Speaking as a secondary school teacher, while, of course, I cannot condone a serious assault on a student - nor, indeed, any criminal assault - I have to say, if teachers don’t have the authority to discipline students when needed, it can get incredibly frustrating and I’m not surprised sometimes a man can snap.
Not Guilty? Really? He committed an assault and battery upon a child - a problem child, but still a child. This verdict was not justice.
Mark Steyn mentioned a 14 year old girl who asked to be moved for a project because the other kids at her table only spoke Urdu.
The teacher called the cops. They hauled her to jail and booked her. They sat her in a cell for over 3 hours and interrogated her about her Race Hatred.
But bloody a kid and thats fine.
crazy.
In 1958 in my biology class I recall a student being DRAGGED across the dissecting table by the teacher for simply groaning over the homework assignment being given. The class had previously been warned NOT to make a sound unless contributing to the discussion.
The student, after being dragged across the table by his shirt and arms was ushered out in the hallway. We then heard 3 loud bangs in rapid succession. This was, as we all knew, the student being slammed up against the lockers which lined the side of the hall. Moments later the student and the teacher came back into the class, the student red faced and very subdued and the teacher calm.
The class carried on and nothing ever became of the incident. It was a totally different world then and students were held accountable for ALL their actions. The school was supported by the parents and when a student was sent home for behavioral problems he was punished again by the parents whose attitude was if the teacher says you did it, then you did it, case closed.
Had this little bastard acted similarly in my school towards a male teacher he would have been literally knocked on his ass by the teacher and suspended for probably 3 days to boot. The reason the little turds do what they do is because they are allowed to get away with it.
We raised 2 kids in the late sixties into the mid 80’s and never once did we have to put up with this sort of crap. We raised them in the same way we were raised. They were taught from the very beginning they must behave or they would be punished, and we followed through every time. Soon enough they came to learn that when mom or dad says “sh*t, Their response was to be “where and how much”. Draconian? Maybe compared to today but we never had a problem with either of them nor are they having any problems with their own children. My daughter gets into it with her husband occasionally because he read the Benjamin Spock book on how to raise your child (screw them up is more like it). She always prevails because she tells him to back off or he will raise them full time.
Crack my child’s skull and I would split his in two with an axe.
Another example of treating crime very lightly in the UK.