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Shock Classroom Video: Teacher Watches As Student Beats Classmate in Head

May. 11, 2011 8:57am Jonathon M. Seidl

If you ask the local union, the teacher in the following video did the right thing by standing idly by while one student in his geometry class repeatedly punched another in the head. But that hasn’t stopped the outrage.

Last Thursday at Seagoville High School in the Dallas, TX area, Michael Milczanowksi said he was targeted by a classmate who beat him as fellow students and especially his teacher looked on. And it was all caught on video:

“This kid was actually trying to hurt me, and I could see it in his eyes,” Milczanowksi, who is seen just standing and taking the beating in the video, told WFAA-TV. Regarding the teacher’s non-action, he said, “I expected him to physically intervene to keep that from happening, but I guess I was wrong:”

According to the local teachers union president, the teacher’s response was warranted.

“Teachers have intervened in the past,” Rena Honea of the Alliance/AFT union told WFAA. “They have been injured. They have not been able to return to work. They have been reprimanded for intervening. So there is a huge question mark as to what’s truly appropriate.”

According to the Dallas Morning News, the district has spent a lot of money on “assault leave,” which is “relief pay mandated by state law for employees seriously injured.” How much? The paper says the district spent $1.2 million on assault leave “for 42 employees from January 2004 to November 2007.”

“In today’s society which is a violent society, you do not touch the student. That should be left up to the administration,” she added to KDFW-TV. “I believe that that is for the safety of number one the students, but for the individual teacher as well.”

According to the Dallas Indpendent School District, which is still investigating the incident, it doesn’t have a policy on teachers intervening in student altercations. In a statement, the district said, “The altercation on the video shot at Seagoville High School is clearly inappropriate. The district has zero tolerance for violence in the classroom and has responded accordingly.”

That “response” has included disciplinary action against the attacker, who could also face criminal assault charges. Milczanowksi has since pulled out from the school.

The district told KDFW it would not comment on whether the teacher is facing any action. “It’s a personal matter,” it told the station.

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omgfolks
Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:23am
Fire that STUPID TEACHER. What is going on in that school when a teacher stand by doing nothing while one of his charges is being assaulted>>>. I hope the teacher and the school board is held accountable and maybe even charges filed against that teacher who allowed this to take place. as for the student who got hit, LEARN TO DEFEND YOURSELF, obivously the adults who are there are to afraid to get involved

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- TexasCommonSense
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:28am
  I agree, however, if the kid would have defended himself he would have been suspended, too.
  
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- mrsmileyface
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 11:43am
  The BLACK teacher is not only racist but is aiding and abeding the kid doing the crime. Send the BLACK RACIST to jail. Put him in a tank with a bunch of skinheads see how well he does. Expel the kid doing the crime and send him to juvi if hes under 18, jail if not. Geeze that was easy. On the qestion of defend or not defend yourself I say defend. Grab anything with any weight to it and a swing it at the head of the guy beating you. Or take your pencil and jam it somewhere deep in his body.
  
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- camramonky33
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 2:02pm
  I am a teacher. I am a parent. This just floors me that the teacher did nothing! I shared this with my principal and made sure I had clarification as to our campus policy. He was in agreement that the teacher in the video was out of line.
  
  Dude needs to be fired. If he has such a lack of control in his class that one student feels he can stand up in the middle of class and “punk out” another, while two other students can video the incident, then he is not a very effective motivator of student behavior and they do not respect him.
  
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- Bonnieblue2A
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 4:27pm
  I cannot believe this kid didn’t even raise up his arms and hands to protect his head. Has the survival instinct been completely bred out of our kids? Certainly this kind of violence isn’t an isolated event for the perpetrator. Sad state of affairs that children seem to be so violent in the schools today. Thanks teacher’s unions….winning!
  
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- BuG
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 7:43pm
  Suspended is better than taking a beating. he could at least of put his hands up in self defense!!!
  
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skip1958
Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:22am
I couldn’t be a teacher. I’d have grabed that student and thrown him out of the school building..

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- Kyteacher
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 1:53pm
  Then you would have been fired, brought up on charges of assault and sued by the parents. In 35 years I have broken up my share of fights, seen teachers beat up, had to have HIV tests and now in Ky a teacher was fighting for his life after trying to break up a fight between 2 boys. You have to judge each one separately as to what you do. I agree you certainly do not sit there with your hands in your pockets and do nothing however. Would you expect a female teacher 5’0 tall and 100 lbs to step in and break it up?
  
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- Celticelfyn
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 8:30pm
  I expect teachers to be ADULTS and act as such. Along with the principle, the administration and these stupid unions!! Failing the kids!!! Big fat F!!!! Grow up teachers!! Crying how they could get hurt. Its cause you all have lost control and respect of kids!!! MORONS!~
  
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Ampleforth
Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:21am
The problem with stupid zero tolerance policies, which are designed to protect weak-minded, cowardly school adminstrators, is that they snare children who decide to fight back. If the teachers and administrators do not intervene to protect a child refusing to fight back in obedience to the schools’ policies, then we have effectively turned the management of the school over to the bullies.

I’ve written about this before on the The Blaze. I’ve taught my children to fight back, never to start a fight but to defend themselves even if it invovles a disproportional response. They understand the consequences of fighting back, that they’ll be punished by the school system.

The teacher’s and the union’s logic escapes me on this issue. If the teacher didn’t intervene — avoiding physical contact with the pupil — and the aggressor severely wonded, maimed, or killed the other kid, wouldn’t the teacher also be liable? On the street are citizens not under some demand to protect the helpless?

I caught a stray punch at a college basketball game when I intervened between two drunk fans. It rang my bell pretty good, but one guy was on the verge of severely hurting another. I knew the risk, but I couldn’t just stand there and watch a pummeling that was turning into an assault and battery.

Parents who have children in schools with zero tolerance policies, should be quick to file assault charges on any perpetrator against their children.

This is insanity.

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- noczars
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 4:02pm
  I think I remeber you writing on The Blaze after another video of a kid punching another kid twice his size lots of times. Then the larger kid slammed the assaulter. The problem with that is the larger kid was ALSO punished. In this video, if the larger kid would have protected himself, he would have also been punished.
  HOMESTUDY.
  
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sizzlinsexybeckster
Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:20am
Did you expect anything different? Beating up people and sitting around watching as entertainment is tolerated on DAYTIME television so why not let it be expected in real life. Of course I know this is wrong and so do others. But when you have Jerry Springer and all that other crap on t.v. raising latchkey kids……..

WHAT DID YOU EXPECT?

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- TexasCommonSense
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:31am
  I expected the teacher to not be a coward.
  
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Fight for America
Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:19am
Did I miss anyone in the classroom calling for help in the hallway, on an intercom, or once – gasp a cell phone?

The video is being made instead of 911 being called.

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Windwalker
Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:19am
We know the name of the victim……why is the surname of the attacker not revealed.

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ImaHippyBurning
Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:15am
Where’s the ACLU? this is racism a black teacher with his hands in his pockets while a white kid terrorizes another white kid and he does nothing about it? If this had been reversed and this were two black kids with a white teacher Fat Al Sharp2ton would be there organizing a march against the “mighty whity”

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John0397
Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:13am
When the civil suits come around, be sure to add the teacher to the suit for failing to prevent the assault.

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Blackhawk1
Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:12am
The guy in the interview is correct. Old School needs to be brought back and this PC crap needs to go away. Back when I was in school and you got in trouble the teacher would give you a crack and then get ahold of the parents. When you got home DAD would then commence to whooping that butt. So in short now there are no consequences and this is what you end up with.

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- MidWestMom
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:19am
  Exactly!
  
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- IMPEACHBHO
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:25am
  But that wouldn’t be socialism….good little socialists stand by, because they no longer have the ability to think or fend for themselves – that is left to the STATE, and only the STATE.
  
  Reminds my of the blonde kids in H.G. Wells The Time Machine….
  
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- Lux
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 11:03am
  That and parents need to be… PARENTS. “No other success can compensate for failure in the home.” J. E. McCullough.
  
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Nations
Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:12am
I was a teacher in the Texas School Systems and a highly paid consultant to The Texas TEA and member of the governor’s Select committee on education. I was on the State Textbook Committee and member of many select tiger committees that covered education to the highest degree. I will tell you now, it is highly important to not let these types of situations happen. The teacher must defuse and not let it get to this level. If it does we have buttons in every classroom that signals the administration of an emergency about to happen. finally if it is a life or death thing the teacher should do all he/she can to stop such activity. Parents are held responsible and students are made aware of this as well as the parents. If a student does act, he will be suspended, or kicked out of school. Many large schools have police on campus to also aid in this kind of affair. I personally broke up several fights on campus by grabbing the students and holding them until other teachers and administrators arrived. The safety of the kids is highly important. Ultimately the parents are held accountable.

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- mom4times
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:24am
  AMEN to that….I’ve been saying over and over that the parents are ultimately responsible and if my kid was out of countrol and I was no longer able to deal with them…..I’ve told my kids I’ll call the cops on them myself. I won’t stand for an unruly child and the parents of these kids need to be hauled off to jail….maybe then they will start teaching their kids right. I certainly would NOT want to be a school teacher in today’s society. I’d get arrested for disciplinning them. (sorry about spelling errors, not much sleep last night)
  
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one yrs. food ration like Glenn says..
Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:11am
yes, it’s up to the admin but hey they are 5 miles away in an office somewhere you fat douche.. Listen to the black guy explain the teachers action he speaks in no plural form , meaning no S’s at the end of any sentence, pathetic.. The kid that was getting beat up is another reality of libeal America pussing down the male …. If that was me ? The first time I got hit I would’ve beat the hell out of everyone in the class including the teacher, course I’m 44 years old and my father always taught me, if you get hit ? hit back harder and finish the job… Now a days they end up like the kid in the video scared of his own shadow. Like it matters if he will get hurt He is already getting hit..

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conservativemom99
Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:10am
My kid would be out of that school so fast. The policy is “anything goes” then? wow.

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hcartexas
Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:10am
WTF.. fire this fat lazy teacher…..

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- TexasCommonSense
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:42am
  Don’t forget “cowardly”.
  
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- Clive
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 1:28pm
  its more an indication of the sorry state of texas. bunch of hick losers.
  
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- TexasCommonSense
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 3:55pm
  Clive, tell that to Davy Crockett and generations like him. They’re tell you to go to hell just like he did Congress under Andrew Jackson when decided to force march Native Americans of their land against the Supreme Court’s orders.
  
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jharper
Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:10am
What is clear is that teens no longer have any respect for adults in their charge. I guess they are just “expressing themselves” which educators have encouraged to a fault.

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Allahu Akbar
Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:09am
Trashy wide students. Why should that teacher put himself at risk to help that devil?

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- warveteran
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:34am
  Say those words to someones face.
  
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- TexasCommonSense
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:40am
  “Allahu Akbar”, just another idiot trying to inflame people.
  
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- 13th Imam
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 10:25am
  Pedophile at the Saladbar, Arabic translation
  
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- Unix
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 11:03am
  I got a Ka-bar for you mudslime!
  
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IMPEACHBHO
Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:09am
The teachers union have created the obambees of today.

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Rickfromillinois
Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:09am
Another fine example of our public school system. Frankly I can half way understand why the teacher would hesitate to get physically involved but he just stood there with his hands in his pockets. Did anyone hear him tell the kid to stop? Did anyone hear him send a student to the office for some help? He did absolutely nothing. Of course as a union member he is very good at that.

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mom4times
Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:08am
I would say……also hold the parents of the kid throwing the punches responsible for any injury to the teacher (if they were to intervene)…..BUT, we don’t know the whole story….I can only go by what is shown. Bring back the dang paddle……I turned out all right.

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- moiriane
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 10:13am
  heck yes….that thick board did wonders to my bottom. kids now have to many rights, they are not adults and do not have the common sense. if that would have happened when I was going to school, not only would you get swats at school, you would get them at home too.
  
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- one yrs. food ration like Glenn says..
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 1:00pm
  @ ALLEN and SHOWTIME …. There is no reason in the world that he can give that would change his vote from yes to a no… It doesn’t matter, it’s just as easy to do either way.. Now if you want to be so stupid and let him pull a fast one on you, thats your choice.. The fact still remains , he voted NO because he likes that certain part of obamacare and you can’t have it both ways….What does it matter anyway ? With people like you both voting we are only going to have Obama in there for 4 more years, so get used to obama and obamacare.. BTW showtime I was tempted to say ” Oh, Ok, now that showtime is satisfied with West’s answer then everything is fine… Like your opinion is be all and end all…West is not the man for the job.. Get over it…
  
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My Hero-Allen West-click my name
Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:07am
BullS***, the teacher is not fit to be in the class room with children. If the teacher is afraid to stand up for a child they are in the wrong profession. Go ahead you UNION thugs and defend your spineless member. This kind of action is why your will all soon be in the history books.

Fire the sorry teacher for aiding and abating a crime on a child!

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- one yrs. food ration like Glenn says..
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:19am
  I like allen west too, We both love obamacare that’s why I loved it when he voted NO to defund it, coming up with some cockamamie story of, we have bigger fish to fry… How much time does it take to vote YES to defund than NO ? Bigger fish to fry,, what’s more important than your health ? Besides that’s what he was voted into congress for. A yes vote on defunding obamacare.. You are a sheep and this is exactly how obama got elected even after saying things like ,”WE ARE 5 DAYS AWAY FROM FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGING AMERICA AS WE KNOW IT !!!.. yet there you go, people still voted for the historical black guy.. Open your eyes man and do some homework..
  
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- My Hero-Allen West-click my name
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:40am
  One year.
  
  My main interest in Mr West is he has the Balls to stand up to the real threat to us all. All this other stuff is going to happen regardless of who is in office. Make my word it will all come to pass.
  
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- Showtime
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:53am
  @One Yrs.’s ~
  When I read the story about Allen West and his vote on Obamacare, I saw stars. Then I received his weekly update and explained his thinking. I’m fine now with Allen West.
  
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- Unix
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 10:09am
  @show – just spoke to you know who, and will talk to him again later. Thanks for the alert, your brother will be just fine. I am a certain crustacian.
  
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IMPEACHBHO
Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:07am
Time to rid the school system of the teachers union. They have played a key role in steering this country into socialism.

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- TexasCommonSense
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:50am
  IMPEACHBHO, you nailed it. Good post.
  
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- noczars
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 3:46pm
  SEIU just came out (not of the closer) with nice BIG RED Banners that say “join the Communist SEIU”. Also we have a Teacher’s Union that just proudly announced they are Socialists.
  The bullying was happening to my three kids in the 1990′s until I took them out and did homestudy. they all three had A’s and B’s after that.
  
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scjeff
Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:05am
It is a sorry world.

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- starman70
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 10:26am
  In my day, the teacher would have grabbed the assailant, hauled him to the principals office and the student would have received,” The board of education on the seat of knowledge”. He would have been suspended and his parents would have to come to school to take him home. When he got home, he would get another paddling, more than likely worse than he got at school.
  
  In my opinion this teacher is an incompent union hack with the full backing of the union apologists. Until teachers can regain control in their own classrooms, this kind of sceneario will be repeated over and over again. WILL YOUR CHILD BE THE NEXT VICTIM?
  
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RightUnite
Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:05am
This is only one of the reasons we need to dump Teachers Unions. They are worthless as a t*t on a boar.

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:03am
So what is going to be said when a student finally kills another student in front of the class and no one does anything to prevent it from happening?

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- Robert-CA
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 11:52am
  The whole system is collapsing , where to start ? who to blame ?
  I felt so bad for that kid & that’s how @ the end they end up committing suicide or just snap & start shooting left & right .
  
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- HumbleMan
  Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:19pm
  It’s about personal responsibility. If you (damned liberals) keep worrying about your job security instead of the kids … you deserve what you will get.
  
  Shame, shame … shame.
  
  What happened to doing the right thing?
  
  82nd … I’m with you.
  
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TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:02am
Yikes! Pretty sad.

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- GeorgieJo
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 2:07pm
  The teacher couldn’t call anyone?????
  Yikes Glad my kids have graduated!!!!!
  
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- walkwithme1966
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 3:45pm
  Sorry – someone should have intervened and that kid that was throwing the punches should not be allowed in the school. What is wrong with our society today – and don’t tell me its because of the liberals in our communities because I don’t believe that. There is something basically wrong with how our kids are being raised! http://wp.me/pYLB7-Xr
  
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- HumbleMan
  Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:09pm
  @Walk…
  
  So get his punk teacher fired. Does he deserve to have students under his tutelage?
  
  Everyone’s making excuses for this guy. He needs to collect unemployment.
  
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biohazard23
Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:00am
Your tax dollars (not) at work.

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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:09am
  Black teacher is either incompetent or very stupid. Maybe he likes to see whitey get beat up. Some will call me racist, what excuses will you make for him?
  
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- Cemoto78
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:09am
  “They have been reprimanded for intervening. So there is a huge question mark as to what’s truly appropriate.”
  
  Herein lies the problem, how do these ADULT teachers not know what is appropriate in this situation when a person is attacking another. Real good role models we have in these chicken sh_t teachers.
  I’ll bet if you asked the attacker if he was doing something inappropriate he would tell you yes.
  
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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:18am
  I have to wonder now, how far will these be allowed to go? When will the line finally be drawn and people stop being threatened for trying to intervein and come to the help of another human being?
  
  When will common sense come back to reality?
  
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- smithclar3nc3
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:22am
  We need to equip our kids with video cameras that run from the time school starts till they get home. We need to see what’s really going on in our classrooms. The federal government track record of failed bureaucracies stays intacted as the school system is as big a sucess as the 2,000,000,000 in red this year already post office. Well atleast the post office runs with about a 90% success rate schools are at a 60% rate and producing substandard little neo liberal progressive ike men.
  
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- poverty.sucks
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:23am
  Ok class, how can we all learn from this?
  
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- IvanK
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:24am
  I’m curious, The Dallas ISD is “reprimanding” the assaulter – Why wasn’t the student handcuffed and sent to county jail??? I keep hearing about children being handcuffed for bringing aspirin or a plastic knife to school. But when a student beats the snot out of another kid he’s “reprimanded”. Guys and gals WTH?????????
  
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- TexasCommonSense
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:24am
  The teacher was a wuss. He should have stood between the kids and said very directly, “This is going to stop and it’s going to stop, now”. Instead, they’re supposed to wait for an administrator? Someone with authority? Since when are teachers not supposed to have authority? He’s just a coward hiding behind his union.
  
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- MidWestMom
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:26am
  this teacher would probably walk on down the sidewalk if he saw someone knife another person….. not my problem dude.
  
  So, our kids must spend their classroom time in fear, being more focused on how to protect themselves (because nobody else is going to) instead of actually LEARNING??
  
  Shameful. Thank God we homeschool.
  
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- BIGJAYINPA
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:28am
  Didn’t look like much of a “fight” The one kid just stood there while the other teed up like he was hitting a heavy bag. And the “teacher” stood there just watching. What ever happened to just stepping in and saying STOP THIS FOOLISHNESS! And don’t even get me going on the useless incompetent union in this matter. And we wonder why some kids bring a gun to stop the bullies?? When the kids lose hope and feel that they must do “anything” to protect themselves because the “adults” have failed them…just sayin’
  
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- Cemoto78
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:30am
  Guess this teacher didn’t get the memo from Obama about bullying and how bad this is. Wonder if this student was not allowed to eat his school breakfast which made him made cause he missed his entitlement. We are so fast going down the immoral slope………..
  
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- jedi.kep
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:32am
  Spanking! When oh when will the idiots of the world return to common sense!
  
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- biohazard23
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:35am
  Remember, the union doesn’t give a rat’s a** about the students. Albert Shanker would be proud of this stellar example of abandoning all responsibility for the safety and well-being of the children under an “educator”‘s care. “When school children start paying union dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the interests of school children.”
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:36am
  And people wonder why I advocate carrying a firearm at all possible times. Our “institutions” are intentionally creating a generation of amoral thugs.
  
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- MidWestMom
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:37am
  “…The district has zero tolerance for violence in the classroom and has responded accordingly….That “response” has included disciplinary action against the attacker…”
  
  If the student being attacked had fought back, would he have faced “disciplinary action” as well because of the zero tolerance for violence policy?
  
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- BIGDAN63
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:42am
  here is the problem with what the teacher did, he just stood there and watched, made to effort to get help in there. the teacher unions in this country are out of control, they don’t teach (hence the lower the test scores keep going), and when they do teach, its not what us as parents want them to be teaching, teaching our kids that Che Guevara was a hero, when in actuality he was a mass murder.
  so i place blame on the teacher and the schools, they have changed the cultural view of they way our children look at the world today. sit down and talk with a kid today and see how the schools a preaching about how an Open Society would fix everything, and we know how wrong that is.
  
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- bassist237
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:43am
  I don’t know where our world has gotten, but I don’t know how you can be a human and let that happen right in front of you. I tell to you what, I work in a school and that crap would not be happening in front of me, regardless of whether the kid attacks me or not. I also am in the military, thugs like that need to be sent to basic training and torn down a few pegs.
  
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- knockered
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:44am
  I hope the parents of that child sue the teacher and the stupid union for allowing this to happen. I wonder if the student would of pulled a knife on that kid if the end result would of been the same. We need to put the fear back in children. To hell with Dr Spock.
  
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- hauschild
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:46am
  The loser teachers and parents better hope I never have kids because I might have to assume the role of Buford T Pusser.
  
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- glashole
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:47am
  We home school, I teach my kids to defend themselves with fists and firearms. First walk away and if you cant do not fight, but put the other person down, and do not let him back up. It is for this reason in the video I make sure they know pressure points, joint isolation and how to use other methods of restraint to defend themselves. This teacher has no place in the classroom.
  
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- TexasCommonSense
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:47am
  Rena Honea is a clueless moron. You can breakup a fights like that without laying a hind on anyone and without having a hand laid on you. All you have to do is NOT BE A COWARD! Just leave everything to the “Administration”; don’t take any personal responsibility yourself.
  
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- Showtime
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:49am
  When I was in school (back in the Stone Age, when children were actually taught how to read, write, and do math), Rule No. 1 was DO NOT FIGHT ON SCHOOL GROUNDS. Rule 2 was EXPECT TO BE EXPELLED FOR FIGHTING ON SCHOOL GROUNDS.
  
  A girl picked a fight with me less than a month before graduation. We were in the hall. The football coach grabbed my arm and slammed me against the lockers. My arm bled. I was so mad that I couldn’t see who he was! The girl and I were both expelled (on a Friday), but the principal let me back in on Monday when I told him that my daddy could not be there because of his job and that my mother had said, “Mr. Holiday does NOT want me to be there!” He told me to go to my classes.
  
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- unsalvageable.org
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:55am
  “Teachers have intervened in the past,” Rena Honea of the Alliance/AFT union told WFAA. “They have been injured. They have not been able to return to work.
  
  Translation – We don’t care what happens to the children as long as we get to come to work and collect a paycheck. If he dies in the classroom it’s okay as long as I get paid!
  
  Do you feel safe sending your kids to school?
  
  http://www.unsalvageable.org
  
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- randy
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:57am
  If you think that video was shocking, then take a look at this one from the same school…..
  
  http://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/headlines/20110510-second-video-shows-seagoville-high-school-teacher-watching-as-two-boys-fight.ece
  
  A simple Google search shows brawls like these are commonplace at this school.
  
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- CultureWarriors
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:58am
  This is what 47 years of the liberal’s Great Society have brought us. Face it, liberalism is an epic failure. We need to stamp it out where ever it exists. Tear it down and replace the entitlements with teaching self reliance and self respect. As we have seen, giving people money without them earning it teaches them to not have values. It strips people of their self respect and makes them slaves to the state. To teach a child to be dependant instead of self reliant is cruel beyond words. This is the behavior you get from people who have lost all self respect. It turns them into animals. This is why liberalism is evil.
  
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- Unix
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 10:02am
  Hmm, let’s see here, if that kid punched me, he would be on his azz, if it were my pupil, the puncher would be on his azz – America the wussified! great comment on our society, we have lost our nerve, our fight and our kids to PC BS. But most importantly, we have lost our morals and SHAME, sad state of affairs indeed.
  
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- CatB
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 10:04am
  Union thugs … condone standing by while someone is beaten .. I AM SHOCKED!!! NOT!!!!
  
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- lovenfl3
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 10:05am
  I am so tired of hearing how great America’s teachers are. Every day there is another example of incompetence. I’m sure there are some good teachers left, but it’s time to quit generalizing that all teachers are good. It’s simply not true. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmL6evAnyf0
  
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- jackrorabbit
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 10:05am
  Sorry, but this is an EPIC fail in the system then. Thanks ACLU, NEA, and lawyers, this is what all your hard work has brought to the world.
  
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- Edward
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 10:22am
  Well we always are quick to blame the color of the skin when its a bunch of black kids throwing down.. lets call this what it is a piece of white trash thinking he’s hot stuff. Im shocked that the kid just stood there an took it, he’s as big as the assulter and if he can take those hits and shrug em off he probably could have done some damage if he fought back.
  
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- Sinista MACE
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 10:22am
  So the teachers are allowing the bullying to go on, and then turn around and complain that we need government involvement to keep students safe…
  
  Sound familiar?
  
  The cops are unionized too. They sit up and allow stuff to happen and then complain that they need more money and power to deal with what they’re ALLOWING to happen when citizens complain.
  
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- Nathan-H
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 10:24am
  Aint that the Truth.
  
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- DTOM_Jericho (escaped PA)
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 10:24am
  Witness the emasculation of the U.S. male. When I was a student, that kid would have been dragged down to the office by his collar, feet barely touching the floor and paddled, summarily. He would have been dragged by the MALE teacher and paddled by the MALE principal or MALE vice-principal. When the female teachers had problems beyond their control, the called one of the MALE teachers.
  
  “Youths oppress my people,
  women rule over them.
  My people, your guides lead you astray;
  they turn you from the path.” Isaiah 3:12
  
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- Sinista MACE
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 10:27am
  I’ve seen white teachers stand by and do the same thing.
  
  This isn’t an issue of race, racist.
  
  This is an issue of discipline and responsibility. The children are in the CUSTODY of the teachers while they are at school, it IS their responsibility to keep them safe.
  
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- the_zazzy
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 11:04am
  You are exactly right SINISTA MACE. It would be hard for me not to go kick the teacher’s @$$, whom is supposed to be protecting my child while at school.
  
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- Unix
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 11:06am
  i see sinista race is back at it – man you are lower than a rat turd sonny!
  
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- Sinista MACE
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 11:10am
  Corporal punishment at the hands of the faculty is not the answer. It breeds resentment, hate, and animosity.
  
  There are other more effective means of discipline.
  
  I, for one, rebelled against corporal punishment and it was one of the reasons for my increased rebellion against authority and increased aggressiveness towards authority. It was definitely a problem for me that any adult other than my parents would touch me in any way I don’t like, let alone paddling. The teachers ought to be capable of stepping in between an incident like this to create separation and distance in the interest of the safety of the students.
  
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- TerryDo
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 11:36am
  No wonder teachers are so disrespected , they can’t control their own classes and teachers especially a male teacher, who can’t intervene and stop that violent threat of force by the bully thug, should be FIRED!
  
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- sbish
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 11:47am
  This guy who is being interviewed is an idiot. “It’s a close call what the teacher should do.”??? What is right or wrong is not a close call in this case.
  
  Anonymous, you are a bigotted loser.
  
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- s-n-t
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 11:52am
  Not much right with this video. Teacher just watching. Even if you buy the union BS about non-involvement, he could at least SAY SOMETHING. Next, bully punching weaker kid who is not defending himself. Next, kid not defending himself – I mean, c’mon, duck, cover your head, keep a desk in between you and the attacker, something. And, let’s not forget the other students – not one gets involved, even verbally? We’re lost.
  
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- DirectlyUnPCman
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 11:56am
  Why oh why is it that black folks almost always make the wrong choices? You, as the authority figure, must stop that from happening. I guess I should just be happy it wasnt a black kid beating on the white kid. Teacher might have actually started cheering him on. I have zero faith in that culture.
  
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- Doodidle
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 12:13pm
  You send your kids to school thinking that with teachers in the class room, your kids would at the least be safe cause you know they cant teach. now they arent even bonafide babysitters, they are just over paid spectators! kick them out! The unions are keeping them employed! get rid of the union and people will actually have to be accountable for their actions and you might see the national GPA go up a few points.
  
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- expatinontariocanada
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 12:37pm
  Why would someone just stand there and take it? Did he have a post-it note on his back saying “Punch Me”? As for the teacher, separate them, stop it. If he takes a blow the kid’s in jail, or at least should be, which is where he should be for assaulting the kid.
  
  The more I think about it, the kid being hit is in on this. Look at his face as he walks away at the end.
  
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- OneFootRandy
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 12:55pm
  Vouchers…………..VOUCHERS………………….VOUCHERS NOW!!!!
  
  How long will we tolerate this? This culture war we all find ourselves in starts with the public school system. How on earth can we be FORCED to enroll our kids in these unsafe houses of indoctrination? Dont tell me that we need to change it from the inside, that doesnt work, you can have a school board dominated by conservatives but still have to run things the way the state in coordiantion with the teachers unions, dictate.
  
  The entire public school model needs to be scrapped, government should only provide services that can not be provided by the private sector, education is not one of those services and in fact, private schools are a proven superior product for usually less cost than public schools.
  
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- _waTson_
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 1:06pm
  Teacher should be FIRED! The prize fighter should be arrested for assault. DUH!!! Unions are killing us people.
  
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- Elena2010
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 1:20pm
  Can you say — WOODSHED! Where are the savage’s parents? Wonder if the victim will sue the school. That will cost…
  
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- Clive
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 1:23pm
  please. a teacher gets involved, a student gets hurt by the teacher by accident,,, gigantic lawsuit occurs.
  
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- TexasCommonSense
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 1:46pm
  Clive, I see you’re a coward, too. I hope you’re not a teacher.
  
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- thinkinghuman
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 2:31pm
  Another case of a teacher (AND UNION) proving that they are only there in it for themSELVES.
  
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- atasteoftea
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 2:58pm
  WHAT WOULD ANYONE EXPECT A UNION THUG, IN IT FOR THE MONEY BLACK TEACHER TO DO?
  
  That student should be examined by a doctor for concussion. Some of those hits were extreme. Its too bad that student could not fight back and hit his attacker right in the nose. I use to be bullied in school and my father always said to land a punch as hard as I could on my attacker’s nose. It always worked and that always ended the bullying. One attacker even got his nose broken.
  
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- Ozymandias
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 3:42pm
  “The black teacher must be either racist or stupid”….. You mean it has to be one OR the other?
  
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- TexasCommonSense
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 3:58pm
  Fellow Blazers, I suggest we stop making this, and most other things, issues about race. The great divider-in-chief is doing enough to stir up pointless racial divisiveness. Don’t let him succeed.
  
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- papapatriot
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 4:19pm
  The teacher(?) along with the perpetrator should both be arrested. Not to come to the aid of a student who is under your immediate supervision is cowardly and regardless of union rules should not be tolerated. He should be fired. Bet the school board (read politically correct miscreants) will take no punitive action in this misdeed. God Bless America.
  
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- DIOS BENDIGA AMERICA ... JESUCRISTO ES EL SEÑOR!
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 4:30pm
  What a punk >:|
  
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- SgtHavocUSMC
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 4:30pm
  Typical response by the Teachers Union and School Officials. What happened to the days when while students were in school, the teachers and administration were responsible for your child’s safety? Every situation is different but what if the kid had a knife and repeatedly stabbed the other student? Where do the incompetent decisions, responses, and lack of actions stop? I don’t condone violence but I have always told my kids, I will back them 100% if they are attacked and they defend themselves. Fighting is unacceptable in a classroom but I for one am not accepting that because these idiots refuse to stand up for what’s right and safe, that my children will be beaten because they don’t want to do their jobs.
  
  If I was on a street corner and saw a person getting beaten, I would step in and handle it. The way the laws are written, I would probably be charged with assault and battery but I bet the attacker would think twice about attacking someone again. That kid who threw the punches needs a good ole’ ass whoop-pin! Semper Fi
  
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- GWEN1969
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 5:51pm
  Yes, once again fear keeps teachers and students from doing the right thing by stopping this assault. Why couldn’t anyone step in and say something, anything? Instead they stand there. Is this the kind of crap you want you children to have to deal with to get an education? Kinda hard to make you kids go to school when they are subject to this environment of violence and fear. It’s not hard to see why we have such a huge drop out rate!
  
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- sbeejustsaying
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 8:00pm
  Ron Price said that if a teacher intervens and gets hurt, the insurance comany wont cover it. WHAT kind of garbage is that? The kid with the camera will get in trouble because cell phones are not allowed. This is insanity.
  
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- Mee the People
  Posted on May 11, 2011 at 9:36pm
  It was a bullying not a fight
  
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- Okie from Muskogee
  Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:16am
  Why would any one with common sense pay for and send their children to something like this…..
  
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- dr_funk
  Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:35am
  I don’t care if I’m an unaffiliated bystander. If I see somebody trying to suckerpunch someone else, I’m gonna lay them out. If I see a fight, I’m gonna do my best to break it up. If I see someone beating up on someone who isn’t fighting back, I’m gonna use my foot to lift them by their inseam.
  
  Grow a pair and do the right thing. The school should be sued for gross negligence by allowing this violence to continue without intervention.
  
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- dr_funk
  Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:41am
  Standing by and watching it occur is an affirmation of that behavior by the teacher. Now students in that classroom know its ok to beat the crap out of students, because the teacher has, by not intervening, OK’d it.
  
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- jnobfan
  Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:05am
  The school board has clearly said that the safety of your children IS NOT the number 1 priority. The almighty dollar is #1.
  Time to get active in your local politics or risk your kids safety.
  
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- urrybr
  Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:31am
  That Kid would’ve been laying on his back wondering how he got there. if a student threatened to do me bodily harm, I’d let himn throw the first punch, and then unleash my version of the Normandy Invasion! Stinkin’ punks!
  
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- gunslingerpatriot
  Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:33am
  Thanks Hauschild-I looked up Sheriff Buford Pusser and I am in awe of him. I am going to try find some of his books and read about this guy. If the articles are any indication, then he sounds alot like Sherrif Joe Arrpaio from AZ.
  
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- cassandra
  Posted on May 12, 2011 at 1:39pm
  teachers unions at their best, this is what they do nothing! but they are really good at protesting
  
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- Radi8r
  Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:12pm
  I don’t believe it is a black/white thing. I believe it is a matter of competence issue. I believe that these kinds of teachers are another reason that the schools are becoming a haven for these gangster kids that know they can do as they damn well please with very little being done to control them. It is the responsibility of a teacher to intervene when this type of behavior is taking place and it is part of their JOB to be there to protect the weaker students. Are we to let the idiots continue to run the asylum?
  This damnable whiny ass liberal government has forbidden us from spanking our children when they misbehave so we end up with children that have no boundaries and then we let them run amok in the school and incompetent teachers stand idly by and watch. One good shot to the temple and we could have been watching the death of a student.
  Just sit back and watch, folks, the government will take care of you!
  
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- Amren
  Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:22pm
  Sorry piece of crap teacher!
  When I taught, I made it PERFECTLY CLEAR, that I would jump right in the middle of ANYBODY pulling this crap. I am 6′ 1″ and 220 lbs.. I am a trained MMA fighter and stick fighter. I made damn sure the kids knew this on the first day of school. I was also the school’s Asst. Wrestling Coach. I apologize if it sounds like I’m boasting, I just want you all to understand that I’m NOT what people think a teacher should look like. I am constantly asked if I am Military or Law Enforcement. Anyway, the other thing I made sure the students understood was that EVERYONE in that school was under MY protection. I hate this kind of thing. I was one who was picked on in Middle and High School because I didn’t reach my current size until my 20′s. I never bullied my students, but they had enough fear of me in them to keep anything like this from happening in ANY class in my building.
  A little respectful fear is a good thing. You should have seen the parent’s faces when they met me for parent/teacher conferences. Priceless. Especially the Dad that thought he was going to intimidate me. That lasted until I stood to shake hands with him.
  Ok, enough about me. Tell me about yourself…
  
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- Amren
  Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:30pm
  @SINISTAMACE,
  “I, for one, rebelled against corporal punishment and it was one of the reasons for my increased rebellion against authority and increased aggressiveness towards authority.”
  
  Maybe it wasn’t the corporal punishment. Maybe it’s just because you’re as *******.
  
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- Common Sense Sally
  Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:07pm
  What the HELL happened to our country?! Why is it an union issue for doing what is right and moral? How can someone just stand by and another HUMAN gets assaulted just because they might get reprimanded for intervening? They are cowards, plain and simple!
  
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- HumbleMan
  Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:06pm
  “it’s a tough call”?
  
  Great … listen to the “lib” … it’s all about the teacher’s job security.
  
  Just forget the children.
  
  I’ve had enough …
  
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- Sinista MACE
  Posted on May 13, 2011 at 9:52am
  Amren
  
  No, it was the corporal punishment.
  
  Additionally, I was expelled for beating up little snide jerks like yourself.
  
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