Bullying

When I was in grad school, my wife worked for a day care where this happened. There was a hell child who was always out of control. The owner took the child, and another who had been spit on, and had the victim slap the spitter in the face. The mother of the spitter/hell child pulled her child out of the daycare. The director did not give her escrow money back, citing the contract for short notice. The mother sued in small claims court. The claim got noticed by People's Court producers, and they were called to go on. My wife was taken along as a witness, and now we have video of my wife on national television being bleeped of one of 7 of Carlin's famous words, making Ed Koch raise his eyebrows.

This was about 14 years ago, and the boss lost the case. She was so insane, she acted like she won. 

Who in their right mind would think this is

a) a good idea?

b) legal?

c) a good way to prevent bullying?

While the parent might be to blame for not teaching their child that bullying is wrong, the teacher needs a slap up the head as well.

For the sake of argument, did the slapped kid have a bad past and was a bully?  Did he have a "record" or a "rap sheet" a mile long of being a little terror, and then nothing ever was done about it then a mild scolding?

I agree that this was just a stupid punishment and quite extreme, but, maybe it'll make the kid now think about acting out on someone again (if he has in the past).  I feel for his friends that knew better and had to do the slapping anyways.

Totally, absolutely, 100% irrelevant.

This story got me thinking...has the "spanking machine" been banned?  back when I was a kid, if somebody screwed up, didn't pay attention, didn't follow rules, etc., the kid would have to go through the "spanking machine."  Everybody lined up and the ne'er-do-well crawled between all the kids legs who proceeded to give the kid a whack on the butt.  It didn't go on at school all that much, but I remember it being quite popular at the YMCA programs.

(on topic, instead of giving the teacher a smack, I think a pink slip and a "do not return to teaching" note would suffice...regardless of whether the kid truly was a bully...which he could be/have been)

So, you're stating that it didn't matter that the kid had to go through this because he was a good kid?  Has to be relevant somehow and not just done to be done because, well, it just had to for no reason.  Disagree.

In my day (SNL old man's voice) the kids gave out their own punishment, and we liked it!!!.....we all survived.  I don't think a teacher should "order" a slap (that's just bizzare)....on the other hand, I don't have a problem with bullies being knocked on their arses by kids who get tired of it.

I think this is what bothered me the most about it.  I think it would have been nice to know that this happened.  Just a letter home, don't need names, etc.  Just the knowledge of the event.  

Why do I get the feeling of a Deep Thoughts moment happening here...

I bet Jack Handy was never bullied.

It is irrelevant because it is not about the bully. The teacher was an idiot for this idea, but even worse then that was involving the other children in this. What was the lesson here? "He is a bully, so the way to take care of this is for the whole class to gang up on him and be violent. Let's all be bullies!!!". And then to tell the kids not to mention this to their parents?

Sorry, doesn't wash. If my child was in that class, I would hope that he would have the courage and integrity to refuse to participate in this abusiveness, and if the teacher were stupid enough to tell my child to hide this from me, that the child would ignore this stupidity.

And then I would do everything in my power to make sure that the closest this idiot teacher got to a school was while driving past it.

It's Kindergarten bro.....my kids had the courage of ice cream and cookies back then....and I was damn proud of them!!

That teacher is an idiot....your comments about her are right on the money!!

That is funny. But this story makes me sick. How nobody reported this earlier is incredible. Kids can't keep secrets?