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Didn't Ms. Williams know that Sequita is entitled to straight A grades?This will teach Ms. Williams to mess with people's entitlements.

One year!!!???...She should be buried Under the jail!

The one year will be reduced to "time served!"

let me guess....she beat up the teacher because "HER DAUGHTER" failed a class...well thid kinda shows where the mom's priorities are...she not concerned w/her daughters education, she feels that regardless of her daughter perfomance she should be GIVEN a passing grade..it this sense of entitlement that is killing the black community

Maybe she was just demonstrating the only communication skills she knows. I hope she does serve time in prison. Maybe someone there will communicate with her.

It doesn't seem right that the father of the twins will get only 15 years and mom gets 70 years; the judge does not have to accept a plea bargain, so the option to sentence him to 70 years should prevail. As for the stupid mother who beat the teacher, she deserves more than one year behind bars--this woman is a danger to others when she doesn't get her way.

Now this woman, Thornton is a legitimate nut! Violent and ignorance is a horrible mix and this woman deserve more than one year. What an idiot.

Good grief. Have they been considering combat pay and post traumatic stress treatments for teachers who have to do battle with people like this?

Unbelievable! I sure hope the mother who was arrested for assaulting a teacher is forbidden to EVER step foot inside a school building again. The sad part is that there are parents out there who verbally abuse teachers every day, yet nothing is done about it. No wonder some students have no respect for authority in a school setting.

Everyone that works at a school always has things like this in the back of their minds. We've had parents come to school drunk and high.

Well some of us went to school that way. It helped.

And you wonder why society is the way it is now. No wonder kids these days have no respect for us in school, look at the parents and we know why!!

She was arrested AND convicted after pleading guilty. Let's be clear about that. Just being arrested for it would not warrant a teacher being forbidden to EVER step foot inside a school building, but pleading guilty, after arrest and then being convicted, sure. Keep in mind that some teachers don't show respect for students either. Teachers need to model what they expect from their students. If they come in dressed like teenagers and verbally abusing their students, don't expect much respect from them. Parents aren't going to respect teachers that don't present a professional demeanor or treat their children with respect. Respect is earned partly by modeling it. Self-disciplined, well-brought up children will usually respect authority on principle, but if you have some students with a rebellious streak, you are going to have to be at the top of your game. Their parents' alleged lack of parenting skills are no excuse for you not being able to manage your class. Believe me, there are teachers that come to class impaired, too.

FallingLeaves, have you ever been responsible for an entire year of planning and teaching a curriculum to a group of middle or high school students? If not, I suggest you try it. Your opinion of how a teacher "should" be able to manage this group without parental support might change. Although classroom management is a part of a teacher's job, sometimes you get students who will not cooperate for anyone, including the administration and even the police.

AMEN, working mom! Just keeping a classroom of 22 kindergarters under control is hard work, let alone older kids. It's a whole lot harder than it looks.

Have YOU workingmom? You sound more like an elementary school teacher. If your students won't cooperate under normal disciplinary procedures then kick them out through the appropriate channels, workingmom, or find another line of work that you can manage better. Also, if you have no empathy for parents or students and can't see anything but the teacher's side of things then you're burnt out and don't need to be in the classroom. corgimom, I don't know why you find it necessary to be workingmom's "yes man", but it is not becoming to you. Makes me think you are her assistant or work with her somehow. School nurse perhaps? I know how hard it is to control a classroom from 15 to 40 students at a time. It doesn't keep me from seeing there are at least two sides to every story.

LOL and people wonder why the students are like they are at times. I rarely have discipline problems in my classroom, but I can empathize with teachers who do because I have been in that situation. And yes, there ARE two sides to every story so telling a teacher to manage her classroom better when you have no idea what the classroom environment is like is absurd. I don't appreciate your assumptions about my personality or my classroom management since you have never been in my classroom. That is not becoming to you. And, FYI I do not have a clue who corgimom is nor where she teaches.

Oh, but you are assuming she teaches. That was not the job she described as hers in one of her past posts. You are also assuming I don't know what a classroom environment is like. Yes, I do. I am not making any assumptions about your personality, I've only based my response on what you have written in your posts over time. Don't assume just because someone hasn't been responding to everyone's posts that they haven't been reading them regularly. There are a lot of people that read all the time but rarely post. Patterns become noticeable over the years.

And I don't appreciate your opening statement: "and people wonder why the students are like they are at times." There is nothing in the previous post that merited that response; it "did not follow". Of course, I've noticed THAT to be a pattern in your posts in the past, too.

Wow.