teacher assaulted by student, and caught on video

[DaemonSeid]

Just when you thought you have seen it all:

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

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

[DSTCHAOS]

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...."

[AKA_Monet]

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.

[knight_shadow]

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.

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

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

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

[UGAalum94]

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."

[AKA_Monet]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

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.

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.

[DeltAlum]

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.

[BabyPiNK_FL]

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

[Kevin]

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

[AKA_Monet]

Originally Posted by Kevin

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?

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by Kevin

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

I suggested that she sue the principal; I don't know if someone else suggested suing the kid.

Especially if they were lying about the data so that people didn't know how dangerous the school was, perhaps there's a case there.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

I suggested that she sue the principal; I don't know if someone else suggested suing the kid.

Especially if they were lying about the data so that people didn't know how dangerous the school was, perhaps there's a case there.

I'm thinking the school district -- they have money and they are responsible for creating an unsafe work environment.

My younger brother works in a school like this -- they have lots of security and the teachers are never alone with the students.

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by Kevin

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

You assume much and so little.

Hmm...the Columbine killers' parents had money and look how they turned out.

So...what was the point of that lil' statement there...bud?

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

You assume much and so little.

Hmm...the Columbine killers' parents had money and look how they turned out.

So...what was the point of that lil' statement there...bud?

Columbine is one thing. That was remarkable because it was one of those rare "this can happen to you too" moments. Had Columbine happened at an inner-city school in Baltimore, it'd hardly be news.

An impoverished inner-city school which is near the breaking point is quite another. I assume as much because my assumption is more likely accurate than not. If the kid's parents were hard working, good folks, the kid would have respect for the teacher and would probably not be going to that school.

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by Kevin

Columbine is one thing. That was remarkable because it was one of those rare "this can happen to you too" moments. Had Columbine happened at an inner-city school in Baltimore, it'd hardly be news.

An impoverished inner-city school which is near the breaking point is quite another. I assume as much because my assumption is more likely accurate than not. If the kid's parents were hard working, good folks, the kid would have respect for the teacher and would probably not be going to that school.

Kevin, I went to Baltimore public schools...my parents were not on welfare.

I also taught in that SAME school system and the MAJORITY of kids I taught had parents who WORKED.

I have a neice who goes to public school also in Baltimore...A student...mom is not on welfare nor does she have multiple babies or whatever your 'ass - u' mption tends to be about this child and her situation...because geuess what...

YOU...DON'T...KNOW
-what that child's situation is
-what her parents do

Hardly would have been news?

Hmmm I guess you musta snoozed through the shooting in Ohio back in October of 07

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/10/cle...ing/index.html

May not have been as massive as Columbine but not newsworthy? Heh.