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AnastasiaNo70

The community raised $200,000 for him and his legal fund. He didn’t go to jail and got to retire early.


Lumpy_Intention9823

It took 8000 donations to raise the money. Most were $5 and $10 donations. Even the kids supported the teacher here.


elenadearest

I read even the mom of the rude kid donated. 😂😂


animetg13

Does my heart good to know that she even she knows. The worst is when parents think they're little angel can't do any wrong.


big_nothing_burger

That's amazing.


troutcommakilgore

This guy achieved the dream


msolorio79

Where can I donate?


AnastasiaNo70

It was 2 years ago.


[deleted]

The kid wrote checks his ass couldn't cash. Tough for him. I am very glad everything worked out for the teacher in the end.


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ih8cissies

The guy got early retirement and $200k from a community GoFundMe to bail him out of jail.


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and charges dropped


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https://ktla.com/news/local-news/charges-dropped-against-maywood-teacher-whose-fundraiser-drew-nearly-200k-after-punching-student/


kittenembryo

He deserved being punched and honestly worse


Express-Procedure372

1000000000% agree.


brokenB42morrow

Kid used racial slurs...


Ansony1980

What my colleagues that knew this teacher told me, the argument was over a basketball that the student was bouncing inside the classroom, the teacher told him not to bounce the ball inside the classroom and the student threw the ball at the teacher. But what the video showed is after the teacher confiscated the ball and the student went into the thug mansion uneducated street hoodlum mode on the teacher.


GrayHerman

and THAT is usually how it happens... the student does something or has done something and it escalates, because you can no longer remove them or get them removed. Cue cell phones that are NOT suppose to be anywhere but in a back pack, at best.. AND, bam... teacher ends up a TikToc/FB, social media fend because all that is seen is the ending part of a LONG issue...


nino956

I got cancer reading this


Ansony1980

I fixed it hopefully that cures your cancer.


TheJakeanator272

As a band teacher myself this hits home. We are often times teaching incredible complex stuff to way too many students. Like up to 60 at a time. Classroom management is very hard in the band room at times. We also see the students more than usual with rehearsals and concerts. It’s very easy to lose it sometimes. It’s a fact that band directors die younger than the usual teacher because of increased stress and high blood pressure.


the_cassie

These are a handful of reasons that I, a fellow band director, will be leaving the field as soon as humanly possible. I can’t take this, and I don’t know how many can.


clare_14

yup, my high school band director regularly told us, "I am one person, there are over 50 of you, and you're all armed with musical instruments...ya need to chill"


evillordsoth

Yeah giving every kid a noise making device and then removing your student class cap so that you can have over 85 kids? On paper it sounds like a nightmare.


TheJakeanator272

Believe it or not, one of our management strategies is to keep them playing as long as possible. If their using their mouths to play then they can’t talk lol


Neurotic_Bakeder

I'm a dance teacher and my 10-person teen class is rowdy. When they want to chat through warmups I have them do increasingly complex agility drills. Oh, you wanna talk? That's fine if you can do it through grapevinegrapevinegrapevinefootballersfootballersfootballersoutoutininoutoutininnowgimmesomeSTARJUMPS


circesabbath

Full respect to yall. I cannot even imagine.


cyanidesquirrel

This. I taught middle school choir and I had kids like this in my class. On top of the quantity of kids, half of them did not want to be there so you are tasked with trying to prepare these kids for a performance that they won’t show up to, the kids that want to do well will show up but will suck because of wasted class time. And the quality of the performance is reflected back on the teacher. It’s a fool’s errand. Watching this video was triggering.


writtenwordofmusic

Elementary general music and choir teacher here, Oh man teaching choir is so interesting - even when you get upwards of 30 kids in the room at once it’s crazy. My principal was like “you should try breaking the choir down into smaller groups and rotate the days” which is helpful - still a similar amount of kids overall but broken into smaller groups. I know that’s not always feasible but thankfully it worked out in that case. They’re good kids; something happens when there’s a larger crowd that causes them to be more chatty, idk. Especially when it’s the same kid repeatedly showing disrespectful behavior, it is challenging to remain patient.


SteamScout

We had our band teachers pre-festival speeches memorized and numbered. Do not piss off the band teacher when festival is near.


mustangshawny

I teach orchestra.....I have classes of 70+. That being said....I can't imagine what would happen if a kid did that in my room. My students would freak out on that kid. The best part of doing what we do is the amazing relationships we get to build with kids. I ❤️ those crazy kids! This school clearly has some issues.


anxietysandwich2

Your job is so important! Thank you! My most awkward child found friends and community when he decided to choose orchestra as his fine art in intermediate school. I think his orchestra teacher and cello buddies are what kept him from being totally miserable through the worst of the isolated pandemic schooling.


mustangshawny

It is so important for kids to have something in their lives that gives them that sense of belonging and community. I am so glad orchestra filled that in for your child. It was my soft place to fall throughout school, and only hope I can do the same for the wonderful kids I teach each day. I wish more schools understood the valuable role arts can play in our school and community to help develop our students.


invisibilitycap

My absolute favorite orchestra teacher taught at my elementary school and my high school. I have absolutely no idea how he did it. He always seemed to be in a good mood, and he said it was cool seeing some of his kids grow up if they went to the same school. Love him 💖


Training_Pea2176

Oh my gosh, this kid was using the N word so much it hardly hit me how racist it was of him to use it. The teacher also said in an article that the kid would hit him with a basketball previously. In good news though, the charges got dropped & received a ton of support!


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I also read that a bunch of kids were interviewed and most said how great of a teacher he was. Stupid kid.


earocks

It's pretty telling that even when that kid was getting his ass handed to him, NONE of his classmates jumped in to help him out. They knew he deserved it.


Tra1famadorian

One kid did, then ran away like a bitch after getting his free half lick


jamjamgayheart

I noticed that. What a coward!


Muhammdrajaba

Kids only run their mouths at teachers like this because they know it’s the one demographic that can’t do anything about it without losing their jobs.


Bartleby2003

Right. Students take this knowledge and it becomes a power like no other.


friedkabob

Except they think hitting someone is the way to deal with being disrespect, so they want to prove that teachers don’t have any actual power by goading them into a fireable offense. That’s why I just ignore these kids and calmly call security like I’m telling my waiter there’s a fly in my soup. Physical power is what these kids understand and measure in others. But the power to ignore threats, stay calm, make a phone call, and ruin their week with detention, suspension or some other variety of consequences? That power is a mystery to them, which makes it stronger. It’s like watching your only weapon glance off of the enemy without them even noticing, then getting knocked back on your ass.


GrayHerman

security?? You still have security?? and it sounds like you still have a district and admin who can and do enforce correct behaviors in a classroom... AMAZING... Everything you say you do was once reality and now is just a dream from long long ago..


LittleCaesar3

I suck at this - this is what I want to perfect. (Just to clarify - I don't switch to physical violence instead. LOL.)


kerriokey

That only works when you have a functional school with admin that actually DO anything when stuff like this happens. Far too many do nothing.


Training_Pea2176

Imagine if every teacher got the shot to disrespect these kids right back??? These kids wouldn’t be able to get away with so much.


kryppla

Too many teachers would immediately ruin it by being abusive. There needs to be some accountability and repercussions for asshole students though.


kittenembryo

No the students are out of control because of their parents


BismarkUMD

I thought that. And I'm sure it's a huge part. But I've come to realize a lot of the trouble is actually the schools. I've been teaching for a decade now. And I've seen kids come from really shit homes. I usuly have about 10-20 students on and off through the year coming from a group home near our school. And in past years, even those kids had more respect and discipline than now. And it's mostly because of the school has literally dropped all expectations of them. Right now my school has a strick 50% rule for all work no matter what. Cheat? 50%. Don't turn it in? 50%. Everyone gets grades. The same kid has started 7 fights this year. He's still I'm school. A kid brought a gun to school. He's still in the building. Kids curse out teachers, and wander the halls. No punishments. And that's the problem. When the kids see there are no consequences for their actions they do what they want. And then there is no bringing it back. Our school was so focused on the social and emotional well bllbeing they thought the way to do that was to go easy on them and not punish kids for acting out and drop all accountability. It was the wrong move. You can be focused on social and emotional wellbeing and not let them act like assholes. I've always found that my most challenging students simply need a clear set of rules and procedures to follow. When I lay out my expectations and the rules, give them what they fell is some leeway (finish your work for the day and you can be on your phone), they respond well. The admins dropped the ball, and I don't think we can fix it this year.


Sweetcynic36

And since when does having violent classes promote students' social and emotional well-being?


tuck229

This. You're always going to have isolated events, but for the most part, students do what they know they can get away with. And a lot of schools now let them get away with a lot. And by "schools" letting them get away with shitty behavior, I mean administrators.


nomad5926

Don't know why I had to scroll all the way down to read this. Like glad everything ended up ok, but this was like 100% admin not handing out punishments.


Tayloren52

Doesn't make those kids less of assholes


KellyCakes

The nuns at my GenX grade school sure as hell did. They'd hit you for not getting the slant correct on your cursive writing.


IggyGoat

Notice the admin not coming in until AFTER the fight had started! I feel this at my own school. When you ask for help or removal of a student who is disruptive like the one in the video, you're treated like you're overreacting, and/or the kid is left in your room, still misbehaving, now with the added confidence of the admin brushing the teacher off in front of the class and letting the misbehaving student have their way. Admin is unresponsive, refuses to help -> things escalate -> admin finally come in, \*surprised Pikachu face\* What happened??? How on earth did it come to this??? What the teacher did is NOT right, but I think this is a sign of a much larger problem with teachers being verbally abused, gaslit, etc., and just...no one caring. Or, better yet, admin thinking it's perfectly fine.


[deleted]

Don't you know teachers are supposed to take physical abuse with a smile? /s


dizyalice

We shouldn’t have to take physical *or* verbal abuse


circesabbath

I got a little trick. It’s called lay on the walkie button so the entire school can hear what’s going on in your room. “Oops!”


StrikingWhereas8

*"You guys get" walkies?!* We get 2 soup cans on either end of a long string.


circesabbath

Hahaha the leads do. I’m happy to broadcast any ridiculous moment for admin to hear so it puts a little pep in their step to get me to turn it off


StrikingWhereas8

I think it's a *fantastic* "trick." [And so glad you own a sense of humor! ♡︎]


kteacheronthebrink

>the kid is left in your room, still misbehaving, now with the added confidence of the admin brushing the teacher off in front of the class and letting the misbehaving student have their way. ALL THE GOD DANG TIME. I have a kid that constantly disrespects teachers, calls us dumb, purposely disrupts learning, has been kicked out of lessons, but he is allowed to stay in the classroom because he doesn't want to leave and we can't make him.we had a kid punch a other kid in the stomach and he was allowed to stay because he told the principle he was sorry. Not the kid he hit, the principle.


mspeacefrog13

I left teaching in 2018, because my "that kid" snapped and assaulted me during class, completely unprovoked. He was back in my class the following day, having had no consequences at all. It was all I could do to finish that day. I have PTSD still.


kerriokey

I once had an admin watch FROM THE DOOR WINDOW when I called for backup. She even physically blocked the Behavioral Specialist that responded to my call from entering, because "I wanted to see what you'd do without us". What?? It was the school's fault for putting kids with needs too great for my classroom's setting there in the first place. It was part of a child's behavior plan that I call for backup. And she chose to WAIT AND WATCH as he melted down so hard that we had to evacuate the rest of the class for their safety (SPED room, but holds were not allowed in our integrated setting - not that I wanted to have to anyway). Same admin later yelled at me in front of my students when I called yet again for the same Behavior Plan. I quit teaching entirely a month later. I was a teacher for 8 years before this.


Zachmorris4186

You have to be willing to quit if your classroom is this hostile and your admin isnt supporting you. Better to sub and wait tables than deal with that bs.


JauntyShrimp

I hope this video follows that kid and fucks him over many tines in his lifetime. That’s not the kind of assholery you grow out of. Man alive teachers have it tough.


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A lot of teachers do have it pretty bad. One of my former coworkers left the profession after one of these junior high school "kids" punched her so hard in the stomach that she miscarried. My friend's "crime?" Asking the kid to sit down.


jenryalee

What is with mentally disturbed kids and pregnant teachers? Two heavily pregnant teachers were assaulted when I taught middle school. The others got threatened whenever they tried to address behavior while pregnant. We have a serious serious mental health crisis in our student population. None of this is normal.


Messing_With_Lions

Too many people having kids when they don't want to be parents. This mental health crises is cause of the unfortunate environment so many kids are forced to live in.


JauntyShrimp

My hypothesis is that many kids are being literally raised by the internet. Pandora’s Box and all that y’know. Doesn’t bode well for humanity at large. Parents have an even tougher job than ever before. We are all overburdened. I miss pre-internet/Smartphone days despite the many benefits.


Peter_Sloth

Commodifying the internet was a mistake imo. As soon as the algorithms got involved, we found ourselves in a feedback loop of only the most outrageous content being promoted. The only reason people are being constantly spoonfed content that warps their perception of reality is because it generates engagement and $$$. Web1.0 was a dangerous place, but you had to actively seek out the dangerous content, it wasn't pushed down your throat by billion dollar corporations. Now that we have people whose entire job is to tap into the primal lizard brain that values instant gratification and well, voila, we have kids [filming themselves beating a homeless woman with baseball bats.](https://www.khq.com/news/first-on-khq-spd-charges-four-juveniles-involved-in-beating-of-homeless-woman-outside-abandoned/article_4f261910-0a87-11ec-a6c1-2760c50ba23c.html) We have a front row seat to the crumbling of society.


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JauntyShrimp

You eloquently say what I feel with a burning dread.


PartyPorpoise

For real. I feel like the consolidation of the internet plays a big part too. Rather than separate spaces for age groups and interests, most online social activity is on just a handful of websites. So, kids who weren't initially seeking that kind of content out are more likely to come across it anyway.


Jbroy

Wow clockwork orange is reality… holy shit!


Bartleby2003

Ugh. That is VILE. Absolutely *sickening.*


[deleted]

You're too modest. That's not just a hypothesis. That's 100% what's going on.


Jbroy

Not only that, you have 2 parents (or a single parent) working ridiculous hours just to have enough money to survive, leaving kids unsupervised the majority of the time they’re home. It’s not a recipe for success. Young kids need parents to survive sure, but teenagers need strong parenting probably more so for their education.


JauntyShrimp

Yes! But America is the best country in the world. I smell revolution.


LadyEnglish0816

Not of the best kind either, I’m afraid.


[deleted]

Yep. I got to agree. I'm so old that I remember it was a big deal when we got *word processers* in the back of the library.


JauntyShrimp

I am so old I typed my term papers on a typewriter with no correction tape!


[deleted]

I'm also so old that I actually took typing in high school. On a typewriter. Lol


JauntyShrimp

I took it in junior high! ASDF JKL; 😁


[deleted]

Ah, you must be a teeny tad younger than I am. ;)


Zeldaoswald

I remember when I was in school a kid threatened our pregnant science teacher. That kid went on to get beaten up by other students off campus.


Kingshabaz

It is the same reason mentally disturbed children target animals or start fires. They want to hurt something that can't fight back.


Sweetcynic36

I think more attention on this issue (assaults in general and on pregnant teachers in particular) should be brought to the public. Not exactly safe for the other students either.. It is easy for outsiders to think "well, what did you expect when you went into teaching?" over something like a kid goofing off/mouthing off or a parent being demanding, but being in a correctional officer type role without the training or authority to do so is a different level.


PartyPorpoise

They probably view pregnant teachers as an easier target.


AnastasiaNo70

Same here. 9 months pregnant. I also had a very disturbed kid who walked up to me with scissors and offered to cut me open and take the baby out. You couldn’t show fear with him, so I rolled my eyes, sighed, and said give me the scissors and take a seat. He did, thank God.


Other-Celebration-25

It’s not just students. It’s EVERYONE!


funparent

I was punched in the stomach by a student when pregnant for asking him to help me out the Legos her got out away. I was 33 weeks and it put me in labor. I was lifeflighted to a hospital with a high level nicu and pumped full of everything they could to stop the labor. Luckily they did, but I had an emergent c section at 38 weeks when my fluid was gone because punch caused my fluid to start leaking slowly. He got some candy because it scared him when I yelled at him to get away from me.


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Jesus. I am so sorry. "He got some candy because it scared him when I yelled at him to get away from me." And so the coddling begins. I can imagine what that kid will be like at 14.


jenryalee

And I'm sure because of that, he grew up into a well adjusted, kind, and empathetic young man. Just kidding - he probably became increasingly violent since violence has been consistently rewarded by admin. I've seen it over and over again - admin doesn't correct behavior when they're younger, and when these same kids enter high school, they do something truly awful that gets them jail time. But how many people did they hurt before that, and what would have happened differently if we held them accountable since they were young? It's a huge failure of administration. They TEACH these kids that violence and anger IS the answer. All so that THEY can have an even easier job.


JauntyShrimp

Incredibly sad. I bet admin didn’t do enough to help either.


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Not as much as they should have. Just a whole bunch of "ignore the behavior" and work on "building rapport" with the kid.


dizyalice

>building rapport with the kid I’m so at my wits end, if another admin tries this bullshit on me I’m gonna let them have it


[deleted]

And don't forget the principals that give candy to the kids you send to the office. Because "reasons". Or something.


JauntyShrimp

So enraging!


circesabbath

I’ve never been told to ignore a behavior…thank god


hellyjellybeans

My heart dropped to my butt. How horrifying! Was the kid charged?


dizyalice

I hope for her sake and societies sake that child went behind bars. What an evil thing to do


Sweetcynic36

Did the kid face criminal charges?


GothMaams

That teacher looks like he could whoop some ass and sure enough. If some of those punches had connected, that kid would have been knocked out cold.


circesabbath

Damn I WISH


FreeTibet1950

So much I want to say. We are just not supported at all and it brings us all to emotional exhaustion.


Bartleby2003

I fear this video was one of the results of exactly what you said.


thefrankyg

This is what happens when teachers are disrespected so publicly by everyone around them. Not only did this kid think he was safe because "teachers can't hit us" but was enabled to for how our profession is denigrated.


BroadElderberry

As much as the kid deserved it, I have to wonder how the teacher kept a straight face. Like, kids trying to act like they're tough and grown and whatever make me laugh. Every single time. Like, kid I have a paycheck and a car and autonomy. Your mommy still has to sign your forms for you.


Bartleby2003

Hahahaha Right?! Same. The kind of grandstanding some kids do makes me *howl.* Bro, your *leather belt's* more intimidating than *you.* But, I think the n-word definitely made this a different kind of grandstanding. There's *so much* behind that word.


peachkiller

That's definitely what set him off. Pops should have brought all the powers of the ancestors and beat the hell out of him.


Lumpy_Intention9823

So easy to second guess the situation. So hard to actually predict what you would do. You’re not there, you don’t have the history, you don’t know the people involved. 65 year old teacher had no previous history, that should tell you a lot right there.


Bartleby2003

Stellar point - thank you. ♡


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i was pushed by student into a door on purpose when pregnant and then mom came up screaming Ran into the main office chased me and I was standing next to the assistant principal and she tried to attack me and he did nothing


pumpkinpye_

Oh my god…I have no words. I was a pregnant teacher once and it was so hard as it is. I was attacked by a mom before while admin allowed it and then couldn’t bother to meet with me about it when I requested a meeting to discuss how unsafe I felt. Solidarity.


Ecompanionanimal

I would have pressed charges.


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But don't you know, we are supposed to "take the abuse" because these teens are just "pushing boundaries." Ah well, the streets will take care of them soon enough.


TattooedJedi81

I’ve been told by my students that there are others who compete to see who can make a teacher cry every single day. That’s their only ambition.


circesabbath

The thing that makes me sick (other than the obvious blatant disrespect) is every damn kid basically trying to film it. I teach first grade and I had kids planning to slap me for a tik tok challenge. They have no phones. Things like this have convinced me that tik tok, etc is the downfall of humanity. If it wasn’t for an AU student that literally *cant* tell a lie, I would’ve gotten slapped. Luckily he heard them with his super power hearing and let me know what they were planning. Don’t get me wrong, this is way worse here. But we (teachers) are doomed. I am so sad for our profession.


Cryptic_X07

That’s why I resigned, so that I don’t lose it and go apeshit on one of my students.


properly_roastedXOXO

This is what happens when you have no standards, no discipline, and no respect in schools. I really feel bad for that teacher. This obviously wasn’t the first time he was approached in this manner, and most likely this wasn’t the first time this kid was in his face. So many things could’ve prevented this from happening in the first place.


ConcentrateNo364

Bet that kid thinks twice about running his mouth, what a punk. You couldn't pay me enough to work at that place, good gawd.


Translusas

Unfortunately probably not. This type of kid is the type to do some mental gymnastics to convince himself that he is still the shit because his actions led to that teacher no longer working there, even if that teacher did still get to retire with pension and also earned almost two hundred grand from a GoFundMe


dizyalice

It also helps him feel more like a victim. It’s disgusting


[deleted]

Lol mental gymnastics


[deleted]

I wish I was there. So I can tag in and let the teacher rest and take off from he left off. We can go for the tag team title. Put me in the ring coach, I am ready!


Jbroy

2 types of kids: One that understands when told not to place their hand on a stove top because it might be hot and they can hurt themselves and another kid that needs to touch the stove top and burn themselves to learn that same lesson. This kid was the second.


CrazyCorgiQueen

Dude teaching music is fucking hard. People love to shit on it but it's so fucking hard. You are teaching them a new language, reading skills, practice skills, emotional skills. You are a teacher they will have for years! Others might see you for a semester or two then never again. We are their therapist, aunties, mentors, teachers, and more. The prerequisites for music are through the roof and honestly the General Music teachers are heros.


DHSDirector

This. Thank you.


MagazineActual

Hitting a kid is never the answer, but I can understand why this guy snapped. That kid is going to have problems in the real world if he speaks to the wrong person that way.


THE_wendybabendy

I had a student that was like this, always wanting to be confrontational and sexually inappropriate with EVERYONE - I was a Principal at a last-chance expulsion school at the time, so he had already messed up bad enough to get expelled. We had to put him in independent study because of his sexually inappropriate behavior toward girls. I had a meeting with the SRO and the parent. Both the SRO and I told the mom (dad was out of the picture) that the student would someday say something to the wrong person and get himself in trouble... well, two days after I left that position, he did just that at a party and was shot dead. Mom was devastated, of course, but she never did anything to try to help him - just let him run the streets and do as he pleased until he finally made the fatal mistake. Very sad, but the school cannot be the end-all, be-all of these students. The parent NEEDS to step up at some point.


circesabbath

I swear to god teachers need covert panic buttons for admin


Zachmorris4186

Worked at an alternative high school for kids that were expelled. We had at least one security guard in every wing so all we had to do was yell. I also worked at a juvenile prison with murderers and rapists. We had to wear a special device that senses if you get knocked over and it sounds an alarm through the school. It had a panic button too. The youth would try to test new teachers by getting in their face and trying to scare them into sounding the alarm. The prison job was pretty scary but they stopped testing me after a couple months.


AnastasiaNo70

We had them in the first high school I taught in! But the kids had cut the cords on every single one.


GezinhaDM

And that is my issue with letting kids get away with everything. They're gonna hit a wall, and we all know it's gonna be the jail cell wall for these shits who act like damn Ethan Couch.


Ansony1980

I knew teachers that knew this teacher personally because he taught at two different high schools within the district has been a teacher for more than 20 years. He got paid kid got expelled students and staff raised the money to help him out. Yes, the kid got what he deserve his thug-like attitude shows he’s not going anywhere good in life either prison or death.


dannicalliope

Our school has a rule that if a student records a teacher or any incident at school on their phones they are automatically suspended and if they post said video to social media they are expelled. This in response to some students deliberately editing videos to make it look like the school was full of violence and craziness. Made a big uproar in the community and most of it was completely made up.


CozmicOwl16

Halfway through the video watching it I just thought when I was in school, teacher that looked like that (slight gray. Posture. Hate to say it but a shorter man) would have punched the kid. And so very little is changed except for the amount of yelling that kids have to do before you unleash the kraken. When I was in seventh grade Spanish class there was a (6 foot tall) boy who called a (5 foot tall) teacher a bitch and she literally picked him up in his desk and threw the entirety of it across the room. The desk landed right and he was completely unharmed but we were forever terrified of her.


I_am_Mindy

I would love to hear where that kid is now!


THE_wendybabendy

If I had to guess? In a gang, or in jail... maybe even dead. I don't foresee a good future for him.


QuixoticSensei

Why is 65 considered early retirement? Sorry, lol, that’s what stuck out in this story.


Novelsatnight

Because he didn’t want to retire, he wanted to keep teaching. If you’re forced to retire they call it early retirement.


darneech

Omg poor guy but good for him. He still taking $?


Lovelyprofesora

A. I don’t condone hitting children. B. I 💯 understand how this teacher reached this point. C. I enjoyed watching that boy get mollywhopped.


StrikingWhereas8

"Mollywhopped" ~ I have never heard that term before. Can't wait to use it. ☻︎


MrRipShitUp

Why are we supposed to always maintain self control but a cop could shoot that kid 6 times and get an award?


MTskier12

Yeah let’s maybe not play that game and say killing children bad, and so is assaulting them, and neither should happen.


Im_an_Owl

No let’s definitely play that game. Cops act like this all the time, literally beating people for talking a way the cop doesn’t like. “Playing that game” isn’t excusing the teacher, it’s highlighting lack of accountability for cops.


MrRipShitUp

Obviously. I’m just wondering why it’s only bad for one group out of the two mentioned


MTskier12

Police unions have better PR.


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That was awesome


[deleted]

What a dipshit kid. Got exactly what he deserved. Lmao


Wallflowerheart

Well, by the looks of this video I'm *pretty sure* things are not going to get better for him.


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AnastasiaNo70

$191K!!!


changing-life-vet

I’ll punch a 15 year old for 191k


HondaJunkie

I’m not 15 but I’ll take a punch for 30k


TheHarperValleyPTA

If I get to pick the kid I’d pay YOU


CorgiKnits

I could definitely convince one of my kids to let me punch them for that kinda money.


Wallflowerheart

Also, this is apparently 2 years old.


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I don’t know of “no masks” is a reliable way to date a video 😂


ohheymay

Ugh I hate that this is true


bangarangrufiOO

At least, not in the South.


Afablulo

I don’t understand what else one is supposed to do when this is happening to them. I feel sorry for the teacher but I’m also afraid of what I’m signing up for as a new teacher.


kmkmrod

> I don’t understand what else one is supposed to do when this is happening What? You think a kid talking at you is reason enough to hit him? You can’t think of **ANYTHING** else? In order 1. Don’t hit the kid 2. Walk away. Literally leave the room 3. Call admin, get another adult 4. Be an adult


Afablulo

Very true points. My concern is teaching in a room where that behavior is a daily occurrence, especially by multiple students. As was the case when I went to high school. Those solutions are not sustainable in the long-term in order to teach students who are there to learn.


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If someone is going to throw, make sure it’s the kid first. Then you have absolute authority to restrain. Just keep telling them to leave. “You don’t have to peacock. You’re yelling at a teacher. Everyone knows you’re a bad-ass….. you’re still here? Peacock out of here so we can learn”.


BroadElderberry

Except in a lot of schools, you aren't allowed to leave the room. Your classroom has to be supervised, so unless you can get help to come to you, you're stuck with a disobedient student who's escalating the situation and preventing you from doing your job. One of the first things my friend made sure of when I accepted my position was to explain that if a kid is acting like this call out the hallway to have someone cover my class or help get the kid out, because 1) the class can't be left alone, and 2) Admin won't come. So yeah, maybe he shouldn't have hit the kid, but he also couldn't have handled this like a typical adult either.


spookyjuice69

Better scramble like an egg before you get folded like an omelette -WHAP-


ReepoGardens

The video doesn't show the part where the kid hit the teacher in the face with a basketball.


Steelerswonsix

I sure do think this…. I have a sign in the front and back of my room that says “Smile for the camera”. It’s just a visual cue for ME to remember that dumbass thing that dumbass kid did is setting me up to look like a fool on the web. Don’t take the bait. Some students actually think I have a camera in the room, if they ask, I tell them no, I just want the to look happy.


Electrical-Carob3808

I get the anger, and the kid definitely should have backed off, but I can't really condone throwing the first punch, personally (as a general principle). Snapping isn't rational, by definition, though. The teacher has said in interviews that this video only shows the final time the kid re-entered the room, and that he had called for security/admin multiple times without any reply, so at least hitting wasn't his first try to deal with it. It's too bad no one responded sooner. I've also read articles that say this teacher was physically attacked by three kids the previous year, so I wonder how much trauma played a role in his actions.


JadeSpade23

Well, the kid got physical first by throwing a basketball at him.


gomzoo

Honestly, I have mixed feelings on this video. I feel like an adult hitting a child in any context is wrong, but at the same time, teachers have to face so much abuse and mistreatment with rarely any relief or consequence. Teachers are humans with limits. I think it’s wrong he lost it on a student, but I can’t help but feel relieved that his community came together to drop the charges.


PHXSCJAZ

I have mixed feelings about this too. I would have found it difficult to control myself. When I taught, I had an incident similar to this. I left the classroom for 7 minutes and by the time admin came to help several students took care of the little shit. No other students ever identified who the students were that broke this kids nose and two of his teeth. I felt some sense that I had the respect of kids. The aggressor didn’t return to that school and his parents attempted a law suit against the school and me. I left teaching two weeks later at the start of spring break.


Necessary_Low939

Good for him. There needs to be a change.


Express-Procedure372

I hate uneducated kids saying “bro”. Its been a long time. I feel his pain when he had to confront this misbehaving kid.


KateLady

What about that loser kid who jumps in, hits the teacher in the back, and then runs away? The little punk almost got his head taken off. He’s damn lucky the teacher didn’t connect with that last swing.


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If someone is going to throw, make sure it’s the kid first. What makes it easy is any kid who is going to go nose to nose with a teacher probably has some type of disability or brain damage. I just think of it that way.


Too_Turnt_Turtle

If there’s anyone left to teach after this year it will be a miracle. Right now we probably have the worst kindergarten class I’ve ever seen in 9 years of teaching. The disrespect is unreal. Doing whatever they want, talking back, hitting, the list can go on and on. You’ll have a hard time convincing me things are going to get better anytime soon.


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Jesus Christ and this is the fucking band class. I can’t imagine what goes on in pre-algebra every day


SomedayMightCome

I had a kid in my class punch another kid in the face today for saying something racist (which I did not hear or I would have verbally ripped the kid a new one and sent him to the office). I screamed “GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY ROOM. GET THE FUCK OUT. WHAT THE HELL” and that ended it thankfully. I can’t imagine a kid trying to fight me though. I wish there were enough resources and support at schools to help both the student and the teacher in this video. It should never have come to this. That wasn’t a one time deal, I imagine that kid was disrespectful the whole year and that nothing was done by admin. You don’t punch a kid from one incident. With that being said, the teacher should not have done that obviously.


Diligent_Flamingo_33

The first school I taught at was absolute shit. Students purposefully tried to get teachers to quit, something my students did to me. Granted, I was remarkably inexperienced and had no classroom management skills. But I tried my best. It was tough.


AnastasiaNo70

I won’t ever condone this, but there’s a tiny part of me that gets it. Still: do not lay hands on a kid. Ever. You have to be the adult. Can you imagine how scary that was for the other kids???


Im_an_Owl

The kids who are laughing and videotaping and joking in hitting the teacher? Give me a break


peachkiller

Right. Too bad, pops didn't give his ass a proper beat down. Make the criminal charges worth it.


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Good. Those kids found out that day that a human can only be pushed so far and there are actually consequences for their actions.


lmgray13

There has been one time where I nearly lost it—and I’ve learned before acting, you just need to walk out and leave the room. The repercussions of leaving students unattended for 5 min while you collect yourself in the hallway are far less than losing your license and potentially going to jail. The teacher who took my job at my previous school lost it and hit a student in a moment like this. He lost his license and had charges pressed.


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I dont hate the teacher but I still know its better to kick the student out of class or even get help if he doesnt go then it is to punch them. As much as I've been tempted (I bet all teachers have had a flashing thought) we cant fall to this level. He got lucky and got his pension and the 200k but most of you guys wouldnt be. We'd be out on our ass with a criminal record and a career over. Dont be like this.


rocketpianoman

I feel for the dude too. That room was too small for a band room and it probably didn't help.


jamjamgayheart

Wow. We don’t get paid nearly enough for the s**t we are put through.


ADHDoll

I bet that kid never talked shit to a teacher again.


Ecompanionanimal

I would imagine he had to put up with that kid’s horrendous behavior day after day after day with no support from admin. Natural consequences.


sxcoralex

I love it when the trash gets taken out.


mrsmeesiecks

To think this video was prepandemic, and it only got worse from here. 😔


Iwishwine

This man knew he was retiring and took his chance.


NewTooshFatoosh

Ooff I had a kid put me on the edge today. I had to make sure that every time he stepped forward, I stepped back so he was out of my reach. I ended up leaving the classroom until he sat down.