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Hot Sauce Teacher Sentenced

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I just read this on CNN news and, well, have to say I think this is rediculous...

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Hot Sauce Teacher Sentenced
Teacher Gets Community Service, Probation

POSTED: Wednesday, October 7, 2009
UPDATED: 5:02 pm EDT October 7, 2009



MIAMI -- 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.

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While that charge came with a possibility of five years in prison, Tagle was sentenced Wednesday to two years of probation and 100 hours of community service, after which the conviction will be removed from records.

"To think that after all the care that I've taken to protect him, that someone intentionally did something to harm him, it really bothers me," said Anabel Serralta, the student's mother.

Serralta's plea came just before the sentencing.

"Whatever happened was not done intentionally," said Tagle outside the courtroom after the sentencing.

During the trial, Tagle told the jury she loves hot sauce on all her food, including in her soda. Her student drank from her can of spiked soda inadvertently, she had said.

"This has been very dramatic," Tagle said. "I didn’t tell my friends. I kept it to myself. It was embarrassing. I've never been in this situation. I’ve never even been to court for a traffic ticket."'

Tagle initially accepted a deal to plead guilty, then rescinded to take her chances at trial.

After Judge Diane Ward sentenced Tagle, the student’s father, Mario Serralta, chastised her in open court for a sentence he perceived as too lenient.

"It really, really sends a bad message everywhere," Mario Serralta said. "Unfortunately, I think the same thing that happened in this court is what happened with Ms. Tagle, that after being exposed to so many difficult situations, you here in this criminal court, her dealing with autistic kids, you get desensitized."

Miami-Dade Judge Diane Ward shot back from the bench.

"You are absolutely wrong, sir," Ward said. "I am very sensitive to what happened here, but I have to be cognizant of the conscious of the community."

Tagle quit her position at the Bob Graham Educational Center in Miami Lakes last spring.
 
Read the whole article. If her students were all autistic then she was out of line. Would love to party with her though. :)
 
I am now wondering what hot sauce she put in her soda...probably tabasco...

I missed the part about "autistic" and know little about the subject so I won't comment...
 
Autistic kids or not, this is just stupid. Student drinks from her soda "inadvertantly" so teacher's career is over? Nice. I sentence the kid in question to drinking a whole bottle of my hab sauce, the wimp father of the kid I sentence to 30 days without wearing a skirt, and the judge gets a whole hab plant shoved up her ass.

Salute', TB.
 
texas blues said:
Autistic kids or not, this is just stupid. Student drinks from her soda "inadvertantly" so teacher's career is over? Nice. I sentence the kid in question to drinking a whole bottle of my hab sauce, the wimp father of the kid I sentence to 30 days without wearing a skirt, and the judge gets a whole hab plant shoved up her ass.

Salute', TB.
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Welcome to Florida. That is all.
 
Sickmont said:
Welcome to Florida. That is all.
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HAHAHAHAHAHA... "Thats funny right there" - Larry the cable guy

The teacher likes hot sauce in her drinks?.. anyone else think she has a drinking problem & should not be around kids? :crazy:
 
be careful of anything you do ever again. Fart around the wrong person and you could end up fined.

Hopefully no kids try to eat a hot pepper off of the plants in my front yard by the sidewalk.
 
Now I understand that she did this so no one would drink her pop, but she didn't feed it to them and I bet they learned a lesson also. So she defends her drink, some kid comes up and drinks it, and SHE loses her job. Not sure I would have gone that far. If she gave it to the kid as a cruel joke, yes by all means fire her. What if she likes spicy pop? Would she still lose her job because some kid tried to drink it?
 
Had to do it.... :D

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Pretty soon, ya won't be able to eat hot food at work as it'll be a threat to Nat'l Security.
 
texas blues said:
Autistic kids or not, this is just stupid. Student drinks from her soda "inadvertantly" so teacher's career is over? Nice.
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Did u guys read the same article that I did? She was obviously spiking her soda because she knew that the kids were repeatedly drinking it when she was gone from the room. If this was a normal class I would say to put Naga powder in it and light them up right, however, I'm assuming that her students were all autistic.

My buddy Wiki says that autism is "characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior." This explains the kid's behavior and why she couldn't get through to them that it was not allowed for them to drink her soda. She should have taken it with her when she left the room or locked it up in her desk drawer.

The problem with spiking it with anything spicy is that the kids might think that they were sick and would become alarmed. This is probably what happened. She had an epic FAIL in performing the specialized job in which she was hired to do. Is that clear enough?
 
I am going to give my two cents here just because I have a child that is both mentally and physically handicapped. If my child would have done this, all that would have been said to him is that is what you get for drinking someones elses drink.

The goal of todays education system is to allow these children to attend classes with normal children to aid with their social interaction skills instead of attending school and only being in a class with other "disabled" children. They also get a buddy that is "normal" to help them with things. Autistic children are actually pretty intelligent, they just don't communicate very well. And they are also very easily talked into things by other children or adults.

I don't feel the teacher was in the wrong for what she has done. If she likes hot sauce in her soda, so be it. If the kid decides to drink out of it, that is a risk that child takes. To me it would be like firing her and charging her with this becasue one of them got sick from taking her drink after she drank it. These special needs children often have weak immune systems and illnesses are harder on them. If the parents would teach their kid not to drink after people, or take their drinks, this would not have happened. I personally refuse to drink after someone else because you never know what they have.
 
rds040800 said:
The goal of todays education system is to allow these children to attend classes with normal children to aid with their social interaction skills instead of attending school and only being in a class with other "disabled" children. They also get a buddy that is "normal" to help them with things. Autistic children are actually pretty intelligent, they just don't communicate very well. And they are also very easily talked into things by other children or adults.
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This paragraph sounds contradictory. Would you, as a parent of a autistic child, want to place him in a class with a "normal" buddy that could (and most probably would) dare him to do strange things? We all know how 7 year olds are because we were all ones once ourselves. Definitely a bad idea!
 
I do think it makes a difference that they are autistic. Its hard to judge whether or not she done intentionally, my guess is yeah she did. If she did she should be fully reprimanded. A teacher who teaches, especially to autistic children should be able to keep her "cool" and not get "heated" in such a way. (Pun intended.)
 
I'm pretty old fashioned I guess. My first question is why a teacher or student would have a soda pop in a classroom. It's not a lunch room, it's not a break room, it's not a picnic. It's a classroom where teaching and learning is supposed to be taking place. Snacks and Sodas are done outside the classroom, not in it.

Had that been followed as it was for about 50 years, then the incident would have never taken place.

As a teacher of autistic children, she should know better than to leave any type of personal food or drink out on her desk while absent from the classroom.

For an autistic child to be "burnt" by hot sauce is no laughing matter. The child could have just as well put it into his eye somehow. Are we now putting our own abilities as a judging factor on an autistic child? Just because you and I may not think of putting out fingers into a hot sauce laced drink and then rubbing our eyes, doesn't mean the autistic child wouldn't, or should be left in a position that he might do so.

Part of that teachers job is to ensure that the children within her care don't have the chance to harm themselves via the actions of others, including the actions of the teacher herself.

Had the teacher kept her personal drinks and food out of the classroom environment in the first place, this couldn't have happened.

I also think the Judge was too lenient. I would have taken her licence to teach away from her. I would have made the repetition of the incident impossible for her. I doubt she learned anything from this outcome.
 
FloridaSun said:
I also think the Judge was too lenient. I would have taken her licence to teach away from her. I would have made the repetition of the incident impossible for her. I doubt she learned anything from this outcome.
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I actually think that her probation sentence was about right. Due to the publicity, her teaching career is done whether she likes it or not and I do agree that she has no remorse.
 
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