Teacher Shoves Student to the Floor

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/27/us/georgia-teacher-charged-hitting-student/index.html

You know, it sickens me when I read about, or watch a video of, some adult assulting a kid like this. Let alone that this guy was a teacher of this student.

The news story doesnt say what the argument between the teacher and the student was about. Whatever it was about though, there is never a time when it is OK for a teacher to get mad enough to shove the kid to the point that he ends up on the ground. Yea, I would have immediately fired him too!

There are plenty of things that the teacher could have done to try to deescalate the arguement. He could have sat down at his desk, or better yet, he could have left the room for a few minutes while he and the student cooled down. When outside the room he could have then asked another teacher to escort the student out of his room.

I was once a student. I was also the son of parents. I know first hand that one of the things that kids do is get testy with adults. We are learning how to stand up for ourselves and testing our boundries. But even if we cross the line, it is the adults responsibility not to cross the line back. They are the ones that are supposed to have the experience to read the situation and know how to take the proper action.

Especially teachers!! These are the people that work with kids every day. Getting tested on boundries is probably a nearly everyday thing. Who knows what happened here. Maybe the teacher got tested just one to many times. Maybe he had dealings with this kid before that were not reported on. Maybe the kid called his wife a drunken whore. We don’t know. What ever the reason though, a teacher touchiing a student with physical force is something that is never justified.

Unfortunatly, because of this one shove of a kid, the teacher has probably distroyed his teaching career. The article says that the district fired him. And probably good luck for him to try to get another teaching job anytime soon after this. I sure hope he has other skills that he can use to find a different job.

As a teacher, I’m sure that he enjoys working with kids, and probably has a spotless record of incidents before this. He’s probably had students in the past that say he was one of their favorites. It’s too bad that in the moment he didn’t think of anything else better to do than shove the student to the ground. I’m sure he immediately regretted the action as soon as it happened.

So let this be a lesson. If you are about to throw your hands up at someone, kid or adult, take that split second if you can to think of better options. Don’t risk everything you’ve built in life on one moments stupid action. Better to make it seem like the kid won the arguement rather than having your life go up in a nuclear bomb.