What the hell is wrong with people? I literally have nothing.
A sense of power, entitlement and impunity. That and a serious lack of training. That’s what’s wrong with THESE people. Seriously. edit. This is a case for CPS at least and probably a law suit.
She says the school told her it’s disciplining two teachers and a paraprofessional because of the incident.
Not good enough. This is criminal assault, perpetrated against a child. This is not a “leave without pay” offense - it’s an “8-12 years” offense.
Now, now. Let’s not make hasty prejudgments. It may turn out that the teacher is white.
Sigh. We need a national timeout in this country.
I make my daughters stand in the bathtub and hold hands while facing each other when they bicker. I think we should start something like that. You can’t help but get the hilarity but yet you have to work it out.
Remember when teachers were smart, didn’t solicit sex with their students and were a moral authority?
Actually, I still remember when school systems hired the best and cultivated them instead of the race to the bottom regarding who will work for the cheapest wage.
When was that? Some of my teachers were smart, but some of them were dumb, and there was definitely the gym teacher who had to apologize for knocking a 6th-grader unconscious because the kid was pissing him off. (And don’t get anyone from a parochial school started on nuns with rulers.)
Ithink it’s plausible that some schools have gotten worse, especially with idiot “zero tolerance” policies, but there’s always been a strong vein of authoritarianism and physical nastiness in schools.
I was born in 1945…I know whereof I speak. It is tragic that there has been a decline in intelligent teachers. It is an intended consequence of the NeoCons’ decades of dumbing down Americans.
What can you say, it’s Georgia!
And obviously the child isn’t or they’d have done something long before now!
No, because there never was a time like that. People are no different now then they were at any other time. My 85 year old mother tells some pretty horrid stories about her one room school. In the 60’s we had teachers that joined the more affluent students in ridiculing those of us who lived in a small farming community on the outer edge of the district. “Moral Authority” was the name our math teacher gave her cut off goalie stick. It hung at the far end of the chalkboard. It had big holes drilled in the wide part and she was not afraid to use it.
Yes we do but capitalism does not allow for timeouts. Time is money.
Georgia is one of 19 states that allow corporal punishment in schools. That is an open invitation for abuse because anyone who has dealt with kids knows they can make you crazy sometimes. (Even your own kids. I once walked out of the house and around the block because I was so angry I was afraid I might hit mine.) This goes beyond mere discipline and so should what happens to those so-called educators; they need to be fired, prosecuted and sued.
Kids are vastly overrated as an integral component of society. I think the planet would be vastly improved in homo sapiens skipped having them for a couple generations.
While individual teachers can, and do, run amuck, full responsibility goes straight to useless administrators and school board members. True policy change will begin only when they are held legally responsible and replaced.
Children need to be put first and if we are not prepared to do that, having a family can be a terrible exercise in dysfunction from a number of standpoints. There are way too many dangers and distractions these days and it seems there is a responsibility gap that often puts it all on the immediate family. There may be somewhat more awareness about needs that kids face in certain circles, but we are falling way, way short of taking care of many of our kids.