MALE Teacher Slaps female teen student

Wow, just wow! If that ever happened here in Canada, the teacher would've lost his job right then and there. Heck, we ain't supposed to hit our own kids, fercryingoutloud. Anyway, back to the issue at hand, that's no way to great a person you're SUPPOSED to be teaching and guiding, and that's a real great way to destroy trust in yor students!!!! I don't blame the girl that she doesn't want to go back to school again. Sounds like her parents treat her way better than that teacher does! Go figure.

I really hate it when teachers punish students physically or verbally. I mean there are ways to nicely explain and turn things around, they don't have to be a beast Anyway I remember the time when I was a kid. There was this teacher who punished almost half our class for not knowing the mathematics tables. After that, the teacher always scared me and i always tried hard avoiding the teacher. If the teachers feel that punishing a student will make him/her concentrate more in their studies, that is so wrong.

LetranKnight25, Like you, I do not condone to discipline by physical brute force including slapping. I could not help feeling some high-handedness by this teacher when he should have try to understand what the issue was and convince with proper education. It is not even a major offense to warrant a corporal punishment even. I am sure everyone is wondering just what was on this teacher's mind when he slapped his student over such an issue. Whatever his excuse may be, it is still not the right thing to do. I hope schools will be equally strict with their teachers as far as meting out punishments on errant students. There must be control or it would be chaotic when it becomes free for all.

Maybe that student has a trauma already. If I am on her shoes then I wouldn't want to go in school. Teachers are mentors and to begin with they are also considered as employees while students are their customers as well that they have to help them in order for them to learn. They are not supposed to be a tormentor. That is a problem with most teachers they tend to be a terrorist.

hi LK

This is awful! What teacher has the right to put their hands on a student? Really, a girl or boy in a teacher's class must have the right to bring charges against the teacher for assault. The parents should not rest until the teacher is brought to justice.

Now, that is a good lawsuit. A teacher (or you) cannot slap or abuse someone because he/she refuses to do what you desire.

HI Letran, That is unbelievably horrible!! Do you have a link to this? Oh if that were my girl, I'd be the school's worst nightmare! I raised my girls without hitting and any one of them would have been tramatized by something like this. I would be traumatized by something like this as a parent. It's not even a good excuse if your gay. there is no excuse in the world for slapping a kid and especially someone else's kid! What country was this in?

Okay for some reason if the girl is paranoid to go back to school then it sounds like there is a bit more to this story then what is here. I mean why did she not tell her parents. Also why did the other students not get mad and go to authority. Rape and harassment is a little different then actual 1960's punishment. This is against the law now and they should be punished as well.

dear LK, Well, the teacher is so lucky he never get to slap my daughter. God forgive if it happens to my daughter or my kids...I am not a violent person,but, I cannot assure what can I do if ever this happen to my kids esp with my only daughter. oppps...relax, I am not a freak dear brother sis, jaiho®

I do not understand your statement about being gay. Please explain what that has to do with slapping or being slapped for refusing to pair with another student. Whether either the teacher or the student were gay matters not one bit. The teacher has no right to slap that student. Teachers are certainly not like they were in my day. The teachers I was blessed to have realized that their job was to teach and council the students. Teachers then were in the field for the right reasons. The commanded respect from students by the way they (the teachers) conducted themselves. If we were to be physically punished, we were sent to the principle's office. Our parent's were then informed of every detail of this event. To be sent to the principle was a disgrace. Today, it doesn't seem to be the same embarrassment to kids. I think that the teacher should have questioned to see why the girl didn't want to be paired with the male student. I have a problem with the teachers putting their hands on students. I do not believe that teachers should be given the authority to impose physical punishments on students. For this reason, I refused to allow it. Instead, in the event of any problems that warranted such punishment, the school was to call me, and I would come administer any spankings necessary.

why students are only a common choice for slapping? is the teacher brave enough to slap a school principal? Its a prey and a predator, where Goliath is brave enough to face a small guy David...

To me it doesn't matter if he was a teacher, or have different interests in gender. A male should NEVER hit a female. Especially with a reason for a student refusing to pair up with another student. For any reason at all a man should never hit a woman. Furthermore as an educator he himself should not hit a student. His job is to educate. Though disciplining a student is part of educating them, it should never be through physically hitting. I believe in the whole negative enforcement and positive enforcement when it comes to disciplining a child, but only to a certain extent. Once someone reaches a certain age, a new type of discipline has to be given and hitting should not be part of it. Also I believe the teacher was stepping over his authority for actually hitting a student, being a male and hitting a female just made it even more worst.

Woah, now that's really full on, the teacher slapped the poor girl just because she wouldn't pair up with someone? Now that's real low for a teacher, a professional to do something like that in school too! If that happened in my country, that teacher would have been imprisoned and charged for assault. But who knew what drove the teacher to such drastic actions, I remember my English teacher told me that she had to hold down a kid in a headlock because he tried to physically harm another student.

I think those kind of deeds of the teacher is occasional. Because accept the facts that not all of us have the desire of doing good to anyone. There still people who is evil in mind... The department of education should set a seminars regarding this figures so that it will be avoid more and more cases...abusing students