Reply To: Are things wrong cause they're wrong, or because people go OTD?

A rebbie is committing an assault if he hits a child (UNLESS he is actually defending himself FROM an assault by that student, chas v’sholom). If he hits that child, he is legally liable, and can be arrested. Children learn through ahavas Torah not through the fist. As to OTD, no one, single thing is responsible for that, but for certain, animosity and abuse of any kind will SURELY push that child in that direction. Some manage to survive in spite of it, but so many do not.