Eamar said:
Syzygy23 said:
Midgeamoo said:
Xan Krieger said:
If the kid was a bully then he deserved it and I see nothing wrong here. Bullies will only stop when they realized there are consequences and I think this kid just learned to stop.
So you think Kids should learn that violence solves their problems, and that vicious retaliation is acceptable?
Seriously, how can you even think that this would teach a bully a lesson, most of them have problems and can be quite angry kids, hitting them isn't going to solve anything, not that they should hit them even if it would solve anything.
Um, maybe because that's sort of how the world works?
What, do you think the bully will learn his lesson if everyone writes up a cross-indexed, alphabetized, formal list of complaints about his behavior?
Oh, I know! The kids should form a committee to come to a consensus about bullying! THat'll learn him!
Nope, instead he probably learned something totally useless, like how if he torments one or two kids the rest will come down upon him like a swarm of angry hornets.
There's a world of difference between one of the kids he was accused of bullying pushing him back and the
godamn teacher lining up the whole class and forcing them to hit him.
The police report alleges that the teacher chose to show the child "why bullying is bad" by instructing his peers to "Hit him!" and "Hit him harder!"
If that's true, do you seriously think that's a person who should be working with kids?
Sure it's an extreme situation. But we've practically neutered our teachers over the years. We've put children in a massive bubble labelled fragile and we practically assault anyone who dares pop that bubble. Even parents.
I remember what a shit was when I was a kid. I also remember my parents would give me a swift smack if I did something particularly bad.
Now people complain if you so much as look at your child the wrong way.
Like it or not we respond to punishment. Especially in our youth.
Now how exactly can a teacher punish a bully? Send a letter home? Good luck with that, parenting is pretty much extinct at the minute. Give them a stern talking to? Because we all know that always works.
It's like the ASBO culture, some kids wear that shit like a badge of honour.
Now I'm not saying what she did was right or that something shouldn't be done about it. But don't blame her. She's the product of a neutered and frustrated profession.
Teachers used to be able to exact a swift punishment that made you think twice with the cane. But we took that away from them, and up until a few years ago we were skirting on parents picking up the slack. But now that the majority are either afraid to raid their hands over a child for fear of someone calling social services or just don't care enough to do anything about it. Discipline is sorely lacking.
I'm not one for rattling off 'in my day speeches'. Because there have always been yobs and shits. But there are an awful lot of bad parents out there, letting loose their uninhibited sprogs into a school system that's powerless to impose any kind of worthwhile disciplinary action.
additionally I think this is unbelievably stupid. You have to consider that these kids are in kindergarden. They are like 5 years old and the teacher acted like a kid who picks on other kids in elementary school is going to turn into some killer.
