Btw, for those that aren't familiar with Gary, think Indiana's equivalent of East St. Louis or Detroit - a rust belt industrial town saddled with rampant crime, high unemployment, endemic corruption, and staunchly liberal politics (more liberal than Berkley, according to this study.)
God forbid one of those Eagle Scouts has one stashed in his car.
>>>Stevens said the woman, who is expected to face assault charges, was upset over the teacher’s disciplinary tactics with her child. <<<
BTW, this is typical in the modern classroom.
Every year I get a couple of kids who think that they know every legal restriction for myself and my behavior, while they can do and say whatever they want at whatever moment during class. It is my good fortune that I have administration that backs me up whenever these little thugs come into my classroom, and my fortunate heritage that I was raised back East and had a rough time in early adulthood so I can scare the living crap out of them without even raising my voice.
Other schools are not as fortunate, though, and the insane run the asylum.
This is a good time to argue for complete privatization of schools; I would thrive. In a private school, students would have to abide by my standards of conduct or get the boot. And you have no idea how many of the students would wish that the minority of criminal malcontents would be quickly exited from the system.
Once I had a parent call me because she didn’t like the way I had talked to her little darling. She was loud and abrasive, just like her daughter. Finally, she said, “What if your son came home and said his teacher had talked to him like that?” I told her that I would have punished my son for disrespecting his teacher. Boy, did that conversation stop suddenly.