S.C. deputy filmed slamming teen girl out of desk, dragging her away

Yeah, you're still wrong. What if you bought a Toyota, and it came highly rated, and you did your homework and everything checked out swell, and then later on the brakes fail and the airbags fail because bad employees, at the executive level, cut production costs and ignored the rules, causing massive injuries and hospital costs to you?

Yeah, you're free to shop elsewhere at that point, but those bad decisions, from bad employees, cost thousands of consumers millions and millions of bucks. Some deaths involved, too.

So, yeah, plenty of bad employees in the marketplace "effect" [sic] plenty of people in addition to the owners.

 

For the record, that did not happen to me...yet.

 

Eh, forget that your family member was killed when their new car's brakes failed. The court system will make you whole.

As for your second point, that's not what people like YF keep saying. They're saying that a school should be treated like a business, where if someone doesn't like where they are going, they should be able to go somewhere else. As in, there should be more of a demand for the better schools, than the poor ones. Plus, YF keeps thinking that teachers should be treated like private-sector employees. If they don't meet some measurable criteria, they should be fired. Nevermind that, as you say, a public school system is not like a for-profit business. The schools have to take every customer, even if the customer ruins the business atmosphere for the other customers.

 

That breeze you felt was my point sailing over your head.

I do take exception with what he did. I've posted as much on this thread. I also take exception with the student's behavior and with the misrepresentations of what happened here and in the media.

To answer cranberry, this is a site for current and former journalists. Word choice should matter to us. It isn't nitpicking to point out how many people have misrepresented what happened. He did not body slam her. He did not throw her across the room. I've seen both of those descriptions all over this thread and I've heard and read it in news reports of the incident. We should know better here and people actually covering this should sure as hell know better.

 

The continued nitpicking? Fine. Then, even though everybody here loves debate to a ridiculous degree, how many more pages is it going to take before a majority realizes that some of us are going to think it was a warranted act, some of us are going to think it was unwarranted and violent, and neither side is going to move the other's needle?

 

You really want to see the teachers unions squawk?

 

Yes, because the schools have gotten nothing but better since the federal department of education started operating in 1980. Another stroke of genius from Jimmy Carter.

 

Well shit ... you're no fun ...

 

Unless, of course, their pay is increased in proportion to the extra days that they're working, right?

 

The needle moved. He was fired, justly.