How to quieten a noisy classroom #23

mike65

Was'nt sure where to post this..Humour? Humanities? Sport?!

Angry Moroccan teacher throws pupils out of window

Monday, October 6, 2003 Posted: 2333 GMT ( 7:33 AM HKT)


RABAT, Morocco (Reuters) -- Two Moroccan schoolboys were injured Monday when their teacher threw them out of a first floor classroom window for being too noisy, an Education Ministry official said.

One of the pupils, aged nine, ended up in hospital with a fractured shoulder and serious injuries to his face and head while the other, age 10, suffered only slight injuries, the official from the ministry's delegation in Casablanca said.

He said the teacher had warned the pair she would throw them out if they were not quiet.

"They did not listen. They should have listened," he told Reuters by telephone. "She (the teacher) suffers depression."

The official had no comment on whether the teacher would be disciplined.

Mike.

Mossy Monk

that will learn them to be quiet

Mac daddy

LOL quality, what would you do if your teacher even tried to do that to you.
I would thrown him out of the window

Hobbes

Another way is to crawl up into a ball and start sobbing to yourself... guaranteed to keep the class totally quiet.

Panda

"while the other, age 10, suffered only slight injuries"

I hate poking fun, but i wager that this one landed on the first one.....

whosurpaddy

Originally posted by Hobbes
Another way is to crawl up into a ball and start sobbing to yourself... guaranteed to keep the class totally quiet.

actually i remember something very similar happening with a lecturer when i was in college. she (the lecturer) used to come in, ask us to do small things around the lecture hall, open a window etc, and we would get a couple % towards our final grade for that module.

then she started to get worse an would come in, give us a chapter to read from some textbook, an just sit on the floor in the corner silently rocking back an fourth for the full hour, one day we'd had enough of this and asked her what the fudge was goin on, she refused to answer any questions asked in a negative manner..................she was replaced soon after that. i **** u not.

/when I was in fifth year, there was one teacher who just had no idea on how to control the class...At one stage one of the lads wrestled him to the floor and just started boxing the teacher in the face :eek: There were timber partitions between the classrooms so our noisy antics { I didn't participate much...honest!} could be heard easily...
Indeed in the class next door, the teacher there used to threaten those that misbehaved that he would send them into the CHOIR next door...a few took him up on the offer...{and they were some of our best singers!}

One lad for the laugh used to keep screaming...I want my maaaammmy!!! Others used to lift up their desks whilst singing the chorus to whatever was number one at the time and then drop their desks with a loud THUD!
It was supposed to be a maths class by the way, and in between things, the teacher did actually manage to put some maths lessons on the board...He took early retirement shortly afterwards...something about a nervous breakdown... tis is a true story which didn't make it to reuters...

DEmeant0r

thank god i never want to be a teacher, I'd never want to deal with people as frantic that.

daveg

Originally posted by Man
/when I was in fifth year, there was one teacher who just had no idea on how to control the class...At one stage one of the lads wrestled him to the floor and just started boxing the teacher in the face :eek: There were timber partitions between the classrooms so our noisy antics { I didn't participate much...honest!} could be heard easily...
Indeed in the class next door, the teacher there used to threaten those that misbehaved that he would send them into the CHOIR next door...a few took him up on the offer...{and they were some of our best singers!}

One lad for the laugh used to keep screaming...I want my maaaammmy!!! Others used to lift up their desks whilst singing the chorus to whatever was number one at the time and then drop their desks with a loud THUD!
It was supposed to be a maths class by the way, and in between things, the teacher did actually manage to put some maths lessons on the board...He took early retirement shortly afterwards...something about a nervous breakdown... tis is a true story which didn't make it to reuters...

We had a teacher like that in Commerce. Quiet, let you do what you want sort of guy. A lot of the lads in the class took advantage. Till he lost the plot (and I mean lost it) one day in class. He went fúcking beserk. He bet the shíte out of 4/5 lads swinging their bags over his head and smashing it down on thier heads, puching pupils in the face.

The class was quiet after that.

Introspective

I think it would have been like this:

THE LESSON
by Roger McGough

Chaos ruled OK in the classroom
as bravely the teacher walked in
the hooligans ignored him
his voice was lost in the din

"The theme for today is violence
and homework will be set
I'm going to teach you a lesson
one that you'll never forget"

He picked on a boy who was shouting
and throttled him then and there
the garrotted the girl behind him
(the one with the grotty hair)

Then sword in hand he hacked his way
between the chattering rows
First come, first severed he declared
fingers, feet, or toes

He threw the sword at a latecomer
it struck with deadly aim
then pulling out a shotgun
he continued with his game

The first blast cleared the back row
(where those who skive hang out)
they collapsed like rubber dinghies
when the plugs pulled out

"Please may I leave the room sir?"
a trembling vandal inquired
"Of course you may" said teacher
put the gun to his temple and fired


The Head popped a head round the doorway
to see why a din was being made
nodded understandingly
then tossed in a grenade

And when the ammo was well spent
with blood on every chair
Silence shuffled forward
with its hands up in the air

The teacher surveyed the carnage
the dying and the dead
He waggled a finger severely

Now let that be a lesson he said

Havelock

Introspect- You bastard I was going to quote that poem.

Think how bad I had it, both my parents were teachers. *shudders*

Shinji

Think how bad I had it, both my parents were teachers. *shudders*

Aye, same here. Which makes me really, really wonder why on earth that's a profession that I'd like to follow as well, given that I've seen how rubbish it is in terms of pay, hours and stress.

Then again, my grandfather was a teacher too. Maybe it's genetic...

Thankfully any time I am drawn to the concept of teaching as a career, I come back down to reality when I'm reminded that it would take six years of poverty in university followed by a massive paycut to my current salary to become a teacher. Not exactly tempting. I know I'm not alone in this either - quite a few people I know are fairly well positioned in their own industries and so on but would love to "give something back" by going into teaching, at least for a while, while they're young and energetic enough to keep up with the needs of the profession. Thing is, there's just no incentive for talented people who have achieved success elsewhere to go and convey what they've learned to kids in this way...

patch

Originally posted by daveg
We had a teacher like that in Commerce. Quiet, let you do what you want sort of guy. A lot of the lads in the class took advantage. Till he lost the plot (and I mean lost it) one day in class. He went fúcking beserk. He bet the shíte out of 4/5 lads swinging their bags over his head and smashing it down on thier heads, puching pupils in the face.

The class was quiet after that.

LoL... I was one of them boys! -I was lucky though, I just got a passing smack on the head!

The look on one of the lads* face's was priceless, he was smirking just after I got a smack, only the teacher caught him. He walked down to him, smashed his metal pencil box down on his fingers and hit a an unmerciful thump to the head. Then continued on down along the rest of the messers! One actually told him to feck off......after he dragged he got dragged down to the back of the class by his hair!

Stephen Brady, RIP*

Big Chief

good to see some teachers take control, had a few teachers in my school aswell that were taken advantage of or just plain taken the pìss out of (the lisp guy especially who done registration...)

our head master had to sit in on our geography class in the end up, soggy balls (this would be a a4 sheet sheet of paper put in the mouth until it is soggy and it sticks to pretty much anything.. blackboard, the tv etc..) Our blackboard was pretty much non existant due to the barrage of soggy balls, in the end we just ended up hitting him in the back of the head and anywhere else that felt appropriate (note - this was over 7 years ago and yes i have grew up since then ) and like said above, our lessons also just consisted of us all talking, shouting, and even singing at times. and people wonder why im so bad at geography..

Alot of crazy things went on in my school though, still remember the slapper that allowed 2 guys to start poking her off in french, the rolling joints in craft and design and a few teachers were punched. Still remember getting pinned up against the wall by the deputy head aswell one morning. (although for reasons i wont go into..)

One more thing, you always remember those teachers that ALWAYS made you take showers? we couldnt do p.e the week after if we missed a shower.. Mr Tonner my first/second year p.e teacher was locked up for paedophilia (although this was 2 years after i had left school i learned of this), he used to take one guy in particular from our class away on 'trips', we used to joke and laugh about how there was something going on, it wasn't so funny when i read our daily paper telling us what he had been jailed for...

Alot of crazy things happened in our school though, although those are the things that stick out in my mind.

I tried to search for the P.E teacher thing on the net, i knew the paper i read was the local one (Cumbernauld News) but still thought there would defo had been something on it. John Tonner was the full name if i remember rightly..

daveg

Originally posted by patch
He walked down to him, smashed his metal pencil box down on his fingers and hit a an unmerciful thump to the head.

Fúck I had forgotten that. Big heavy metal pencil cash - smashed down on his fingers and then over his head. Must have hurt.

oddlyaromatic

Jesus. I nearly got expelled from my old school for writing an angry letter.

... and I could have been kicking heads the whole time.

Scary thread (on both sides). I'm headed for teacherdom (though I'm hoping to do one-on-one music tutoring, so that's okay... but secondary school was in the back of mind). **** that.