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.