Teaching seems like a frustrating job

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.

The users name is "johnny bananas".

Yeah! If they're lying about their name, who knows what else they're lying about?!

Man, I hope you're a troll, because otherwise that's some S-tier stupidity.

What is a dcf call?

Yeah, please don't beat your kids. Not only does it not work, it also damages your relationship with them and then they need to get therapy later.

I was spanked as a kid. I don’t think it did any good. I don’t want to spank my kids.

As a parent of two very different and spectrum-y kids, it is incredible just how effective gentle parenting is. You have to be mindful of your kids' needs, make sure they aren't tired or hangry or just in an environment/situation that lends itself to poor decisions (and if they are, guide them towards resolving that) and dole out timeouts and losing privileges as appropriate for the individual child and situation. The other thing to remember is kids will test limits all the time, so you need to be ready to make those limits clear and make it clear when they try something new which is not okay. Mostly it comes down to consistent expectations and being clear and consistent with your and communication and punishments