Rochester, NY teacher gets suspended for washing students mouth out with soap

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Glaucus wrote:
Yeah, sure, in this particular case it's no big deal. But if you allow this kind of treatment other teachers will only take it further. Eventually you'll have cases where kids will get injured. It's hard to enforce a rule where it's okay to use only a drop of soap, and no more. It's either all or nothing. If you allow her to use one drop, what happens when the next teacher decides to empty the entire soap dispenser in a kids mouth? It's a slippery slope, best to stay off it completely.

  - Mike

Exactly my point

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Everyone knows there's a line you can't cross

That's one of my points. People do not know that. That's why humanity invented law.

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No, my line is "keep yer claws off each other".

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@JonoPike &KennyR
REVENGE!!!!
oh, the sweet revenge!

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mikeymike wrote:

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:

Everyone knows there's a line you can't cross

That's one of my points. People do not know that. That's why humanity invented law.

It's also a reason why there are multiple levels of punishment for crimes, because humanity has a sense of moderation.

Yes, and only in there lies the justice towards this teacher. Undoubtly, in this case it's judgement is mild.

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She wasn't assaulted, not in a physical way nor in a mental way.
The kid could as well set in the corner for an hour as punishment.
as I said earlier, if one's attacked physically, it's perfectly legal to defend yourself with violence.

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cecilia wrote:
the whole system is messed up.

nononono
that's called 'efficiency'
(my ass)

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JonoPike wrote:
What good is that going to do  :lol: Sitting in isolation will only make the kid more detached from the teacher and other students, thus increasing distrust betwwen them. This will probablly make the kid more unruly.

And here you are at a point where you have no experience AT ALL and where I do have the experience to tell you that what you are saying now is bollocks.

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JonoPike wrote:
Hmm, but are you referring to leading Scouts? Scouts is different from school, because Scouts is voluntary. School is compulsory.

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you have no idea what you're talking about
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seems like a borderline case to me

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Wain wrote:
I Would just like to point out that at my high school, a gym teacher/wrestling coach was threatened by a student who was wielding a knife.  The coach took the student to the ground, and placed him in a hold until security arrived. The coach never struck the student or used any aggressive behavior.

The following day the teacher was promptly fired.

:-o Now THAT is utterly wrong.
If one's violating the law (with threatening with a knife)
you're OBLIGATED to do alike what the teacher did, or something alike, if you can.