{"id":1666,"date":"2014-06-09T15:18:50","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T22:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/?p=1666"},"modified":"2018-04-02T20:18:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T03:18:15","slug":"1666","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/1666\/","title":{"rendered":"Father Hits Teacher with Baseball Bat and Other Examples of Instant Karma"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Marc<\/a>A<\/span> Maryland father will not be facing charges after hitting one of his daughter\u2019s teachers with a baseball bat after the teacher refused to leave the family\u2019s home following a texting scandal.<\/a><\/p>\n

Fathers have a sworn duty to protect their children. We repeatedly tell our sons and daughters that we will, \u201cAlways be there to protect you,\u201d knowing the whole time that we have vowed to do the impossible. We then pray that they will be safe when we cannot be there to protect them.<\/p>\n

We have to let go. Beginning when they are very young we allow them to go to pre-school and then school, secure in our belief that responsible adults will prepare them to be productive and well-rounded citizens. In this case the educational community failed to protect a 15-year-old girl from the predatory behavior of one of her teachers.<\/p>\n

When the family discovered what the police agreed<\/a> was an \u201cinappropriate emotional relationship\u201d between the 42-year old teacher and his 15-year-old student they went to the police at 3:00 a.m. The authorities took no action against the teacher because they couldn\u2019t determine that laws had been broken. At approximately 9:45 a.m. the teacher showed up at the girl\u2019s house. When he refused to leave the girl\u2019s father beat him with a baseball bat.<\/p>\n

Within six hours the girl\u2019s father had learned about a much older man who was making sexual advances toward his teen-aged daughter and then confronted the man when he showed up unannounced at the family home. For the second time in a brief period of time the teacher had failed to respect social boundaries.<\/p>\n

The teacher acted very aggressively when he first showed up at the girl\u2019s house, and then refused to leave. The girl\u2019s father simply sent a very strong message to the teacher that the police could or would not send, \u201cYou will not mess with my little girl.<\/p>\n

That he sent that message via a swinging baseball bat is appropriate given that at least two trusted institutions had failed to protect his child from a much older man whose intentions, as illustrated by his actions, were predatory.<\/p>\n

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