COBBLE HILL,
Brooklyn -- Disturbing video of a teacher's berating her first-grade student and tearing up her homework is raising new questions about
Success Academy. In the first-grade classes at the
Success Academy Cobble Hill charter school, there's a regularly scheduled math instruction time called
Number Stories.
Hidden video camera recording of one teacher during Number Stories has provoked a strong reaction among many viewers because of its intense, demeaning and abusive nature. "
Count," teacher
Charlotte Dial orders a girl in her class, captured on the surreptitiously recorded video. When the first grader can't perform as expected, Dial rips up a worksheet that the girl had completed for the project in front of her and her classmates, and yells, "Go to the calm down chair and sit! There's nothing that infuriates me more than when you don't do what's on your paper!" The teacher then addresses the rest of the class. "
Somebody come up and show me how she should have counted to get her answer that was one in a split." Another child is then seen in the video providing the correct answer, to which Dial then says to the girl, "Do not go back to your seat and show me one thing and then don't do it here. You're confusing everybody."Dial adds that she's "very upset and very disappointed."The video was recorded by an assistant teacher who has since left the school. She does not want her name used, but told
PIX11 News that she made the recording because she was tired of seeing the kind of behavior that she recorded Dial engaged in.The assistant teacher said that sort of interaction with students would happen every time there was a Number Stories exercise in their classroom. Dial is regarded by the
Success Academy Charter School network as a model teacher for the whole school system.
On Friday, Success Academy arranged a pep rally-style news conference at its headquarters on
Wall Street. There, Dial stood at the front of dozens upon dozens of principals, teachers and parents, called together for a press conference about the video, which had initially aired on the
New York Times website. At Success Academy
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Gotcha Tactics'. This viral video of a teacher berating a student is a window on the charter school debate. Student's mistake causes elementary school teacher's anger. A video is taking Twitter users by storm because of the interaction between an elementary student and her teacher
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In the video, a first- glade classroom is sitting in a circle going over math equations.
The teacher asks one of her students to explain to the class how she solved a particular problem, but it seems the child is a bit confused.
She starts counting anyways, but pauses and looks at her teacher.
It's at that moment that the teacher takes the child's paper, rips it in half and replies, "Go to the calm-down chair and sit."
Charter school teacher rips up and belittles first-grader’s paper in shocking video
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Disturbing video of teacher yelling at 1st-grader raises questions about NYC's biggest charter school network
In 2014, an assistant teacher at Success Academy Cobble Hill secretly filmed her colleague, Charlotte Dial, scolding one of her students after the young girl failed to answer a question correctly. The children's faces have been blurred and their names obscured to protect their privacy.
Today, the New York Times published undercover video taken at a Success Academy elementary school in Brooklyn that’s part of the controversial charter network known for “no excuses” discipline. It shows a first grade teacher berating and humiliating a girl who stumbles when solving a math problem. The teacher, Charlotte Dial, rips up the student’s paper and barks, “Go to the calm-down chair and sit!,” though by all indications, the girl was already sitting calmly. “You’re confusing everybody,” the teacher says, her voice seething. “I’m very upset and very disappointed.” I found the video shocking and disturbing; other parents I know said they couldn’t bear to watch the whole thing. According to reporter
Kate Taylor, an assistant teacher who was concerned by Dial’s “daily harsh treatment of the children” filmed the scene surreptitiously. Success Academy’s founder,
Eva Moskowitz, as well as some of the parents whose children attend the school insisted that Dial’s behavior was anomalous. “But interviews with 20 current and former
Success teachers suggest that while Ms.
- published: 13 Feb 2016
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