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Brickbat: Tough Coach

Charles Oliver | 10.4.2017 4:00 AM

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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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  1. SQRLSY One   8 years ago

    How did the kids get roped into THAT?!?!?

  2. Rat on a train   8 years ago

    Did the children forget the safe word?

  3. Lily Bulero   8 years ago

    No noose is good noose.

  4. Lily Bulero   8 years ago

    It's part of the DARE program - they want kids to associate hemp products with pain.

  5. Lily Bulero   8 years ago

    Anyway, I need to know the outcome of the charges. Don't leave me hanging.

  6. Lily Bulero   8 years ago

    It sounds like that coach is at the end of his rope.

  7. Lily Bulero   8 years ago

    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.

    1. geo1113   8 years ago

      It may be perfect but the 8th amendment could kick in.

  8. Fist of Etiquette   8 years ago

    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.

  9. Inigo Montoya   8 years ago

    Who does he think he is? A cop?!

  10. Jerryskids   8 years ago

    Jump rope? Surely you mean TRUMP rope.

  11. Radioactive   8 years ago

    how else will they learn to "respect mah authority"?

  12. Adans smith   8 years ago

    Do not play ring around the rosy with this one.

  13. Libertarian   8 years ago

    As a junior high student in the 70s, it's nice to know that the caliber of PE teachers hasn't changed.

    1. Conchfritters   8 years ago

      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.

    2. Brandybuck   8 years ago

      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!"

  14. Longtobefree   8 years ago

    They should not have brought charges; he was clearly just extremely careless.

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