I guess some teacher went on a rant because a student refused to stand for the national anthem and some other students taped it on their cameraphone. There's some video here.

whole lotta hullabaloo about nothing

Yeah, I mean the guy's a blowhard, and he has NO right to force anyone to stand for the anthem, but then those kids are punkasses, too, which pretty well takes the wind out of it. They're giggling the whole time, and the text of the page mentions how they got him revved up by doing some awful crap the day before with a substitute.

I heard about this while flipping through channels the other week. Scarborough County was having a field day with it. What was the issue though...that the kid had a cellphone that could record video therefore breaking this privacy wall schools hold so dear, or that the teacher was so revved up? The teacher did apologize and is now agreed to take anger management classes, but apparently the kid who videotaped is the one int trouble. Ah technology, and we used to think it was cool when a kid has a universal tv remote in his watch and could turn on/off the tv during classes.

oh man that brings back some good memories...

True, but they are still kids, and he is an adult in a position of authority. He should know better than some punkass kids.

Yep, he blew up, and he seems like an ass. But it's just not what it seems at first glance, is all I'm saying. A lot of places hyping that story desperately want it to be 100% about good, civilly disobediant kids and a right-wing nazi shop teacher, but it's more like 60/40.

You're right. I just dislike teachers.

seems to me that the teacher is fed up with the punk ass students he has in his class, and he has to raise his voice to make them do anything.

sucks to be a teacher nowadays. my sister-in-law is a high school teacher, and she has to deal with mini-50 cents and mini-Lil Jon's everyday. her stories about them are hard to take at times.

i hope my kids skip the ages of 13-18 and enter straight into quasi-adulthood.

It's funny, because a lot of my frienda are teachers, and they complain about the kids they teach. I always ask them "Do you remember how I treated teachers in HS?" I mean, a substitute? Ho, please. We abused substitutes. I made our French teacher cry by accusing her of being in the witness protection program, and also refusingto answer to the Franco-fide version of my name (it's DAY-VID, Not DA-VEED) and also refusing to speak French.

I was also sent to the office my first day of 10th grade (when I moved to PTC) for refusing to stand during the pledge.

And let's not talk about drinking at lunch, leaving to smoke out, eating doses in school...kids today are no more punks than they were 10 or even 30 years ago, its just that your perspective changes.

Am I proud of the above blatant disregard for authority? Not really, but hey, I was a punk...still am in many ways.

Amen.

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Haha. No shit. Foreign language substitutes were the best. Ha.

Actually, that was the actual teacher

Substitute "French" with "Modern European History" and we are in parallel high schools.

way to fight the power, man! did you put a black fist in the air as well?

Naaah, but I was totally gonna shoot that bitch up one time, but I totally got really high instead.

wow duuuuude, like that's some rebellion there!

she deals with the next generation of high-profile superstars?

oh, is that what they are?

you tell me. what did you intend to mean by that?