Teaching seems like a frustrating job

This "child" could be 7 or 17, which makes a huge difference regarding the appropriateness of their response. We need more context.

And if this was a teacher with a real incident in a public school, you'd expect their response to involve a parent/teacher conference with administration, possibly a behavioral intervention plan or other outcomes. Email isn't enough.

hits the kid with the banana

"Calm the fuck down!"

Dude school kids were awful when I was one and couldn't understand why they couldn't think logically. I cant imagine how bad it is now after decades of brainrot and phones in schools. I would NEVER be a teacher.

Add nurses getting punched by demented lead ridden boomers and society's cooked.

People are just violent apes until you raise them to be civilized.

Yup, I teach at University in California and get to cite that. It's a little counter intuitive for people, but it's true and much better for teachers to understand. I imagine some places ignore data, though.

As a youth soccer coach, I'd take this over some of the parents I've dealt with. We had one girl bullying other kids and when we told the mom she refused to believe us. Even when one of the other coaches told her she overheard it. The mom just said she must have misheard.

I need a calming banana after reading this.

Why do people believe this even happened? When did this happen? Which country did this happen in?

This is rage bait. The users name is "johnny bananas".

Is it faked? Probably. Is it outside the realm of possibility? Not at all. My mom spent most of her life as an elementary school teacher. I got to hear a lot of the stories about kids she dealt with. Some kids are messed up and need help. Too often their parents are too in one way or another. Mom loved all the kids, even the difficult ones. She said it would be a perfect job if she didn't have to deal with the crazy parents and school administrators.

I would but no one is offering enough money for me to do that job

Nah, even as a child that's unacceptable. My kid is only 5 and I don't let them hit people, and punish them when they do. The response from the parent shows the apple fell straight down

Edit: if you think this is advocating violence against children, go touch grass or read a single book on parenting ffs. Natural/logical consequences make good punishments for misbehavior, and have gone a long way to helping my kid not act out (and are nonviolent, since that has to be spelled out)

Yeah, it's unacceptable, but it's also unacceptable to call a child a "garbage person" for acting like a child.

We have no idea how old the kid is.

I have doubts it's a real email anyway. Seems like rage bait to me.

I remember a lot of kids getting spanked at school in the '80s. Most were more worried about the additional spanking they would get at home as punishment for misbehaving enough to get spanked at school.

You don't have to lay hands (or belts, or whatever) on your child to set and enforce strong boundaries and expectations. Kids need those guardrails to help them learn to navigate the world.

“Which country” now THAT’S rage bait.

You shouldn’t be in charge of anything. That’s called being complacent and leads to even worse problems.

Regardless of the labelling, punching someone in the face is absolutely not "acting like a child", it's acting like a garbage person. That shit should not be tolerated or excused away to complain about labelling.

And honestly, excusing away a kid battering their teacher as "acting like a child" is pretty goddamned unacceptable too.