Anthony Furey: Students Are Now Assaulting Educators in Today’s No-Consequences Culture

Commentary A Hamilton newspaper recently published three disturbing photographs of women who had been assaulted. One was a picture of bruises across a woman’s thigh. Another was a close-up of the face of a woman who had been heavily bruised around an eye socket. The third was another close-up of an eye, this one a gash just beside a woman’s eye socket. They looked like police evidence used for a domestic assault case. They weren’t. They were pictures of Hamilton educators highlighting the very real harms they had suffered at the hands of their students. It’s shocking but true. And it’s not just happening in Hamilton. It’s happening all over the province, country, and beyond....