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For crying out loud! In what context did she say this? It seems to me that this is a case of no harm, no foul.

Under the zero tolerance laws, if a student had said that to the teacher, the student would have been expelled and sent to juvenile hall and the parent's house searched and all weapons (even steak knives) would have been confiscated and the kid placed in a Foster home.

We have zero tolerance, too. But I guess nobody told the punk that jumped a math teacher in my school a couple of years ago right outside his classroom. Busted the teachers jaw in three places. He never returned to the profession and he was a GOOD teacher! His attacker? Placed on outdoor suspension. Any of you guys who wanna walk a mile in my shoes, just come on over. I've had my life threatened innumerable times and I've also been swung on several times in my 22 + year career so far. After the math teacher had his jaw busted, my students asked me if I was now "afraid" to come to work. I replied in a tired voice thusly: "Look son, I'm too young to die and too old to take an A$$ whuppin' so... I'm just gonna kill ya!" They all whispered: Yeah, we sorta figured you'd say that. But all my classes fill first and I have been a social studies Teacher of the Year, so I guess I'm still at the top of my game.