Daily Mail reports the most frivolous lawsuit ever. Daily Mail reports:
A teacher in Australia is claiming half a million pounds in compensation because she says she permanently damaged her larynx yelling at rowdy children.
Her voice was damaged, she says, during her attempts to shout over the noise in her classroom as she tried to control the pupils, aged around 11.
As a father who takes care of five children all ten and under I’m keeping a very close eye on this lawsuit.
If she wins I don’t know who I’ll sue but I’m suing somebody. Maybe my wife. What could she be thinking leaving all these children at home with me and expecting my larynx to remain unaffected? Anyone know a good lawyer? I mean, it’s not like I can ask my wife to recommend someone.
July 13, 2010 at 10:33 pm
"Everyone is afraid to hear her case on the grounds of being sued for requesting her to speak up."
July 14, 2010 at 2:22 pm
The military has an interesting way of handling this. When you tear out your voice box from screaming cadences to your troops or shouting orders to them over the din of battle what they do is give you…nothing. Just a permanently gravelly voice. Maybe that is the sign of a "highly motivated" Aussie teacher now. They sound like former Drill Sergeants.
July 14, 2010 at 4:01 pm
If she cannot control her classroom and is therefore yelling to the point of damaging her vocal chords… then that is her problem. Didn't she begin to think, at some point, "Hmm, this yelling thing isn't very effective"? The lawsuit is, of course, frivolous, and I hope she no longer teaches.
July 14, 2010 at 4:48 pm
Which reminds me of a kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Young, to whom I sent three of my children. I never, I mean exactly not one time, heard her raise her voice in the three years.
I still marvel at it.