Teacher resigns after (ordering) girl tossed out window

Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 4.23.04

[ampat]

My thoughts exactly. I guess its a panic button for teachers to use when a student pulls a gun on them.

[Skooz]

I am sure if the teacher were to attempt to disarm the little angel, the teacher would be sued by the spawn's parents for assault. So pressing the panic button is a nice compromise.

[Larry Lucido]

But was this "defenestration" or "exfenestration"?

Good point. If I was defenestrated, wouldn't that mean I had a window removed? Or would that be a fenestectomy?

[BibChr]

More evidence why only Professionals should be allowed to educate our children.

[ampat]

What the f***s wrong with taking a picture. My god, what are these kids afraid of, the teacher stealing their souls?

[Skooz]

LOL!

[i_dont_chat]

Only guessing here, but it's probably like the "nurse assist" button in a hospital.

If a teacher is having trouble in the classroom, he/she can push the "office assist" button, and someone from the office will come into the classroom to help out.

[sharktrager]

Well, I doubt there is a correlation. Other nations with better performance actually have longer school years.

The issue is the quality of teachers, not the length of the school year. The teachers' unions have worked to insure that poor teachers remain in their positions. Additionally, the teachers who are given the better paying, and influential, department head positions are generally the greatest supporters of the unions.

Add in the fact that our legal system and poor parenting have essentially eliminated any reasonable discipline in the schools, and you have to expect that our educational system will suffer.

[CatoRenasci]

No one has a right to take your picture without your permission, except in very limited circumstances. That was not one of them.

Secondly, whether the girl was disreputably dressed, or merely unattractive, is irrelevant. It is not the teacher's place to make disparaging remarks. If her dress was so inappropriate she should not have been in the classroom, the child should have been sent, with an escort if necessary, to the appropriate disciplinary authority. Tossing the kid out the window is not the same thing as sending her to the Dean of Girls (that's what we had in my day 40 years ago) to be disciplined. If the child behaved inappropriately, by all means apply the proper, legal discipline.

You know, I DID think about what I would have though 40 years ago when I was in high school (and working hard for Goldwater, thank you), and I would have said the same thing. You may be in awe teachers, but I'm not now and I wasn't then. In those days I thought 3 out 4 did not belong in a classroom, whether because of stupidity, incompetence (not the same thing), mendacity or other unsuitable personality traits or personal habits (ever spend an hour a day in a closed classroom with a teacher who regarded bathing and soap as personal enemies?). My view has changed little subsequently, although I would say in my own children's experience perhaps as many 2 out of 5 were competent, if you include some amazing vocal music teachers.

[Cagey]

GEORGE: (knocks on the window) Hey, why are all those people milling around my car?

KRAMER: I don't know.

JERRY: Maybe they're admiring your spot.

KRAMER: They're all looking up.

GEORGE: Hey, there's a guy up the roof.

KRAMER: Whoa. That's the guy that I told where the elevator was.

GEORGE: Oh well, I hope he doesn't jum...

GEORGE, ELAINE, KRAMER, JERRY, & STAN: Oh my!

(By everyone's reaction we see he has jumped. Then we heard the thud of the patient on George's Car.)

GEORGE: My car! My caaaaarrrr!

[CatoRenasci]

There's nothing wrong with taking a picture with permission. There's everything wrong with taking a person's picture (where recognizable) without permisssion. It's a privacy issue. I have to say, whenever our children were going to be photographed in school, we were always informed and told if we had any objections it would not be done. That was pretty much the case in the schools I went to in California 40-50 years ago as well.

[trussell]

You understand what?

The teacher instigated this incident. She insulted the student...took her picture without prior permission...and then had her thrown out the window when the student fought back.

[trussell]

My childrens schools let me know in advance if they plan to take pictures. I had to sign an approval letter for them to be able to photograph my children.

[CatoRenasci]

Just so. And that's as it should be.

The story has a lot of odd touches to it, which makes me suspicious that the whole story isn't being told, but it seems to me that that, unless there was prior permission for the photography, the teacher was out of line from the beginning.

[Gun142]

Wonder why the teacher's name is not given....?

[Gun142]

What the He** is teacher doing taking a student's photograph without permission, and, when asked about it, responded with disparaging remarks about the girl's appearance?

"According to the students, when the victim asked the teacher why she had taken their picture, she allegedly answered by saying, “So I can show the world your ugly a----.”

[robertpaulsen]

"This story just cries out for a limerick using defenestrate"

There once was a man from Nantucketstrate ....

[ChadsDad]

Short drop and a quick stop.

[templar]

The two boys later told principal Kenneth Daniels that they threw the girl out the window because they did not want to be written up for disobeying a teacher.

Only doing their job. Very old excuse for violating human rights and decency. Apparently the new generation is the same as all preceding ones.