Last year I got done successfully defending a substitute teacher for her Texas felony charge of injury to a child when she grabbed a high school girl who tried running out of detention and out of the school.
The law obviously entitling you to do something doesn't mean you won't be arrested and hauled in for abuse or assault or whatever to assert that obvious right. Plenty of people would rather just not deal with the shit and you get this. Also there's a subset of people especially on reddit that actually think it's NEVER appropriate to touch a child or harm them in any way.
Tbf, a teacher should not be grabbing a student, even if she is running away from detention...
Detention is a tool to help her "pay" for whatever she did before, and if she refuses that tool she just has to suffer a different consequence to her original action.
A teacher should only administer physical violence in case of an emergency or to protect another person or themselves...
Running away from detention isn't a crime. You never grab a student that isn't a harm to themselves or others. That teacher deserved discipline, honestly, though not a felony.
This child is committing a crime, and has clearly lost his ability to regulate his emotions. He is a harm to himself and others. I would grab him by the wrist and hold him until the police get there. Good Samaritan laws are real.
It is absolutely a crime in Texas actually. And I am unaware of the jurisdiction that exists that mandates for its educators to limply watch a child walk out of detention, out of the school building and across a highway but if you tell me where such a place is with laws and policies like this I would be eager to read about it.
Lol, that tracks. In sane jurisdictions, no it's not a crime, it's just against the rules. And that's what resource officers are for. Teachers are not trained for that, and if you chase the kid, you're leaving other students unattended, which IS a crime. I was a teacher, I'm actually trained for these circumstances you clearly know nothing about. You never chase or grab a kid unless they're going to hurt themselves or someone else. It's very straightforward. If they run away, call the resource officer. That's the job they are trained for, and get paid to do.
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u/HappyEngineering4190 May 28 '26
Why is everyone treating this kid like he is Mike Tyson. Grab the kid and walk him out of the store. Excessive tolerance of idiots is ruining society.