ALAYMAN said:
Smellin Coffee said:
Lesson learned by the rest of the class: don't trust white cops. They have it out for you.
My coworker told me of a similar incident that happened about 30 years ago (at a time when he and I were both in highschool). To make a long story short, the student was being a butthead and wadded up a homework assignment then threw it down in the floor. It's not all that different than what this student did (though he was white, as was the teacher). The teacher, without a word, picked him by the scruff of the neck and drug him up through the aisle, desks and stuff flying everywhere, and tossed him out into the hallway. They then administered the customary 5 swats to the backside, and returned him to the class. Neither he, nor anybody else in the class had another disruption the rest of the year. Maybe your perspective is relative to your own emotional bias.
So the end justifies the means.
I bet if the teacher fired a weapon in the air, or put a knife to the throat of the kid and threatened to kill him, that would have kept the peace for the remainder of the year also.
Perhaps my perspective IS relative to my own emotional bias. I won't deny that. Physical violence is NOT the answer. If this was a continuing problem, school administration should have not let her in the class or found another solution. If this was a singular instance, they should have moved her out of the class. If she refused to go, move the class to the gym for the day and keep her there until a parent or guardian could come get her.
A few years ago when I was unemployed, I was a substitute teacher for an elementary school. In first grade, there was a particular kid who was completely disruptive, would bring in pictures of knives and guns, would bring in dolls with amputated limbs or head and even carried around a Barbie with a noose around the neck. This was FIRST GRADE. He would physically bang his head on the desk and tell his mom the teacher was hitting him.
The school was at wits end and hired me for the entire semester to take him to the back of the class and teach him one-on-one. Guess what? I became his friend and he was able to learn his studies and his grades improved. When he did things with the class, I stood next to him. I never had to grab him or even threaten discipline but rather worked on getting him to focus. He took his EOG tests in a room by himself but he passed easily. He never banged his head when I was there and his mom said he actually settled down a little at home. He had tremendous social and attention deficit issues and they were not being dealt with at home so the problems happened at school.
The school asked me to come back the following fall but I had found a job and could not sub again. Point being is not that I have the answers because I just wing it, but there are other alternatives to dealing with disruptive students and threats and violence are not required.
If that makes me emotionally biased, I will own it.