A new low for the schools and out of control violent students. They’ve brought in security guards and even metal detectors to make schools safe. This still happened.
The lack of respect and self control extends not just to the students but to many of their parents too. It wasn’t just this parent and her daughter. Apparently a few other students got in a few kicks too. Just for the hell of it. I guess actually defending their teacher from this attack was too much to ask.
The people brave enough to teach in public schools today deserve a lot of admiration and credit.
So, the teacher “Put hands on,” her daughter. I’m sorry, if you can’t get any more descriptive than that, I’m going to have to call bullshit on your motive. If the teacher hit her daughter, or restrained her, or pushed her against a wall, or touched her sexually, then mom would have said so. “Put hands on her” makes it sound like the teacher touched her on the shoulder and the kid (and mom) lost her shit.
Huh? The reporter probably didn’t even talk to the mother. They just reported what the police told them to report.
Most likely this parent just flew off the handle. Though the involvement of other students sure suggests something more pernicious that “touched her on the shoulder” happened.
It doesn’t? The other participants were just ready to attack at any time, for no reason? Does this kind of thing happen routinely in schools these days?
Every school? No. Even a cursory reading or the article indicates that before this incident there were concerns that something was going to happen at that school.
Not the police, but the mother’s lawyer. Had the teacher done anything approaching violence toward that child, I’d bet the lawyer would make sure the whole world knew. And involvement from the other students indicates to me a mob mentality, not a legit grievance.
My sister, a special needs teacher, had a parent who would routinely threaten her with violence for daring to do things like tell his son to “sit down.” Actual violence, like saying he was going to beat the shit out of her for disrespecting his kid. And if you want to know why she never called the cops about it, it’s because in a small welfare town like the one where she worked, the cops gave not one fuck. The stories she told me of that shithole place were shocking.
I have no problem believing a mother attacked a teacher for a low grade, or for no reason at all.
Heck, I have no problem whatsoever believing that the so-called inciting incident (“She put her hands on…”) never happened at all, but rather that the niece lied about that.
Ah. The first article quoted the police saying the exact same words, so I assumed that’s where you had gotten it. Does seem odd that the lawyer would decide to talk about the case, but not offer anything more specific than that odd phrase which was also used by the police.
My wife and I have met several teachers through my church and become friends. One of them teaches high school physics in a small town just outside Little Rock. He’s lucky that most of his students are prepping for college. A lot of them come into his class unable to even manipulate an equation. You know one thing, rearrange the equation and solve for what you don’t know. They had their algebra classes but just the practical nuts and bolts of math elude them. He’s spends class time every year teaching these kids math skills they should have learned two years earlier. He has to before they can even think about working a physics problem.
A close friend of my wife teaches in the Little Rock public schools. Some of the stories she’s told. Kids getting up in the middle of class and just walking around (ADD/ADHD). She can’t test some of them. They are in her class but they take their tests in a special needs resource center. Some of the kids just don’t respect authority at all. Telling them to stop talking or sit down doesn’t work. Expelling a problem kid for any length of time is really difficult these days.
It makes it difficult for the kids that actually want to study and prepare for college.