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[marckot]

In my four years of living in Korea I have seen many different types of punishment and I thought I had seen it all.

I was standing outside the teachers� room when I heard a teacher screaming his lungs out. I couldn't catch what he was saying because in his anger he was talking incoherently. Well he soon appeared around the corner with a second grader (high school) in tow. He had the kid by the ear and dragged him along. A few teachers appeared from the staff room to have a look.

The teacher then turned around and b!tch slapped the student like I have never seen before. It echoed down the hallway and sent the student spinning. The kid went down and held his face. I could see tears running down his cheeks. The teacher then lined up for another record breaking slap but luckily other male teachers jumped in and separated the two.

They took the teacher into the staff room and told him to calm down. It took some time to calm this dude down. He was fuming mad and kept on trying to get back to the student to give him another slap.

I could see in the faces of some teachers that they were not impressed with this guy slapping a student even the vice-p looked quite disgusted with the teacher.

I can't understand how a teacher can do that to a student. I have been teaching for almost 10 years now and students have made me fuming mad at times but I always keep calm and try to talk to them rather than beat the living daylights out of them. How immature must you be not to be able to keep yourself in check and control your own emotions?

[Bibbitybop]

Technically, hitting students is illegal. But it happens. Not to the degree of your OP, but it happens all the time.

In recent years, students have busted out their camera and video phones. This has resulted in actions against the teachers.

[TheChickenLover]

Sometimes, a student really does need a smack now & then to realize that they should not do things.

Though I don't condone violence, it is necessary sometimes in extreme cases of dangerous behaviour or doing things that could be harmful to others.

Things I've seen.

Students fighting with razors
Throwing rocks at the school windows
spitting in each other's food
extreme bullying
violent behavior towards teachers & other students
creating small fires
throwing sand in each other's faces

These activities can lead to serious injury such as blindness or another Virginia incident. In some cases, students don't care unless you give them a serious smack. The schools here can't expel students & the students know it.

Back home, they'd be expelled, here we're stuck with bullies, they dont' care & often can't be reasoned with because we're not 'cool'.

In cases like that, a good decisive attitude adjustment may be in order

Chicken

[Lekker]

Last year at my school, a student whipped out a knife and swung it in my face thinking that I would be impressed.

[CentralCali]

[marckot]

[mrsquirrel]

It's no violence in school day today.

[genezorm]

i agree with a chicken, kids need to be taught lessons

if the kid who got slapped in the original post was doing something chicken mentioned

Students fighting with razors
Throwing rocks at the school windows
spitting in each other's food
extreme bullying
violent behavior towards teachers & other students
creating small fires
throwing sand in each other's faces

i guarantee he will think twice before he pulls something like that again...scare em straight

i had a kid a few years back maybe 8 or 9 years old try to slap me....i grabbed his hand tightly before he made contact....gave him a death stare while i held his hand and then gave it a forceful thrust away....and then continued the death stare and said 'no'

[Netz]

[Ilsanman]

I have also had students attack me. One little shit started slapping and kicking at my legs (he was short). I grabbed his wrists but he kept kicking so I shoved him down.

Another boy tried to punch me, not sure if it was a joke or not. I caught his fist and squeezed it until he screamed. He didn't try that again.