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A kindergarten teacher is recovering after she was beaten by a 5-year-old student.
Aldine Independent School District officials said the attack happened at Stovall Academy, 3025 Ellington, on Oct. 5. The teacher was sweeping her classroom when some of the students got into a fight. T
he teacher reprimanded a 5-year-old student, and that student pushed the teacher to the ground, sources close to the school told KPRC Local 2.
Sources said the student jumped and stomped on the teacher, threw a chair at her and hit her repeatedly with a broomstick. The teacher had to go to a hospital for treatment.
She was out of work for more than a week. School district officials said the student has a history of behavioral problems and he has been places in an alternative program. Some parents said they were shocked by the student's behavior. "If he has those issues now, how is he going to be in high school?" parent Camilia Tillis said.
She was out of work for more than a week. School district officials said the student has a history of behavioral problems and he has been places in an alternative program. Some parents said they were shocked by the student's behavior. "If he has those issues now, how is he going to be in high school?" parent Camilia Tillis said.
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
What is wrong with that picture?? When did 5 year olds get this level of animalistic viciousness? This is what you see on the street between people with a lifetime of bad times to build it. The world is going mad.
Originally posted by TheWalkingFox
Now toss that in with a possibly abused or neglected child? yeah, the poor kid's basically an animal. I hope he gets the treatment he definitely needs.
Originally posted by TheWalkingFox
reply to post by unityemissions
Nope. it's a demonstration of body mechanics. The teacher bent over to break up the fight. This made her easy to unbalance, to push over. And once you're down, you probably aren't going to get back up easily. Throw in even an average-sized kindergartener - that's what, 50 pounds? More, less? - jumping up and down on your back and hitting you with a broom?
Don't underestimate little people.
Originally posted by Maluhia
I'm thinking the teacher is either less than 5 ft. tall and 90 pounds or an opportunist looking for a payday. Can you say lawsuit? Seriously, what 5 year old is physically capable of this?
edit on 2-11-2011 by Maluhia because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by TheWalkingFox
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
What is wrong with that picture?? When did 5 year olds get this level of animalistic viciousness? This is what you see on the street between people with a lifetime of bad times to build it. The world is going mad.
A self-centered worldview coupled with both a lack of empathy and a lack of understanding of cause - effect relationships. A kid - ANY kid - who is really angry, is really angry. And a great many of them will not understand that htey can hurt people or what the consequences might be.
Now toss that in with a possibly abused or neglected child? yeah, the poor kid's basically an animal. I hope he gets the treatment he definitely needs.
Originally posted by intrptr
I have a 7 year old nephew and he is barely controllable right now. The last time he almost got evicted from school he appeared before the principal 3 times. 3 times! Each time he was scolded and sent back to class where he waited for another opportunity to begin picking on the same little kid all over again. Half his size! Later he told me that he was "just having fun with them". He enjoys bullying and could care less what any adult tells him. He smiled when I confronted him about the last in a long line of abuse he heaps on his peers at school, church and his cousins house.
I am also shocked and not surprised that today younger and younger kids not only quickly display anger but goto blows as well in a heartbeat. No one is teaching them that its okay to be mad and show it; but never, ever lay on hands as an extension of that anger. Have we lost our coping skills?
I know that in the case of my nephew, his parents started off early grabbing, pulling and tugging at him, locking him in his room, and swatting his rump for anything that he refused to do. So he has no idea of boundries. To him, anger and impatience means physical conflict. Thats what he is learning. And he enjoys it.
Originally posted by Ha`la`tha
How much can a 5 year old swing a broom to inflict pain... let along debilitating pain..