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I wonder what would happen if a video was released showing a white high school teacher holding a black or Hispanic kid down with both hands around his neck? Yes, that would be a rhetorical question, the left wing media would be foaming at the mouth in their anticipation of causing an uproar around the country with their over the top coverage of the incident.

All hell broke loose last Friday inside an algebra l classroom at Forrest High School in Jacksonville Florida. It seems a student, Clyde Wilson, hit a teacher, identified by the school district as Michael Brown, in the head with a ruler. Though the kid claimed the ruler to the head incident was an accident Brown went ballistic, going after Wilson in the back of the classroom eventually pinning him down on a table while choking him with both hands. Wilson can be seen struggling to try and get away but he stands little chance against the obviously much stronger teacher.

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We know that a video, in many cases, won’t or can’t always tell the whole story and we also know high school kids can be a real pain in the ass when it comes to discipline problems in the classroom.

Most educators go into the business with a pretty clear idea of what they are going to be up against depending on the grade range they plan on working with. Third graders will probably be a much easier crowd to keep under control than say, a classroom full of high school sophomores and I can’t imagine someone coming out of college with a teaching credential not realizing this dynamic. If one hires on as a high school teacher one should expect to quickly grow a rather thick skin in order to get through days full of encounters with teenagers who know absolutely everything there is to know about life and nobody can tell them otherwise. That’s just the nature of the beast.

For a teacher to respond to an incident in the manner that Mr. Brown chose is completely unacceptable under virtually every circumstance I can think of short of direct physical assault from a student. If a kid decides to go after a teacher then it’s game on and the teacher has every right to do what it takes to defend themselves.

We’ll see how this turns out but there is little doubt in my mind that if the ethnicities in this confrontation were reversed there would be no question the teacher would be looking at serious criminal charges, the loss of his job and career, a lawsuit brought by the family and an Obama administration Department of Justice civil rights investigation.

In the case of Mr. Brown, he’ll probably be transferred to another school with a little note in his personnel file urging school administrators to keep those pesky flying rulers out of his classrooms.

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