I teach my child to respect and listen. What is his teacher teaching him? I'm not sure if I'm being overly protective, but my son has come home from school in tears. He's an excellent student who has never gotten in trouble, but it affects him when these things happen to his classmates. Is this teacher's behavior inappropriate?
This insensitive teacher's shaming of her students needs to be stopped. I suggest that you contact several other parents of kids in your son's class and arrange a time to get together to talk about this teacher's harmful behavior. Draft a group position statement on her acts of humiliation and ask to meet with her in a cover letter. If you cannot compel her to stop punishing the kids in this manner, take your grievances as a group to the school's principal. There is strength in numbers. Keep moving up the line of power in your school system if you do not receive satisfaction. Regardless of this teacher's possible attributes as an educator, her acts of humiliating her students in the manner you described render her unfit to teach kids. I am pleased that you are going to take appropriate action. Even though your son hasn't been directly punished by this teacher, you've seen how her insensitive actions have damaged your son emotionally.