"Intervening should NOT include striking a child"

Of course, OU. My first point above was that teachers cannot inflict violence (your word) on anyone. When I mentioned the need to sometimes "lay hands" (again, your term) on a student in order to prevent harm, I certainly did not mean striking or manhandling the child/teen in any way.

As for kids being bullied and nothing was done, I'm glad that you raised the point. One benefit of having the same person on the yard for all recesses (which is why I raised the point about 6,000 hours) is that behavioural patterns like bullying should be detected sooner. That information can then be relayed to the teachers who are on the yard less frequently so they will know that Johnnie's aggression/mocking etc is not a one-off but rather a persistent pattern.

I rarely sent a student to the office: in cold weather that's often what they wanted. Instead, students were sent to "the wall" for an appropriate length of time. Other kids, including the