Bite your tongue, ma’am. The secret in education lies in
respecting the student. Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Radio Voces Latiinas Is an Accomplice of Crimes against Humanity"
Guardians wake up! That the programs assigned by Canadian Ministry
of Education for public elementary and secondary schools are destroying the
lives of our children.
Fri., Sept. 16, 2016
Bite your tongue, ma’am.
Jennifer Elizabeth Green-Johnson, who is listed on
the Dunnville Secondary School’s
website as an English teacher, Grades 10 through 12, allegedly instructed one
of her students: “Why don’t you lick me where I fart?”
That suggestion is included in two
sets of charges before the Ontario College of Teachers, with Green-Johnson’s
date for hearings to be set next Friday.
Some teachers we remember for the
rest of our lives, because they had a profound effect on shaping young minds or
instilling a love of learning or helping us navigate the curriculum. I doubt
Green-Johnson’s students will ever forget her, if only for the purported yips
and confirmed yaps she brought into the classroom.
This is not Green-Johnson’s first disciplinary
rodeo.
In January — five years after the Grand Erie District School
Board learned of troubling comments and actions involving students — the
Ontario College of Teachers found she had committed professional misconduct; received a reprimand, one-month suspension (already
served) and directed to complete a course (“at her own expense”) regarding
“appropriate boundaries with students and appropriate classroom management.”
Green-Johnson did not contest the
accusations outlined in an agreed statement of facts which “would reasonably be
regarded by members as disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional’’ and
“conduct unbecoming.”
Uncontested facts included:
That same month, Green-Johnson
caught two male students play-wrestling outside her classroom. When one student jumped on the other’s
back, Green-Johnson said: “So you like it from behind.”
In November 2011, while her students were cracking jokes about the size of a
man’s penis as portrayed in a movie the class was watching, Green-Johnson “made
a comment to the effect that you could not see the actor’s penis without a
microscope.”
The following month, when a student
asked the teacher to repeat what she’d said, Green-Johnson told the girl to “sit down or I will bop you in the
nose.” To another student, she said words to the effect of “stop bitching and
sit down.”
In January, 2011, Green-Johnson told
her students that she had been “raped” and therefore did not trust men around
her children, an assertion that “made some of her students feel uncomfortable.”
The agreed statement of facts continues: “On more
than one occasion, (Green-Johnson) used the words ‘stupid’, ‘idiots’,
‘bitching’ and/or ‘ass’ ” while conducting her class.
In an incident that fall, students
jesting about how much it would hurt to get hit in the groin playfully began
swinging their binders at each other. In attempting to stop them Green-Johnson
“made accidental contact with (one of the student’s) groin, causing him to fall
to the ground in tears.”
Grand Erie superintendent Scott Sincerbox confirmed to the
Star on Friday that “multiple reports” have been filed about Green-Johnson,
resulting in short suspensions both paid and unpaid. Though not speaking specifically about this teacher,
Sincerbox explained that the board implements a “progressive disciplinary
process up to an including termination” with suspensions reported to the
College.
The Star was unable to reach
Green-Johnson on Friday. Sincerbox said the teacher is “not working” at this
time but hasn’t been fired either.
“It’s pretty unusual for a teacher
who has been found guilty of unprofessional conduct to come before us again,”
says Gabrielle Barkany, spokesperson for the College. She could recall it
happening only twice before.
For Green-Johnson, these are
actually “notifications” — summonings to defend herself, that is — Number 3 and
4. Apart from the matter concluded by the board’s disciplinary committee in
January, there were allegations heard by the College against her in 2007 but
those were not substantiated.
This time ’round, there are two
separate sets of allegations, thus two separate cases to be heard.
In one, relating to the 2015-16 academic year, Green-Johnson
is alleged to: Have told a student who brought coffee to class: “Get that
f---king thing out of here.”
Called a student a “bloody
pedophile.”
Told a student: “I have
never said this to a student before but f--k you.”
Told another: “It sounds
like your ass cheeks are too close together,” after the student a made a noise
by pressing his lips together.
Told a student who’d offered to buy her muffins in exchange
for a passing grade: “You mean a bribe? I’d be able to shit for a week.”
Told a female student she “looked like a frumpy old lady
today.”
On the second matter, Green-Johnson is alleged to
have “slapped and/or hit” a male student on the head in March, told him to
“grow some balls,” called him an “idiot” and discussed personal issues with a
student during class even though that individual was not enrolled in the class.
Green-Johnson was suspended for one
day without pay in May and six days without pay in February as a result of
recent allegations, though it’s not clear specifically which ones.
School boards can fire teachers. The
College can revoke their teaching certificate.
Green-Johnson, holy terror, seems
not to have learned her lessons at all.
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