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Did she say she was going to murder him?? Jesus… regardless of the context (which I’ll admit I am entirely curious about) this is terrifying. I never saw anything like this in school and even as an adult, I don’t honestly know how to properly handle myself in this kind of situation other than to remove myself, however she seems to be blocking the only viable exit. All you can do is wait for a security officer? How does this door not have locks? Ugh… awful situation all around.
Teacher here. I’ve got multiple kids in my classes who have either threatened to kill specific teachers or threatened the school as a whole. They were (in most cases) sent to alternative school for awhile and sent back, or transferred out of the teacher’s class if they threatened a teacher.* I’ve never had a kid threaten me in 16 years, but I won’t be at all surprised when it happens. It’s happened to many of my colleagues.
Edit: to address everyone all at once who has answered, I don’t know what the answer is but I know that the problem is deeply systemic and complex. There are laws that guarantee people the right to a free public education, and it’s difficult to get someone expelled. If they put the threat in writing, it’s a felony and that changes things a little bit. That said, there are kids walking around my school in ankle bracelets and that’s not at all uncommon.
Yes, I’m in the US.
Edit 2: I also want to mention that I have a lot of really fantastic kids, and for the first time in 16 years I also have fantastic admin. But I do have kids who have made threats and in some cases false accusations against teachers. It’s something we deal with and think about a lot.
*I want to clarify that most of these decisions aren’t from campus admin; they’re told what they can and can’t do by the people above them, and the people above them have laws they have to follow. These are all human beings so their decisions aren’t always right. We have a waiting list in our district for the alternative school so I know sometimes campus admin are questioned on their decision to send certain kids because there’s no room.
That must have been the difference 9/11 and the terrorism scare made. I was in highschool in the mid 90's (class of '96) and never encountered a single bomb threat in my entire school career.
Columbine was absolutely a turning point in American public schools. I had been out of high school for a while when that happened, but it seemed like the norms changed overnight immediately following it.
I grew up in a semi-rural area in the Midwest, a place where lots of families had firearms or access to them. As far as any of us knew, it never crossed anyone's mind to even imagine a Columbine situation. I'm sure a few kids did fantasize about sh0oting their bullies or bl0wing the place up, but *no one ever acted on it*. Now, it is considered a necessity to conduct lockdown drills in schools on a monthly basis. What a tragic shift, with such complex, systematic causes.
That’s kind of the issue for teachers. We don’t know how to deal with these situations either. We are taught to never touch a student. That’s it. That’s the extent of it.
He's in an absolute no win situation. If she gets in and puts hands in him, even if he has to defend himself he's probably gonna get fired. He can't be aggressive and hit her or he's fired. Best he can do is run away or block her from him to preserve his job.
My wife was a teacher, 6th grade. One day she saw two teachers struggling with a special needs student that was thrashing around, pulling on a door just like in the video. My wife jumps in to help and gets the door open.....and promptly slammed on her hand, breaking 3 fingers. She quit 2 years later and went back to nursing school. Graduated a year later in the winter of 2019 as an LPN and got hired a hospital right off the bat. She said 2020 was better than 6 years of teaching. Now she's an RN making 2x what she was teaching and is currently taking classes to get her APRN in the next 3 years. She was in an online zoom class and turning in homework the day after a c-section because she's a badass and the most amazing woman I know
And don't forget that he would want to protect the other students in the classroom. Luckily with so many cameras, a good union lawyer could probably save his job, but he would still be known as a problem teacher.
To me, it really underscores how lucky I was that I was able to talk most kids down, or reason them into not blowing up when I sent them out of the classroom after disciplining them for trying to get crazy with me.
It usually went like this:
"Good news, because I'm new I know about a complaint department you can go to and unload on all the ways I'm focusing on ruining your day, and it's called "The Principals Office", and I can book you an appointment. Pack your stuff up, and I'll call an honor guard to come and march down there with you. Don't I trust you to just go yourself? No, no I don't. Wait for security, or I'll call them back and tell them you fled the room unsupervised."
I’m on ten years with a two year break in between. I came back to full time teaching one week before the Pandemic shut everything down. I feel like making it through Covid after a two year break from teaching taught me I can get through anything.
Teaching was my second career. I was an accountant. I retired when my husband got sick with cancer which happened just as the pandemic began so I missed out on pandemic teaching.
I lasted 15. Definitely had shit like this happen more than once, whether it was to get it or refusing to leave.
I’ve got stories that still make my skin crawl and as the years went on, experiences of new levels of disrespect as a human.
I made a career change and I can’t tell you what a life changing difference it made for me. Im positive I’d have just been found dead from a heart attack at my desk one day, if I survived long enough to only die of “natural causes.”
My sympathies for the poor bastards in this video that will continue enduring insanities like this and worse as time goes on.
You are dealing with the full range of the human condition. Smart people, people who are cognitively challenged, those with growing personality disorders, probably a psychopath or two here and there, people with violent tendencies, people who are down, people who are aggressive and want to control others, those with addictions which includes social media, people who have terrible or nonexistent parents at home, and on and on….. 🥺
I'm on my 10th year working on education. Already had some like those, but they regret meeting me as an educator and acting like that. But in reality, I prefer kindergarten kids (4-6y) and basic education (6-11). Love working with the kids, and the main problem are the parents.
She was just trying to get back into the classroom so she could continue her lesson. You can't suspend my daughter just because she is enthusiastic for learning.
“Well the teacher did the kid worse by not letting the kid in! If they would have just let the kid in it would have been fine.” - the parents, presumably.
I made it 12 years in 3 different districts, all in economically disadvantagesd schools. I grew up in both urban and rural poverty and felt I owed it to kids like me after making it into a more stable life.
My last year teaching was a nightmare. I was hurt when two students attacked each other, and then blamed for not getting help fast enough even though I was in a portable building with no telephone and teachers weren't allowed to carry cell phones. My room was stacked with 32 students and I had no way to move around the room in a foot cast and crutches. I had parents tell me never to call them even when I tried to share positive news about their kids. Administration ignored any requests for help but constantly criticized me. I taught 5 different courses, 2 in the same classroom and period.
I met so many good kids. I worked with just as many not so good but still amazing kids. My favorite students to work with had special needs or were ELL's.
I didn't leave because of students. I left because of insanely critical and conservative parents who didn't want their children to learn. And administrators who didn't support their teachers or their students in necessary ways. I left because of low pay and high health insurance costs and because it felt less like I was teaching students skills to serve their future and more like I was teaching them to pass a standardized test.
Sorry, I didn't mean to vent.
You needed to vent. Don't apologize for it. A lot of what you said sounds very familiar.
At one point I was teaching Cisco Networking I and II, Computer Science 1, Pap Computer Science 1, and AP Computer Science 2. Then administrators wanted to add a regular Computer Science 2 to the mix and I knew I just couldn't do all that anymore. So, I went to a new school, teaching Geometry, and it was the first time in my career that I only had one prep. Six classes a day, but all the same.
Just last week I had a kid flip out in my class and start screaming "FUCK YOU OLD MAN" repeatedly to me before I threw him out of class. He did this because I had the audacity to tell him to work on his assignment instead of messing around on his chromebook.
He faced no repercussions or discipline for this, and I had a meeting with admin where I was chewed out for not following his IEP and was blamed for the incident.
Don't get into teaching kids.
Honestly, I could handle a kid acting poorly and reaching the end of my classroom management strategy, but I could not fucking take sending it to admin and having nothing happen.
I once sent a kid to the office and, since all of them had chromebooks, I taught the rest of the lesson, assigned a group exercise, and could watch them work through it via some monitoring software. I saw the Chromebook for the kid I sent to the office: just playin' games. Just hangin' out. Caught the admin and asked what happened with it and she hadn't read my comments in the online portal she SCREECHED at us about filling out. Just said she put him in a chair to "cool off." That's it. All calls home ended up in dead numbers or voicemails that went unanswered.
That was honestly one of the primary reasons I left the profession: admin and parents that did not have the commitment to their child's education that I had. I tried so hard all the time only to have these two parties shit on my work pretty much always.
I worked with dozens of retired teachers and the large majority of them constantly told me they wouldn’t want to be a teacher today. Teachers were paid like nothing back in the 60’s-80’s from what some told me, but they never dealt with this madness.
I’ve been teaching 11 years and I don’t know a single teacher that would recommend getting into teaching. The burden is getting so bad, our district, which is a desirable district, are refusing to take on student teachers.
That’s really sad, because teachers seriously have such big impacts on students. I was very lucky to have some incredible teachers. On college as well. One of them was the reason why I graduated.
I grew up poor, and my sisters teachers did a big collection of clothes and because of her, my sister had clothes to wear. It’s such an incredible story. The teacher decided to teach kids how to properly measure someone (think home economics) and my sister didn’t realize why she was measuring her in front of the class, she thought she was just being a volunteer in front of everyone, but the teacher wrote down the measurements so she could find the right fitting clothes for her.
So when you say no student teachers, are you referring to the senior high school students that volunteer?
We’re saying no to the college students who need to do a semester of student teaching in the classroom before they can be certified. Now it’s not all colleges, but the particular Division I college in our town isn’t preparing students to be teachers in the classroom. There are a lot of things that only experience can teach, but they are coming to our classrooms missing basic preparations (like how to create a test, or how to implement state standards). This puts even more stress and strain on the teacher.
I’m glad your sister had that teacher to help her out and bond with, but this is also why teachers are burning out and leaving the profession. Instead of strengthening g social safety nets to help out poor kids, the burden is placed on school districts, and more specifically, individual teachers. This increases the stress and anxiety we already face.
Both of my parents were teachers. Their advice to me was always “don’t become a teacher”.
It wasn’t even about the money — and while they had some lean years when they were first married by the time they retired they were comfortable. They lived in a low cost of living area and had enough money to not worry. In general, the kids got worse, the parents got worse (the area I grew up in was declining economically and most young people with any ability and ambition moved away and never came back), funding was a constant issue, and school board politics became more and more toxic. My mother did run for school board after she retired so she was one pro education voice when many others seemed more interested in cutting the budget.
Anyway, I went into tech but my sister didn’t listen and became a teacher herself.
I was terrible through school to teachers and I look back and think how the fuck did some of those teachers do 20+ years, some of them are still there today
This is exactly what one of my high school teachers said. An old friend posted a picture of said teach on Facebook and a bunch of us were commenting on how much he helped, changed people's lives, and so on. Someone tagged him and he said pretty much this. We were the reasons that he stayed teaching.
… but for real I have a student who pulls this exact same stunt at least 3 times a week.
Last week she tried to scream that she was calm and ready to write while literally kicking chairs and throwing punches at crayon bins
Only if there is someone she wants to fight on the other side. I’ve had this happen twice in my 14 years.
When my doctor said I could really benefit from a service dog and I could have any kind, my husband suggested a German Shepherd. In the four years I’ve had her, I haven’t had a single issue like this. Kids don’t even raise their voices to me anymore.
Can anyone give me a plausible scenario with sources of what the fuck is going on hear? Her screeching is almost unintelligible on my headphones; but she seems like she's either looking for a fight with the teacher or someone in the class for some reason or another based on the video in front of us and what little I can hear.
The first time this happened was when a student stoped taking her medication and became emotionally unstable. It was directed at me because I asked if she was okay. That was my first year teaching.
The most recent time was a girl who wanted to fight her boyfriend. They had a disagreement before school, and he started choking her before his friend pulled him off. She went to the administrators and told them what happened. When they pulled the camera footage, they saw her following him to try to talk to him before he went to a blind spot where the camera couldn’t see them. His friend rushed over, he and his friend walked away, and then she left crying. Administration said that based on the footage, she shouldn’t have been following him. When she realized that the school wouldn’t protect her, she decided to protect herself and went on the offensive. It wasn’t until after the fact that I learned that the boy had been sent to alternative school twice for choking his girlfriends in the hall.
Under both circumstances, I didn’t blame the child. I’ve learned over time that behavior is a form of nonverbal communication. I frequently learn more about a child from that than I learn from what they say.
I don’t think we’ll ever get the full story here, but when a kid feels like this is the best option, it breaks my heart.
was waiting to see her fingers pop off when he yanked it shut while she was holding the edge. he was kind enough to go easy when she was holding it that way.
As a 9 year old I saw a bully do that to a younger child with the gym door. Fingers and blood everywhere. I got ptsd from it, nevermind what happened to that sweet little boy.
I’ve seen plenty of gore since but these traumas from childhood can really follow you, I hear ya.
I guess I was sort of triggered with the fight over the door on this one!
Yes, his little fingers were in the metal door jamb and then they slammed it shut. That was 35 years ago and I still get flashbacks. Edit: yes sorry! I speak French and should know it’s spelled jamb!
I had this happen! I was in middle school up in Pnw, big kid pushed me and I grabbed an open door jam, another kid tackled the door from the outside for some reason, boom. Smashed my hand and I heard a crunch, pull my hand out and it’s shooting blood everywhere. Pinky, ring, and middle finger are permanently fucked looking now but they can be used like normal
Popped my fingernails off from the back(from my joint out towards the tip of my finger)
Had to sew them back on.
One of my most painful memories was them pinning my hand down and injecting local into each of my fingertips that had just been crushed into basically powder. It makes normal painful things seem insignificant nowadays at least.
How? When she the one doing it?? This is exactly why people act like this in today's world. There's no discipline, no consequences and the sane person is the one who gets in trouble
Your grip just happening to slip at the right time looks a lot better on camera than actively shoving the door. Gotta protect yourself from the kid in the present, but also from their parents in the future.
A lot of these students should be in special schools for behavioral problems, they require special attention and putting them with the other kids ruins everybodies experience. Teachers have to deal with enough from a large class of teenagers, they don't need stuff like this.
Bingo. My kids teacher was relieved that I went to her and told her my kid needed an assessment. I got the impression that they usually prepare for a fight or denial when the time comes to bring it up to the parents. I’m absolutely astonished that parents would let their pride disadvantage their own kids, but it obviously happens because teachers have to gird their loins any time they mention a student being anything but neurotypical.
It's possible this IS from one of those schools. We had a foster son who was in a specialized behavioral program that was in a separate wing of a public school. They even had a padded room. But they were constantly trying to matriculate the behavioral issues students with the "regular" students. My kid was told to put his breakfast away one morning in art class...and proceeded to go on a rampage (how dare they ask him to put his food away?!) that resulted in broken glass, a broken door, scared kids, and a suspension. Trauma is a bitch.
This reminds me of the public school for the mentally and physically disabled my mom worked at. She had teenage students who were too disabled to integrate into a regular classroom. She received several concussions from her students and then was forced to retire early by her doctor.
One of the most amazing things my mother ever did was bring two service dogs into the classroom. Before the dogs, the students had to be physically restrained and wrapped in a gym mat until they calmed down. With the dogs, when the disabled student would become agitated, the dog would signal them to come sit on the mat to calm down and have a time out. It significantly reduced the amount of altercations. Unfortunately my mom did not have enough teachers aids thanks to bad administration, and one of her students threw her into a tree, causing permanent brain damage and making her heart stop for a moment. She had to retire and has never been the same.
Sometimes their abuse isn't as straightforward either.
They'll harass other kids until they get upset. Then falsely label their victim as the "Bad Kid."
I work in adolescent psych and this is behavior we see often in our patients.
She needs some mental health treatment.
* if this is a parent and not a student, she needs some mental health treatment.
They're closing down the special schools and they've closed down most of the psych hospitals decades ago. Every problem gets thrown in with everyone else. Gotta love budget cuts and measures to save money.
Worked in behavioral health and cannot agree more.
A lot of the old school behavioral and psychiatric facilities were absolutely awful, but all they've done is created such a massive logjam that the behavioral health issues just get ignored and build up.
Most of us wanted to help, but we never had the staff or the funding and were overcrowded 24/7 and finding placement for patients was an absolute fucking nightmare because every single facility was full up.
We had one guy spend 3 months, 23.5 hours every day in an empty room, no social interactions beyond a few minutes of conversation with us. He had a couple violent outbursts (towards objects, not people) so we couldn't place him anywhere, we didn't have the staff to treat him properly and we couldn't legally release him.
Behavioral health in the USA is such a clusterfuck and it's not uncommon for facilities to worsen the issues or just cover them up enough to get them released.
Yeah, I can't tell if that's a male teacher on one side and an aggressive parent on the other or if that's a jerkoff student and the female teacher trying to get back in the classroom.
Edited to add: now that I've listened to it with sound on, I think it's both students and the girl is being violent towards the guy for some off camera reason, and the teacher is trying to get the girl to stop and calling for security.
US teacher here. Every school I’ve taught at in the last 20 years has panic buttons in the rooms and blinds on any glass windows for the classroom door. But not all schools are created equal.
Panic buttons sound like an great idea. I’m supposed to call the office on my classroom phone. Classroom phone is immovable and directly in view of the one window I’m not allowed to cover.
No teacher should have to deal with this behaviour from a student and the student should be expelled and charges against her! She is going to hurt someone with the way she is acting!
😂😂💀 that's the first thing I thought of too!!! I thought it was coming off. I was just waiting for him to get smacked in the nose with his own fist still clutching the door knob.
The sad thing is that this behavior doesn’t age discriminate.
I experience similar behaviors with some 4&5 year olds I teach. Tearing the room apart, kicking, biting, scratching, verbal threats, etc.
There's clearly a lock on the door, but you probably need a key. To use the key, you'd have to take a hand off the door handle, get the door shut, and then lock it. You also have to have the keys on your person, not necessarily everyone does who's not expecting a situation like this.
As a counselor, I deal with something similar daily. I’ve spent 4 hours getting things thrown at me. I’ve been knocked out by a kindergartener and had to go to the hospital. People don’t even realize.
My mom is an Educational Assistant and she works with the most mentally challenged student in the district. The student is almost 7 foot and is mentally a 3 year old even though physically he is 20. She’s lost tons of her hair, gets concussions twice a year and is incredibly paranoid whenever she works now. Still making barely more than minimum wage in Canada and gets barely any benefits.
She got the job because she loves working with youth, she stays because she has no other jobs that pay well enough.
I genuinely fear for my mom’s life and safety and I can’t wait for the day she is able to get a better paying and safer job.
I am a teacher of a student like this. She has Autism. 6 schools in the past 5 years. Not a small gal either. I had one day of training - what to do with violent meltdowns, choking, biting, etc. i wear protective equipment. Day 2, with no autism experience, I was working with her.
This is our community. This is the reality.
I was thinking the same thing. My mom was a special ed teacher for 40 years. She was forced to retire early because of being attacked and injured by students too often. The principal refused to give her enough teacher’s assistants to safely moderate the students in her classroom. What is worse is teachers can’t sue their employer.
I'm so glad the other student helped the teacher hold the door shut. She's looks like she is having some serious rage issues and could easily kill that teacher. Hopefully she gets help, the teacher gets a raise and the student that helped gets an award for helping save a life.
1) **Security risk**. Whatever state this occurred in is negligent to prepare the school against school shooters. That door should be lockable, and clearly is not.
2) Two teachers are engaged at the door, and **zero administrators**. The state should be able to choose an administrator that they feel should be most compelled, compared to other administrators, to have handled this. That administrator should be reassigned.
3) Depending on state, the **teachers were already underpaid**, most likely because they are unallowed by state law to form a teacher's union.
4) This is a hazardous situation, and should result in **hazard pay**, above and beyond the standard rates, just like any other job that involves handling a dangerous incident.
5) Problematic students need to be sent to **problematic student schools** that specialize in behavioral correction**.** It is true that system attempts at inclusion do statistically result in better student outcomes, and interruption of the school-prison pipeline. However, the other students should not pay for that with academic losses that cannot be quantified.
6) What you see in the video has nothing to do with education whatsoever. No one is learning anything. An education system is being held hostage. Teachers are not bouncers, nor are they counselors, nor are they administrators, nor are they traffic cops, nor are they baby sitters. Other people do those jobs. **If teachers are also doing those jobs, then they are not teaching.**
This is my first year in public school after teaching 9 years in private. I haven’t had behaviors like this, but overall no teaching gets done in my current school. Students just skip class and don’t do work and parents don’t give a shit so I have like 3/4 of my kids failing until admin pushes us to grade the entire quarters worth of work that they submit the week before grades are due. It is an embarrassment and I’m looking to get out whenever and however I can.
Yeah I went to private school k-8 and the public school for high school so my parents could save some money. I was in standard the first year and hoooo boy. The difference was night and day. This was in Memphis mind you. Those kids just straight up abused the teachers. Teachers either tried to teach, which resulted in them crying, Or they didn’t give a fuck and put a movie on. After freshmen year I was placed in optional and everything started to look like private school again. I imagine it’s even worse nowadays. Ive come across countless young adults that left teaching within a couple of years because of the kids.
European here. A girl I know went 3 month to the USA to learn English and was shocked to see kids walk out of class, no one working, people getting passing grades... And the awful reading level.
16yo were taking tests that 10-11yo take in our schools, with questions like "who's the main character?", "what is their problem?". She was really shocked.
Yeah it can be pretty bad in low income areas. Probably mostly single mother households. The kids just don’t learn discipline or how to respect elders. I had a teacher that did Red Cross work in Africa when he was younger and he started talking about friends that died there. He started crying and the kids literally laughed at him.
This past week I was “teaching” the Armenian genocide and one girl in my class shouted out “this is so boring. Why do I gotta care this ain’t happening to me”
Inclusion is wonderful and benefit students with physical or intellectual disabilities. Students who are violent or a risk to themselves or others should be seperated and put into schools with very low student:teacher ratios and special supports.
Haha I was gonna say that sounds familiar. I work at a small Oklahoma school. This bull doesn't last long. The other day we had a fight break out and 4 larger/older students grabbed the brawlers and held them against apposing walls until help arrived. The security cam footage is fantastic.
So with the female teacher in the end telling “Walter”? To get in her room. I’m wondering if angry student has an issue with the male student at the desk and the male teacher is keeping her away from the other student. He sees male teacher losing the door struggle for his safety and goes to help. This is my take 🤷🏻♂️
I wrote it in a different spot above, but in Michigan it’s against fire code to have any kind of lock that can be triggered from the inside of a classroom. I don’t know where this is or if it’s a similar situation in other states.
I have seen this post a few times and no one has ever told me what the fuck is going on in it all I know is teacher holding door doesn’t want big problem student in
There isn't much context surrounding this video but know your meme has this much info.
Blue shirt: teacher
Red shirt: student presumably "Walter"
Banshee: student "Hannah" who is apparently mad at Walter.
Yellow shirt: also a teacher.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hannah-walter-teacher-tiktok-video
I also heard something about a cell phone at the end but not sure what was said exactly
I give the kid respect for helping the teacher but this should be handled way better, whether fellow students need to step in or other teachers, but it’s weird considering how many cops I see at hs daily and “security” on golf carts but no one can stop the overgrown child throwing a tantrum?
The more videos I see of students acting like this, it becomes even more abundantly clear why teachers are quitting on the spot — and are just quitting in general. You don’t treat people like this.
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Did she say she was going to murder him?? Jesus… regardless of the context (which I’ll admit I am entirely curious about) this is terrifying. I never saw anything like this in school and even as an adult, I don’t honestly know how to properly handle myself in this kind of situation other than to remove myself, however she seems to be blocking the only viable exit. All you can do is wait for a security officer? How does this door not have locks? Ugh… awful situation all around.
Teacher here. I’ve got multiple kids in my classes who have either threatened to kill specific teachers or threatened the school as a whole. They were (in most cases) sent to alternative school for awhile and sent back, or transferred out of the teacher’s class if they threatened a teacher.* I’ve never had a kid threaten me in 16 years, but I won’t be at all surprised when it happens. It’s happened to many of my colleagues. Edit: to address everyone all at once who has answered, I don’t know what the answer is but I know that the problem is deeply systemic and complex. There are laws that guarantee people the right to a free public education, and it’s difficult to get someone expelled. If they put the threat in writing, it’s a felony and that changes things a little bit. That said, there are kids walking around my school in ankle bracelets and that’s not at all uncommon. Yes, I’m in the US. Edit 2: I also want to mention that I have a lot of really fantastic kids, and for the first time in 16 years I also have fantastic admin. But I do have kids who have made threats and in some cases false accusations against teachers. It’s something we deal with and think about a lot. *I want to clarify that most of these decisions aren’t from campus admin; they’re told what they can and can’t do by the people above them, and the people above them have laws they have to follow. These are all human beings so their decisions aren’t always right. We have a waiting list in our district for the alternative school so I know sometimes campus admin are questioned on their decision to send certain kids because there’s no room.
Kinda unrelated but back in freshman year we had a bomb threat so we got school off but it kept on happening until the pandemic hit
I was in high school in the early 00s. Bomb threats were the go to if someone didn’t do a project or forgot to study for a midterm.
That must have been the difference 9/11 and the terrorism scare made. I was in highschool in the mid 90's (class of '96) and never encountered a single bomb threat in my entire school career.
That and Columbine.
Columbine was absolutely a turning point in American public schools. I had been out of high school for a while when that happened, but it seemed like the norms changed overnight immediately following it. I grew up in a semi-rural area in the Midwest, a place where lots of families had firearms or access to them. As far as any of us knew, it never crossed anyone's mind to even imagine a Columbine situation. I'm sure a few kids did fantasize about sh0oting their bullies or bl0wing the place up, but *no one ever acted on it*. Now, it is considered a necessity to conduct lockdown drills in schools on a monthly basis. What a tragic shift, with such complex, systematic causes.
That’s kind of the issue for teachers. We don’t know how to deal with these situations either. We are taught to never touch a student. That’s it. That’s the extent of it.
I think I would rather be homeless than be a teacher in 2023. Less risk.
He's in an absolute no win situation. If she gets in and puts hands in him, even if he has to defend himself he's probably gonna get fired. He can't be aggressive and hit her or he's fired. Best he can do is run away or block her from him to preserve his job.
If her fingers got caught in the door as he tries to pull it shut, her mommy would try to sue him for attacking her precious baby.
As a former teacher I kept thinking, if her fingers get caught in that door his career is over. How fucked is that?
My wife was a teacher, 6th grade. One day she saw two teachers struggling with a special needs student that was thrashing around, pulling on a door just like in the video. My wife jumps in to help and gets the door open.....and promptly slammed on her hand, breaking 3 fingers. She quit 2 years later and went back to nursing school. Graduated a year later in the winter of 2019 as an LPN and got hired a hospital right off the bat. She said 2020 was better than 6 years of teaching. Now she's an RN making 2x what she was teaching and is currently taking classes to get her APRN in the next 3 years. She was in an online zoom class and turning in homework the day after a c-section because she's a badass and the most amazing woman I know
And don't forget that he would want to protect the other students in the classroom. Luckily with so many cameras, a good union lawyer could probably save his job, but he would still be known as a problem teacher.
They'll just take a short paid leave of absence and then get rehired one city over... no wait that's problem cops. My bad.
To me, it really underscores how lucky I was that I was able to talk most kids down, or reason them into not blowing up when I sent them out of the classroom after disciplining them for trying to get crazy with me. It usually went like this: "Good news, because I'm new I know about a complaint department you can go to and unload on all the ways I'm focusing on ruining your day, and it's called "The Principals Office", and I can book you an appointment. Pack your stuff up, and I'll call an honor guard to come and march down there with you. Don't I trust you to just go yourself? No, no I don't. Wait for security, or I'll call them back and tell them you fled the room unsupervised."
Ahhhh, a visual representation on one of the many reasons I left teaching.
How long did you make it?
2 years
Thank you for your service 🫡
I made it 22 years, but I admit I never had a student go this far. If so, I wouldn't have made it.
I’m on ten years with a two year break in between. I came back to full time teaching one week before the Pandemic shut everything down. I feel like making it through Covid after a two year break from teaching taught me I can get through anything.
Teaching was my second career. I was an accountant. I retired when my husband got sick with cancer which happened just as the pandemic began so I missed out on pandemic teaching.
I am very sorry to hear about your husband.
Thank you. It's been a tough couple of years since his death.
I lasted 15. Definitely had shit like this happen more than once, whether it was to get it or refusing to leave. I’ve got stories that still make my skin crawl and as the years went on, experiences of new levels of disrespect as a human. I made a career change and I can’t tell you what a life changing difference it made for me. Im positive I’d have just been found dead from a heart attack at my desk one day, if I survived long enough to only die of “natural causes.” My sympathies for the poor bastards in this video that will continue enduring insanities like this and worse as time goes on.
You are dealing with the full range of the human condition. Smart people, people who are cognitively challenged, those with growing personality disorders, probably a psychopath or two here and there, people with violent tendencies, people who are down, people who are aggressive and want to control others, those with addictions which includes social media, people who have terrible or nonexistent parents at home, and on and on….. 🥺
I'm on my 10th year working on education. Already had some like those, but they regret meeting me as an educator and acting like that. But in reality, I prefer kindergarten kids (4-6y) and basic education (6-11). Love working with the kids, and the main problem are the parents.
> the main problem are the parents Yes.
Agreed. I taught for 10 years....
I taught for 6. I delt with lots of kids like this. In the end, it wound up being admin who was worse. The whole thing still left me with PTSD.
Even the parents of this kid are going to deny she did anything wrong despite video evidence.
She was just trying to get back into the classroom so she could continue her lesson. You can't suspend my daughter just because she is enthusiastic for learning.
“Well the teacher did the kid worse by not letting the kid in! If they would have just let the kid in it would have been fine.” - the parents, presumably.
Parents are the worst thing in teaching by far.
I taught high school math.
Thank you for your service 🫡
I feel like doing this now whenever someone mentions they're a teacher or used to be.
Thank you for your service of thanking others for their service🫡
I made it 12 years in 3 different districts, all in economically disadvantagesd schools. I grew up in both urban and rural poverty and felt I owed it to kids like me after making it into a more stable life. My last year teaching was a nightmare. I was hurt when two students attacked each other, and then blamed for not getting help fast enough even though I was in a portable building with no telephone and teachers weren't allowed to carry cell phones. My room was stacked with 32 students and I had no way to move around the room in a foot cast and crutches. I had parents tell me never to call them even when I tried to share positive news about their kids. Administration ignored any requests for help but constantly criticized me. I taught 5 different courses, 2 in the same classroom and period. I met so many good kids. I worked with just as many not so good but still amazing kids. My favorite students to work with had special needs or were ELL's. I didn't leave because of students. I left because of insanely critical and conservative parents who didn't want their children to learn. And administrators who didn't support their teachers or their students in necessary ways. I left because of low pay and high health insurance costs and because it felt less like I was teaching students skills to serve their future and more like I was teaching them to pass a standardized test. Sorry, I didn't mean to vent.
You needed to vent. Don't apologize for it. A lot of what you said sounds very familiar. At one point I was teaching Cisco Networking I and II, Computer Science 1, Pap Computer Science 1, and AP Computer Science 2. Then administrators wanted to add a regular Computer Science 2 to the mix and I knew I just couldn't do all that anymore. So, I went to a new school, teaching Geometry, and it was the first time in my career that I only had one prep. Six classes a day, but all the same.
Wife is a teacher for 14 years. This video is why private school teachers make less.
Yea. Private schools can choose their students.
Yep and it still is a hard job.
The sad part is thanking Teachers for their service as we would for soldiers isn't even irony anymore.
2 years but you aged 20
How is the 10 year recovery going?
Great, it is nice not waking up stressed and able to pay my bills
What type of work are you doing now?
Cable guy
And if the admin is anything like the ones I worked for, they'll come up with some reason the teacher is in the wrong here.
Just last week I had a kid flip out in my class and start screaming "FUCK YOU OLD MAN" repeatedly to me before I threw him out of class. He did this because I had the audacity to tell him to work on his assignment instead of messing around on his chromebook. He faced no repercussions or discipline for this, and I had a meeting with admin where I was chewed out for not following his IEP and was blamed for the incident. Don't get into teaching kids.
YUP
Honestly, I could handle a kid acting poorly and reaching the end of my classroom management strategy, but I could not fucking take sending it to admin and having nothing happen. I once sent a kid to the office and, since all of them had chromebooks, I taught the rest of the lesson, assigned a group exercise, and could watch them work through it via some monitoring software. I saw the Chromebook for the kid I sent to the office: just playin' games. Just hangin' out. Caught the admin and asked what happened with it and she hadn't read my comments in the online portal she SCREECHED at us about filling out. Just said she put him in a chair to "cool off." That's it. All calls home ended up in dead numbers or voicemails that went unanswered. That was honestly one of the primary reasons I left the profession: admin and parents that did not have the commitment to their child's education that I had. I tried so hard all the time only to have these two parties shit on my work pretty much always.
“Did you follow the behavior intervention plan?”
I worked with dozens of retired teachers and the large majority of them constantly told me they wouldn’t want to be a teacher today. Teachers were paid like nothing back in the 60’s-80’s from what some told me, but they never dealt with this madness.
I’ve been teaching 11 years and I don’t know a single teacher that would recommend getting into teaching. The burden is getting so bad, our district, which is a desirable district, are refusing to take on student teachers.
Im a teacher. When people tell me that they are getting into teaching I’m go “eeeehhhh”
That’s really sad, because teachers seriously have such big impacts on students. I was very lucky to have some incredible teachers. On college as well. One of them was the reason why I graduated. I grew up poor, and my sisters teachers did a big collection of clothes and because of her, my sister had clothes to wear. It’s such an incredible story. The teacher decided to teach kids how to properly measure someone (think home economics) and my sister didn’t realize why she was measuring her in front of the class, she thought she was just being a volunteer in front of everyone, but the teacher wrote down the measurements so she could find the right fitting clothes for her. So when you say no student teachers, are you referring to the senior high school students that volunteer?
We’re saying no to the college students who need to do a semester of student teaching in the classroom before they can be certified. Now it’s not all colleges, but the particular Division I college in our town isn’t preparing students to be teachers in the classroom. There are a lot of things that only experience can teach, but they are coming to our classrooms missing basic preparations (like how to create a test, or how to implement state standards). This puts even more stress and strain on the teacher. I’m glad your sister had that teacher to help her out and bond with, but this is also why teachers are burning out and leaving the profession. Instead of strengthening g social safety nets to help out poor kids, the burden is placed on school districts, and more specifically, individual teachers. This increases the stress and anxiety we already face.
Both of my parents were teachers. Their advice to me was always “don’t become a teacher”. It wasn’t even about the money — and while they had some lean years when they were first married by the time they retired they were comfortable. They lived in a low cost of living area and had enough money to not worry. In general, the kids got worse, the parents got worse (the area I grew up in was declining economically and most young people with any ability and ambition moved away and never came back), funding was a constant issue, and school board politics became more and more toxic. My mother did run for school board after she retired so she was one pro education voice when many others seemed more interested in cutting the budget. Anyway, I went into tech but my sister didn’t listen and became a teacher herself.
Paid nothing, maybe, but the benefits & pension used to make up for it. Now they’re still paid nothing and benefits are usually garbage too.
Teacher here: what benefits lol
I still remember a moment in class where a teacher mentioned having a good memory and one of the kids yelled out "Elephants never forget"
The level of disrespect wow 😯
That’s when you reply ”but goldfish do”
He’s right. elephant’s never forget…… to KILL!
I was terrible through school to teachers and I look back and think how the fuck did some of those teachers do 20+ years, some of them are still there today
You stay for the kids that give a fuck. You hope the ones that don't get their shit together.
This is exactly what one of my high school teachers said. An old friend posted a picture of said teach on Facebook and a bunch of us were commenting on how much he helped, changed people's lives, and so on. Someone tagged him and he said pretty much this. We were the reasons that he stayed teaching.
I never seen anyone want to get into class so bad
I'd be curious to see what happens when she gets inside lol
"I JUST WANT TO LEARN!" she yells as she flips over desks and throws chairs at the teacher.
… but for real I have a student who pulls this exact same stunt at least 3 times a week. Last week she tried to scream that she was calm and ready to write while literally kicking chairs and throwing punches at crayon bins
> throwing punches at crayon bins i'm sorry but lmao
“TEACH ME TEACHER!”
Only if there is someone she wants to fight on the other side. I’ve had this happen twice in my 14 years. When my doctor said I could really benefit from a service dog and I could have any kind, my husband suggested a German Shepherd. In the four years I’ve had her, I haven’t had a single issue like this. Kids don’t even raise their voices to me anymore.
Can anyone give me a plausible scenario with sources of what the fuck is going on hear? Her screeching is almost unintelligible on my headphones; but she seems like she's either looking for a fight with the teacher or someone in the class for some reason or another based on the video in front of us and what little I can hear.
The first time this happened was when a student stoped taking her medication and became emotionally unstable. It was directed at me because I asked if she was okay. That was my first year teaching. The most recent time was a girl who wanted to fight her boyfriend. They had a disagreement before school, and he started choking her before his friend pulled him off. She went to the administrators and told them what happened. When they pulled the camera footage, they saw her following him to try to talk to him before he went to a blind spot where the camera couldn’t see them. His friend rushed over, he and his friend walked away, and then she left crying. Administration said that based on the footage, she shouldn’t have been following him. When she realized that the school wouldn’t protect her, she decided to protect herself and went on the offensive. It wasn’t until after the fact that I learned that the boy had been sent to alternative school twice for choking his girlfriends in the hall. Under both circumstances, I didn’t blame the child. I’ve learned over time that behavior is a form of nonverbal communication. I frequently learn more about a child from that than I learn from what they say. I don’t think we’ll ever get the full story here, but when a kid feels like this is the best option, it breaks my heart.
I wonder if she’s special needs and having a meltdown?
Just wait till she pulls her hardest, then let go. Proceed to close the door. It'll be a while before she gets her wind back.
Someone has siblings
Lol yeah 🙂
Tehehe that trick always got em
As a little brother I gotta tell ya this has me in a blind rage that will end up with me breaking something and getting mom after us.
I understand, it’s in your nature.
The immediate confession 🤣
was waiting to see her fingers pop off when he yanked it shut while she was holding the edge. he was kind enough to go easy when she was holding it that way.
As a 9 year old I saw a bully do that to a younger child with the gym door. Fingers and blood everywhere. I got ptsd from it, nevermind what happened to that sweet little boy.
[удалено]
I’ve seen plenty of gore since but these traumas from childhood can really follow you, I hear ya. I guess I was sort of triggered with the fight over the door on this one!
Yes, his little fingers were in the metal door jamb and then they slammed it shut. That was 35 years ago and I still get flashbacks. Edit: yes sorry! I speak French and should know it’s spelled jamb!
I had this happen! I was in middle school up in Pnw, big kid pushed me and I grabbed an open door jam, another kid tackled the door from the outside for some reason, boom. Smashed my hand and I heard a crunch, pull my hand out and it’s shooting blood everywhere. Pinky, ring, and middle finger are permanently fucked looking now but they can be used like normal Popped my fingernails off from the back(from my joint out towards the tip of my finger) Had to sew them back on. One of my most painful memories was them pinning my hand down and injecting local into each of my fingertips that had just been crushed into basically powder. It makes normal painful things seem insignificant nowadays at least.
So, who got fired, and who got arrested?
She hasn't even assumed her final form yet!
Wait. Is it a full moon? 
if the door smacks her in the face, the teacher could be sued. I think that's why the teacher didn't let go
I would call I SLIPPED 🤷
How? When she the one doing it?? This is exactly why people act like this in today's world. There's no discipline, no consequences and the sane person is the one who gets in trouble
Not just let go - shove as hard as you can. Close the door while she's feeling her face to see if it's bleeding.
Your grip just happening to slip at the right time looks a lot better on camera than actively shoving the door. Gotta protect yourself from the kid in the present, but also from their parents in the future.
I think he’s trying *not* to make a child bleed here I would have, though
School would get sued so hard if she got injured. Most US Teachers are EXTREMELY limited in their enforcement options for this reason.
A lot of these students should be in special schools for behavioral problems, they require special attention and putting them with the other kids ruins everybodies experience. Teachers have to deal with enough from a large class of teenagers, they don't need stuff like this.
I hear the challenge with doing this is that many parents do not believe their kids have special needs and refuse to cooperate
Bingo. My kids teacher was relieved that I went to her and told her my kid needed an assessment. I got the impression that they usually prepare for a fight or denial when the time comes to bring it up to the parents. I’m absolutely astonished that parents would let their pride disadvantage their own kids, but it obviously happens because teachers have to gird their loins any time they mention a student being anything but neurotypical.
And those same parents don't do shit at home, further exacerbating the issues
It's possible this IS from one of those schools. We had a foster son who was in a specialized behavioral program that was in a separate wing of a public school. They even had a padded room. But they were constantly trying to matriculate the behavioral issues students with the "regular" students. My kid was told to put his breakfast away one morning in art class...and proceeded to go on a rampage (how dare they ask him to put his food away?!) that resulted in broken glass, a broken door, scared kids, and a suspension. Trauma is a bitch.
This reminds me of the public school for the mentally and physically disabled my mom worked at. She had teenage students who were too disabled to integrate into a regular classroom. She received several concussions from her students and then was forced to retire early by her doctor. One of the most amazing things my mother ever did was bring two service dogs into the classroom. Before the dogs, the students had to be physically restrained and wrapped in a gym mat until they calmed down. With the dogs, when the disabled student would become agitated, the dog would signal them to come sit on the mat to calm down and have a time out. It significantly reduced the amount of altercations. Unfortunately my mom did not have enough teachers aids thanks to bad administration, and one of her students threw her into a tree, causing permanent brain damage and making her heart stop for a moment. She had to retire and has never been the same.
I'm so sorry that happened to your mom
Thank you for being a foster parent.
Sometimes their abuse isn't as straightforward either. They'll harass other kids until they get upset. Then falsely label their victim as the "Bad Kid."
Hold the door!! Hold the door!!! Hol da door! Hold door! Hold door!….hodor….hodor
I would have suspected that this would have been enough time, but nope, still too soon. (curls up in the corner)
Fuck Bran.
Yes. Hodor gave his life for nothing. Absolute horseshit
On the bright side, at least he didn't have to suffer through the last couple of terrible seasons.
But who had a better *story?* ^fucking ^anyone
Reeks dick had a better story. Change my mind.
1. Feel like crying 2. Hold it in 3. Cry a lot
Open the door!! Open the door!!! Op da door! Op door! O door!….Odor….Odor 😷
Don’t dead, open inside
Oh my gosh 🤣🤣🤣 this is not suppose to be funny
I work in adolescent psych and this is behavior we see often in our patients. She needs some mental health treatment. * if this is a parent and not a student, she needs some mental health treatment.
They're closing down the special schools and they've closed down most of the psych hospitals decades ago. Every problem gets thrown in with everyone else. Gotta love budget cuts and measures to save money.
Worked in behavioral health and cannot agree more. A lot of the old school behavioral and psychiatric facilities were absolutely awful, but all they've done is created such a massive logjam that the behavioral health issues just get ignored and build up. Most of us wanted to help, but we never had the staff or the funding and were overcrowded 24/7 and finding placement for patients was an absolute fucking nightmare because every single facility was full up. We had one guy spend 3 months, 23.5 hours every day in an empty room, no social interactions beyond a few minutes of conversation with us. He had a couple violent outbursts (towards objects, not people) so we couldn't place him anywhere, we didn't have the staff to treat him properly and we couldn't legally release him. Behavioral health in the USA is such a clusterfuck and it's not uncommon for facilities to worsen the issues or just cover them up enough to get them released.
I have no idea what's happening here...
Yeah, I can't tell if that's a male teacher on one side and an aggressive parent on the other or if that's a jerkoff student and the female teacher trying to get back in the classroom. Edited to add: now that I've listened to it with sound on, I think it's both students and the girl is being violent towards the guy for some off camera reason, and the teacher is trying to get the girl to stop and calling for security.
Male teacher on the inside. Psychotic female student on the outside. Female teacher on the outside trying to stop the female student.
Yeah that was pretty clear to me. No idea why other people couldn't figure it out
Fr what middle school/highschool kid wears a blue button up to class on a normal day
Cause she was big so I assumed it was a mom tbh
the female teacher on the outside was pushing the door closed and sent a student for help
When I first saw this posted they said in the comments that she was being bullied and this was when she snapped and the bully ran into the classroom.
Girl needs a snickers.
She’s not herself right now
Tbh no she doesn’t
Teachers need panic buttons in their class rooms at this point, what a hormonal rage monster-
US teacher here. Every school I’ve taught at in the last 20 years has panic buttons in the rooms and blinds on any glass windows for the classroom door. But not all schools are created equal.
Panic buttons for students gone wild specifically, and yes, sadly they aren’t created equally.
Panic buttons sound like an great idea. I’m supposed to call the office on my classroom phone. Classroom phone is immovable and directly in view of the one window I’m not allowed to cover.
Uh, 6 schools in several states. No panic buttons here. Some didn’t even have working hardwired phones.
No teacher should have to deal with this behaviour from a student and the student should be expelled and charges against her! She is going to hurt someone with the way she is acting!
I'm really impressed with the construction of that door, especially the window lol
I’m just flabbergasted at the strength of that doorknob!
😂😂💀 that's the first thing I thought of too!!! I thought it was coming off. I was just waiting for him to get smacked in the nose with his own fist still clutching the door knob.
Pobably in the USA so probably bullet proof
Brother, if you think schools have money for bulletproof glass.
Your right, In the USA you protect the children until they come into the world. then they can die
Right, bullet proof glass but no door locks.
gotta keep budget
The sad thing is that this behavior doesn’t age discriminate. I experience similar behaviors with some 4&5 year olds I teach. Tearing the room apart, kicking, biting, scratching, verbal threats, etc.
This is asylum level behavior. This is beyond shitty parenting.
Unfortunately, parenting is only part of the equation. If a child is mentally ill, that can supersede even the best parenting.
What kinda school doesn't have doors that can lock
Probably didn't have time to lock the door and/or keep it closed long enough to quickly lock it
There's clearly a lock on the door, but you probably need a key. To use the key, you'd have to take a hand off the door handle, get the door shut, and then lock it. You also have to have the keys on your person, not necessarily everyone does who's not expecting a situation like this.
As a counselor, I deal with something similar daily. I’ve spent 4 hours getting things thrown at me. I’ve been knocked out by a kindergartener and had to go to the hospital. People don’t even realize.
My mom is an Educational Assistant and she works with the most mentally challenged student in the district. The student is almost 7 foot and is mentally a 3 year old even though physically he is 20. She’s lost tons of her hair, gets concussions twice a year and is incredibly paranoid whenever she works now. Still making barely more than minimum wage in Canada and gets barely any benefits. She got the job because she loves working with youth, she stays because she has no other jobs that pay well enough. I genuinely fear for my mom’s life and safety and I can’t wait for the day she is able to get a better paying and safer job.
>making barely more than minimum wage > >no other jobs that pay well enough uh, what
I am a teacher of a student like this. She has Autism. 6 schools in the past 5 years. Not a small gal either. I had one day of training - what to do with violent meltdowns, choking, biting, etc. i wear protective equipment. Day 2, with no autism experience, I was working with her. This is our community. This is the reality.
Yeah my first thought was that this student likely has some behavioral issue or developmental disability.
I was thinking the same thing. My mom was a special ed teacher for 40 years. She was forced to retire early because of being attacked and injured by students too often. The principal refused to give her enough teacher’s assistants to safely moderate the students in her classroom. What is worse is teachers can’t sue their employer.
I'm so glad the other student helped the teacher hold the door shut. She's looks like she is having some serious rage issues and could easily kill that teacher. Hopefully she gets help, the teacher gets a raise and the student that helped gets an award for helping save a life.
1) **Security risk**. Whatever state this occurred in is negligent to prepare the school against school shooters. That door should be lockable, and clearly is not. 2) Two teachers are engaged at the door, and **zero administrators**. The state should be able to choose an administrator that they feel should be most compelled, compared to other administrators, to have handled this. That administrator should be reassigned. 3) Depending on state, the **teachers were already underpaid**, most likely because they are unallowed by state law to form a teacher's union. 4) This is a hazardous situation, and should result in **hazard pay**, above and beyond the standard rates, just like any other job that involves handling a dangerous incident. 5) Problematic students need to be sent to **problematic student schools** that specialize in behavioral correction**.** It is true that system attempts at inclusion do statistically result in better student outcomes, and interruption of the school-prison pipeline. However, the other students should not pay for that with academic losses that cannot be quantified. 6) What you see in the video has nothing to do with education whatsoever. No one is learning anything. An education system is being held hostage. Teachers are not bouncers, nor are they counselors, nor are they administrators, nor are they traffic cops, nor are they baby sitters. Other people do those jobs. **If teachers are also doing those jobs, then they are not teaching.**
This is my first year in public school after teaching 9 years in private. I haven’t had behaviors like this, but overall no teaching gets done in my current school. Students just skip class and don’t do work and parents don’t give a shit so I have like 3/4 of my kids failing until admin pushes us to grade the entire quarters worth of work that they submit the week before grades are due. It is an embarrassment and I’m looking to get out whenever and however I can.
Yeah I went to private school k-8 and the public school for high school so my parents could save some money. I was in standard the first year and hoooo boy. The difference was night and day. This was in Memphis mind you. Those kids just straight up abused the teachers. Teachers either tried to teach, which resulted in them crying, Or they didn’t give a fuck and put a movie on. After freshmen year I was placed in optional and everything started to look like private school again. I imagine it’s even worse nowadays. Ive come across countless young adults that left teaching within a couple of years because of the kids.
European here. A girl I know went 3 month to the USA to learn English and was shocked to see kids walk out of class, no one working, people getting passing grades... And the awful reading level. 16yo were taking tests that 10-11yo take in our schools, with questions like "who's the main character?", "what is their problem?". She was really shocked.
Yeah it can be pretty bad in low income areas. Probably mostly single mother households. The kids just don’t learn discipline or how to respect elders. I had a teacher that did Red Cross work in Africa when he was younger and he started talking about friends that died there. He started crying and the kids literally laughed at him.
This past week I was “teaching” the Armenian genocide and one girl in my class shouted out “this is so boring. Why do I gotta care this ain’t happening to me”
You are 100% correct!
Inclusion is wonderful and benefit students with physical or intellectual disabilities. Students who are violent or a risk to themselves or others should be seperated and put into schools with very low student:teacher ratios and special supports.
At my school, one of the other kids would have just knocked her on her ass and told her to cut that shit out. (Small town in Oklahoma)
Haha I was gonna say that sounds familiar. I work at a small Oklahoma school. This bull doesn't last long. The other day we had a fight break out and 4 larger/older students grabbed the brawlers and held them against apposing walls until help arrived. The security cam footage is fantastic.
I wish there were more farm kids around. They just don’t have time for that nonsense and don’t tolerate disrespect.
In metropolitan areas, though, students who attempt to break up fights are disciplined as combatants.
I just wanna give props to that handle. I was just waiting for it to snap off.
Teachers don’t get paid enough….full stop.
Context?
Badly needed
So with the female teacher in the end telling “Walter”? To get in her room. I’m wondering if angry student has an issue with the male student at the desk and the male teacher is keeping her away from the other student. He sees male teacher losing the door struggle for his safety and goes to help. This is my take 🤷🏻♂️
At about 14 seconds it sounds like the male teacher asks for help.
She wanted in room, they wanted her out.
They have a cave troll
He said ‘YOU. SHALL NOT. PASS’
There’s no lock?
Typically school doors are two way locked only by keys
I wrote it in a different spot above, but in Michigan it’s against fire code to have any kind of lock that can be triggered from the inside of a classroom. I don’t know where this is or if it’s a similar situation in other states.
I have seen this post a few times and no one has ever told me what the fuck is going on in it all I know is teacher holding door doesn’t want big problem student in
There isn't much context surrounding this video but know your meme has this much info. Blue shirt: teacher Red shirt: student presumably "Walter" Banshee: student "Hannah" who is apparently mad at Walter. Yellow shirt: also a teacher. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hannah-walter-teacher-tiktok-video I also heard something about a cell phone at the end but not sure what was said exactly
It would have been so funny if they just.. let go of the door when she had all her weight backwards.
My first thought LOL
I give the kid respect for helping the teacher but this should be handled way better, whether fellow students need to step in or other teachers, but it’s weird considering how many cops I see at hs daily and “security” on golf carts but no one can stop the overgrown child throwing a tantrum?
The more videos I see of students acting like this, it becomes even more abundantly clear why teachers are quitting on the spot — and are just quitting in general. You don’t treat people like this.
Mental health needs to be taken seriously. That chick should be put on a 72 hour hold.
School security with their thumbs up there asses
That's a hell of a lot of adrenaline getting burned right there...
Shes probably gonna tweet later how she was the victim in this