White lives don't.
Another Gentle Giant?
Let me guess, Amish yet again?
Uh, my thought on kids and phones at school is that they be turned in upon arrival and not returned until the end of classes for the day. If there’s that big of an emergency, the admin office can make the calls. How did we ever survive without them as kids? Very well I’m thinkin’.
A 16 year old in grade nine?
WOW, just WOW!
The teacher did not fight back at all.
I know many will disagree, but absent due process (court), you can’t just take someone’s property.
The teacher has the right to expel the person from the class, but not to take a cell phone. Cell phones cost upwards of $500 and often have very personal and sensitive information on them.
Chances are the student will be a millionaire athlete, “an aspiring rapper” or in prison for much of his life.
“If i had a son....”
Not sure what they pay teachers in NJ, but it can’t be enough to deal with thugs like this.
When will we learn that some cannot be tamed?
If we wanted to secure our future of being a civil society, the thug would be put to sleep like we do rabid dogs. He’ll never bring anything positive to society.
Important information is missing.....was the public school teacher a registered Democrat or a decent person...was he a union scumbag? Ill not pass judgement just yet....
I just gave my “teens are addicted to cell phones” speech to my new classes for the Spring semester. Indeed, they are addicted. Heck, you might be, too. These little devices are now full-fledged appendages which are rarely unseen as the students pass from class to class. My speech laced with the appropriate humorous tone, where I pose as the “addicted” teen suffering from cellphone withdrawal, rubbing and scratching my arm, wiping my nose, trying to get a “fix” off of one of the students in class The little play is to help them to see just how addicted they are and how they interfere with the process of learning (I use doing a research paper to help make my point, where the student is unable to sit in a room sans cell phone for very long without “wondering” if that next text has arrived). Most of my students laugh. I can tell some are genuinely thinking about the matter, as well.
The fact is that cell phones and computers in the classroom are largely toys that distract and interfere with education (and what passes for education) today. What students “know” is a mile wide and an inch deep. They are, for the most part, snarky and not smart. They can be flippant but cannot tolerate flipping through the pages of a book for very long. In short, their collective attention spans are capable of crossing an idea that is a mere inch wide, and find the rest of the vast gulf unnecessary, as it cannot be accommodated by Twitter.
In my book, this teacher is a hero...and a fool. Hero because he was willing to attempt to “detox” a young skull full of mush (maybe full of lesser stuff than that) and, in so doing, showing the kind of civic concern that might serve to further shape his students into worthy citizens (dreaming here). A fool because, well, you don’t try to take the smack from a junkie; you don’t try to slap the drink out of the hand of a sot at the bar; you don’t try to wrest the TV away from the hands of a fleeing looter in Ferguson without expecting trouble.
I knew from the headline what this was about. Sure enough.
There are two government-certified victim groups that react with anger and violence at any slight, or perceived slight.
These two groups don’t know how to resolve differences in a civilized manner, because the culture of their group is self-indulgent, highly-privileged, blame-people-outside-the-group, violence-is-the-answer-to-everything.
My kids got phones because they mow lawns, clean pools and teach computers and tutor kids.