Mom Says teacher had students slap her son

[phillies999]

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs...opstories.html

Thoughts?

[HoustonGM]

Well, obviously, it's ****ed up.

[phillies999]

Yeah, wouldn't wanna be a bully in Texas.

[dickay]

it's scary how teachers think they can do this kind of stuff with others children. Stick to the script!

I'm curious if it's effective. I don't know how they'd ever be able to study/analyze this method of curtailing bullying at such a young age.

[Jayeburgh]

This should have been done by organization of the students. The teacher part is the only part I have a problem with.

[dickay]

This should have been done by organization of the students. The teacher part is the only part I have a problem with.

so the kids should treat violence with violence?

i'm not saying you're right or wrong, just that i think you'll find many in disagreement.

[TheNamelessPoet]

This should have been done by organization of the students. The teacher part is the only part I have a problem with.

+1

so the kids should treat violence with violence?

i'm not saying you're right or wrong, just that i think you'll find many in disagreement.

and +1

[ragecage]

A. It's ****ed up

B. I can't say I feel bad for the bully and it sounded like the dick had it coming.

C. What is the best way to deal with a bully? I honestly don't know.

[HoustonGM]

Lovely. One kid's being a bully. You know what the students should do? Organize, gang up on him, and beat the crap out of him.

YEAH! CIVILIZED! TOTALLY NOT WRONG!

Somehow, a group of students slapping one kid in succession is okay, but one kid being a bully isn't. (Note: Neither is okay. At all.)

[ragecage]

Lovely. One kid's being a bully. You know what the students should do? Organize, gang up on him, and beat the crap out of him.

YEAH! CIVILIZED! TOTALLY NOT WRONG!

Somehow, a group of students slapping one kid in succession is okay, but one kid being a bully isn't. (Note: Neither is okay. At all.)

I didn't say it was ok, I just don't feel bad for him. I was bullied in school and it made life miserable so don't expect me to feel bad for someone like even though this method is extreme. In a cotton candy world maybe we could just talk to a bully and hash things out and everything will be honky dory, but that usually doesn't work. I know it didn't work for me.

[HoustonGM]

I didn't say it was ok, I just don't feel bad for him.

I wasn't responding to you, sorry.

[OregonDuck1989]

My opinion on bullies is that we should give every kid who got bullied a piece of candy. And every bully gets a photo of their mom boning the mail man. If you're a bully, you're mom is a promiscuous woman of poor moral standards.

[ragecage]

I wasn't responding to you, sorry.

Oh es ok

[dickay]

Lovely. One kid's being a bully. You know what the students should do? Organize, gang up on him, and beat the crap out of him.

YEAH! CIVILIZED! TOTALLY NOT WRONG!

Somehow, a group of students slapping one kid in succession is okay, but one kid being a bully isn't. (Note: Neither is okay. At all.)

first of all, "beat the crap out of him"...don't you think thats a bit of a stretch? There's no reason to believe the kid got the crap beaten out of him.

secondly, the larger problem is not the kids slapping the bully, it's the teacher now bullying the bully with this crazy out of the box form of punishment. there's no way she can have known any of the long term consequences of such action and this goes against all methods recommended for use by teachers. I'd also suspect this is not her first problem with the child that led to this action. I'm curious how many attempts she made at other solutions and if she had support of the school to remove this child. Not defending her actions, but think the school may be culpable as well for not properly handling the situation earlier if she did so infact report a problem.

The teacher also likely got the parent(s) involved prior and saw no progress. Doesn't mean she can take matters into her own hands. If the kid was that big a problem, the school should've put it in the parents hands. It's not uncommon for parents of such young kids to give the old, "what do you want me to do, he's six?" answer and use school as a form of daycare. Maybe the parents are trying but it's not helping. Either way, teachers aren't babysitters, if the kid can't keep his hands to himself the school should remove him and the parent then must seek professional help with alternative schooling.

Maybe the teacher went rogue and did this on her own without trying to get the school involved prior. I don't know, but if she did while it doesn't make what she did right in anyway, the school principle and policy may need to be addressed as well as they are culpable.

[Jayeburgh]

The students should stand up for themselves is what I was saying. It's playground justice. Its like the kid that rofl slammed his bully. Did he go too far? Maybe, maybe not. The bully isn't messing with him anymore is the point.

There was a bully in my 4th grade class. Eventually, 5 others and I grabbed him, stripped him of his clothes and pushed him into the drainage ditch near the playground. He stopped.

If these kids would have stood up against him on their own, I would be ok with it.