Brickbat: Tough Coach

Peter Samhammer, a physical education teacher in California's Herndon-Barstow Elementary School, has been charged with four counts of felony child abuse after allegedly disciplining students by tightening a jump rope around their necks.
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How did the kids get roped into THAT?!?!?
Did the children forget the safe word?
No noose is good noose.
It's part of the DARE program - they want kids to associate hemp products with pain.
Anyway, I need to know the outcome of the charges. Don't leave me hanging.
It sounds like that coach is at the end of his rope.
OK, I think I've found the perfect punishment for the coach (if he's guilty, that is)...strap him to a chair and play this at full volume for ten hours.
It may be perfect but the 8th amendment could kick in.
Disgusting. Today we're hellbent on raising complete snowflakes. In my day we were lucky if it was a nice, smooth rope coach wrapped around our necks. Anyway, it was good for us, to prepare us for the real world of campaign press reporting.
Who does he think he is? A cop?!
Jump rope? Surely you mean TRUMP rope.
how else will they learn to "respect mah authority"?
Do not play ring around the rosy with this one.
As a junior high student in the 70s, it's nice to know that the caliber of PE teachers hasn't changed.
In the early 80s, we had a kid that was goofing around in PE class, and the teacher told another student in the class to go clock the kid. By the Reagan administration, the teachers knew better than to have the blood on THEIR hands.
My PE teacher was an ex-Marine drill sergeant. Also one of the Black Sheep. He never abused the kids, though. My favorite quote from him was, from memory, "Fuck the principal, I've got tenure!"
They should not have brought charges; he was clearly just extremely careless.
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