The Spanish Teacher
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ThoseLittleRabbits — 9 years ago(September 26, 2016 10:02 PM)
hispanic is not a race. the teacher was white.
i've got feelings too, ya know - inbetweeners
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first-things-first — 12 years ago(August 18, 2013 03:19 PM)
He stepped out of bounds by talking about something private about someone else in his class. But no one has the right to touch you unless it is bodily harm you are avoiding, you are threaten with physical violence (they attack first).
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GIRobotII — 12 years ago(November 20, 2013 09:47 PM)
That's right, first-things-first. You do not have the legal right to physically act against another person, unless that person is physically attacking you (or trying to) first. Then you would be legally allowed to use physical force against them (but only to subdue them, until they are no longer attacking you). You cannot physically strike another individual, merely for unkind words they say. While I understood where Kale was coming fromsure, the man had no business talking about his father that waynevertheless, he didn't do anything physical, merely verbally insulted him, and that's what got him in trouble with the law, and thus the house arrest (not striking the teacher by itself; there were other petty crimes Kale had committed, not just that. That was just the final straw.) Again, you may only use physical force against another, if they are the one to initiate the attack/conflict.
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lazarillo — 12 years ago(November 23, 2013 05:34 PM)
Well, I doubt any teacher in real-life would do something like thatdon't expect realism from a movie like this. But I bet male teachers everywhere would relish a douchebag like Shia Lebouf taking a swing at them just so they'd have an excuse to deck HIM. He's a Hollywood pretty-boy who isn't even all that pretty. . .
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marct009 — 10 years ago(October 26, 2015 06:36 AM)
This was the intention of the movie makers I would imagine. It was a very simple way to turn sympathy for Kale into support, gives us a sense of in that situation we would all like to do this to the teacher.
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Legion_89 — 10 years ago(November 06, 2015 10:19 PM)
Yes, it was definitely out of line. Perhaps it was meant to be a way to get a rise or spark out of Kale by using his father as a motivater, but the way the teacher worded it was wrong. He should have just left it well enough alone, and been more respectful of a kid who just lost his father.
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sonoftom — 10 years ago(March 02, 2016 06:25 PM)
Yes it was deserved, but I can understand what some of the previous posters where saying about it been intentional that it was deserved. One has to sympathize with the main characters plight.
I am the son of a man named Tom.