(Los Angeles Times) Could this be a watershed moment for teachers who take a stand against defiant students?
We can’t read too much into the chain of events that began Friday morning in a Santa Monica High School science classroom, when a physical tangle between a 60-year-old science teacher and an 18-year-old student was captured on a cellphone camera.
But we can know this: A community is up in arms about how the teacher, a beloved wrestling coach, was treated–first by his student, then by his boss.
