Education

Caught on Audio: Teacher Launches Profane Rant After Students Laugh in Class

A Tennesee teacher is on unpaid leave as the school district that employees him investigates allegations of verbal abuse towards three students.

High School science teacher Andrew Larson reportedly held three students after class on Friday after they were caught being disruptive and laughing during class. He then went on to threaten and curse out the boys (Nathan Walker, Austin Green and Korey Byard). From WZTV:

Green says he’s been in trouble with Larson before and suspected his teacher would use inappropriate language so he hit the record on his cell phone. During the confrontation you hear Larson say, ” If you come in here with that —- — attitude, I’m going to throw that assignment in the trash. Larson goes on to say, “I’m going to rip you a new @-# *$*@ and the next time you do it, I”m going to give you zeroes until you flunk and I don’t care if Mama comes in here. I don’t care if Daddy comes in here.”

Walker says he was scared: “I think he took it too far as a teacher. Teachers shouldn’t yell at you like that … at all. It was pretty scary … he used some really bad language. I mean … something I wouldn’t use toward anybody.”

But even though on leave, school superintendent Dr. Danny Weeks says he has gotten a flood of calls and e-mails supporting the teacher. The students don’t seem so popular either. According to Byard, the students have received threatening messages: “People are just saying when we show up at school tomorrow, that they’re going to jump us.. a lot of people are.”

Walker‘s mother says the teacher’s actions are disturbing: “The pure rage he had behind those words are what we’re really concerned about.”

Comments (137)

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  • aqualung
    Posted on November 9, 2010 at 3:17pm

    I don’t condone the language from the teacher but this story is a bit one-sided don’t you think? Sure looks like the kids’ innocent act is a bunch of BS. the kids look like entitled derelicts.

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  • dmforman
    Posted on November 9, 2010 at 3:17pm

    Would love to know what happened to make the teacher loose it like that.

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  • usualsuspect
    Posted on November 9, 2010 at 3:13pm

    Give the teacher an award for trying to straighten out the students, with punk ass kids disrupting the whole class these students are also squandering their classmates time along with the tax payers time and money.
    This whole notion that all kids are good and deserve A pat on the head and told they are special is BS. School is not A social event. It just might be the essence to the core problem with American labor force to many people view work as A social event. Perhaps we have become to believe that putting in time equates some how to the word work. The sooner our Children learn this lesson the better off our Country will be.

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  • zagfan
    Posted on November 9, 2010 at 3:13pm

    My parents raised eight kids and the teachers were ALWAYS right! If the school had to call our house, we got a good thumping…We all walked the straight line and were good students. We also appreciated the hard work our teachers put in to help us learn. That attitude is lost to kids now. They think they are being punished if they have to go to school, That is exactly why India is kicking the snot out of our kids in Math and Science. It is still a privilege there to attend school!

    Our Military has damped down on the Drill Sergent’s which is to bad. I’ve know many a boy on the edge of good or evil get straightened up by a .strong male. .

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  • AMERICA4EVER
    Posted on November 9, 2010 at 3:10pm

    Just ask yourself, are things better now? Enough said.

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  • SHOESHINEBOY
    Posted on November 9, 2010 at 3:05pm

    not supporting teacher here..he possibly reached a breaking point with the “three little pigs”…anwyay…cell phones should not be allowed in classrooms..period..

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  • Flagwaver
    Posted on November 9, 2010 at 3:05pm

    All kids are hellions at heart. However, innocent or not, the teacher went over the line when he threatened them with flunking and even throwing their completed assignments in the trash. That, and not the language, should leave the teacher jobless.

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  • My Two Cents
    Posted on November 9, 2010 at 2:59pm

    There was a time when kids respected authority. Now all they have to do is pull out their cell phones and call their mommies who cry to the local news outlets.

    In my day, misbehavior resulted in licks with a paddle and worse when we got home. We also knew that the bill of the cap went in the front.

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    • T.E.A.PARTNER
      Posted on November 10, 2010 at 12:56pm

      I remember my 8th grade math teacher ordered a classmate and me to remain after classbecause we raced for the door when the bell rang. When all the other kids were gone, he opened his desk drawer, revealing a long wooden plank with holes drilled throughout. He had me bend forward, facing the exit,and while I expected the sting of the paddle any second, this skinny 6 foot 5 inch teacher’s leg raised up high in the air, came down and met my buttocks squarely, sending me out into the hallway, landing on my feet. I turned to the door, and my classmate came sailing out the door, landing squarely on his feet. We looked at each other, and laughed our guts out and went to our next class. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! By the way, we minded our Ps and Qs from that point too. And Dad and Mom never heard about it.

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  • Mary M. Tebbe
    Posted on November 9, 2010 at 2:56pm

    As I’ve said before on this website, my husband is a School Superintendent. Teachers and administrators are being pushed to the brink dealing with unruly kids and most often they are hand-tied when it comes to discipline. Parents ALWAYS side with their children, and neither the students or the parents take responsibility for the wrongs done. Many of the students come from broken homes and this contributes to their behavioral problems. The problems that teachers and administrators deal with today are far worse then the things that teachers and administrators dealt with when I was in school…long time ago. My husband dealt with several major problems that occured just over this past week-end, and let me tell you not only do kids lie terribly, but they are cruel to each other, and some of the stuff would shock this website audience! Trust me, I’ve seen and heard it all in the last four decades…nothing would surprise me. And as far as the boys saying that they would never talk like that…you have got to be kidding!!!

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  • NHABE64
    Posted on November 9, 2010 at 2:54pm

    I am not sure exactly what happend but I am beginning to wonder if these three punks needed a good old fashioned ass kicking. That used to work pretty good before the liberal wimps took over.

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  • Ruler4You
    Posted on November 9, 2010 at 2:52pm

    Well, what we need here are some of those SEIU union member goons they used to intimidate republicans and anti union protests and knock some illiterate heads around.

    But wait, is this teacher tenured?

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  • zagfan
    Posted on November 9, 2010 at 2:50pm

    Can’t get the video to launch…again!!!

    I will be the first to admit that I could never be a teacher! The disrespect from the students and lack of interest from the parents, the rules set down in court…no thanks.

    I’m not sticking up for the government run schools either…Home schooling, private school, religious school any thing but Public Schools. The unions do more harm than good, the teachers know they are protected so they could care less about teaching, the curriculum is not based on learning math, science, English or creative thinking. It is a Liberal/Progressive think tank at best.,

    Trust me, I would be on U tube as a crazy teacher…I know it so I never even thought of teaching!

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on November 9, 2010 at 2:50pm

    aren‘t they so lucky it isn’t 1965 and they have Sister Bam!Bam! Bernadine who would bounce their heads off the desks for laughing. in fact, TOO BAD for them they do not have Sr Bam!Bam! cos they’d grow up to be Good Citizens….. but look, the little snots just got their 15 minutes of Fame and will go on to be punks somewhere. and their mothers are drooling over the celebrity of this.

    yes we have a few teachers [and Nuns] in our extended family.

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  • Rita
    Posted on November 9, 2010 at 2:47pm

    The teacher obviously shouldn’t have lost his cool but those kids look like obnoxious brats who have no respect. They weren’t scared of that teacher one bit. I love how the mother‘s have the attitude that their kids couldn’t possibly do anything wrong.

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  • SnapTie
    Posted on November 9, 2010 at 2:46pm

    I know this if my kids were getting yelled at i would bet they had it coming.

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  • NFYRx
    Posted on November 9, 2010 at 2:45pm

    We’ve developed a generation of tattlers. I’m telling my mommy. I got it on my cell phone.
    What’s next, football coaches and drill sargeants wont be allowed to “be so mean”. Can’t wait for this generation to have to fight a war. They’ll be wetting their pants calling mommy.
    Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to be pansies.

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  • teahugger
    Posted on November 9, 2010 at 2:43pm

    I may be jumping to conclusions…but I used to be a teenager, and I know they can act like little sh**s. Threatening to tear one a new A**hole is hardly a realistic threat. More of a hyperbole. And I really doubt the kids have never used language like that themselves. Oh, their poor virgin ears! Perhaps the teacher should just have given the kids failing grades and let the grades speak for themselves instead of going on a rant. Although that is more self control than I personally have.

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  • Amerigo Vespucci
    Posted on November 9, 2010 at 2:42pm

    Did anyone catch the fact that the name on this school is “White House”

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    • free2bme1961
      Posted on November 10, 2010 at 7:46am

      Oh yes, the white house….the palace of unspeakable secrets!

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  • Amerigo Vespucci
    Posted on November 9, 2010 at 2:40pm

    …and why is this wrong?

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    • free2bme1961
      Posted on November 10, 2010 at 7:35am

      Kids will laugh; my g/f and I laughed sometimes. This is military style discipline! Insult Intended!!
      I cannot believe people think this anger is okay! Welcome to the New World Order, out of control lunatic teacher association! He handled this very unprofessional, and anyone that thinks this is okay,
      has unresolved issues also. The government wants to brainwash kids, to prepare them for their agenda.
      Hey, if you want government teaching like this, don’t complain when kids are required to wear uniforms and he grows a funny little moustache!
      If he ever treated my daughter this way…he’d be the one with a newly torn @hole! He is a freakin’ lunitic!!! Next, he’ll strike a child, wait and see.

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on November 9, 2010 at 2:39pm

    well, what exactly happned those brats didn’t put on Record. just LOOK at those little spoiled rotten BRATS. we do not blame this teacher at all. not at all. their mommas are really total morons.

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    • CatB
      Posted on November 9, 2010 at 3:14pm

      We’ll see how funny they think it is when they are asking if “you want fries with that”…Momma will have no one to blame but herself and her brat!

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    • Aither
      Posted on November 10, 2010 at 12:38pm

      You can tell they think it’s a joke, one of them had a big smile on his face the whole time just about.Obviously fellow students think and probably know what they did wrong as well if they are getting messages on facebook condemning what they’ve done.

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  • p51d007
    Posted on November 9, 2010 at 2:39pm

    5 bucks these three “darlings” are the clean cut kids that they make themselves out to be.
    So the teacher yelled at 3 students…heck, when I was in school, the teacher was more likely
    to haul off and smack you in the face to get his/her point across.
    Less helicopter parents and more teachers like this one I say, and the “problem” with kids will
    be reduced greatly.

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    • free2bme1961
      Posted on November 10, 2010 at 7:39am

      You need help, if you believe that it was okay, in your day, for a teacher to smack you! All that does, is to create out of control angry adults. It is a violent gesture to strike anyone…especially kids!!!

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    • jvlag3
      Posted on November 10, 2010 at 8:44am

      and it wasn’t the teacher you were afraid of, it was the phone call home and then mom/dad beating your ass. Now the parents are afraid of their kids and take no responsibility for their and their kids actions. It’s always the teachers fault.

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  • Revotelution
    Posted on November 9, 2010 at 2:38pm

    Such innocent cherubs.

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    • bookofwisdom
      Posted on November 9, 2010 at 3:03pm

      You hit the nail on the head. The kid on the left was trying not to laugh the whole time they were being interviewed. It makes me sick. And the mothers are upset with the teacher…(?) Those women should be paddling behinds so hard they could not sit down for a week and they should be apologizing to that teacher for causing trouble in the class room. May God Bless.

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    • CatB
      Posted on November 9, 2010 at 3:07pm

      Sounds like a set up for a teacher they don/t like.

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    • TumbleBumble
      Posted on November 9, 2010 at 3:25pm

      I caught the smirks from the brown haired boy. And for a large amount of other kids to take the side of the teacher speaks volumes. I’d separate these boys and keep them from taking the same classes together.

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    • mrlogan3
      Posted on November 10, 2010 at 8:34pm

      I think based on what i heard the teacher overreacted, but these kids do seem like trouble.

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  • flashlight
    Posted on November 9, 2010 at 2:38pm

    Stressed out.

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  • cubber
    Posted on November 9, 2010 at 2:36pm

    We should just rip up their paychecks.

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    • Lesterp
      Posted on November 9, 2010 at 2:41pm

      According to the unions they hardly get a check!

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    • CatB
      Posted on November 9, 2010 at 3:06pm

      We should give authority back to the teachers — sounds like the “inmates” are running the asylum — these brats needed the paddle long ago! Just to get their attention!

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    • mrlogan3
      Posted on November 10, 2010 at 8:33pm

      They laughed…calm down. Plagiarism, looking at porn, violence against another classmate, go crazy on them teacher, but laughter? School should be more fun.

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  • Richard888
    Posted on November 9, 2010 at 2:36pm

    Ridiculous – Put education back in control at the local level and delete the DOE.

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    • cubber
      Posted on November 9, 2010 at 2:39pm

      Yes, PLEASE give us back local control. Just like the constitution lays out.

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    • BurntHills
      Posted on November 9, 2010 at 2:39pm

      yes, bring back DISCIPLINE so these little brats stop with their fake ghetto attitudes.

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    • NFYRx
      Posted on November 9, 2010 at 2:40pm

      We got our teacher to do this 15 yrs. We had respect for authority, though. WE DIDN”T RAT HER OUT BECUASE WE KNEW IT WAS OUR FAULT!
      Bring back the good old days when kids could take a good verbal lashing.

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    • tea ****** patriot
      Posted on November 9, 2010 at 2:40pm

      I’m going to go pray to my glenn beck action figures.

      tea bag patriot  
    • Dustyluv
      Posted on November 9, 2010 at 2:43pm

      Gee…Real mild compared to my Coach when I was a kid. I dont see the problem. You cant spank them any more when they act up, so are we supposed to just let them laugh and be disrespectful? The ******** say yes…I say bust their asses when they misbehave and they will be better kids for it!!!

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    • HKS
      Posted on November 9, 2010 at 2:50pm

      Anyone that has teenagers knows this situation. They deserved what they got and more. When I was in school I would have gotten a lot more, kids must have discipline, that’s the problem today.

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    • snowleopard3200 {mix art}
      Posted on November 9, 2010 at 2:52pm

      We need discipline and control both among the teachers, students, and the parents. Without the parents taking the time to teach decorum and discipline to their kids (I do not mean abuse them) the teachers are not respected and learning becomes a joke.

      The nation is paying for years of neglect across the board by the so called Department of Education, that should actually have been called Dept of Indoctrination (or KGB branch 2, after the KGB branch one which is the IRS)

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    • joseph Fawcett
      Posted on November 9, 2010 at 3:29pm

      this is more the parents fault for lack of teaching respect to the kids for figures of authority. I am sure these kids use worse language amoung themselves. Back when I was in school we would get worse and then got it again when we went home. It is an impossible situation when the parents do not teach respect.

      http://www.josephfawcettart.com western artist

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    • lqtm
      Posted on November 9, 2010 at 4:44pm

      Maybe better funding for the DOE is the solution. Considering many areas would teach creationism if given local control, I think the last thing we need to do is leave it to that. That would mark a step backward in our educational development and put us even more severely behind the rest of the world in testing. The privatize or localize education arguments are made by those who don’t really care about education but care more about influence and indoctrination. These are largely the people for whom opt-out forms were sent home to parents before Obama’s speech that told students to study hard and take their education seriously. If you actually want to talk about a common sense approach to implementing an educational system, leaving it to the whims of local governments is preposterous and impractical, and privatizing health care will result in education becoming a purchased item, and thus only available to those with money. Part of the point of a national education system is to make education available to everyone. The way the system works now, underfunded, it is not equally educational. The solution is not to give up and can the whole system, it is to improve the system and give it the resources that it needs. Maybe if half of the federal budget wasn’t going towards the defense department would would have more tax dollars to work with. Just a thought from a bleeding heart liberal. Tell me why I’m wrong, and why my studies in Law have led me so far astray of your well-informed perspectives.

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    • lqtm
      Posted on November 9, 2010 at 4:48pm

      Oh yes, and Cubber, where in the constitution does it say education should exist only on the local level? I’ve read it several times but I must have missed that clause.

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    • Damn_Lucky
      Posted on November 9, 2010 at 5:23pm

      “Put education back in control at the local level and delete the DOE.”
      You said it

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    • komponist-ZAH
      Posted on November 9, 2010 at 5:24pm

      LQTM–
      Try the 10th Amendment: all powers not granted to the federal government is retained by the states or people. Education is not a power granted to Congress, so it is sole purview of the states and people.
      You are deluded if you think throwing money at the DOE will solve anything. The DOE is basically a mechanism by which the federal government siphons money away from the states only to give it back to them with strings attatched. Would not be better to cut out the middle-man?
      And more localized control would result in children being taught creationism? How awful! Children taught that there is dissent in regards to the origin of the universe? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! NO DISSENT ALLOWED! But seriously, what makes you think that? I attended a private Christian school until 5th grade, and I was taught the basics of the theory of evolution in a way that was, yes, negative, but not overly so. And more than that, I am thinking individual capable of forming my own opinions… Please tell me that’s not already sin.

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    • minnierv
      Posted on November 9, 2010 at 5:31pm

      Heck, I had a gym teacher that was worse than a drill sergeant. She use to put together a string of obscenities liken nobody’s business.
      These little punks should have their behinds beat. Future prison tenants if someone doesn’t straighten their asses out (parents, do you job).

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    • starman70
      Posted on November 10, 2010 at 8:58am

      Amen!!! put ALL schools under LOCAL PARENTAL control, Eliminate the Dept. od Education and REMOVE Washington’s control of our schools and bring back real school discipline. I had my share of spankings in school (I was a mean brat) but from it, I learned respect.

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    • akim
      Posted on November 11, 2010 at 12:23pm

      SAVE OUR KIDS FROM HARSH TALK.

      The teacher should have been allowed to shove their heads into the desk. What do you think teachers in India, China, and Russia do with kids like this?

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