Pennsylvania school district may respond responsibly to feeding of dog biscuits to students, as opposed to Hawaii’s response to the same thing

by Larry Geller

A Pennsylvania school district says an aide has been suspended after she tricked students into eating pet snacks by telling them they were cookies.
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The aide has been suspended pending an internal investigation.

[Star-Advertiser, School: Aide told students pet treats were cookies, 6/7/2014]

Contrast this with a somewhat similar case in Hawaii in which a special education teacher allegedly washed out the mouth of one student with soap, fed another dog biscuits, and pushed a pencil point into the mouth of another. This was reported to the Board of Education in July of 2000, a time, incidentally, when the Board permitted testimony on that subject.

What happened to the Hawaii sped teacher accused of feeding a student dog biscuits?

Parents learned afterwards that the alleged perpetrator was simply moved to another school, and in fact, promoted.

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