Allow me to suggest that you read about the heartbreak of John Adams, whose second son, Charles, ended life early as a drunkard. But, John Adams was also off to a rough start: "Adams' reflections on early education were in the negative mostly, including incidents of truancy, a dislike for his master, and a desire to become a farmer. All questions on the matter ended when his father commanded that he remain in school saying, "You shall comply with my desires." Deacon Adams also retained a new school master named Joseph Marsh, and his son responded positively." - Wikipedia. (His father fired the teacher and got one the little darling liked. What if that were the case today? What would you say?)

At Harvard, Charles Adams fell in with a gang of delinquents who were expelled after rioting. A violent gang at 18th century Harvard? Perish the thought...

I taught classes like that. About half really had "problems" and the others were just gaming the system to get out of work. I taught the Pythagorean Theorem and whatever else. They were just kids.

Several assertions are not factual. First, this was reported and discussed in media. Just put "Milwaukee student beats teacher" into your search engine. You found it in the NY Post, which is media, of course. The Guardian (UK) which caters to Americans carried the story. I found two Fox TV stations, one in Chicago and WGN-TV Chicago (nationwide on cable because they carry the Cubs).

Do you know the movie, Blackboard Jungle (1955) - Glenn Ford, Sidney Poitier, Vic Morrow? If you wanted to be ideologically consistent, you would say that those hoodlums were empowered by the might-makes-right fervor of World War II.

That claim is wrong, of course, but no more wrong than the down home country farm boy culture that denigrated all learning in the 19th and 20th centuries. Farm boys hit their teachers. It was wrong. But it was not caused by progressives afraid to discuss race.

And that is another problem with the original comments to this story. As much as I dislike the concept of "race" the teacher looked sort of African-American, but in any view was not a blond person.

Again my point is not to excuse or justify the action but to point out that the original comments and the yea-saying were all ill-informed.

Update:

http://www.theroot.com/milwaukee-stud...

I wonder if charges will ever really be filed, or is he just let off....

That just seems so wrong, and today..so normal...yet the "concerned citizens" are too damn wrapped up in Trump, Global warming, racism, KKK and getting Hillary Beast in office to worry about something like needing to taser 3 or 4 students to get control...like that's a bad thing...

jan, they never do, they get into gangs kill people and then get defended by the same people tearing down statues, because the "system failed them". No responsibility, no self values, when it can all be blamed on "the system".

Lawsuits as well, with the costs of just one, where the parent gets "free assistance" and the school does not, it gets very expensive. Since the administrations are made up of entitled people who have served their time and got their PHd, and who know absolutely 0, they poop their pants at any mention of lawsuit from a minority, or racism, or any other controversial topic. Morals and ethical actions are foreign to them, so we get this crazy crap.

Well the class is black, the kid is black, and the teacher is black. Black on black isn't racist, as far as lamestream media goes. But the lack of any outrage, protests, or calls for boycotts/resignations is telling.

Could be, they do have a gang/macho thing going in many, many neighborhoods, groups and families, as I have heard from several black friends who try hard to keep their kids out of it.

A good friend, who happens to be a teacher, suggests this happened in the special class for emotionally disturbed students. For what that's worth....

I work as a high school teacher at a Alternative education program and face a room full of similar kids everyday. Thankfully we have 4 officers on staff daily and at the first inclination of trouble I call them in. After 3 or 4 get tasered they seem to calm down a lot. I find it funny to watch them flop around and piss themselves.

Anyone surprised that this happened? What with our school boards folding their tents when threatened by lawsuits and having zero backbone it will continue. Absolutely no discipline at home will lead to hand to hand warfare with the street mentality that these thugs learn. They walk around with a chip on their shoulder from what they consider a lack of respect and blow up at a moment's notice. Where did they learn this lack of respect thing? From our pro athletes and their, the pros, blowing up on the court and on the field and costing their own teams a win just so they could get respect. It won't stop until families are restored and consequences are worse at home than in the courts. Sadly I see little chance of that happening.

I agree. And I did not mean to imply that this is a strictly racial issue. But if one looks at the teachers who are attacked, they are overwhelmingly white. And our PC schools have put a target on their backs.
Also, if the schools try to discipline a kid, the parents sue the schools, or threaten to sue. The school's attorneys tell them that it's easier and cheaper just to let the kid off, and/or cave to the parents than to fight them.

Jail time, but make sure it is enough to actually learn a lesson about assault and battery.

I don't think it is so much a racial thing as a discipline thing as you said. My parents have stories about getting caught doing something out of bounds at school and getting punished (a talking to or perhaps a detention) and being afraid to go home because my grandparents would have lowered the boom as well. Today, it's the other way round, if the student gets any kind of discipline at school, their parents are at the school demanding the head of the teacher or administrator who would dare discipline their child. This has created an enviroment where the asylum is being ruled by the inmates because the teachers don't want to have to deal with these types of parents and the students know it.

I can somewhat see both sides of this. Teens who don't want to be in school should have the option to just walk away. Then if they behave like this, just kick them out permanently. Let them deal with the consequences.

The school system does not see this as outside the acceptable. Since the principal and the assistant principal were not placed on leave, that means that nothing egregious has happened. If the teacher had used a term that even smelled of a racial slur, or had a name like "Robert Lee," the principal would have been placed on leave.

Yeah, you can say what you want about rednecks and uneducated white folks, but my mother was a teacher in deepest East Texas, back in the 60s and 70s (and 80s). I can tell you for sure, anyone who had challenged her physically, or even verbally, would have gotten their butts whipped by OTHER STUDENTS in very short order. She never, ever had reason to feel unsafe in her own classroom.

Even though she died more than ten years ago, I still hear from her former students who have sought me out on Facebook, once they realize who I am.

Maybe things haven't changed all that much...because it's definitely a big world and experiences are different, but I'm pretty sure nothing like this would have ever happened to my mother.

when boys have no father figure at home they substitute their male peers on the street. that is where the mentality comes from.

Just shows that teen are no longer tort respect!

Another example of entitled people. I am so done with all of this entitlement, and Obama was the worst president we ever had for encouraging and promoting entitlement among blacks and women.

Any guesses why it's hard to get teachers to work in city schools? The parent(s) or lack thereof, are the root of the problem.

The difference between your story and this one is that the perp's in your story smacked him and ran.....because they knew they did wrong. This scumbag had no remorse, he even stood over the KOd guy ...after beating him some more....so everyone knew he was the winner and had "Taken the field". This punk is a soulless POS Sociopath who will be coddled until he does something bad enough...like murder...to be put in jail. Scumbags are not unique to our time and place....but the reaction...or the insufficiency of it...is.

The saddest part is that the authorities are so full of "White guilt" that they will by their inaction, encourage this and in fact the real looser will be the black community where this empowered POS lives.

~and moving this 2017 Milwaukee Hall of Shame Ceremony on to the Dysfunctional Families Category, the Putrid Parenting Pugnacious Punk Award goes to~

There were a number of teachers I would have liked to tell off, but the thought of hitting one of them never occurred to me.Even telling a teacher what an ass he/she was , would never come from me even though, they deserved it. It wasn't so much that I was afraid as it was that it just wasn't done.Students neither hit nor talked back to teachers. It would immediately turn you into someone to be shunned. A criminal in the making. Times have certainly changed.