Foster Child is Judged by Substitute Teacher

An 11-year-old boy was judged by a substitute teacher because he told his classmates he was going to be adopted by his two foster dads. The substitute then stated, “That’s nothing to be thankful for,”(claiming to be from The Salt Lake Tribune). She then proceeded to talk to explain,"homosexuality is wrong," "two men living together is a sin," and "why on earth would you be happy about that?” Luckily, three girls explained what happened in class to the principle. One of the stepfathers Louis Van Amstel who was on many seasons of dancing with the stars thanked the girls on his social media, and was also told that the sub will not be working at the school anymore. To read more click here

What would you do if this kind of situation arose in one of your classes?(deescalate the situation quickly, or let it be)

-I would want to deescalate the situation as quickly as possible, and go to the principal's office as soon as possible. The girls in the situation did the right thing and spoke up even if it was an adult.

Do you think the sub should have a more severe punishment? If so, then what?

-No, I don’t think that the sub should receive more punishment. I think the school did the right thing and just fired her.

Unless you are a history or government teacher, you need to leave politics at home. Harassing someone for their political, religious, and moral beliefs is wrong and is a form of bullying, especially when a full grown adult drops down to that sort of level of immaturity. It's still unappreciated and may be found offensive if someone their age were to say things like this, but as an adult/teacher, it is even worse, because you're expected to have enough maturity and restraint to hold your tongue on something so controversial, despite your beliefs. Yeah you have your freedom of speech, but it's a school, not a church. Besides, this woman was beginning to cross over the line of simply "voicing her opinion" and telling this child he should be ashamed of himself.

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Mr. Bruns December 6, 2019 at 7:29am

Good topic choice and well done Jocelyn!
4Josie December 6, 2019 at 12:32am

If this were to happen in one of my classes, I would try to step in and attemp to stop the conversation, tell the teacher and probably straight to the principal to tell him what happened. No, I think firing the teacher was the best option so the school did the right thing.
8Macey December 5, 2019 at 10:03pm

Unless you are a history or government teacher, you need to leave politics at home. Harassing someone for their political, religious, and moral beliefs is wrong and is a form of bullying, especially when a full grown adult drops down to that sort of level of immaturity. It's still unappreciated and may be found offensive if someone their age were to say things like this, but as an adult/teacher, it is even worse, because you're expected to have enough maturity and restraint to hold your tongue on something so controversial, despite your beliefs. Yeah you have your freedom of speech, but it's a school, not a church. Besides, this woman was beginning to cross over the line of simply "voicing her opinion" and telling this child he should be ashamed of himself.
4Jonathan December 5, 2019 at 3:07pm

If I was a teacher and something like this happened in my class room I would probelly step in and stop the conversation from happening so something bad isnt said by a student or by me. No I dont think she should have getting fired was plenty good all she did was state her opionion on what was happening.
3Oz December 5, 2019 at 2:21pm

I would stand up and leave the class and immideatly inform school charge about the situation beacuse such kind of people should not work at schools. This kind of behavior is not accpeted in normal society and has to be punishned. I think the teacher has to be punished very hard so that onene else would not dare because of his jealouse or anger talk like this.
7LillyM December 5, 2019 at 2:07pm

I don't think that it's wrong for the subsitute for believing that, but I don't think that it was the right thing to do to call our a kid like that. The teacher should know better not to be talking like that this day and age especially in pubic schools were she know there would be consequences.
- 8Jocelyn > 7LillyM December 5, 2019 at 9:30pm
  
  I agree with you. this is a different time were this kind of thing happens more often. I think that she should have handled the situation differently. I also think that it is okay to have your own beliefs, but she had no right to voice her opinion to a ten-year-old child.
7Jeremiah December 5, 2019 at 10:52am

I would probably just sit in silence because of my own personal beliefs. I don't think that the teacher should openly discriminate at all that was definetely wrong to embarass a kid and his family like that. Maybe she could have just prayed for them instead of being so hateful.
4Katlynn December 5, 2019 at 10:32am

If I had saw this happen I defently would have stepped in and tried to defend the foster child. Do to the fact that it isn't the persons fault that their in the foster system, so it is not fair at all to judge someone for something they can't control.
4Chelsea December 5, 2019 at 10:23am

I would go to the principle right away and tell him everything that had happened in the class. Also, I would tell that teacher what they did was wrong. I don't think there is really much more that anyone can do, the school did the right thing be firing her. I feel like they should put it on her backround so that other schools know the real reaons she was fired.

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