March 03, 2005

Teacher Freaks Out

someone pissed in this teacher's wheaties if you ask me. a student apparently took a video of a teacher getting upset with a student. in today's pc society, he definitely crossed the line. end result however -- teacher remains in the classroom (punishment if any unknown) and the student that filmed this was suspended for 10-days.

now i can appreciate that students should not be using cell phones to chat, take pictures/videos and what have you; however, to suspend a student for doing this when it clearly did not disrupt his studies ... thats nuts. give the kid detention and if occurs again ramp up the punishment. what? are teachers afraid others will see what is going on in their classrooms? it's not like the kid was filming up-skirts or something -- which would warrant a significant suspension if not expulsion.

Posted by ac at March 3, 2005 06:30 PM

Comments

Did you catch the follow up?
They found an interesting video on the teen's website... Ummmmaybe the kid deserved what he got?

Posted by: CNL at March 4, 2005 03:31 AM

i posted before that update. those kids will hopefully get what they deserve from their actions on that other video; however, making the suspension based on the taping of his teacher is still wrong in my mind.

but it does leave me with the sense of "it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy". karma at work i suppose.

Posted by: ac at March 4, 2005 05:11 PM

Ya know... I'm suddenly reminded of a h.s. english teacher I had - he never took any crap. He had two rules - skip school - but don't skip my class and don't screw around while I'm talking. If you screwed around he'd produce a chalk "nub" from his pocket and whip it at your head (he had good aim, too). And only a couple people ever blew off his class - and they got transferred to "The Bitch" english teacher.

He taught for 30+ years, which means children of former students were in his class, so parents *knew* what was going on. He never received one complaint, always had full classes (mostly by request of the parents), and had THE most attended class and the highest grade average p/class for the english dept.

So what have we learned? ;-)

Posted by: CNL at March 5, 2005 04:19 AM

different times. today you hit the wrong kid like that and you're sued. hell, there are kids today that tell their parents that they are going to call the police and claim abuse if you spank. the sad part is that there is a good chance they'll take the child into protective custody to be safe.

Posted by: ac at March 6, 2005 05:56 PM