Teachers are losing their cool, and while it’s inexcusable, it comes from the lack of respect our teachers are treated with:
Pat Frost, an English as a second language teacher for Anson High School in North Carolina, may lose her job after admitting to slapping a student during a dispute over saggy pants.
Frost was suspended after the incident occurred in June, and the district is still investigating the charges. At the time, she reportedly stopped 18-year-old Johnathan Smith to tell him to pull up his sagging pants. But Smith didn’t comply, allegedly telling the teacher to “get the [expletive] out of his way” and shoved past her, WBTV reports.
When Frost followed him outside, reportedly to record his name, the teen began to charge at her, yelling that he would “[expletive] her up.”
Smith told WSOC-TV, however, that he did pick up his pants and told the teacher his name — but Frost didn’t believe him.
“I never thought a teacher would lay her hands on me,” Smith told the station.
Frost’s attorney argues that Smith refused to give his real name and repeatedly threatened to assault her. Frost says her blow was out of self defense.
“Fearing she was about to be hit, Pat tried to create distance with the student and slapped him in the face in that effort,” according to a letter from Frost’s attorney. “He responded by striking Pat in the head. He then took off his shirt and started pounding on nearby cars in the parking lot yelling that he was going to get her fired and hoped that she would be killed.”
I am afraid that episodes like this will become extremely frequent if something isn’t done to improve teacher/student relations.
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