The problem isn\'t when teachers do these things and get sacked, the problem is when no one is willing to listen when they do these things.
Back in elementary school, we had this english teacher. She used to beat some kids, lift chairs and threaten the kids that she\'ll throw it at them, and once she even did it with a table (imagine a pretty heavy table hitting a 3rd grader... you get the point).
Now, before the kids come back home, she\'d call the kid\'s parents and cry to them on the phone about how he cussed her and punched her and stuff.
Then the kid comes home, get yelled by his parents, and they won\'t even listen to him when he tells them the truth!
Parents that were willing to listen to their kids telling about how she beats other kids up told the principle about it many times, but nothing was done.
When I was in 5th grade, some kids asked the principle what they have to do to get the teacher sacked. The principle said that if atleast 70% of the 5th graders sign a petition to fire that teacher, it\'ll be done.
We got everyone to sign it. Besides the maybe 10 that were sick or something. The principle just threw it to the garbage.
Two years after I graduated from that school she got fired. And that was only after the principle got fired, and the new principle was willing to listen.
At highschool, a certain teacher yelled at a student (during class) \"nazi\", because she heard him talking with his friends about how he\'s going to a neo-con protest. And to think this highschool was brandishing how liberal it is ever since it was formed :rolleyes:
Another teacher at highschool slapped a student because he didn\'t knock on the door when he opened it during a class.
Now, this may not be a teacher hitting a student or something, but it\'s still something.
I once sat with a friend of mine at the highschool library during break and we did homework. This teacher came together with a student of her to give the student some after-class tutoring or something.
Now, the library tables are big enough to have 4 people sitting around them comfortly, or 6 and it\'s still pretty comfortable.
The teacher came to us and demanded that we\'ll let them have the table.
I politely told her that she can either sit in the two available spots of the table, or go to the other table right next to it.
She then started yelling at me about how rude I am, etc, and asked for my name and grade. I gave her the details in a cocky manner, as I didn\'t think there was anything wrong with what I did. Nothing was done.
A year later I found out that she\'s the coordinator of a certain \'forced volunteering\' project thing (it\'s when highschool students volunteer because if they don\'t they can\'t graduate). I did more hours than I had to, and signed my superiors that I did a very good job.
Students that do alot of hours and a very good job get a scholarship, I didn\'t. Who could I complain to? No one.
