Student body-slams teacher for confiscating his phone

[Omaha Steve]

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Teacher in videotaped classroom attack too injured to return to school, union says

http://www.nj.com/passaic-county/index.ssf/2015/01/post_4.html

By Noah Cohen | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
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on January 28, 2015 at 8:05 PM, updated January 29, 2015 at 8:30 AM

PATERSON — The city teachers’ union plans to file a complaint over a determination that a teacher attacked by a student in his classroom was healthy enough to return to work, the organization said Wednesday.

The assault was captured in a YouTube video, which allegedly shows a 16-year-old freshman at John F. Kennedy High School grab the 62-year-old teacher, yank him backwards and slam him to the floor last week in a classroom as other students looked on.

Paterson Education Association President Peter Tirri said the school district’s medical provider found the teacher could return to work.

“I don’t know how that’s possible,” Tirri said of the decision. “It’s clear that this man was body slammed with the kid on top of him and it’s clear that his head hit a desk as he was going down.”

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Published on Jan 24, 2015
THIS IS THE OFFICIAL VIDEO. CONTACT ME FOR LICENSING.
Pathetic...
Full story -
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[madamvlb]

1. OMG....

This teacher must have been so scared, I don't understand why anyone stepped in to help the teacher.

[Stonepounder]

2. I'm not sure what I would have done if this were my kid.

Here's a 14 (approx) year old kid who has so little impulse control that he body slams a 62 year old teacher? I know the first thing I would have done would have been to grind his cell phone under my heel and confiscated any and all electronics - computer, tablet, XBox, Playstation, etc - and removed any TV in his room. Then I would have told him that the next time he would be able to own a phone would be after grew up, moved into his own place and bought the phone out of his own paycheck.

Of course this would have been AFTER I contacted my insurance company and made sure they were paying any and all medical bills the teacher incurred! And put them on notice that there was a damn good chance that a lawsuit was coming my way. Then I would have hauled ass down to the school to meet with the principal to see what the school wanted to do - expel, suspend, etc., and to let them know how embarassed I was to have been such a lousy parent and to let them know that I would support fully their decisions.

[Plucketeer]

3. Sad to say

you're ONE in a million.