Should This Teacher Be Fired?

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Fired... maybe. Serious reprimand, definitely.

e: watched the video, and if that's the teacher at the end, then yes.
 
If a teacher ever did to my kid what he did, or allowed it to be done, 100% guaranteed I'd beat on him.
 
"The teacher, John Rosi, was suspended for 10 days without pay by the district and moved to a different middle school within the district."

Wow -- that'll show him! Reminds me of another organization's handling of abuse...
 
If that was my kid, I'm afraid to say I'd be in jail at the moment.
 
For a teacher to take part in bullying a kid to the point he has to be removed from the school and is suicidal, in part, as a result of this humiliation is beyond belief that the school does not immediately terminate him. One of the most shocking stories I have read in my life.
 
Fired should be a given, and since the teacher apparently participated, he should be arrested as well for child abuse.

That is unacceptable and unforgivable. Shit like this scars kids for life.
 
teachers should never be fired. they are underpaid pillars of the community no matter their performance in the classroom.
 
EL PRESIDENTE said:
teachers should never be fired. they are underpaid pillars of the community no matter their performance in the classroom, said no person ever.
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fixed that for you.
 
noknobs said:
Fired should be a given, and since the teacher apparently participated, he should be arrested as well for child abuse.

That is unacceptable and unforgivable. Shit like this scars kids for life.
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I agree. He should be in handcuffs.
 
EL PRESIDENTE said:
actually that is the position of the teacher's unions. no accountability or measurement of a teacher's effectiveness as a function of their job.
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actually, no it's not.
 
Typically, a teacher in this position is suspended with pay pending investigation. Then when all the attention dies down, the teacher is reinstated or moved to another school. The exception to this is when the teacher is put on trial for having sex with students.
 
That's some pretty bad bullying and to have the teacher involved? Poor kid.
 
I would rather put a big sign display or picket sign on the sidewalk right outside his new school, and also hand out flyers of his lack of moral judgement as a teacher. That should damage his reputation right there the legal way (public street, freedom to express).
 
Most likely he shouldBe fired, but context also matters and we only have a snippet. When I was in the sixth grade a teacher picked me up by my collar and swung me around in a circle yelling at me. If that was caught on film it would have looked like abuse. But, 10 seconds earlier I was punching a kid in the jaw. The teacher did what needed to be done to stop the situation and get me to snap out of my rage. I am thankful he did what he did.
 
GOD said:
Most likely he shouldBe fired, but context also matters and we only have a snippet. When I was in the sixth grade a teacher picked me up by my collar and swung me around in a circle yelling at me. If that was caught on film it would have looked like abuse. But, 10 seconds earlier I was punching a kid in the jaw. The teacher did what needed to be done to stop the situation and get me to snap out of my rage. I am thankful he did what he did.
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well now you have to be all reasonable and shit..

context would be important, and a lot of people either refuse to accept that it plays a role, or just want to flat out ignore it because it's easier to have a knee jerk response.
 
did anybody read the teacher's side of the story or are you all just overreacting to the edited video?

 
44Thrilla said:
did anybody read the teacher's side of the story or are you all just overreacting to the edited video?

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Wait...you actually think people on a message board, looked at both sides of the story (or facts)?!

ARE YOU MAD!?
 
julius said:
Wait...you actually think people on a message board, looked at both sides of the story (or facts)?!

ARE YOU MAD!?
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I don't get it -- because the teacher refers to the bullying as "horseplay" and asserts that he didn't think anyone was being hurt, it's all good? Does his claim that the boy in question used to punch him in the hallways (poor guy!) make everyone "even" somehow? I read the letter, and it didn't change my mind in the least -- if this guy can't recognize that covering a student with desks and chairs, putting his socks in his mouth and drawing on his feet is obviously bullying, there is no hope for him.
 
TripTango said:
I don't get it -- because the teacher refers to the bullying as "horseplay" and asserts that he didn't think anyone was being hurt, it's all good? Does his claim that the boy in question used to punch him in the hallways (poor guy!) make everyone "even" somehow? I read the letter, and it didn't change my mind in the least -- if this guy can't recognize that covering a student with desks and chairs, putting his socks in his mouth and drawing on his feet is obviously bullying, there is no hope for him.
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it depends on what was going on, but "footage" can be deceiving. I'm not saying that the guy is 100% innocent, but that it might not be exactly as viewed.

Things can be edited to make it look worse than they are.

AT BEST, the guy was horsing around with students (and as an adult, teacher, and professional he has absolutely no business doing so).
 
He's a middle school wrestling coach teaching Kopatime, which I assume is coping time. In other words, they put their most retarded teacher in charge of their most retarded students, figuring he could connect better than shrinking violet teachers.

He blurred the lines between the hazing which is normal in wrestling/football and the hands-off rules in an academic class. He writes that in P.E., the same student often jumps on P.E. teacher's backs, playfully tries to trip them, etc. That didn't happen in the class system of my day. Is this normal nowadays, or is this school district odd in the P.E. behavior it allows?
 
I just think its crazy that people immediately call for termination. His story is believable and he has an 18 year history of no incidents. Plus the video doesn't prove much, as it's edited.

Sure, punish him. Put record of this in his file and tell him the next time something even remotely similar happens, he's fired.
 
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