is it right for them to blame her?
By pinky_laces
@pinky_laces (77)
Philippines
February 20, 2009 7:14am CST
i am giving tutorials after class. one of my student was being hit on the face by a teacher but i never saw it...just some of the students saw it... parents just went to school sue the teacher telling that the kid got trauma and never want to go back to school again... the said teacher was being kicked out from the school... now there are teachers who reacted about the issue of having a trauma and the child being brought to a psychiatrist... when the child knew that the teacher dont teach anymore, she went back to school... my issue on the said story is that some of the students blame the child because the teacher is not there anymore. so, the child dont want to go to school again.... do u think its right fort them to blame the child?
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8 responses
@okkidokitokki (1736)
• United States
20 Feb 09
I am going to be a teacher and there ae only 2 reasons to touch a student: 1)if they are going to hurt themselves or 2) if they are going to hurt someone else. aside from that I would hesitate to even give high 5's.
Any child that gives the slapped child a hard time is bullying and if you see it then you have to stop it. I would explain to the students that they all have the right to be safe while they are at school and that is what has been done, have a class discusion and then tell them the subject has been exhausted, it is time to get back to learning.
That being said children have to be taught right from wrong, it was wrong of that teacher to slap the student and there are consequences for behavior.
Have a great day :)
@twistedangellinda (174)
• United States
21 Feb 09
Well put! And I totally agree with you except that I think giving a child a high 5 doesn't count as abusing a child by slapping them. Even if the child had done something horrible the teacher should not have touched this child but should have let the principal, vice principal, student counselors etc handle the problem. This is one of the reasons we are paying these people! Not to sit and push papers around all day. Nine times out of ten if a child is acting out in class there is a reason behind it. When I was in 3rd grade in school back in the early 70's I had a teacher that thought it was fun to lift me up out of my seat by my long hair or slap my hand with a wood ruler for writing left handed. I well remember the humiliation when the other kids laughed. This treatment set me apart from the other students and I was made to feel that there was something shameful in being left handed. Sometimes adults forget that children can be cruel after they have witnessed an adult humiliating a child in front of them.
@syankee525 (6261)
• United States
20 Feb 09
my thing is no don't blame the kid, a teacher has no right to hit any kids, unless they are like beating the crap out of the teacher.
but if a teach ever laid a hand on any of my kids, that teacher would pay. i would get them for anything i could, from assult, chil abuse, whatever charges i could file on them. if it was a man teacher he would get a butt whipping from hell from me.
i know some teacher have a hard job dealing with some kids, but hitting them for no reason, dont fly. and if any other teachers at your school is made at the poor child shame on them, that teacher is making all other teacher look bad
@pinky_laces (77)
• Philippines
20 Feb 09
syankee... hello.... thank your for sharing your thoughts...
@twistedangellinda (174)
• United States
20 Feb 09
In the first place the teacher should have never been hitting that child in the face regardless of the fact that it was in front of other students. The teacher had no right to humiliate that child let alone the right to physically strike her. I feel the parents were in the right suing the teacher and I feel the school was in the right dismissing this teacher for her conduct. On top of this the teacher should face charges of child abuse and never be allowed to teach children again. It is wrong for the other students to blame the child for the teacher's dismissal. After all it was the teacher who could not control herself! That's just my opinion.
By the way...... If a teacher ever strikes one of my children I would not hesitate to sue them and the school system both!
@pinky_laces (77)
• Philippines
20 Feb 09
twisted, hello.... thanks for your response... thank you for sharing your thoughts...
@killhawaii (112)
• United States
21 Feb 09
I honestly think that if children are really misbehaving then they should be slapped in the face to send them a message that that type of behavior is unacceptable. But the main question is really why the child was hit. What did the child do? I think that the child is over reacting and purposely showing a facade to get the teacher fired. Honestly the child is acting and the parents I think are also forcing her into this cause now they are suing the school.
@sid556 (30959)
• United States
20 Feb 09
The teacher being the adult should have handled the situation much better than she did. Even if the child provoked it, it is absolutely no reason at all to hit the child. I have dealt plenty with kids ...difficult ones....there is no reason to hit...not ever. The teacher is at fault 100% on this one.
@lisa0502 (1724)
• Canada
20 Feb 09
The child would not be the one to blame. But if the other kids liked this teacher then they will treat the child badly. I do not think that it would be right. And as for the teacher hitting the child it is not the right thing. I think that the parents had made the right decision. I would also go after the teacher for doing something wrong.
