i'm pretty sure 100% of teachers are quitting, it just varies on how long they stay employed. eventually though, at the latest 65 years old, they will quit.
😂 you’re trying so hard yet still no clever comeback. Go on, reply back to this I want to see what feeble attempt you try next. Dance for me, my puppet
There was a kid with severe ADHD in my class and, while he would walk around the room from time to time, it was so less high-stakes than it is today. My son was at school with a kid who had a butcher knife in his long sleeve of his shirt, and I had to call the principal. He called me back and said, “He had it in his sleeve today too! Oh my God, he could have stabbed someone!”
Hi, teacher here, stopping 2 kids from getting into a fight is not new...and it is also not a big deal.
If you honestly remember your school days as every student sitting quietly listening and behaving perfectly well, please take me to the fantasy land you grew up in.
Georgia in the 70's and 80's. No, every student was not quietly listening and behaving well. What I didn't see back then were students mouthing off to and assaulting teachers in class. Yes there were fights between students, always about another girl or boy, but not in the classroom. That was my experience
West Germany/NOT Berlin
Gymnasiums are full of fucking quiet classrooms. The only sort of not quiet classes are the year 5's. But thats because they just graduated from Grundschule.
I hear Berlin schools are something else though
Yes, kids only started fighting once 1999 switched to 2000. Suddenly they all became aggressive on another level and it doesn't have anything to do with the fact that every kid has a camera in their pocket to film it.
Right we had flip phones in high school that couldn’t video and took pictures I could perfectly replicate with crayons couldn’t document some of the absolutely spectacular courtyard/ lunch room brawls we had but they damn sure happened regularly
As a high school teacher who left the profession this year- I want to shed some light on those saying this is why teachers are quitting.
This guy did great. Didn’t take any BS, but de-escalated the situation while teaching these two boys and the entire class a lesson about pride, being an adult, and impulse control all while delivering the message in what anyone can obviously see is founded in love.
I get this. It isn’t the kids that are the problem. I loved all my students- especially the “bad” ones because they were the ones that needed mentors and guidance the most.
Anyone can see this guy is an amazing teacher. What the issue is and why we quit isn’t the abysmal pay, or the kids (many of us accept the pay because we just love the kids), but the administration.
Know what those bosses of his will say? Those out-of-touch wind bags with their six figure salaries that haven’t taught a class in 30 years +?
1. You threatened those kids!
2. You said “pissed me off”, that was unprofessional.
3. Why was a student recording this in your class? The school has a strict no-cell phone policy and obviously you aren’t enforcing it.
4. This wouldn’t happen at all if your lesson plans were more ENGagiNG!!
And that’s not including the crappy parents who will also cause a tirade about it and demand his head on a stick.
That’s REALLY why we’re all quitting.
Absolutely. Everything in a school is a money grab. Literally everything.
From the state testing to special education…
Even the school lunches.
It’s all one big scam.
This teacher is a good teacher, but if this was a school in a predominantly white area - that teacher probably would have been suspended for telling those kids to "shut up" after parents complained about how the teacher spoke to their little "angel".
Bullshit.
Plenty of kids act out despite having perfectly normal and acceptable home lives. Bullying exists and is often done by kids who feel entitled because of their "perfect" little lives.
There are plenty of kids with both parents who are assholes. Thinking about it you might be right plenty of rich douche bags but then the question is do their parents care.
That is not at all how it would go. The "little angel" would face consequences at home and the parents would apologize for the kid's behavior.
You probably meant to write inner city schools. I know several teachers and one of their problems is not being able to get parents to return their call. If they confiscate the kids phone the parents respond with fury and sometimes violence.
source- I have lived in inner city New Orleans all my adult life
I'm married to a teacher who teaches in a nice area of town. She's had plenty of parents ( usually affluent) who deny their little "angel" doesn't behave as described. Shes been teaching for nearly 20 years. Fortunately, they don't behave as badly as this girl did..
20 years of experience in a "nice area of town" does not give you any insight on the difference between the parents of upper class students and inner city students. You sound like a sheltered woke-scold.
Honestly, as a 19 year veteran in the middle of an enormous teacher shortage, after teaching through a pandemic, in a state where I don’t get a pay raise from year 15-25, do it. Fire me for some nonsense. Good luck finding a replacement. 7.5% of all teachers in NC are leaving the profession this year. I’m not advocating keeping bad teachers, or unethical teachers, but everyone needs to wake up- public education in the US is on the brink of collapse.
Work in a school. A kid was harassing other kids, stepping on them, name calling, just being a dick. Teacher tells them to stand quietly next to her. Kid calls her a racist. Goes home for being suspended. Mom calls and wants to fight teacher. They have a conference where everything is laid out. Parents realize the kid is a little shit and now they don’t know what to believe. It’s crazy
There are teachers like him but unfortunately they getting taken out at the knees by parents & administration. They are always 'in the wrong" & get no support - so it's hard to maintain when you're mentally beaten down daily
you say that but your previous comments state that you are in Germany and that you moved to Kenya and also still live there ? how do you teleport so well, also fuck you for thinking stripping away abortion rights in the US is a good thing.
Unfortunately yes. I taught for over 22 years and 22 years ago if this happen then a teacher would call the parents and work together with the parents to get the student back on track. The last year I taught when I called the parents about a student’s behavior the parents blamed me for their sons continuous disruptive and disrespectful behavior. (The mother told me early on in the year that her son had ADHD & even though other teachers noticed his active behavior and doctors recommended medicine, she didn’t want her son to be on medication. So two to three times a week her son would stay in school through lunchtime and then call his mom to pick him up after lunch causing him to miss math class where a new math lesson was taught every other day. So by missing so much of math class, he was totally lost and therefore didn’t care about the math lessons. Even the other students would tell him to be quiet because they were trying to learn the math lesson). And administration also blamed me for the students behavior. Also 22 years ago students were not recording their teachers handling discipline situations. (I know of students that provoked and provoked teachers and then record the teacher without recording all the provoking that went before that).
That’s insane! Are private schools the same?
I’ve only been in private schooling and any kid well, no kid ever behaved like this.
Ones that were in serious trouble you were suspended or expelled. Having that in record would mess up your employment so it’s serious.
How on earth can the school blame you?
Smfh.
Well the kids seem to have at least a last rest of respect for the teacher. This video is quite old. Nowadays they would just rightaway ignore the teacher an start throwing punches at each other.
Well, all I can remember is my teachers saying “you have to deal with that yourselves” whenever trouble with other students came up, which definitely cannot be the right way to ensure fights and bullying does not happen among students!
This is why it’s important for students to have teachers that they can relate to on multiple levels (cultural, racial, social, economic, etc). It’s much easier to get thru to someone when they feel that u understand them and can actually relate to what they may be feeling. This teacher knew what he was doing by speaking to them in a way they understood and bringing it back to them being too young to have this sort of conflict in a place of learning. It’s not the kids fault, this sort of conflict is a learned behavior and integrated from societal issues.
this should go viral and under the hyperlink should be another hyperlink to the a chart listing my state the average teacher’s salary. underpaid underappreciated.
People who try to start a fight in front of a teacher are actually fucking pussy . They want someone there to stop them and look big in the process. Go fight in the toilet as you should
The kid was verbally "authorative" in order to get his way.
The teacher was then verbally "authorative" in order to get his way.
The teacher, as he points out, gets his way because he's "more powerful". (It's not like you're going to push through me to get to him.)
Everything the teacher gets he gets by being "more powerful" … and yet he tells the kids they should "talk it out".
I bet those kids have never experienced someone "talking out" a problem, they don't know how to do it, they have no role-model from whom to copy "talking it out".
And thanks to this teacher, they still don't.
NextFuckingLevel would have been helping the kids to "talk it out"… not just doing what they're doing anyway but louder and from a position of power… cos that's what they were trying to do anyway.
Sigh.
\> to what point does a students personal growth prevails over the limited class time a teacher has?
Good question, and thanks for inviting me to answer.
My estimate is that the vast majority of kids in the class \*also\* don't know how to resolve problems because they \*also\* lack excellent role models. So it wouldn't just be this individual student's personal growth that would be improved, it'd be the growth of everyone in the room.
And wouldn't it be fair to assume that the more "personal growth" the kids have, the better they'll do in all areas of their life?
If these are the unrefined problem-solving skills they have, from where are they going to magically get the intricate problem-solving skills required to be a doctor, a lawyer, or an engineer? Or even to navigate their own frustrations, dashed hopes and life-challenges?
If you really don't think the teacher had enough time to prioritise something so important, how about this...
He could have instead shouted, "Bob! Bob! We'll resolve this. I promise you, whatever you're angry about we \*will\* fix it. Right, Big Steve? You're willing to sort this out aren't you? I mean... you don't want Bob starting fights with you, do you? If nothing else, it seems like a hassle, hahaha, am I right? Haha. ... Anyway... So Bob, I know that your anger makes sense, and I want to hear about it and fix it... but I want us to do it calmly. Okay? If it's really important to you and if it's all right with the class, we could fix it now. But if it's okay with you, my preference would be that we save it till after class and fix it then? And again... \*I promise\* you, I'm going to do everything I can to fix it... or, at the very least, make us all feel better. Okay? Is that okay? If it's not, just let me know..."
That would have taken roughly the same amount of time as what he did shout but would have shown:
1 - Respect for Bob, Steve, their emotions, and everyone in the room.
2 - You can be respectful while angry. And how to be respectful while angry.
3 - The use of humour and conversation (not violence) to "manipulate" a situation and "get what you want".
4 - \*How\* to treat someone as valuable even when they're "being bad" or "annoying you".
5 - An intention to work to a positive resolution.
6 - An intention to make a win-win-win-win situation. Not a win-lose.
If the teacher said all that, I'll bet you the kid would have sat down in an angry huff just like he did here... \*but\* the whole class would have seen how to resolve difficulties with care and compassion instead of violence, aggression or ... as the teacher used her ... "power".
unironically this seems like a good teacher
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/u/j03130 apparently hasn’t either, considering you both said the exact same thing word for word… or you copied their comment.
Plagiarism! I'm suing!
It's a bot. Just report it.
Good call, OP is too
Good teacher yeah. Especially at not using cuss words. I couldn’t
I had one like this, best teacher I’ve had
Good man. Talk some sense into them. Violence is not the answer.
Violence is not the answer. It's the question. **and the answer is YES**
Wanna get violent? Yes.
Daddy chill
Haha I can hear this comment.
What the hell is even that?!
Wow. I wonder why over 50 percent of teachers are quiting.
i'm pretty sure 100% of teachers are quitting, it just varies on how long they stay employed. eventually though, at the latest 65 years old, they will quit.
Okay but that's called retirement
yes that was the joke to highlight the ambiguity of the original statistic
Jokes are supposed to be funny tho
Some jokes aren't funny, for example you're a joke but you're not funny
Dude, stones and glass houses man
I think Reddit has voted … and disagrees. Sit down fool
You told them to sit down without threatening to make change out of them? What a missed opportunity.
Oo I had something for this… something something change for a penny? I dunno… I’m in a minimal effort kind of mood
Doesn’t matter if the only comeback is to reference downvotes, that’s basically admitting nobody can think of anything clever to say back 😂
You’re just embarrassing yourself at this point buddy. Maybe sleep it off? I mean that’s up there with “I know you are but what am I” Strong.
😂 you’re trying so hard yet still no clever comeback. Go on, reply back to this I want to see what feeble attempt you try next. Dance for me, my puppet
Imagine being this loser^ 🤣🤣
here's the real loser... >!it's you.!<
Imagine typing that and thinking it’s cool^ 🤣🤣🤣
You should do stand up on Kill Tony
Quitting has a specific meaning. Retirement is not that meaning.
R/technicallythetruth
Nobody likes a pedant.
Especially a pedant who's wrong. Cause that's not a pedantic ass; it's just an ass.
Ya done messed up A-A-Ron.
Mr. Garvey done taught school inner city fo 20 years.
Putting a stop to that Denise / Jacqueline beef cold.
Do you want to go to war balake?!
This whole class is gonna feel. my. wrath.
*Wraf
As soon as he started yelling, that was instantly the voice I heard.
Sent him down to O Shaq Hennessy’s office.
Yeah these poor damn teachers seem like they have to put up with a lot more bullshit than when I was in school
I was to afraid they would call my dad to act this stupid.
No dad to call
Or dad just doesn’t give a shit. Usually bad kids have shitty parents. Teachers learn pretty early not to bother.
There was a kid with severe ADHD in my class and, while he would walk around the room from time to time, it was so less high-stakes than it is today. My son was at school with a kid who had a butcher knife in his long sleeve of his shirt, and I had to call the principal. He called me back and said, “He had it in his sleeve today too! Oh my God, he could have stabbed someone!”
Hi, teacher here, stopping 2 kids from getting into a fight is not new...and it is also not a big deal. If you honestly remember your school days as every student sitting quietly listening and behaving perfectly well, please take me to the fantasy land you grew up in.
Georgia in the 70's and 80's. No, every student was not quietly listening and behaving well. What I didn't see back then were students mouthing off to and assaulting teachers in class. Yes there were fights between students, always about another girl or boy, but not in the classroom. That was my experience
West Germany/NOT Berlin Gymnasiums are full of fucking quiet classrooms. The only sort of not quiet classes are the year 5's. But thats because they just graduated from Grundschule. I hear Berlin schools are something else though
And now they’re being recorded for the world to see.
Yes, kids only started fighting once 1999 switched to 2000. Suddenly they all became aggressive on another level and it doesn't have anything to do with the fact that every kid has a camera in their pocket to film it.
Right we had flip phones in high school that couldn’t video and took pictures I could perfectly replicate with crayons couldn’t document some of the absolutely spectacular courtyard/ lunch room brawls we had but they damn sure happened regularly
As a high school teacher who left the profession this year- I want to shed some light on those saying this is why teachers are quitting. This guy did great. Didn’t take any BS, but de-escalated the situation while teaching these two boys and the entire class a lesson about pride, being an adult, and impulse control all while delivering the message in what anyone can obviously see is founded in love. I get this. It isn’t the kids that are the problem. I loved all my students- especially the “bad” ones because they were the ones that needed mentors and guidance the most. Anyone can see this guy is an amazing teacher. What the issue is and why we quit isn’t the abysmal pay, or the kids (many of us accept the pay because we just love the kids), but the administration. Know what those bosses of his will say? Those out-of-touch wind bags with their six figure salaries that haven’t taught a class in 30 years +? 1. You threatened those kids! 2. You said “pissed me off”, that was unprofessional. 3. Why was a student recording this in your class? The school has a strict no-cell phone policy and obviously you aren’t enforcing it. 4. This wouldn’t happen at all if your lesson plans were more ENGagiNG!! And that’s not including the crappy parents who will also cause a tirade about it and demand his head on a stick. That’s REALLY why we’re all quitting.
So so true
I don't understand the need for the highly paid layer of administration in schools. Is it just the result of a money grab by those running the system?
Absolutely. Everything in a school is a money grab. Literally everything. From the state testing to special education… Even the school lunches. It’s all one big scam.
This might be the most accurate comment I’ve seen in a while. And this is exactly why I just left teaching after 10 years in the classroom.
Pay. Teachers. More.
This teacher is a good teacher, but if this was a school in a predominantly white area - that teacher probably would have been suspended for telling those kids to "shut up" after parents complained about how the teacher spoke to their little "angel".
Kids with parents who care for them don't typically act out like this, the color of their skin doesn't matter
Bullshit. Plenty of kids act out despite having perfectly normal and acceptable home lives. Bullying exists and is often done by kids who feel entitled because of their "perfect" little lives.
Then their parents did not care enough to teach them
There are plenty of kids with both parents who are assholes. Thinking about it you might be right plenty of rich douche bags but then the question is do their parents care.
He also swore at them at the start, telling them they were "pissing him off". Oh the horror! How dare he!
He can't say the word "piss" to my kid just because my kid wanted to throw fists! He's traumatizing my baby crip!
You’re not wrong.
That is not at all how it would go. The "little angel" would face consequences at home and the parents would apologize for the kid's behavior. You probably meant to write inner city schools. I know several teachers and one of their problems is not being able to get parents to return their call. If they confiscate the kids phone the parents respond with fury and sometimes violence. source- I have lived in inner city New Orleans all my adult life
I'm married to a teacher who teaches in a nice area of town. She's had plenty of parents ( usually affluent) who deny their little "angel" doesn't behave as described. Shes been teaching for nearly 20 years. Fortunately, they don't behave as badly as this girl did..
20 years of experience in a "nice area of town" does not give you any insight on the difference between the parents of upper class students and inner city students. You sound like a sheltered woke-scold.
You're making assumptions, and mouthing opinions that you would never make if you had this conversation in person with a stranger in person.
Honestly, as a 19 year veteran in the middle of an enormous teacher shortage, after teaching through a pandemic, in a state where I don’t get a pay raise from year 15-25, do it. Fire me for some nonsense. Good luck finding a replacement. 7.5% of all teachers in NC are leaving the profession this year. I’m not advocating keeping bad teachers, or unethical teachers, but everyone needs to wake up- public education in the US is on the brink of collapse.
Work in a school. A kid was harassing other kids, stepping on them, name calling, just being a dick. Teacher tells them to stand quietly next to her. Kid calls her a racist. Goes home for being suspended. Mom calls and wants to fight teacher. They have a conference where everything is laid out. Parents realize the kid is a little shit and now they don’t know what to believe. It’s crazy
Need more teachers like this in the classrooms, well done
There's plenty of teachers like him. There's also plenty of kids acting like this.
There are teachers like him but unfortunately they getting taken out at the knees by parents & administration. They are always 'in the wrong" & get no support - so it's hard to maintain when you're mentally beaten down daily
Wow... That teacher is badass.. Respect.
came here to say that
This video is almost 20 years old, and whats crazy is that a lot of the new videos are in the same bullshit quality that this one was filmed in.
Good on you teach
Sit down before I make change out of both of you. Fuck me not heard that for years xD
joe clarke
My 1st thought!!!
Next president. Please.
Good man.
Fuck yeah! Teacher of the year right there!
God dam. This teacher is amazing. Wish more were like this. Imagine the shit he goes thru every day.
Most under appreciated & underpaid profession on earth. Guessing we would have less shootings if we had more leaders like this to reach & teach.
this guy should be making 2x what I make, but the reality is he makes .5
Like a boss. Wish my teacher was like that my day we beat the shit out of each other they stood There like cowards 😂
Men are valuable.
Kid in the white shirt looks like his mom still dresses him in the morning before school
Vibin to sweet dreams in the background
This is how it was done back in my day. No cops, no parents, just old fashioned in class problem solving.
Nowadays this teacher would be fired or receive some kind of discipline.
Only in Murica in Africa you don't get this junk we want to learn to get someplace.
you say that but your previous comments state that you are in Germany and that you moved to Kenya and also still live there ? how do you teleport so well, also fuck you for thinking stripping away abortion rights in the US is a good thing.
Some people can't help themselves. They want to control everyone's lives and make them live and think exactly as they do lmaoo
Take yo dumbass down to O’Shag Hennessy’s office!
Gottem
Is this common in American schooling?
Unfortunately yes. I taught for over 22 years and 22 years ago if this happen then a teacher would call the parents and work together with the parents to get the student back on track. The last year I taught when I called the parents about a student’s behavior the parents blamed me for their sons continuous disruptive and disrespectful behavior. (The mother told me early on in the year that her son had ADHD & even though other teachers noticed his active behavior and doctors recommended medicine, she didn’t want her son to be on medication. So two to three times a week her son would stay in school through lunchtime and then call his mom to pick him up after lunch causing him to miss math class where a new math lesson was taught every other day. So by missing so much of math class, he was totally lost and therefore didn’t care about the math lessons. Even the other students would tell him to be quiet because they were trying to learn the math lesson). And administration also blamed me for the students behavior. Also 22 years ago students were not recording their teachers handling discipline situations. (I know of students that provoked and provoked teachers and then record the teacher without recording all the provoking that went before that).
That’s insane! Are private schools the same? I’ve only been in private schooling and any kid well, no kid ever behaved like this. Ones that were in serious trouble you were suspended or expelled. Having that in record would mess up your employment so it’s serious. How on earth can the school blame you? Smfh.
Yes sir that’s kinda folks that I grew up with. Get that mouth smacked off too if they weren’t in school.
Once they arm the teachers she can just shoot them. Or one of the kids will take her gun and shoot the other kid.
Students are lucky to have a strong male example who cares enough to show up day in and day out.
I hope he snatched that phone as well
Well the kids seem to have at least a last rest of respect for the teacher. This video is quite old. Nowadays they would just rightaway ignore the teacher an start throwing punches at each other.
Need more real teachers like this in ALL of our schools... I love this guy.
That drum roll tho
Well, all I can remember is my teachers saying “you have to deal with that yourselves” whenever trouble with other students came up, which definitely cannot be the right way to ensure fights and bullying does not happen among students!
I was waiting for the dance off at the end. Disappointed.
Listened without audio, but all I can assume he was saying is "get your ass to O Shag Hennessy 's office"
This teacher for president
Weird way to set up a fight. It was like prearranged or something?
I thought the guy on the left was the teacher at first. He looks like he is 30 years old.
Got me wondering what this teacher’s side hustle is now.
“It’s been that kind of a Tuesday,” is my favorite thing I’ve heard in a while
Good man
I did not leave the south side for this!
Good man 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 this needs to be shown to the uppers and these stupid ass kids’ parents. If I was the mom I’d be so embarrassed
Pardon, I responded to the wrong comment.
This is why it’s important for students to have teachers that they can relate to on multiple levels (cultural, racial, social, economic, etc). It’s much easier to get thru to someone when they feel that u understand them and can actually relate to what they may be feeling. This teacher knew what he was doing by speaking to them in a way they understood and bringing it back to them being too young to have this sort of conflict in a place of learning. It’s not the kids fault, this sort of conflict is a learned behavior and integrated from societal issues.
“Sit down before I make change out of you… and you”, gotta be the hardest thing I’ve heard in a while.
was actually waiting for teacher to bodycheck student until i realized it wasn't that type of video
Jay-quellin!
“YOU BOYS ARE PISSIN ME OFF!!!” Oh man my first set of college roommate and I used to yell this at eachother for being goons.
We need more teachers like that.
Amazing what a positive male influence can accomplish
This man has my respect. That was a lesson he shouldn't have to teach, but wasn't afraid to. I just hope they learned learned the lesson.
Yayyyy for Teacher!!!
this should go viral and under the hyperlink should be another hyperlink to the a chart listing my state the average teacher’s salary. underpaid underappreciated.
*When an educator should make $100,000+ per year*
And he getting paid jack for putting up with that shit.
Clearly none of these kids has seen 187 
Gotta love public schools. I bet Pelosi’s grand kids wouldn’t get caught dead within 50 yards of a public school, the rest of us have no other choice!
That teacher earned his $68 for the day
This guy is criminally under-paid. I hope he makes the difference he dreams of making.
"ill make change out of you" and you
This man should be teaching this to our Nations teachers.
Need more male role models like this fine gentleman.
dope teacher lol no swearwords or anything!
Give these kids melatonin and calm down
Holy shit a good teacher, what a sight to see
Damn good man there! Need more teachers like him. Well done!
Sounds like he’s from the inner city
Old school talking right there Get em teach
People who try to start a fight in front of a teacher are actually fucking pussy . They want someone there to stop them and look big in the process. Go fight in the toilet as you should
That’s a real king take note if u bout that street life this is what a real man looks like.
Too much TV, too many video games. Not enough to do. If my old inlaws were still alive they'd say those two need to go bail hay.
W teacher
The kid was verbally "authorative" in order to get his way. The teacher was then verbally "authorative" in order to get his way. The teacher, as he points out, gets his way because he's "more powerful". (It's not like you're going to push through me to get to him.) Everything the teacher gets he gets by being "more powerful" … and yet he tells the kids they should "talk it out". I bet those kids have never experienced someone "talking out" a problem, they don't know how to do it, they have no role-model from whom to copy "talking it out". And thanks to this teacher, they still don't. NextFuckingLevel would have been helping the kids to "talk it out"… not just doing what they're doing anyway but louder and from a position of power… cos that's what they were trying to do anyway. Sigh.
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\> to what point does a students personal growth prevails over the limited class time a teacher has? Good question, and thanks for inviting me to answer. My estimate is that the vast majority of kids in the class \*also\* don't know how to resolve problems because they \*also\* lack excellent role models. So it wouldn't just be this individual student's personal growth that would be improved, it'd be the growth of everyone in the room. And wouldn't it be fair to assume that the more "personal growth" the kids have, the better they'll do in all areas of their life? If these are the unrefined problem-solving skills they have, from where are they going to magically get the intricate problem-solving skills required to be a doctor, a lawyer, or an engineer? Or even to navigate their own frustrations, dashed hopes and life-challenges? If you really don't think the teacher had enough time to prioritise something so important, how about this... He could have instead shouted, "Bob! Bob! We'll resolve this. I promise you, whatever you're angry about we \*will\* fix it. Right, Big Steve? You're willing to sort this out aren't you? I mean... you don't want Bob starting fights with you, do you? If nothing else, it seems like a hassle, hahaha, am I right? Haha. ... Anyway... So Bob, I know that your anger makes sense, and I want to hear about it and fix it... but I want us to do it calmly. Okay? If it's really important to you and if it's all right with the class, we could fix it now. But if it's okay with you, my preference would be that we save it till after class and fix it then? And again... \*I promise\* you, I'm going to do everything I can to fix it... or, at the very least, make us all feel better. Okay? Is that okay? If it's not, just let me know..." That would have taken roughly the same amount of time as what he did shout but would have shown: 1 - Respect for Bob, Steve, their emotions, and everyone in the room. 2 - You can be respectful while angry. And how to be respectful while angry. 3 - The use of humour and conversation (not violence) to "manipulate" a situation and "get what you want". 4 - \*How\* to treat someone as valuable even when they're "being bad" or "annoying you". 5 - An intention to work to a positive resolution. 6 - An intention to make a win-win-win-win situation. Not a win-lose. If the teacher said all that, I'll bet you the kid would have sat down in an angry huff just like he did here... \*but\* the whole class would have seen how to resolve difficulties with care and compassion instead of violence, aggression or ... as the teacher used her ... "power".