Baltimore Teacher Fired After Racial Melt-down

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A middle school science teacher in Baltimore was fired this week after a video surfaced showing her berating students with insults and racial slurs.
In the video, which has been viewed more than 2 million times since it was posted by a parent on Facebook Wednesday, the teacher is seen dragging a male student by the hood out of a classroom before proceeding to hurl insults at the rest of the class.
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I'm sure earlier footage will be presented if the case comes to trial. I'm not calling the student innocent exactly. I raised five kids, children of any age can be absolutely hateful. But lashing into their ethnicity over their behavior is wrong.
 
Middle school is a challenge for teachers everywhere, but Baltimore probably more than most. It doesn't justify her outburst but her words prophesize the kid's future if he continues to behave the way he is now...
 
As a former teacher I wonder what led to the teachers meltdown although physically handling a child is a strict no-no unless it's a safety issue.
 
Were you a middle school teacher? I remember a psychiatrist saying that these teachers deserved to ascend right into heaven when they die as many of them had already served their time in hell...
 
The teacher was obviously in a position she could not handle and probably should not have been in. Yet her words, "[FONT=&quot]“You have the chance to get an education, but you want to be a punk-a** n***** who’s gonna get shot.” have a lot of truth to them.

Pols rant and rave about the need to lift up the members of the black community, to improve their schools, to provide better teachers - yet the truth of the teachers's words is usually overlooked.[/FONT]
 
Furryanimal said:
As a former teacher I wonder what led to the teachers meltdown although physically handling a child is a strict no-no unless it's a safety issue.
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In the Missouri Lutheran school I attended in 5th-6th grade, the teachers and staff could(and did) use leather belts to give the guilty a much deserved whupping. Sometimes the innocent would get whupped too, but that was seen as "worth it" to insure the guilty got it good.
 
When I was in High School, we had an elderly lady who taught the higher levels of Math. In my Senior year, she was going to the University of Colorado at night, studying a new course called Coordinated Algebra/Trigonometry, then she would bring that course to us the next day. She was well past retirement age, but was so good that the district gave her permission to teach as long as she wanted. She demanded total obedience and concentration in class and walked around the room with a ruler ready to "whack" anyone on the knuckles if they weren't paying attention.

Such a teacher today would probably be in trouble with the law....but I got an education in Public School that some don't get today after 2 or 3 years in college.
 
You remind me of the stories I've heard from kids who survived Catholic school before Vatican II:eek: I feel very strongly that corporal punishment has no place in education. Some instructors might be very good teachers but be borderline personalities regardless. Give them permission to punish as they see fit and they can do a bunch of damage. Like I said kids can be hateful. They couldn't pay me enough to teach middle school. But if you choose such an assignment you need to have a good grip on your own emotions.
 
This may sound awfully goody-goody, but back in the dark ages I was a fifth-grade teacher. That was elementary school in those days, now it would be middle school. I loved those kids, and had a theory that human beings reach their finest point at age 10; after that it's all downhill!
 
Sunny said:
This may sound awfully goody-goody, but back in the dark ages I was a fifth-grade teacher. That was elementary school in those days, now it would be middle school. I loved those kids, and had a theory that human beings reach their finest point at age 10; after that it's all downhill!
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I agree, at age 10-11-12 my GD was such a sweet,happy child. Now, with the pop 'culture' influence she wants to be Miley Cyrus. :distress:
 
I worked as a sub for several years. Middle schoolers are absolutely horrible. Early on, I instituted a "No Middle School Rule". The worst days I ever had were in middle schools. I only worked at high schools after that.

I can easily imagine what those little ba****ds did to make her go over the edge.

Something needs to be done to take teachers out of the position where they have to deal with that crap.

Make it easier to have a child removed from class if they disrupt and put them into a very tough, highly disciplined boot camp type environment for a week or so.

We need to get their attention otherwise nobody is going to want to become teachers anymore.
 
My two girl children became 14 and were all but possessed by Satan. I agree there has to be an alternative for the students who really step out there a la "Scared Straight". The burden shouldn't be on teachers trying to reach a whole class.
 
I went to a Catholic grade school, and the nuns did whack some kids across the knuckles with a ruler if they did something wrong. Others were taken to another room for a paddling. I was never hit for anything by the nuns, but my mother made it clear that if they did hit me it was because I deserved it. I was pretty respectful of adults, nuns and teachers, wasn't one to start trouble in class.
 
Victor Meldrew said:
I worked as a sub for several years. Middle schoolers are absolutely horrible. Early on, I instituted a "No Middle School Rule". The worst days I ever had were in middle schools. I only worked at high schools after that.

I can easily imagine what those little ba****ds did to make her go over the edge.

Something needs to be done to take teachers out of the position where they have to deal with that crap.

Make it easier to have a child removed from class if they disrupt and put them into a very tough, highly disciplined boot camp type environment for a week or so.

We need to get their attention otherwise nobody is going to want to become teachers anymore.
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I have two teacher friends/acquaintances who actually quit teaching because they felt threatened by their students. One of them told me that between the lack of any way to keep any discipline in the classroom and the backlash from parents if she tried, she actually feared for her safety.
 
SB, I can only imagine. Maybe I don't want to. My husband was never rebellious. His brother the opposite. Their mother's philosophy? If the nun's have to beat you for something it will be twice as worse when you get home...what fun. Glad to be raised Presbyterian...
 
Teachers are just like everybody else, they have a breaking point.

I went to a pretty tough public school and the teachers were also tuff and they didn't take much crap from us......physical altercations between students and teachers, although not a everyday occurrence, happened fairly often.

I can recall in about the 9th grade our Shop teacher chunking a hammer across the room at me one day for acting up (he missed :)) but knowing me at the time I'm pretty sure I probably had it coming.
 
Butterfly said:
I have two teacher friends/acquaintances who actually quit teaching because they felt threatened by their students. One of them told me that between the lack of any way to keep any discipline in the classroom and the backlash from parents if she tried, she actually feared for her safety.
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That is both sad and disturbing. And it's only going to get worse.

And even worse yet, when society finally realizes that we are on the verge of a massive teacher shortage because nobody wants to deal with other people's children anymore, instead of doing the things that need to be done, our elected officials who are only interested in keeping their jobs, will pander to the ignorant masses and try to rectify the problem by throwing money at it through increased teacher pay, etc.

Nobody in this country can stand being told the truth anymore. Your brat kids are going over the edge. The garbage that has become socially acceptable on TV in music and the movies, is turning them into little jerks who think that authority doesn't apply to them. Commands and orders by adults are merely opinions meant to be argued with and negotiated down into a better deal. Concessions must be made if peace is to be achieved.

And they know the law protects them. Nothing you can do about it.

I don't know whether to envy or pity those who will be here 50 or 100 years from now.
 
There are certain things one simply doesn't do in any job or workplace. The teacher should've known that. But it was chaos in that classroom. It seemed like the kids simply went about their conversations & activities completely ignoring the teacher-there was alot of background noise/talking.

As far as discipline I remember being paddled for things like being late one time too many. Not hard to figure out what other infractions got corporal punishment. I remember seeing teachers chucking students out of a classroom like a bar bouncer. I've heard teachers complain it is like baby sitting as some have noted. I don't think parents realize how much they should be teaching their students. They say they are still tying third grader's shoes among other things.

The teacher was wrong. The story description was bad. Conditions in the classroom were just as bad.
 
I got paddled once or twice in the third grade. Myself and another kid. The teacher just took us outside the door had us turn around and bend over, then gave us each two sharp smacks on the backside with one of those wooden paddles that come with the little red ball attached with an elastic band. Went back inside with tingling butts and a little bit embarrassed, but otherwise, undamaged.

In middle school, it was done a bit more officially, in the dean's office with a witness and a (much) bigger paddle that left a much longer lasting impression on us. And we had to bend over, hold into a chair and look at the flag to boot.

Once in the sixth grade, around late 1968 or early 1969, our teacher, a middle aged man who came to Florida from Brooklyn, kind of lost it one day. He called this kid outside the room and shoved him on his way out the door. When he did that, I let out this involuntary low whistle. He didn't appreciate that either, so when he was done with the first kid, he stuck his head back inside, pointed straight at me and said "You. Out here." I knew I was in for something.

When I got out there, he shoved me up against the wall and actually put his hand around my throat!!!

Then, he stuck his finger in my face and told me he was sick of my antics, etc, etc, and threatened me with some kind of violent retribution. I never said anything about it, but somebody must've seen or said something. Maybe the other kid told his parents, I don't know. But I was called to the Principal's office a few days later and asked to tell what happened, as I suppose the other kid was too. At some point not long afterward, it was announced that Mr Mitchell had left and we had a new teacher for the remaining two or three months of the school year.
 
If politicians want to throw money at the problem, I hope they start with classroom-cams. I'd bet student behavior would improve by 50%, maybe more, if they knew they were being watched.
 
anodyne said:
If politicians want to throw money at the problem, I hope they start with classroom-cams. I'd bet student behavior would improve by 50%, maybe more, if they knew they were being watched.
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I used to wish for those back constantly back when I subbed.

As a sub, you're at an extra disadvantage because you rarely know the kids by name and they try to take advantage of that. I had little tricks I'd use to help me ID certain trouble maker types but it was still a challenge.

Many is the time I wished that I had a miniature video camera that I could record their atrocious behavior on and turn it over to their teacher or an administrator.

But of course, the precious little darlings' privacy rights are way too important to compromise in the interest of classroom discipline.
 

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