Teacher Edward Wolf accused of verbally abusing students

[Ban Hammer 13,334]

Year 10 teacher accused of verbal abuse

Told student to "shut the f*** up", kicked table

"Do what your name says - Die, son"

A TEACHER accused of verbally abusing students by telling one he should die believes he is being punished because modern kids are too sensitive.

Former Doncaster Secondary College teacher Edward Wolf, who has 40 years' experience in education, said when he moved from an Altona school to the Doncaster school in Victoria, he believed the children had an air of "self-entitlement" and the student and parent population was like "Footscray with money".

Mr Wolf, who is facing misconduct charges before a Victorian Institute of Teaching disciplinary panel, said he used firm words with unruly students who disrupted class or left the classroom without permission.

He denied telling misbehaving Year 10 pupils they were "idiots", but admitted telling one troublesome boy to "shut the f--k up" and another that "just because your dad wanted to get his rocks off, I have to deal with you".

Mr Wolf admitted kicking a student's table from under her feet because she refused to take them down from the desk when her dress and raised legs were "immodest".

He also admitted telling a boy named Dyson, who refused to stop banging on a wall during class, to "do what your name says - die, son".

"Considering what they have said to me and other teachers, I don't see them as that sensitive," Mr Wolf said.

"If you give it, you should be able to take it. Teachers only have words as a means to work with students and if those words are efficacious, then in that context I consider them appropriate."

Mr Wolf, 61, who wants to retain his teaching registration, said he now realised there was an emotional impact to his strong language.

"I am aware that students are now very much more sensitive than they have (been) in the past," he said.

Several alleged incidents of coarse or highly personal language occurred from 1998 to 2008.

The panel heard this week that Mr Wolf became angry when a group of Year 10 students left his class without permission in 2008.

One male student, now 18, said Mr Wolf started abusing him and two other students when they returned to the room, but the boys knew they had mucked up.

"Personally, I did not take it to heart, it was just a teacher lashing out. In one ear, out the other," one student told the hearing.

Another said: "We were very rowdy, we were hard to control. We, one time, took it too far and Mr Wolf snapped."

The VIT panel will hand down its findings on a date to be set.

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[spookyturtle 9,465]

There's a lot of exciting things going on down there. I'm glad to see that trivial stories don't make the news.

[dakay ♥ 10]

Mr Wolf, 61, who wants to retain his teaching registration, said he now realised there was an emotional impact to his strong language.

I never had a teacher who used strong words, but I remember a teacher in the school who yelled often and still remember her anger

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

There's a lot of exciting things going on down there. I'm glad to see that trivial stories don't make the news.

[Nagishkaw 510]

I remember back in the day I saw my 9th grade math teacher fist fighting an unruly boy in my class. It was no big deal then. Both student and teacher were exchanging blows.

[Nagishkaw 510]

Same school, same grade, civics class, different teacher. The teacher was a closet **. He used to invite the nicest looking boys to sit next to his desk while he coped a feel. I sat right in the front of the teachers desk and saw it all. No one complained and this went on for years, from what I heard. The teacher eventually retired then died.

[dakay ♥ 10]

and also is common that male teachers have preferences with the pretty girls sometimes in exchange for ...

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Another said: "We were very rowdy, we were hard to control. We, one time, took it too far and Mr Wolf snapped."

IMHO, I don't think what he did was that big of a deal. Cursing at the students is not right, but I don't think the guy should get punished beyond being reprimanded.

[thongd4me 69]

IMHO, I don't think what he did was that big of a deal. Cursing at the students is not right, but I don't think the guy should get punished beyond being reprimanded.

If they kicked out every student that stepped over the "line" the teachers might outnumber the students.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

If they kicked out every student that stepped over the "line" the teachers might outnumber the students.

Yep. It takes the patience of a saint to put up with kids in general - rowdy teenagers are in a class by themselves. One of the nuns at my school, Sister Paul Marie, had a short temper. Her face were turn tomato red and she often tell students to stop being boneheads. She was a brilliant Math teacher though and had a great sense of humor.

Edited March 13, 2010 by Galt's gallstones

[Fandango 1,439]

Yeah, but the students are not the adults.

Cursing at students, telling them to die, kicking desks out from underneath them is not only unacceptable, it's violent and this guy needs to be removed from the classroom.

[Jenn! 918]

Yep. It takes the patience of a saint to put up with kids in general - rowdy teenagers are in a class by themselves. One of the nuns at my school, Sister Paul Marie, had a short temper. Her face were turn tomato red and she often tell students to stop being boneheads. She was a brilliant Math teacher though and had a great sense of humor.

I think this is a whole other level though. This guy is obviously a ####### and really has no business teaching kids. Big difference between being a good disciplinarian and an outright a$$.

I read a similar story yesterday here in the US: http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?...281474978100354