail. I wonder if I have any legal rights to protect my students. PLEASE HELP ME! I feel as if I am the only one who finds his antics horrible. Thanks.
A male teacher age 32 has been teaching a course called "Teen Court" for 4 years. In this time, I have heard stories from the children that has worried me. The children are between the ages of 11 and 14 years old, and consider him to be a fantastic teacher. However, I do not agree. The state in which I reside has a Teen Court program in which peers "try" other students charged with misdemeanors such as vandalism, public drunkeness, tresspassing, etc. I was part of this program when I was in high school and considered it to be successful. In my current middle school, the teacher has taken it to a disgusting level. The curriculum includes talking about practices used for the death sentence (electrocution WITH PHOTOGRAPHS, gas, lethal injection); serial killers, their motives, and practices; body decomposition after life has been terminated; and domestic abuse along with a mock-trial involving a rape case and a lesson involving the students cover themselves with make-up to simulate bruising for photographing. Several times, there have been condoms as a prop in trials and speeches, and the teacher routinely brings a sword to school to show off his martial arts skills. Lesson plans include the previous night's "CSI" senationalist television show as well as episodes of "X-Files" and "ER". Powerpoint presentations such as the "9/11 Coincidence," (in which things of little scientific consequence are treated as brutal fact) are part of the lesson procedure. While the children weep over the deaths of 9/11, they will simultaneously consider gruesome acts of serial killers, "Cool." Last week, he showed a film on the guillotine and how it was used on people. While this may be a college class, or maybe a high-school class with the appropriate background in psychology, I believe this is beyond the scope of the students' ability to cope. Kids at this age think these things are "cool," and may have very nice things to say about the teacher who teaches these things, but I do not believe the middle school is an appropriate forum for this "hobby" of his. He allows the students to use profane language in the class and has said on more than one occasion, "Whatever goes on in here, stays in here." I have spoken with several vice-principals, and the superintendent on this matter to no avail. I wonder if I have any legal rights to protect my students. PLEASE HELP ME! I feel as if I am the only one who finds his antics horrible. Thanks.
