[blparent] sheer terror

[Raquel Vega]

I agree with Marla. I'm glad she was able to calm down. I thought it nice of 
the teacher to try to make a mends for it, and apologize.
Raquel
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Raquel Vega
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From: "Marla Wertman" <marla.wertman at verizon.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 1:51 PM
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] sheer terror

> what is the point of showing a vidio like that to children? There
> doesn't seem to be any educational value in that.
> On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:40:33 -0700
> "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net> wrote:
>
>> Gab came home in tears yesterday.  At first I thought someone had hurt 
>> her
>> on the way home from the bus, then I thought the boy up the street was 
>> being
>> mean again.  She cried and cried and I couldn't understand a thing she 
>> was
>> saying.  Finally, she mumbled something about a video at school.
>> Finally after she calmed down, we got out of her that her teacher had 
>> shown
>> a realistic video that a grim reaper appeared to jump off the screen into
>> the classroom.  Well for some kids it might have been a funny video, but 
>> to
>> my child it was terrifying.
>> The teacher called me shortly after Gab got home.  He said all the kids 
>> were
>> laughing and then he looked at Gab... sheer terror.  The bell rang and 
>> she
>> darted quickly from the room.  He knew that he had made a giant mistake
>> showing it to the sensitive kids.
>> He apologized over and over to me and then talked to Gab for some time on
>> the phone until she finally calmed down.  It took some time.
>> V
>>
>>
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