After reading my wife's post about the 16-year-old who was told to write about her rape, I did a search on the teacher: Glenda Norviel. I found this post from just after the event happened:
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A certified teacher and a substitute teacher assigned to upper grades at the rural Tabiona School have been reprimanded for saying a teenage rape victim should not object to profane material in a reading assignment.
The substitute teacher, Gayla Hamilton, reportedly admitted telling the 16-year-old Duchesne County girl she had "been around the block" and shouldn't be disturbed by harsh language and sex scenes in "My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult. The novel was assigned to a group of eight juniors and seniors at the one-building K-12 school in Tabiona.
Hamilton also reportedly admitted revealing the identity of the girl's rapist to a classroom of the girl's peers after the girl said she did not wish to discuss the matter.
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Read that last paragraph again. This poor girl is raped. The teacher hassles the poor girl trying to get the girl to read a book she is uncomfortable with, and then it appears the substitute teacher tells the class the girl was raped.
I don't have the words.
My heart goes out to this girl.
As a side note, this blog: Teachers and Trash Education, seems to find a scary teacher story every day. There is a real problem with government schools today as they do not aggressive deal with scary teachers. More teachers should be fired and many of them should do time in prison.
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2 comments:
Interestingly, the latest story about Ms. Norviel came out today, here: http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700234673,00.html
To anonymous who posted claiming to know Glenda Norviel and that she was a good lady, your comment was obnoxious and had swear words. So I deleted it. If you would like to post a more polite comment without swearing, I might leave it.
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