Baltimore Teacher Beaten in Classroom
Posted on April 11th, 2008 by Tariq Nelson
…while the other students record it and cheer the attacker on… Then they proudly displayed the video on myspace.
Are we OK with this kind of insanity in our schools? Videos are below
The teacher was on the the Today Show.
An entire generation of children are growing up in lawless and chaotic “households”. Complete madness
Is this an anomaly?
A story from Philadelphia.
“56% of Philadelphia School Teachers don’t feel safe at school.
42% of them have been victims of crime at those schools”
Another from Ohio
Filed under: Bad Culture
I’ve seen that on my local news last night. I couldn’t help but to nod in disbelief! Even more unbelievable, the Baltimore school board of the school system wants to side with those girls even though they were wrong as two left feet. Not long ago there was an incident in Waycross, Georgia where some group of 9 -10 year old special ed.students planned on attacking their teacher. I tell you,things in the teaching world is just getting out of control.
Have any American school board ever wondered why there are teacher shortages? Besides the actions like the dense-brained acts like the ones that is shown in the YouTube clip, it’s also the red tape that goes against them( the teachers). These days,every thing is child abuse and as I have said before, the kids use this and will try to use against people. I’m sorry, but there is no justification in what took place with that teacher. Those students were wrong to the core! that is just straight up aggravated assault.
In addition of possibly not having any home training no home training , our government and other child welfare advocates have created rules that often goes against parents and against other authority figures( sometimes) .It seems that the rules are all for the kids and some of them are using it to their advantage. There are some men who say that they don’t want to teach because they are afraid of being accused of sexual harassment. In general, teachers don’t want to be such because of incidents like this, especially for their low pay they get for taking it all.
I do not get the school boards sympathy for those students. Unless they are mentally ill and weren’t aware of what they were doing, there should be , in their case,no excuses for their actions plain and simple.These days there are rules that are not properly written. People just want to put up road blocks, but nobody want to hear the other(, like the teacher in Baltimore), side of the story. As long as there is no real communication between the people and the continuation of red-tape policies, we can expect to see more of these idiotic clips of aggression coming from them.
Baltimore Teacher Beaten in Classroom…
Wow, must have been a really bad teacher….
It goes both ways:
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=80436
I’m sorry, but just like we have some sorry parents, we have some sorry teachers, who either can’t control their classrooms or are afraid to (not because of the kids, but out of fear of repercussions by the district). If you fail to create a safe atmosphere for learning in the classroom, then you have failed as a teacher. Not to say you aren’t going to have incidents, but maintaining a safe atmosphere to learn is priority #1
James,
I taught in a so-called bad part of town and I never had problems with anyone. Never had to report anyone to superiors. Never had an issue. I can remember a couple people mouthing off to me, but then they’d apologize the next day. Being a teacher you’re, for better or for worse, an authority. A lot of teachers take on an authoritarian attitude, and take out their life’s problems on their students. If you don’t enjoy teaching, for the sake of the kids you educate, please just don’t do it. It’s one of those jobs you really have to enjoy or else you’re harming people each day you go to work. I know because out of my 12 years in public school I encountered *ONE* instructor that I could truly say got it. That’s kind of sad. At the college and graduate school level things were better. I can only recall one or two professors who were a real pain.
I think we need to rethink the classroom anyway. We need to put more emphasis on autodidactic styles of learning. Push critical thinking. I was a C level student in public school who never studied or prepared for a test; homework would get done in a study hall or on the bus. In college and graduate school I had straight As. So something in the previous atmosphere was out of whack.
The need for some realistic structure in our public schools has long been negelected and sorely needed. It’s really quit simple, the teacher’s have it and the students are there to get it. If there’s any doubt in a teachers mind that a students attendence is simply to place themselves in a building during the day, they need to be expelled, no if’s and’s or but’s about it. It’s all about choice, you either go to school to prepare yourself for the world as a responsible and productive adult or you set your self up for time under lock and key. Tax payers are spending far too much money on programs to help so-called troubled youth to no avail. There are far too many who have placed there faith in the system while not totally fair in all aspects but fair enough for them to fight for what they want in terms of a decent job and the ability to support themselves without becoming a burden to society. Two issues hit home; both young males and females need to keep their sorts on and zippers shut. Babies having babies has created half of the problem, the other, our education protocol, the student, from the time they are qualified to enter an educational facility they need to be fed a healthy diet of reading, reading comprehension, writing, and math. These are the skills they need through the eight grade. After that it continues along with science, biology and chemistry. With math under their belts, simple math, trig, calculus, algebra the biology, science and chemistry comes rather easily. Who’s kidding who, I’m seeing kids graduate from High School and can’t count to a hundred using pennies, nickles, dimes, quarters, ones and five dollar bills. Hold them accountable, teachers, staff and students. We don’t need to fight the system, terrorist, bad government both local and national and our own students too. Enough is enough, somebody needs to wake up and now.