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Teacher Sues School Over Her Phobia of Children

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I have a phobia of waking up early. Does that mean I can sue my job?

A retired teacher in Ohio sued the school she previously worked for over unspecified damages.

She taught Spanish and French at a high school in Southwest Ohio until she was transferred to a middle school in 2009. Her lawsuit said the seventh and eighth graders triggered her phobia, which caused high blood pressure. She claims that she was forced to retire just a year later over the trauma.

Her appeal was turned down in a federal case a few weeks ago.

I know you all were biting your nails to find out if this chick actually got away with it. Apparently, she didn’t, although she has been offered a guest appearance on Fear Factor: Children’s Playground Edition.

Let’s cut to the chase. If the thought of any aged youth makes your hands clammy, then don’t you think teaching may not be your career of choice? That’s kind of like being a river boat captain and being afraid of the water. Or being married to Tom Cruise and being a homophobe.

Now that she has an enlightened view of her phobia, hopefully she will avoid children in her next occupation, should she decide to still work. Maybe she could work at a birth control agency.

 

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22 thoughts on “Teacher Sues School Over Her Phobia of Children”

  3. I remember being in 7, 8, 9 grade. That’s when kids are the worst of monsters; not just to their teachers, but to each other.

    There should be a class action suit by masses of teachers-not against the students but against the schools for doing nothing to make the classes smaller and the teaching load better.

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  4. It was my experience that the teachers who were bothered by their classes were the teachers who lacked control over them. They didn’t know how to maintain discipline or present material in interesting ways.

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  6. Reblogged this on Wallaby Ed and commented:
    Wow. Just wow. I’m glad the court system isn’t putting up with this insanity. But here’s the bottom line: if you don’t like dealing with children, DON’T TEACH. And if you don’t want to teach a certain age group, DON’T TAKE JOBS TEACHING THEM.

    This is not the school system’s fault. This is an individual’s fault for not knowing herself well enough and being responsible enough to deal with a potential conflict between her personality and her profession.

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  7. Yes, you can definitely sue as evidenced by these bizarre cases. There’s a lid for every pot, just as there is an attorney for any case your imagination might conjure up. Teaching is a tough business but teaching the raging hormones of seventh and eight graders, well…..there isn’t a printable word we can use here to describe it. But its lot like this was a revelation to her.
    I vote for her working at Disney next. That’s a lawsuit that has some juice to it.

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    1. And the sad thing is -there’s a lot of nut jobs out there in every profession, but none more influential on our young than our teachers….and this is coming from a retired spec. ed teacher. I don’t know this woman’s story, so I really can’t comment on it or her, but I’m glad she’s no longer in the profession……

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