Two wrongs but one with violence

I tend to agree with the mother. The adult should be able to exercise control no matter what the child says. He is the adult after all. BUT believe me, I know how kids can push adults to their limits.. they should not step over the line to violence.
 

Yeah. That was pretty bad. I'm sure that the teacher had a lifetime of accumulated racial slurs, and the kid pushed the wrong button at the wrong time. Totally unacceptable behavior under any circumstances.
 
The kid was a brat, but the teacher should have restrained himself from physically touching the boy. They were close if the video, I wonder if the boy touched him first, regardless the teacher should have just reported the incident. Back in grade school, the nuns/teachers used to hit some of the kids. I was never hit, but my mother always said that if they did hit me, it's probably because I deserved it. Most parents didn't have a problem with it, there was no real abuse.

That boy should have been brought up better by his mother, and never said such a thing to a teacher in charge (or anyone for that matter). In this case, the takedown also looked pretty mild to me, calling it a body slam IMO is just overkill. With the mother making such a fuss and wanting to sue over something so minor, the boy's future violations will probably escalate when he reaches adulthood. I dunno, mixed feeling on this one.
 
The teacher is twice as big as the child and is legally and morally in the wrong.You don't assault a child for badmouthing you. We're not back in the 50s. The teacher might have been very reactive because of recent current events, but nevertheless, that is no excuse for violence against a child.
 
Cookie said:
The teacher is twice as big as the child and is legally and morally in the wrong.You don't assault a child for badmouthing you. We're not back in the 50s. The teacher might have been very reactive because of recent current events, but nevertheless, that is no excuse for violence against a child.
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We might be better off if we still acted like we did in the '50's. This society has gone to Hell in the proverbial handbasket since the '60's.
 
I'm not completely opposed to the "spare the rod, spoil the child" theory within reason.. However, that is a decision left to the parents, and again judiciously and within reason.
 
AZ Jim said:
"Because he's a male"?? QS...That's two....
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Listen.... If you did not live through the 50's and early 60's as a female, then those were just wonderful nostalgic times.. It was different for us. Discrimination was blatant and in the open. Females were definately 2nd class.
 
Well by the 60's I had learned about females but in the early 50's I eagerly sought that information. :bigwink: I was a father in 1957.
 
Cookie said:
Good god, man, you don't know what your saying.
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Absolutely! Where I lived people treated each other with respect, especially men/boys toward women/girls; we weren't slaughtering millions of unborn infants; police/civilian relations were respectful; civilians were respectful of servicemen and veterans until Nam era vets were abused in the late sixties and through the seventies and we could listen to music, radio and TV without hearing a steady stream of profanity. Yes, there were racial issues that had yet to be resolved and we did eventually resolve them only to have politicians incite racial conflicts again a couple of decades later; worse today than I ever remember.
 
Thanks, I saw no body slam by the teacher. I did see a boy acting aggressively to a man twice his size who was then brought to the floor. Inappropriate but hardly criminal. Was the boy injured?

I wonder what the situation would look like if we had seen more of the lead up to the climax of that particular encounter.
 
QS, Cookie, ,i am with you, for women,, there were no good old days. Male privilege still exists, in the fifties and sixties, it was paramount. We marched for a reason. We still earn only seventy cents on the dollar.
 
Marinaio, your attitude towards women is decidedly retrograde as your stance on abortion clearly indicates. June Cleaver is dead, let her and all the Stepford wives rest in peace.
 

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