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On Wednesday, February 15th, 2012, an incident occurred at Dixie Canyon Elementary School in Sherman Oaks involving a substitute teacher who taught one of the 3rd grade classes. 


The incidents that ocurred involve a substitute teacher who we will call "Mr. G.". Described below are the inappropriate actions taken by this LAUSD employee as retold by the students of the 3rd grade class. 

 - Mr. G tried to force the students in the class to have their lunch outside in the rain. There was a yard teacher who told him that he needed to let them into their classroom. He told the students to go to the class on their own and wait for him. As the students were walking in the rain back to the class room, Mr. G went to the library.  The students waited inside the classroom and continued eating their lunch while waiting for Mr. G to return. Mr. G came back to the class to find all of the students eating their lunches, as is common practice on rainy days, and started yelling at them. He told them that they were not supposed to go inside the class room without him and should have waited for him outside in the rain. Mr. G. seemed annoyed that the students had nowhere else to go but the classroom and said, “I can’t leave you alone for five minutes! Don’t talk to me because I wish you weren’t alive, I wish you were dead!” Mr. G then sat at his desk mumbling about “dead kids” and said, “I wish they weren’t alive, why are they still alive?”. The class assigned teacher confirms that some students sit close enough to the teacher's desk to have heard what the substitute said to have not mistaken his words.

 - After lunch Mr. G. forced the girls to clean the student's dirt tracks from the rain off of the floor, and then told them repeatedly that they should be “dead.” He told one child, “why are you talking to me, you’re dead.”

 - Two students came back from the cafeteria and when they stepped into the class room they were a little too noisy for Mr. G. Apparently it bothered him enough to tell them “I wish you did not exist, take your seat and I will forget that you were even born”. 

 - One of the students asked Mr. G to go to the restroom during the lunch break and he refused to let her go. 

- One of the students who needed a napkin during the lunch break was told by Mr. G, "Why don’t you go to the bathroom and get a napkin, no, better yet, go to the bathroom and eat your lunch there!”. This student stayed in the bathroom until the lunch period was over. 

 - While in class, Mr. G. asked students to pronounce words they were reviewing and one of the students mispronounced the word. Mr. G. responded to the class and said, “Who can help this kindergartner?”. 

 - Mr. G. called one of the students “pink bootie”.

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