A longtime high school teacher of French and Spanish is suing the Mariemont, Ohio, school district for having pressured her to resign in the face of what she calls her phobia, a "fear of kids" disorder, which she says should be protected by disability-discrimination law.
Maria Waltherr-Willard, 61, had been reassigned to teach some junior high students, but doctors said she suffered hypertension, nightmares, chest pains and vomiting when around the younger-age children.
As a teacher sure there may be some kids you don't cotton to for one reason or another but a good teacher tries his or her best to get through to those students.
Was I ever afraid of students? Not really though there was one high school student who did his best to intimidate teachers. He was always bringing gun magazines to school; didn't care much for school or homework and was surly. How did I feel? Not afraid but I was fairly new to Thailand at the time; had no idea what was what there and so you could say I was a bit apprehensive that he might one day bring a gun to school. Instead he dropped out. Small mercies, eh?
I did have a student bring a gun to school once. Well, almost to school. He set up at a restaurant half a block away with some of his friends. It quickly got reported to the school who had security on it immediately. Seems the boy was having problems with some students from another school. They all showed up a little later - about 30 of them.
The school had a specific person who's job it was to straighten out conflict situations and he did a good job of quelling any fears and avoiding having the confrontation turn ugly. Teenagers and raging testosterone. Tribal instinct. Millions of years old and not about to change much.
See ya, eh.
Bob
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