A Wasatch High coach/teacher handled a sassy, rude student by pushing him up against the wall and telling him he wasn’t needed in the class. The student was apparently not injured in any way and personally made no complaint. But parents or someone got wind of the matter and now he’s been suspended and charged with a class A misdemeanor. Under current practices in Utah he will lose his job and be blacklisted and never hired again to teach. A man’s whole career down the drain because one student got what he deserved.
It is outrageous how far overboard our legislature, police, and prosecutors have gone on child abuse matters. In Idaho in the 1950s I had a coach who regularly required misbehaving students to “grab their ankles” while he whacked them with a big wooden paddle. He never injured anyone, had few discipline problems, no one made complaint; and he succeeded well as a teacher. Now in Utah he would jeopardize his whole career with such a practice.
We cannot go on with this ridiculous coddling of our students. Used to be when a student, parents and teacher were seen entering the principal’s office, you knew the student was in trouble. Now, you know the teacher is in trouble.
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