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A Virginia elementary school teacher is in hot water after her third grade students say they were forced to take a lie detector test after candy went missing in the classroom. The teacher allegedly used a lie detector app on her phone during their Valentine's Day party.

Hmm a little drastic for third graders. I would have said unless the guilty party comes forward, the class party us cancelled.

(03-15-2013, 09:05 AM)ramseycat Wrote: Hmm a little drastic for third graders. I would have said unless the guilty party comes forward, the class party us cancelled.

That's exactly how I feel. I could never do something like that to a child and a teacher at that. That's Crazy. What an example she set. I'm going to be honest, I'd be pissed.

What exactly is a lie detector app? I can't imagine it's something they were hooked up to and interrogated with. I can only assume it was a voice analyzer or something of that sort. Really, that big of a deal? She was probably trying to scare them into confessing.

(03-15-2013, 09:26 AM)JsMom Wrote: I'm going to be honest . . .

Not according to her app!

Any follow-up on the missing candy?

I'd look at the fat kids, first.

Then the blacks.

Fat and black? Mystery solved!

Unless my kid was the guilty party and I'd asked him/her to cop me some candy, I think it's kind of amusing that the teacher threatened to catch the lying little thief with a phone app.

No way you can frisk 'em these days and accusing certain ones would surely result in cries of discrimination by their parents.

I think it's a fair and modern way to teach children right from wrong!

Seriously, I don't think I'd be at all bothered by this if I had a child in the class, so long as there wasn't any real credence given to a phone app lie detector.

(03-15-2013, 09:57 AM)RaisingAPrince Wrote: What exactly is a lie detector app? I can't imagine it's something they were hooked up to and interrogated with. I can only assume it was a voice analyzer or something of that sort. Really, that big of a deal? She was probably trying to scare them into confessing.

They use fingerprints. It's bogus and totally unreliable. Because of that, even kids who had nothing to do with the candy could be deemed "liars". I wouldn't call for her to be fired but it was a stupid thing to do and I wouldn't have been happy if my kids had been subject to that at that age.

(03-15-2013, 12:03 PM)username Wrote: . . . I wouldn't have been happy if my kids had been subject to that at that age.

But now, at their current age, you're cool with this?

Or is it because you're just dying to use the app on the bad seeds, yourself?

(03-15-2013, 12:08 PM)BlueTiki Wrote:

(03-15-2013, 12:03 PM)username Wrote: . . . I wouldn't have been happy if my kids had been subject to that at that age.

But now, at their current age, you're cool with this?

Or is it because you're just dying to use the app on the bad seeds, yourself?

Exactly! Too bad the damn thing is unreliable!

I don't think their psyche is as fragile these days.

I think this was probably just a joke gone awry.

I don't believe that a teacher really would have gone all LE on third graders over candy and then seriously subjected them to lie detector tests.

When I was in class 2, 20 Deutschmark went missing from one of the kids jackets, which we had to hang outside the class rooms. The teacher got our resident lie detector, which was our teacher for traffic safety and who was a cop. He got the kid responsible for it in about 20 minutes in front of the rest of the class.

Vee Germanz do NOT joke around wiz shit like zat!!

^ Where I grew up, stealing was taken very seriously too. If anything went missing, the teacher or student principal would go through the desks, kids would have to dump their pockets, everyone was given extra work if no one would confess or snitch out the culprit, etc...

If this teacher had actually taken the app results seriously and accused a kid of being liar based on them, I am sure we would have heard about that. She knew the app was a joke, but was probably teaching a lesson in a creative way. I think these parents are totally overreacting. I seriously wouldn't care if I had a child in the class; same concept as when I was in school, just a different method.

Michelle Obama should be all over that teacher for bringing empty calories into the classroom.

So should the "sister" moms.

Damned Skittles . . . ain't good for nuthin'!

And shame on you Maury!

Dem lie detectors only be for the jails.

I would be more worried about my kid being stuck in a room with at least one criminally-minded 3^rd grader and another 20 who know snitches get stitches.

Even the white kids are niggas now.