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if he did that to my kid
i would go rip his nutsack off with my barehands

There should be nothing wrong with disciplining kids...but so many people are stupid liberal hippies now, and think that the only thing that really matters is a child's precious "self-esteem". RIDICULOUS!

go to a korean school and then try telling me that there should be nothing wrong with disciplining kids.

This is obviously an extreme situation, but in general, I believe that corporal punishment is an effective means of discipline. If someone could explain to me a way to get through to these kids, I'd be all ears. However, I'm a volunteer football coach at a high school, and even in the past four years I've seen kids get less and less respectful of adults. This severely hampers the learning atmosphere as teachers must receive some respect in order to be taken seriously by students. If anyone has a better method than some sort of physical reprucussion, let me know.

Obviously this was blown way out of control. From what I hear the kids were all laughing about it. There is a difference if it is done with the intent to harm someone, but this was just a joke. If a teacher can't joke around with their students it will be hard to hold their attention for any longer then the 15 minutes kids have been programmed to sit still before a commerical comes on the tv set at home. This is a different world then 40 years ago, parents have to realize just how candy ass thier kids have become and welcome some harsh discipline when needed. As long as nobody is seriously injuried it will be a learning experience for the kid.

Just to poke holes in your post:

"There is a difference if it is done with the intent to harm someone, but this was just a joke."

Just because something is a joke and not meant to harm someone is the worst argument of accepting sort of action. I doubt anyone ever gets drunk with the intention of running over people later in the night.

"If a teacher can't joke around with their students it will be hard to hold their attention for any longer then the 15 minutes kid..."

There are plenty of ways to get a student's attention short of duct taping students to a desk. And if a teacher has to resort to duct taping a student to a desk to get the attention of the students, he's obviously not doing anything right.

"As long as nobody is seriously injuried it will be a learning experience for the kid."
Tell that one to the priest.

Doug I normally don't reveal the geographic location of comment posters, but in this case it's too interesting. It looks like you're posting from the same school district as the school in question. Are you a student or a teacher?

I think Doug makes a few good points. I agree that this situation was probably blown completely out of proportion. However, there are standards by which teachers much abide, lest we face abusers of the system. The root of the problem, as Doug said, is that parents need to realize that their kids are becoming disrespectful and arrogant. It shouldn't have to be the teacher punishing students--such things should be addressed at home.

It's to bad that the teacher had to resort to something so drastic, even as a joke. But this begs the question, if he is found quilty, does he deserve to bear all the blame or resposibility? Shouldn't the parent carry some of it, for if they had been diligent in their God given responsibility to raise responsible children and citizens perhaps this would have never occured. It seems to me that the parents are doing this simply as a tactic to ease their conscience at failing to do their job. If the parents realized that the teacher is only trying to help them in that job, don't you think it would be more beneficial for everyone else.
As for "ripping of his nut sack" that type of violence and disrespect is exactly what has lead to the type of event.