I don’t think they did. At least as far as what I get from the letter. Sounds like they asked him if he needed a change of clothes. He said no. OK that was his say so. But they took off the costume and found…he was dressed pretty much like the other kids. Then THEY made the decision that that’s ok. And he been in tighty whities I would hope they wouldn’t have let him decide that was OK.
I doubt there was a reporter there on the scene. He was taking the parent’s word, after the fact, that what he was wearing was “underwear”. And it may be to them. But it may look enough like…er…“outerwear” that the teacher’s didn’t have a problem with it.
And I have to say, IF there were no difficult incidence the rest of the day the parent are doing more harm then good.
Now there’s a whole classroom full of candidates for Future Serial Killers of America™.
Indeed. Here’s a link to the original story:
As a matter of interest, it turned out that a couple of the kids had to be treated, and the daycare was shut down forever. It’s important to note that the “facts” as the daughter presents them were found to be inaccurate - the kids who were much younger than the daughter says were kept outside for much longer than she suggests as well.
I remember the day it happened and it was BITTERLY cold - snots freezing in your nose cold - I was horrified.
/hijack
Eh, I think that would be a little beyond most five year olds, don’t you? I’m not saying kids don’t lie, but I can’t see some five year old doing it for shits and giggles, or just for a lark.
Good god, alice, what a cunt (the daughter)! I don’t care if it was only a “few seconds” and they had socks on-in that kind of weather, they’re damned lucky those kids didn’t end up losing toes.
Ten to one that kid’s mom smells money and is talking to a lawyer right now. She is the one who called in the press. It’s the American Dream.
Ah, no I think Red Ribbon Week costumes are OK because they’re not celebrating Satan’s Birthday.
But Johnny wanted to honor Satan and spent the whole day in his underwear.
HAW HAW HAW
I have a feeling the kid wasn’t embarrassed by what he was wearing at all, unless it was only after school when his mother started berating him for parading around the school in his underwear.
A little speculative whispering campaign as to exactly why the teacher was so eager to get a 5-year-old kid stripped to his undies is probably inevitable, and frankly deserved (if only for the gross idiocy of this act).
If I were in that parent’s situation, I would be thinking of solving the teacher’s problems with Corrective Phrenology.
Oversized or long boxer type shorts can be similar to jogging shorts, and even older boys wear knit/nylony athletic shorts under their jeans, so it’s all a muddle these days!
How many 5 year olds jog?
How many 5 year olds play tennis? Should we be skeptical of a report that a child was wearing “tennis shoes”?
By the way, for those of you worrying about the poor kid freezing his behind off in the chilly Oklahoma weather, right now it’s 84 degrees outside. If he was wearing pants (‘jogging pants’ as I’m familiar with them are sort of like sweatpants, only thinner) or even shorts and a t-shirt, that’s perfectly adequate clothing for running around school all day, as far as temperature goes.
Most kids go the school in their underwear, they just wear clothes over them. Wouldn’t running aroung in a just pair of briefs be a greater violation of the dress code than a costume? There is no excuse for what that teacher did and if she thinks that taking away clothing is an appropriate punishment for children she shouldn’t be allowed to teach children. Also I have to say if it had been a male teacher ordering a 5 year old girl to spend the day in her underwear he’d have been arrested before he got to his car. Did no other staff see the kid?
Um, see what? A kid in pants and a t-shirt in summer tempatures? I think it’s pretty well established that the boy was not in briefs, or even shorts. At 80+F. I’ll bet the kid would have had the costume off himself before long. I know I wouldn’t have wanted to sit in a warm classroom in a couple of full layers of clothing.
alphaboi867, please don’t resurrect old threads. I think the time for discussion of Halloween 2005 indignities has passed.
I’m closing this.