Posted on 03/03/2005 9:53:27 AM PST by sonrise57
By NAOMI MUELLER
TOMS RIVER BUREAU
BRICK -- Police are investigating what else was on video footage that showed a Brick Township High School teacher screaming at his class and pulling the chair from underneath a student who refused to stand for the national anthem, according to Lt. Doug Kinney.
The nearly two-minute video was made by a student in Stuart Mantel's electronics class and was posted on several independent Web sites. It shows Mantel, a teacher in the school for the past two years, screaming at his students about their conduct both before and during "The Star-Spangled Banner."
Kinney said Wednesday that there were about 10 more minutes of footage that originally was posted on the Web and is no longer there. Kinney would not provide details, other than to say that the video showed some of the students acting unruly and antagonizing Mantel.
Police learned about the video several weeks ago, when the school resource officer, Detective Mark Byrne, heard about it from some students.
Shortly afterward, Kinney said, that portion of the video was removed from the Web.
Several students interviewed about the tape Wednesday said that the longer version of the video — which first appeared in December, shortly after the incident occurred — showed the students provoking Mantel. They also said that Mantel, who teaches wood working and electronics at the school, often screams at his students.
Although interest in the video has been widespread since it was first posted on the Web, students Wednesday said that since a newspaper story about the tape was published on Tuesday, interest in the incident has been renewed.
In addition to local newspapers, the incident has been discussed on several high-profile radio and television programs such as "Imus in the Morning" and "The O'Reilly Factor."
Yet no one other than Dan Rosa, who filed a petition this week to run in April's school board election, discussed the issue at Tuesday night's Board of Education meeting.
Rosa asked schools Superintendent of Schools Thomas Seidenberger whether he was planning on discussing the reason so many members of the news media attended the meeting. Seidenberger said no, because it involves a student and personnel matter.
After the meeting, Seidenberger discussed the incident with members of the media, saying he believes the board may need to consider enacting a policy banning the use of electronic recording devices in the district's schools.
Seidenberger also said he believed the incident drew attention away from many of the good things the district and its students do.
Good on him. The little billy-bastards should show respect for our nation's anthem.
These children are being raised without respect for adults, country, and themselves. Much of this generation will be lost.
Saw a short clip on O'rielly. the teacher flips, but the kids are a bunch of hoodlums. Gotta be tough being a teacher.
"You know, I'm going to start thanking
the woman who cleans the restroom in
the building I work in. I'm going to start
thinking of her as a human being"
I saw the video last night and that child deserved everything he got from the teacher, not that he got that much, a little bit of screaming, a chair pulled, etc....it was sickening to watch that kid disrespect his teacher and our anthem. I am waiting on the parents to sue the school and defend their son's "right" to be a jerk!
Nixon did it!.......
My junior high shop teacher wouldn't have lasted 1 day in todays PC world.
This looks to be a set-up by the class to get him to snap.
I saw the video last night and the teacher should be given a raise. I fear that he will be terminated for abuse or some other foolish liberal logic.
Take your kids and grandkids out of the government indoctrination centers. Too many of the parents have been drinking the purple kool-aid for too long.
If that was my boy I would be on any show that would have me just to embarras th sh!t out of my kid. He would never do anything like that again. The teacher would not have to give him a chair for a while due to my sons sore a$$. But to keep it real, my son would never do anything like that due to the way I brung him up.
This looks to be a set-up by the class to get him to snap.
I wouldn't either. To be honest, there'd be bullet holes in the ceiling after I would try to calm them down. Fortunately, I don't have to teach chimpanzees.
You just said it all...
I recently had to do some work at what's supposed to be a pretty good highschool in a pretty good school district.
I was really shocked by the way some of these kids simply ignored the classes, and in return, they were ignored by the teachers. Sort of a "live and let live" policy. But worse was the way some of the kids talked back to the teachers. When I was a freshman in highschool back in 1975, there was a kid who did that sort of thing, and the teacher left the class, returning with one of the football coaches, who let the kid to his office and they had a "discussion with the board of education."
Of course, they can't have discussions of this type anymore.
Mark
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