[CatoRenasci]

I don't know if it's so simple.

When I was in 6th grade, more than 45 years ago, I had a teacher who selected a student every year to pick on and ridicule - and turn the entire class against. I had the misfortune to be that lad. A transfer from the class was not practical, but ultimately my parents had to involve the board of education (4/5 of whom were family friends who took what my parents had to say seriously) to essentially have the guy forbidden to speak to me or about me (other than to give me assignments and tests and correct them), and everything he had written in my record was expunged. Within a year the teacher, who was tenured and could not be fired, was teaching the severely retarded for the rest of his career under very close supervision.

There is no forgiveness for an adult who abuses a position of authority to molest children, whether physically or through singling kids out for attack.

[wintertime]

Within a year the teacher, who was tenured and could not be fired, was teaching the severely retarded for the rest of his career under very close supervision.

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What a hellish experience for these retarded children!

Isn’t government schooling great! We should definitely start handing out the Mother Teresa awards to all those who prop up and enable this abuse. ( end sarc)

[VOA]

I don't know if it's so simple.

Of course you're right.
We hear about some of the ideological brainwashing teachers...
but the real sociopathic/sadists don't often get a public smackdown.

My mom and some of her fellow classmates endured one such harpy
when she was in grade school in the late 1930s in north-central Oklahoma.

Believe it or not, in the middle of The Great Depression, this
"teacher" did things of real mental cruelty...and picked the most
on children from the poorest families.

I think that's the one woman I've ever heard my unfailingly
kind church-lady mom call a "b-tch".