Student mad at teacher for not actually teaching, teacher's only reaction is "bye" - General

[QUOTE=Zeke129;40602303]Since we're posting updates here's an update: [url=http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2013/05/09/duncanville-high-teacher-on-leave-after-student-viral-video-rant/]This kid dropped out of school once and came back because he realized he needed a high school education to get anywhere.[/url] This incident took place in a [i]special needs classroom[/i]. (Not necessarily for mentally handicapped students, but a "work-at-your-own-pace" environment for anyone who needs it) Of course he found the material boring and the teacher uninspiring, every student in that class was at a different level and it would be impossible to teach it with conventional methods. It was a class designed for students to be able to just bang out whatever credits they missed so they can graduate. None of this would have happened if he wasn't 2-kool-4-skool[/QUOTE] Plenty of the complaints he made are completely valid, though. The things he talked about could be applied to the vast majority of teachers I've had, my friends have had, and apparently, plenty of other kids across the USA have had. It's hard to say the school system does it's job right with a straight face.

I've had terrible teachers at school our geometry teacher just took us to the computer room and said "ok, when somebody walks in just pretend to be working on something. I'll give you all 10/10 and you can do what you like."

The education in my area sort of blows; we don't have highschool Calculus, Statistics, or Comp Sci classes. The only way I was able to take two of them was through a dual enrollment course and self teaching.

Why does everyone complain about history teachers? I've had a terrible history teacher too. Just handed us papers and we had to solve the questions in them. It's a bit better this year, but since we get 1 history lesson a week, along with religion and social studies, we can't have history class every week.

[QUOTE=Valnar;40602715]How are you able to judge the teacher's performance by the video? Its a 90 second video that provides no actual context.[/QUOTE] Any teacher that just sits there at her desk saying "bye" over and over and saying he is wasting her time...while sitting there...is a lazy teacher. A teacher with more interaction would have handled the situation in a different way.

[QUOTE=Suttles;40577906] Also stop with the goddamned "IF YOU DONT WORK IT OUT, ITS WRONG" bull shit. We have calculators for a reason.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=JCDentonUNATCO;40577928]I always hated that about math. "Let's deny students a basic tool that if they actually get into the math career they will undeniably use since it saves enormous amounts of time and user error."[/QUOTE] If you guys only used calculators you would learn nothing in Math. You'd forget everything by the next day. Calculators are great and all but you need to understand how to solve and show you're work before you use them. Otherwise you'd never see where you went wrong in the problem and would constantly get errors. An example of this is using calculators in elementary school, many kids got things such as -3 when doing simple math problems because they didn't understand how to solve the question. If they had not bothered to figure it out without the calculator they would be retarded by now.

[QUOTE=Valnar;40602808]But there isn't a context given in the original video, so basing a value judgement on that original video isn't good.[/QUOTE] You're right, it isn't, which is why I pointed that very thing out.

This kid should be an example for all America based school systems to follow. Kudos to him for speaking his god damned mind, something that apparently is a horrible thing to some schools.

[QUOTE=Zeke129;40602303]Since we're posting updates here's an update: [url=http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2013/05/09/duncanville-high-teacher-on-leave-after-student-viral-video-rant/]This kid dropped out of school once and came back because he realized he needed a high school education to get anywhere.[/url] This incident took place in a [i]special needs classroom[/i]. (Not necessarily for mentally handicapped students, but a "work-at-your-own-pace" environment for anyone who needs it) Of course he found the material boring and the teacher uninspiring, every student in that class was at a different level and it would be impossible to teach it with conventional methods. It was a class designed for students to be able to just bang out whatever credits they missed so they can graduate. None of this would have happened if he wasn't 2-kool-4-skool[/QUOTE] do you have a source for the special needs thing? it wasn't in what you linked

[QUOTE=TheHydra;40612634]do you have a source for the special needs thing? it wasn't in what you linked[/QUOTE] My only source for that bit was someone on Reddit who pointed out that the classroom appears to be a portable building (the door opens to outside and not a hallway), which led to someone bringing up that Duncanville High School doesn't have portable buildings and that the only reason he'd be in a portable building is if it was a PACE program I tend to believe it because nobody has been able to refute the claim that Duncanville High School doesn't have classes in portable buildings, but I don't really know since a Fox report mentions it as being part of Duncanville High

Well judging by the class he was in, it's not part of some program. Nowhere on the teacher's page indicates that she teaches anything in the PACE program [url]http://phung.dhs.duncanvilleisd.org/modules/tt/profile.phtml?profile_id=147395[/url]

[QUOTE=Rich209;40583408]I may be preaching to the choir, but a strong nation is built on education. Education is power.[/QUOTE] Yep. I mean look at Finland. One of the wealthiest countries and it's got hella good education. Several years ranked #1. I've been asking several american friends about their education system and what I hear is just both interesting and depressing. This video proves their point and while it's not impossible to learn with that system, it sure is made hella annoying of a process from the looks of it. My heart goes out to all american students. I sure hope your academic studies get a 180 turn in terms of management. Teaching shouldn't be a business, man.

In Denmark they just approved a new law that extends the school days from about 22 hours a week to about 63 for 9 ninth graders and about 47 hours for the lower classes. It's terrible, they think giving more hours of the same boring stuff will make kids smarter. Not to mention the way they passed the law is not democratic at all.

I'm happy I have more good teachers than bad teachers. Hell, I think all my teachers are good. We've all had that one teacher that's a complete legend, I hope!

[QUOTE=Zeke129;40613374]My only source for that bit was someone on Reddit who pointed out that the classroom appears to be a portable building (the door opens to outside and not a hallway), which led to someone bringing up that Duncanville High School doesn't have portable buildings and that the only reason he'd be in a portable building is if it was a PACE program I tend to believe it because nobody has been able to refute the claim that Duncanville High School doesn't have classes in portable buildings, but I don't really know since a Fox report mentions it as being part of Duncanville High[/QUOTE] a couple classes at my school had front doors that opened to the outside

totally did not expect his voice to sound like that.

I once had a similar experience. In my sophomore english class, all we did was: 1. Read terrible, low-level, completely uninspiring books 2. Do packets over said terrible, low-level, completely uninspiring books One day we were discussing our 2nd shitty book and my teacher said "This book is good for college preparation" and I went fucking berserk (not violently or loudly, I was calm but I was rather angry). I said "Why would you say that this poor excuse for a novel should be considered worthy of being called 'college preparation'?" Her response was that it taught morality and why people compromise and yadda yadda yadda. It was about an African kid who brought a blood diamond to America. [I]That was it[/I]. I said that it had no lessons of morality whatsoever and it's an insult to our intelligence because it was something a 10 year old would read. It had a lackluster story, boring characters, and it had like 16 point font and it might as well have been in Comic-Sans. She then brought up that I'm never did a single page in the packet. It was true, and I said it was because it taught absolutely nothing and I refused to do it. I got a warning to not criticize the book again. It was a surprisingly light outcome, not to say that I wanted to get a detention. I just was surprised. (By the way, I still got an A in the class. Thank god for high-stakes writing prompts that are worth like 40% of your grade).

happened to me with my two years in french, no one learned anything and we were shoved workbook pages and papers left and right. she told me to wake up when i was staring right at and listening. she then tried to play it off by mocking that i have squinty eyes (which i do if im relaxed because light bothers my vision a ton). one day i fell asleep because it was more workbook pages and she tried to make fun of me by making me teach the class. So i got in front of the class and told them to open their books and i made a fellow student get up and write the vocab words on the board. and then another guy got the joke and was like "do you have tenure?" (which she did because she was the only local french teacher). and she was so stupid she didnt get i was mocking her and told me to sit down while laughing. I think she thought the kids were laughing at me for not knowing what to do and being embarrassed (which i wasnt, i was laughing my ass off).