gbaji wrote:
Eske Esquire wrote:
gbaji wrote:
Omegavegeta wrote:
I find it strange that we live in the same country yet somehow your America is perceived to be completely different than mine.
And the fact that events like the one in the OP match my perception while countering yours should be a great clue as to which of our perceptions better matches the actual reality of the world we live in.
That's completely fallacious.
No. It's only somewhat fallacious.
You've got several people in this thread who personally know people in the education industry who are saying one thing (that rank and file teachers are instructed not to physically restrain unruly students), and a case where a school called police rather than deal with an unruly student who would have required physical restraint. While that's not proof of anything, it is, as I said earlier "a great clue".
Special ed teachers take a class to learn these restraining holds. Not all teachers have access to these classes, and IIRC my mother was
one of three teachers in an entire school who had the training and was allowed to try and restrain violent children. If teachers are not certified and current on these classes, most schools will
not allow anyone but the police to interfere if it gets as bad as this case was. It's pretty simple to understand why this is, given to happy lawsuit US. Not all teachers can take these courses as they are costly and (surprise surprise) schools don't have enough in their budget to pay for all teachers to have these courses.
