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I just don't know...

Didn't look like much of a beating, not even a decent bitchslapping.

If a teacher in my high school were beating a student, there would be marks ... and dents in the lockers.

Saw a gym teacher whale on a guy once. Stoner dude behaved pretty well after that.

I think she should be disciplined for being a piss poor fighter regardless of what they find with the rest of it.

Additional information: it's an alternative school, and the teacher's side of the story is that the boy either hit or taunted a disabled girl in the class, depending on the source.

Yea, it really wasn't a very good ass kicking. She fights like a gurl.

Still, the boy was in the corner cowering - He never tried to fight back even while being hit by his teacher. He had succumbed to her authority. Anything physical on her part after they two students were separated was unwarranted - I think. At that point she should have sent him to the principal or whatever SOP was/is.

Unless, of course, dragging him around and slapping/kicking him IS SOP. In which case she followed the book precisely. :rolleyes:

Oh, I wasn't defending her actions. Just adding details I'd come across (I actually went searching because her name sounded extremely familiar, but as best as I can tell there's no connection to anything I'd know.) Even if he weren't cowering, proper restraint procedures do not involve bitchslapping.

No prob - I didn't take it that way at all.

I guess you didn't go to school in New Jersey.

We gots a gud edumacational sistem hear.

When that video went viral, maybe half of the people watching were outraged students or parents, and the other half were teachers vicariously living out their daydreams.

FINISH HIM! MERCY IS FOR THE WEAK!!!

I could understand it if Aden's teacher felt like doing this to him at times...

But there's a difference between understanding, and approving.;)

I laughed when I saw that clip and remembered the Psycho teachers we had at school,ok it was the 60's/70's but some of the things that went on were way worse than that.
Our mental science teacher punching a boy full in the face and knocking him off a stool in the class because he yawned when the teacher was speaking.
I got hit in the face by a bunch of keys that another nutter teacher threw at the guy in the desk in front of me who was pissing about, but he ducked quicker than me.
Pupils getting smacked in the back of the head with rulers,hands books or whatever else was handy.
Happy days

I saw the kid kick her in the nuts.

Private schools are so much better than public schools.

Maybe my sarcasm meter is off, but you do know this was a public school where this occurred, right Spex? The part that makes it "alternative" is that everyone there has behavior problems.

I did not know that it is a public school. On CNN it was described as a charter school. They said that the teachers there don't have to be certified, as they do in public schools. I interpreted that to mean that it is not a public school.

Admittedly, it's a gray area. They're taxpayer-funded and free to the students, but with the alternative/reform designation they're given a lot more leeway in terms of curriculum, discipline procedures, and all that. It's just a different kind of public school model, the way I see it. Generally speaking, the vast majority of charter schools are attempting to reform the worst groups of kids, but there are a few that are like the school that monster's kids go to, where it's more about love of knowledge and lack of institutional stifling.

So, "Roshambo 101" is on the curriculum?

"Alternative" is a code word for "exceptionally bad children herein."

I deal with a lot of the little bastids from alternative schools. They're not quite bad enough for reform school, but not good enough for regular school, even with extra detention.

When I was in the 6th grade, there was this male teacher. We had 3 sixth grade classes and the teachers worked together, dividing subject matters to teach, so each teacher had the right to call on any of the 80 or so students, regardless who your main, homeroom teacher is. That year, the teachers were dead against break dancing. During one recess time, a bunch of guys and some girls were caught break dancing. Now whether you participated by actually doing it or watching, you were called out onto the balcony for discipline. I was sitting in the classroom so I didn't witness it, but a friend of mine was outside so he retold what happened. The teacher lined all the guilty students in a row and started one end and slapped them down the row. :lol: That teacher was known to slap any students for talking back too. The following year, he transferred to teaching fourth graders and I heard he hit them too. This was the early 80's. I'm not sure if he got into trouble for his disciplining techniques. :p:

I hope that doesn't include what the video showed.

It's not supposed to, hence why the teacher was fired. But it's a lot more common than you think. (Jump ahead to page 15 for a detailed list of deaths/injuries to students.)

What page has death/ injuries to teachers? Just askin'.