Teacher claims immunity for beating

Only in BushWorld: Yesterday, I discussed how schools that have policies against student harassment find themselves in the crosshairs of well-funded right-wing law foundations. Yet right-wingers defend school personnel who beat students.

An Indianapolis special education teacher is now charged with battery for slugging a 20-year-old severely mentally challenged student in the face.

But the teacher's lawyers claim the teacher has immunity from liability, courtesy of a state law protecting school employees' so-called "right" to hit students. In fact, the lawyers admit that the teacher hit the student.

Immunity for an admitted battery? That's what Indiana law has stooped too?

I don't know whether this is under the same bill that the Indiana Senate infamously approved several months ago. That bill would have made it illegal to sue Indiana schools for just about anything - except of course having a policy against bullying.

Summary of BushAmerica education law: Schools can't be sued, except when they shouldn't be.

This, my friends, is how societies end.

(Source: http://www.indystar.com/article/20090928/NEWS02/909280366/Judge+delays+ruling+in+teacher+s+battery+case)