Fresno Substitute Teacher Fired For Putting His Hands On Student Over Cell Phone Flap

[Delahanty]

Almost every other account has gum-flapping reporters cutting into (editing) the video, so here's one with just the video.

It's still hard to see what's going on. It doesn't appear that the teacher was "choking" the kid--I think that's just where his hands landed when the kid tried to leave. He did call the 17-year-old an "idiot." Yeesh.

He shouldn't have said that or put his hands on the kid, but I do feel sorry for a lot of teachers. Some of these students have probably never had a male authority figure in their lives. And administrators don't appear to have the teachers' backs.

Anyway, the teacher "is no longer working for the district." And the kid's mother is suing.

https://abc30.com/society/fresno-sub...phone/5288472/

[chiociolliscalves]

Originally Posted by Delahanty

Almost every other account has gum-flapping reporters cutting into (editing) the video, so here's one with just the video.

It's still hard to see what's going on. It doesn't appear that the teacher was "choking" the kid--I think that's just where his hands landed when the kid tried to leave. He did call the 17-year-old an "idiot." Yeesh.

He shouldn't have said that or put his hands on the kid, but I do feel sorry for a lot of teachers. Some of these students have probably never had a male authority figure in their lives. And administrators don't appear to have the teachers' backs.

Anyway, the teacher "is no longer working for the district." And the kid's mother is suing.

https://abc30.com/society/fresno-sub...phone/5288472/

The thing people need to understand is that we have created this culture of victimhood and weakness among our kids. Parents have done this and schools have taken it on because of fear of parents and because some administrators really believe in this culture. Unsurprisingly, kids quickly learn all the ways they can have leverage over teachers and other adults. They know their parents will defend their behavior, regardless what that behavior entails.

When I was a sophomore in high school, the Spanish teacher grabbed me by the hair and shook my head for a second. Why did I not go home and tell my parents? Because I knew the first question would be: "What were you doing that made your teacher mad?"

Instead of celebrating and honoring victimhood and weakness, we should instead be teaching kids that you can get through things that hurt your feelings or embarrass you or scare you and that life is hard and no one owes you anything. Those few schools in our cities and impoverished areas that actually work do these sorts of things.

[Javacoffee]

Yeah, and mama looks like a productive, outstanding citizen we'd all love to have as a neighbor. Where's his daddy?

I would never want to be a teacher or a cop in this crazy world. God bless those who do.

[xray731]

In middle school - our art teacher had his "paddle" of education - just the threat of him using it and everyone behaved all semester! It's fine for the teacher to be verbally or physically abused but pity the poor soul who touches a kid. Maybe if a few of them got a wack once in awhile - they'd shape up.

[vision33r]

There will always be bad teachers but causing problems in a class is a different problem. I'm sure the kid didn't deserve to be treated this way and he never learnt his lesson of how it got started the first place.