H.S. Teacher Fired for Disparaging Student

(CBS)  A Florida school board fired a high school teacher for erupting into nearly half-hour, profanity-laced verbal altercation with a special education student in which she disparaged her intelligence, according to an Orlando Sentinel report Wednesday.

The Seminole County School Board voted unanimously to fire 43-year-old Cydney Abrams, who taught an exceptional-education class since 2002. Last March, two students recorded a classroom argument between Abrams and another female student, which ended with both exchanging profanity and insults like "idiot."

The students used an MP3 player and a cell phone to record the argument.

Listen to the classroom altercation

Abrams had been suspended since the incident before the board voted for her dismissal and had been disciplined twice before for verbal altercations with a student and an adult, according to the report.

State Administrative Judge Bruce McKibben had recommended Abram's reinstatement, saying that she had admitted to making a mistake and was unlikely to have a repeat incident, according to the report.
A Florida school board fired a high school teacher for erupting into nearly half-hour, profanity-laced verbal altercation with a special education student in which she disparaged her intelligence, according to an Orlando Sentinel report Wednesday

[proudmilvet]

You're right. I graduated High School in 1968 & most of the Teachers i knew we're complete power hungry A**holes!

[proudmilvet]

You're right. I graduated High School in 1968 & most of the Teachers i knew we're complete power hungry A**holes!

[6591Hou]

It was a setup where the students ambushed the teacher - that's why they had all of their recording equipment ready.

[christoph415]

That student was out of control and should have been sent to the principal's office immediately. However, I don't think that the teacher deserves to be fired over this.

[ToolMangler1]

I agree

[MARIE_GILREATH]

Little wonder we have generations of children who grow into out of control adults. In the "Wild Kingdom" the adults teach the young how to live together with the others and if they do not learn the lessons they are either killed or exiled. Some where along the way we got too civilized for our own rational brains. We decided we did not need to teach our young, we would reason with them. Where is the idiot who dreamed up the idea of reasoning with an irrational and undeveloped child brain. Our children are lost and frighten and we, when we are not sitting on our hands, are trying to shove pills down their throats and trying to blame it all on the schools. It is so sad. How can one be a parent when one never had a parent? That little girl is screaming for somebody to please help her, to please tell her what to do. That teacher hears her and is saying I wish I could help you but I cannot help you because I need help to help you and nobody is going to give it to me either.

[squeakof2006]

I think she was pretty calm. The student was in the wrong here for causing this disruption. This Jessica should be removed from that school. That teacher was wrong to call the student an idiot and for letting that get as bad as it did, but I've seen it happen before. This Jessica is going to be in for a rude awakening if she does this later in life. I hope that this teacher can find another job elsewhere and will go on to positively impact other students. She was trying to give this girl a wake-up call. I got one from a science teacher in high school. Was it fun to hear? Nope. Needed? Yeah, it was. This teacher was trying to help this student, but some people just don't want it.

[tsigili]

Thanks for helping the teacher escape the ravages of public education. now she can go on to a better job, in another field.

The more that follow her lead, the better, until there are no longer any teachers out there.

Anyone getting an education degree, today, is a fool.

[Robstah888]

You know, I can't really remember that many high school teachers that I had that weren't power-happy, know-it-all, a**holes.... I think for the most part they're resentful about their own life's decisions.