Teacher fired for telling school children to punch classmate in face

[The Straight Story]

Teacher fired for telling school children to punch classmate in face


A PRIVATE school teacher in the US has been sacked after encouraging several students to punch a five-year-old boy in the face as punishment for hitting another student.

KPRC-TV in Houston reported that the incident happened when Davarius Williams, 5, and other children from the Robindell Private School took a field trip to a restaurant last week.

Davarius punched a female classmate during an argument and the teacher supervising the trip told other students to hit him back, Devarius' mother, Barbara Mobley, said.

"The teacher that was driving his particular van got him and his group together and said, 'When we get on the van, I want everybody to punch Devarius in the face because he punched the little girl in the face,'" Ms Mobley said.

Ms Mobley claimed at least a dozen children hit her son.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/teacher-fired-for-telling-school-children-to-punch-classmate-in-face/story-e6frf7jo-1225844827281

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. teacher should be charged with assault

[elleng]

4. More like, 'aiding and abetting,' your honor.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. Firing this teacher was the wrong thing to do.

The schools shouldn't rely on just punching students in the face.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. !!!!!!!!!!!!! Firing isn't enough.

[Tempest]

6. The parents should start a civil suit against the teacher and the school

I know I sure as hell would.

[Tempest]

5. I bet she's a tea bagger

Violence seems to be the only way they can express themselves.

[Divine Discontent]

7. I wonder if encouraging violent tendencies at a school would ever beget future violence in schools?

hmmmm...

I went to school in a small town in Texas for a short time. They forced me to stop writing left handed. Now, mind you, I'm a dang good writer with my right hand, but it's just the principle of their, "that's not normal", mentality about anything they deem "fruity", "odd", etc...

This teacher fits the bill of the typical nutjob there.

She needed fired, and was! She's lucky if the parents of the kid that was hit a dozen or so times, doesn't hit her in the face.

[Initech]

8. WTF????????

[Nikki Stone1]

9. A PRIVATE school? Really? Amazing!

I thought only the public school teachers did that sort of thing.

:sarcasm:

You might consider putting "Private" in the title of the thread. Thread titles influence how the non readers feel about things.

[liberalhistorian]

10. No kidding. There are too many people on here

who would see the headline and never even consider that it could be a private school. Oh, no, the only bad things that happen in schools happen in public schools and the only bad teachers are in public schools. But charter and private schools-why, they're always DA BOMB!

[senseandsensibility]

12. I agree

Why isn't that in the title? It's very significant.

[Odin2005]

11. Christ Almighty!

I think many classrooms need more discipline, but that doesn't mean doing this shit!

[-..__...]

13. It was out of line for the teacher...

to encourage the kids like that... however, if the kids had done it own their own initiative, I wouldn't have any problem if the teacher had simply ignored their actions.

Let's see if little Davarius continues punching female classmates in the face again after healthy dose of his own medicine.

[liberalhistorian]

15. But even then, she would have been in trouble and rightfully

so. Teachers cannot legally, in most schools, ignore such behavior even if they didn't encourage it. And what the hell kind of "lesson" would that be, anyway? All that would do is perpetuate violence, as the kids would see violence being used to deal with violence.

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16. Plausible deniability.

"Hey... I didn't see anything go down" (at least up until the point where it got out of hand). :smoke:

What you see as perpetuating violence, I see as turning the other cheek.

Some kids (bullies), need a good well deserved ass tuning... fuck passing "anti-bully laws", squealing and/or complaining to the administrators, etc. That's the overly passive and naive non-solution.

Kids have always fought and always will continue to do so regardless of whatever 'we' try to teach them.

[lib2DaBone]

14. I don't know how teachers put up with it.... the class rooms are jungles...

I was a school bus driver for 2 years. The kids were out-of-control thugs.

No wonder.. the mothers would show up at the bus stop at 6 a.m. drinking a Budweiser.. and then expect the school to raise her kids.

No one wins... especially the kids.. the whole system is so fundamentally fucked up.... it is beyond worthless.