Teacher Susan McCarthy: School District Uses Psychology as a Weapon

I think we are lucky that no teacher has gone "postal". Let's all hope that we can stop this terrible attack on educators' integrity and character before that happens.

School district forced teacher into mental hospital: lawsuit

By Kathianne Boniello

NY POST, March 29, 2015

First-grade teacher Susan McCarthy says she was discriminated against after she was forced to go to the Nassau University Medical Center to be evaluated by psychiatrists.

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A Long Island school district tried to oust a longtime teacher by throwing her in the loony bin, a lawsuit claims.

First-grade teacher Susan McCarthy, 63, charges the Roosevelt Union Free School District uses “psychology as a weapon to discriminate.”

She became upset at a staff meeting last May when administrators tried to return a problem student to her classroom, and she began to feel ill, she claims in Brooklyn federal court papers.

When she said she wanted to go home sick for the day, administrators asked McCarthy if she would “hurt herself,” the lawsuit alleges.

She “emphatically said no,” McCarthy claims.

But hours later, police officers arrived and forced her to go to Nassau University Medical Center to be evaluated by psychiatrists, McCarthy claims.

Even though doctors and nurses said she was OK, a month later the district forced her to undergo another medical exam “to determine your mental capacity to perform your duties as a teacher,” McCarthy claims.

The district was “intent on discriminating and creating a hostile work environment against older Caucasian teachers,” she claims.

A lawyer for the district declined to comment.