Tuesday, October 12, 2010

1+1= I'll kick your &@%#$@ ASS!

Math teacher snaps


The footage shows a Nashville math teacher throwing furniture around the classroom. According to several reports, the teacher was eventually handcuffed and taken away on a stretcher after suffering from an apparent nervous breakdown. He has been reportedly placed on administrative leave.  I'm afraid I wouldn't handle those kids much better. [more]

9 comments:

OldTexan said...

My heart goes out to that teacher, before going back to work full time I was a substitute 8th grade math teacher in South Dallas for a couple of months.

One day after one student turned the lights off in the room and several students threw math books up in the air and broke the light fixtures I went to the pricipal and admited that I did not have the skill sets to work in that environment.

Good luck teaching feral kids in todays schools, for those who actually are able to teach them anything you have my thanks and admiration.

Anonymous said...

"Feral" kids....good one! Husband and I call them "Germans". It's amazing how refreshing it is to be out in public and be able to converse about what we see the various "Germans" doing.
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bocopro said...

Always wanted to be a teacher. So I did 24 years in the Navy, then got myself a faculty position at the local university when I retired. Taught for 15 years -- Dual Enrollment, Freshman Comp, Drama, Poetry, Lit, Technical Writing . . . .

‘Long ‘bout the 12-yr mark, I began to get a little weary of the absenteeism, the resistance, the steadfast refusal to do reading assignments, the excuses, the “Well, I deserve SOMEthin, don’t I? After all, I DID turn the assignment in (albeit a week late and not up to the established content and format criteria),” and the blasé give-a-shit-attitude of upperclassmen who felt that core courses were simply an impediment to their financial success.

By year 14 I was contemplating having a pillory installed in the classroom and a gallows outside the door, but the Provost wasn’t receptive to that managerial concept.

In year 15 I saw burnout dead ahead and put in my retirement letter before I shot some little wiseass . . . AND his mother.

Think I bailed just before dropping anchor in Shithead Cove and becoming part of the problem instead of a factor in the solution.

Anonymous said...

Wow...you made it to 15...I quit afte 10.
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Anonymous said...

In Jr high we had a teacher that flipped out and had a nervous breakdown in front of a class. He was replaced by a young hot low cut dress wearing instructor.

Don't remember much but her bending over to open the filing cabinet in front of my desk. I think it was science class.

Hell_Is_Like_Newark said...

I remember from my youth that if a teacher ever called about my behavior, my Old Man would put me through a wall. I can't imagine what the punishment would be for breaking lights.

DougT said...

I blame Chris Christie.

Anonymous said...

Feral kids? Nah, just a room full of DFN.

Anonymous said...

My 9th grade daughter had her copy of Pinheads & Patriots out on her desk. He teacher told her to "put that away or I'm gonna puke..."


"nutocom" WV- yeah, he is!
RAK

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