teacher assaulted by student, and caught on video
 

Just when you thought you have seen it all:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/video/?s...cher0410-video

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24047456/

Whoa. That kid needs a serious butt whoopin'.

Many schools have never been safe. There just weren't camera phones and other ways of recording this stuff before. Teachers have gotten raped and assaulted at school when I was younger. It seems more frequent now because the info is more widely distributed.

Sidebar: The first thing I thought when I clicked on the link is "yooou got a fast car...."

And to think-I was about to fill out a teaching application for next year...I don't know anymore.

Welp, we can go back to where we were back in the day and not educated kneegrows... If they behave like savages, then let them die like savages... I know, that is EFF'ed up--but there are rules of the Universe you just don't break--one of them being you don't hurt or threaten teachers, no matter how much "trigger words" were used.

Ultimately, kids do not have to go to school. You cannot make them learn if they don't want to. But, I also should not have to pay for the consequences of their mistakes, when they get older. Let them dig ditches in Iraq? Or make license plates. Whatever. This is crazy.

This is exactly why I'm grateful for the teachers out there. I wouldn't have been able to hold back like that. Telling someone that you're going to defend yourself isn't a "trigger word," it's the damn truth! I hope that student was dealt with accordingly.

Now all I can think of is "aand IIIII-eee-IIIII" LOL

I didn't click through to the link, but I saw the story on the news last night, and they reported that the principal claimed that the teacher brought the attack on herself.


Doesn't that pretty much sum up the pathetic attitude that creates horrible school culture from the top down?

I hope the teacher pressed charges against the kids and sues the principal as well.

ETA:L from the article: "Lewis High was put on probation by Maryland school authorities last year for the high number of violent incidents reported there. Marietta English, the president of the Baltimore teachers’ union, said that the school has taken to not reporting incidents and not disciplining students for fear of being labeled “persistently dangerous,” a designation that would allow students to choose to go to other schools in the city."

Yes, it pretty much sums up the dumb attitude some folks have created from the top down.

And the reality is, this school is off the No Child Left Behind list--because these are the kids that have been long since been left behind...

You have got to think the kid was probably born in 1987-1989? Crack baby maybe? Also the teacher did not seem like that was her happily chosen profession--yet, it does not excuse the fact what this student did to her.

The teacher can probably press charges against the student for assault. She probably cannot touch the principal, but probably get her demoted. Making of a hazardous work environment? The GC lawyers would know more.

The sad part is this kid is probably headed directly to a penal institution because she just does not know appropriate behavior.

I'm not sure I really want to watch the video.

My wife taught in a high school for "emotionally disturbed" adolesent girls in Baltimore years ago. Almost everyone in her classes had criminal records.

Even in a very suburban public school in Ohio, she had a knife flashed at her in a class once. She backed the kid down. I wouldn't want her to even consider it these days.

Scary stuff.

Since the girl is in high school, she would have been born 1990-1993...well unless she's failed a grade or two, then she might have been born before 1990.

But it is pretty pathetic that the principal would place the blame on the teacher. It really goes to show how little control teachers have in the classroom. I know if it was me, i would have struck back--and then i'd probably be in jail. haha.

I was taking to one of my long-time friends, and we said the exact same thing! I mean I've been out of high school for almost 5 years, and it seems like its been AGES compared to how we acted when we were in school compared to the kids now.

What's she going to sue the student for? You think that kid's parents have money? You can't garnish welfare checks.

Probably without doing anything, the girl will wind up in prison as Bubbatte's girlfriend anyways... So what's the point in teaching her?

A very unfortunate situation.

I really think we need some kind of forced alternative where violent students can be placed- like some kind of boot camp- and not penalize schools for expelling students.

Federal grant money is based largely on head count, and as long as dropping a problem student could reduce the amount of a school's funding- problem students like this will be tolerated until a serious incident like this happens (and even then...)

Take kids like that away from their parents and stick them in a military school. I think that's the only hope there is. If a kid acts like that, the parents have failed. Society needs to start to take remedial measures at some point. A few years of boarding school is a lot cheaper than a lifetime behind bars for the state.

Sweetie, I think this high school was the last ditch alternative high school before a formal penal institution type of school--where there is a compound, gates surrounding the premises and armed guards.

A taser could have worked though... A zap on the side... It is not that lethal if used once.