Weary Parent: Parenting Tweens & Teens

6 opinions for Teacher Loses It

• Mike
  Sep 27, 2006 at 11:10 am

  I’m at work so I can’t listen to the audio to hear if the teacher warned the kid.

  Either way, that’s just wrong to actually break the phone. Take it away. Kick the kid out of class. Make fun of the kid. Those are all fine. But, you can’t go destroying students property. That is a violent act and he will lose a lot of respect and credibility afterward with the students.

  He should be replacing the phone and should be talking to the school board about why he shouldn’t be fired.

• Olivia
  Sep 27, 2006 at 1:23 pm

  I don’t think he had the right, but I think I would have lost it too at the extreme rudeness of the student. It had its impact too. I doubt that a student will do that in his class again.

  Probably he should have taken the phone away from the teen, turned the phone off, and returned it to the teen’s parent.

  Still, I so understand the sentiment.

• Kerri
  Sep 29, 2006 at 9:51 am

  I don’t know. My intial reaction was, “Go, Teach!” But I think it depends on if it was a habit of this student or in this class. I wonder what I would do. I probably would have just told him to shut it off or leave. Was it H.S. or college? Either way, the kid was old enough to know better than to keep talking without making an effort to leave. In high school, though, you can still put some of the blame on the parents.

• SkylarKD
  Oct 2, 2006 at 5:49 am

  I don’t think he had the right to do that. Yell at the kid, sure. Take the phone away, absolutely. But destroying someone’s property (no matter how annoying/rude the use of said property is) is crossing the line. Plus, it was a terrible example to give the students.

• SkylarKD
  Oct 2, 2006 at 12:14 pm

  Some people have left their opinions on my blog too:

  http://skylarkd.blogspot.com/2006/10/teacher-loses-it-man-vs-machine.html

• Mom of 8
  Feb 9, 2007 at 12:36 pm

  Teachers are supposed to “teach”. If that means teaching the kids proper phone etiquette for their classroom, then teach that, then hold the kids to that standard. Do not use violent bursts to make a point. That is not how kids learn. If phones are banned because of this type of thing. I think that is wrong also. How will teachers be held accountable for their actions? Teach by example.

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