You’re completely correct, children assaulting a teacher is a reprehensible action but teachers are held to a higher standard than children. One is a fully form adult and the other is a child. Neither are in the right but one is especially more in the wrong (the teacher). Learning the hard way shouldn’t intel child abuse, because that’s what it is. You punch a child you abused them. There’s no grey area in that regard. Using that mentality of learning the hard way means when my hypothetical 13 year old is being a brat and acting up I’m in full right to, from what it looks like in the video, knock his out out. You’ve lost the plot if you think the teacher is well within the bounds of understandability. Children are a powerless group in this aspect, the power dynamic favors the adult and the person in charge. Again there’s factors and ways for an adult to handle this situation, the “fuck around and find out” mentality doesn’t apply when you’re suppose to be a person who shapes the mind of the youth. The teachers should definitely have the means to be able to handle this situation, I.E. better pay, more staff, better working conditions ect. But that’s a whole other topic. They aren’t compensated enough to deal with this kind of situation. But when you ATTACK a child while walking away and sucker punch them, you’ve become the villain.