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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Handing down life lessons


Police: Conn. teacher made boy eat from garbage
Associated Press

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — A kindergarten teacher in Connecticut has been arrested for allegedly forcing a 5-year-old boy to eat food the child had thrown in a garbage can.

Sixty-seven-year-old Anne O’Donnell, a teacher at Park City Magnet School in Bridgeport, was arrested Tuesday on a charge of risk of injury to a minor.

School officials say the charge stems from an incident last week when the boy apparently tossed out his lunch of chicken nuggets and a banana from the school cafeteria.

The teacher is accused of retrieving the items from the garbage can and forcing the boy to eat them in front of her.

O’Donnell has been released on a promise to appear in court.

Wouldn't you know it? One of our nation's fine educators tries to teach a student a valuable lesson about wasting resources and she gets slapped with a lawsuit. Terrible. It's not like eating out of the garbage is that bad. Homeless people do it all the time to save money for booze.

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