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defending yourself
By Cathy-Dee
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I guess it comes down to the fact that we are adults and legally responsible for our own actions. Teenagers and those who are younger are not legally adults and are not held in the same light as far as responsibility. While I think a teacher has the right to be safe and should be able to use retraint on a child, to hit back does not seem to me to be the way to prevent a situation from escalating. We are role-models. We tell children to walk away and to avoid conflicts and fighting, this means we need to have the same attitude in our own lives.Personally I wouldn't work in a school setting where I felt the students were violent or could be violent towards me.
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