Originally Posted By StillThePassHolder While not quite like a beheading announcement like the South African school, this student was made to endure ridicule in an Ethics class for wearing a Denver Bronco jersey. The teacher thinks he did nothing wrong. What say you?
Originally Posted By StillThePassHolder It would help if I provided a link. <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/football/nfl/01/24/jersey.lesson.ap/index.html?cnn=yes" target="_blank">http://sportsillustrated.cnn.c om/2006/football/nfl/01/24/jersey.lesson.ap/index.html?cnn=yes</a>
Originally Posted By DisneyChica Good natured teasing and humor is fine, I have no problem with it. But during a test? The kid has more serious issues to worry about and shouldn't have to be made uncomfortable. On top of that, making other students participate in the humiliation only brings down self-esteem, and causes students to not want to speak up in class. High school is had enough as it is, and now the student has to worry about retaliation from the teacher. The teacher was way out of line. Period.
Originally Posted By peeaanuut I agree. Plus that was a midterm. I would like to see his grade. Being out of sorts on a stressing test can cause you to make mistakes.
Originally Posted By Fe Maiden "If he felt uncomfortable, then that's a lesson; that's what [the class] is designed to do," Is this guy serious? If the lesson is to show what a smacked rear-end adults can be then this guy is teacher of the year. Otherwise, I know I know nothing else about this man or what kind of teacher he is, but based upon that quote I'd find a way to get rid of him.
Originally Posted By peeaanuut of course if he was wearing a raiders Jersey I would completel be on the teachers side... the above message was intended as a joke, please calm down.
Originally Posted By StillThePassHolder Dunno if it matters, but I wrote Ethics class when it should be Ethnicity class. Ethics, the teacher seems to be lacking.
Originally Posted By t1lersm0m Where is there an ethical lesson in this situation? "If he felt uncomfortable, then that's a lesson; that's what [the class] is designed to do," Kelly told The Denver Post. "It was silly fun. I can't believe he was upset." So it's unethical to root for someone other than the hometeam?
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 I think they put the wrong guy in charge of teaching an "Ethnicity" course.
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 <<Where is there an ethical lesson in this situation? "If he felt uncomfortable, then that's a lesson; that's what [the class] is designed to do," Kelly told The Denver Post. "It was silly fun. I can't believe he was upset.">> I'm guessing that if there was any rationale for the guy's actions, he was attempting a standard diversity exercise in which you pick on someone for some (ordinarily innocuous) quality. You know, sort of like... the teacher divides the class into groups based on eye color. For 15 minutes, the blue-eyed kids are the "best" kids and they get to boss the others around. Then the brown-eyed kids get to be the bosses. "Okay, class, what did it feel like when you were in the 'cool' group? How did it feel then when you got picked on?" That sort of thing. Again, that's my guess -- IF this guy really put any thought into it.
Originally Posted By cape cod joe This is a no-brainer if I ever saw one. He should immediately be fired. If you saw John Stossel about 2 weeks ago about how our kids rank 24th or so in the world in most subjects, the big problem is the public school system and the inability to fire people like this because of the teacher unions.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 Yeah, but Inspector, this was during a test. If it was an excercise, it was done at an extremely inappropriate time. Even if the teacher doen't feel he was in the wrong, the least he could do would be to try to be sympathetic to the student. He seems kind of calloused based on his "why is he upset?" comment. Personally, I think the teacher is an idot, but somehow I'm not surprised at this kind of behaviour.
Originally Posted By threeundertwo So who went and told the media? The student? There are two sides to every story and I suspect there may be more to this one. Has the student been in the teacher's face? I see the teacher wore some other player's jersey on the same day.
Originally Posted By cape cod joe Touche 3 and I DO have a another brother-in-law who is a very good teacher in a "tough" town and he has told me the "horror and war stories" Man I change my mind so quickly some times!
Originally Posted By Ursula As a Denver Bronco Fan, I think the teacher should be shot. As a level-headed thinker, I'd like to hear more of the teacher to defend himself before I make up my mind on the matter.
Originally Posted By TomSawyer I went to boot camp in San Diego, right next to the airport. We were in class one day and one of the recruits looked out the window to watch an airplane fly past. The company commander told him that if he wanted to watch airplanes, he was going to be the air traffic controller for the day. The recruit had to stand up in the front of the class with his hands cupped around his ears like a radar dish. He had to swing his head back and forth, and when an airplane was in view he had to beep until it was out of sight. We didn't dare laugh, but it was pretty dang funng.
