The Birch Show.

All right, Melissa, you brought this in, so you set it up. I'm really interested to hear this. Well, this is a story I found. This is out of Houston where a parent says that her child was being reprimanded by the school for, like, disorderly conduct or having behavioral problems. And she's like, well, she doesn't do this at home. I don't understand why she's getting berated at school. So she decided, you know what? I'm going to say, and this, she has a four-year-old. So we're

talking about, we're a kindergarten student. So she's like, I'm going to give my child a tape recorder. And I'm going to let her take this to school and turn it on. And I'm going to just see how the teacher is teaching in the classroom because I got to figure out what's going on with my kid in the

classroom as opposed to at home and she came away with some pretty shocking results.

Now I'm really curious even because I got to figure out what's going on with my kid in the classroom as opposed to at home.

And she came away with some pretty shocking results. Now, I'm really curious, even before we play this, if you're a teacher and you're listening right now, listen to it. And maybe you hear something in it, we don't, that makes it defendable. You know, we can hear that. What's that? We can hear that. Oh, sorry. So if there's something in here that you're like, you know what, to the person outside of the education system, this seems harsh, but me, I'm a teacher, I understand it a little better. Maybe you can call up and clarify exactly where she was coming from. Right. So let me give you the phone number right off the bat, 404-741-Q-100. And I just want to let you know this is from an ABC affiliate in Houston. So this is the full news story. We'll give you all the explanation and the audio from the teacher.

Tonight, local parents armed their child with a tape recorder and sent the youngster off to class. They say they did it to help her. But what was recorded has them demanding action from HISD tonight.

I witness news reporter Jessica Willie has the tale of the tape.

At home, four-year-old Megan is like any little girl her age.

She likes to play and loves her kitten Jiminy.

It's what was happening at school at Memorial Elementary

that has had her parents puzzled. She's been having some behavioral problems in class,

but the behavioral problems that we're getting described are not things that she does here at home.

So after months of wondering why, Diane and Oscar Mihadis spent 50 bucks on a digital recorder, put it in Megan's

backpack, turned it on, and sent it to school. And this is just a sampling of what they heard.

Nobody are you good for. You're just a bad kid. Now, when are you going to be a good kid?

And do you think any other class like this? No.

You're just mad mean to your teacher.

And I'm going to be mean to you too.

Everybody understands that.

You're a mean to me, so I need to be mean to you.

I'm just stupid kid.

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