Florida Teacher Reportedly Suspended for Coercing 6-Year-Old Student to Clean Another's Urine
Friday, November 6, 2009
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Fox News: A Florida kindergarten teacher reportedly has been removed from her classroom after allegedly coercing a 6-year-old girl to clean up another student's urine.
Teacher Martha Ensley told police she was in the middle of a lesson at Floresta Elementary Monday when the girl informed that there was urine on the bathroom floor, the TCPalm.com reported.
Despite her policy that students clean their own messes, Ensley said she told the girl to 'just clean it up,' then gave her Dolphin Dollars - play money given to students to encourage good behavior - as a reward for following those orders, the officer's report stated.
The girl's mother, Lisa Portieles, came to the school to complain two days later, triggering the call to police, and an internal investigation, TCPalm.com reported.
"It worries me because she's got a stack (of Dolphin Dollars) this big, and I'm just imagining if she's done that, what else did she do for that stack of dolphin cards?" Portieles told TCPalm.
Police and the state attorney's office concluded no crime was committed, but the school is conducting an its own probe to determine if school rules were broken, TCPalm.com reported.
Despite her policy that students clean their own messes, Ensley said she told the girl to 'just clean it up,' then gave her Dolphin Dollars - play money given to students to encourage good behavior - as a reward for following those orders, the officer's report stated.
The girl's mother, Lisa Portieles, came to the school to complain two days later, triggering the call to police, and an internal investigation, TCPalm.com reported.
"It worries me because she's got a stack (of Dolphin Dollars) this big, and I'm just imagining if she's done that, what else did she do for that stack of dolphin cards?" Portieles told TCPalm.
Police and the state attorney's office concluded no crime was committed, but the school is conducting an its own probe to determine if school rules were broken, TCPalm.com reported.
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This is just strange to me…when I taught if there was a problem like this in the bathroom, we called the janitor to mop it up..call me crazy!
- littlepeapie
Doesn’t matter if it’s a crime….it’s disgusting and unhealthy!
- angie
I don’t see anything wrong with this. Nobody is above using a mop, how is work ethic bad for kids?
- matt
There are many other far more appropriate ways to teach 6 year olds “work ethic” than making them clean up someone else’s urine. Hospital personnel can’t even clean up urine without gloves. Come on!
- Matt
That is disgusting, no child should have to go clean up another kids pee, where is the janitors in that school, and why didn’t the lazy teacher just go and clean it up if it was no big deal. We just hear to many bad and stupid doings there in Florida, kids stolen, killed, etc, come on Florida get it together or something. Improve your state. dah
- Meeps
That’s what a school janitor is for.
- Anonymous
mop up the pee pee
- Anonymous
i don’t think so. The teacher should have found out who left the pee & had them clean it up, cleaned it up herself, or had the custodian take care of it.
- tennmom
Tennmom, you honestly think the kid who pissed in the floor is going to admit to it? don’t think so! the 6 year old could of said no to cleaning up another child’s urine, but probably WANTED the dolphin dollars!
- your mom.
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