Never mind school shootings - how about school throwing???

[Preacherman]

From CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/10/06/morocco.teacher.reut/index.html):

Angry Moroccan teacher throws pupils out of window

Monday, October 6, 2003 Posted: 7:33 PM EDT (2333 GMT)

RABAT, Morocco (Reuters) -- Two Moroccan schoolboys were injured Monday when their teacher threw them out of a first floor classroom window for being too noisy, an Education Ministry official said.

One of the pupils, aged nine, ended up in hospital with a fractured shoulder and serious injuries to his face and head while the other, age 10, suffered only slight injuries, the official from the ministry's delegation in Casablanca said.

He said the teacher had warned the pair she would throw them out if they were not quiet.

"They did not listen. They should have listened," he told Reuters by telephone. "She (the teacher) suffers depression."

The official had no comment on whether the teacher would be disciplined.

 

[Pheonix]

WOW!

 

[Orthonym]

Defenestration is Horrible!

And hasn't it started at least one war? At least they had a pile of,uh, manure to land on in Prague.

 

[standingbear]

i bet theyre glad the window was open.

 

[jsalcedo]

Heck, when I was in school all they had was a paddle with holes in it.

There were no dangerous "assault windows"

 

[El Tejon]

Repeal the Law of Gravity. . . [wait for it] . . . FOR THE CHILDREN!

Maybe VPC will dig up Newton to sue him?

 

[jimpeel]

They had this on Fox and the story said that the school authorities stated that she had given the two boys fair warning that if they did not behave she would throw them out of the window. She is a woman of her word. According to Fox, the authorities plan no action against her.

El Tejon

How about a five day wait to hit the ground?

 

[sm]

Not that I condone what the teacher did, ... some lessons learned.

-Gratitude, first floor, it could have been worse.
-Gravity, first hand observaton and application.
-Respect of classmates trying to learn/disrupting classmates focus.
-Keeping one's word, practical application.
-Listening and comprehension.
-Medical exposure and experience.

Again not makin light of, or condoning...teachers used paddles, shop instructors and coaches when I was in school really liked applying wood shop and physics to a particular portion of anatomy if student mis-behaved.