It’s bad enough this teacher made a shocking spur of the moment decision to break up a school corridor kiss between teen students by dousing them with a bucket of water. To then go on Facebook to justify it and call for the support of others is just horrible. Surely the teacher in question has enough sense to see that the punishment did not in any way match the crime. Public humiliation is a very serious offence.
Suspending this teacher was certainly an appropriate course of action:
A US teacher has been suspended after throwing a bucket of water on two students he thought were kissing and hugging in a school corridor.
The unnamed teacher was unapologetic despite being placed on administrative leave by John Overton High School in Nashville while the incident is being investigated, WKRN-TV reported.
The teacher reportedly posted afterwards on Facebook that his actions “seemed to work”.
“Got in trouble at school today,” he wrote.
“Threw a bucket of water on two kids hooking in the hallway of the high school where I plan to send my oldest daughter next year.
“It seemed to work and they stopped. Keep me in your prayers peeps.”
A mother of one of the students told WKRN-TV that there was no excuse for the teacher’s treatment of her 16-year-old son and his 17-year-old girlfriend.
Maggie Tiefenthal said her teenage son, who she claims was only hugging his girlfriend, was “embarrassed and upset” after the incident.
“They are not dogs. That is what you do to dogs and they are not animals,” she said.
Ms Tiefenthal said the principal had seen CCTV footage of the incident, but she had yet to see it.
“The administrator said based on the video, the kids did nothing inappropriate,” she told WKRN-TV.
Ms Tiefenthal said the girl’s parents were also upset by the incident.
She added that the teacher’s Facebook post had only made it worse.
School spokeswoman Olivia Brown said that the school had never had problems with the teacher before and he had a “good standing”.
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