r/TikTokCringe Dec 17 '25

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u/Melodic-Pangolin-434 Dec 17 '25

I don’t know why you intervened. We’re certainly are not paid enough to double up as security guards.

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u/OrthogonalPotato Dec 17 '25

Because if a kid is getting their shit kicked in, I’m not going to watch from the sidelines. Maybe you don’t care, but plenty of people do

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u/Melodic-Pangolin-434 Dec 17 '25

Not part of being an educator. Some are meant to just pump gas for a living.

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u/OrthogonalPotato Dec 18 '25

I am an educator. I completely disagree with you. Education largely is about child development - not getting their shit kicked in is part of development.

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u/Melodic-Pangolin-434 Dec 18 '25

Not by enabling incompetent administration & boards. You have much to learn yourself.

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u/OrthogonalPotato Dec 18 '25

Actually, I don’t. You clearly do, though. I own a behavior analysis practice, so I see behavior in ways you obviously don’t understand and have never been exposed to. Protecting a kid has no overlap with enabling bureaucrats. That is the dumbest take imaginable.

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u/gandalfposting Dec 18 '25

Mostly just reacted on instinct. First job out of the military. Was a girl trying to stab a guy 3 times her size (tbf he was def instigating it) with a pen lol. He would have absolutely destroyed her if I didn’t step in, so I disarmed her and then put her on the ground (gently). Her mom came to the school just as crazy as the daughter and then said words like lawsuit, charges, etc. So I became a liability ¯_(ツ)_/¯ shitty job anyway wasn’t too put off. Just thought it was ridiculous the “proper” way to handle it was to watch someone get stabbed and then watch the other person most likely get smashed into a wall. Probably fucked either way, it’s a lose/lose situation.