Quote:They're 12. They're children. They do stuff all the time without thinking.


What they did is disgusting and happens all over the country, sadly. Kids get picked on for wearing sneakers that are worn out, the wrong brand or the wrong style. They most likely didn't hear it from their teachers but their parents. Parents have way more sway than teachers do.


The kid who got beat up shouldn't be suspended and I have never agreed with that thought. It's dumb and the school I work at doesn't hold that same principle.

QFT. I don't understand the policy either, but it's the way it's been for some time now. Throw a punch and you're punished. I tell my students that I would find it difficult to tell my own child to just take a beating, so I don't blame them for defending themselves. I tell them they should campaign to change it.


It sounds like the school did something about it--the kids are gone for a while. What do you expect them to do?


Teachers are not the problem. Poverty and the destruction of the family are.

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