December 4, 2025 • 11 mins
The tone shifts into ethics and responsibility with the Question of the Day: Should parents be held legally responsible if their child assaults a teacher at school? This is a law that the Georgia Federation of Teachers are proposing this law. The crew digs into the complications — from childhood discipline gaps to systemic accountability issues — with callers offering strong opinions on whether blame lies with the individual kid or the parenting environment.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is the video he will show your twenty twenty
five days.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
So the Judgia Federation of Teachers has proposed a parental
what is it called the parent georg Ability Act that
would allow parents.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
To be held legally accountable the child a social teacher.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I definitely think it's some circumstance because there's some parents
that can't control their kids either.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Yeah, who hit first? That's what I want to know. Yeah,
and I just I don't like the idea.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
But they got the idea that you could buck up
at an adult teacher from somewhere. They felt secure doing
that from somewhere.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Yeah, they at home Ork.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Your mother, was you want one of your mothers was
a teacher? Yes, well she clearly didn't teach you math,
that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
He told me about them. No, she wasn't teacher. Or
then she joyce exactly. She was an amazing teacher.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
And then she went on to not initially, not initially,
but then I say, I guess she was like, I
got tired of these kids.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I gotta give me some kids, and don't talk. I
need kids with our futures. They can't get up.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
We're gonna be working in the kiosk. Yeah, that's terrible,
but she did. She liked she got a teacher. She
got school at nine thirty, you know, because that's what
time I got.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
You went to the back. He told me, of course trailers,
you have to make a lot of room because it
was a little bus.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I was gonna say that bus is too big for you,
and Away was like it yes, and and like greats
across it, like we were.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
It didn't really, Yeah, of course I want people jumping out. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I was like, I don't belong on this bus. That's
when you get out. I started acting normal, you know what.
I'm a I'm a I'm.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Almost got it. Damn now I'm gonna start almost are reading.
I ain't gonna I can't do this.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
So Skip is gonna tell us why he doesn't think
it's a good idea, you know, and you really we
get the best of both worlds.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Because he's forty white.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Yeah, forty white.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Skip is what is his? It's not forty two? He's
percentages every day?
Speaker 6 (02:29):
What are you?
Speaker 7 (02:30):
What?
Speaker 8 (02:30):
What?
Speaker 9 (02:31):
What? What?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
How white are you? Skipped? How white are you? Wow?
How much white is it? I'm not as white as
you are?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Because proud get the opinion of our resident oppressor. Crackatile
this crack of tile oh forty visiting recorder. It's the
(03:03):
D huge show.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
It is the DH will show you a twenty twenty
five edition.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
So do you think that the Georgia Teachers Federation of
Teachers has it right with the Parental Accountability Actor that
allows parents to be legally liable if their child assoult
somebody skip.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
You have reservations about this?
Speaker 8 (03:22):
Yeah, I don't. I don't like the blanket because I
do know of some situation where a kid comes from
a great family, both parents in the house, they got
you know, educating, trained right and everything, and the kid
is still just a bad ass.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Like some kids just don't matter.
Speaker 8 (03:36):
M came from a loving household and you can and
sometimes you see they might have four kids. The other
three of them are great. They're model citizen. And you
got that one man, and let's not go over me.
But when let's yeah we want to be we like you.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
You were good? Take that bad my hes So you
you don't like it?
Speaker 8 (04:07):
Is I just think every every case needs and you know,
I don't know think we have the man power, but
every case needs to be you know.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Man power you know, if you don't jump on somebody,
how often is it that? Well, first off, if it's
happening so often that we need extra manpower, then you
need to do something.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
We need to do something different.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
If that happens, right, Well, somebody's gonna get charged anyway,
right because if a kid jumps on a teacher and
they report it, which in most states, you have to,
somebody gonna come see about that kid, and eventually the
parents are gonna pay one way or the other.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah, a lumpy teacher, I'm nice. Some of them kids
are for.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I have seen some horror and thanks to TikTok and
social media, you see all of these terrible videos where
you know, I've seen students throw chairs.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I've seen them gang up on a teacher. I mean
they've kids come with some kids. I've seen that too.
Speaker 8 (04:59):
I've seen a teacher whoop some masks like one of
the he got he had him messed up, like oh man.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
But he's not.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I don't want to tell you twy Speaking of that,
I'm gonna be in Cleveland and you see that bus
driving Cleveland and whooped that girl as you going to jail.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Now he upper creditor. But she started it. Yeah, she
spin on him, he said, lumped her up. Nice, it's
you don't spin on nobody. No, no, I know, but
I thought in where you're from that was a former nommdictions.
It's not an email. Will waterboard you, not like.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Thout you.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
We have to carry the water from the river. We
will and beat the crocodile office for the steak.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Nasty. That's just nasty. That is that incites me disgusting. Yeah,
well it has this place properly placed. Make these blanket
statements like that.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
All right, yeah, all right, all right, all right, more
your calls coming off the du we sir. So there
is a school of the Georgia Georgia Federation of Teachers
who believe they propose a parental account of really act
where parents could be held liable if their teacher, if
their child assaults a teacher. Do you agree that was
a question we post you We're going to the phones.
Speaker 10 (06:26):
So I know it sounds like kind of cliche, but
I don't think that it's right, just in the aspect
that you have parents that are doing the best that
they can and when you have a child that you
can't really discipline, and the school the system is out
there telling you what your parents can't do, and then
they go out and they run them up, and then
all of a sudden it's the parents fault.
Speaker 9 (06:44):
That blows me.
Speaker 10 (06:45):
I just don't see how they come up with these
rules and they tell you what you can't do, and
then all of a sudden, you're responsible for what your
children are doing, but you can't discipline. Um though, so
what else are we supposed to do?
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Hey, let's not start with the kids being abusive to
the teachers. Let's starts luck of the parents up. I think,
first of all, I think it's a great idea, and
I think they should take an even further because all
of these kids that are going around shooting up these
schools and killing people, I think they should be held
accountable to the hides because it starts in your home
and you know, and when you send these kids off
to school, and then your kids come to school and
(07:16):
you attack one of the teachers, I think the parents
should be held accountable. And again, especially when they shoot
up the kids, I think they should arrest the parents also.
So I agree with the law matter. Like I thought,
there was already a law out there that you know
your kids jump on when the parents up, meat up
the parents that the parents don't be held accountable. So
I truly truly agree with the law. So the parents
(07:38):
should be hell of accountable. It's sending your bad kids
at school and to attack teachers. You should be held
of accountable.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
I think laws like this would be a good thing.
I think if there were repercussions that directly affected the parents,
they would send these kids out here with discipline because
right now there's not really much that can be done
when something is done by a child.
Speaker 11 (08:01):
So they don't really care.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
So I think it's a good thing.
Speaker 9 (08:04):
I think that parents absolutely should be held accountable for
their minor children's actions, whether it be punitive, whether it
be legal, whether it be financial, they should be responsible
because even though it may you know, people say it
takes the village, the financial part of this whole thing
(08:25):
should start in the home, and accountability and responsibility is
on parenting for a reason. And if your child breaks
something in a store, they're minor children, but somebody has
to pay for that loss, and it should fall on
the parents.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
It is the d are you going to show you
a twenty twenty five edition? So the Georgia Federation of Teachers,
which teaching is a real profession.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Correct, It won't be, it's not a professional.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
So they propose the Parental Accountability Act, where parents can
be held legally liable if they're child, a social teacher.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Do you agree who's going to the phones?
Speaker 8 (09:04):
Well?
Speaker 11 (09:04):
I thought it used to be that way when I
was coming up.
Speaker 12 (09:07):
If I did something wrong or or did something wrong,
it was my parents who were held responsible because I
was quote unquote a minor and it was the parent's
responsibility to correct my mistakes or my cups.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
So what's wrong with it nowadays?
Speaker 11 (09:26):
You know if they asked, they asked pay well, where
was the parent at? Where was the parent at? Okay?
So where are the parents? If your kid is roaming
out of here? Uh, missing school and everything? Where you are?
I know it's tough. I know it's tough, but where
are you? Where's your parent at to be involved in this?
(09:46):
So I think they should be held responsible because my
parents got held responsible if I cut school, if I
messed up something, they were held responsible liable legal and physically.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
Yes, I think the parents should be accountable and they
need to do something with them kids, right because when
we was coming up. If I would have did a
quarter of what they did right, my mother would have
put the belt to me immediately.
Speaker 11 (10:13):
And punished me.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
But them kids know their parents ain't gonna do nothing,
so that's why they do what they did, you know.
And they need to be accountable for them right and
make them do what they supposed to be.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Parents should be held accountable for what children how they
carry on today, especially in their school, but that should
also be responsible for how they carry on out in
the street as well, because you're a definite representation.
Speaker 13 (10:36):
Of your home life. Anyone who acts up like that
had a terrible phone life on the majority the majority
of the time. And that's not fair for your child
to jump on these teachers and y'all get to walk
away scott free.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Now the sister is not gonna have ITEX with no
kids gonna gets you. Gotta just keep you real. I
know you're six, but you better get a paper out
or something, be saying.
Speaker 12 (11:06):
The D. L.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Hughley Show
It is the video he will show your twenty twenty
five days.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
So the Judgia Federation of Teachers has proposed a parental
what is it called the parent georg Ability Act that
would allow parents.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
To be held legally accountable the child a social teacher.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I definitely think it's some circumstance because there's some parents
that can't control their kids either.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Yeah, who hit first? That's what I want to know. Yeah,
and I just I don't like the idea.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
But they got the idea that you could buck up
at an adult teacher from somewhere. They felt secure doing
that from somewhere.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Yeah, they at home Ork.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Your mother, was you want one of your mothers was
a teacher? Yes, well she clearly didn't teach you math,
that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
He told me about them. No, she wasn't teacher. Or
then she joyce exactly. She was an amazing teacher.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
And then she went on to not initially, not initially,
but then I say, I guess she was like, I
got tired of these kids.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I gotta give me some kids, and don't talk. I
need kids with our futures. They can't get up.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
We're gonna be working in the kiosk. Yeah, that's terrible,
but she did. She liked she got a teacher. She
got school at nine thirty, you know, because that's what
time I got.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
You went to the back. He told me, of course trailers,
you have to make a lot of room because it
was a little bus.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I was gonna say that bus is too big for you,
and Away was like it yes, and and like greats
across it, like we were.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
It didn't really, Yeah, of course I want people jumping out. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I was like, I don't belong on this bus. That's
when you get out. I started acting normal, you know what.
I'm a I'm a I'm.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Almost got it. Damn now I'm gonna start almost are reading.
I ain't gonna I can't do this.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
So Skip is gonna tell us why he doesn't think
it's a good idea, you know, and you really we
get the best of both worlds.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Because he's forty white.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Yeah, forty white.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Skip is what is his? It's not forty two? He's
percentages every day?
Speaker 6 (02:29):
What are you?
Speaker 7 (02:30):
What?
Speaker 8 (02:30):
What?
Speaker 9 (02:31):
What? What?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
How white are you? Skipped? How white are you? Wow?
How much white is it? I'm not as white as
you are?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Because proud get the opinion of our resident oppressor. Crackatile
this crack of tile oh forty visiting recorder. It's the
(03:03):
D huge show.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
It is the DH will show you a twenty twenty
five edition.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
So do you think that the Georgia Teachers Federation of
Teachers has it right with the Parental Accountability Actor that
allows parents to be legally liable if their child assoult
somebody skip.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
You have reservations about this?
Speaker 8 (03:22):
Yeah, I don't. I don't like the blanket because I
do know of some situation where a kid comes from
a great family, both parents in the house, they got
you know, educating, trained right and everything, and the kid
is still just a bad ass.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Like some kids just don't matter.
Speaker 8 (03:36):
M came from a loving household and you can and
sometimes you see they might have four kids. The other
three of them are great. They're model citizen. And you
got that one man, and let's not go over me.
But when let's yeah we want to be we like you.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
You were good? Take that bad my hes So you
you don't like it?
Speaker 8 (04:07):
Is I just think every every case needs and you know,
I don't know think we have the man power, but
every case needs to be you know.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Man power you know, if you don't jump on somebody,
how often is it that? Well, first off, if it's
happening so often that we need extra manpower, then you
need to do something.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
We need to do something different.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
If that happens, right, Well, somebody's gonna get charged anyway,
right because if a kid jumps on a teacher and
they report it, which in most states, you have to,
somebody gonna come see about that kid, and eventually the
parents are gonna pay one way or the other.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah, a lumpy teacher, I'm nice. Some of them kids
are for.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I have seen some horror and thanks to TikTok and
social media, you see all of these terrible videos where
you know, I've seen students throw chairs.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I've seen them gang up on a teacher. I mean
they've kids come with some kids. I've seen that too.
Speaker 8 (04:59):
I've seen a teacher whoop some masks like one of
the he got he had him messed up, like oh man.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
But he's not.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I don't want to tell you twy Speaking of that,
I'm gonna be in Cleveland and you see that bus
driving Cleveland and whooped that girl as you going to jail.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Now he upper creditor. But she started it. Yeah, she
spin on him, he said, lumped her up. Nice, it's
you don't spin on nobody. No, no, I know, but
I thought in where you're from that was a former nommdictions.
It's not an email. Will waterboard you, not like.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Thout you.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
We have to carry the water from the river. We
will and beat the crocodile office for the steak.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Nasty. That's just nasty. That is that incites me disgusting. Yeah,
well it has this place properly placed. Make these blanket
statements like that.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
All right, yeah, all right, all right, all right, more
your calls coming off the du we sir. So there
is a school of the Georgia Georgia Federation of Teachers
who believe they propose a parental account of really act
where parents could be held liable if their teacher, if
their child assaults a teacher. Do you agree that was
a question we post you We're going to the phones.
Speaker 10 (06:26):
So I know it sounds like kind of cliche, but
I don't think that it's right, just in the aspect
that you have parents that are doing the best that
they can and when you have a child that you
can't really discipline, and the school the system is out
there telling you what your parents can't do, and then
they go out and they run them up, and then
all of a sudden it's the parents fault.
Speaker 9 (06:44):
That blows me.
Speaker 10 (06:45):
I just don't see how they come up with these
rules and they tell you what you can't do, and
then all of a sudden, you're responsible for what your
children are doing, but you can't discipline. Um though, so
what else are we supposed to do?
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Hey, let's not start with the kids being abusive to
the teachers. Let's starts luck of the parents up. I think,
first of all, I think it's a great idea, and
I think they should take an even further because all
of these kids that are going around shooting up these
schools and killing people, I think they should be held
accountable to the hides because it starts in your home
and you know, and when you send these kids off
to school, and then your kids come to school and
(07:16):
you attack one of the teachers, I think the parents
should be held accountable. And again, especially when they shoot
up the kids, I think they should arrest the parents also.
So I agree with the law matter. Like I thought,
there was already a law out there that you know
your kids jump on when the parents up, meat up
the parents that the parents don't be held accountable. So
I truly truly agree with the law. So the parents
(07:38):
should be hell of accountable. It's sending your bad kids
at school and to attack teachers. You should be held
of accountable.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
I think laws like this would be a good thing.
I think if there were repercussions that directly affected the parents,
they would send these kids out here with discipline because
right now there's not really much that can be done
when something is done by a child.
Speaker 11 (08:01):
So they don't really care.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
So I think it's a good thing.
Speaker 9 (08:04):
I think that parents absolutely should be held accountable for
their minor children's actions, whether it be punitive, whether it
be legal, whether it be financial, they should be responsible
because even though it may you know, people say it
takes the village, the financial part of this whole thing
(08:25):
should start in the home, and accountability and responsibility is
on parenting for a reason. And if your child breaks
something in a store, they're minor children, but somebody has
to pay for that loss, and it should fall on
the parents.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
It is the d are you going to show you
a twenty twenty five edition? So the Georgia Federation of Teachers,
which teaching is a real profession.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Correct, It won't be, it's not a professional.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
So they propose the Parental Accountability Act, where parents can
be held legally liable if they're child, a social teacher.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Do you agree who's going to the phones?
Speaker 8 (09:04):
Well?
Speaker 11 (09:04):
I thought it used to be that way when I
was coming up.
Speaker 12 (09:07):
If I did something wrong or or did something wrong,
it was my parents who were held responsible because I
was quote unquote a minor and it was the parent's
responsibility to correct my mistakes or my cups.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
So what's wrong with it nowadays?
Speaker 11 (09:26):
You know if they asked, they asked pay well, where
was the parent at? Where was the parent at? Okay?
So where are the parents? If your kid is roaming
out of here? Uh, missing school and everything? Where you are?
I know it's tough. I know it's tough, but where
are you? Where's your parent at to be involved in this?
(09:46):
So I think they should be held responsible because my
parents got held responsible if I cut school, if I
messed up something, they were held responsible liable legal and physically.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
Yes, I think the parents should be accountable and they
need to do something with them kids, right because when
we was coming up. If I would have did a
quarter of what they did right, my mother would have
put the belt to me immediately.
Speaker 11 (10:13):
And punished me.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
But them kids know their parents ain't gonna do nothing,
so that's why they do what they did, you know.
And they need to be accountable for them right and
make them do what they supposed to be.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Parents should be held accountable for what children how they
carry on today, especially in their school, but that should
also be responsible for how they carry on out in
the street as well, because you're a definite representation.
Speaker 13 (10:36):
Of your home life. Anyone who acts up like that
had a terrible phone life on the majority the majority
of the time. And that's not fair for your child
to jump on these teachers and y'all get to walk
away scott free.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Now the sister is not gonna have ITEX with no
kids gonna gets you. Gotta just keep you real. I
know you're six, but you better get a paper out
or something, be saying.
Speaker 12 (11:06):
The D. L.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
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