They had to practically scrape her off the floor.
Red state, Blue state, doesn’t matter–public “education” is pretty much the same everywhere. Now and then it erupts.
A judge has sentenced a 6’6″ student (“Student of what?” we ask) for beating up a teachers’ aide last year (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13745459/Brendan-Depa-Joan-Naydich-nintendo.html). The woman, 59, went to the hospital with five broken ribs and a concussion.
This happened last year at Palm Coast Matanzas High School in Florida.
Why did he do that? Well, she took away his Nintendo switch, didn’t she? Like, since when should silly classroom lessons interfere with serious video gaming?
When I was subbing every day, I never saw a student beating up a teacher or an aide–although there was one incident I saw that featured a teacher and a student, locked in mortal combat, come bursting out of the classroom and go rolling down the hall. The teacher had to go home for the day, although he wasn’t badly injured–just too shaken up to teach. But that was back in the 1990s, and I guess it’s gotten worse since then.
I was lucky. I appeared in a local TV program about the martial arts school I attended, and I had the privilege of hearing one high school student warn another, “Don’t mess with him [meaning me]–he got skills.” He’d seen that TV show.
We really do have to re-think the whole idea of public education. I knew a lot of rotten kids in high school who, for all their evil reputations, would never had dared to raise a violent hand against a teacher. They knew it wouldn’t be tolerated by the community at large. Our local school board knew that, for sure.
Roll back the changes for the worse, or find an alternative to public education. That’s the choice.
I was a teacher in the 1970s in private schools, which helped me with homeschooling later. In the 1990s, I had a friend — a former teacher who was subbing in the public schools. She was worried about her own 3 kids who got bullied every day on their way to public school. She was so into the mindset of public schooling that she thought she was unqualified to homeschool her own children, and they might not be properly socialized [without the bullying, peer pressure, and age segregation of public school culture]. It’s a lot worse today.
It’s a lot worse today. My daughter’s fiance started out as a public school teacher a few years ago. He lasted 3 years in 3 different schools and is now looking for another career because it’s impossible to teach, the curriculum is clearly not what it used to be, and the teachers are more surveilled than the students (I guess maybe with good reason).
It’s time for public education to go extinct.
A friend returned to teaching after a few years away from it, and ended up leaving because of what he experienced. It was horrible. He was the victim of an assault and the school administrators tried to blame HIM for having been attacked. I wouldn’t want to work in such an environment.
If the incident described here had happened in New York City, I doubt there would be a prosecution.
Probably not. Minnesota has gone ultra woke, but at least this wasn’t Minneapolis proper.