Yeah, the teacher was a little psychotic. But I put most (not all, most) of the blame on the student involved.
It is the trend today, to be irksome. Students have been brought up for years being told that they have rights, and that nobody can make you do what you don't want to do. Students can't be punnished for how they talk in class, what sort of attitude they take, or whether or not they decide to follow the teacher's directions. And they know this, and so, they abuse it.
It comes down to a matter of punnishment. Kids, yound and older, aren't punnished today they way they used to be. They don't grow up learning that you shouldn't sass your elders, unless they want a hand to cross their face. They don't learn the ever so simple yet ever so misunderstood "treat others as you would treat yourself." Instead, they are treated with respect and dignity without ever learning that these things should be returned in kind.
Students -- especially those in high school, and even now middle school, are learning that they can act however they want. They don't have to listen to teachers, because the teacher's dont truly have authority over them. And it's true. Teachers' roles have beed reduced to the distributor of marks, and busywork assignemnts. They are no longer disciplinarians, they are no longer role models, and in cases like this, they are no longer 'teachers'.
There are some, like this man, that believe they can still shape students, and make them into something more. but no, this teacher has been disillusioned. All of his power has been taken away by the current trends of society, to the point where he is unable to teach his students the respect he was forcefully taught as a child. And yet he tries, and yes, goes too far in this case.
But the majority of the blame is not his. The student is bending the freedomshe has been given by a whole generation, and the techer quite simply won't stand for it. This happens every day, in every school across North America, in some way or another.
Students push and push teachers, who are given no ammunition with which to fight back. So inevitably, some of them do the 'wrong thing' when they are pushed to far, and snap.
But really, is pulling the chair out from under the student so wrong? Fifty years ago, would this have been tolerated? Would the student have been tolerated, or would he have been 'out of line' far before then, and punnished accordingly? Who is to say?
I believe the youth of today are a terribly maladjusted generation with far, far too little discipline, and far, far too few legitimate authority figures.
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Originally Posted by whocarz
Anyway, while the teacher certainly got out of line, I'll still have to side with him. Those kids seem like little fuckers. I should know, I use to be one. There's only so much shit people can put up with, and I'm sure the teacher has had to put up with a lot every single weekday since the beginning of the school year. I have been yelled at by teachers before, and I deserved it. Of course, thoughts like this come only in retrospect, and right now these punks probably feel like the system is out to get them. They need to grow the fuck up.
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They need to grow the fuck up indeed.