All parents send their kids off to school nervously hoping that they’ll be welcomed with open, loving arms by the teacher with whom they will spend their waking hours. I’d venture to say that most of the time, it works out. But of course, there are always “bad apples” in any profession, and one Miami, Florida kindergarten teacher is now under fire after a concerned mom sent her son to school with a recording device.
The Miami Herald reports that Kandy Escotto placed the recording device in her 5-year-old’s backpack after her son told her that he was “a bad boy,” and said that’s what his teacher called him. Escotto first went to the school principal at Banyan Elementary, but was told she needed proof. So, she sent the recording device to school with her son and then sat down to listen to 32 hours of audio from his kindergarten teacher.
What she heard appalled her and also gave her the proof she needed. In parts of the recording placed on Facebook by the Miami Herald, kindergarten teacher Rosalba Suarez, who the Herald reports was named Teacher of the Year this year, can be heard calling the boy and another child “losers,” and she repeatedly tells the boy, “I feel sorry for your mom”, and also says, “She’s driving me crazy.”
Umm…WHAT? I don’t THINK SO, lady! Can you imagine how you would feel if this were your child?
You can listen to about a minute and a half of the recording below; Suarez’s tone is beyond condescending and rude, and combined with her words and attitude, most certainly did damage to the poor child. I found it very difficult to listen to, and by the end I was steaming mad.
Miami-Dade kindergarten teacher calls student a ‘loser’
“I feel sorry for your mom. I really do.” A kindergarten teacher was caught calling a 5-year-old a “loser” after his mom secretly recorded the class. https://hrld.us/2KTJjCs
Posted by Miami Herald on Thursday, July 5, 2018
You can hear Escotto’s son Aaron meekly responding to his kindergarten teacher, and his little voice is heartbreaking. When he is heard telling her that he doesn’t want to do an assignment, Suarez says, “I don’t care, don’t do it, you think I care? Whatever your mom wants to see, honey, whatever your mom wants to see, you tell me what she wants to see a nice job or she wants to see a loser’s job.”
