TEACHERS have been karate-kicked, punched, headbutted, sprayed with acid and attacked with weapons in a disturbing range of assaults by violent students in New South Wales public schools.
It seems that the old trend of disallowing a teacher to defend themselves still stands in the classroom. I personally know of a bloke who grew up on the streets of Sydney and became a teacher to give something back to the community. The teacher was suspended for knocking unconscious the high-school student who stuck a knife under his chin for telling the student to stop vandalising the desk.
I say he did the right thing - and that maybe a few kicks in the ribs while the kid was on the floor wouldn't have gone astray either (preferably while conscious though so that he has something to remember the beating-he-so-greatly-deserved by).
It seems that the education system in this country follows the legal system quite well. Run away from those who incite violence and terror and wait to get stabbed or beaten up whereupon something will be done *after* the fact - even though the attackee really didn't deserve the pain in the first place.
HELL NO!!!
The crackdown on anti-teacher violence follows a 16-year-old student from Randwick Boys High School in Sydney's east appearing in Bidura Children's Court for allegedly choking a female teacher on June 19.
As for this cretin that has been raised to be such an oh-so-valuable member of society - I know a few women that would pummell his gutless head into the middle of next week just for choosing a soft target rather than someone who could better defend themselves.
Bring back corporal punishment into schools.
It is clear that schoolkids who know no respect - whether it be through fear or actual respect - will just grow into adults with no respect for anyone or anything.
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Did I mention that I teach in a puyblic school? I do. We have corporal punishment, but the ones we need to be beating are the parents. Ah, well, back to the point I intended to make....
Last spring a girl attacked a boy with her fists outside my classroom door while I was in mid-lesson. Her class was just coming back from lunch, while mine had not yet gone. In any case, when I heard the commotion, I stepped out to the hallway, and saw her hitting him. He had his hands up, was yelling at her to leave him alone, but he did not hit her back. I thought it quite gentlemanly of him, as the circumstances would have led many to knock her down. In any case, I grabbed her from behind and pulled her off him. She started throwing her head back to hit me, to knock me loose, so I put her in a half-nelson to control her head, and then pinned her free arm under my other elbow. She was enough shorter than I was that I simply leaned back and lifted her off her feet enough that she couldn't get traction, and she eventually settled down. When the principal arrived to escort her out of the hall, I let her go. I turned around, and there were about all the boys who were supposed to be waiting for me in the classroom. One in particular had seen everything. He had been a little stinker all year to that point. He was standing there in the door with his jaw dropped. I hustled them back to class, and picked up more or less where I'd left off. At the end of teh school day, he and a buddy came back and asked me if it were true that teachers all were trained in martial arts. The next day he asked if I really had been a bouncer before I started teaching. the short of this story - he and most of his buddies gave me no more trouble all year.
I wondered this year if each of us should pick an unruly student and beat the soup out of him, or her! the first week of school. It might head off some of the exact problems you mention!
Actually, this year is going well. My biggest trick this year has been the voice command cell phone. I have parent numbers programmed in. The kid shows up with no homework or materials. I flip it open, say "Call Pain-in-the-butt's Mom" and in seconds, I've got an adult on the phone, or at very least I'm leaving voice messages. It is working quite well. *L* It is funny to see the look when I mention that I've got mom on speed dial. Most of the parents are supportive, but once in a while we get "yeah, he's that way at home, too. Can you fix him?" When the parents abdicate the role of parenting, the job I face is nearly impossible.
I teach, but clearly, don't teach typing...sorry about the editing...it is late here. I'll use that as an excuse.
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