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California teacher on leave after he rattles table in class, prompting student to call 911
TwinCities.com ^ | 03/02/2011 | staff reporter

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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TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: atherton; california
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Someone's precious snowflake was startled. Oh my.
1 posted on 03/02/2011 11:03:49 AM PST by Daffynition
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To: Daffynition

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.


2 posted on 03/02/2011 11:06:17 AM PST by Immerito (Reading Through the Bible in 90 Days)
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To: Daffynition
Government schools are prison-preparatory institutions.

Nothing more.

3 posted on 03/02/2011 11:06:49 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." -- Barry Soetoro, June 11, 2008)
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To: Daffynition
Just close down all the government schools, let them get their high school degree on-line, and stay home with mommy for ultimate protection form table rattlers.

I've heard of pygmy rattlers, diamondback rattlers, but never heard of a table rattler....
4 posted on 03/02/2011 11:07:07 AM PST by FrankR (The Evil Are Powerless If The Good Are Unafraid! - R. Reagan)
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To: Daffynition

With a rule like this one, it sounds like a great way for the students to harass the teachers.


5 posted on 03/02/2011 11:07:29 AM PST by Truth29
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To: Daffynition

Our physics teacher used to pick up students’ desks and rattle them - desk and student. Also threw pens at them.


6 posted on 03/02/2011 11:08:01 AM PST by heartwood
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To: Daffynition

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.


7 posted on 03/02/2011 11:08:12 AM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Daffynition

What’s the charge?
Unlicensed table rattling?
Brandishing a table?
Sawed off table?


8 posted on 03/02/2011 11:08:12 AM PST by 6SJ7 (atlasShruggedInd = TRUE)
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To: Daffynition

Reason # 3,764,256 why we left Calif. 15 years ago!!!


9 posted on 03/02/2011 11:09:52 AM PST by taillightchaser
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To: Daffynition

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.


10 posted on 03/02/2011 11:10:08 AM PST by MissesBush
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To: Daffynition

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.


11 posted on 03/02/2011 11:11:16 AM PST by mc5cents (Government doesn't solve problems, it subsidizes them. -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: taillightchaser

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.


12 posted on 03/02/2011 11:11:28 AM PST by MissesBush
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To: Daffynition

bttt


13 posted on 03/02/2011 11:12:57 AM PST by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
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What did you learn in skewl today Sweetie?

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.

14 posted on 03/02/2011 11:13:50 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: 6SJ7

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.


15 posted on 03/02/2011 11:18:21 AM PST by Dead Corpse (III%. The last line in the sand)
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To: cripplecreek

Yardsticks make the *best* sound on a desk/table top.... like a strike of lightening.


16 posted on 03/02/2011 11:19:59 AM PST by Daffynition ( DBKP ~ Death By 1000 Papercuts)
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To: Daffynition
I had an instructor once that used to use his chalk board eraser as a "sleep seeking missile". It was effective. It'd probably garner an "assault with a deadly weapon" charge these days.

Sheer idiocy on display.

17 posted on 03/02/2011 11:21:31 AM PST by Dead Corpse (III%. The last line in the sand)
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To: mc5cents
Sr. Mary Joseph and the Jesuits. A little fear of the wrath of God never hurt us.


18 posted on 03/02/2011 11:22:52 AM PST by Daffynition ( DBKP ~ Death By 1000 Papercuts)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
just when you see a teacher being a real teacher, he gets put on administrative leave....

what an idiot little twerp the girl is....most likely, she's failing his class already....

19 posted on 03/02/2011 11:23:47 AM PST by cherry
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To: Dead Corpse

There’s a three day waiting period to rattle a table.


20 posted on 03/02/2011 11:24:09 AM PST by Daffynition ( DBKP ~ Death By 1000 Papercuts)
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