Do you think it is fair that students get to hit their teachers but their teachers can’t hit them back?

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Things differ state to state, but let's clear some things up. A student cannot just hit a teacher with no consequences. I attended the largest school district in the state of Texas, and I can assure you, any student who physically assaulted a teacher was expelled immediately and was not allowed to attend school AT ALL for the remainder of the school year. They were sent before a juvenile board, who usually remanded them to what I like to call "jail school," which are a few local schools for juvenile delinquents usually with much higher security and legal consequences for further actions.

Second, teachers are allowed to defend themselves against violence or harm. A vast majority of schools have cameras, and legally speaking, if a student just walks up and starts punching you or throwing objects at you and you run and tackle them to the ground and restrain them, or you call another teacher who yanks them off you and restrains them, that is well within your legal right. If that student is a danger to themselves, other students, or staff, you can defend yourself.

Now what you can't do, is if a student has just been back talking all day, and you walk up and slap them across the face, you are going to jail/you're fired. You need to prove that the student physically did something to you or others that would cause harm.

[just_a_potato]

Because... they're children?

Unless we're talking about a 16-18 year old repeatedly attacking a much smaller defenseless teacher I don't see why any teacher would hit their student back.

[DrPepper12]

Teacher here. Not at all!! HITTING SOMEONE ELSES CHILD? That's crazy!! What's the message? That schools have a monopoly on violence? That violence is a acceptable? That a child does not have bodily autonomy? That vengeance is justice? The only time I've EVER been aggressive with a student was in breaking up a fight! The fact that some backwards places in America still PADDLE SPANK STUDENTS is a grotesque abomination and encapsulates EVERYTHING wrong with USA! I have been hit by students when breaking up fights!! My FIRST thought has always been SAFETY, not retaliation.

[Skinhead-1979]

No, I don't think it's fair.

When I was in a high school, a class mate attacked a teacher... the teacher fought back, he had no choice.

But times were different back then... Teachers were still allowed to exercise their authority and it showed; I feel my generation, and the ones prior to it of course, are much more respectful to others than younger generations.

[Anonymous]

Who says students can hit their teachers? They call the police when that happens.

[Asker]

Not really they let them go back to school the next time and with teachers they just lose their jobs. The school system isn’t going to stop students from going to school forever.

[DishLady]

Why is anyone hitting anyone? That's assault either way. Are you glitching or something?

[woahhh152]

It's not fair no matter who is hitting who