Video of student educating a terrible teacher on how to do her job:

[Pisces]

Here is the link could not post video. The attitude of the teacher is she could care less. I know that we are all about supporting our teachers, but there are some that don't care and need to go.

http://gawker.com/hero-student-goes-off-on-bad-teacher-after-getting-kick-496791676

[Go Vols]

1. vid

[Pisces]

2. Thank you!!

[Go Vols]

3. no problem

glad to help.

[stlsaxman]

30. Sir Ken Robinson directly addresses "teach-to-the-test" this week at TED...

http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_how_to_escape_education_s_death_valley.html

[RedCappedBandit]

4. Hard to respond without any sort of context.

[Squinch]

5. Is the attitude of the teacher that she couldn't care less? Or is it that this is a

student who she has experience with and she doesn't want to set him off? Or is he a student that she knows has some problems and doesn't want to engage in an argument with? Or is it that this is something that this kid does every day and she is sick of him disrupting her teaching time with the rest of the students?

The fact is you don't know anything about that teacher or that student. You have no idea if she is a terrible teacher. You don't know if the kid is correct and reasonable or intentionally disruptive.

You just don't know.

[struggle4progress]

6. +

[LooseWilly]

7. Well said.

[Starry Messenger]

8. The other kids weren't applauding the monologuer.

From the brief titters at the end of the video, sounds like most were glad to see him off.

[Squinch]

10. I noticed that too. And the girl at the table at the end was carefully looking away from him.

[redqueen]

16. I heard about this this morning and had the exact same reaction as you. nt

[Squinch]

17. Some background is coming out about the teacher and the kid.

Seems like the disruptive brat theory is emerging as the more likely truth.

[Skittles]

27. you correct

these video bombs very often do not include context of any kind

[Ms. Toad]

36. Agreed.

My daughter showed me the tape,and was cheering the kid on.

I, on the other hand, was reliving the numerous kids I had to ask to leave my class because they were disrupting the education of the other students during my 11 years teaching. Many times those students would put on a show on the way out of the door - and the best thing I could do was to not react because any show of anger, interest, or whatever, wound the student I'd asked to leave back up.

It does not surprise me at all that this student is an 18 year old sophomore who has already dropped out of school for a year.

[Renew Deal]

9. Not sure what makes him a hero

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Maybe he's right, but what's in the video makes him sound like a loudmouthed troublemaker

[datasuspect]

11. thank god for loudmouthed troublemakers

[WinkyDink]

12. Really? Wouldn't the type and motive matter?

[datasuspect]

13. there were plenty of fat, pasty judgmental sheriffs and reactionaries in the mid 60s

who liked to set dogs loose upon and firehose "loudmouthed troublemakers."

i'm sure they were concerned with their types and motives too.

[Renew Deal]

26. I agree

The video doesn't give us enough information about this situation, but generally I agree

[Uzair]

14. You forgot the sarcasm tag

All this video shows is the reason teachers ought to be paid triple what they're getting now, because of disruptive little shithead students like this guy. The teacher, for her part, reacted in exactly the right way by not being confrontational and escalating his little temper tantrum.

I don't think you have any idea what teachers go through day in and day out, having to deal with students who couldn't care less about learning anything. (And yes, the phrase is "COULDN'T care less", not "COULD care less". Sounds like you need to go back to school).

[Squinch]

18. ^^^^This^^^

[datasuspect]

24. aren't you just a prickly pear!

bless your heart.

[Blue_Tires]

15. meaningless without full context...

if the student has a legit gripe, he should go to the State Board of Education, because taking it out on the teacher won't solve much...

[Rex]

19. How exactly did the student educate the teacher in her profession?

Please, elaborate.

[backscatter712]

31. Sounds like the teacher wasn't interested in learning.

Wasn't interested in teaching either.

She was just interested in sitting behind her desk like a piece of fungus collecting a paycheck, instead of, you know, teaching.

[Rex]

32. 5 minutes of their life on video and you have your mind made

up about the rest of their lives. No thanks, we saw a snapshot. The teacher could have handled the situation better then she did I agree. However 5 minutes of their lives is NOT enough for me to pass judgement on the other 1000s of minutes we don't see.

[gollygee]

20. All I see

is some smart-ass teenager. He should study education and become a teacher if he has the interest, and then he'll get the same revenge that I got when I was a snotty kid to my parents and then later got to listen to my own kids be snotty.

[rug]

21. UPDATE: No discipline for Duncanville HS student in viral video, but teacher placed on leave

http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2013/05/duncanville-high-school-student-lecturing-his-history-teacher-in-the-classroom-goes-viral.html/

[Blue_Tires]

23. I don't know why the student would get

Disciplined anyway...I've seen much more salty rants at teachers escape punishment easily...

I'm guessing the administration leave is more of a saving face move now that the kid has his 15 minutes...

I just hope to god that student has an honest, legit gripe that his classmates can corroborate

[Poll_Blind]

22. A snippet of video, meaningless without context.

Looks like others have already pointed this out but that was my natural reaction as well. The narrative around the video may or may not be accurate.

PB

[Renew Deal]

25. The news got a hold of this kid

[Squinch]

28. So he's pissed that he didn't get enough time to prepare for a standardized test that

the teacher has no control over, and he unloads on the teacher.

Okey dokey.

[LuvNewcastle]

29. It says in the video that his mom's a teacher. I think that's

a big clue as to what's really going on here. He's heard his mom criticizing other teachers and their teaching skills. In fact, there's a good possibility that his mom and this history teacher don't get along.

[lumberjack_jeff]

34. School (and by implication, teachers) don't engage students, particularly not boys. n/t

[cherokeeprogressive]

38. The first thing I noticed upon seeing the original video was that she was sitting behind her desk.

And, upon seeing it again in the news clip shown above, it looks as though she's on the phone.

I taught in a Vocational Education program to adults and at-risk high schoolers and we were NOT allowed to be found sitting during class time.

[Posteritatis]

35. Ahh, a "let's piss on the whole profession via a context-free clip" thread. (nt)

[Brigid]

37. An 18-year-old punk who thinks he knows everything.

Now there's something new.