YouTube Stays Relevant Despite Pulled Content 279
Gray writes "École Secondaire Mont-Bleu has banned all personal electronic devices and suspended two 13-year-old girls after one uploaded to YouTube a camera phone video of their teacher yelling at the other. After the video was posted on the popular internet video site, the teacher was so embarrassed that he stayed home from work, where he remains on stress leave. The teachers' union is now trying to get all personal electronic devices banned from all schools in Western Quebec." Meanwhile, via the PVRBlog comes word that YouTube has helped raise CBS' ratings by some 7-9%. From that article: "CBS has uploaded more than 300 clips that have a total of 29.2 million views on YouTube, averaging 857,000 views per day, since the service launched on October 18. CBS has three of the top 25 most viewed videos this month (Nov.1-17), including clips from CBS's Tuesday night hit drama 'NCIS,' 'Late Show with David Letterman,' 'The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson' and 'The Early Show.' The CBS Brand Channel is also one of the most subscribed channels of all time with more than 20,000 users subscribing to CBS programming on YouTube since the channel launch last month."
Two different things (Score:5, Insightful)
As for CBS, good for them. I would rather have an entire episode of a show, with commercials on youtube in a good resolution then to have to watch it on TV, or be forced to record it via dvr, etc.
Re:Two different things (Score:4, Insightful)
IMHO yelling at a kid just teaches a kid how to yell.
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No, it wasn't the teachers fighting. (Score:4, Informative)
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Not only was it in public, but they are technically public servants employed by the government.
Any actions, words, or behavior you do on or off the job is and will be scrutinized.
Of course whether this is a good thing or bad thing depends on the person.
So incompetent (Score:3, Funny)
Pronunciation: 're-l&-v&nt
Really earning your pay, aren't you, editors
What, Linux doesn't have spell check?
Objective Viewfinders (Score:5, Insightful)
Personally? As much as I'm against the Big Brother society, I'm amused that someone is so scared of how he could be portrayed by an objective viewfinder. And he'll tell us all about how the context isn't there, but there's no good reason why a teacher should be yelling and carrying on to the point where it looks good on video. There's other more effective ways to reach people, and if you can't figure one of them out then there are other career paths.
Re:Objective Viewfinders (Score:5, Insightful)
And how many times did you ever go home and tell a parent about how a teacher treated you, and get ignored or dismissed with "They wouldn't do that."
And how many times have schools contacted parents or called them to a parent teacher conference to tell of some misbehavior by their child, only to have the parents say "that's not possible, my little angel would never do that and if you try and discipline him/her for it, we'll sue"? Now, if the teacher tried to record the little monsters (even for the teacher's own protection and to have proof of the act), the parents would be completely livid. Lawsuits would be flying and we would all be screaming about "The Man" trying to oppress the students.
I too am against a Big Brother society, but I think we are already getting there. The problem is that Big Brother is not the government, but rather any knucklehead with some sort of recording device. Personally, I think those kids should be treated the same way a teacher at that school would have been for similarly recording an altercation instigated by a student toward a teacher.
I absolutely despise teachers' unions. I think that they have done more to damage the quality of education in the industrialized world than any other force. However, it is abundantly clear that this teacher needs the full backing of the union. More than anything, kids today need to learn respect for authority. This doesn't mean that authority is always right or infallible, just that kids should be taught to respect and that there are proper channels in which to handle grievances (i.e., posting to youtube is not the proper channel).
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You hold 13 year olds to the same standards as teachers?
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Re:Objective Viewfinders (Score:5, Interesting)
If that's Big Brother, I think I'm probably for it. The problem with surveillance has always been that one side, the "authority" side, has always had a recording. If that recording was favorable to authority's version of events, it could be released. If it was unfavorable, it could be buried. The imbalance invites abuse.
I would be against a system where only the student had a recording. I wouldn't be as much against it as I would be against a system where only the teacher had a recording, because the teacher is already in a position of great power, but I'd still be against it. I might very well be in favor of a system where everybody had, or at least might have, a recording of everything, all the time.
Yeah, that would mean that there'd be embarrassing footage of all of us, because we've all done stupid things we're not proud of. Maybe it wouldn't be such a big deal, though... it's kind of hard to come down too hard on Joe for his filmed mistakes, when he can dredge up yours. On the other hand, if somebody has a pattern of behavior, it becomes pretty hard to hide it.
Such a system might be too hard on people, too stressful to live with, too unforgiving of the human need to get away with something once in a while. I'd especially be worried about people getting destroyed over the witch-hunt of the week.
It might also be an improvement over what we have now. The case isn't open and shut... and one could actually do reasonable research to perhaps predict the effects, rather than just having everybody yell about "privacy" like that automatically trumped everything else.
Why? What's so special about authority that it deserves this mystical respect you're calling for? Obviously, people in authority are often right about a lot of things (as well as often being wrong). That doesn't mean they should get an iota more consideration than everybody else. Arguably they should get less slack, since they're in a position to abuse their authority.
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The teachers union, not so much.
Film the class, store the video in case it is needed, destroy the video at the end of the year.
Re:Objective Viewfinders (Score:5, Insightful)
You better believe we need to hold these people to the highest level of accountability.
And you know what? Teachers unions should be happy we are doing this. As we weed out the scum and the freeloaders who are negatively impacting our children, we will raise the standards in the teaching profession and hopefully thereby raise the wages of teachers to reflect the fundamental and critical role they play in our society and our future.
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Except that all unions are administrated by the "scum and freeloaders" group. That's what unions are all about, defending the right of not working properly.
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I loved it when airliners banned smoking. Now there's NO SMOKING everywhere.
You say that like it's a bad thing. I'm pretty firm on the side of pro-Liberty... except when it comes to smokers. Hell, the government can oppress them as much as it wants. Put 'em in stocks for public ridicule, that's A-OK with me. :)
Re:Respect for authority != Respect for others (Score:2)
No. More than anything, kids need to respect others on an individual basis because they are a person too rather than respect because they are an authoritarian figure.
In fact kids should question authority, and respect only the person because they are their equal and that all human beings need to be respected.
When you talk of authority, you start getting into master and slave arguments.
And I for one believe men are created equal and needed to
Why not videotape all the kids then? (Score:2)
Student vs Student (Score:2)
I disagree with that (at least in current day Britain) [bbc.co.uk]. But given you've made that point - having cameras everywhere would mean that you would have the truth caught on camera. And most disruptive behaviour and classroom violence that goes on is actually student-student.
Personally I'm with either completely banning the devices or evening the playing field if students are starting to manafacture situations to ruin the careers of the teachers (which is what this article is all about). It would also show pare
Misleading Summary (Score:5, Insightful)
As Admiral Akbar once said: It's a trap. TFA also mentions that the exact same thing happened at another school in Canada.
We all know how easily video can be creatively edited & pictures can be photoshopped... so short of banning camera phones & (video) cameras, I don't really see how you resolve the issue.
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On the other hand, most of the schools I know already ban cell phones. A student shouldn't be taking calls when they are in lecture, or passing notes (electronic or traditional) for that matter.
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How about behaving with a certain decorum and a degree of self-control?
How about always behaving as if you are on public display?
See? No problem!
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Everyone you've ever known in your entire life has been provoked into yelling and/or lashing out.
Children, in particular, are especially cruel when it comes to inciting such behavior, though most of them grow up and desist from what would otherwise be considered sociopathic or sadistic.
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Heh. I like how you bolded that. What happened to decorum and self-control?
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If the teacher feels that it is shameful to be yelling like this then the teacher should not have done it. This teacher - many teachers - seem to think that their students are some kind of sub-people, to and in front of whom otherwise shameful behavior has no consequences. This is a public employee in a public building operating in a public employee's capacity. This behavior is unacceptable. This attitude is unacceptable. It is as unacceptable as it is in another context for a poli
So you shouldn't step in a trap (Score:2)
Well, if it is a trap then is is a big black bear trap in plain site. The camera may have been hidden but if a student is trying to goad you on then shouldn't it be obvious to a teacher what the appropriate action is? Getting into an hysterical screaming match with someone who is provoking you is something children do, or drunken pub crawlers, or white trash guests on Jerry Springer. Mature adults in positions of authority do not act this way and shouldn't have to
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Like the Rodney King video, while you can leave out preceeding video, I really don't think that video captured from a cell phone is easy to edit such that segments can be removed from the middle and not be noticible. For handheld video capture, the phone shakes so much that it's hard to sync that up well with human movement and not have the segments be noticible.
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I wonder why a teacher feels he needs to get all worked up about maintaining discipline in a class. Are they not allowed to dis-invite a student from the class? It seems to me that the problem quickly goes away if a teacher sets high standards of behaviour and then follows through by expelling anyone who falls short.
If a student is creating a disturbance, he likely is not going to learn anything from the lesson plan. Why should one student be allowed to sabotage
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You believe that? (Score:2)
Now, remember, this is a statement from the same school board that's banning all electronic devices simply because they can be used to provide a factual record of teachers' actions. (Whether the video was taken out of context or not, that's s
Re:Misleading Summary (Score:4, Insightful)
The union wouldn't allow that, because it would threaten the job security and promotion opportunities of those teachers who are completely incompetent but good due-paying members of the union.
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New trend (Score:5, Interesting)
I was checking out Comedy Central's clips of the Daily Show like I usually do every few weeks or so, and I was shocked to find that you can stream tons and tons of good content from the Daily Show at a time. I used to have to click and watch an ad for every 1 minute segment, which was almost more trouble than it was worth. Last night, I clicked "play all", and I got several hours worth of Daily Show content, with ads interspersed through out (like TV).
I think it's interesting that TV exceutives are FINALLY starting to notice online viewship. It seems to me that they would've done it much earlier, because tracking advertising online is about one beeellion times more effective than those useless Neilson boxes that give very limited information on a tiny same of the population.
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If they were smart, they'd fucking offer a clip service, with explicit authority to rebroadcast on youtube, your website, whatever. And their only terms would be you had to leave that 15 second ad at the beginning of a 3 minute piece. 15 seconds is short enough not to piss people off.
Alas, I've worked inside big media companies and th
Re:New trend (Score:5, Insightful)
Using Linux is your choice. YOURS. You have made the choice to use an OS that has roughly 3% market share. Not only that, but an OS where interoperability between distros is far from assured. Oddly enough, the fact that Adobe supports 95% of the market sounds like more than enough for me. The browser plug-in situation is great! Flash is compatible on more types of computers than 99% of the programs out there. Flash is more cross-browser and cross-platform compatible than many HTML/CSS websites. If you have chosen to use an OS that is not supported by a piece of software that has become a major part of the web, that is your choice. The rest of the world is under no obligation to support a platform just because you happen to use it.
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I think media companies were faced with significant costs at high risks with the potential to eventually make less money, because advertisers finally realize that people don't watch adds.
What we were missing was competition, instead,
Finally (Score:4, Insightful)
Finally! Hopefully, big media will realise that literally giving away content is good for them in the long run. If this catches on like we've been hoping for years now, the DMCA, copyright laws and its like won't need to be changed, they'll just become irrelevant withg the advent of the new paradigm. (sorry for the buzzwords, folks.)
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The message isn't as strong as you think. There are definite... irregularities... to the comments posted to CBS content.
CBS clips have an unusually high comment:views ratio and they usually read like text from spin control or a marketing campaign.
Don't get me wrong, though, I've watched more CBS content on YouTube than I'm likely to ever watch on the TeeVee...
I'd like to see someone "get it" and legitimately succeed by pursuing the Free and Open path.
Re:Finally and I agree (Score:2)
I Know It's Off-topic. (Score:4, Interesting)
Several of my relatives (my generation) have teaching degrees. One now works in a body shop, one owns a flower shop, and the third is back in school learning a new trade.
Kids who deliberately provoke a teacher to film the results don't need to be yelled at so much as slapped around a little. And that's why I'd be a terrible teacher.
Re:I Know It's Off-topic. (Score:4, Insightful)
You would lose your job as a teacher rather quickly. Doesn't mean you would be a bad teacher.
Re:I Know It's Off-topic. (Score:4, Insightful)
Finding the heart to absorb some of their personal angst whilst moving the class forward in spite of the aggressively self-promotional behaviour is THE key challenge of teaching a PUBLIC school - the principle purpose of which is to address the vicious cycles in society by which the feeble beget the more feeble.
Its a lofty calling, and both difficult and under-appreciated (to say nothing of misunderstood).
Here's to those who succeed!
AIK
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Oh PLEASE. Insightful? It is Insightful to suggest that teachers should "slap kids around a little"?
This is criminal abuse. Should employers "slap employees around a little"? Should police be able to "slap arestees around a little"?
Or do you think children are some kind of sub-humans?
This attitude is shameful. Are we cavemen? Do we want to impress upon our children that the structure of society is that of a chicke
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Might as well get them prepared for it.
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Is it so hard to act like the adult you should be if you were to be in the profession of teaching? One cannot justify something like this with "Well my work is so stressful" as if that's a free ticket to do your job poorly. These kids got what they wanted, if it was really a baiting situation (which, frankly, doesn't matter at all), and the teacher did nothing but embolden them to do it again in the future. I've dealt with enough asshat teachers though over the years to understand that it's not too far fetc
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This is a SHAMEFUL attitude.
There is nothing more important we as a society can do for our future workers, artists, thinkers and leaders than to ensure that they are taught by the absolute best people - best teachers - we can find. Teaching should be seen as one of the highest callings in our society.
And do you know what it is going to take for
A Good Check (Score:2, Insightful)
With the knowledge that lectures are being, or might possible be, recorded by the students themselves, teach
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It's ridiculously easy for students to abuse their ubiquity. Many often display questionable behaviour in the classroom or elsewhere, the account of which might be met with skepticism when reported to a higher authority, or might simply be flat-out not reported owing to the agressive nature of some students or due to the awkwardness inherent in getting a student chastised for an isolated incident, or the possibility of a
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Perhaps, AC, if you have a correction to suggest, you should let me know where it should lie.
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Allowing such videos on youtube, and electronic devices as whole from schools, is a broad handed tyrannical gesture and an affront to teacher's rights and free speech.
Not only does this not make grammatical sense in several spots, it's not even a sensible argument
Relevent? (Score:2)
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Why can't we all just get along? (Score:2)
Keeping bad teachers in check (Score:3, Insightful)
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Absolutely!
And if that means teachers who can't handle the stress or the scandal are weeded out... win for us!
Once we start to effectively filter out the abusive, dysfunctional, mediocre teachers, we can start to see the salaries of good teachers increase and the prominence of the position in society increase.
Teaching should be considered one of the highest callings in society.
I'd
The teachers' union is now trying to get all perso (Score:2)
So that teachers will be able to yell at each other, beat children without noone seeing, maybe some molest them and so on ?
so that things will stay hidden ?
I will never listen to any babbling about 'childcare','child upbringing','good parenting','good teaching' crapola from any teacher from now on.
Stress Leave? (Score:2, Funny)
Teaching the kids "kill the messenger" (Score:2)
The school is simply teaching the kids an important real life lesson about what happens to whistleblowers.
Google for "filming classroom" (Score:2)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4470000/
Apparently filming kids secretly in a classroom is "underhanded" but not illegal; teachers seem to be unhappy about film material demonstrating that they lost control completely. I can't find anything that says whether open filming would be legal or illegal.
Do as I say not as I do. (Score:2)
But when students monitor the administration that cannot be allowed to happen?
This is classic and typical of EVIL OVERLORDS!
Locker Room recording - Coach Knight (Score:2)
Here is the link [youtube.com]. Hilarious to listen to but BE FORWARNED, his speech will make a sailor blush. If Coach Knight found about this audio being posted, the team will catch hell even if this was recorded a few years ago !
Common now.. (Score:2, Informative)
kids and communication (Score:2)
plus another
schools are becoming a battleground over communication. those who have the powerful minds yoked are losing control of the system that keeps the humans docile and working for other's benefit, and they do not like it. ("stay in school, you get a good job!"
A better response.... (Score:2)
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Does that include calculators?
-b.
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More likely you had a calculus professor who claimed that calculators were a Commie plot to inhibit the minds of Americans, and you were just incapable of detecting humor and/or sarcasm.
Sorry state of affairs (Score:5, Interesting)
Walking a fine line labelled "troll" here...but I had to comment...
I'm not sure what it is, but from my personal experiences with teachers from Quebec, as well as anecdotal evidence from others (my girfriend was raised in Montreal and I know a couple of other Quebecois with similar experiences as well) I now have quite a dim view of the teaching "profession" there. This is especially true with regard to teachers in anglophone schools in Quebec. They are VERY strongly unionised and VERY protective of their own self interests and, quite frankly, a few of them are mentally unstable. I KNOW this is a blanket statement and I hope that any
In any case, I think that there is some sort of systemic problem with public education in Quebec concerning monitoring competency of teachers and providing accountability. Perhaps it has to do with the union having too much control (unions have a purpose but when they are corrupt or the bargaining posisions are not on level ground it can be harmful). It seems very close to impossible to fire a teacher in Quebec--one would have to be convicted of physically or sexually abusing a student to be fired, or some other similar grave justification. That culture is why some people of questionable capability, mental capacity or emotional stability can remain teachers for as long as they want.
From what I understand, teachers with short fuses have been occasionally blowing up on students in Quebec classrooms for decades. We aren't talking about stern corporal punishment in the style delivered by the nuns of the old Catholic schoolhouses here either--we are talking they go all "Kosmo Kramer" on a student. In my girfriends primary school this was the sort of discipline meted out by these real pieces of work:
* Forgetting to bring something for show and tell in Grade I would mean you were ordered to go home and get it...unescorted..even if you lived a couple kilometres away or had to cross major throughfares. The parents wouldn't be notified of this.
* One teacher would throw objects at her students' heads if they were talking when she didn't want them to (chalk, etc). When my girfriend caught flying chalk coming toward her head one day and threw it back she was sent home and told not to come back the next day.
* Locking children in broom closets was a choice method of discipline. Parents were not notified of behavioural problems that justified such a punishment, nor were they asked if it was appropriate to discipline their child that way.
* Yelling and screaming tantrums--by the teachers--was common in some classes.
What happened to detention or going to the principals' office? What happened with informing and involving parents with such issues? Apparently, at least as early as the late 1970s, such practices have fallen out of style in a few schools in Quebec. And guess how complaints from parents are dealt with:
* Denial - your kid is lying or exaggerating
* Defence of the actions by teachers, however inappropriate the parents might think they are
* Promises to stop using such methods on your child--mixed in with threats of legal action should you complain publically about a teacher.
Yes, it is true I've met a couple of great teachers who (at least at one time) taught in Quebec. Former STUDENTS that I know, pretty much without exception, had multiple teachers that were incompetent and/or nutjobs at some point. I was not educated in Quebec myself, and I had my fair share of stupid teachers, but I cannot remember there being as many nutjobs as I've heard about in Quebec. Can't say whay that is aside from something systemically wrong with teacher training/hiring/screening becasue as a whole the Quebecois are among the most wonderful people I've met (thankfully they didn't learn how to behave from their teachers).
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While I expect I would generally find you horribly repugnant, I agree with you here. I don't think surveillance is avoidable. I think David Brin is right. This means that it should be possible to watch everybody.
I don't think banning camera phones is the answer because then you'll have schools doing exactly what you said. Now if all parties have video equipment, that's a much fairer situation.
I'm kind of wondering how long it will be before video content is digitally signed or watermarked by the devic
Re:Hahaha. (Score:4, Insightful)
Flamebait? (Score:5, Insightful)
Pranks like this get caught and lead to kids being punished, but whenever a teacher loses control, that damages their credibility and that of the school's. In this case, both the teacher and students need to be suspended; and they all need counseling. The kids need to be taught not to play pranks and the teacher needs to learn how to maintain control.
We need those student cameras in place in case teachers start shit with the students (i.e., beatings, molestation, etc).
Banning student cameras in this case is like banning cars because someone went on a rampage across a playground.
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Counseling? Ugh, the dictatorship of the shrinks. No thanks.
Find out what really happened. If the teacher was in the wrong and yelled without any good reason or provocation, fire his arse and give the student a commendation.
If the student provoked the teacher, give him a week's worth of detention cleaning out the bathroom stalls with the janitor and possibly a few hits of a paddle in the posterior.
Couns
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But the punishments should be immediate and painful or unpleasant - i.e. cleaning dirty stuff or having to "assume the position" or even being banned from sports and extracurriculars. Not calling the cops and having them deal with it (that just shows teachers as weak) or forcing kids to attend a whine-session with a shrink.
-b.
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at another kid with a 2x4, *that* should be dealt with by the police.
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If I might add, I believe Darwinism has been lost on the human race. Since health care has eliminated physical issues as a variable, I think a new variable should be promoted: motivation. People who are disruptive, angry should be dealt with by lowering their quality of education and they will inevitably be reduced to the crap jobs of society. Those who are bright and motivated should benefit from the best of education giv
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I call BS (Score:3, Insightful)
I'll agree that death threats and violence by students upon teachers are on the rise compared to 50 years ago. But that's a direct reverse from 50 years ago when violence by teachers AND parents upon students were the accepted norm. The only difference between yester year and
Rarely is the teacher at fault? Not so sure.... (Score:2)
Even if 9/10 times, the "student is provoking the teacher" - so what? The teacher is expected to maintain a higher standard. The school classroom isn't a democracy, after all. Students don't really have much in the way of "individual rights" in school. If anything, t
Re:Flamebait? (Score:4, Insightful)
In Canada / America (I haven't been to a British school) - by the time kids hit highschool, they 'rebel' against society. Clearly there's something wrong when highschool kids don't know where they oughta behave themselves and where they can vent and rebel.
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- after all these years, some teachers are still loud and annoying
- after all these years, some students are still assholes and bitches, especially to subs
- teachers' threats are empty
- students know that the teachers' threats are empty
Keep in mind, what I'm suggesting is much more calm. No more punishing up front. Punishing for long term, sure. I'm also suggesting that there are good students out there. And a lot of them.
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A teacher can shout at a pupil without losing control - it can be a very effective method of illustrating that what the student did was wrong, although clearly it should only be one weapon in their arsenal. Without seeing the video (is it still online? I couldn't find it) it's impossible to know whether the teacher lost control or was simply raising his voice. The article, though, is very clear that the students orchestrated the whole thing to damage the teac
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A teacher yelling at a student should be put out to the world. Maybe the teacher should rethink his behaviour. Clearly he thinks his behaviour is wrong, or it wouldn't bother him.
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That seems backwards to me.
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Like a child provoking a soldier to shoot them by throwing rocks in the middle east?
Just because someone provokes you doesn't absolve you of your actions afterwards.
If I met you in a bar and called your mother funny names and you punched me in the face, and the entire thing was filmed (from the words about your mother to the fist in my face) you would still be arrested and I would still win a civil suit because you responded poorly to provocation.*
The key here is
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1. Leave (probably paid) for the teacher
2. disciplinary action for the kids doing the filming
3. ban of personal electronic devices in classrooms
Uuuuh, can I be the first to say: WTF!?!!
Can I be the first to say: "This is the exact response to the Abu Grahib pictures incident"?
Immediate ban of cameras in all army prisons, court martial for the ones caught on film, higher ups run free. Creepy, huh?
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Which shows how tricky a video can be. What you saw on TV was just snippets. The full one is what the jury saw -- and that made them acquit the policemen.
RODNEY KING FACTS: [capmag.com] he was high on drugs, possibly PCP, speeding down the road; the police had to chase him; he resisted arrest, and tried to punch a policeman; he was so high that even a taser didn't bring him down, so the policemen had no choice but use their club
Re:What's with schools in Quebec and the innurnet? (Score:4, Funny)
...as opposed to the physical kind? I know what you mean. My left leg is totally barmy. Keeps me awake at nights.
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Use of cell phones is not allowed. It's in the school rules, and it's my rule. You have agreed to take this class under those conditions. If a cell rings in my class, the owner will loose 20% of his score in next exam. Second time offenders will fail the course. If you are not willing to commit yourself to study and give this degree its required attention, you don't deserve to be here occupying a place that many others are waiting in line to take.
It was a bit pompous but effective. He also said that if his own phone should ring, then he would give everybody in the class 5% score for free on next e