Teacher discipline takes various forms with school districts. From warnings and file notes to suspensions and firings.
Pasco County recently had to make the call on a Wesley Chapel High special education teacher who had told a group of black students that President-elect Trump could have them deported “back to Africa.” That’s appalling.
The superintendent, Kurt Browning, called the incident “incredibly inappropriate”–but shy of a firing offense. The teacher was given a three-day suspension and transferred to Mitchell High. Transfers-as-discipline are not exactly unheard of.
I doubt I’m the only one who finds such discipline disturbing. I think a lot of parents of Mitchell High students would feel the same way. Transferring a problem is not addressing–let alone solving–it.