If that. He will now be a hero to everyone in the school.
As for the class, the teacher will be removed and the kids given a sub. Who’s life will be living hell and I’d bet the school will just give all the kids A’s. Yes, I’ve seen them do it.
Oh good one… blame it on Trump.
And good grief, the teacher is black! You want to know who is really pissed at how bad black youth are today? Older black teachers. When I was a teacher 30 years ago I worked with many black teachers who had gone thru segregation and all with the hope that tomorrows black youth would benefit. I’ve had black teachers talk about how disgusted the kids are and some have even confided that they would rather teach hispanic kids because they respect them more.
This crappy student behavior has been happening for years. LONG before Trmp was in office. Some schools nail kids down so teachers dont lose it, some dont. I’m guessing the school in question is a zoo.
Actually many sped kids have been abused and the teachers prosecuted. This is also why we push for cameras in special education classrooms and 2 way mirrors. Lots of abuse can happen in special ed.
Also sped teachers are trained in a restraint method called BIST that doesnt hurt the student.
This is non-responsive. The question was not about the factual issue of whether bad things sometimes happen. The question related to you apparently thinking it’s okay for a kid to be beaten up by their teacher.
Update on the student that hit the teacher.
Explain to me why he’s not in jail.
Speculating, but maybe because it’s still being investigated? Maybe the DA is trying to pin down just what to charge the kid with, and get everything in place to do so. And maybe it’s not the highest priority when resources are limited and there are murders and other more violent crimes taking place.
It may also be that the teacher has indicated she has no interest in seeing the kid fed into the criminal justice system.
Could be none of those things. Whatever it is, some patience is warranted. People often get agitated when a miscreant isn’t charged within minutes of the offense, and I think that’s misguided.
Years ago when I was teaching in KCMO the teachers union became fed up with the poor response from the district when students assaulted teachers and they told us just call the cops.
Again, I agree the teacher went to far but I can certainly understand what lead to it.
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I have seen this all of the time in other districts I’ve taught in and I never understand why teachers don’t press charges when a student hits them.
BUT there is the other extreme. In one school I taught at I had confiscated a phone. The student thought about it a second then tried to grab it back. Student didn’t attack me physically but one of her fingernails scratched the back of my finger. I go to the school nurse to clean it with antibacterial soap, put a little ab ointment on it and a band-aid. I had to report it since it happened at work (nurse has to track if people can into her office of “school-related” injuries). 30 minutes later I get called into the principal’s office and he asked what happened. I said exactly what I said here pointing out I never felt threatened just she made a stupid choice. Certainly she never intended to cause me harm.
She was expelled before the end of the day for assaulting a teacher. I vehemently disagreed with the decision but was ignored
You should have tried screaming at her, inches from her face.
Never having been even arrested I was unaware how it progresses. I thought with such obvious evidence of a crime the cops would arrest him then leave it to the DA to figure out after what to charge him with. Does that only happen if the cops are present when the crime is being committed?
According to THIS article in 2015-2016 5.8% of our nations teachers were attacked by students. Many times teachers have to deal with the fact the kid comes right back into their classroom. In the article a 6th grade teacher was attacked, the school did nothing to the kid, so the teacher filed charges. The teacher was then fired for this but sued and got a small settlement.
In addition according to THIS article, 9.2% of teachers are threatened with violence.
Clearly something has to be done. Teachers are being assaulted, students are getting off, and nobody wants to talk about it.
And again, my response is teachers are constantly being threatened and assaulted by students and we have some people slamming on the teacher and wanting him arrested. Clearly though the school environment is to blame because if the kid hadnt been such an a**, putting on his little show, if the teacher had known the kid was going to be disciplined, the teacher would not have lost it.
Blame the environment, not the teacher.
I dont. Being handcuffed and hauled away in a police car might get the little brat to realize this wasnt a game anymore.
I think school safety needs to be a priority.
The student must have known calling any black person a N will result in a fight. Doesn’t matter if he’s a teacher or not.
You don’t direct racist language against another person unless you’re prepared for the consequences.
Even if this were to be true, it would have no relevancy to the culpability of the teacher for his actions. Even a complete and total miscarriage of justice for the student and his actions would not justify anything less than full accountability for the teacher and his.
And I’m sure these same older black teachers would be really pissed at a fellow black teacher who so profoundly failed his students and showed them that the way to solve some problems is thru violence.
A need for policy change within a school system does not, and should not ever be used to, justify criminal behavior of it’s employees. He committed a violent crime against a child and he needs to take full responsibility. Yes I want him arrested. And tried. And if convicted, to serve the appropriate amount of time typically seen for similar offenses. No more no less.
That question was in reference to the Baltimore student that sucker punched his teacher.
Just to be clear, I do not think that the teacher should do any jail time. If I was the prosecutor, I would give him some sort of pre-trial diversion in which he takes anger management classes and then dismiss the charge. He did commit a battery on the student, but he was provoked. I would take that in account.
Likewise, if the kid had shoved or thrown a punch at the teacher, I fully believe that the teacher has every right to defend himself and throw punches back. I also have no problem with when a teacher tells the student to leave class and go to the principal’s office, and a student refuses, he should be allowed to use reasonable force to enforce his directive, such as grabbing the student by the arm and dragging him down the hall.
But none of this is what happened. The teacher allowed the situation to spiral out of control until he blew his top. In my experience, kids will not respect an adult until they know that if an adult tells them to do something, the directive will not be treated like a suggestion and the punishment for not doing so must be immediate.
My daughter is getting older, so many times I will say something along the lines of “I think you are making a mistake by doing X, but since you are getting older I’m going to leave that choice up to you.” We can sit and talk about the positives and negatives of doing something. However, when I say you must do Y, that means that discussion time is over and doing Y had better begin immediately. And she does it because I have been consistent in this position for years.
With her mother, however, a directive is merely a suggestion and she knows that she can try to argue her way out of it.
I hear screaming in someone’s face is highly effective.
It doesn’t matter how hard it is to be a teacher, how bad the kids are, how unsatisfactory the consequences for misbehaving kids are. Under no circumstance is punching, slapping, kicking -even “just one”- the answer.
Find different ways. Or find different teachers. But never ever assault. The idea that anyone can find justification for this is repugnant.
Now, the moment the kid throws a punch, any self defense is entirely appropriate.
And the idea that the consequences for kids are minimal “these days” is outright ridiculous. The whole concept of zero tolerance, that last refuge of incompetents and complete abdication of moral responsibility, means kids these days are tap-dancing in a mine field, and the most ridiculously minor offense can have outsized and life-altering consequences.