I don’t know? Was that so bad? I guess he could have ran a bit more and grabbed the kid? In my defense i fast forwarded thru LW faces to find the “event”. Maybe I missed it?
if any defense for the Adult, he has got to stop the kid before he gets outside? You know the old saying, don't make a fat man run.
Kinda scary how anymore, people just see a 5 second video and from that, knowing nothing else, want to instantly judge a person and deprive them of their livelihood. None of us were there nor do we know what actually transpired leading up to this.
- The child was black and black kids are known for being often difficult with behavior disorders and misbehaving and being rebellious toward authority.
- This kid was autistic and non-verbal, so may likely be a particularly difficult case. Maybe he is constantly fleeing the classroom and trying to run outside into traffic? What if just last week, the same kid ran outside and was almost struck by a car?
- We saw the mom. Where was the father? That may be the beginning of the kid's problems--- no discipline or attention at home.
- We saw the kid picked up and carried by the feet. Definitely not a good look but, I've seen many a parent carry their kid that way with love, with the kid laughing and loving it, so, while I don't like the look and implications of it here, and would want to question the teacher on it, I'm loathe to condemn the teacher based only on 5 seconds of poor quality video.
- We saw the teacher swing at the kid and the kid go down. This is what most concerns me. Was the kid just batted down, risking serious injury to the head? Or was the teacher making a last ditch effort to catch the kid by the shirt and just missed? Maybe the kid slipped and fell down on his own just as the teacher swung for him? Maybe the kid was about to run outside into danger and the teacher had a cardio or heart problem and did that in desperation? I don't know. You don't know. No one here knows. I'm not trying to make excuses, just pointing out how little info we really have. It may have been just as it looked, but maybe there is more to the story. A lot more. Thing is, we don't know. That is for the school to look into and decide.
Maybe this teacher was the biggest a-hole in the universe and should not ever be within 50 feet of children ever again. Or maybe this was the best teacher on the planet forced into a desperate situation after a long history of severe misbehavior by this kid, perpetual under-staffing and the school ignoring the situation dumping the problem on the teacher. What if the teacher is the latter, now forced to resign, out of work and leads to depression and eventual suicide over this? I don't know. You don't know. Yet, how scary everyone is summarily judging the teacher and condemning her, happy to see her made a pariah never to work again in the only field she likely knows, and all over a 5 second video. Everyone today is in a rush to judge, condemn, and take offense over everything, on a very poor fund of actual facts, fueled just by internet tweets, videos and fake news stories.
Bottom line is that there is always more than one side to every story and before I condemn the teacher, kid, school, mother or anyone, I'd want a heck of a lot more details and information which I'm afraid, not even the schools these days can be trusted to provide--- the school themselves may have been the cause of this, or the kid, or the teacher, but the sad truth is that none of us in our search for the latest thing to ***** about then forget about 5 minutes later will ever really know the real, full story, so instead, fall back on the tired cliche of: "I'm sorry, but there is just no excuse for this," to justify our shallow but harsh judgement, problem is, none of us really know what THIS was, we weren't there, all we have is a few seconds of video, maybe the school has a history of these events, but it would seem the teacher has solved the problem for everyone, right or wrong, by resigning. BTW, I've seen many parents do far worse to their kids than just smack them or carry them upside down.
Hopefully both the school, police, and CYS will look into this, find the facts, and do the right thing for all involved.