Kamdyn Piland is a second-grader who always has the brightest smile when he returns from school. However, one evening he came home with a concerned frown and tears welling up in his eyes. His parents asked him about the puzzling look which he shrugged off. He was clearly uninterested in discussing the matter with anyone. However, after much pressing, Kamdyn showed his parents his homework sheet, and the criticism from his teacher was beyond terrible.
Unwarranted Criticism
Father Challenges Teacher Who Left Rude Comment On Sons Homework
After reviewing what the teacher wrote on the homework sheet, Kamdyn’s father Chris realized it was not positive feedback on the answers submitted. Chris somehow realizes the critique was not justified and was a mere attack on his son, and he made plans to get to the bottom of it. His reaction to the situation went viral, and everyone who saw it agreed with him. But what exactly did the teacher say?
A Cool Child
Kamdyn’s father, Chris, admitted that his son is a calm child who does not give trouble, nor is he a hyperactive child. This is a kid that is a loving son and well-behaved student. He does not play video games, watch TV shows, or engage in sugary treats like the average child his age does. So, it came as a shocker to the entire family when they saw the insults and negative criticisms directed towards Kamdyn and from one particular teacher.
A Cool Child
A Serious Matter
It was puzzling for Chris, and checking in on the review once more led him to believe there was something serious going on. This was not a normal way for any child to behave, and there was clearly something or someone that was making this boy’s life difficult. Any father would have gone out of his way to help their son in need. Finding out what it is was the ulterior motive of the worried, and the results were pretty alarming for everyone.
A Serious Matter
An Average School
Valley View Elementary School, where Kamdyn is a second-grade student, is just like a regular public school. Any parent that sent their child to the school would tell you that there was nothing seemingly worrying about the school or its staff. They generally felt that their kids were being taken care of well as did Kamdyn’s parents once believe. Also, Kamdyn was not an “overachiever” in the general sense but one who works to his best.
An Average School
Increased Complaints
Kamdyn’s parents were not thinking their child would be a troublesome one and was doing well in his studies. Also, they never imagined what he was doing as a regular kid was that serious. But as the school year began and was going on, complaints about Kamdyn started rolling in. It seemed like the opinion that this boy’s parents had of him, and the one that the teachers did, were very different. Who was right?
Increased Complaints
Trying Student
Chris always thought his son was good at school, and unlike many students who hate doing homework, Kamdyn would do his as soon as he got them. He would not need to be told twice to get down to work, and would not stop working until he was finished. However, as he transitioned to second grade, there seemed to be a slight change in the way he did his homework. What had gone wrong?
Trying Student
Preventing A Downfall
As Chris watched his son’s behavior change, he knew he couldn’t stand by and let him fail at school. It is every parent’s responsibility to ensure that their kids do well in school, and will generally do their best to keep them going strong. He could not idly stand by and watch his son be treated as a potential failure. He had to do something, but what was the root cause of this developing problem?
Preventing A Downfall
Struggling To Cope
Something was wrong, and Chris couldn’t fathom what was going on with his son. Kids can be incredibly mysterious creatures, and many of their difficulties will be kept a secret as they suffer in silence. Sure enough, Kamdyn’s dad was confident of the fact that he wasn’t an unintelligent child, but it was evident he was struggling to cope. It was not in his character to perform poorly in school, and that was what worried Chris the most.
Struggling To Cope
Harsh Guidance
The homework sheet with the critique came from Alyssa Rupp Bohenek, Kamdyn’s teacher. This action led Chris to think whether the teacher had something to do with his son’s poor performance. The note read, “Absolutely pathetic! He answered 13 in 3 minutes! Sad!” This Chris thought was just too harsh. No teacher should ever speak to a child like this, even if it is a comment on their homework. This kind of rudeness can greatly hurt a child’s confidence.
Harsh Guidance
Who Is Alyssa Bohenek?
Bohenek had been teaching at the school for some time and was quite hard to please. This was the kind of teacher who favored the ‘intelligent’ and high-performing students but would be unfairly harsh on those that were not up to her standards. She had Kamdyn’s class, and it was apparent they were not getting along so well. If anything, the two had come to odds with each other, and it was clear that this teacher disliked Kamdyn.
Who Is Alyssa Bohenek
A Target
Kamdyn admitted Ms. Bohonek never give him a chance to be “free” in his class, as everything he did was under the radar by Ms. Bohenek. She would keep a close watch on the poor boy, as if she was waiting to strike at the smallest opportunity. Everything he did, she attacked him, and every mistake she used it as an opportunity to insult him with harsh, written warnings. This feedback was hard on Kamdyn, so it caused his confidence self-esteem to drop to an all-time low.
A Target
Dealing With Poor Grades
Parents need to check up on their kids and tackle the issue of low grades. Of course, no parent wants their child to perform poorly in school, but it happens. The best solution? Try and solve the issue from early before it spirals out of control. This can be done by working closely with teachers, who will generally be able to help by guiding parents on how to inspire their kids to work harder and be better.
Dealing With Poor Grades
Tough Love May Hurt Them
Young children don’t always do well with tough love though you have to take a stance. The best way to help remedy and stabilize their low grades is to spend more time with them and help them through the lessons. If you have to do extra lessons, then go for it. No child likes to be disciplined, and parents need to find ways of motivating their young learners without hurting or scaring them at all.
Tough Love May Hurt Them
Try Constructive Growth
Negative feedback can be detrimental to adults; thus, it harming youngs when given. In fact, such harsh responses can be even more damaging for sensitive and developing minds, that absorb everything around them at an incredible rate. Yes, when it comes, one has to deal with it, but providing feedback more professionally and a constructive format may reap better results. Some parents are of the opinion that a strict standard of discipline is the best way forwards.
Try Constructive Growth
A Negative Impact
Criticisms have a way of impacting one’s life, either positively or negatively. It does considerable damage to a person’s self-esteem, and confidence but the effect it has on adults is much more significant in a child. Wanna know the worst part of it? When the criticisms come from someone of importance or in a leadership position, they regard highly. For example, parents and teachers. These are two of the most important adult roles in a child’s life.
A Negative Impact
Being A Role Model
As a teacher, your job entails more than just preparing and delivering lessons but also being a mentor. There is so much more to being a teacher than just planning and executing lessons. Teachers virtually take children’s parents’ roles when their real guardians are not around. However, in being a mentor, one has to be a great role model, and some people fail at it. It seems like not everyone has the correct personality for teaching.
Being A Role Model
Teachers Are Leaders
Teachers have to display quality leadership skills that will enable them to leave a positive impact on each of their students. They need to remember that what they do to kids goes well into their adult lives, shaping them into tomorrow’s leaders. But as it turned out, Bohenek was not living up to any of these standards required by her job. In fact, she was going against them, and it was clear that she was abusing her position.
Teachers Are Humans
Useless Comment
Chris did what many other parents would have done, and we cannot blame him for getting upset over the comments made by the teacher. It was a useless comment which was never warranted no matter what the child did on his homework. Instead, leaving constructive criticism would have a better outcome for everyone. It was, indeed, a personal attack! People do not use words like ‘pathetic’ unless they have some nasty and personal grudge against someone.
Useless Comment
Stifling Conditions
All Chris wanted was for his son to perform well in school, but the current situation was only stifling his chances of achieving this. If Kamdyn was to grow and excel at school, he would need a teacher that truly cared about him and wanted him to feel happy and safe in class while doing her best to help him academically. It thought it was drowning his son in a darker place than they wanted him to be.
Stifling Conditions
Continued Attack
Like many of us who see our child getting a single negative comment and overlooking it, Chris, too, had the same mentality. No parent should have to endure their child being bullied, by anyone, especially not a teacher. Just imagining their son spending many hours a day at the mercy of this unfair teacher was heartbreaking. However, it was a continuing thing that began at the beginning of the school year. The feedback was getting too much and too degrading.
Continued Support
Personal Attack
The comments, when assessed from various angles, were proven to be private. If they were fair comments, Chris admits he would have spoken to his son, but they were far from that. So, the only option was to talk to the teacher in person. In situations like these, it is best to confront a person directly. But given that this was a school, that had a board and its own ways of dealing with controversial issues, the situation was not so clear.
Personal Attack
Social Media Intervention
Poor grades by students are inevitable at times, and harsh criticisms are not the solution. Teachers ought to treat all their students fairly and be positive with feedback and help them grow. And, by the way, what would prompt a teacher to call a child pathetic? What was her ulterior motive? Certainly, teachers will be disappointed and perhaps even frustrated when their students perform poorly on tests. But there is a healthy way to convey this disappointment.
Social Media Intervention
Seeking Payback
Chris needed to get back at the teacher for what she did to his son, so he made a post on Facebook to condemn her actions and attitude toward his son. He uploaded a picture of the test in question, with the teacher’s nasty comment in clear view. Chris might have dealt with this situation in a rather unconventional way, but it was the only way that he knew how. How would his social media friends react to this post?
Seeking Payback
Post Gone Viral
Chris has been receiving overwhelming support from the post, and it is rapidly being shared by many. It started off with his immediate Facebook friends, who then shared it with theirs, and so on, until millions of people were seeing how Kamdyn had been treated. It got the entire country’s attention, and they were interested to hear about the whole saga. Of course, there were many other parents that were outraged with how this young boy had been insulted.
Post Gone Viral
Support of Condemnation
As the post went viral on Facebook, Chris and his son started receiving overwhelming support on the condemnation of the teacher’s behavior. There were some people who had nothing good to say and supported the teacher’s comment, but they were in the minority. They voiced their concerns and opinions, and this somehow made dad and son felt vindicated. There was now no doubt left in their minds: this teacher had crossed the line. Justice had to be served!
Support Of Condemnation
Teaching – Not Just A Job
A teacher’s responsibility is more than achieving good grades from their students but also to ensure they are happy while learning. A classroom is a place filled with many different children, each with their own self-esteem and dreams. A teacher has to nurture the spirits of children and not destroy them. Teaching is more than a job but a passion. Only those that adore working with children and respect them should become an admirable teacher.
Teaching Not Just A Job
Harsh Comment Not Helping
Chris understands that not all students will do well, as some will eventually struggle to cope. He also accepts that being a teacher is not the easiest job, and that children can really test one’s patience. But keeping your cool while working with dozens of little people is one of the biggest skills that a teacher can possess. It is the negative response that bothers him the most. All Kamdyn wanted to do was learn.
Harsh Comment Not Helping
Steps To Learning
Learning is a step-by-step process and one of the most valuable aspects of life. After all, it is what one learns that determines how they go about each day. Learning new abilities, skills, and how to complete various tasks to function in life is critical. If a child is told that they are ‘pathetic’, then they could easily believe that. The things that kids are told to their faces, and in their work in the form of comments, go straight to their hearts.
Steps To Learning
Negativity Can Be Detrimental
Learning will only be active when carried out in a conducive environment that one feels comfortable in. Negativity does more harm than good, and no one likes it. It makes kids scared or nervous to the point that they cannot concentrate and feel like they are no good. There is so much harm that can come from a lack of support, not to mention direct negativity. When there are good teachers in a child’s life, they will thrive.
Negativity Can Be Detrimental
The Petition
Chris thought he had received justice with the support he received from his post online. However, at the point he was about to let it go, one user decided an online petition was needed to get Bohenek out of that position. A digital angry mob had been unleashed, one that was made up of many thousands of people wishing for Bohenek to be fired from her school. But public opinion can only go so far, and the decision was ultimately with the school board.
The Petition
Continued Support
Chris was once again overwhelmed with the vast amounts of support he was receiving from strangers, especially to help boost his son’s confidence. He had no idea it would escalate to the level it did, and this comforted his heart to know others cared so much for his son. He could never have expected that many thousands of people would be signing a petition to have his child’s victimizer kicked out when he made the post!
Continued Support
Her Career At Risk
The petition meant Bohenek could get fired, and with no job, you know the rest. It was getting serious, and she needed to do something fast to protect her career and save herself from the backlash. Her good name had already been ruined, given that millions of people around the world regarded her as a villain and a bully of children. It boosted Chris’s confidence once more, and he too felt the backlash for her behavior.
Her Career At Risk
Making A Decision
In life, there comes a time when one has to draw the line between what is right and wrong, and Chris knew this was the moment. After all, the future of his son and other students under Ms. Bohenek’s watch depended on it. He had countless people behind him, and he knew that he was doing the right thing. If Chris had needed any convincing that he was on the right path, his Facebook post had erased any doubts.
Making A Decision
Learning Must Be Fun
A teacher must look beyond preparing and delivering content to students daily and also from a more profound aspect. They also need to make learning exciting and encourage students to enjoy every area of education. We all remember our school life in one of two ways: fondly or sadly. Teachers have a huge place in our schooling experience and childhood in general. How many of us can clearly remember the teachers that were mean to us?
Learning Must Be Fun
Ease In Learning
When a student enjoys learning, it will become easier for teachers to work effectively. The process of positive teaching and learning will achieve the desired goals while negativity destroys it. As you can see from the picture below, this teacher was a strong Christian. This was no way for someone that was a part of a peaceful and compassionate religion to behave, especially not to children. There were many obvious hypocrisies in this woman’s life.
Ease In Learning
Support For Ms. Bohenek
As the petition went viral, it got around 10,000 signatures within a short time. However, some teachers came in defense of Ms. Bohenek and argued they shouldn’t fire her for what she did. But were they fair to a child who was traumatized and emotionally-scarred? Many professionals will fly to the defense of their colleagues when they come under fire, especially when their livelihoods and honors are threatened. Were they right to come to their colleague’s support?
Support For Ms. Bohenek
Kamdyn Spoke
The main person involved in this whole fiasco was Kamdyn, and he sure had a say on the matter. His response to the entire saga made persons push further with the petition. He said, “She made me sad, upset, and mad. I think it was a mean thing that she did.” If you ask, no child, his age should feel or be treated that way. Kamdyn had done nothing but try his best, and he could not understand why his teacher had responded in this way.
Kamdyn Spoke
A Tender Age
Kamdyn is seven years old, and he also noted the feedback received broke his heart. Chris, in his various interviews with multiple news outlets, said the child is only seven years old and was not deserving of such a comment. He always recalls the criticism the teacher wrote, and it made him angry each time. A parent will struggle to let go when their child is attacked, just how the child themself will find it difficult to forget the hurt.
A Tender Age
Unprofessional Behavior
Chris reached out to the teacher and voiced his disapproval of the comments she made on her son’s paper. “When I sent the concern to her, all she did was reply with a message saying sorry I felt that way about it”, Chris noted. It is the highest level of unprofessionalism and was very rude. She had cast off his concerns in a completely careless way, which was bound to only worsen the situation for her.
Unprofessional Behavior
Punished Instead of Fired
The management of the school heard about the complaint and was much disturbed about it. They agreed what she did was terrible and had a damaging effect on the child. However, after brief meetings, they noted she would be reprimanded for her actions but not fired. They believed sacking her would be too much. Teachers make mean comments about their students all the time, and will rarely lose their jobs and livelihoods for it, after all.
Punished Instead Of Fired
Provided An Update
Children are vulnerable, and it is the actions and behavior of teachers, parents, and other adults alike that will help to mold who they become a few years down the line. After the school heard about the matter, they gave their word to Chris that they would do something. This message led Chris to make an update on his Facebook post saying, “Thanks to all the efforts and support of the dedicated people who signed and shared this petition, I’m happy to announce that the Valley View school board is currently investigating the teacher in question.”
Provided An Update
Investigation Launched
The school’s superintendent Rose Minniti was aware of the issue and the comments left on the child’s paper. After a brief meeting with school administrators, she concluded an investigation would commence. The situation was finally being appropriately handled, and the right people were looking into it. Chris was relieved that after all this time, his child’s need for justice was finally being taken seriously. But would anything come out of this, or would it just be another false hope for the family?
Investigation Launched
Superintendent’s Feedback
Rose Minniti gave a response that many believed were fair but still shady. She noted that the outcome of the investigation would be in the child’s best interest while still protecting the employee in question. She also added that the results of the investigation would not base on social media comments. As mentioned earlier, schools have their own ways of doing things. They have special procedures put in place for cases like this controversial one.
Superintendent’s Feedback
Personal Issue with World Interest
To date, the petition has more than 20,000 signatures, and people from all over the world are calling for the teacher’s sacking. However, everyone is keeping a close watch as they vow to ensure Kamdyn receives justice. While there are so many kids in the world who are hurt and ridiculed without anyone doing anything about it, Kamdyn had managed to gain an entire army on his side. With this much pressure, and so many people at his side, Kamdyn felt brave.
Personal Issue With World Interest
Social Media Backlash
Of course, we know everyone wouldn’t agree with Chris and, in turn, blamed him for what happened to his son. They said the feedback was a result of him spending too much time on social media and not enough time in his child’s life. His parenting skills were now a case of questioning. Certainly, his social media crusade had gone on for a long time, and he had become incredibly devoted to it, perhaps at the real issue’s detriment.
Social Media Backlash
Homework Assistance
Others also blamed Chris, saying if he helped his son with the assignment in question, the teacher would not have given that response. In any complicated situation like this one, there will always be mixed opinions floating around, especially when so many people are involved. There was only one victim here, however, and that was Kamdyn, who still needed help. But that aside, a more significant majority noted the teacher went overboard and was in the wrong.
Homework Assistance
Teacher Assessment
Teachers must be assessed from time to time, as this will help to identify whether their styles and strategies are effective. Besides, what and who they are teaching will build or break the future of our society. Education is a topic that will forever be on the lips of everyone; thus, handling it with care is critical. Kamdyn could very well carry the damage that the teacher did all through his life, affecting his self-confidence and performance in many instances.
Teacher Assessment
Styles of Teaching
Many persons agree that students’ grades help to determine if the teacher is effective or not, which can be valid to some extent. However, teaching styles and strategies should vary as students learn in different ways, thus different results. Imparting lessons to students should be a point of focus in the education system. In the end, a student’s individual performance is crafted by many different factors and influences. Our society is built on many different relationships.
Styles Of Teaching
Teacher Training
Graduating from an education course does not mean an individual is ready for the classroom, and this many fail to recognize. That was one of the main interests in a debate that started in the comments on Facebook that teachers should be given more guidance even throughout their teaching years. While the teachers that read such comments may have felt that this was an unfair statement, no one could deny that there are bad eggs in any field.
Teacher Training
Diversification
A teacher should be able to deal with a diverse environment as students come from different backgrounds and have different learning styles. As a result of this, challenges can arise in the classroom, and teachers should be ready to remedy the situation and find a solution. Each child is completely different, and has their own strengths and areas that could be improved. Teachers must be able to develop their talents and help them overcome their challenges.
Diversification
Actions Justified?
As the investigations went on and people got to learn about Bohenek, they realize she was pregnant and would become a mother soon. This many persons used to justify her actions and blamed it on hormonal changes. Her short-tempered reaction was a side effect of her pregnancy. While pregnancy can indeed cause a mother-to-be all manner of mood-related changes, that does not justify plain meanness. We all need to respect one another, no matter what we are going through.
Actions Justified
Inspiration Works
As the saga went on, there was an important question raised about what the feedback would be if she had found herself in Chris’s shoe? Would she react the same, or would she have let it slide by? As teachers, one should know how to respond in a circumstance like this while thinking of the long-term consequences. Think before you act and use concrete forms of inspiration. There may not be a second chance to make a child feel comfortable in your presence again.
Inspiration Works
Make your Approach Creative
Before a teacher can inspire her students, she must be inspired herself. Whatever feeling they have, whether negative or positive, they will show this energy in the classroom. Also, having multiple personal issues to deal with in addition to the pressure the class brings can cause one to snap. A teacher should know how to use creativity always to have a positive vibe for her students. Children do not have the longest attention spans, after all!
Make Your Approach Creative
Great Teachers Are Scarce
A lot of teachers are in the job because it pays a salary at the end of the month, and not much hard work goes into it. To be inspired, a teacher has to put in extra effort and get creative in bringing lessons across to her children. Struggling students are appreciative of teachers who cater to their challenges in learning. Any person who dreams of being a teacher must go into the process with the right attitude and passion in mind.
Great Teachers Are Scarce
Molding The Future
Children are the future, and doing right by them will help to determine the state of society in the long run. A teacher has to be in the right frame of mind to impact a child positively and develop their emotional, physical, psychological, and cognitive abilities. They play such an essential role in any child’s development, and they often do not know how much harm they can do on a young mind and heart with a bad-tempered comment.
Molding The Future
The Teaching Process
Being eager and ready to teach your class is the first step in achieving the best for your students. They will use this as an inspiration to do well as they find interest in what you teach and how the lesson is delivered. You don’t need to go overboard in teaching as a great teacher for students to cling to you. Ever in luck to have such a fantastic teacher? Good for you! Some kids are not so lucky, and many are at the mercy of some truly horrible individuals.
The Teaching Process
Spare A Little Time
A struggling child will have an interest in school if they realize the teacher has their best interest at heart. Instead of resorting to negative feedback as Bohenek did, spare a little time to give extra attention to students in this group. Bear in mind, children with “unique” learning styles need a good role model they can always look to. In the end, a teacher needs to recognize the different kinds of children that enter their classes, and learn how to help and nurture each one.
Spare A Little Time
Teachers Are Humans
This statement is underrated when it comes to some parents, and that is a sad reality, but we have to face it that teachers are humans too. They have feelings and emotions like everyone else. All people are bound to lose their temper or be unfair from time to time, and no one is an angel. Sometimes, a person will have no patience left, even for the sweetest of little people. However, it is just that they are within bounds on what expected of them.
Teachers Are Humans
Prone to Mistakes
No one is perfect, and mistakes are inevitable, so everyone deserves a second chance when they strike once or twice. However, no mistakes are repeated but only becomes a purposeful act. Parents should always play a role in their children’s education and help them study to achieve the best results. Teachers will only be there for kids during schooling hours, and after the final lesson for the day ends, the parents take on the role of the educator and guide.
Prone To Mistakes
Bullying Behavior
Many of the online commenters had a similar sentiment as one Peckville resident, Beth O’Brien. She noted the teacher bullied a child and should face sacking for scaring the child in this manner. Bullying is another issue schools have to grapple with resolving. But how does anyone begin to tackle an issue that may be flying under the radar of a school’s leaders? In the world of social media, anything can be done with the right post.
Bullying Behavior
Protecting His Child
Like most other parents would have done, Chris stood up for his child and defended him on all levels. He noted he wasn’t making the complaints so someone would lose their job but that others could learn from it and know it is wrong. Those actions should never happen and never become tolerated. Would there be any better way to deal with this situation? In the meantime, Chris has waived his son to go to another class.
Protecting His Child
A Lesson To Be Learned
Chris admitted he did this to help curve teacher-student relationships and that each would feel comfortable. Raising awareness on the issue would help to highlight the severe effect of such behavior and also to avoid a similar recurrence between teachers and students. We need more awareness for children when it comes to their place in the school, where so much can happen to a child when they are away from the loving protection of their parents.
A Lesson To Be Learned
Comments Varied
The online comments vary but tell a similar message. The teacher should never have responded the way she did, and as Chris’s anger raged, so did another parent, Yvonne. She was upset and noted Ms. Bohenek does not deserve to be in the classroom. She strongly believed that the board of education should be involved in this case, and that Bohenek should not be allowed to work in a classroom. Was she being too harsh?
Comments Varied
Angry Misunderstandings
The matter at hand was the teacher’s response to the child’s assignment, but some people decided to venture elsewhere. One person highlighted Kamdyn’s math skills and also hurled negative comments about his reasoning abilities. If you ask us, this was out of bound and more damaging to the child who was already hurting. There was no need for personal attacks, and the comment was responded to with plenty of ‘angry’ reactions. LC Garner clearly missed the point of this case.
Angry Misunderstandings
A Brilliant Child
Though the teacher’s feedback was negative, some persons saw good in it. Rose admitted Kamdyn was brilliant to have answered 13 questions in 3 minutes, seeing he was only a second-grader. This point, many persons noted she could have used to say something encouraging. Teachers should focus on the positives of a child’s performances, rather than attacking them on the areas that they need help with. Kids grow with positivity and encouragement and wither from negativity.
A Brilliant Child
Never Put Down A Child
Erona, another parent, voiced her concerns and noted Bohenek should never continue as a teacher as she was too harsh.. It is never okay to put down anyone and a child for that matter.Many people feel like teachers only have one chance to prove themselves as competent and appropriately placed professionals. When they cross the line, there is no turning back, and they should be let go from their position and find something else to do that does not involve children.
Never Put Down A Child
Personal Issue
Margaret, another commenter, noted Chris said the teacher was doing for a while, so going to this length to further insult and be rude to the child was not necessary. She noted it was a personal issue that she had with the child. Certainly, many teachers will pick on certain members of their class. Many teachers will have all kinds of issues themselves, and will let out their troubles on the kids around them in class.
Personal Issue
Getting Emotional
Kamdyn got lots of support and love, and Brittney felt terrible for what the child was going through. In her comments, she agrees the teacher should go and noted it is the responsibility of the teacher to encourage the child instead of making them feel bad within themselves. She called the teacher an ‘uneducated hag’, which was quite a mean thing to say, but was representative of the combined anger that so many people were expressing.
Getting Emotional
Heated Arguments
Of course, we know with a topic like this, there would be heated arguments as not everyone shares the same opinion. But social media is a free space, and everyone has their say. The last thing that Chris wanted was to cause further conflict and meanness with his post, and yet he had inadvertently spawned a huge amount of fighting on his post. It seemed like anything on social media could bet turned into a fight!
Heated Arguments
Amicable Solution
As Chris contemplated what he should do, one commenter Sandra advised him to move his child to another class who had a different teacher. Reducing the risks of Kamdyn becoming traumatized was the result they were looking for. Sometimes, when you encounter an immovable obstacle in your path, the best way forward is to take another one. Why should Chris go to war with Bohenek and the authorities above her when he could just remove Kamdyn from her attention?
Amicable Solution
Not A Soft World
Another parent, David, gave Chris a solid piece of advice to ‘toughen up” his son as this world will never be the bed of roses he expected. Helping the child with his assignments is much better than playing the blame game when something goes wrong. David was of the opinion that given how full of nasty and hurtful moments life is, that he was doing his son a disservice by not forcing him to face his fears.
Not A Soft World
Pathetic Was Too Harsh
Lori focused on the main word in the whole saga and felt terrible about it. The term “pathetic” used by the teacher was too heavy as adults get angry when told much less a child. While many people might not have thought that Bohenek’s comment was not that harsh, the definition for pathetic is as follows: ‘miserably inadequate; of very low standard.’ No person should ever be made to feel this way, no matter how badly they failed at something.
Pathetic Was Too Harsh
Reinforced Measure
After the whole fiasco of the online petition and the school’s investigation, it turned out Bohenek was still working at the school as before. But, of course, they must have cautioned her with a written or verbal warning, and she pledges to desist from such behavior. Whether this teacher took such advice to heart is up for debate, and only her future students would be able to answer that. Either way, her reputation had been ruined.
Reinforced Measure
Vulnerable
Kamdyn is at a tender age, and one woman was perturbed about the way it was treated. She noted to be at such a tender age and scarred in this manner is sad. She also added that many teachers are not passionate about the profession and should get additional training on how to work effectively. As a former teacher, she says she now understands why so many people are turning to homeschool and other non-traditional ways of learning over the public education system.
Vulnerable
Control Your Thoughts
One person voiced her disapproval of what the teacher did and agreed the school should fire her. She noted the teacher is not able to control or censor her thoughts to promote a positive learning environment, and that is bad for the students. Teachers must learn to think before they speak or write because once it is out, the damage will take immediate effect. There is often no turning back once you reach this stage.
Control Your Thoughts