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An Ontario substitute teacher who was cleared of abuse allegations is speaking out, suggesting that parents and students be held accountable for making false accusations.
"Something is terribly wrong here," said Susan Dowell, who has taught school for 15 years. "Children who do make false allegations parents who make false allegations what happens to them in the end?"
The complaint against Dowell came after she told a grade five boy not to throw away an uneaten banana at lunch. Dowell was on lunch room duty, during a one-day teaching assignment at R.L. Graham elementary school, in Keswick, Ont.
"I told him to eat it
or put it back in his lunch box and take it home. His parents paid good money for fruit like that for him to eat," said Dowell.
..."The story that the parent heard and later told the administration
is that I had him go into the garbage to take out a squishy banana eat garbage basically and humiliated him in front of his friends."
Full: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/04/20/bc-teacheraccused.html
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)In my state (and I assume others) when a report of child abuse by a teacher is filed, that report stays on file for 5 years, even if the charges are unfounded.
That's absolutely ridiculous.
alp227
(32,052 posts)After the Miramonte Elementary teacher was arrested for accusations of extremely sick acts of child abuse, the LA Times revealed (the original article got scrubbed from the Internet, but this education writer excerpted some parts of the article in her blog) that under a teachers' union contract "alleged misconduct that does not result in discipline is removed from personnel files after four years...These can include an unproven allegation of serious misconduct, a warning or reprimand, a principal's private notes about a potential problem or a memo that resulted from a meeting with a teacher over an issue."
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)Those are different. They go to the state. And even if the teacher is exonerated, the record of the report stays in his/her file for 5 years.