Anonymous wrote:It is shocking how undisciplined and aggresive school kids are in US. We are teaching them to be career criminals instead of good citizens.
Anonymous wrote: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.
Anonymous wrote: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.
Anonymous wrote:Not enough information, but this kids must be a little bugger if everyone is supporting the teacher on this.
Anonymous wrote:It is shocking how undisciplined and aggresive school kids are in US. We are teaching them to be career criminals instead of good citizens.
Anonymous wrote: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.
Anonymous wrote:It is shocking how undisciplined and aggresive school kids are in US. We are teaching them to be career criminals instead of good citizens.
Anonymous wrote:It is shocking how undisciplined and aggresive school kids are in US. We are teaching them to be career criminals instead of good citizens.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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
No they didn't. Kids still acted up back then. My dad worked in the school system and I knew about more cases where the teachers abused the students. Don't even get me started on how kids who were different or had disabilities were treated. Romanticizing the past is for people who know nothing about history.
You're taking it to the extreme. Of course kids still acted up, but we had a lot less school shootings and other violent behavior.
The problem with shootings is directly related to the number of guns in this country and the gun culture. That problem has little to do with teachers not being able to hit kids. Teachers have always been able to abuse kids and did back then. The violent behavior comes from the violence they see around them not because someone isn't hitting them at school.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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
No they didn't. Kids still acted up back then. My dad worked in the school system and I knew about more cases where the teachers abused the students. Don't even get me started on how kids who were different or had disabilities were treated. Romanticizing the past is for people who know nothing about history.
You're taking it to the extreme. Of course kids still acted up, but we had a lot less school shootings and other violent behavior.