What kind of mental disconnect is going on any more? If hazing is supposed to be illegal at college--it doesn't belong anywhere else. (Yes, I know better. The only possible "bright" spot is that this stuff is making it into the news at all.)

Hazing is bullying taken to the extremes. With minors it is child abuse; and there is no excuse for someone who is supposed to be a role model teaching this kind of behavior.

He's soon to find out what a real hazing is all about in prison. And I have absolutely no sympathy to waste at all.

My uncle went from teaching in inner city schools, to being a principal and eventually a college professor. He and my aunt mortgaged their lives to put all 4 kids through college. He loved teaching and watching the lights go on. My s-i-l and b-i-l are both teachers. Not "educators", but teachers.

Too bad this so-called teacher didn't go straight to felon without a stopover in any school system. At least now he'll have a well deserved "F" after his name.

Perhaps the teacher was simply trying to find a subject those pupils could excel at? Maybe it was "Intro into physical intimidation", "menacing with intent to injure" or Prison 101. It certainly wasn't teaching. Absolutely not "CItizenship" or good conduct.

I don't know what the teacher was thinking. Right. Not thinking. Hazing isn't much of a job skill.

Now if it was meant as simple extortion of the students being hazed, perhaps the teacher was going to teach fractions while dividing the money, and supplementing income. Or perhaps the teacher simply didn't like the victims and just used the other students.  There isn't a reason to do it.