Teacher writes ‘absolutely pathetic’ on 7-year-old’s math paper
A teacher should be a person who supports the students – no matter what.
We are all born with different capacities and talents, but nothing or no one improvs with destructive criticism. I thought this should be very clear for someone who works with young children…
A Pennsylvania teacher, BH who wrote ‘absolutely pathetic’ on a second-grader’s test is facing calls to be fired after the boy’s father shared her remarks on Facebook.
The teacher, identified as BH, had written the remarks across the top of the boy’s test with a red pen.
‘Absolutely pathetic he answered 13 in 3 min! Sad,’ she wrote alongside an image of a sad face that she drew.
CP posted a photo of his son Kamdyn’s math test on Facebook on Tuesday as he slammed the Valley View Elementary School teacher for her comments.
Kamdyn Piland got his math quiz back with the words “absolutely pathetic” written across it.
The second grader showed his dad the paper which also noted he answered 13 questions in 3 minutes with a sad face drawn on it.
Dad CP complained to the teacher questioning how this comment was supposed to help his child, to which the teacher said “I’m sorry you feel this way,” according to CP.
So CP took to Facebook calling the teacher out. He wrote: “My son Kamdyn’s teacher has been so rude to him and myself all year he comes home with this and I am beyond frustrated that someone would write this on a child’s work such great motivation.”
His post gained traction on Facebook and a petition soon started circulating called for the Valley View School District to fire the teacher.
The Change.org petition had been signed almost 10,000 times by Friday morning.
School superintendent Rose Minniti said she was made aware of the test on Tuesday and the district has already met with BH to investigate.
‘It’s a personnel issue and the results of that are not going to be dictated by social media,’ Minniti said.
‘It’s going to be dictated by the facts and evidence.
‘As always with everything, we’re going to try to do what’s best for the students and what we need to do for the employee under investigation.’
BH has been working as an elementary school teacher since 2013.
Source:;en.newsner.com, dailymail.co.uk
