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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Our eighth grade teacher was also the principal, and also a dairy farmer, and a big ol’ country boy. One day, he was standing in the classroom door with his back to us, talking to someone in the hall. He had his hand on the light switch and was sort of absentmindedly flicking one of the lights on and off.
My buddy Donnie was on the front row by the door — where he could be watched more closely. He began to slap the wall above and below the light switch the teacher was flicking. Without turning around or even pausing in his conversation, the teacher grabbed Donnie’s hand and slammed it into the concrete block wall a few times. The old wall was rough enough that it took some of the hide off Donnie’s knuckles. Everybody — including Donnie — thought it was hilarious.
Add to your thoughts and the schools are rife with administrators who do NOTHING for their SIX figure salaries. Oh like, little things like enforce discipline procedures/codes, backing up teachers who are trying to be consistent disciplinarians.
Nor can any one table have the ability to rattle more than 10 times without changing the legs.
I had a english teacher in 7th grade who would literally whack kids up side the head with a text book to get their attention. If she was teaching these days she would end up doing time for assault and battery.
The nuns had a simple rule at my school:
Not paying attention lands you in detention.
On a desk? My 2nd grade teacher broke one over my head.
Don’t remember why, but I bet I deserved it.
When kids were talking or otherwise not paying attention, one teacher use to drop a fairly large textbook onto the tile floor. Cracked like a rifle when it hit very flat and even.
What is she doing with a cell phone in class?
No where near that cool.
I had a middle school teacher who bought cheap yardsticks by the dozens so he could shatter them into pieces to get the class attention.
It was a bad class to fall asleep in, entertaining for the rest of us, but bad for the sleeper.
I had a high school teach rattle me one day. And for a change - I didn’t deserve it. Some one else actually unplugged the projector, but I was the closest one, so he grabbed me by the sholders and shook. He then told me to march right down to the office.
I said I would. Just as soon as we find the contact lens that popped out as a result of him shaking me.
lolol
I still - to this day - remember how fast he dropped to the floor to find that contact.
Ohh, how I wish we had a country where teachers could still wallop a kids for acting up.
The cops are basically overpaid security guards, warned to never upset the residents...
LOL! If she thinks that’s startling wait until she goes through a TSA check point!
Our algebra teacher in HS, Mr. McPhail, had the "Board of education" on a nail next to the chalkboard. It was a 3 inch wide and about 1/2 thick with a handle and holes in it.
If he caught someone sleeping or talking in the back, he would sneak that board, place the wider end on the floor. He would put his shoe on the board and slam it down on the hardwood floor. That thing sounded like a gunshot.
There’s a three day waiting period to rattle a table.
You only need a permit to carry a concealed folding table. Long tables and trestle tables can be openly carried as long as their is no food on them.
Texting the answers to the science test to her friend.
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