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Originally Posted by WhiteTiger
Is it, though? I remember grade school back in the 90's (cough, cough) and while there were folks who were acting up at the time, they'd often be sent out of the room. They would go either sit outside of the room, or off to the principles office without too much issue.
When I originally saw the video, I wondered if this was an isolated incident or something. A quick youtube search of "student attacks/fights/beats teacher" very quickly disabused me of that "this must be some sort of weird one-off situation" notion.
I recall from my days of school of being unhappy with several teachers, but I'd never have dreamed of laying a hand on any of them. Now youtube is full of vids of "kids" attacking teachers. I say "kids" because I am often amused that some folks "But s/he was just a KID!"...as if that excuses everything. One of the "kids" I saw in one of the vids was at least 6' and 250+. Not the sort of "kid" most folks would feel comfortable physically dealing with, and way more than a match for the 5'4", 120lb teacher he shoved to the ground repeatedly.
But maybe it's just me. Maybe it really is a "different time" now. I don't have kids. I don't know what kids are going through these days. Maybe it's just like most everything else...we hear more about it because better communication networks have been set into place which are much more accessible to more folks. Maybe teachers back in the '90's were being beaten left, right and center, and we just didn't know about it.
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You are correct that youtube wasn't full of thee videos back when youtube didn't exist, lol. That's the thing, we see every single that happens on the internet now, and the videos are even all connected by search query for your convenient viewing pleasure. Plus, that's incidents that happen literally anywhere where people have a phone, so......everywhere.
I had heard stories of kids doing terrible things and attacking students/teachers at our school and rival/near by schools from time to time. The difference being the stories were only as large as those who witnessed it and those who got told second hand.