Michigan Teacher Throws Hot Tea on Fighting Students

Good for her!!! He says he went to file assault charges and had bruises on his face. Well if she hadn't of stopped the two animals from fighting he might have been in worse shape. Parents and other people criticizing the teacher should shut up. They should be thanking her for ending what could have been a much worse situation.

In my high school days our princable would have broken it up we knew better than to fight him he would have paddled the crap out of both of us and when my wrestling coach was told about it id gotten another out of him before practice that afternoon along with the other guy if he was in any sports team I know this because it was done to me and another guy this was in the 70S it seemed we never had the violance in HS we have now I really think it was the fact we knew we got our #$%$ beat if we did!

Lets compare the injuries of the child that was on the ground being punched to the injuries from the small amount of tea.

The teacher knew that she had to stop one student from seriously harming another student. If one of the students had taken out the eye of the other student, then someone would have wanted the teacher fired for not doing all she could to have stopped the fight. Most probably someone, who heard that she had tea in her hand, would have suggested that she didn't do all that she could; that she could have tossed the tea at the offending student to have gotten him to stop. The teacher made a decision. She stopped serious harm from occurring. Now all the second guessers who weren't there will tell you that she should be fired.

Sounds like at least one of the pathetic overly-sensitive retarded parents will be filing a lawsuit. Teacher will probably lose her job over something that would have just been laughed at by all about 20 years ago. Pretty soon it will be a crime not to spread freakin' rose petals on the ground these kids walk on...

With the aggressiveness that teachers have to deal with on a day to day basis in over-crowded classrooms and kids who have no regard for authority, respect for themselves, or respect for each other, I also applaud this teacher for her quick thinking in breaking up the fight. What was she supposed to do, wait for one of them to pull a gun on the other? On her? If these kids' parents had taught them any respect at all, they would have broken it up on her first warning....and to expect other kids to step in? Please. They were most likely egging them on. I hope this teacher gets a little credit for the situation at hand and the district sticks up for her instead of bowing to parents who continue to encourage their children to place the blame for their own actions on someone else.

If the schools would equip their teachers with fire hoses to break up fights, hurling hot liquids would not be necessary. And with Michigan's economy, that tea was probably the teacher's lunch.

So mom was "shocked and appalled" was she? Hey, mom, others are shocked and appalled by the way you raised your brat of a child--who no doubt never does anything wrong. Yeah...

Bravo for the teacher who acted quickly after several attempts to break up the fight. Again political correctness rears it's ugly head that students can do what they want and teachers are helpless. When I was a young student I cursed in glass and the teacher took me out in the hall and banged the back of my head into the lockers for disrespeting his classroom. This teacher should counter-sue the parents as a sign that America is through with political correctness and when a teacher says to stop either stop or your parents will suffer a lawsuit from the school for fighting on school grounds.

Pathetic parents....

Good for the teacher, maybe she should pour some tea on the mother also.

Really parent!! There is a HUGE difference between a 'quarrel' and 'fight'!! Go Teacher! If she had done nothing, the parent would be mad about that. If she had asked students to help, she would have been mad about that. Face it parent, your kid was wrong!!

If I got into a fight at School and a Teacher poured Hot Tea on me My Mother would have beat my #$%$ till it was Ruby Red and then when my Father got home he would have made it Purple and then they would have made me appoligize to her for having made her pour hot tea on me and then they would have thanked the Teacher for doing what she had to do...Parents today complain that there poor little children are always innocent little Angels well guess what they're not and this is the main reason the education system in this country has fallen because no one supports the Teachers............

A mild burn from hot tea can heal easily. Broken ribs, a broken arm, a broken nose or a fractured skull from a beating cannot. Do teachers have to carry around pepper spray these days in order to protect themselves from being attacked by students or to break up fights between students? I think the teacher did whatever she could to immediately break up the fight so the students didn't cause any more harm to each other.

If my 18 year old kid (and yes, I have a 17 year old son) was beating on another kid, especially one 3 years younger, I would have no problem with a teacher pouring hot tea on my kid to get him to stop! There is no way you can "talk" to kids when they are in a fight like that and to expect a teacher to enlist other kids to try to stop the fight is insane ~ now, that I would be furious about ~ encouraging my kid to get in the middle of a fist fight. Buy the teacher a new cup of tea and congratulate her on her resourcefulness.

She stopped an assault in progress. What would a policeman have done? Shot the punk!

Perhaps the mothers little juvenile deliquent shouldn't have been fighting.

Clearly the mother is hoping to receive some money. Pathetic. She's just as bad as her child.

Had something like this happen to me in high school. A couple of juniors the size of college lineman got into a fight in front of my class and nearly trampled my elderly teacher as she was trying to break it up. The history department did not show up until I had things broken up. Mommy, I was beating up another kid over a girl and this teacher poured tea on me, I'm such a victim. These kids are pathetic.

As a teacher for 14 years, currently working in an alternative school, I find myself dealing with this type of situation on a daily basis. I don't pour hot tea on students (that's just a little weird), but I have to get between them or pull them apart, or restrain them, almost on a daily basis. I have been injured (intentionally and non-intentionally) by students fighting many times. Yet when I call the parents to report this type of behavior, I usually get cursed out, insulted and, a couple of times, threatened. Kids with violent tendencies generally learn it at home. Most of the parents I have to deal with, with a few rare exceptions, are quite literally the #$%$ of our society, criminals, drug abusers, child abusers, etc. They are drop-outs, mostly unemployed and unemployable, and they are reproducing at 4 or 5 times the rate of most intelligent professionals I know. So, if you do the math, it makes sense that our schools are being overrun by violent kids. There are answers to this problem, but many intelligent Americans can't handle them because they fear being politically incorrect, or restricting someone's freedoms (for instance, requiring parents who receive welfare to also participate in birth control programs, and/or to be drug tested). The Constitutional guarantee to your right to the pursuit of happiness needs to be limited when your pursuit of happiness becomes such a drain on society that people who are actually contributing to the progress of our society are suffering because of it.