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.
Sure. I understand how in your position, you can’t condone it.
I have no such limitation, though.
This whole thing just pisses me off reading it. I don’t know what kind of man this teacher is, but I’ll bet he has had to put up with a lot of abuse for a long time.
I fault the school system, the kid’s “parent”, and society.
The school system, because no matter how badly this “kid” acts, there is likely no recourse. As a teacher, you probably have to figure out how to TRY to teach while this POS runs around the class with a ruler and a bunsen burner. More infuriatingly, the other little POS with the camera. This is why I am not a teacher. I would have grabbed the thing out of her hand, ground it under my heel, and handed it back to her with a sympathetic shrug and a John Belushi-ish “Sorry.” As for him, I would paraphrase Robert Duvall in “Open Range” where he says “Good health to them who has it comin’.” In this case, “A good beatin’ to them who has it comin’.” In any case, the twerp should have been banned from school grounds and sent to a place that is a fairly unpleasant environment to learn in.
His “parent”, for not teaching him manners. I got no respect for parents who would raise a kid to do what he did.
I blame society for perhaps not allowing the school and the parent to discipline this “child” for his own good. Grabbing your kid by the arm and giving the kid a tongue lashing today can put you in jail.
I understand YOU can’t say it naturalman1975, and after reading your posts on FR for a few years, I’ll bet your kid(s) would never treat an adult that way, so you don’t have to say it.
I can say it.
Assault is committed by a loon screaming “die die die” while fracturing a kids skull with a blunt object.
Notice the difference?
Discipline is one thing, cracking the kids skull and giving him brain damage is another.
Believe me I have no problem with the kid getting a bit of comeupance, but beating him about the head with a 3 lb barbell while shouting DIE DIE DIE isn’t appropriate.