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Sharon McEachern
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Sharon commented on the article |And to make sure the executed is truly dead requires an execution doctor. This is controversial, with state medical associations threatening to take away physicians' licenses to practice if they participate in state executions:
And, why does Virginia not allow family members (of the person being executed) to be witnesses to the death?
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Sharon commented on the article |Yes, I remember the Florida Kindergarten mess. It happened in Port St. Lucie, FL and it involved a little 5-year-old boy, Alex Barton. He was not arrested, but his experince was terribly traumatic. His teacher, Wendy Portillo, led her kindergartners to vote 14-to-2 to kick out Alex from his class. The teacher made the boy stand in front of the class and prompted his classmates to tell how they felt about his behavior. Earlier, Alex had kicked a table leg and threw some crayons -- appropriate behavior for a time out, not to be humiliated in front of the class and then thrown out forever. Alex also has autism. The school board suspended this teacher without pay for one year and took away her tenure. But now, it's changed. Even though a judge ruled against her in her appeal, somehow she's got her tenure back and will teach again in the Fall. Another class of vulnerable kindergartners under her control. Ethic Soup has an excellent article on this at:
And there's another good article on little Evelyn Towry in Sandpoint, Idaho, being handcuffed, arrested and jailed by police. What was it that started the broohaha for the third-grader? She didn't want to take off her favorite jacket. The teachers were so aggravated over this that they ended up holding down both her arms and legs -- leaving thumb size bruises. It's simply disgusting that we have such teachers, You can read another good article on Evelyn Towry's experience at:
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