Colorado College Teacher Sorry for Kicking Student

Yahoo! News - Colo. Teacher Sorry for Kicking Student : "a thoughtless knee-jerk political reaction that should never have happened,' she wrote. 'Before the incident, I did not know you and that you are a Fort Lewis student.'"

So wrote the visiting instructor in modern languages in her letter of apology to the College Republican whom she kicked in the leg when she passed by him in an off-campus eatery demonstrating her objection to the CR sweatshirt he was wearing.

Of course, it wasn't her "knee-jerk political reaction" to which the CR objected, it was her knee-jerk foot reaction colliding with his leg.

And note the intructor's declaration that she had been unaware that her victim was a student at the institution where she teaches. Does she mean that it would not have been necessary to apologize for kicking a mere "townie"?