TEACHER ARRESTED!, for giving student a wedgie Options

[illumineering]

http://www.wgrz.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=36751

ALBANY, N.Y. -- A yank on a child's underwear has a teacher in big trouble.

Albany police have charged 41-year-old Mark Holley of Scotia with endangering the welfare of a child for giving a student a wedgie. Holley's a teacher at New Covenant Charter School in Albany.

Police say that during summer school, while a 10-year-old New Covenant student was in the bathroom, Holley grabbed the child's underwear and pulled it up.

The student's mother reported the incident to the school, but police were not notified until January. The arrest came after an investigation where police interviewed both the child and the teacher.

Do you think the teacher should have been arrested? It's odd that this happened in summer school and didn't get reported for 6 months.

[*Blow_Don't_SUCK*]

Well it is kinda weird that a teacher would give a student a wedgie. I mean, don't they know better than that? I think the teacher should get fired but not sent to jail.

[Chii]

I hate it when schools keep things under wraps. I can think of one particular, "prestigious" school that lies about their students being the top picks for college and having the best department for a certain subject. I will not name the school but I hope someday it gets uncovered.

I think something should be done to the teacher AND the school. That is inapporpriate for a teacher. A child's underwear should not be touched by a teacher. The teacher should at least be suspended without pay, being arrested seems a bit much.

[*tahco_monster*]

I hate it when schools keep things under wraps. I can think of one particular, "prestigious" school that lies about their students being the top picks for college and having the best department for a certain subject. I will not name the school but I hope someday it gets uncovered.

I think something should be done to the teacher AND the school. That is inapporpriate for a teacher. A child's underwear should not be touched by a teacher. The teacher should at least be suspended without pay, being arrested seems a bit much.

yeah, i agree with chii. but thats pretty funny :x
i mean, what kind of teacher does that?

[illumineering]

I hate it when schools keep things under wraps.

That's an interesting thought. I couldn't figure out why 6 months passed before anything was done. It makes sense now.

[*ranniel*]

Well it is kinda weird that a teacher would give a student a wedgie. I mean, don't they know better than that? I think the teacher should get fired but not sent to jail.

agreed. thats funny and weird.

[Teesa]

Yeah, the teacher should get fired, but I think arresting him is taking it a bit too far. Giving a student a wedgie is so inappropriate.

[juliar]

unless the kid was upset about it, id on't think there's any reason to fire him, let alone arrest him. i dont know, i think we should give the teacher a little slack. it's a joke, that's all.

[snak3y3z1001]

back in middle school my gym teacher pulled a wedgie on me. its funny really

[rAwritsgWeg]

wow some people are insanely weird
was that a catholic school or something?

[Gigi]

A wedgie might seem like a harmless joke, but really...how is it, in any way, appropriate for a teacher to do it to a child? Shouldn't he have more sense than that? What a dumbass. He should've been fired.

[*swtcherriipie*]

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Do you think the teacher should have been arrested? It's odd that this happened in summer school and didn't get reported for 6 months.

Well... I would have been rather upset if it was my KID.... I would have called thepolice myself not report it to the office... How retaarded.

[Paradox of Life]

I hate it when schools keep things under wraps. I can think of one particular, "prestigious" school that lies about their students being the top picks for college and having the best department for a certain subject. I will not name the school but I hope someday it gets uncovered.

I think something should be done to the teacher AND the school. That is inapporpriate for a teacher. A child's underwear should not be touched by a teacher. The teacher should at least be suspended without pay, being arrested seems a bit much.

Agreed.

At my elementary school (the one I used to go to), a 2nd grade teacher got arrested and fired for putting scotch tape on a kid's mouth. The class was like, "Do it! Do it! Do it!" and laughing and then a parent walked by and called the police. I hate those stupid prudes. They just want to create drama, but they don't realize that it can really screw up someone's life. The teacher is no longer able to get a teaching job in the same district, so she's moving. It was everyone's favorite teacher too...

[me1issaaaa]

Back years ago, teachers would give wedgies and spank kids with paddles and everything and no one gave it a second thought... now they go to jail. Interesting.

[jue]

thats pretty funny =x
but i dont think he should've been taken to jail. Maybe like suspension from the school or like being fired would have been a better idea.

There was an incident at my school where this gym teacher locked a girl up in a storage room and made her clean it just cause the student wasn't dressed in the appropraite gym uniform. She started crying cause she saw a cockaroach in it >< The teacher ended up getting fired i think. Im not sure. Some people said that she was going through stress cause she was pregnat and she was a gym teacher having to deal with half of the school.

[*mipadi*]

I'd love to hear the story behind this case, because it's got to be pretty good. Generally speaking, 41-year-olds don't go around giving wedgies, so I imagine there must be more to the story than meets the eye.

I think the punishment is a bit overboard—the teacher should only be arrested if it was an atomic wedgie, because those have been known to kill a man.

[tanichick]

Well it is kinda weird that a teacher would give a student a wedgie. I mean, don't they know better than that? I think the teacher should get fired but not sent to jail.

Ditto, it is weird... I actually thought it was some what funny.... hah

[illumineering]

I think the punishment is a bit overboard—the teacher should only be arrested if it was an atomic wedgie, because those have been known to kill a man.

Agreed!

[neemmo]

that teacher is BIZZAAREEE.

[AnnahhbeL]

The teacher should be fired.
But I think being arrested is a little overboard.

[Tribal J_Rome]

I'd love to hear the story behind this case, because it's got to be pretty good. Generally speaking, 41-year-olds don't go around giving wedgies, so I imagine there must be more to the story than meets the eye.

I think the punishment is a bit overboard—the teacher should only be arrested if it was an atomic wedgie, because those have been known to kill a man.

LOL...

Good point, about there being more to the story. How stupid is that though, being a teacher and thinking you can touch a kid and getting away with it. It's starting to become a trend in this country...

[Jayembe]

haha thats pretty weird and funny! i dont get it why he did it though and he shoudl of been arrested i mean you dont pull a kids underwear in the bathroom wen the teacher is like 50 yrs old. its jus wrong

[ecargnmyst]

hahaaha..thats funny.. maybe the teacher was trying to help the kid pull up his pants? but then hes 10..he should know how to do it himself..=\

[demolished]

^
That's one of a good reason :]

[scenekidsgo__raw...]

I don't know; I think it was meant to be a harmless joke. D;
I had a teacher like that int he 7th grade, and he didn't get arrested.
But maybe that's because my classmates enjoyed his pranks. D;

[ecargnmyst]

yeah..i volunteered at a child day care center during the summer and we had to help the kids pull up their parents after they finished peeing..

also..i volunteered at a summer camp with 2nd graders..and all the camp counselors (us) were "flirting" or..playing around with this lil 7 yr old boy they thought were cute.. so they kept giving him wedgies...

but we didnt get in trouble b/c we were girls..and we were..15 ish at the time..so i guess ppl thought it was ok.

but a 40 yr old guy should know better..

[*My Cinderella.*]

The teacher shouldn't be grabbing the child's underwear in the first place. Although it was a bit odd for the teacher to do something like that, I don't think it went so out of hand that she should have gotten arrested.

[mylittleMiracle]

haha a funny news...also weird.

[x1049]

I wonder under what circumstances the wedgie was given?
i agree that it's totally inapropriet for not only a teacher but an adult in general to give a child a wedgie.... but meh... there are certain things that could make the event much worse or slightly more acceptable. Like do the kid and the teacher know each other? Does the teacher like the kid on a *pedaphilic* level? Was the teacher joking with the kid? How'd the kid feel about all of that? (probably not that well because he obviously told his mother... or maybe they were sitting at the breakfast table and he was like ":giggle: ... and then Mr. Whatever came into the bathroom and :giggle: - i didnt even notice him, Mom - and he gave me the most extreme wedgie ever!" and Mom went )

Who knows? ^_^

[imnoxonesmemory]

that's odd. i wonder why it didn't get reported earlier.. hmm... why the heck would a teacher give a 10 year old kid a wedgie? i mean, there's no laws against it but it seems weird. but being arrested is a little too much? unless there's a sexual harrasment story behind it rite haha.

[oneandonlytammie]

Ya know, the kid was probably being an ass and deserved it. I'm for the teacher on this one. That's freakin' hilarious!

[much2muse]

i find it odd that a teacher would follow a student into a bathroom and do that. lol.

if it was just a joke though then i dont see what the big deal is.

but if it was punishment.. the kid was probably an ass anyway.

[marzipan]

that is rather strange.....a teacher giving a student a wedgie.....but i don't think it's serious enough for them to arrest the teacher

[*ECD & C0*]

yeah that is wierd oh well at least he isn't out there giving more people wedgies *ouch*

[iROCKYOURSOCKS]

LOL HE GAVE HIS STUDENT A WEDGIE!?!? om gosh what a wierdo!! ahhhh thats funny.

[PrincessAda]

Thats odd..
Being arrested is going too far..

[*RockizLife*]

Arrested? Eh, a little much. Maybe suspension without pay.

I'd have to hear the situation. It could have been a little brat kid who pissed the teacher off. We all do stupid things when we're angry.

Agreed.

At my elementary school (the one I used to go to), a 2nd grade teacher got arrested and fired for putting scotch tape on a kid's mouth. The class was like, "Do it! Do it! Do it!" and laughing and then a parent walked by and called the police. I hate those stupid prudes. They just want to create drama, but they don't realize that it can really screw up someone's life. The teacher is no longer able to get a teaching job in the same district, so she's moving. It was everyone's favorite teacher too...

I can't stand parents like that who get involved in school. Can't we have a little fun in school anymore? I doubt the kid even cared. He was probably like the class clown, right?

[n00b]

I don't think you should be arrested but why would a teacher give a kid a wedgie?

[imm]

1) Why would a teacher give a student anyway? Lawl.
2) I love how the article says giving wedgies is child endangerment.

[Gypsy Eyes]

haha this made my day

[n00b]

haha this made my day

same here!

[NERDFACE™]

ha.
my friend was the new kid at school this year.
well so was I,
but she came after me.
anyways,
we asked her what school she came from,
and she told us.
she also told us a bunch of funny stories,
mostly about this one teacher.
and the very last one was about him getting arrested for doing Meth.
Everyone couldn't stop laughing because she had talked about this guy so much that we felt like we knew him.

[BrokenDream]

Well, that's something you don't see everyday.
Honestly, what teacher gives a student a wedgie? That's pretty uncommon. Heh. Bad news for the teacher. Got arrested. D; That's really, extremely weird...

[*ECD & C0*]

Thats odd..
Being arrested is going too far..

agreed

[goodcharlotte]

I understand a teacher being arrested for ordering two students to throw a peer out the window but this? What have we come to?

[*yrrnotelekktric*]

^hahahahahah.
isnt it a transgression if a teacher touches
a student, vice versa? well maybe not
TOUCH, but like... ehh, whateves.

[artisticpariah]

Haha Wedgie!