I wonder if the student was punished for having their phone turned on.

The teacher losing his marbles and his students laughing hysterically–a nice little emblematic vignette for our sad society.

When I was in 7th grade back in the 60s, the teacher in my class, a nun, had a similar breakdown. She slapped a girl, and the girl just walked out of the room to the principal’s office with nun following her and yelling.

Those students, adolescents they may be, need to have their bitch asses expelled for not knowing how to act in that setting. The man probably shouldn’t have teaching in the first place. Just a big circus of jackassery.

How can anyone employed by a ‘Publick Skool’ system reach this point? Womb-to-the-tomb benefits, unending tenure, and the protection of knowing your earnings have not a BIT to do with how well you actually perform your job. Yeah…sounds worth of a ‘tantrum’ to me (roll eyes).

Bids said:
When I was in 7th grade back in the 60s, the teacher in my class, a nun, had a similar breakdown. She slapped a girl, and the girl just walked out of the room to the principal’s office with nun following her and yelling.

I’ve got a similar story from the 70s, except teacher wasn’t a nun and the shit didn’t hit the fan until the next day, when one of the girl’s parents complained. The two “victims” and the rest of the class couldn’t understand what prompted i, but we sure thought it was funny.

Then we must ask whether these students are contributing to the fact that the US lags behind every nation in the developed world in all areas of scholastic achievement.

If I had to tolerate miscreants like these so-called “students” I would not care to teach. I would like to follow the lives of the disruptive students just to see how well they turn out in life.

I feel empathy for the teacher…I truly do.

Bids said:
When I was in 7th grade back in the 60s, the teacher in my class, a nun, had a similar breakdown. She slapped a girl, and the girl just walked out of the room to the principal’s office with nun following her and yelling.

Jesuit?

Really? Tennessee again?

I have a good idea, why don’t we just have a “bodyguard” in each classroom where the kids truly do not want to learn. I have sympathy for this man who has been “suffering” through each school day attempting to “teach” while these ghetto kids would prefer to play games on their cell phones, heckle the teacher & be “generally” out of control. When I was raising my children (Catholic School) I viewed a similar scene, but not that intense, it was one young boy who was trying to gain attention from the class by making jokes, etc. The nun became so frustrated that she began to cry..I was standing in the hall when she passed by me and said “I hate these kids”. You know, when you get to that point, there is something wrong with our system. It is a total breakdown of the family..these kids will go home & their mothers will attempt to “sue the school”. I am so happy that my children are raised. I hate unfairness & that is why this country is low on the list of “high quality learners”. thanks for all the laws that reward bad behavior & ignore good behavior. How sad!

ChrisNH said:
How can anyone employed by a ‘Publick Skool’ system reach this point? Womb-to-the-tomb benefits, unending tenure, and the protection of knowing your earnings have not a BIT to do with how well you actually perform your job. Yeah…sounds worth of a ‘tantrum’ to me (roll eyes).

How can anyone work in public school anymore? Classrooms are filled with worthless little SHITS. Yes, teachers and administrators need to be held accountable, but when are parents going to raise kids that want to learn and have respect for ANYONE. They don’t respect their parents, teachers, police or anyone. When are people who don’t want to raise kids stop having them? Kids are a pain in the ass 24/7, but parents just keep spitting them out. If you don’t want to raise your own kids, don’t have them. Teenagers are being raised by their peers while their parents just ship them off to school to be someone else’s problem or left to run feral in malls. When are parents going to be held accountable for getting their kids to school dressed for learning and not for an orgy, well rested, fed, with their homework done and with an attitude that leaves their minds open for learning? If you don’t want to do that, don’t have kids.

Bids said:
When I was in 7th grade back in the 60s, the teacher in my class, a nun, had a similar breakdown. She slapped a girl, and the girl just walked out of the room to the principal’s office with nun following her and yelling.

Franciscan?

It’s pretty sad when everyone is so concerned with their individual rights, in any situation or location, that there is nor longer any acceptance of individual responsibility for one’s behaviors. I wouldn’t try to be a teacher under today’s school environment under any circumstances. Nothing will improve until school rules are understood, and students who decline to obey the rules, and to be students, are dismissed and turned back over to their parents to support.

Education has one of the highest incidents of workplace bullying which causes PTSD. So, along with having to put up with those kids on a daily basis he may have a lot more going on.

First: Would someone please delete Mikk0099? I hate spam.

Second: I feel for this teacher. Sometimes it doesn’t matter how great a teacher is, if the students are not taught to respect authority there is no learning. We had people in my classes (graduated in 2003) who did not respect teachers or the administration and we didn’t look at them as “cool.” While I will not defend this teacher or his actions, I have to wonder why more teachers don’t have breakdowns with so many more of those “cool” students in the classrooms today.

I substitute taught for this teacher. His students were saying awful things about him and were awful to me. He was using a silly story to teach math with-the students hated it-but I thought it showed that he was going over and beyond to teach Geometry. When I subbed for James, I had a student come in and curse me out and throw things at me! This was on top of the other verbal abuse from students, and I was just there to help teach. There was no help at this school when I called for security, and I even took out my cameraphone to record what this girl did to me bc she kept coming in and out of my class yelling and throwing things. I went for help and nothing was done. I don’t sub at that school anymore. Being a math teacher he has a ton of stress to get these kids to do well on their TCAP-and if they don’t he risks losing his job, then being blacklisted at other schools bc his students didn’t do well. When you have that amount of daily stress, non-cooperative students, over-crowding, then students who are violent against you and you have NO HELP from the administration…then this is what happens. Also, it’s supposed to be illegal to record teachers and students at the school. I know my video wasn’t given any notice but I coulda lost my job over recording that. Why wasn’t this student punished? I’ve seen way worse stuff from students, I wish there were cameras in the classroom-period. This would help alleviate alot of problems. Like when the students do awful things in class to the teachers and their parents are like “no my kids would never do that”, then the principal could just hit play and show the parent what their kids are capable of. I hope James gets help, and my heart and prayers are with him. Without being in his shoes for a day you all have NO IDEA what he’s been through! I do!

Wake up McGavock parents and wake up America!!!! This kind of disrespectful behavior in the class room would not be tolerated in my generation. These disrespectful punks would have been in the hall way getting their asses busted (excuse my language) but that is the fact. There is no excuse for pushing a parent, teacher or any other authority figure to this point. Do you think this type of behavior is accepted in the countries who are now leaving us in the wake of their financial fortunes. India for example has more HONOR STUDENTS than we have students period. If you continue to give your children anything and everything they want and don’t put consequences in place for their disrespectful actions then this is what you have to look forward to and more of it. I am suprised we don’t see a weekly occurance of this magnitude. I agree with putting cameras in the classroom and raising the standards for testing if not we are destined to be led by some of these same self centered disrepectful kids found on the video.

He is related to me and i can say that this is out of chracter for him. If you watch the video you can see how the kids are behaving. If i had acted like this my mother would have killed me. I want to know when people are going to stop babying their kids and come to the realization that they are raising little monsters who will be released on society one day. I have a son and i keep him in check, he goes to school with his homework done and dressed like a little boy should, we teach him to say yes/no ma’am and yes/no sir, we have values and we want him to have them as well. If these kids would act this way and their parents would make it their priority to make sure they do then he would not have been under so much stress that he snapped. Teachers, police officers, and firefighters among others will never be paid enough for all the crap they endure. Now my 2 cents are in.

I understand this… I don’t know what line separates that overwhelming feeling inside to when in crosses lines of becoming overtly visual, but I do know the line is thing.  Many educators will understand the underlying themes.  If you have no experience in education, it’s like trying to understand childbirth as a man… you simply can’t.  However, while there could be a small fraction of “bad teachers,” this is not the norm.  The stress on a teacher in a classroom where basic principles of respect are not present is a stress equivalent of a life-changing event on a daily basis.  I implore all parents and students to understand the behaviors and unrealistic expectations a teacher must figure out how to manage.  You have no idea.  Some days it feels seconds away from this poor teacher who is highly and unfairly represented.  Chrisnh… you are ignorant.