There are outstanding teachers out there, doing everything they can to help their students learn, or with more personal problems. But there are also other teachers who should not work as such and who seem to have even some hatred against their students and innocent children. This is the case of this Reddit post, where a teacher in Georgia reprimanded a student for dress code violations, which ended up humiliating her by raising her shirt in front of all the students. This is behavior that no one should ever engage in with another person, but that teacher really crossed too many lines.
Redditor kckasscbass shared on r/legaladvice this disturbing case. OP says that their teenage daughter attends a Georgia middle school, where a teacher called her to point out she had a dress code violation because her skirt was too short. However, OP’s daughter showed that her skirt was the length indicated in the rules. The teacher accused her student of having lowered her skirt, and before anything else, this teacher lifted the teenager’s shirt to check the length. All this was in front of all the classmates, and several students indicated that they saw the belly and a bit of OP’s daughter’s bra because of the teacher’s action. OP asked for advice on how to deal with this problem with the principal and how she could make sure that this incident never happens again, to which the comments responded with:
You talk to the principal about it. There’s not really anything else to say or advise until you hear what the principal has to say.
MacaroonFormal6817
As much as I hate to say this, go to the police station (the real one – not associated with the school) and ask to write up a complete police report of what happened. Because you said the teacher grabbed your daughter’s shirt that’s enough for assault and maybe battery.
dasWibbenator
Get a police report.
Take the police report to the district’s Title IX Officer (likely HR for all staff) and ask to have a meeting.
Please research the terms Title IX and be prepared for a lot of pikachu faces. Please also be aware that Title IX protects your daughter for discrimination after the fact, too.
I’d consult an educational lawyer after getting the police report.
The OP comments that their children have been going to the same school for years and that this particular teacher is always a problem. She tends to bully students whom she doesn’t like. Currently, the OP will see if the school’s principal will step up on this incident or if they must escalate this outrageous situation with the police.
