Parents Say Teacher Made Son Use Lysol
Thu Feb 17, 4:30 PM ET
ELYRIA, Ohio - A school district was sued by parents who say their son's fourth-grade teacher made the boy spray himself with Lysol in front of classmates because of body odor.
The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in Lorain County Common Pleas Court against the Sheffield-Sheffield Lake district in suburban Cleveland. It asks for $50,000 in damages for public humiliation and subsequent harassment by classmates.
The boy still suffers emotional distress over the incident, according to his attorney, Michael Duff.
Bill Emery, school board president, said he was unfamiliar with the March 2003 incident at Forestlawn School and said he knew of no disciplinary problems involving the teacher.
The teacher, David Stacko, who has retired, has an unlisted phone number and could not be reached for comment Thursday.
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lol!!!! Old man teacher got fed up with his rank smell and sprayed him down. Too funny!!
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good for the teacher ...
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Good for the teacher ... my thoughts exactly.
Stinky little bastards.
In college I remember the computer science building ... the whole damned building ... smelled like body odor. Luckily I never really had to go in there for anything.Want my help? Ask here! (not via PM!)
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Shower??
Some of them think it's "instead of shower" deoderant -
I wish teachers didn't have to put up with this sort of crap. So he laid it down to a kid who had dubious personal hygiene. So what?
I think this "emotional distress" is a load of rubbish, too. He'll live. -
Why didn't the teacher contact the parents first?
I think the teacher was acting childish.
Northcat would you honestly do this instead of contacting the parents?
But the "emotional distress" thing is garbage, because the kid was probably just as humiliated everyday, because the parents sent him to school everyday stinky.
Maybe the kid should sue the parents.snappy phrase
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When I was in middle school they were pretty vocal about stressing to kids that you took showers after gym class. They laxed on it a lot my last year there and when I got to high school I didn't see anybody who actually used the showers. I was one of the few "wierdos" who would strip down and take a shower. I used the showers at the schools twice a day sometimes (I was on the football team so I usually used it after practices as well, especially if I wasn't going right home afterwards).
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that they have outlawed showers in public school in this paranoid day and age of political correctness, sensitivity training and other wish-washy nonsense."There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon." -- Raoul Duke -
Yep. Middle school and high school PE Showers were manditory to receive credit for the day. As far as the teacher spraying the kid down, although it seems like a good idea, It should have been handled differently. The kid already had troubles and this should have been addressed by pros. I ain't no angel myself and in scouts on at least one occasion we scrubbed down those that didn't scrub themselves. But that was their peers doing it to them not trained teachers. While it probably won't lead to him becoming the next Charles Manson, there was a breakdown in the system. As far as teaching goes I see less and less talent out there to do it. And events like this make me shake me shake my head in shame. This was a health problem, the kid should have been sent to the nurse and she should have addressed the issue with the kid and its parents. We can laugh about it, but what we have is a kid that was fucked in the head to start with and a teacher that didn't help things out.
Just an opinion from an outside perspectiveIS IT SUPPOSED TO SMOKE LIKE THAT? -
Some kid in one of my classes back in middle school put Windex in the teachers' coffee. Got in some serious trouble though and thankfully she didn't drink it due to the smell.
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A little phenolphthalein would do the trick nicely, methinks. Relegate your teacher to the toilet for the rest of the afternoon - what could be better?
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Teacher - A little over-the-top but nothing terrible.
Student - That will teach him a valuable lesson AND as said before....he'll survive.
Lawyer - Needs to be killed as 90% of lawyers do.
Parents of the Student - send them to parenting classes and announce such a ruling in their local newspaper....just as this stupid lawsuit has appeared in the newspapers. -
This lawsuit should be reported just to show how stupid people are.
snappy phrase
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I'm with Will Shakespeare on this one. Kill all the ******* lawyers.
"There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon." -- Raoul Duke -
Originally Posted by northcat_8
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Originally Posted by ZAPPER
Wasn't manditory when I was in school (early '80s)...some would use the showers but most didn't...and some guys just liked to prance around to show themselves off
The thing was, we never really did much to work up a sweat in the first place
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The teacher should get fired. There is absolutely no reason he or she should have done that in front of the class. Contacted the boy's parents or the principal yes, but definitely not what was done. I have had some TERRIBLE teachers in my life, especially in elementary school and some of the them were geniunely bad, bitter people, who should not have been allowed 50 feet within children. Therefore, I am suspicious about how this teacher conducts his classes in general. Reminds me of Pink Floyd's The Wall.
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Teachers are getting more terrible because alot more students are becoming little terrorists thanks to the lack of parenting skills of parents these days.
My parents whacked the shit out of me when I did something wrong....parents today are either too stupid or too afraid to do that. Why are they afraid?...lawsuits.
What is the difference between the teacher humiliating the smelly bastard OR the obvious humiliation his loving classmates heaped on him?
You remember what school was like....you KNOW the other kids ridiculed him on a daily basis. -
Stink boy got sprayed. Big woop.
"There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon." -- Raoul Duke -
This is really kind of difficult to comment on or to judge because all we know is the end. Maybe this teacher did talk to the parents, maybe he has addressed it with the office, maybe he has spoken to the kid.
In the end though, I wouldn't do something like that to a kid. You have to realize that everyone leads a different life. Maybe that kid's family couldn't pay the water bill, maybe that kid is homeless, maybe that kid has some kind of disease that causes the odor, maybe that kid is a member of a certain religion that doesn't allow bathing for a period.
There are too many maybe's in there. Being a teacher in a socially diverse and economically diverse high school, I can tell you first hand that what you see or in the case smell, might not always be what you think it is. I have rich kids sitting in class right beside homeless kids. Kids who drive a BMW to school sitting beside kids who have to work at Wendy's to help their parents pay bills. I also have Indians, and when I say "Indians" I mean real live, born in India, hindu religion, dress wearin, scarf over the head, veil over the face, dot in the middle of the forehead Indians. I also have some kids from Afganistan, they are Muslem, they fast, during fasting they do not bathe.
So while I can see how something like this could happen, because I've had kids in class who have came to me to say something, but I have explained it to them and while they still wanted their seats changed so they didn't have to sit beside them, they at least understood what was going on.
So was the teacher in the wrong? I think so. Should he have been fired? I don't think so. Just the fact that he was fired tells me that he teaches in a middle class school, probably a small community or rural school. They would not have fired him from my HS for that. Christ, we had a teacher last year go to rehab 3 times for 6 weeks at a time for drinking at school, he didn't get fired and I'll be fucked crooked if he didn't get caught again this year and sent to rehab again. Did they fire him? Nope...he teaches right beside me, I see him everyday.
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