My mom would've told me I deserved it and to BEHAVE in school OR ELSE!
He should have been sent to the office like we were as kids.
Gym teachers are not authorized to ‘punish’ anybody. That’s not their job.
This was dangerous and sadistic.
There was no call for this....................
In Ireland they used to just literally beat the hell out of you. Crazy back then.
You’re right. If the teacher had just shot the kid, we wouldn’t have to listing to the whining brat complain. Who do people think they are these days, going around second-guessing the actions of their superiors? Why its almost enough to make me want to type stuff in all caps.
“My mom would’ve told me I deserved it and to BEHAVE in school OR ELSE! “
I doubt it, unless your mom is some sort of b!tch that dont like you all that much the begin with.
Everyone likes to pretend like their parents would have been cool with the teacher punching you in the jaw for passing notes because “we were more hardy back then, by gum!”, but putting a kid outside in the cold with no coat is just stupid as hell.
WOW. JUST. WOW. SMH.
Dude, you got way more out of that article than I did! From your many responses to this post, I get that you think the solution to our country’s ills is more punishment. Weird!
My folks defended my when I was treated unfairly at school to the point one teacher lost their job and my dad would provoke them into saying the stupidest shit to the point I am surprised it wasn;t more than one
On the other hand, if I deserved it then it was my problem and mine alone and cannot remember how many times I got my ass busted or one of the foot ball coaches made me (us) run ladders barefoot in the cold which got your attention quick.
Subjecting the child to possible heath risks is punishment too far. Make him do laps around the gym for 30 minutes, or something other than stick him out in the cold unprotected.
There is a difference between a disciplining child who is misbehaving and abuse. This is child abuse! That young child could have become hypothermic which can result in death if serious enough. In any case should have seen the school nurse immediately who, I am sure, would have been horrified and taken him to the ER to make sure that he was okay.
As a mother, I would have had no problem with the teacher dealing with naughty behavior with a time-out or made him run a lap around the gym, etc.
It is hard to believe that a credentialed gym teacher would not have known better.
I hope you realize this child has civil rights just as you do, and teachers do not under any circumstance, have a right to place children in harm’s way because of their naughty behavior.
I am very sorry your mother would not have cared if your teacher punished you in such a way as to jeopardize your life. Most mothers, including me, would be up in arms if our children were treated in such a way!
Did the punishment fit the crime?
Do you believe in any random punishment by a teacher?
You remind me of the people in the 90's who set up camps to deal with problem kids.
Kids were beaten, denied medial care and died.
We don't have those camps anymore for a reason.
There's nothing wrong with disciplining a child for an infraction but the punishment should be appropriate not random abuse.
My good mom made me ride my bike 5 miles to school in about 35F cold after i missed the bus, and i had no gloves. And then I got a detention when with freezing red numb .hands i was sitting down in my first period seat as the buzzer went of.
Some would think that was cruel but it was not. And I do not think I ever missed the bus again. While in this case the punishment, if as described, seems over the top - though I think many teens would do such on a dare to gain esteem - doing a show-off dance move in obvious defiance of the teacher was likely one of many provocations by a show-off teens with a parent who likely never really effectively disciplines him, and which is worse than any excessive discipline the teacher required.
Wait till he get hurt playing tackle football, which we did on our own with no equipment as teens, some quite large (unlike me).