Nurse: Euthanize Special Ed. Students

[Cindy]

http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=14361473

JONESBORO, AR (KAIT) - A nurse with the Jonesboro School District has been fired for comments she allegedly made in a classroom of students and teachers in early March. According to a letter written from Superintendent Doctor Kim Wilbanks to Ms. Marilyn Snyder, Snyder was notified she'll be recommended to be fired by the Jonesboro School Board. The letter stated Snyder said "all special education students need to be euthanized and wiped off the face of the Earth." The comment was reportedly said at the Jonesboro Visual and Performing Arts Magnet School.

[Hoovie]

When asked if her words might have been misconstrued, Snyder said it was possible. She said at the time she and three other people were talking about how some special needs children are often "abused and neglected. I said if the parents didn't take care of them they should be euthanized. But I didn't say one word against those kids."

She said it was a "bad choice of words" and that her "heart is just broken."

[Cindy]

When asked if her words might have been misconstrued, Snyder said it was possible. She said at the time she and three other people were talking about how some special needs children are often "abused and neglected. I said if the parents didn't take care of them they should be euthanized. But I didn't say one word against those kids."

She said it was a "bad choice of words" and that her "heart is just broken."

Maybe she was talking about the parents. Either way bad choice of words to be used.

[Scott Hutchinson]

Bad choice of words indeed.