Posted on 03/02/2011 11:03:44 AM PST by Daffynition
ATHERTON, Calif. — A California school teacher was placed on paid administrative leave after he rattled a table to get the attention of his math students, startling an eighth-grade girl who used her cell phone to call police.
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Fine the parents of the girl for inappropriately calling the police.
The parents can then relate to their little princess that in life those who do not pay attention may be legitimately startled to attention and need to deal with it.
Nothing more.
With a rule like this one, it sounds like a great way for the students to harass the teachers.
Our physics teacher used to pick up students’ desks and rattle them - desk and student. Also threw pens at them.
I had a teacher who was locally famous for the number of yardsticks he broke by smacking them on the tables as an attention getter.
What’s the charge?
Unlicensed table rattling?
Brandishing a table?
Sawed off table?
Reason # 3,764,256 why we left Calif. 15 years ago!!!
Oh please. Good, teach these monsters that they’re the ones in control, not the teachers. Let’s create an atmosphere of terror among our teachers where they’ll fear to ever take a firm hand in a classroom for fear some little twit will use a cellphone she should not even be allowed to own much less carry to school to call the police. This brat should be expelled and the teacher commended for attempting to enforce discipline on a group of sewer rats who never learned it in their homes.
LOL!! I mean really lol. My HS teachers were Marist Brothers and they would rattle more than the desk to get your attention. I once had my BRAIN rattled by the corner of a book from behind because I wasn’t paying attention. We are surely raising a nation of wusses! God help us.
It’s not as if this kind of thing doesn’t go on all over the nation. The fact is, we’re putting the inmates in charge of the assylum in our schools throughout the country. The problem isn’t California. It’s a society that’s quickly losing any sense of accountability for one’s actions.
bttt
If I call the PoPo on my teacher during class and they come out, I won't be bothered by his sorry ass any longer. It was a good day mommie.
There may have been more than one rattle per shake of the table. Subsequent BATFE testing was at first unable to replicate this condition, but after sawing two of the legs at unequal lengths and adding additional laminate to the top surface was able to get it to double rattle with one shake.
This means this was a fully automatic Class III device so 922(o) applies under the NFA and the Commerce Clause.
Yardsticks make the *best* sound on a desk/table top.... like a strike of lightening.
Sheer idiocy on display.
what an idiot little twerp the girl is....most likely, she's failing his class already....
There’s a three day waiting period to rattle a table.
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