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School Scrubs Stinky 8 Year-Old, Parents Sue
A school nurse and counselor forced an 8-year-old Parker County boy to bathe after telling him he “smelled badly, was dirty and had bad hygiene,” according to a lawsuit filed Thursday.
The boy was forced to take off his clothes one day in November and the two school officials “began violently washing his body,” the parents said.
Amber and Michael Tilley filed the suit against the Peaster School District on Thursday in federal court in Fort Worth.
“It’s terrible, and we don’t want anything like that to happen to any other children,” Amber Tilley said.
Peaster Independent School District Superintendent Matthew Adams did not return a phone call seeking comment. The district offices appeared to be closed on Friday.
The boy is referred to by the initials “P.T.” in the lawsuit.
His parents also say school officials put cotton balls in their son’s ears and left them there for the entire day.
“His body and his ears, they were really sore, real tender from being scrubbed,” Amber Tilley said.
The lawsuit claims the boy was traumatized by what happened and has had to see therapists.
“He just kept on and on, wanting to take baths,” his mother said. “You know, he just felt so disgusting.”
The parents say nobody from the school ever contacted them about a hygiene problem.
“The first thing I said was, ‘You ought to try to call us,’” Michael Tilley said. “And they said, ‘We were trying to avoid him being embarrassed.’ And I said, ‘You all did a real good job of helping that process along.’”
His parents kept him out of school for a week.
“The first day he went back to school, he completely sprayed himself from head to toe and back up again with cologne,” Amber Tilley said. “And it was choking me out, but I didn’t say anything to him.”
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Captain McObvious
June 17th, 2012
Really wished his initials were P.U., that would of made it funnier.
norman einstein
June 17th, 2012
So…where’s a picture of the little dirtbag?
Gina
June 17th, 2012
i guess since kids aren’t allowed to make fun of one another anymore the smelly ones don’t know they need to shower.
reddecaesari
June 17th, 2012
michael tilley will forever be known as the father of a stinky son. happy fathers day mike.
Captain McObvious
June 17th, 2012
here ya go norm,
the proud parents….
http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1097281!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/image.jpg
and stinky….
http://www.123stitch.com/pictures/STP-F1088.jpg
scribble
June 17th, 2012
Let’s see…schools provide students with breakfast, lunch and dinner (in some districts), sex education, socialist indoctrination, abortions, condoms, morning after pills and God knows what else they won’t tell parents, and these parents are upset they gave their stinky son a bath?
LadyGun12
June 17th, 2012
Sorry, I think this was an awful thing to do to the kid. I agree the first thing would have been to contact the parents. This was nothing more than state-sanctioned humiliation.
scribble
June 17th, 2012
@LadyGun12 – I agree with you. The school should have contacted the parents first. I can see why the kid was humiliated. The situation should have and could have been handled better. I just wished parents were as outraged about the things I listed in my previous post as they are about this. If you’re going to let government take over your parenting responsibilities, don’t be surprised when something like this happens.
I hope the kid gets over this. And I hope his parents take responsibility for raising their child – including the things I listed in my previous post.
CrustyB
June 17th, 2012
Peaster, Texas. That’s where “Conan” author Robert E. Howard was born.
norman einstein
June 17th, 2012
@Captain, hahaha…can’t fool me. That’s Pigpen.
Ten-Ten
June 18th, 2012
Holy Shit! On a stick! With sauce! You send the stinky little bastard home with a note. I’m afraid I’d have to shoot someone for doing that to my smell progeny. Damn.
Ten-Ten
June 18th, 2012
*smelly
even steven
June 18th, 2012
When was a sixth grader, I wish some teachers would have done that to the smelly kid I was forced to sit next to. He smelled like mice and urine. I got in trouble to calling him “stinky”.
Cynic
June 18th, 2012
What do you think Debbie Wasserman-Schultz would do if someone washed her hair this way?
pdwalker
June 18th, 2012
cynic,
probably regain her sense of smell.
99th Squad Leader
June 18th, 2012
Sorry, the story is hilarious. Yes, it’s sad. The kid was probably humiliated and his parents obviously lack proper hygiene themselves, but life is stranger than fiction.
cfm990
June 18th, 2012
Who knows, kid might have been clean. Mom on the other hand, might only do laundry once a month.
beachmom
June 18th, 2012
There may be a health issue with this kid too.
I would like to hold down and scrub the nannyism and control fanaticism out of the government do gooders who think they’re so much better than parents.
Freakin’ teachers and administrators so often think parents are stupid because they don’t have a teaching degree.
Roadmaster
June 18th, 2012
How friggin’ arrogant do you have to be to do this to somebody’s kid? I don’t care how bad he stinks!
On the other hand, how clueless are the parents? Letting their kid go to school filthy. I’ll bet one or both of them is a pig also.
I went to school with some poor kids who had hygiene issues and no amount of ridicule or shunning by the rest of us would make them clean up their act. Luckily we had kindly, wise old teachers who would speak to them privately and the situation would improve.
One girl used to stink up the classroom so bad, everyone would literally get sick to their stomach. My ornery cousin and some of his friends gave her a present – a nicely wrapped bar of soap. Nothing happened until the teachers stepped in. Just because you’re poor, doesn’t mean you have to be dirty.
And then there was the problem of ranch kids with cow shit on their boots, but that’s another story…..
MNHawk
June 18th, 2012
“the proud parents….”
http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1097281!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_
Ya think Dad might have bathed before his big debut on the national stage, but nooo. Got that 3 day greasy sheen thing going.
Filthy people are actually not that uncommon. Anyone who’s ever had rental housing can attest to that.
Noelegy
June 18th, 2012
OMG. My husband used to live in that school district, and my stepsons went to school there at one time. It’s a very small town, very rural area.
Noelegy
June 18th, 2012
LOL, even weirder, he lived right across the street from that school!
muddjuice
June 18th, 2012
I had a buddy in school that should have started using deodorant sooner than the rest of us. I finally told him that his pits stank something fierce and he asked his mom to get him a deodorant stick.
I may have saved that kid’s life….
Noelegy
June 18th, 2012
When I used to work at a chain book/music/video store in the 90s, I used to hate having to help restock rental videos on weekend nights, because there were so many people who frequented that section who just frankly, stank. I couldn’t understand being able to afford a VCR and rent videos, but not be able to afford a bar of soap?
Dust Bunny Queen
June 18th, 2012
“It’s never go two, three days without a bath — never,” the mother said.
Really three days without a bath? Probably only wash their clothes every other month then. No wonder he smelled. Dirty body, oily greasy hair and stinky unwashed clothing.
Tim
June 18th, 2012
A guy at work used to really stink like BO and piss, so one day the other guys left him a box with a bar of Lux and a washcloth, told him it came from upstairs (management) – dude got supremely pissed.
Musta been proud of his funk.
Nunya
June 18th, 2012
These particular parents brought the kid’s needless humiliation on themselves, but at least they learned the Obama Blame Game well: if they had cared enough to give their little stinky a bath then the state would not have had to. Soap and water, as well as food and air, are the only TRUE necessities that any of us have, everything else is gravy, an unnecessary luxury
My guess is that these parents who can’t “afford” soap and water for their kid DO, however, have smart phones for everyone in the household, as well as satellite TV, laptop computers, and cable Internet. At the very least we know they can afford a lawyer who will take frivolous cases
I hope their lawsuit fails
Cactiki
June 18th, 2012
Thats not right, discriminating against stenchican-americans like that!
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daisy
June 19th, 2012
Once in college my husband and some of his friends confronted a dorm mate about his stench. They told him to use soap and deodorant or get the heck out. The kid was mad but cleaned up his act.
Frosteetoes
June 23rd, 2012
Stink or no stink you don’t make a kid strip then scrub him. You call the parents and have them come pick him up and take him home. At 8 years old he might not fully wash properly as some kids just like to play around in the bath. Mom just needs to keep on him from now on. I hope the family wins.
Mary Jane Anklestraps
June 23rd, 2012
Oh shit. lol.
WTH does “violently scrubbed” mean?
Anyway, A letter should have gone to the parents, registered letter, and a meeting should have been called. If the parents ignored it,then the school nurse should send the kid home for being “soiled”. Even if they have to do it every week til the Filthy McNasties got the hint.