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<DIV>Exactly, Rose.</DIV>
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<DIV>Those students who are struggling to achieve, in spite of their learning handicaps, are being told by Ms. Summer Larsen that they are failures. <BR><BR>
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<DIV><BR>On Nov 16, 2012, at 5:17 PM, "Rosemary Huskey" <<A href="mailto:donaldrose@cpcinternet.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:donaldrose@cpcinternet.com">donaldrose@cpcinternet.com</A>> wrote:<BR><BR></DIV>
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<div class=yiv1417097390MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">I am sick as I read this. I think if might be useful, or at the very least informative to Ms. Summer Larsen, if she heard from folks in North Idaho who have had the benefit of caring, compassionate, and mentally healthy teachers. She is a monster. Her email address can be found here: <A href="https://sites.google.com/a/cassiaschools.org/declo_elementary/faculty-staff" rel=nofollow target=_blank>https://sites.google.com/a/cassiaschools.org/declo_elementary/faculty-staff</A> . It might also be useful if the school principal, Mrs. <SPAN id=misspell-3 class=mark>Hunsaker</SPAN>, who apparently lacks the mother wit to identify the horrendous abuse taking place under her leadership had her own failures acknowledged. Her email address can be found on the page above. Unluckily for them (and sadly for the State of Idaho), the national press
has picked up the story. It is to be hoped that the notoriety will end Ms. Larsen’s pathetic career. One hardly knows what to think about the rest of the faculty who apparently continued business as usual in this hell hole masquerading at as school.</SPAN></div>
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<div class=yiv1417097390MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <A href="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com">vision2020-bounces@moscow.com</A> [<A href="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com">mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com</A>] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Tom Hansen<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, November 16, 2012 12:18 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Moscow Vision 2020<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] This is Wrong on So Many Levels . . .</SPAN></div></DIV></DIV>
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<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 11.25pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><SPAN id=misspell-6 class=mark>DECLO</SPAN> • Fourth-graders who failed to achieve reading goals had their faces scribbled on with permanent marker by other students last week at <SPAN id=misspell-7 class=mark>Declo</SPAN> Elementary School — under the supervision of their teacher.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 11.25pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in">Some parents and Cassia County School District leadership are now decrying the consequences for the nine students, some of whom have learning problems.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 11.25pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in">When Cindy Hurst’s 10-year-old son arrived home from school Nov. 5, his entire face, hairline to chin, was scribbled on in red marker — including his eyelids. He also had green, red and purple scribble marks over the red, and his face was scratched by a marker that had a rough edge.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 11.25pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in">“He was humiliated, he hung his head and wanted to go wash his face,” said Hurst. “He knows he’s a slow reader. Now he thinks he should be punished for it.”</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 11.25pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in">Hurst said her son is a quiet, tender-hearted boy who is always “extremely worried about pleasing his teacher.”</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 11.25pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in">“I want to see positive changes made at the school and I’m not after anyone’s job,” she said.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 11.25pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in">Teacher Summer Larsen, who has taught at the school for six years, did not respond to a request by the Times-News for an interview.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 11.25pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in">But District Superintendent <SPAN id=misspell-8 class=mark>Gaylen</SPAN> <SPAN id=misspell-9 class=mark>Smyer</SPAN> confirmed what took place in her classroom, though he declined to name Larsen.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 11.25pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in">The 21 students in the class have Accelerated Reading goals where they read a set number of books in a given time frame, <SPAN id=misspell-10 class=mark>Smyer</SPAN> said.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 11.25pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in">Larsen allowed the students to choose their own incentive to meet the reading goal. The class chose to have students who did not meet the goal either stay inside at recess until the goal was met, or have their faces written on by their classmates who met their goals.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 11.25pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in">Nine of the students in the class did not meet their goals. Of those, six chose to have their faces marked on and three chose to forgo recess.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 11.25pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in">“Although all the students in the class agreed to the incentive, once it occurred it was not so well received. Nor should it have been,” <SPAN id=misspell-11 class=mark>Smyer</SPAN> said.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 11.25pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in">Administrators believe the students’ incentives may have been inspired by a recent PTO activity at which <SPAN id=misspell-12 class=mark>Declo</SPAN> Elementary Principal <SPAN id=misspell-13 class=mark>Rebecca</SPAN> <SPAN id=misspell-14 class=mark>Hunsaker</SPAN> allowed staff to paint her face and students to paint her hair, <SPAN id=misspell-15 class=mark>Smyer</SPAN> said.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 11.25pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><SPAN id=misspell-16 class=mark>Hunsaker</SPAN> did not respond to phone calls from the Times-News Thursday.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 11.25pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in">“What occurred with a principal is not the same when it occurs with a child,” <SPAN id=misspell-17 class=mark>Smyer</SPAN> said. “This is a serious concern.”</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 11.25pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><U>Parents’ Opinions Split</U></div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 11.25pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in">Not every parent agrees with <SPAN id=misspell-18 class=mark>Smyer</SPAN>. Karla Christensen’s daughter, who made her reading goal, is in Larsen’s fourth-grade class.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 11.25pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in">Christensen sometimes helps out in Larsen’s classroom and she said Larsen puts in extra effort — playing classical music and wearing a microphone so she <SPAN id=misspell-19 class=mark>doesn</SPAN>’t have to raise her voice to the children.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 11.25pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in">“I don’t feel like this was bullying. Bullying has a malicious intent. This was someone trying to get them motivated,” Christensen said. “I think it upset the parents more than the students.”</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 11.25pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in">Christensen said if her daughter had come home with similar marks, she would have felt it was a reflection on her own parenting for not making sure her daughter reached her goal.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 11.25pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in">“I think (Larsen)is just a very creative teacher who was trying to do something to motivate the students and it went astray,” Christensen said.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 11.25pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><SPAN id=misspell-20 class=mark>LeRoy</SPAN> Robinson, a grandfather of two of the marked-up students, said Larsen made a “poor choice and basically, it was bullying.”</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 11.25pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in">“I think children should feel safe at school and know the adults there will protect them,” he said.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 11.25pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in">Robinson said the children had their faces marked on in the morning. They had to leave it on all day, but were told to wash it off before they went home.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 11.25pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in">“It was a humiliation because they had to wear it all day and other kids were asking them about it and laughing at them,” he said.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 11.25pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in">The marker was hard to wash off, <SPAN id=misspell-21 class=mark>LeRoy</SPAN>’s wife, Karla, said. Both their grandchildren suffer from self-esteem issues and one child has learning problems, she said.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 11.25pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in">“Most of these kids were totally embarrassed and wanted to hide it from their parents, but the marker <SPAN id=misspell-22 class=mark>didn</SPAN>’t wash off,” Karla Robinson said.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 11.25pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in">Children who rode a bus home with junior high and high school students then suffered further humiliation, she said.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 11.25pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in">As a reward a child should never be allowed to belittle, make fun of or hurt someone else, she said.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 11.25pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><SPAN id=misspell-23 class=mark>Smyer</SPAN> said he could not confirm if the teacher faced disciplinary action, but parents reported she was absent from the classroom Nov. 7-9 and back in the classroom on Nov. 12.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 11.25pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><SPAN id=misspell-24 class=mark>Smyer</SPAN> said the district received some complaints from parents, while others were supportive.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 11.25pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in">Although teachers are allowed some latitude in class, he said, this incident comes down to an issue of safety in the classroom and school environment.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 11.25pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in">“There are things there that we questioned,” <SPAN id=misspell-25 class=mark>Smyer</SPAN> said.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 11.25pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in">Hurst said she has since removed her child from the situation.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 11.25pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in">“I am really saddened that the teacher <SPAN id=misspell-26 class=mark>didn</SPAN>’t use better judgment, as well as the principal when she learned about it,” Hurst said. “They marked the children as being less.”</div></DIV>
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