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[Ineverlie&I'malwaysri]

Suit: Boy falls, teacher says crawl back to Skokie school

BY KIM JANSSEN Staff Reporter/[email protected] January 4, 2012

Teachers at a Skokie school forced a 6-year-old with a broken leg and a concussion to crawl back to his classroom across an icy playground, then failed to call for an ambulance, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.

Kindergartner Rahul Chandani slipped on a mound of snow and hit his head in the playground at Devonshire Elementary School on Jan. 3 last year, but didn�t get any medical help until his mom came to get him, the lawsuit filed in Cook County circuit court by Chandani�s parents Pritam and Priya alleges.

�His teacher told him, �You�re a big boy � I can�t carry you,�� the boy�s mother, Priya Chandani, said Wednesday, �She told him to walk back, but his leg was broken so he fell again and then had to crawl at least 200-300 feet back to the school building.

�If someone did that to me as an adult, I�d slap them.�

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[rollo]

Wow!! I just hope the kids okay. If it was a compound fracture an artery could have been severed. These "teachers" need a little jail time. They may get it. A child getting hurt is a real fear for teachers, once I had a child almost fall out a three story window. Kids rough housing being kids. But scary. If I was this child's father some street justice would be in order.

[Stout]

From the article-

Skokie School District 68 officials declined to comment on the negligence suit Wednesday, but Chandani said that her son was off school for six weeks recovering from the injuries, that he had trouble sleeping, needed six months of rehabilitation and was �emotionally scarred� by the incident.

He suffered a fractured tibia and a hematoma to his head, according to the suit. His mother added that the lump on his head was �the size of a tennis ball� and that he had complained of dizziness but that the school did not provide him with proper medical attention and did not have a wheelchair to move him. She saw him crawling when she came to get him from the school and took him to the hospital, she said.

The elephant in the room is that the kid is of Indian ethnicity with non-Anglo name to match.

I know, it shouldn't matter, but sometimes unfortunately it plays a factor, especially when jobs stateside are being outsourced to other countries.

And if you're a parent (if you're not, substitute a sibling), imagine seeing your child having to crawl around the school with these injuries while teachers just look on...

[Ineverlie&I'malwaysri]

The story is really not at all that surprising. This may yet be more evidence of how the child sex abuse witch hunt harms more than helps children, as it has teachers absolutely petrified of touching students in any way for any reason lest an allegation be lodged against them.

[Stout]

Hey dude, when u see a kid unable to stand up, having to crawl over the dirt or whatever of a schoolyard, no one's having any delusions about child abuse if u go over and help out.

[Ineverlie&I'malwaysri]

^ OK, so what do you think the reason was she didn't help?

[Captain Corea]

[jrwhite82]

To claim that this had anti-Indian sentiment or fear of molestation charges is ridiculous. Where did they say anything about either one?

Did the teachers say they were afraid to help him? Did the parents or anyone involved make accusations of racism?

Where do you get that information from about this case?

Skokie is a fairly diverse town. With an especially high number of Asians. Therefore, the racism thing doesn't really fly with me.

Terrible teacher. Not defending them. But let's not make a mountain out of a snow mound here.

[Stout]

As I said in the post, unfortunately sometimes it plays a factor.
'Course neither of us were there, so it's hard to say.
However, to assume there isn't any discrimination in a town because there are many Asians and is a "fairly diverse town" is perhaps a little idealistic...you could just as easily argue that there more instances of institutionalized discrimination in such a town than in a place with few minorities (sometimes if there are fewer they are viewed as less of a threat, and may even be valued for their difference and novel appeal).

[rollo]

Yeah I think stout is trying to say even if not true the racism card will be played. A child with a head injury and they did nothing??? What is wrong with these people? They deserve jail time. Absolutely!!Someone injured that badly and you did not help them and it was a child!!!

[Stout]

To be blunt, if the kid was groveling in the dirt with significant head and leg injuries and looked adorable in a Brad Pitt sorta way, do u truly believe all the teachers would just sorta look on and say, "You're a big boy, I ain't carrying you!"? (Note that the kid dragged himself 2-300 feet before his mom showed up).

We all went to school, people, was it always "fair" to all parties?-

U make the call.

[jrwhite82]

[Stout]

Alright, then, just chalk it up to all the teachers just suddenly losing sight of their duties, yeah that makes a lot of sense

"Lessee here, I'm being paid to take of all these kids...this guy's busted his leg and head pretty good...well, he's made it 50 feet on his stomach..tonight, meatloaf? No, made that a couple of days ago...ok, he's crawled about 100 feet now...damn that weed wuz tha bomb, I gotta take a few puffs after this sucka passes out anytime now..."

You fail to grasp the basic fact that to let this happen, you've got to have some self-justification, some line of reasoning to not do the instinctual thing and help the kid out (not to mention the fact that you've got to have something holding you back for not doing something that could endanger your livelihoood). Molestation's out, as it was obvious to everyone that the kid was hurt and could use some assistance, at the very least by the time he'd crawled 20 feet or so (already pretty bad to let it get to that point). "A million other reasons", yeah, alright, how about coming up with a few plausible ones?

I've seen incidents similar to the one in question, a lot, where a teacher just willfully iced out a student who didn't fit the mold of acceptability, whether it was on account of race, alternative way of thinking/dressing, or just getting close to a chick who the teacher fancied.

If you've gotten a lot of crap in this country, that's equally not cool, but no reason to deny prejudice takes various forms back home, unfortunately sometimes worse than here. I know we like to think we're above the locals in every way 24/7, but sometimes you got to take that harder look in the mirror.

[Captain Corea]

No one is denying that prejudice takes place "back home". But you seem to have arrived at the prejudice conclusion without any actual evidence.

This boy was treated quite badly, and like I and others have said, it could be for a variety of reasons, but you seem determined to say it is about race.

Why are you so sure it's about race?

[jrwhite82]