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Feb 27, 2007, 10:15 GMT
Italian teacher cuts off noisy kid's tongue
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I have been teaching for 17 years and one thing that I know is that good teachers do not experience the things ex teacher describes on an ongoing basis. A good teacher is able to use creative teaching and positive attitudes to change student attitude. I am really glad ex teacher is an ex. Those are the attitudes which make children hate school and behave badly in order to be sent home or destroy their place of torture.
I am currently learning to teach.
I think children are great, they are the future after all.
I think before we make judgements, we need all sides of the story. All of you know that the news can not be trusted to present a story in a non biased way. That doesn't sell newspapers.
Also, in no way do I think that children should ever be treated in that way if it was an accident. And ex-teacher, sulfuric acid? What are you thinking. Maybe you should look at your classroom management skills if the children are that annoying. If you have the student's respect then you don't need to make stupid threats to keep them in line. Common sense is a marvelous thing, too bad it's not that common.
They should do the same to some of these car theft hooligans and worse in canada.
Put them up north in bootcamps.
If you want to escape - good.
Let the mosquitos and black flies get you.
A hole in one.
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Sorry I have 3 kids and they act right because I make them. No way I would tolerate my child acting like and a**. No I do not beat or abuse my children but they are taught that there are consequences for their actions. It actually involves taking the time to teach and raise. As far as I am concerned the cutting of the tounge was over the line but an ass kickin' should of took its place. IMO
This is nothing compare to my school
my teacher made me do 500 push ups for talking
To ExTeacher. Your no use to society. Exteacher....I hope you burn.
Obviously Ex-Teacher has been pwned. I won't touch that.
To be completely honest with you, the single biggest problem with the US's education is comprised of one group of people: parents. My mother has been a teacher all my life and several of my friends are teachers. Their biggest complaint are parents. Whether the kid has a bad home life so he acts out in school or the parents coddle him and treat him like a baby and lash out if the teacher so much as gives him a stern look, parents are destroying any authority to actually teach their children.
Anywho... as far as the actual story is concerned, yeah, good job parents, sue the school and not the teacher. Waste money that could be used to educate children whose parents aren't ignorant morons. (unless what someone else said is true, that the media is misrepresenting this story...)
The tongue was just cut and required five stitches:
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?storyID=2007-02-28T14501 8Z_01_L27245101_RTRUKOC_0_US-ITALY-TONGUE.xml
Based on the language / spelling of the Ex Teacher -- I don't believe that individual was an actual teacher at all. Especially not in a discipline that would use chemicals.
It is spelled sulFUric acid. Not with a PH. Any teacher worth 2 oz of beans would know that.
The only thing that irritates me more than people making obnoxious comments is people you pretend to be something they aren't...so they can justify their obnoxious comments. How asinine.
Perhaps the parents should 'accidentally' cut her hands off?
Whats funny is someone calling themself a teacher or 'ex-teacher' and not knowing English....even a math professor must take some literary courses and a child in the third grade knows that there is no word such as 'learnt'....try 'learned'
Unfortunately, I believe 'learnt' is appropriately used in England..
onejdc: it's spelled with a ph in the UK. Of all the things to latch onto in ex-teacher's post, his use of an international spelling is way, way, way down the list.
pedant: I totally agree. People like that just piss me off in general...
I would have cut his pecker off too!
If you're going to talk like a little girl, you may as well be one, young asshopper!
onejc: you shouldn't use a comma
pedant: unfortunately does not us a ph.
Suspended? Shouldn't she be fired, or arrested?
In her defense, you can't honestly say that at one point you haven't wanted to cut off an annoying 7-year-old's tongue.
Yeah you sure sound like a good teacher ('kids have learnt from their parents...'). That's some pretty nice english.
Wow the comments from some of the teachers here are utterly appalling. I agree to the extent that there are some horrible kids out there that deliberately make teaching tough. They certainly need some sense knocked into them. But any of you that condone slicing off a tongue or 'getting jollies' by making kids cry (much less the wrong ones just to make yourself feel better) should probably take a good hard look in the mirror. Some of you should re-think your profession.
Every job has drawbacks, if you don't like dealing with annoying children - don't be a teacher. Whether they were this way before or teaching has brought it out, there are some pure psychotics in the school system. I deal with customer service, basically, I handle all of the 'grown up' versions of the horrible, spoiled little kids out there. If I ever descend into thinking it is fine to cut off their tongues or ears or other body parts, I'll be sure to quit.
what a funny sight it had to be.
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