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originally posted by: Edumakated
I grew up in a time when that little skinny kid would have got the sh*t stomped out of him by a male teacher.
Male teachers I remember and respected growing up:
Mr. Gibbons. I'll never forget in 8th grade, a beloved art teacher, Mr. Gibbons straight up suplexed a friend of mine WWE style. My friend was mouthing off and said something disrespectful about Mr. Gibbons wife. That little mofo was down for the count. You can bet your behind no one ever disrespected Mr. Gibbons again.
Mr. Southern. He was the embodiment of the legendary Joe Clark in the movie Lean on Me. He walked the hallway with a yard stick. He had this deep booming voice. You just knew not to f*ck with him. If he told you to get out of the hallway and to class, you did it.
Coach War. PE coach. He used to verbally abuse and knock kids around. He straight up tell you, "Go ahead. I will beat your skinny ass and then say I had a flashback (he served in 'Nam).
I saw on youtube, the teacher is getting a lot of support. The school system is allowing the inmates to run the place instead of instilling and forcing discipline.
originally posted by: odzeandennz
originally posted by: Dem0nc1eaner
originally posted by: DigginFoTroof
The video is very clear in what happened. Kid assaulated him with basketball, verbally assaulated him, closed in on personal space after being told to exit the class room (from a legal authority figure). After that the teacher was well within his rights to fear he was in danger and escalate to self defense to remove the thug from the classroom.
You Fing serious?!? I don't give 2 shiny sh!ts what the kid said, he is A TEACHER! He has no right to full on sucker punch A CHILD ... REPEATEDLY IN THE HEAD ... in a choke hold pumping him in the neck... over what? A basketball?
Aren't the teachers supposed to be able to de-escalate that situation?
If that was my kid I would be spitting feathers and teach wouldn't have his block between his shoulders for much longer.
SMDH.
The kid is a kunt, the teacher acted like a kid with his emotions.
There was no distinction between the way that grown teacher acted in the face of adversity than 2 teenagers would have acted in the face of adversity.
There was one grown up in their midst, unfortunately he did not act like a grown up.
All that kid has learned is to be better prepared with a weapon if he decides to assault someone bigger than him.
He learned nothing that will help him psychologically.
Was that teacher within his rights to defend himself from a threat, yes. Was that kid such a threat that the teacher had no other choices? No.
originally posted by: justdust
a reply to: Wardaddy454 Too many years of trying to keep the little ones ego healthy and have self respect. Which is cart before horse. Learn respect of others then earn self respect kids. Too many years of restricting adults because of the children. I raised mine without a village helping. We need to put some fear into the little warts so they know that there will be problems when they act in unacceptable ways.
originally posted by: Wardaddy454
Ah yes, see we need to throw more money at these schools. That will change the culture within the classrooms.
We need authoritarian figures to tell these kids (that despise authority) they need to respect teachers, instead of addressing the culture in the home.
No, we won't ever touch those things.
Which is why this happened.
originally posted by: SR1TX
originally posted by: justdust
a reply to: Wardaddy454 Too many years of trying to keep the little ones ego healthy and have self respect. Which is cart before horse. Learn respect of others then earn self respect kids. Too many years of restricting adults because of the children. I raised mine without a village helping. We need to put some fear into the little warts so they know that there will be problems when they act in unacceptable ways.
Sorry, but if you put fear into me, even as your kid. I'm going to kill you. One way or another, maybe not today, or tomorrow, but eventually. That's just mean.