the fact students walked out in support of the teacher says a lot about this kid--that other students were probably sick of him and glad someone finally did something about him. We all remember kids like that in school. We also all remember the crappy teacher on the cusp of retirement just phoning it in. No one would have stood up for them. I don't know why the teacher hit him, and I don't know whether the falling to the floor was the kid being overly dramatic and for attention, but I do know teachers have a hard mostly thankless job that I wouldn't want. We need to cut the otherwise good ones some slack, and start expecting better from kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Lol not DCUM doing the most to try to justify a teacher punching a student in the head

Depending on the location corporal punishment may still be legal and including hitting the head.

Hitting the head is not a legal form of corporal punishment in schools anywhere in the USA. I challenge you to present the evidence to prove my assertion wrong.

Dude corporal punishment to children by hitting/slapping the head/face is even illegal in Sharia law, ok? What this teacher did is not ok.

Anonymous wrote:Yeah he needed to be done teaching many years ago. Hope he ends up in jail.

I’m sure the kid will be in jail in just a few short years. Maybe even juvie sooner

Yeah he needed to be done teaching many years ago. Hope he ends up in jail.

This is about him from christianactio.org

Religious and political materials were recently removed by school officials from the classroom of Mike Hosinki in Elkhart, Ind., who is a long-time Jimtown High School teacher.

This occurred after the controversial Northern Indiana Atheists sent a notice to the Baugo Community School system with their intention to file a complaint over bumper stickers and signs hanging on the walls of Hosinki’s classroom. The group claimed one of the families of Hosinki’s students to have contacted them about his teaching despite the rest of the families have no problem with it.

“Hosinski has gotten away with years of indoctrinating students with hateful messages because Jimtown High School and Baugo Community Schools have allowed him to,” the the atheist groups says.

The complaint by the atheist group states that Hosinki told his class that Obama and Hillary are criminals and that President Trump is great. He went on to call all Democrat’s liars before telling the students that abortions should be made illegal. Some parents are wondering what this has to do with atheism or religion.

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Anonymous wrote:Lol not DCUM doing the most to try to justify a teacher punching a student in the head

Depending on the location corporal punishment may still be legal and including hitting the head.

Indiana

Anonymous wrote:As a teacher, I see a teacher pushed to the edge by a kid who had likely been a problem all year. Those kids exist. That being said, nothing excuses this and if he is in the place mentally where a difficult kid can push him to physical violence, it is time for him to leave the classroom. You simply cannot do this to any kid - yours or anyone else’s.

Are you also a parent? Just curious.

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Anonymous wrote:As a teacher, I see a teacher pushed to the edge by a kid who had likely been a problem all year. Those kids exist. That being said, nothing excuses this and if he is in the place mentally where a difficult kid can push him to physical violence, it is time for him to leave the classroom. You simply cannot do this to any kid - yours or anyone else’s.

Agree with this 100%. Another teacher here who has also seen the breakdown of function within the classroom and school. Gradually we have seen more and more students acting out of control and the lack of consequences for students who cuss out the teacher, rage out of control, etc. We used to have a couple kids per grade that were unable to disregulate, or needed a one-to-one for behavior but this year we seem to have several kids per class that have behavior that is unmanageable. I am trained in trauma-informed care and best practices but I am struggling this year because we have SO MANY kids that are struggling. It is impossible for one teacher to meet the needs of each student in the classroom. It is never acceptable to put your hands on a student we are not even supposed to touch their shoulder to guide them to the office or help them up off the floor (think Pre-k or kindergarten age student). We need more paras to assist with behavior issues and administrators who will take these behavior issues seriously so we are able to effectively teach ALL of the students in our class.

We had a pandemic

Anonymous wrote:Wow. We can’t tolerate a teacher physically assaulting a student out of uncontrolled rage. It sounds like this guy was a much beloved teacher who was going to retire at the end of this school year and now he’s jeopardized his retirement because he couldn’t control himself. I’m sure the kid had misbehaved, but whatever the kid did, chasing him down and physically assaulting him is not okay.

He was also the subject of a free speech suit. His classroom was adorned with pro life stuff and apparently believed the pizzagate type conspiracies. Glad he got his pension.

Anonymous wrote:As a teacher, I see a teacher pushed to the edge by a kid who had likely been a problem all year. Those kids exist. That being said, nothing excuses this and if he is in the place mentally where a difficult kid can push him to physical violence, it is time for him to leave the classroom. You simply cannot do this to any kid - yours or anyone else’s.

Agree with this 100%. Another teacher here who has also seen the breakdown of function within the classroom and school. Gradually we have seen more and more students acting out of control and the lack of consequences for students who cuss out the teacher, rage out of control, etc. We used to have a couple kids per grade that were unable to disregulate, or needed a one-to-one for behavior but this year we seem to have several kids per class that have behavior that is unmanageable. I am trained in trauma-informed care and best practices but I am struggling this year because we have SO MANY kids that are struggling. It is impossible for one teacher to meet the needs of each student in the classroom. It is never acceptable to put your hands on a student we are not even supposed to touch their shoulder to guide them to the office or help them up off the floor (think Pre-k or kindergarten age student). We need more paras to assist with behavior issues and administrators who will take these behavior issues seriously so we are able to effectively teach ALL of the students in our class.

Teacher was 100% wrong to chase after that student and punch/slap him. That’s just awful. And that teacher is large and was clearly super angry, while the kid was small.

I will say that the kid dropped to the floor only after walking a few feet and then another staff member approached. When that staff member approached, the kid dropped to the floor. Seems a little suspicious. However, that kid will get a payout from the school district, which he should.

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Anonymous wrote:As a teacher, I see a teacher pushed to the edge by a kid who had likely been a problem all year. Those kids exist. That being said, nothing excuses this and if he is in the place mentally where a difficult kid can push him to physical violence, it is time for him to leave the classroom. You simply cannot do this to any kid - yours or anyone else’s.

Schools used to have corporal punishment
How I miss those days, people actually had manners back then

I miss the days teachers didn’t take things do personally.

Pushed to the edge… by a child FFS, grow some.

Anonymous wrote:As a teacher, I see a teacher pushed to the edge by a kid who had likely been a problem all year. Those kids exist. That being said, nothing excuses this and if he is in the place mentally where a difficult kid can push him to physical violence, it is time for him to leave the classroom. You simply cannot do this to any kid - yours or anyone else’s.

Schools used to have corporal punishment
How I miss those days, people actually had manners back then

As a teacher, I see a teacher pushed to the edge by a kid who had likely been a problem all year. Those kids exist. That being said, nothing excuses this and if he is in the place mentally where a difficult kid can push him to physical violence, it is time for him to leave the classroom. You simply cannot do this to any kid - yours or anyone else’s.

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Anonymous wrote:There is absolutely no circumstance where I would support this teacher after seeing this video. And I support many teachers/principals etc in my family and friend group; times are tough for them. I still can't see any way this is ok.

For all we know this kid just assaulted another student. If that were the case I really wouldn't feel bad for what happened to him.

Even if the kid did assault another student, the teacher has no right to slap and push the student. Seems like student is a prick, but he will get his payday from the school system for this since it is captured on video.

At that point the kid was walking. You escort him to the office and send them home. There was no reason for all that. If the child didn't cooperate then under the arm or something is ok but no the shove and slap. That is not corporal punishment, that is an assault.