Teacher's brutal attack on boy, 13, at U.S. school posted on YouTube

manonthestreet

Does not seem to be on Youtube any more. Anyone got a link? Looks like a serious assault. However teachers, particularly when they are women of colour, can get away with quite a lot.

I usually try avoiding the news so I don't exactly know how people are capable of reacting to such events but I'm just astonished at the lack of reaction to this incident. Is it really as out of wack as I think it is?

According to the mother and the boy the school did not notify the parents or even let the boy call home. The teacher was not immediately removed from any contact with the children. The school did not notify the police before the mother found out after the boy came home. Also their were tons of witnesses and nothing was done to help him while being beaten.

besides the school and the witnesses there has been a large focus on the mother as being the victim; is he not important enough on his own.

I seriously need to know if this is really the result of systematic misandry?!? If the boys story is true a girl threatened to hit him, then the teacher beat him to discipline him, then no witnesses helped him, the school hardly took any action, and after the news got out more of the focus has been on the mother. Is there some other significant factor that I'm missing?

I really need help analyzing this. If a girl was the victim would the stories focus so much on the mother's "struggle"? Would the new be more curious about the boys claim that the girl(student) first threatened to hit him. Is this all really the result of a war on boys?

I know that people are capable of having double standards but if I'm not wrong this is overt hate. I understand that people are capable of dehumanizing another group of people but still... this is not discrimination towards a class or another race where you don't need to have much interaction. Misandry is hating yourself, you fathers, brothers, husbands, and friends. This is a boy beaten by a woman... how could there be such a reaction?

http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/local/100512-teacher-in-beating-video-had-warrant-for-arrest-while-teaching

'HOUSTON - The teacher caught on tape attacking a 13-year-old student has had a pending criminal charge against her for more than a year.

40-year old Sheri Lynn Davis has had a warrant out for her arrest since March of last year, according to the Harris County District Attorney's Office.

The D.A's office says Davis was wanted on a "criminal mischief" charge. Davis is accused of slashing a woman's tires, all four of them, with a knife.

It allegedly happened last year in January. According to the Harris County District Attorney's Office a warrant was issued for the teacher's arrest in March of 2009.

With an outstanding warrant for her arrest, Davis continued to teach science at Jamie's House Charter School in Northwest Harris County.
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here is the link:
http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=US#/watch?client=mv-google&tspv=1&v=xMm_uIfg3CU

I know its been done before but someone with connections should make a video with actors showing the way society accepts violence to men, even a boy hit by a woman, and show the double standard. Then get airtime for the video.

manonthestreet

One thing I think we should all take away from this incident is an understanding of the nature of government employees. Just looking at these events as something involving individuals is not in my view drawing the correct conclusion. What we should see here is that government employees are amongst the worst trash in society. They are brutal thugs. Further they ow their positions to being in special privileged groups favoured by the state.

I believe schools are one of the most dangerous places for kids. Schools expose them to violence, hazing, teasing, propaganda, unfair punishments, unfair labels, drugs, bad language, bad habits, bad teachers, etc. Very little teaching actually occurs in the 6 hours per day kids spend there. These kids were left in a room by themselves just horsing around.

I know from being around kids that they all have a different version of how things get started (you should hear the different versions my kids come up with when they fight with each other). They never implicate themselves. Even if the boy has left out some details about his own behavior it is no excuse for a teacher to do what she did. And the other teachers did nothing?

I believe there is a lot to this story including gender bias (what if this had been a male teacher and a female student?). But also I notice that this was a school for children with "disciplinary issues" which is signs of a bigger problem to society.

Why are there so many kids with behavioral problems? I'm guessing that many of these kids come from single mom homes. The moms work all day and have no time to discipline and dad isn't around. Probably no structure, no discipline, no expectations, etc. The only outlet these kids have is school, where boys are treated like trash. It's a real shame.

I have two young boys that are a real handful (it's no surprise with the genetics they've been handed). It is a full time job managing, disciplining and teaching values. I would never leave it up to the schools.

The police should have been called immediately, and this teacher needs to be treated like any other criminal.

Unfortunately this is not a new occurrence. I was assaulted by male, but mostly female teachers as a child. While in the custody of the state as a child I was assaulted more by women staff than male. Although the physical damage was greater with the male assaults. It was always hushed up rather quickly. Of course I wasn’t a quiet type as a child either. I’m glad that this type of thing is at least getting some exposure. Equality, a concept that many have died for, but few have ever gained within their life times.

David A. DeLong

"I seriously need to know if this is really the result of systematic misandry?!?"

OK, a male teacher beats a female student like this under the same conditions. The school then responds by stating that this was the appropriate thing even though they fired the teacher and refuses to back down. The media hardly blinks and the general public by and large is only interested in it for the entertainment value.

Systemic misandry? Yes, I think it is. Open season on boys/men. Business as usual.

Despite the past 50 years of child psych, beating children is still largely how they are managed by adults. In lieu of this, psycho-emotional abuse.

Arguably, the process of raising a child requires not that the child be allowed to flourish naturally but instead be forced into flourishing only a certain way. Children who are by their natures quiet and inquisitive in a socially acceptable way are "good children", the kind every parent wants. Children that like to get their hands into things and make "too much noise", etc. are not. The Terrible Twos as they are called are an example of a developmental stage parents dread because these more "Look at me!" traits start to emerge. That stage usually entails a lot of noise and grabbing at things to learn about the world. Parents would prefer kids not go through this necessary but trying stage.

As kids get older, they become more capable of damage. So if they start grabbing at things and doing things that inconvenience others or that are adjudged to be bad habits, they start getting punished. Sequestering ("go to your room"), followed by spanking, then maybe beatings, seems to be the formula for noncompliance or if sequestering doesn't work. In the 80s and 90s, people started to think that making deals with kids was a better approach but alas, that only makes the kid realize he or she can negotiate his way into getting whatever just by being persistent. This tends to make for bratty, spoiled kids who walk all over their parents.

So the age-old formula remains the most "effective". So parenting by and large is not about helping kids be who they are but is more about turning them into adults that others actually want to be around. It's about "civilizing" people and teaching them how to *behave*. To do that, the child's natural instincts to attack others, take things, and be the center of the universe have to not so much be redirected or channeled but utterly crushed. Or, that's how it tends to go.

The result much of the time is that an adult is produced all right, but a neurotic, abused adult with serious issues. This describes 90%+ of the human population. The other 10%- were the quiet kids that 1) didn't need this treatment and 2) were also not given it (abusive parents treat their kids this way regardless of whether their behavior seems to call for it).

This brings me to my sad but inescapable conclusion: When people are raised by the sequester-spank-beat system of discipline, which seems to be the persistent method of raising kids all over the world, they will use this same system on their (or others') kids *even if it isn't really called for*. It is the way they were raised so they do it their (or others') kids, even if it is overkill. Disciplining kids at times by use of force is necessary in order to keep the kids from doing dangerous things such as hurting others, damaging property, etc. (cops have to use force sometimes to make arrests - same principle), and stern looks or angry rebukes do not always do it. [As learned by the parents of the 80s/90s, asking nicely rarely works.]

The line however is easily crossed. What we saw in this incident was not an example of a teacher using "necessary force" to do anything vis-a-vis the student and another student. She simply decided she wanted to beat the hell out of this kid and did so. Even if she had a good reason to use force, she went from that to just plain beating the kid up. Did she seize and restrain? No. Did she cease beating him after he was clearly down? No. She was a mean, awful person who was herself a criminal who had no business at all being a so-called teacher who decided that she didn't like a particular boy and would beat him up. She knew she could get away with it because she was a woman. (I doubt she is too keen on the male sex but since she can't take a man down, instead she decides to attack a boy. That is my read on it.)

Then of course her employer stood by her in her actions. I doubt they would have had she been a he and the kid been a girl.

Child abuse? Yes. As clear-cut a case as there can be. But since the abused child is a boy, well, it's not such a big deal, right?