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Someone has to be the big person and act like an adult. No matter how angry one is at a student and how much of a delinquent that student might be, the teacher is still the adult. Regardless of how one tries to rationalize it, it was still wrong.
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this country is way off letting kids do any damn thing they please- it's a bunch of bullcrap and these kids are going to be major assholes when they grow up-well a good portion are that now. everyone yells "oh the poor baby" screw that!
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he crossed the line when he hit the student. As a teacher he or she has a responsibility to set an example. The student should have been expelled for sure and maybe what this student did could have landed them in jail. But now your friend and colleague is probably looking at a lawsuit. Too bad though cause the student probably had it coming. (just not by a teacher)
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Teachers no matter what the provocation just have to possess the patience second to God and NEVER ever hit a student. I DO understand the pressure. Many a times, my kids have been whacked by me and my husband when they totally cross the line and I do believe that"spare the rod and spoil the child" but I also think that no one but the parents should,if need be,be the one doling our corporal punishment.
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Of course that is never o.k. It means the teacher was out of control. Unless the student swung at him and it was impossible to otherwise restrain the student, I see no reason for such action. Was it a defensive action that caused the teacher to lose his/her "cool"?. Now that will go on the "rap" sheet, in the file and certainly diminishes the teacher's stature..at least in my eyes. Too bad. One mistake like that and the teacher's reputation is irreparably harmed. Too bad. :(
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