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.
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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.
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.
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.
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?
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.