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The mother should be ashamed of herself. She should have gone to the school and see what and why the teacher hit the child. I know growing up when the teacher hit you, "Oh beyond when you reach home its a double dose" That is the problem with some of us parents we don't want no one to correct our children. Now she going to the school on the look out for the teacher so she can deal with her. what kind of parent she is. That mother give the child more power to behave and do what he/she wants because he knows that his/her mother would come for the teacher. Our children needs discipline and it starts from home. The school is the second home for the child because he/she is there most of the day. I can recall my son was behaving so bad in school almost everyday I had to go to the school well one day I had enough I give it to him in school and advice the teacher that she do what she has to do but just don't abuse or kill him and believe you me I never had a problem after that. We have to show our children they have to respect the teachers and elders. Once we do that the children would think twice before they do something. That mother should go and apologize for her behavior.

I child is not beaten because a teacher wish him/her to listen or to learn. A teacher beats a child because the teacher has lost whatever patience he/she had with the child. In short, the child is beaten in anger.
Let us not make it out to be an effective way to impose discipline, for it is not. Look around you, the students are more agressive than ever. It is time one seeks alternative disciplanry measures.
Secondly, A teacher was (during her/his education) not taught how to beat a child. There are teachers who would swing a ruler and where ever it landed it landed. There are some teachers who wuld swing their fist or slap a child. Others, who do not wish to beat a child, would have the child stand in the corner of the cla*s for hours or send the child outside to stand in the sun for hours. Wehn the child comes home, a parent (tired from work and stressed out as well) then has to hear the child tell of its ordeal. It is understandable that a parent would react in such a manner. It is not justifiable but understandable. A teacher and the director of the school ought to handle the situation with objectivity, calmness and understanding.
Third, A child lashes out for many reasons. Often for attention that it feels it neither gets at home nor at school. A child may also lash out due to an abusive situation at home....more agressive or showing sexual like conduct (there are exceptions). Or a child may simple not be getting any type of discipline at home. In all cases teachers and parents need to come together and resolve the issue.
It can not be so, that a teacher has to parent your child...that's not their job. You are a parent by choice/decisionmaking take care of your responsibility. A teacher is there to teach your child. For the time that that child is at school the teacher and school has a duty of care (not parenting) towards that child. should anythinghappen to that child while under their care, the school can be held liable (depending on the situation).

Solution:
- Introduce a complaint committee in the school
- Introduce a anger managemnet and mediation/conflict resolution course for teachers and director
- Introduce once or twice in the year a day in which teachers and parents have a Fun Day (the focus: get to know your teacher and the teacher gets to know the parent(s)..working together in the interest of the child)).

The directrice and the teachers are fearful for their lives nowadays. Children are threatning their lives, and now the parents are helping the children do it all the more. Teaching and dealing with 25-30 children all day is NOT an easy task, because these teachers are also human beings with their problems and their own hang ups, so why should they have to deal with my child hang ups as well. When some of us are sitting in our offices, we hardly want to put up with other people stinking attitudes, so why should we expect these teachers to put up with 25-30 different personalites, some of these personalities being often out of control.
We do not have all the elements to say much about this case, but as a parent who see the behaviour of our children (they allllll lack discipline, they are allllll stubborn and set in their own ways), i can say we need to step up a bit and spend more time with our children. We seem to love them too much to see their faults but at the same time we do not love them enough to spend quality constructive time with them. No one should hit out of rage because we can damage our children doing so, but it is important to know that if a teacher get angry, it is because he or she was pushed to it, not by the bad weather, but by the conduct of a cla*sroom filled with 25-30 unruly children. Only that teacher who is facing these little faces everyday know what they are going through so setting up another committee again will just be dragging the situation on without really dealing with it. Our children today are not motivated from home to learn, homework remained undone, they are lazy, they have a lot of "lacunes" because they are going from one cla*s to another without mastering methods nor lessons. They are being brought up in a tv, ds, playboy environment. I am not saying all this to bring down our children, but to show us parents we have a lot of ground work to catch up with.

Do not expect these teachers to love our children, they are paid to teach, not to love. We ourselves don't have patience with our own children, so we can not expect teachers to have patience with them everyday come what may. Charity starts at home, so does everything else our children need. So when we go by the school to fight a teacher, all that teacher has to do is get an "arrêt de travail" and stay home (and still get paid). Who will be losing? our children or the teacher? We better look beyond our feelings and look to the interest of a child who needs to understand that he or she MUST obey respect their teacher.

We need to wake up and take the bull by its corn and speak, discipline, motivate and morally educate our children from home.... if we sooo love them enough to want to smash or kill a teacher. By neglecting our children the way we are doing, we are slowly killing them ourselves, so if they get a slap from a teacher, this slap is nothing in comparison to the neglect they are enduring daily from us parents. Let us stop being hypocrites and get real. Take off the tv, take the batteries out of the ds psp, swith off the internet, and sit together around a table or on the floor, and really observe, listen and READ TO our children. Pray with them, play some "jeux collectifs" with them to help spend time together laughing, joking with each other. And when during this time they display attitudes you know are wrong, correct and teach them the better way to handle disappointment or other emotions.

Let us stop throwing blame and admit our own faults as parents, and really look to bring up these children better than we are doing right now, it will do our homes good, our schools will benefit and our community will be a better place to live in also. God help us.

I agree one hundred percent with you from a parent, remember what President Obama said the goverment cannot turn off the TV for you, and it is true, the teacher is there to teach, they cannot turn off the TV,DVD, INTERNET because they have their own,
we have to pay more attention to our children , they did not ask to be here, we brought them here withou asking them, so have to do what we have to do, go regurlaly to parents meeting find out what our kids do in school, why they are not doing well and talk to our teachers, if parents would frequent more the school we would not have these problems, we have to demand less children in the cla*sroom (remember teacher are parents just like us ) so they can do the job in better working conditions, talk to our kids and this starts at the Maternelle until they reach in the University.
Also we have to COMMUNCICATE with our teachers if they are right we tell them and if they are wrong do not be afraid to tell them also

a child have to respect thiere mother teacher and evry body els if a mother give her child power to do watever it want then thatmother is in big trouble cuz if that child dont have respect for other people it dont have resprct for u either and first of all a child need beating

A concern parent , the children in our day's are very rude and you just can't say or do them anything , coz they parents alway's ready to make a BIG war out of a little nothing , longtime you think that i could go home and tell my mother that the teacher beat me , ayo , but she going give me more !!!!! she going say that they ain't beat you for nothing !!!!! anyway your idea about to demand less children in a cla*sroom ain't a bad idea , but right now they going to CLOSE DOWN A FEW CLa*sROOMS THIS COMING SCHOOL YEAR CAUSE THE TEACHERS REFUSE TO TAKE MORE THAN 25 CHILDREN IN A CLa*s !!!! I HOPE YOU ALL PARENTS KNOWS ABOUT THIS !!!!