Re: “West Kootenay teacher reprimanded for threatening, shaming students” (Feb. 1)
As reported, the reprimand of Dec. 2017 is for “several confrontations in classes that left his students feeling threatened and embarrassed.”
It is not clear if all “his” students felt threatened and embarrassed or just the five who complained in 2015-16.
Whining teenagers and frustrated teachers are all-familiar characters in today’s high-school drama, but the article fails to develop them.
As a result, readers were lining up with comments on Facebook. But within days, “comments were closed because several were defaming both the teacher as well as the affected students.”
The Star just chucked in the whole thing, because to them it was too-rocking-the-boat and Facebook is busy elsewhere.
But, so far, a letter still seems to work.
Claus Lao Schunke,
Nelson