This thread calls forth the problem more than the solution. The near incomprehensibility of the initial post leaves all in doubt. I would think a teacher in more than name only would
1) TAKE A NAME
2) Express him/herself with a logical frame of the event and incidents surrounding the event.
3) Refrain from implying an ethnic generalization. Coming amongst the jumbled narrative of what actually happened, that was downright offensive.

I attended school in an era where neither the teacher nor the student was expected to come close to physicality. I heard about a teacher (with a known temper) who physically attacked a student and was either canned or forced to take time off, I can't remember which.

I've been a substitute teacher in the recent past, and came close to physicality one time when a special needs student, who was much larger than any student in the class, and was supposed to be accompanied by his own handler, left my classroom without permission. I did try to restrain him and get him back into the room, but he was a tough little sucker with a low center of gravity. I came to my senses and went back to my post and reported it. (I was told later that he had caused a broken leg and a miscarriage).

But Strollin' Johnny is dead wrong when he or anyone else links current student violence with the lack of violence on the part of teachers. All that corporal punishment teaches is that violence solves problems. What has created a change is when parents do not back the teachers and when the teachers get no backing from their administration. This teaches everybody contempt for the system.

Being a teacher is one of the most important jobs a free society can have. In US society it is also one of the least appreciated and compensated.

Attacking a teacher should be considered worse than attacking a cop in our society. It should be treated by the system. The classroom should must be a place free of threat.

If it HAS to come to that, a teacher should lay down the law and it should apply to everybody. But the teacher has to be CAPABLE of laying down the law in a way that does not detract from the goal at hand, to get knowledge through the thick little skulls of our kids.