The Hancock-Henderson Quill, Inc.
To The Editor:
I was positively appalled that Union Elementary School teacher, Lisa Lox, got off scot-free after humiliating a defenseless sixth grade boy beyond description.
If this had been a male teacher and a female student, he would have traded his Social Studies textbook for Smith & Wesson handcuffs by dinner time same day.
Even if the PG-rated version of the event is the is the correct one-that she allegedly ordered the boy to strip only to his waist-you do not tell students to remove clothing in academic classrooms...period!
But now that she has gotten away with it, every teacher in that school district who was tempted to act similarly now has a green light to do so, putting all students at risk of suffering the same gross humiliation and invasion of privacy.
Gone now, are the days when a mom's biggest worry was whether her boy will leave his lunchbox at school; now she must worry if he'll leave his basic human dignity there, too.
At least I was pleased to read States Attorney Ray Cavanaugh's severe words for the teacher's actions.
It was good that she was suspended, investigated, and blasted six-ways-to-Sunday by a county prosecutor.
I'm just not sure it's good enough. And I have a feeling that the boy and his parents feel the same.
Roderick Senter, Jr.
Fairborn, OH 45324