Teaching seems like a frustrating job

The GOP party is acting out because of low economic output for the 1%.

Shit, when put like that, 100% yay orange pedo turd! I guess pedo boys will be pedo boys.

People will do anything but seek out a therapist. The kid may have a behavioral disorder, and seeking referrals for conduct disorder or something is usually a joint effort since parents get defensive even when such a disorder is often biological, like depression.

Or, y'know, zero tolerance bullshit and the kid gets expelled. That's more common in the US.

One key aspect to conflict resolution is to acknowledge the other side’s grievances, offer any appropriate apologies (being punched in the face and have glasses broken certainly warrants a heartfelt apology), and if necessary offer any remediation that would satisfy the other party (e.g. offering to pay for the broken glasses, and most importantly, suggesting that they spoke to their child to explain that behavior is inappropriate and unacceptable).

These parents did none of that, and just waved it off as if it’s okay for the kid to do this kind of thing “because they’re hungry”.

I wonder if they saw the ad and thought "a Snickers a day will get expensive, we'll give him a banana instead".

Coming up on three generations now who are afraid of conflict.

The issue is the parents’ refusal to take responsibility for their own child’s behavior.

Which is one of the tentpole requirement of being a parent.

After all, it's just a banana. How much can it possibly cost? Ten dollars?

Expelled? If they’re Black we just send them right to prison!

Sadly this isn’t a joke

I suppose the reply could have been clipped, but there is no mention of a low blood sugar problem, no mention of a sorry l, just ‘little Timmy needs a super power not to be a violent prick’.

A reasonable place to start is teaching your kid that hitting people is wrong, remember teachers are people too, underpaid overworked people.

That's a false dichotomy. Reasonable responses are framed as either "kid has low blood sugar so I'm packing him a banana", or "sorry, we'll beat him with jumper cables". There's like 50 reasonable responses between those extremes.

Do you think that if you were teaching a class and one of the students punched you in the face so hard that they broke your expensive prescription eyewear, that you would actually just dust yourself off and go, "oh dear, you poor thing - are you acting out due to low blood sugar? I can go get you a banana".

You really think that's a reasonable response for any human?

I feel like I'm entering my old man phase, but it feels like we're teaching kids to do everything they can to evade accountability as a rule.

You sound angry. How about eating a nice banana instead?

Yes, depending on the age and if police are on campus. Police tend to be permanent on some campuses for "security" but schools with them statistically show a much higher rate of incarceration. Although expulsion is also a fast track to prison, too.

Unsurprisingly, police tend to be in predominantly black schools, although even in desegregated schools (for which there are very few), it's black students most likely to get in trouble for acting out. Socioeconomic status accounts for some of this, though.

Bananas piss me off.

"He may be hungry from the bus ride and is acting out from this." That is where low blood sugar is referenced.

https://youtu.be/Ueu9A9S6HD0

Did none of that which we can see. The email is cropped.

Accidentally skipped that entire line, reading is hard.

Man it's hard to teach non-violence in an age of violence and emotional deregulation.

Do you just never know the size of anything?