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S
"Same exact thing happened to me in 5th grade by my teacher (1960's).
Principal told me "better shape up son".

John
"I don't blame the teacher here. Do you have to call the safety officer every time a kid misbehaves? He did not try to harm the kid, I say kid, but, teenagers want all the rights of adults and not suffer the consequences. The parents should take the phone away, ground the kid and have a meeting with the teacher to sort this out, as I am sure this is not the first time the student did not listen. The media obviously is sensationalizing this and that has worked."

Jason
"Charge the student and give the teacher a raise."

Brian
"If i were in charge of hiring teachers I would give this man a job in my kids district"

By the time he's 24, he'll have a record as long as his arm and be incarcerated most of his life. In 1957, My PE teacher, Ken Casner, former Baylor football player, picked up a student out of his chair during health class so hard he turned the chair over after the kid smarted off. He didn't smart off again.

The kid would not turn down the music on his computer during class? Slapped the hand of the teacher when the teacher was going to turn it down himself? Where does one think this behavior is OK?

In CA students can't be suspended for disrupting behavior, because that would be racist. Stupid fucking people, is all I'm saying. Full blown destruction of education system.

HeadSet says

The kid would not turn down the music on his computer during class? Slapped the hand of the teacher when the teacher was going to turn it down himself? Where does one think this behavior is OK?

People are increasingly giving up on disciplining their kids. They want to be the best friends of their kids, which implies they give up the key responsibility to correct their behaviors.

The father should be on the side of the teacher and add more punishment to the kid. Instead he teaches the kid that discipline is not ok.

Huge disservice to the kid, and to civilization in general, because civilization is born out of discipline.

This is how you get adults that are spoiled little brats, and don't take responsibility for their own actions.

I keep hearing education theories like 'spanking only teaches the kid that violence is ok'.... This is incredibly simplistic BS, born of the psychology department women's wishful thinking that you can always do without physical force. Kids at 2 kick and bite. They don't need to learn it: Animals use violence. It's not violence that is learned, it's not using violence. And for some kids, nothing else than spanking will put them in place. And not putting them in place leads to incredibly bad outcomes.