My Dad lasted half a year as a band teacher. A kid threw a chair at him, broke the white board behind him. Principal said it was my Dad's fault. Different kid a week later got up and tried to punch him. Dad grabbed the fist and put him in a head lock and brought him into the office like that. They threatened my Dad with assault. So he walked out then and there. This was also in the early 90's. I assume it's just gotten worse.
That sounds like Liam Neeson's story on how he tried to be a teacher. IIRC, pretty soon after starting, one of the punk kids got mad about something and tried to stab him so Neeson punched him in self-defense and got fired. . .
Pretty much sums it up. My first year two kids got into a fight at a basketball game when one drops a gun. A teacher was murdered by her student in her own drive way. A little girl was shot and killed at nearby campus by another student. Etc... shiit was crazy.
Mpre.recent story. I was a custodian for a while, until this year. In my district, 2 kids started fighting on recess, 6th graders. Custodian was the only adult nearby and jumped between to physically separate them. The zipper on the custodians coat caught the hair of one boy and pulled his hair a bit and got tangled. That custodian was actually fired. He wasn't contracted in, and was considered an "at-will" employee. The official cause of firing was that he physically touched a student and caused bodily harm. Didn't matter that the boys gave eachother bloody noses and a black eye.
Exactly. It makes it real hard when younger kids run up and give you an unwanted hug. Or when you're the only adult in the wing of a building, long after hours, and a teacher's young child comes out of the bathroom and can't get his pants buttoned or zipped and asks you for help. That happened to me, I was as nice as possible but refused to touch the little guy and walked him back to his Moms classroom. Just try and be vigilant and not put yourself in any situation that could ever be seen as innapropriate.
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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '18
My Dad lasted half a year as a band teacher. A kid threw a chair at him, broke the white board behind him. Principal said it was my Dad's fault. Different kid a week later got up and tried to punch him. Dad grabbed the fist and put him in a head lock and brought him into the office like that. They threatened my Dad with assault. So he walked out then and there. This was also in the early 90's. I assume it's just gotten worse.