The NYC Board of Ed is totally out of control.
When my wife taught in NYC, she had a kid put his mouth 2" from her ear and yell "Eff You" at the top of his lungs. Her hearing was affected for six weeks afterwards. That qualified as an assault and battery in my book. Not only was the kid not arrested, or even suspended, she had to threaten to resign to get the principal to transfer the punk from her class.
But write on the desk--heavens, we can't have anyone defacing school property. Apparently a desk is more valuable than a teacher's hearing
