Once again someone paid to teach our kids has proven themselves of barely having two brain cells to rub together.
Teacher Humiliates Bronco Jersey Wearing Student
Nice. I’m sure the parents love your enthusiasm for their child’s well-being.
Sigh
That girl deserves an “A”. However, in the real world she’ll probably be humiliated as well…
This is so not funny.
Except for this part:
And here I thought the last of the sob sisters had died years ago.
Just so people know, this was at a school in western Penn, and I’m sure emotions are running high.
Not that I agree with…
What the hell is a “self-described” honor student? This kind of descriptor is usually clear-cut and made by the school. The teacher is still a jerk, though.
More than a jerk - the teacher’s just another schoolyard bully. It’s fucking deplorable.
Teacher’s an idiot, student’s a wuss.
It’s win-win!
I often find it interesting to go to a school’s website. From Beaver Falls High School:
Presumably Mr Kelly has his own ideas about “intellectual, physical and social development”.
I think this teacher should be forced to wear a Cleveland Browns jersey the Friday before Pittsburgh plays that team. Then he can stand in the middle of the gym during an assembly while students take potshots at him.
Fucking moron.
Robin
What’s more disgusting is that the school district is circling wagons around this filth. Tell me again why school vouchers, as a means of punishing school districts that can defend this kind of filth, are such a bad idea?
You’re all forgetting the best part of the story!
He lives in a place called Big Beaver. Big Beaver!
Sounds a bit rude, dunnit?
I’ve got a lot of family in that neck of the woods. ‘Beaver’ shows up in a LOT of place-names. I never really noticed it until a friend driving through said he was nearly crashing into the street signs for Beaver, Big Beaver, Beaver Falls…
And by the way, while I don’t have a problem with good-natured ribbing regarding The Big Game, if it happened as reported, this teacher went way, way too far. It sounds like we’re hearing the student’s story, though, and I’ve heard enough of those to want to hear the teacher’s story and that of a few students who were there before I decide.
Because they want to give that money to the Catholic School System, which invented this crap. Seriously, this was SOP back in the Good Old Days. At least he didn’t hit the kid.
Here’s another article on what supposedly happened, with more of the teacher’s take on things.
He’s quoted as saying…
However, did this kid know that? I mean, was this common knowledge about the class in general? And if no one took him seriously, why did all the students participate in the paper wad throwing accept one? Especially if you could tell the boy was visibly shaken.
I found this intriguing, too:
Perhaps this Kelly person should be required to take a remedial course in the distinction between being a professional employee and legal title to property.
In a midterm exam setting (did anyone else pick up on that), this was far from a joke. And the school board should review the principal’s professional qualifications as well if he indeed said that.
If the teacher intended this as a lesson in mob violence, he succeeded. And he should be rewarded for that. By being permitted to finish out his contract with the school district as a janitor, say, instead of being fired and prosecuted. Which is what I’d recommend otherwise.
Humiliation of any person by someone in a position of authority over him or her is unconscionable. Period.
Of course, it hardly matters that he used this “teaching” technique before.
A lot of my high school teachers were very conversant with students, and even engaged in banter about various things, be it sports teams or politics. But all of them kept that “separate” from the more important aspects of educating. When they were giving a lecture they weren’t going to allow banter, but during the first few minutes of class as people were filing in and before the day’s class really got started, it wasn’t common for the teacher to discuss events (athletic, news/political etc) with the class.
Some good natured ribbing in that context is one thing.
To make a kid sit on the floor in the middle of the class, that crosses a line.
The humiliation only gets worse when you allow yourself to be photographed pouting like a 5 year old and the photographs run in the national media.
Seems to me that everything is being blown way out of proportion and probably more than a little exaggerated. If this kids skin is this thin, than maybe he should think twice before wearing the other team’s jersey to school the Friday before the Big Game. Somewhere in Seattle, I bet there was a kid who wore his Steve Smith jersey to school last Friday and got ripped to shreds (figuratively) for doing so, but didn’t curl up into the fetal position and begin sucking his thumb over it.
Suck it up, Josh, being the self described honor student that you are, surely you know that there’s a time and a place. The jersey is fine and dandy, everyone has their heroes. But to wear it in the middle of Steeler Nation, on the weekend before the game against the Broncos to decide who goes to the Super Bowl? Are you fucking high??
And it’s not like they were throwing dog turds at you, you pussy! It was wadded up paper for crying out loud.
Sorry, didn’t mean to imply that it did, but rather that would explain the teacher’s lack of remorse, the other students’ participation and the possible blaise of everyone else. If he’d gotten away with it before, in his mind he probably wonders what the big deal is.
Although, I think Poly’s solution is perfect.
Oh, and overall, do they give Ethics teachers more latitude to plumb the depths of something like this? What may appear over the line to us would be standard operating procedure? I kinda sort of had a professor who once boarder on this, so it makes me curious.