School Accidentally Emails 'Hurt Feelings Report' to Parents

[Ken Burch]

Source: MSN

A school in Delaware will literally give you something to cry about - instead of sending parents a weekly newsletter, Lombardy Elementary School mistakenly emailed a snarky "Hurt Feelings Report." And, ironically, it hurt a lot of recipients' feelings.

"Repeated whining may lead to your file being stamped 'candy ass' or some other appropriate term," the sarcastic form states, and it only gets more condescending. Fields include "Is There Permanent Feeling Damage?" and "Did You Require a "Tissue" for Tears?" - with the options "Yes, "No," or "Multiple."



Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/family/school-accidentally-emails-hurt-feelings-report-to-parents/ar-BBpHUbz?OCID=ansmsnlife11

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This might explain part of the reason schools seem to be taking their own sweet time about dealing with bullying.

[Ken Burch]

1. Here is a close-up of the actual form:

http://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBpIbPq.img?h=1080&w=1920&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f

(sorry...can't find it in jpeg or png form yet).

[forest444]

3. Well, now we know what to give whoever needs to be fired for this.

And if they have an issue, give'em a tissue.

[Rebkeh]

2. Wtf?

Nice.

[Hoppy]

6. So some teacher has a few extra minutes and creates a form to hand out at the

faculty room. It gets forwarded and someone carelessly emails it to parents.

[Maynar]

4. Not new, of course.

Just Google "Butthurt Report Form."

[Feeling the Bern]

5. I have this photo on my computer and I send it as a meme on facebook to people

who whine about my political opinion and also whine when i tear their conservative logic to shreds.

[Ken Burch]

7. And that's fine.

It's an issue because these are the people who are supposed to be stopping bullying in the schools.

[jmowreader]

8. Why is this form structured exactly like an Army form?

[Ken Burch]

9. Probably started there.

Military types love stuff like that.

[jmowreader]

13. After I sent my message I went a-googling...

You can find the exact same form with the exact same writing that has a fake Department of the Army Form number.

[Democat]

10. Is this the same form that some on DU use for "White Tears"?

And other insults.

[Android3.14]

11. More anti-intellectual propaganda

Demonize educators.
Every job segment has its satire literature. This is hardly worth media attention except as part of an unwritten policy to cast education and educated people in a bad light in order to keep the rest of us stupid and fighting each other.

[Ken Burch]

14. Not attacking educators.

Raising the issue of what this might say about what these specific teachers in this place feel about bullying.

My father was a teacher, and I'd never denigrate teachers as a group.

[Judi Lynn]

15. Your post is appropriate. It would be absurd to hide it. Thanks. n/t

[Android3.14]

17. I'm not saying you are attacking, but that the article has an unfortunate impact

for a reason.

[hughee99]

18. It's a story because they emailed their "inside joke" to outsiders.

There's no shortage of stories about similar things that don't involve educators at all.

[freebrew]

12. School boards and supers are corrupt..

As for bullying, the biggest culprits here are the teacher's & admin's kids. With a big hail to the kids from wealthy families.

Our own super's kid was seen on FB with a joint. No action.
Yet, our school board passed the worst drug test bill I've ever seen.
It's supposed to be 'random' testing, yet the same 15 kids get called most every week.
They get positives and then when questioned and sent to another lab, nothing.

As we're fond of saying here: it's all about who you are...


on edit: I have no problem with joints, it's the difference in punishment I wanted to stress.

[malletgirl02]

16. Good Post

Also I had always had a theory that kids learn to bully from adults.

[Feeling the Bern]

22. Kids of Law Enforcement are just the worst. Violent, sociopathic, amoral and flat out

sadistic bullies of the worst ilk.

"You can't do nothing to me. My father's a cop."

I never had problems with kids of teachers. Admin's kids, on the other other, were some of my worst students in terms of behavior and academics.

"You can't do nothing to me. My parent's the principal and they can fire you."

[Bigmack]

19. With High School kids...

... like the seniors I taught for 30 years.... you can be a little more.... ummmm.... creative.

Like these stickers you can put on their papers...

[Blasphemer]

20. Seems like much ado about nothing to me

Given that this joke form and ones like it are commonly shared online and used in various forums, it seems likely that its existence on some staff member's computer had nothing to do with anything that occurs at the school itself. If the form was edited in a way that made it clear it wanted to poke fun at students or parents, I could see the issue. As it is, it just seems like someone's off-time fun got accidentally sent to parents. An explanation and apology are clearly warranted but I don't think that this incident, by itself, says anything about the school's attitude toward bullying.

[Feeling the Bern]

21. School Admin are some of the worst bullies in the world. Sociopathic too

Superintendents bully everyone because they are in charge and have no one truly above them.

The waged admin staff (receptionists, payroll, HR) bully the teachers because all they have to do is run to the principal and complain about something. Instantly, there will be movement to get rid of the teacher behind the teacher's back.

Principals bully and beat their teachers in quiet submission on a daily basis.

Let's not forget the parents who view the teachers as their personal employees, overpaid babysitters and unworthy of their position because "teaching isn't a hard job," "anyone can do it," and "if you can't do, teach."

Thank you Republicans and conservatives for reforming education where the teacher is the enemy of admin, politicians, ed-biz assholes, parents and students.

[radicalliberal]

23. You should read the comments at the link. As evidenced by most of the comments, --

-- this country loves bullies!