A teacher convicted of child abuse after her students drank a soda laced with hot sauce will not be going to prison.Sylvia Tagle was found guilty of one count of child abuse after, prosecutors said, she intentionally allowed children at Bob Graham Educational Center to drink the spicy soda in order to teach them a lesson about not taking her drink.Uh, is this a tempest in a teapot?
The story doesn't provide the grade-level of the students (which might not correspond to the level of maturity of the students), but apparently the teacher added "hot sauce" to her soda, which presumably resided on her desk during the school day.
Another presumption was that her students were in the habit of drinking her soda during moments of the teacher's inattention , or more likely absence.
The charges imply that she deliberately added "hot sauce" to her drink in order to "booby trap" her soda. The reason? To keep her students from drinking her soda.
The question sees to pivot on whether she deliberately hotted-up her Pepsi to dissuade her students from drinking out of her cup, or whether she 'typically' hotted-up her Pepsi because she likes it that way.
Drinking even unadulterated Pepsi (no evidence that this was her soda of choice) seems, in itself, sufficiently teeth-gritting. Anyone who regularly adulterates her soda with hot sauce for her own enjoyment is suspect in my eyes. Ey-eeeeeew!
Which undermines credence of her defense I'm thinking.
Oh the other hand, if the little ragamuffins were slurping from her slurpy uninvited, I'm thinking You Go, Girl!
The Minor Monsters ought to keep their noses in their school-books, not in Teacher's 7-11 Monster Cup. How better to bring the lesson home, other than to make it a zero-sum Moment?
"Pet my dog? Sure. Read my Cliff-notes? Maybe. Drink our of my Pepsi Mug? Only at your own risk."
If she did, indeed, deliberately booby-trap her 16 oz Pepsi by making it taste BAD, I'm thinking that she ay have taught her students a far more useful lesson than the Three R's. This is NOT "A Bad Thing" that she did.
If it were up to e, I would give her a 12% bonus this year. Ten percent for living up to the expectations of being a Teacher, and two percent for originality.
And these yahoos want to put her on probation?
Pfahh! A pox on all their houses!
I'm sure glad that I, or my children, or my children's children, don't live in Miami. Those folks are all folked up.
Bunch a little beggars -- Not only the students, but also the School Administration, and the School Board.
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