Sweet Manolith. A teacher beats a student.
It’s everything that’s wrong with contemporary, American society. Man. There is no way I’m writing about this and not offending nearly everyone. Both sides of the spectrum.
If you haven’t seen it yet, you’re seeing it now. This is video captured from a cellphone camera of a student in a Houston-area Charter School. At first, many students thought it was a joke. Then it turned ugly.
According to students, and the student who received the beat-down, Isaiah Johnson, other teachers stood and watched as everything transpired. Apparently, the assailant, a P.E. Teacher, lost it after a mentally handicapped student was made fun of while dancing.
Everyone got a clear image of the scene? Yeah, I know. Why would other teachers just watch and not intervene? You can marinate on that one, too.
For starters I will say this. What the teacher did in this video was wrong. Absolutely wrong. On the other side of the spectrum, I’m surprised this hasn’t been “caught on video” sooner. As a parent of two children in a public school within a nicer, suburban Los Angeles school district, I’ve seen behavior from K-8 students that blows my mind. Blows it.
Again, let me repeat myself. What this teacher did was WRONG. Wrong, wrong, wrong! I’m just trying to get the point across that when many kids come to school (no, I’m not implicating the young student, Johnson–perhaps he was in the wrong place at the wrong time) with no sense of decorum, a heightened sense of entitlement, and teachers meet that by bottling up aggression because they’re virtually having to babysit, play parent and attempt to teach–some nasty stuff will eventually go down. Not everyone is geared to deal with it. People will lose it. And for a third time, I will state: What the teacher did was wrong.
Seeing the teacher in the video–she seems possessed. Stalking like a cat. A pissed-off cat. I would have cowered in the corner, too. She’s certainly out of a job. Charges have been filed against her, and it’ll be interesting to see what happens in the courtroom.
I honestly don’t think it’ll be long before a teacher sues a parent or set of parents for mental anguish, etc. due to a child’s behavior. Sadly, that’s the only level of accountability and disciplinary action that people seem to respect or understand anymore.
Comments
sound off
May 13th, 2010 - 12:21:33 PM
I'm sorry, but the factor here is that this is a CHILD. Elementary students laugh when their friend next to them passes gas unexpectedly - it is not a surprise that they don't have a mature reaction to a special needs classmate. There needs to be a system in place for teachers who are about to blow a gasket - emergency code to the office (nearly every classroom has intercoms now), a step out in the hallway to scream, whatever. The fact that other teachers were allegedly present is incomprehensible! The visual image of the child cowering in a corner while the teacher methodically advances on him clearly shows that she had more than enough time to compose herself as he is certainly trying to distance himself. It is essential that teacher's be equipped with extensive training in problem solving and behavioral challenges before being granted their certificates. I hope that boy gets therapy for a very traumatic event and pray that he will grow up to attend college instead of saying f* you to the educational system and becoming a statistic.
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latrelle scott
May 13th, 2010 - 2:47:34 PM
her ass needs to be fired and LOCKED UP. no questions are needed beyond the point of that tape. this is disguising and she needs to be punished to the furthest extent of the law immediately. I dont even care if the student spit on her. This is unacceptable .. PERIOD
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David
May 13th, 2010 - 7:56:25 PM
typical white trash move along nothing to see here
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BB Austin
May 18th, 2010 - 7:30:40 AM
Teacher is in big trouble, her life destroyed after this. Possible jail, for what. Taking the stand to protect the honor of someone who was not capble of taking care of themselves, this kid no doubt was told several time that what he was doing may have been wrong, the beginning of a Bully, someone who probably dropped out of school, who could not follow instruction. The player of the classroom with no respect. Teachers if you sit in you car before you go into your classroom and you say to yourself.. I hate these students, classes, school, co-workers and any conflict or situation, even if your not feeling well. Put your car in reverse and hightail out of there and find yourself another job. No student is worth losing you job over..
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TONYA
May 19th, 2010 - 10:58:32 AM
Yes this is a kid, but does not give him the right to get away with what he did to the other student. Yes the teacher was wrong but if parents controlled their children more these days instead of letting them talk to grown ups any way they wanted then maybe things like this would not happen. He probably disrespects his own mother. Paddeling needs to be brought back into the school system!!!! Children should not be able to get away with the things they get away with.
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jenni
May 19th, 2010 - 11:12:34 AM
I'm a teacher. My comment is this. Yes, this teacher "lost it" but that's on HER as an individual. Parents and the kids themselves also are responsible, but everyone only focuses on the teacher. As an institution/school, the systems need to be in place for better conflict resolution skills on both sides. This incident shows a teacher that is attempting to deliver a message to this kid in the only way she knows how. That is sad. By the way, to answer the questions as to why teachers just looked on without intervening, teachers are trained not to intervene in any type of assault, be it student-on-student or otherwise. Guess why. It's rather ironic. It's because then THEY also would get sued and lose THEIR job for "putting hands on" someone. But, if they were trained, for example, in some other way - even blowing an actual whistle, chanting something, anything, maybe they could learn to intervene without hands.
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Tammy
May 19th, 2010 - 4:29:21 PM
I really don't know how the majority of teachers maintain self control. Many parents do essentially think of school as a place to drop their kids off for the day and have no involvement other than that. There should be consequences for your actions, therefore the teacher should be punished. However, there is nothing that will happen to the unruly children. Parents think back to when they were kids and don't remember their parents helping them with school...so they figure it's their turn now. Since they turned out fine...so will the kid. Well guess what...you're not fine because you end up ignoring your kid so that they seek attention in a negative way. I'm glad I'm not a teacher because I would most definitely be out of a job for trying to knock some sense into these brats as well as their parents!
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princess all about it
May 20th, 2010 - 11:34:56 AM
if his parents had disciplined him maybe the teacher wouldn't have had to beat him. that's the problem with america today the parents are too into themselves and oh well it's the schools problem let them take care of it! i got my ass beat by teachers and you know what my mom said?? good maybe you'll behave more appropriatly next time! then you know what happened? i got my ass beat at home too! parents today need to wake up and take responsibility for their children! and sound off looks like this kid already said f* you to the educational system and became a statistic hint hint he is in a detention school! doubt he'll straighten up anytime soon. and he is by biblical standards past the age of accountability!
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Kenyaspeaks
May 21st, 2010 - 9:20:15 AM
I get sick and tired of hearing how parents are not taking care of their children when America is a society that has taken away the rights of parents to properly raise, discipline and constrain their kids! Although corporal punishment is allowed, try actually whooping your child and then watch social services show up at your door with the police and call you a child abuser! Just try it! Then add to that shows on Disney and Nickelodeon that make parents look like idiots. Just watch how stupid parents come off and how the kids seem to be more mature than the parents. I think Disney even says "kids rule!" Yeah, they do. At an early age they are taught not to respect their parents and to call 911. Then add to that the fact that teachers also blame parents but really don't want parents in the classroom. I mean, I know from experience. I stayed up in the school regularly and saw the blonde ponytailed teachers rolling their eyes at me regularly because I was at the school and eating lunch in the cafeteria. I was offering my support and setting up meetings to discuss grades and discipline. But they rolled their eyes and then called social services on me to keep me busy so that they could tell my daughter that it's okay to lie, go behind my back, not follow my rules, etc. I finally did what I think every parent should try their darndest to do, I pulled my child up out of the publich school system and homeschool her and life is much calmer and better and she sees how stupid the school system was. America needs to allow parents to raise their children without fear of getting their kids taken away. So don't blame the parents that the kids are bad, blame the governement!
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RT
May 28th, 2010 - 9:32:33 AM
I believe if parents would step up and do this, our teachers would not. Parents leave the raising of there kids up to teachers. Kids call the cops if they get punished in the wrong way by there parents. Kids will call the cops then SS and then the parent is in trouble. What has this world come to when a parent cannot even spank there child without getting into trouble. In our school district parents are sewing the schools because there child is getting picked on. PARENTS need to step up and take responsibility for there own child.
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Princess is a retard
June 8th, 2010 - 6:52:38 AM
"if his parents had disciplined him maybe the teacher wouldn't have had to beat him. that's the problem with america today the parents are too into themselves and oh well it's the schools problem let them take care of it! i got my ass beat by teachers and you know what my mom said?? good maybe you'll behave more appropriatly next time! then you know what happened? i got my ass beat at home too! parents today need to wake up and take responsibility for their children! and sound off looks like this kid already said f* you to the educational system and became a statistic hint hint he is in a detention school! doubt he'll straighten up anytime soon. and he is by biblical standards past the age of accountability!" well errr now-a-days their is child abuse.. and that would be classified as physical child abuse.. so just because it happened to you doesn't mean you let it happen to someone else, dumbass
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Todd harlo
July 8th, 2011 - 1:51:34 AM
People who defend the teacher are retarded. kids see adults do this and all these oh kids have no respect bla bla yea well lets turn on news and watch all the role models. This teacher should get ten years in prison felony assualt child abuse
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