Ah. Well... I have to say I hate when I see other students give a teacher a hard time. Especially when the teacher is 1) doing their job and 2) not being rude at all.
The teacher in your story that got attacked was gentle was he not? You know, I know much ruder teachers than that... that will come up in your face and growl in your ear. He was rather nice to student, wasn't he?
I do know I HATE when teachers take the authority they have TOO far. And they absolutely crawl down your back, but for the most part... a lot of teachers I know are pretty laid back.

@PayShi : Yeah, he is a pretty laid back guy...he kind of has to be since all of his classes are filled with the students who 1)don't try 2)don't care 3)are truly very stupid. A lot of patience goes into trying to teach dense students anything.

The thing I don't get is that the student didn't even know the teacher...so he has no plausible reason to want to hurt him...

Originally Posted by PayShi

I haven't heard really anything about a teacher vs. student incident in my years of being in school. >_< And I graduate this year, by the way... but there is a lot of student vs. student.

Oh yes, I've heard about student vs student, too. When I was in college (my college and school was the same building, so it was like being at school still. Only without a uniform), I heard about two girls in the school who had gotten into a scrape (over the attacker's boyfriend, I think), and one girl got stabbed

O_____O;;

Oh my goodness!
That is just awful!

My school has a pretty bad reputation, with a couple shootings, fights often, and all that silly, pointless stuff.
I think most of the violence at my school is between students, but i'm sure there has been a couple cases of assult between a student and a teacher.
I just can't stand those people that can't help but be nasty and disrispectful to their teachers.
I know some teachers can be assholes, but most of the time their just trying to help you get through school and do your best!
I've seen some of the nicest teachers be treated like shit, just because some rude kid wanted to look, like you said, "cool".
Is it really cool? It sure doesn't look cool to me, it just makes me see the person as immature, rude, and especialy disrispectful.
Anyone that thinks, "Oh yeah, hes/shes talking back to the teacher, that is SO cooll!!!" is just as bad as that person!

Okie, thats the end of my ramble. <<;

@Jali : Shootings?! Oh dear, I hope it never gets that bad at my school.
Though my school does have a reputation as being a druggie school....my schools name gets twisted around to emphasize the rep.
Even though most of the other schools in the district have more druggies than my school @ [email protected]

@IndiGlo: So do I!
It's a terrible and scary thing to have happening around you.
Do you have any gang reputations at your school?
I think thats why theres shootings at mine, because theres a lot of kids that are in them, so their already involved with violence.

The one shooting where someone actualy got killed was over the most ridiculous reason.
A little brother was being bullied by some kids that didn't even go to the school, like 5 minutes after the last bell. They were trying to take his chain around his neck, when his bigger brother stepped in to break it up, one guy pulled out a gun and shot him in the neck, right infront of his little brother.
How sad is that?! ;;

Yea, drugs are a bad problem too in highschools.
I never came across drugs until I got into highschool.

Gawd, i make huge replies! @[email protected];;

@Jali : Hahaha, big replies means more gold xD

Yeah, there is some attempts at gangs...but it just doesn't work out here in Suburbia.
Our school also bans wearing anything that has to do with gangs....such as colored shoelaces or bandannas.
Of course we also have campus cops so that might deter some of the violence.

Originally Posted by IndiGlo

Our school also bans wearing anything that has to do with gangs....such as colored shoelaces or bandannas.
Of course we also have campus cops so that might deter some of the violence.

Fuck me, you're kidding! I can see why they'd want to ban anything gang-related, but shoelaces? Isn't that going just a bit too far?

@Cyanide : I kid you not. We can only have black or white shoelaces...I's pretty ridiculous.
"Yeah, of course I'm a part of the glittering rainbow ponies gang...how'd ya know?!"
xD

Shoelaces do seem a little silly and ridiculous, but you must have some Skin Heads in your area!
Skin Heads are considered another form of gangs, and like gangster gangs use bandanas, skins use shoe laces to represent things.

But yeah, thats what I like about the suburbs, but sadly, I live in Los Angeles, so you could only imagine. @[email protected];

@Jali : I can only imagine....
I live near Austin...so I guess instead of rampaging Gangs we have Rampaging Musicians. xD

Actually, in the state I live in, it's against the rules (at least school policy if not the state law) for a teacher to lay a hand on a student even in self defense. However, a lot of the time, the rules get ignored, when there is a general consensus that the student was in the wrong. While I don't think it's a great idea to just ignore the rules like that, I don't think leaving the teachers defenseless against students who are apparently becoming more violent, is such a great idea either. There was a school in my county, growing up, that had all sorts of problems with students attacking other students and teachers. Fortunately, there were some students who would stop these sorts of things before they went far. I had a good friend in that school who was over six foot tall and weighed at least three hundred pounds- he was a huge guy! And he'd step in when some punk thought it was a good idea to resort to attacking a teacher or another student. Sure, he got in trouble a lot, but he didn't care, because he was doing the right thing. Then again, sometimes he might have taken it a little too far. When you're that big, it's easy not to know your own strength, I guess.

everyone who gets terrible grades at my school is like that

You can find that anywhere, it's the student to teacher ratio I think.

There's one teacher and in most public schools lets say about twenty-five. Students already feel more at ease knowing they outnumber the teacher but stay in line because they don't want to get in trouble, but if one student catches an attitude with the teacher everyone else sees that student as 'bad.' That being a good thing, so more students are going to mimic that of course because other students will egg them on.

It's like some students are bad when they have their friends around but if not, they're quiet. Get rid of the audience and you won't have a show.

I'm not really into the 'cool' stuff at school...but the real cool kinds I know don't think harassing other people as cool nor imitating a fad. :P

Although I've never seen a teacher being assaulted by a student, or the other way around, I am guilty of speaking rudely to teachers who got on my nerves. At certain times, I did it just to be cool, at other times, I didn't care how cool it was to do that since the teachers really annoyed me. I remember when one of them tried to expel me from the class, I said "Finally!" and trotted out of the classroom happily just to annoy her.

Well, when I was a Junior at my highschool, a male exchange student from Taiwan dressed up like a rival school cheerleader as a joke, it was actually pretty funny, it made me laugh, besides the fact he was a really cool dude.

Anyway, one guy starts trying to be cool with his friends and act tough by insulting and teasing the exchange student. He was really making himself out to be a complete imbesile. So, the exchange student about had it with this guy and full out tackles him out of his chair and punches him in the face.

The teacher tried to break up the brawl and got pushed back. So when the two stood up to go at one another again, the teacher head locks the idiotic kid and holds him there until security showed up, it was pretty insane. I honestly found it rather pathetic that someone would try to impress his friends by being a jerk only to make himself out to be a complete moron. The exchange student was sent back to Taiwan, the moron was suspended, and the teacher is still currently at that school. (I'm a senior now and I'm about to graduate XD) but yeah, it was really crazy. Then again, this kind of violence and stupidity is what my district is known for :roll: