More teenagers gone wild:
Two teachers at a Baltimore, Maryland, high school say they were attacked by students, and one says such assaults are commonplace, according to CNN affiliate WBAL.
The school district says it is investigating and will take appropriate action, but both art teacher Jolita Berry and English teacher Marc Standish say the administration has failed to protect and support them.
“I looked over, and her friends were cheering her on. And before I knew it, she hit me in the face,” Berry told WBAL after cell-phone video depicting what she said was a student beating her last Friday appeared on the social networking Web site MySpace.com.
Individuals in the video are difficult to identify, and no charges have been filed, WBAL reported.
Berry said her principal told her she brought the attack on herself. “On one hand, she told me that she is sorry that this happened to me,” Berry told WBAL. “But then she turned right around and told me that telling a student that I was going to defend myself was a trigger word. I triggered them.”
Saying that you intend to defend yourself if you are attacked is now considered an inexcusable provocation? The inmates really are running the asylum. Boy, I bet these teachers and administrators wish they were still back in college back when it was oh, so cool for students to run the show and engage in disruptive thuggery at will.
