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Video: 8-Year-Old Cassandra Garcia Gets 'Catastrophe Award' from School
In Tucson, Arizona, 8-year-old Cassandra Garcia received a sarcastic 'Catastrophe Award,' from her teacher at Desert Springs Academy, for the most excuses for not having her homework (video below).
Garcia apparently has a folder full of completed homework and her mother, Christina Valdez, is furious over the award.
Valdez told Fox News: “She said the teachers announced the award in front of the whole class and all the children were laughing at her."
Valdez called the school principal, but says that didn't help: “She blew me off. And said it was a joke that was played and that the teachers joke around with the children."
The Desert Springs Academy principal refused to comment on the "joke."
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do you people even read the
do you people even read the whole story or just skim it? she showed how much homework and you going to call child service for parents not making there kids do homework. oh lord on mity stop being a pansey
It sounds like everyone (so
It sounds like everyone (so far, anyway) assumes that the girl did not turn in a lot of homework. What if the teacher was being sarcastic by giving the award because she was so good at turning in homework. But it's still not right at that grade level.
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Maybe if she were in high
Maybe if she were in high school, they could've gotten away with this. But not in 3rd grade.
Public humiliation of a child
Public humiliation of a child is never okay. The parents and the child should be held accountable. However, making the kid a butt of a joke helps no one.
The proper place to give the
The proper place to give the award should have been to the parents. They were at least condoning that behavior if not participating in it. It's always, "Not my child! You can't expect my child to meet any reasonable standards."
Most of the time I agree with
Most of the time I agree with you, James. This time, however, actually I think "shaming" both parent and child was the most appropriate action the school should have taken. The child knows he/she has to complete the homework, and the parent is supposedly responsible to make sure that homework gets done. That's part of a parenting role. When parents are not providing that kind of parental support they are at a minimum civilly or socially negligent. If this is a persistent or repeated behavior, personally, I believe Social Services should be involved. In our time, the 1950's - 70's our parents recognized that raising kids is a genuine life changing responsibility and duty to be performed. Today, having kids seems to be more of a modern convenience or inconvenience, like taking care of a pet. It's fashionable. The reasons people have kids seem awfully frivolous. There are way too many parents who are focused on themselves and their advancement (the me first policy) than they are about the kids they brought into this world. Sometimes some people simply do not have the luxury of time to care for anything other than themselves. These are people who should never have had kids to begin with! Holding parents accountable instead of passing the buck and blaming the school system and teachers needs to be re-enforced. The best way to accomplish this, and to bring back some semblance of discipline in society is to include this as a form of negligence and/or child abuse that can be used to remove kids from their homes. This may be draconian, but believe me, it would get the message across very quickly, particularly to those who economically can least afford to bring children into the world, and those who are wealthy but do not make any effort or time to fulfill their parenting obligations. One of the key reasons we have a generation of apathetic kids who don't care about anything other than their themselves is because of poor parenting role models and laws that have not kept up with the times.
If you're going to "shame"
If you're going to "shame" the parent and child, why wait till the end of the year. There are so many more adult ways to deal with a homework problem. Take away the kids for not doing homework; what planet are you from?
You make some good points. I
You make some good points. I do believe that "shaming" is a parent's prerogative, not the schools. The school can demonstrate very effectively that failing to do your homework has consequences and they should.
I remember when I was in the 5th grade, I didn't have my math homework done because I had injured myself and was at the doctor's office getting stitches. The next morning, I went to Mrs. Voss' (the teacher) desk to tell her why I didn't finish the homework. He reply was, "Why are you up here telling me about it? Why aren't you at your desk doing it?"
Mrs. Voss was the best teacher I ever had.
While I like the joke and
While I like the joke and sentiment, making a kid cry in front of other students is probably not a great decision as a teacher.
It would have been better to call them out in private as an excuse maker, and to not accept the excuses while handing down consequences.
Jokes like this are best left
Jokes like this are best left for middle school. You can't trust that little kids can tell the difference.
Homeschoolers get told we
Homeschoolers get told we should send our children to school to get socialized. What social skill did this little girl learn--that mocking people is cool and fun? Not my idea of socialization. Maybe if the homework had been less monotonous and meaningless, she'd have done it. I decided school was a waste of time for my kids the day I caught myself saying, "Stop writing that poem and go alphabetize your spelling words." Really? She should stop doing something creative and wonderful to do boring drill and practice? Give homework that challenges the mind and the heart...and you'll have children begging for it.
Terrie Lynn, you need to
Terrie Lynn, you need to adjust your profile photo to make it 1:1 aspect ratio (same number of pixels wide as it is high) to prevent the funny "squashing" effect visible in this post. Since the photo is apparently taken from your Facebook profile, try replacing the Facebook photo with one that is 160x160 pixels.
My sentiments exactly. Except
My sentiments exactly. Except I think kids sometimes need punishment. Some kids are terrible brats. Of course, some kids are made terrible brats from all the horrific treatment they received from teachers, faculty, and peers while in public school.
We are all winners! There are
We are all winners! There are no losers in life, only victims of a cruel world!