Education

Cell Phone Video Captures Unhinged Teacher’s Chair-Tossing Tirade

The meltdown in this Tennessee classroom was so bad the teacher ended up in handcuffs. WTVF-TV in Nashville has this account of what happened when students seemed not to heed the dictums of veteran teacher Donald Wood:

Wood picked up a metal trash can and slammed it to the ground. Students then began to leave the classroom. Witnesses said Wood then picked up a chair and threw it at the window – breaking the glass.

“He picked a chair and threw it on the ground – not at a student, but towards a student, but it was close – and that’s when I got up and started walking away,” said junior Joshua Jenkins. “Once everybody started running out he picked up a chair and threw it out the window and it shattered.”

(via Gawker)

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  • caitlynsdad
    Posted on October 9, 2010 at 6:30pm

    Let me guess. The unions got this guy tenure.

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    • oceandove
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 7:11pm

      Is this an example of the students in our classrooms today? I am surprised we have any teachers willing to TRY and teach these kids. The teacher needs to find a new job.

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  • DMD
    Posted on October 9, 2010 at 6:25pm

    Can’t say much for the animal students either.

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  • Jack007
    Posted on October 9, 2010 at 6:24pm

    The kids are animals; I don’t blame the teacher for going nuts because the brats are not taught at home to respect teachers.

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  • Raimy
    Posted on October 9, 2010 at 6:16pm

    The majority of kids today are VERY disrespectful of everyone and especially authority figures. But when someone doesn’t show them respect they start crying. You reap what you sow and when I look at the kids today I have to admit that I am very frightened for our future.

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  • DrammyCoke
    Posted on October 9, 2010 at 6:15pm

    The saddest thing of all is that the statist parents and the statist teachers are ruining all of the kids involved. Nothing is getting better, nor will anything get better until they change their ways.

    My kids are in a great school system, I drive 50 miles one way to work to ensure it.

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  • Contrarianthinker
    Posted on October 9, 2010 at 6:13pm

    What’s the saddest part is that the majority of kids were being reaspectful BUT they let the disrupters keep it up. I sometimes wonder why anyone would want to be teacher in HS. Well, the burnout period is about 5 years. Where is the high paid administrators????

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    • etmom1916
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 7:30pm

      My boys take AP classes – so that you don‘t have to deal with the kids that don’t want to be there.

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    • Mary M. Tebbe
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 7:46pm

      contrarianthinker: Don’t worry. The high paid administrators are right in the thick of this mess, as my husband is one. He handles this stuff on a daily basis. 42 years of this. And when the student is suspended, what do you think happens? The parents come to the school or to the school board and swear that it wasn’t their childs fault, and neither the parent or the child accept responsibility time after time. I’ve watched it happen. And the parents that have these out of control kids send them to school and then expect the administration and the teachers to deal with their kids and they won’t get involved. Administration and teachers are expected to work miracles on unruly kids when their own parents can’t. It’s a sorry mess all around.

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    • Kinnison
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 9:58pm

      ETMOM, I taught a very successful AP U.S. History class. It was so successful that many parents and students wanted in on it. Rather than start another section, my principal simply jammed 30 kids into my classroom—I couldn’t even fit 30 desks in the room—and when I told him I simply could not teach the class effectively at the same level of involvement with 30 kids in it he indicated that I should simply “dumb it down”. “Dumb down” a successful college prep class in which students must take a national exam for college credit? I couldn’t bring myself to do it, so I turned in my resignation and retired early at 62. Some teachers do have standards they refuse to violate.

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    • Contrarianthinker
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 10:09pm

      Mary I realize that there are some very conscientious, caring Administrators. The School Boards are usually elected so they pander to the lowest common denominator. I think the movie “Lean on Me” really shows what happens. And it is a “true” story.

      Thank your husband for his service. Don’t give up the fight for quality education.

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    • Mary M. Tebbe
      Posted on October 10, 2010 at 4:20pm

      contrarianthinker: My husband said, “Thank you!”

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  • Eyeball
    Posted on October 9, 2010 at 6:10pm

    Punk kids, crazy teacher. Bad combination.

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    • Contrarianthinker
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 6:26pm

      Crazy teacher??? So Jesus was CRAZY qhen He turned over tables and used a whip to drive them from the Temple. That’s called righteous indignation.

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  • C.H.A.O.S.
    Posted on October 9, 2010 at 6:05pm

    For those who are business owners, and/or the patrons who frequent them, I offer this sobering thought.

    Very soon these wonderful little cherubs will be graduated, (regardless of grades and performance records) and unleashed upon our society and the workforce. You will probably then be forced into hiring one or more of them some day, and once you do, heaps of federal and state regulations will prevent you from being able to purge them from your ranks once the sweet little parasitic snots have entrenched themselves into the flesh of your businesses and your lives.

    Yeah. Blame the teacher. He went postal. And then start removing all sharp objects from your surroundings, because sooner or later you will be so sorely tempted as well.

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    • missbosslady
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 6:20pm

      You are so correct!!!!

      I was an employer and the dreck that showed up asking for a job was mind boggling! They didn’t know how to read, write, talk, act, dress, etc… Combine that with the threat of discrimantion and it didn’t take long for me to close up shop. Not worth it.

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    • PAFFVINTAGE
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 6:26pm

      Well said.

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    • BoilitDown
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 7:05pm

      A sobering thought indeed. Very well said, thank you.

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  • Caffeinated Texan
    Posted on October 9, 2010 at 6:05pm

    These schools should have webcams in every room so parents can see how the kids are acting. Those few kids who respect their parents these days will be kept in line and those who don’t will be more easily shipped to alternative schools (aka Prison Training, as so many alternative school kids end up there.)

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    • BetterDays
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 10:43pm

      Really?
      Do you think the parents exerciase any authority over these children? Spare the rod and spoil the child.

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    • Caffeinated Texan
      Posted on October 10, 2010 at 9:29am

      Betterdays: “Those few kids who respect their parents these days will be kept in line…” I acknowledged your argument in the second sentence of my comment.

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  • CaptainSpaulding
    Posted on October 9, 2010 at 6:03pm

    What was his class doing that made him so mad?

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    • RealityCheck
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 7:55pm

      Really? Even from the small amount of video you can’t grasp how students were laughing and mocking him? Seriously?

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  • retiredLEO
    Posted on October 9, 2010 at 5:54pm

    Problem in education is these student don’t want to learn, they don’t like authority, especially a white male teacher. I even heard one of the students say, you have the power, then came more laughter. The teachers mistake was losing it, not throwing the ringleader out of the class. We need more money for education, does that mean these rowdy kids will actually learn more? We may need more money for security and police in our schools.

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    • wingedwolf
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 7:25pm

      I thought I heard the Mother F a few times…when I was in school you wouldn’t have dared say that out loud in front of an adult…getting your butt kicked wasn’t considered child abuse back then. Look where the good Dr. Spock has gotten us. I don’t advocate for violence against children. My Elders have taught,”children walk in innocence, but they must walk with respect.” These children have zero respect for this teacher and I daresay, none for themselves.

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  • asmith
    Posted on October 9, 2010 at 5:52pm

    This situation could have been handled differently. The zero tolerance policy needs to extend toward disrespecting the teacher and the class. Maybe the teachers need a class on discipline before they get their license.

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    • wonderbug
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 6:31pm

      “a class on discipline”? …….. you have no idea. Those students were UNRULY.

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    • dmforman
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 7:01pm

      A teacher can only discipline if the administration will back them up and do something. Where I taught, principals didn’t want their school records tarnished, so children like this remain in the classroom disturbing the learning of those children who want to learn. The adults in charge in many cases won’t back up the teachers, so teachers don’t bother to do anything. It’s very sad, when the children are running the schools.

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    • jano526
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 8:53pm

      And what exactly would be taught in this discipline class? You need to try being a teacher.

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  • Psychosis
    Posted on October 9, 2010 at 5:51pm

    the progressive movement at its finest…………..those kids need to be beat this is why our schools are failing…..disrespectful kids poor parenting, government involvement, and unions.

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    • upsetagainin2010
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 6:17pm

      @FREDDDY Thank you so much, this pretty much says it all, and an answere to the hopes of MOMOFTWOCHILDREN.
      TO PSYCHOSIS, Looks to me like the teacher is psychotic

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    • Contrarianthinker
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 6:23pm

      UPSET, I’m glad that Christ is judging me. I wouldn’t want you to.

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    • Zcat
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 6:23pm

      Absolutely!

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    • cosmopro1965
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 11:18pm

      Indeed!!!!

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    • Strictlybusiness
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 11:35pm

      I COULDN’T HAVE SAID IT BETTER MYSELF !!!!!! LITTLE ANIMALS NEED A GOOD BULL DOG BEATING…….That’s what they called the ELEMENTARY school I went to“ BULLDOG” if those little animals acted that way at Bull Dog, it would have been NO PROBLEM, They would have gotten a good ASS beating by MR. JONES!!!!! With a wooden paddle that had holes drilled in it of course… It wouldn’t have killed them trust me . I had a few run ins with that paddle and i’m fine. IT DID ME and my buddy’s A LOT OF GOOD!!!! But if I had used that language they were using, to MR.JONES WOW , Hmmmm, well hmmmm ummmm IF YOU THINK WHAT THIS TEACHER DID WAS BAD YOU DEFINATLEY WOULDn’t WANT TO SEE WHAT MR.JONES would have done…. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A SCARY SITUATION THAT even today at 46 yrs old I wouldn’t want to face.

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  • Common Sense Sally
    Posted on October 9, 2010 at 5:47pm

    The video is a little confusing, in that, the teacher looked like he and the students were in on something. Either that, or it was a crazed look on his face. Hard to tell from the video. He didn’t seem to be enraged, but playing into the kids’ taunting or tormenting? Not sure.

    I will say though that I had a teacher who would take his tabletop podium and slam it down when us kids weren’t being respectful. It made a VERY loud noise, which snapped us to attention very quickly. However, he never turned over desks or threw furniture AT, or in the direction of, us.

    My friend teaches online and she says that she doesn’t know what she would do if she had to go back into the classroom. She was there before and loves it much more in the cyber classroom.

    I don’t have children, but I’d be very skeptical of sending them to a public school. If I couldn’t send them to a private school, then I’d probably home-school them. It’s just too crazy these days.

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    • dmforman
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 6:58pm

      I was thinking that same thing.

      Disrespect from students and parents is why I left teaching and will home school my son. No amount of money will keep a good teacher in the classroom with disrespectful students.

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    • CyberPro
      Posted on October 11, 2010 at 12:50pm

      I agree. I first saw this on a local website, but the video is really poor quality and lots of digital blocking. It is hard to see, but it did look like the teacher had a smile on his face for most of the video. It was also hard to make out what was being said, and at times I wondered if this was some kind of role playing situation.

      All that being said, the “students” in the classroom were on unruly to the point of being a seated riot. It was clear that the teacher had no control of the classroom, and I agree with other people here saying that parents are part of the problem. When I was in school, we still had corporal punishment, and beyond that, I knew if I got in trouble at school, I had worse waiting for me when I got home. This is not to say that the punishment was blindly applied. I was cited for doing something once that I did not do, and I was very upset about it, but my parents called the principal and took my side. They would have not done this had they believed I was at fault.

      What you fail to understand is that the reason those kids were acting so disrespectful is that we do not spend enough money on education! If we immediately began spending the two times the GDP on education, they would have shown up freshly showered, in a suit, at their respective desks with a willing attitude and ready to impress their teachers! Or so the politicians and teacher’s unions say.

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  • stanleythemanly
    Posted on October 9, 2010 at 5:37pm

    I know the teacher is suppose to be the adult here, but what the heck is it with the kids acting up. In my day the teachers made the students leave the classroom and the kids accidentally hit there head on the way out of the room.

    I also believe the unions will protect this idiot teacher or put him on paid leave at the worse.

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    • Contrarianthinker
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 6:18pm

      Stanley, what oif they refuse to leave the classromm? It’s so easy to criticize this teacher. He may have had this type of thing happen day after day with NO useful help from the high paid administratpors. I also noticed that the disruption was coming from blacks. Beleive me, the NAACP will jump all over everyone involved if these blacks are kicked out of school.

      All my six are grown and have children. I would home school now but my kids seem NOT to care about the dumbing down of public education.

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  • overlumber
    Posted on October 9, 2010 at 5:37pm

    I am not teaching any longer because of “the precious little darlings” and their “Oh, my little Johnnie (ex. only) would NEVER do that!” enabling parents. My life, home, children, husband were threatened verbally and by written note. The kids were 14 years old at the time and school leaders who threatened to blow up my house. And, this was twenty years ago in a small community. I LOVED teenagers and loved even more college age students who were returning to make something of themselves. Teaching is so impossibly hard and quite dangerous these days. Too bad the teacher didn’t have all the events leading up to the incident recorded for his defense ~~~if there was one.

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  • claymoremacm
    Posted on October 9, 2010 at 5:36pm

    Imagine the tax savings if we only had homeschooling, 7th year

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  • N37BU6
    Posted on October 9, 2010 at 5:35pm

    I know EXACTLY what caused him to snap, but he’s still a moron.

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    • Contrarianthinker
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 6:21pm

      It takes no GUTS to criticize from the sidelines. Try being a substitute teacher and then come back.

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    • N37BU6
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 8:34pm

      @CONTRARIANTHINKER

      No guts? Sidelines? You sure like to jump to conclusions without any facts, don’t you?

      I did private security for years… from violent union strikes to dealing with 500 students at a convention center, I’ve gone through it all. You think this is tough? It’s a joke. All the man had to do was exit the room. There’s no excuse for losing it like this, no matter how infuriating kids can be.

      Watch the video again, and see what you’re defending. He threw a chair at a window, breaking it. Would you still be defending him if your child were in the class, or if someone was injured? Would you be defending him if he were an ACORN worker or a politician?

      You sure are living up to your user name, aren’t you? Just disagreeing for the sake of disagreement… my comment wasn’t even that harsh; I related to the guy *despite* his actions. If you’re a teacher who is defending him *for* his actions however, you just may need to be on a watch list because you don’t belong in a classroom.

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    • jano526
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 8:47pm

      Always wanted to be a teacher. Became a substitute first for four years. Many times had disrespectful classes that want to push (especially a sub) to the edge. Also, told if any discipline problems to send them to the team teacher (usually the next door teacher who also sends her problems into my classroom. What kind of discipline is that? Kids wanted to go next door. Changed my mind about being a teacher just can’t find another job so I continue to take the abuse and hang on.
      Had an ESL class once and they asked if I spoke Spanish. I said no. Wrong answer. They went into full social – teasing me, laughing, all in Spanish. Yup – I had no control. I love it when people say the teacher had no control but yet not allowed to control. I’d like to ask “And what would you do to control them?” Ideally, tie them to their chair and duct tape their mouths and then maybe you can teach them. Yea, right! It’s not control. It‘s a respect issue and if they don’t respect their parents they are not going to respect their teachers.

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    • Contrarianthinker
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 10:15pm

      N37, BUT you didn’t substitute teach so I stand by my previous statement. BTW, I spent 30 years as a University Business Professor. By then discipline problems are few and far between. Mostly cheating.

      My wife had to quit as a Teacher’s Assistant because the stress on her was causing medical problems.

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    • orkydorky
      Posted on October 10, 2010 at 2:45am

      N37bu6………………………….I think your critics should probably look for a different line of work, a real job in the real world! In my world if you make excuses, your not doing your job! It‘s a sorry thing when the so called educators can’t even out smart their students.

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    • N37BU6
      Posted on October 11, 2010 at 2:22am

      @CONTRARIANTHINKER

      Why do you stand by your previous statement? You should just stand by your wife’s decision to handle herself infinitely better than this idiot did.

      There is *NO* excuse to do this. It’s not fair to the kids who were behaving themselves, nor to anyone on the ground outside who could have had a 5lb sheet of plate glass go through their skull.

      What about pulling a gun and firing into the ceiling? That would actually be cheaper to repair… where do you draw the line?

      If you can’t handle the heat…

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  • Zcat
    Posted on October 9, 2010 at 5:32pm

    Looks like a couple of the students were trying to rule, and disrupt the rest of the class! And i might add were successful!

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    • orkydorky
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 7:41pm

      In my day, if a student acted loud and disrespectful, he was immediately sent to the deans office or the principles office for disciplining! Why is it so hard for the teacher to do that in a calm, commanding tone and by taking out the ring leaders restoring order. The children in this classroom includes the teacher!

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  • eaglescout1998
    Posted on October 9, 2010 at 5:29pm

    I don’t know the full details of this incident. But it looks to me that the students are being disrespectful and the teacher had a Howard Beale moment.

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  • SusansSS
    Posted on October 9, 2010 at 5:28pm

    If my child had been one of the loud mouth unruly students he would be in trouble for a very long time. The teacher AND the students behavior is unacceptable.

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  • RobertCA
    Posted on October 9, 2010 at 5:24pm

    I totally understand what this teacher is going through , don’t blame him .
    I’ve seen it with my own eyes how students get so disrespectful with their teachers I work in schools trust me on this one .

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    • America First
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 5:50pm

      I agree. These kids are our future? Pretty sad. Actually I can’t blame the teacher. You can only take so much of unruly kids.

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    • Robin6
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 6:09pm

      First think I thought was how frustrated he must be to try to actually TEACH people who many times are only there because they are forced to and view it as a social gathering. Such disrespect is amazing.

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    • missbosslady
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 6:13pm

      That’s what I was thinking. The teacher is the problem here? Really? How about the obnoxious, ill-behaved, disrespectful kids in that classroom? What is wrong with our society?

      If my son had EVER acted that way in school there would have been hell to pay when he got home.

      It’s become a viscious cycle. Parents, who don’t parent, drop off their ill-behaved, nasty progeny at the school steps. When the kid poses a problem in the classroom the ineffective parent comes in screaming about their little “angel”, the teacher is reprimanded and goes screaming to their union. The kid gets off without penalty and the teacher is moved to another classroom and the problem never gets solved. What a joke!

      I blame parents. This is where the problems started. So many parents sending their kids to school with no values, no rules, no guidance, no nothing.

      I pulled my son out of public school and scraped to send him to private school to get him away from your crappy kids.

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    • thepatriot
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 6:15pm

      I also agree. Remember the days when a child acted up like this and when they got home Mom and Dad were waiting for them with some stern words and a nice leather belt. Kids have no respect these days.

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    • Contrarianthinker
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 6:19pm

      Take a look at perhaps the best school discipline movie EVER.. Stand by Me.

       
    • akamaikamaaina
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 6:23pm

      there is no longer a fear of consequence. once there was an understanding that the
      consequence of such behavior was corporal punishment. in the day he would have been sent to the football coach. that behavior did not exist, it was not tolerated.
      it is sad to see a teacher at his wits end.

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    • LuvThisCntry
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 6:25pm

      Yes, you are right. There are just not enough discipline in schools and at home for these children, too. This is too bad, all the teacher wanted was for these children to be quiet and listen to him in class. Wonder if ACLU is going to do anything here, I doubt it as the teachers union is so powerful, Plus, ACLU and the Union may be on the same side. Interesting to see the outcome of this.

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    • Spero
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 6:30pm

      The amazing thing is many socialist still hold to the belief that they can “mold” these young minds into the bright idyllic citizen of the future if only you control their environment. In response to that and in light of this video, I have one question:

      How‘s that workin’ out for ya’?

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    • Michelle
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 6:44pm

      He had absolutely no control over his class, the PC police have tied the hands of responsible teachers to the point of frustration illustrated here. Kids are being told to show contempt for any kind of person who job it is to teach tools that allow them to act in any constructive way since the governments only interest is to keep the populus ignorant and reliant on the government.

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    • tierrah
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 6:56pm

      How can you teach anything when they laugh, talk and disrespect the teacher? SAD, SAD situation!

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    • drbage
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 8:00pm

      This is one where you would love to be able to FORCE all the parents of these children come and watch the film and watch them try to deny that their little angel would ever do anything disrespectful or disruptive. Then get them to take responsibility for the actions of their children and warn them that one more incident of this type and the kids are bye-bye. Ooops! Thought I might be in a real world and they might understand personal responsibility. Until parents accept the fact that they are parents and they need to lead and discipline, even the best of teachers have little hope.

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    • Kinnison
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 9:46pm

      Colleges of Education simply do not teach prospective teachers to deal with “real world” discipline problems in the classroom. Veteran teachers, the good ones that earn and demand respect from their students don’t have these kinds of problems very often, and if they have supportive vice-principals and principals those few are dealt with expeditiously and successfully. As a veteran junior high and high school teacher with 15 years experience, I never had a problem anything close to this. But watching the behavior of the kids in that classroom you can see that no learning is taking place there. Was the teacher out of line? Yes. Were the students the proximate cause of his melt-down? Yes. Bad teachers in our schools? Yes. How would you propose to get good ones to stay and teach in such conditions? Teacher competency—both academic and disciplinary—is only one leg of education. Student readiness to learn and both school administration and parental support are the other legs of the stool. Without all three legs the stool collapses and no learning takes place. Throwing more money at the problem doesn’t work; we have tried it. Go to a voucher system and allow parents to send their kids to a charter school if they want to. Charter schools can institute stricter discipline policies than current public schools and throw out disruptive students as well as sub-par teachers. And competition for the student dollar will improve public schools too. It’s worth a try.

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    • Contrarianthinker
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 10:18pm

      Kinnison a very balanced post. Thank you for your experienced based insights.

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    • libertyordeath76
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 10:20pm

      Everyone of the students in that classroom should be suspended for at least 3 days and still have to make up the work they missed.

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    • amwhatam
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 10:21pm

      Typical government school. I would never send my kids to one.

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    • Huckabee Gingrich 12
      Posted on October 10, 2010 at 12:05am

      @BOSSLADY
      You’re absolutely right about the parents being at fault. However I do take issue with your blanket statement of “my crappy kids”. I assure you, my kids are not crappy, in fact, their teacher tell me year after year what a pleasure they are to have in class. That‘s because we’ve taught them respect, manners, and common courtesy. They’ve been taught from kindergarten to stay as far away from the troublemakers as they can, and when I ask them if they know who the troublemakers are, they always say yes.

      My wife and I have chosen to send our children to public school because 1- we can’t afford tuition to private school 2- the private schools where I live, sadly, aren’t much better, if at all, than the public schools (and I‘m lumping my church’s school right in there), 3- after homeschooling for one year, my wife, though she did a WONDERFUL job, was too exhausted trying to keep the home, take care of a baby, and teach three different grades, and I was unable to assist her at all during the day. Public school is the most practicle choice for us. We are in frequent contact with their teachers, and they have all been told not to hesitate for one second to call us if there is ever a problem. The kids know that we have this rapport with their teachers, and that right there seems to be a factor in their good behavior.

      I’ll tell you what sticks in my liver: I’ll be at the school for whatever reason, and I’ll see other parents ther who look like whores and gangsters, and their kids are raising hell. Yes, I’d love to keep my kids far away from them and their kids, but, unfortunately, all I can do is say, “You know what son? Did you hear how that boy just talked to that grown-up? Don’t you ever dishonor me by doing something like that, okay?“ ”Yes sir, dad.“ ”I love you, son.“ ”I love you too, dad.”

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    • cap0ne
      Posted on October 10, 2010 at 3:13pm

      I feel for that teacher. These “students” were out of control and the school administration probably turns a blind eye to this behavior. I mean you can’t suspend or expell them all, right?

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    • BJC49
      Posted on October 11, 2010 at 12:10am

      I was a sub for a few years. I taught elementary through High School. Let me tell you how I handled it. First I let them know I would not put up with disrespect. Next, the first time one showed disrespect I got real close to them looked them dead in the eye and said get out. I then sent them to the office or escorted them. I left them there for the principle to deal with. I looked at it like this, I wasn’t going to let a someone younger than me get the best of me. Now if the principle didn’t take care of the student and his attitude then I would send the student right back and tell him to not return to my class for the day. It didn’t take long before the principle figured out he better take care of the student or he/she was going to be babysitting the little creep for a an hour. I wasn’t going to let one or two students ruin my class. It didn’t take long and I had many, many teachers wanting me to fill in when they missed because they knew I wouldn’t let the children get away with destroying their room or cause confusion all day long. I got along very well with the students and they respected me and we ended up having a good time. They knew as long as they listened and followed rules that I would always cut them some slack at the end of the period to talk and commute with each other. I really loved working with them. Children will usually come around if they know what you stand for.

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  • RAISINGCONSERVATIVES
    Posted on October 9, 2010 at 5:23pm

    Wow! Praise God for homeschooling!!

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    • dmforman
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 6:59pm

      Amen!

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    • Malak
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 7:30pm

      I was a city boy rebel coming to a small town in the Washington State back in 67-68. The first time I tried to disrupt the class, Mrs Sobeck lifted me out of my seat by the short hairs of my neck and delivered me to Mr. Price (football coach) and Mr. Shoben out in the hall. They in took me down to the basement and applied the “Board of Education” to my butt! Problem solved!

      The compassionate liberals passed laws banning corporal punishment in Washington state in 1993.

      We bailed the problem of the government schools and home schooled our eight children. Save your children….we parents are responsible for our the education and discipline of our children, but if you choose to delegate that to others a properly placed ‘board of education’ does wonders!

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    • jabernathy81
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 8:46pm

      I’ll second that amen!!! I have more sympathy for the teacher than the students though. My daughter will never be in public schools. Just a small adventure to a local mall or box store and I am appalled at the behavior of kids/teenagers. Where are the parents/role models anymore?

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    • Strictlybusiness
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 11:15pm

      Have some compassion for what these public SERVANTS (TEACHERS) have to put up with ! ! ! Where is your compassion, your understanding, for this gentleman whom obviously had enough of the UNRULEY ANIMALS IN HIS CLASS and had a break down??? I’m sure you would have done a much better job….. WOW, thank God for perfect people like you that home school.

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    • angrymob
      Posted on October 10, 2010 at 5:16pm

      Dems are trying to take that away…at least they are here in California. All because they want to force their ideology our kids.

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  • Michael
    Posted on October 9, 2010 at 5:22pm

    Wow. What’s his issue???

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    • Polwatcher
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 5:41pm

      Kinda reminds me of the aitline steward that went off and quit his job.

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    • Jscools
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 6:37pm

      The disrespectful unruly kids. What do you think his issue is?

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    • mck05002
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 7:01pm

      It looks like he never had control of the class anyways….but what a bunch of disrespectful kids…

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    • osbo45
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 7:02pm

      Damn teenagers will push anyone over the edge. They need to bring back corporal punishment in schools.

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    • toddzillaa
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 9:11pm

      What he did was way Wrong,but it didnt seem liek the Students were such a treat to have in his class either.Kids today seem more rude and harder to control as well I believe.

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    • Strictlybusiness
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 11:08pm

      His issue is A BUNCH OF UNRULEY ANIMALS in his class room that no one in that school can control. He had enough and had a nervous break down….. It happens ! ! ! ! !

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    • redneckdiver
      Posted on October 10, 2010 at 12:26am

      OSB – we have corporal punishment in TN, though I doubt any schools in the libterd utopia of Nashvegas choose to use it. My kids’ schools use it.

      http://school.familyeducation.com/classroom-discipline/resource/38377.html

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    • orionreplay6607
      Posted on October 10, 2010 at 7:17am

      This issue I see here are children are being empowered by society to decide for themselves who they will and will not respect. Growing up, there was no such option for me. Disrespect and I saw a paddle in my future. You can hear during the video claims of the teacher having “no power” and he decides, poorly, to demonstrate what “power” he does have.

      He clearly was backed up against the whiteboard and felt he was being cornered by this chaos. He can‘t just leave the situation or he’d never have respect in from the class ever again. He might he even get reported for simple leaving the class alone. So he chooses to demonstrate his power which he believes will bring the situation back into his favor. Now this poor decision has everyone thinking he’s cracked. He’s lost it. He’s an idiot. The kids go off and know they caused this guy to freak out and they eat it up.

      Whether he was a good teacher or not has nothing to do with it. He was trapped and you can see the indecision in his face as he placed right up against that whiteboard.

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    • Jamestown
      Posted on October 10, 2010 at 10:18am

      .OH and by the way..we the american taxpayer just aDded another 20 To the 50 billio dollars that’s 70Billion dollars to teachers union for their wrong investments in wall street to guarantee their retirement income…I have bo respect for that teacher OR ANT OTHER PUBLIC SCHOOL MAGGOT THAT STEALS MY MONEY…WHAT GIVES YOU THE RIGHT TO CALL YOURSELF A TEACHER? Is it the government? GO TO HELL PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER TRY THROWNING ADESK AT ME YOU POS…

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  • Capt_Spalding
    Posted on October 9, 2010 at 5:19pm

    A local story where I’m from. Kinda creepy… but interesting how there is always a camera somewhere these days. I’m sure the teachers union will have him back in a classroom asap.

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    • Marylou7
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 6:13pm

      You are probably right. Sad!

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    • DrammyCoke
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 6:16pm

      Our tax dollars at work!!

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    • Firefight
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 6:43pm

      Bahahaha A bit of a flash back for me… I had a teacher throw a desk at me and a couple of chairs when I was in 7th grade. I deserved it though.

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    • cdavehere
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 6:48pm

      This is why our children need thier cell phones at school. This is why schools don’t want them there. I live 112 miles from there in Crossville, and the schools here are trying repeatedly to remove our childrens life line. Our county won’t properly fund the schools, but they can worry about cell phones. Vote them out, please.

       
    • 2
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 7:23pm

      I bet this is a LIB/TERD

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    • sWampy
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 9:32pm

      Oh, come on, kids don’t need phones in the classroom anymore than they need game boys, psp’s, ipods. You want to monitor the classrooms put a video/audio recording system that is recorded anytime the room is in use, and broadcast them out online so parents can watch them. If day cares can afford to do this where the total cost of keeping the kid for 9 hours, feeding 2 meals plus snacks to them, and even teaching them pre-k classes for $100 a week, schools that cost over $1000 a month can afford the same.

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    • ASteinhoff
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 10:43pm

      Swampy, your camera idea is a good idea, but the unions will not allow it citing privacy, etc. Don’t depend on the government to do the right thing. Cell phone cameras is one of the best defenses against this type of behavior.

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    • cosmopro1965
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 11:20pm

      The kids that instigated this are whats creepy to me!!!!

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    • oldoldtimer
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 11:32pm

      Melt down!!! Disrespectful students, no support from upper level, not allowed to take any action but take it. The reason many excellent teachers quit. You are not allowed to even discuss a students behavior. The kids are being empowered to act up as they know chances are nothing will happen to them. The reasons I quit teaching years ago. The first time I said something to the Black class bully I was called a racist by the principle. I found another job immediately.

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    • firstHat
      Posted on October 9, 2010 at 11:39pm

      @cosmopro1965 I’m with you on this. This is a veteran teacher and he is getting NO respect from those students. He has no real power. He can’t suspend or expel them. They know it and since they have no investment in the class, they are running rough shod over him. It’s a mess. I never threw a chair at a student. I have slid a desk and chair across a room and into a wall to get a class’s attention. It worked :-) But they were college kids and chose to be there.

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    • CoFX
      Posted on October 10, 2010 at 12:02am

      Cosmo, Old, First, I am in agreement. If I would have acted like these kids in school, I would have first been suspended, then got my hide tanned when I got home. Can you imagine trying to teach these kids every day with no power to correct them? No wonder American public schools are circling the drain.

      I don’t blame him for snapping – I would make it about three days as a public school teacher.

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    • jaketrobinson
      Posted on October 10, 2010 at 12:20am

      maybe he just got fed up with students who don’t give a crap about learning… and don’t know how to show respect…

      maybe every now and then a good teacher just can’t take it anymore…

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    • Robert W
      Posted on October 10, 2010 at 12:47am

      Ill bet my last dollar he voted for obama.

       
    • cmr396
      Posted on October 10, 2010 at 3:45am

      Hopefully he gets out of that school, those kids seem like jerks!. I hope he an learn how to be more leader like and maintain his anger if he gets this type of job again.

      he needs to get out of that school, and judging by how the kids were acting, they need to take a class on how to be polite and civil

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    • Post-Progressive American
      Posted on October 10, 2010 at 7:16am

      I am more concerned with the kids…they brought it on themselves. All the focus will be on the teacher and he will be made the sacrificial lamb…I would expel the disruptive students and keep the teacher.

      @firefight, I am glad you realize you deserved it…I had a similar incident regarding a typewriter in 8th grade. My parents got called in and were explained the situation…I apologized to the teacher, was suspended for two weeks and had a generous dose of corporal punishment, extra chores and restriction when I got home…I behaved much better in school after that and, believe it or not, that teacher was very good and turned out to be one of my favorites.

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    • beekeeper
      Posted on October 10, 2010 at 10:25am

      It looks like the teacher was smiling at the start (or maybe a moustache/lighting makes it look that way), either way it got me wondering what went on before the video starts, and of course, why there is a video at all.

      The teacher says things like “you are the worst student ever,“ ”if you can just keep quiet,“ ”I have the power” and other oddly-worded phrases. If this wasn;t a math class, I’d suspect he was trying to make a point about something and went off the rails. But I can’t understand how defining/demonstrating a power relationship between teacher and student is “on topic” for a math class.

      Everyone will hang their personal cause around the neck of this incident, it is unavoidable – but the most likely conclusion is that there were some in this class that choose to keep pushing this teacher past his breaking point, and once pushed they got more than they bargained for AND their pre-arranged youtube video.

      Youtube is littered with literally hundreds of these types of videos, and as long as kids think it‘s cool to create and post these types of videos we’ll keep getting them…

      I don’t defend the teacher (he should have conceeded he lost control of his class and called in some help), I don’t defend the students (I saw no one make any effort tone down the situation), but I will point out that there was something that happened before this video started. Maybe the teacher had a history of similar “meltdowns” (if so, were they ever brought to the attention of the principal/school board?) or these kids were trying to make a video showing how far they pushed their teacher – either way, until we know the first half of this story, I don‘t think it’s fair to leap to a conclusion.

      But, based solely on the video, the teachers actions, in and of themself, constitute grounds for suspension/discipline hearing, where hopefully the backstory will come out.

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    • oldoldtimer
      Posted on October 10, 2010 at 10:27am

      If you think Nashville schools are bad. You should teach in Memphis. Education is running heads first into a brick wall. Fewer and fewer good educated students are coming from big city piblic schools and throwing more money at these schools accomplish nothing.DC has the highest per student spending and the lowest graduation rate. Home school if you want your children to learn. The resources are out there, use them.

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    • CYCLONE
      Posted on October 10, 2010 at 10:36am

      the only thing creepy about this is that… he did’nt hit the little bastages in the head with the chair…take better aim next time buddy… make it count !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • sWampy
      Posted on October 10, 2010 at 11:27am

      There is no expectation of privacy in a public school classroom, cameras need to roll and record all the time, a bunch of out of context edited cell phone video clips will do nothing but add problems rather than solve them.

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    • minnierv
      Posted on October 10, 2010 at 1:19pm

      I agree with all of you who are pointing out the disrespect of the students toward the teacher. These are the same kids that will find their rear ends in and out of prisons because they don’t have respect for anything in life.

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    • Ladynra1
      Posted on October 11, 2010 at 3:25am

      A very sad day, indeed. It happens WAY more than we know.

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    • KingArthurUp
      Posted on October 11, 2010 at 10:35am

      I miss the good old days when a teacher could cold **** an ******* like that dennis rodman look alike. That would have stopped this incident 30 seconds in.

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    • jonordy
      Posted on October 12, 2010 at 12:12pm

      It must be hard for the students who want an education to learn anything in that type of atmosphere. Although the teacher obviously deserves punishment you run into a problem with the message you send. Should the teacher be punished and the students instigating this incident go without reprimand you give the impression that the teachers are subservient to the pupils. I made more than a few nuns blowup in school but I still respected and feared them and knew when to shut up because there were always consequences. I always pushed the line as many kids do and unfortunately in public schools there are no lines to push. It’s play time. Don’t get me wrong, the teacher is in the wrong here but I guaranty a few nuns came close to throwing chairs at me and I didn’t come close to the disrespect those students were showing and if I had gotten hit with the chair, it would be me who would be in trouble not the nun and my folks would have thrown the sofa at me when I got home. Arrrgh This is a bad situation all around and I can’t stand it… I just threw my chair into the cubicle next to me… I can’t believe I wasted my lunch break to watch this. This all could be resolved if we removed all furniture from classrooms.

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