[SmithL]

The teachers union is complaining about living in a world of their own creation.

[Puppage]

The 56-year-old came home bruised, bandaged and outraged after a 17-year-old girl punched her in the face and jabbed a pencil at her hand.

Boy, I just hope that 17yr old girls self-esteem is still in tact./sarcasm

Isn't that the all important factor in todays public schooling?

[general_re]

Detentions, suspensions, expulsions - pardon me, but in any other setting, the little b*st*rds would be arrested, and rightfully so. Why aren't they being taken out in cuffs?

[Spok]

Everyone, everywhere should be concerned about the rising tide of violence in America, and come to the realization that it's not going to be quelled by more laws and more metal detectors.

[skaterboy]

Of course the parents of the 17 year old are saying "my po' baby is a good kid" and "who are you to judge her"

[Disambiguator]

Small world! If my parents hadn't moved from the East Bay, that's where I would have gone to high school.

[Crazieman]

tsk tsk

The result of teachers still using stressful red ink to mark papers.

Those poor childrens' self esteem :(

/sarc

[Born Conservative]

[Triggerhippie]

The teachers union is complaining about living in a world of their own creation.

Amen!

[randog]

Researchers say documenting the problem is the main obstacle to preventing violence against teachers.

Spoken like true bureaucrats.

[maestro]

California Department of Public and Illegal Alien ('NEA')....Prisons to ask for U.S. Grant for body armor?

/'British' school systems philosophy of 'teaching'....

....today's....'Duck and Cover'... schools?

[swmobuffalo]

Chalk one up to "only in California". The little buggers would be handcuffed and arrested on the spot where I live. And in some cases, depending on the teacher, would probably would need medical treatment before booking. I don't know of any teacher around here that would put up with that kind of abuse from a socalled student.

[SMARTY]

Why don't the teachers file criminal charges against the student? Make a police report and let the law take it from there. Of course the same 'so what' attitude the teachers have cultivated in the schools pervades the legal system too. Oh well. Haven't the teachers supported ever hare-brained liberal agenda for donkeys' years??? THEY created the monster!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

According to a 2004 report, an estimated 90,000 violent crimes were committed against teachers on campuses nationwide from 1998 to 2002.

This is not nearly as abhorrent as a school displaying the Ten Commandments in plain view.

[The Red Baron]

For the life of me, I can't understand why anyone would take a job in the public education field.

[mattdono]

possible expulsion

Not definite? What about possible (or even pending) incarceration?

[mattdono shakes head, offer best Bruce Willis impression] F*ckin' California.

[bassmaner]

This little bitch gets a slap on the wrist, when she should be arrested and charged with aggravated assault.

In other news, an honor society student get expelled from school and denied graduation because someone found a butter knife in her car.

Will somebody in the public education system straighten out your priorities, please?

[Supernatural]

If only we would throw more money at the schools, all the problems would be solved.

[SoftballMominVA]

Sounds like the parent of this child followed all the directions in "How to Raise a Brat"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1375658/posts

[AmericanChef]

Badly-run schools being overtaken by rotten kids raised by rotten parents. I'm not sure who to feel sorry for, but it's not any of those groups.

[Joe 6-pack]

"The teachers union is complaining about living in a world of their own creation."

For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.

- Bible, Hosea (ch. VIII, v. 7)

(Of course you can't teach that in a public school...)