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I suppose these things should no longer be shocking these days.
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A teacher was “allegedly battered” by a 5-year-old student at an elementary school in Pembroke Pines, police said.
The incident happened around 10 a.m. Wednesday at Pines Lakes Elementary, 10300 Johnson St, according to Pembroke Pines police. The teacher was taken to Memorial Regional Hospital with non-life threatening injuries for treatment and evaluation, police said.
Five-year-old children are generally in kindergarten.
The children may have been throwing chairs but it sounds like the teacher may have had a panic attack or may have other health concerns that caused her to be more exasperated. Guessing she may have been hit with a chair…who knows.
"There was “an incident that occurred in school today requiring a staff member to be transported to a local medical facility"
This is why most of the media has lost so much respectability.
The will ALWAYS go to the nth degree just to entice us to read, watch or listen to them.
Like the"kid who cried wolf", we DON'T believe them anymore!
They used the word "battered" but give NO real info on the incident.
And a 5 YEAR old "battered"?
"battered
adjective
In deplorable condition.
Hit or pounded repeatedly and violently with heavy blows;
Probably was just bitten. What else can a 5 year old do?
Plenty. An enraged 5 year old child can kick, hit, use an object, bite, head butt, and use other means to do a great deal of damage to a teacher. A child who has no comprehension of the pain and damage they are inflicting on another individual hits with a fierceness that an adult worried about hurting another person does not. Battery is at times the appropriate word to describe what a five-year-old child tries to do to an adult in a classroom. Try to keep in mind, that even though the teacher is larger in size, most find themselves helpless to defend themselves due to being very, very hesitant to touch the child, even in self-defense. Chances are good that they can be fired or criminally charged even if the child hits them, spits on them, bites them, kicks them, or head butts them and they were just trying to protect themselves or even other children.
I have known multiple kindergarten teachers who have had their arms broken, teeth knocked out, or other lasting damage done to them by 5 year old children. This is particularly a problem in the special education field and schools that serve at risk populations such as inner-city schools.
You cannot base all children’s behavior in public school just on the behavior of the children you know, because not all children in public schools are like the children you encounter in your daily life. The children in your daily life are probably nurtured, loved, cared for, and do not live in an environment where witnessing violence is a normal part life.
In their career 24% of all teachers will end up being injured badly enough by a student that they will have to miss at least one day of school. Thousands each year end up in emergency rooms with legitimately serious injuries, not just a little boo-boo.
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Plenty. An enraged 5 year old child can kick, hit, use an object, bite, head butt, and use other means to do a great deal of damage to a teacher. A child who has no comprehension of the pain and damage they are inflicting on another individual hits with a fierceness that an adult worried about hurting another person does not. Battery is at times the appropriate word to describe what a five-year-old child tries to do to an adult in a classroom. Try to keep in mind, that even though the teacher is larger in size, most find themselves helpless to defend themselves due to being very, very hesitant to touch the child, even in self-defense. Chances are good that they can be fired or criminally charged even if the child hits them, spits on them, bites them, kicks them, or head butts them and they were just trying to protect themselves or even other children.
I have known multiple kindergarten teachers who have had their arms broken, teeth knocked out, or other lasting damage done to them by 5 year old children. This is particularly a problem in the special education field and schools that serve at risk populations such as inner-city schools.
You cannot base all children’s behavior in public school just on the behavior of the children you know, because not all children in public schools are like the children you encounter in your daily life. The children in your daily life are probably nurtured, loved, cared for, and do not live in an environment where witnessing violence is a normal part life.
In their career 24% of all teachers will end up being injured badly enough by a student that they will have to miss at least one day of school. Thousands each year end up in emergency rooms with legitimately serious injuries, not just a little boo-boo.
Yes teachers have a difficult job these days as if teaching in itself isnt hard enough they take heat from all sides.
Things have changed so much since I was in school. Students were actually disciplined for bad behavior, now the teacher is often disciplined for the students bad behavior.
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