Reply #3: Publicly attacking/ridiculing a teacher has too high a price for students [View All]

It looks like this boy and his family found out the hard way that publicly attacking a professional earns you the enmity of others in that profession. So all this kid's other high school teachers are frightened and outraged that students might now think they can videotape classes and publicly attack teachers. Lawyers all know that if a judge engages in bizarre, prejudicial behavior, one doesn't videotap him/her and release the tapes to the local news channels. One gathers evidence and goes to the judicial disciplinary committee, VERY QUIETLY. Why? Because you dis one judge in public and your clients and the clients of every lawyer in your firm will feel the wrath in the courtrooms of every other judge in the county. Similarly, people who have filed high profile med malpractise suits against doctors have trouble getting other local doctors to accept them as patients.

As a parent, I learned that if your kid has a problem with a teacher, you try to find other parents and then have a private meeting with the principal, OR you wait until all your kids have finished in a particular school system and THEN go public with complaints. So the suggestion that kids of dems, with Republican-biased teachers, should go public, is not in the student's best interests. In school districts that are GOP majority, the school board will also be GOP dominated and all the teachers know that. So if there's one gop biased teacher, there are probably a lot more and it is very easy for teachers to just shave a kid's grades down, let alone subject them to harassment in classes.