Parent Attacks Teacher Over School Mask Mandate

[left-of-center2012]

An elementary school teacher is in the hospital after being attacked by a Sutter Creek, CA, parent over the school’s mask mandates. A district dad came back to campus after picking up his daughter and confronted the school principal. He was angry his daughter was forced to wear a mask inside.

When a 6th-grade teacher tried to intervene, the argument quickly turned physical. The 6th-grade teacher was left bleeding with bruises and cuts to his head and face.

Dr. Gibson sent a letter home yesterday to the entire district about the attack, expressing her disappointment … (saying) this likely won’t be the last on-campus incident over mask policies. “I anticipate more of this happening across the state, especially in rural areas where this is just such a division,” she said.

District leaders say they’re disappointed this is how the school year started.

https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2021/08/12/amador-counnty-sutter-creek-mask-fight-parent-teacher/

[ProfessorGAC]

1. Jail Time Seems In Order

This is not an offense where only financial penalties are paid.
And, the teacher should sue.

[NYC Liberal]

16. Attacking an educator should carry an enhanced penalty.

Here in NY, assaulting a public transit employee is a felony with a 7 year jail sentence. Needs to be similar for educators, especially with all the additional risks they’re taking these days between the school shootings and now maskholes.

[ProfessorGAC]

17. Seems Appropriate

I'll buy into your idea.

[TDale313]

2. I'm sorry. I legit do not get this insanity over wearing a damn mask.

It all just makes zero sense to me.

[Lemon Lyman]

3. Of course you don't

You're not a gd moron.

[sanatanadharma]

12. It is all mis-identity politics

First, we need to recognize the we are tribal people. Pick a team; sports is the clearest example.
Religion, politics, interests, desires, tastes, style and fashion choices are some of the signs/ marks/ wardrobe within which we strut, flashing our colors, our choices, desires, beliefs and identity.

Individuals mix up their 'self' with all kinds of things that are not them.
So when someone else insults, say their state, they are personally offended.
The sight of a mask becomes a personal affront to the triggered tribal team individual who takes it as an attack upon their intelligence, politics, supremacy, or similar silly stuff mistaken as equal to 'self'.

We hear about " identity politics" but I submit that a better understanding can be had by understanding "mis-identity" politics.
Politics = ethics = morality = how we judge ourselves and those others, our worlds and others around.
Who is on my team, who is worthy, who is in fact 'human'; or conversely, who can I attack.

We must begin to teach our children well that they are individuals in society, not individuals surrounded by society.
We need to teach epistemology and logic; how do you know that you know and what is validity.
Conservatives and religion-ists often opine that morality and ethics and doing good requires God without which there is no measure of good.

I submit that ruth, justice, the American or any other successful way requires validity, a measure of fact without which there exists only the great-deceiver.

[lagomorph777]

4. Get some cops at the schools.

[Music Man]

5. Anti-maskers talk about shit like "wanting to see children's smiles"

Then yell at and attack people.

[crickets]

6. The DA needs to charge the parent responsible.

Charge, prosecute, and levy some punishment. There's no excuse for this behavior.

[gratuitous]

7. So nice of the media not to identify the out of control father

After all, he deserves his privacy!

[Johonny]

8. expel the student and place a restraining order on the parents.

Tell them, they're on their own to get their kids educated.

[left-of-center2012]

9. "expel the student"

What did the kid do ?

[BlueIdaho]

10. Guess who's not going back to school?

Along with facing assault and battery or attempted murder charges daddy can now try to figure out what the fuck to do with his little sweetums.

[a kennedy]

11. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THESE ASSHOLES????? 🤬 🤬 🤬

[sanatanadharma]

14. Extreme subjectivity rooted in potty training

We too often overlook the programming that we carry from the unremembered past. Inner-child tantrums continue in adults who aren't.

Some individuals are evolving and some are devolving; some are born with previous unremembered bad habits, others with good.
It is all karmic trajectories. This truth can be seen in just this one life now.
Bad desires, bad choices, bad actions, all become bad habits of individuals who do not shine because their 'ego' is too darkened by ignorance.

[Piasladic]

13. They say he got mad at seeing teachers NOT wearing masks indoors with kids

1:36 in the video

[ProfessorGAC]

18. That's Bad

Do that in one of the districts in which I substitute, and it's arrivederci, baby. If it was me, I'd never see the inside of that building again.
If masks are mandated, they're mandatory, no flexibility.
That said, I need more than just his claim that he saw unmasked teachers.

[hedda_foil]

19. Vaccinated teachers could remove masks when not with students ...

The father came back a second time and saw a couple of teachers without masks. The kids were mostly gone by then, presumably. He was enraged seeing teachers unmasked when his kid came out with her mask on.

[Piasladic]

20. yeap - I'd be mad too (how would I know their status?), but I wouldn't assault anyone -nt

[lpbk2713]

15. As if teaching wasn't bad enough.

Now it's hand-to-hand combat with parents.