Posted on 11/08/2019 7:51:28 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
ALLEGHENY CO., Pa. - The Pennsylvania State Education Association and Sto-Rox School District teachers held a demonstration before a school meeting Thursday night.
They claim 18 teachers have been seriously injured in school this year, mostly from breaking up school fights. Some of them had to be hospitalized.
And they said the district isn't doing anything about the problem.
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"Teachers and para-professionals have been hospitalized. We've had some that have missed work because of their injuries," said Engelherd.
Teachers said this has been a growing issue since the first day of class, but some school board members said they felt blindsided and attacked.
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Back in my day, if we would have touched a teacher, dad would have whooped my behind into oblivion! These days, where is Dad? Out impregnating the next woman, I assume.
,,,,,, and I’ll bet Obama is happy as hell , he started this mess . Divide and conquer is working .
My school years were 50's and 60's. I never once heard of a girl fight/brawl. Although sometimes tussles would happen instantaneously on school grounds in elementary school, by junior high and high school the boys with some lame grudge would almost always put it off till after school and off school grounds and meet some blocks away.
Then the one losing the fist fight or ground tussle would say "okay, you win" and the two would just walk away and that was the end to it. It was like tapping out and there was no honor loss for the tapper because he had the nerve watching the seconds pass by on classroom clock and showed up, even if unevenly matched. It happened to me more than once. Also got in a fight on school grounds (he chose me out instantaneously) once in JH and as the a teacher approached we both stopped by his direction, but we both got 2 swats from the VP. We became friends after experiencing the awakening of a big ass flat board. I can still feel the sting.
I also had an after school fight where the kid kick me in the balls making a major connection. Of course I lost that fight, but the other kid didn't get bragging rights, because that was not within the ROI and the Manly code of the time. He was ostracized by all but his closest buds.
Those were the days of a simple fist fight with no one going home to get a gun. Maybe you'd go home with black eye or busted lip and some ground scrapes. Us Boomers started the stupid Hippie movement, but most of us were taught respect for authority from the Greatest Generation parents.
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