Young Turks: Teacher Caught on Tape Beating Student

[CherylK]

Run time: 05:27 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoynuxhUmPA   Posted on YouTube: May 15, 2010 By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks Views on YouTube: 24579   Posted on DU: May 16, 2010 By DU Member: CherylK Views on DU: 1491

 
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7005546.html

[izquierdista]

1. Charter school?

Maybe this is some of the change Arne Duncan can believe in....

[Pyrzqxgl]

2. Is it possible we aren't getting the whole story?

Everything seems kind of one sided to me. Did the kid have a weapon of some kind? is that why she's cautious?
I wonder?

[greiner3]

3. "She's cautious?"

What tape were you watching?

[trixie]

4. How come she was not arrested?

She attacked that kid like she was in a cage match and had prior experience.

[sulphurdunn]

5. Cenk knows very little

about what's going on in K-12 education. This assault took place in a charter school. Teachers in charter schools don't have unions, nor are they likely to have the qualifications or been through the background checks of public school teachers who belong to unions. Cenk must not know the difference. Also, where in the name of heaven did he ever get the idea that teachers routinely get away with assaulting students? Earth to Cenk! Geeez!

[tblue37]

8. Charter schools apparently don't screen the people they hire!

This one had some real issues:

http://bungalowbillscw.blogspot.com/2010/05/sheri-lynn-davis-houston-teacher-that.html

The Jamie's House Charter School in Northwest Harris County in the Houston, Texas, went 14 months without realizing one of their teachers had a warrant issued for her arrest. I want to put this in perspective.

Sheri Lynn Davis beat up one of her students, which was caught on a cell phone video camera. I posted the video yesterday, and the rage the teacher showed makes me wonder how in the hell the Jamie House Charter School didn’t catch on there were obviously anger and mental issues with their teacher. Davis obviously had serious issues. All of this could have been avoided had the school known she had an arrest warrant issued for criminal mischief for slashing another woman’s tires.

Davis taught for 14 months with criminal charges filed against her.

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[Suji to Seoul]

6. teacher beats a kid. . .fired. Cop beats a kid: WHITEWASH!!!

Don't act innocent, you little brat. Maybe if your mother did that to you, you wouldn't pick on a disabled kid who tried to dance.

On a lighter note. . .unregulated Charter schools. . .yes, this is good! Thank you, Race to the Top and NCLB.

[bjobotts]

7. Her threatening approach to the child is enough to show how sick she is

Dangerous to allow this person anywhere near children. She belongs in prison for that incident. Pretty stupid "educator" to think beating a student is anything other than harmful.

[JDPriestly]

9. Cenk around 1:25, the newscaster states that this occurred in a charter

school. The teacher was probably not a member of a union.

Who knows what teacher training this teacher had. I don't know what requirements charter schools have. Does anyone else.

Also, the teacher looks brutal, but we do not know what problems she faced with that student. Laughing at the disabled classmate may have just been the last straw.

I'm not excusing the beating. But I have a couple of friends who, as teachers, were seriously injured by their students.

I strongly oppose corporal punishment, but when parents do not teach their children to act with respect and compassion toward others, sooner or later in life, the children will meet their match.

I'm not judging this child. I don't know the child's record. But don't jump to conclusions. What should a teacher do with a child who is incorrigible? It's a serious and not uncommon problem.

On the other hand, this teacher does not appear to have adequate training in how to manage her classroom.

[CLANG]

10. A child laughing at a disabled kid

is a perfect "teaching moment" opportunity for the whole class. Too bad the "teacher" taught them the opposite lesson by her actions.

[JDPriestly]

12. True. I do not excuse what she did.

But, the teacher is clearly not trained as a professional and therefore should not have been placed in the position of teaching that child.

That is the problem with charter schools. They don't necessarily hire qualified teachers. In some places, they are not required to hire qualified teachers. There is more to teaching than just knowing the subject matter -- a lot more.

At the same time, we should not waste our teachers' time with students who, at the age of this child, are bullies and have not learned to respect the rights of others. That is something a person needs to learn at home.

As I said, I have two friends who were seriously, may I repeat, seriously, injured in their classrooms by the children.

It just takes one child who disrupts the class and is out of control to harm a teacher who has no means to defend herself.

[CLANG]

13. Maybe trained in boxing

[happygoluckytoyou]

11. TODAYS LESSON WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE LETTER B and THE NUMBER 10..... B10

oh come on it is a joke