Parents of South Carolina student 'assaulted' by teacher on her birthday after she refused to recite Pledge of Allegiance sue high school

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[–]carn0ld03 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

If the student was assaulted by a special education teacher, is it safe to conclude the student's mentally retarded?

[–]1Icemonkey 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Sometimes retards act out and need to get all slapped up and shit.

[–]Alienhunter 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I think it's wonderful they have extra special teachers to teach the specially abled younglings.

[–]dicknipples 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I hadn't noticed that. Indeed, the kids put in the special education classes are normally unable to behave themselves in normal classes. Special education classes are full of kids with behavioral issues, some of whom might have learning difficulties.

[–]Musky 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Regular classes are also full of kids with behavioral issues, many of whom have learning difficulties.

[–]dicknipples 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Certainly - perhaps I should have stopped at the first sentence - the reason students are put in special education classes is for those reasons, but ESPECIALLY because they cannot behave themselves in normal classes.

[–]IkeConn 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I hope that family wins millions of dollars.

[–]dicknipples 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Because angry kids should be able to fuck over teachers and schools.

[–]IkeConn 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Because angry teachers shouldn't be able to fuck over students and schools. Idjit.

[–]dicknipples 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The teacher didn't harm, abuse, or fuck over the student, who obviously overreacted because she's a 15-year-old idjit, you idjit.

[–]Musky 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

This doesn't pass the smell test. In the video it doesn't look like the student was slammed against anything, and I doubt she was stopped over not reciting the pledge since lots of other students are also walking around not pledging.

I suspect this is a "dindu nuffin" situation.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You could be right, I do see a lot of incidents of Black people exploiting woke attitudes, and admit this one is questionable

[–]Guts 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The real story is that a female teacher loves her country

[–]catfishrising 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Imagine being assaulted over a marketing ploy to sell flags to schools.

[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

This fucking thread is full of fedora-tipping traitors.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It’s a black student. She probabally needed to be beat. The black people are violent and desensitized to assault.

[–]Questionable 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Vicious assault by shaky cam.

[–]passionflounder 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

More grist for the race-baiting left's demagoguery mills.

[–]dicknipples 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Excellent - for the Daily Mail (&c) - an anti-teacher claim by a kid that will bolster racist, fascist divisive tactics.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I was a high school student not too long ago, and I did get in trouble for not saying the pledge. Students have a right not to say it, but they don't have the right to be disruptive during it. However I have seen teachers violate that right and remove students from classrooms for sitting quietly and not saying it, but I was never personally removed for that reason. Perhaps she was being disruptive and that's why she was kicked out of class. It's also possible that the staff is overreacting and she was not being disruptive.

The family is dramatizing the event, but a high school kid should not be remotely physically restrained unless they're a danger. My understanding is that it's illegal to even hug students, so even a mild show of physical aggression is unacceptable, especially if it's in reaction to a student simply exercising their right to not say the pledge. But again, we don't know the full story and this family doesn't deserve a payout imo.

However, there should be consequences for this one staff member because I did not see any evidence that the physical aggression, however mild, was warranted. I'm just saying the idea of a payout over this is crazy, but her story is believable to me. If she was being disruptive, of course they have the right to kick her out of class, which they did, but you can't touch a kid like that if they aren't a danger to themselves or others.

[–]dicknipples 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Excellent points - this is more or less another article about what happened, albeit an opinion. We don't have much information about this, but it does seem that the teacher reacted physically to the student. I wonder if the student started the physical contact. If so, this will be thrown out of court. And if the teacher tried to expel a student who did not stand for the 'pledge', then the teacher should be suspended or disciplined. My reading of this is that there are many students in the US who sit during the 'pledge', but this student did more than that. We're not told what she did, but I suspect it was very disruptive if the teacher tried to restrain her.