https://www.yahoo.com/news/76k-raised-california-teacher-punched-student-150727776.html Didn't see a thread about this. I don't condone teacher's fighting students ever. This guy was provoked. He should not have let the moment get to him.
I cannot believe that the comments appear to be unanimous in their support of the teacher. I'm incredibly disappointed. Yes, the student provoked the teacher. Yes the student hurled racist slurs at the teacher. Yes, the student threw a basketball at the teacher. I. Don't. Care. Adults need to be adults. To act like adults. To set an example for non-adults. To demonstrate adult judgment. Unless the teacher was actually being physically attacked (he was not), he had no excuse for striking a student.
Send the student to the Vice Principal's office for the correct punishment. Then find that student a different classroom and teacher or transfer the student to a different school.
It boils down to essentially societal backlash to the perception that kids are out of control. That kids used to be punished if they talked back or were disrespectful, and that teachers are already an abused profession by parents and children, so when one fights back people tend to support them. With that said, it's not like the teacher slapped the kid one time. He was actively trying to fight him, even after the kid was trying to get away.
Yeah, that's what gets me. This wasn't "discipline" or "defense". This was violent rage. Yet still, everyone's all "Good! That kid needed to be taught a lesson!" Ridiculous...
The teacher was definately in the wrong for what he did. There is no excuse for that. None. As for the kid, he is a clear example of how it is plain to see that all current hate culture that is running rampant in our country is being picked up by our youth whether through their parents, internet, etc. This kid wasn't just being disobedient he was mimicking learned hate. It shows the state things are in.
They need a badass lawyer to show how racist this little fuck is then. Hopefully other students beat his ass too. Seems like a little bitch ass. Too bad the school won't go low like that.
The school will need to institute a "zero tolerance" policy for discrimination and violence if they do not have one already. I find it hard to believe they would not have one in place.
I don't care if he's 14. A little shit is a little shit. So you think someone calling a black man an N-bomb is justified because he is a 14 year old parroting hate?
No. It isn't. I don't care what someone calls me, my kids, my wife, my mother--there is no excuse for me responding with physical violence unless I'm defending myself or another from physical violence.
