Teacher rattles table in class, student calls 911

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110302/ap_on_re_us/us_teacher_table_rattling

ATHERTON, Calif. – A California school teacher was placed on paid administrative leave after he rattled a table to get the attention of his math students, startling an eighth-grade girl who used her cell phone to call police.

Atherton police Sgt. Tim Lynch tells the Palo Alto Daily News that officers went to Selby Lane School Tuesday afternoon because of reports a teacher was causing a disturbance.

Officers found a calm teacher with class in session.

The sergeant says the teacher's table-rattling startled a student and she used her cell phone to call 911. He says other students in the class weren't bothered by the teacher's actions.

Redwood City School District deputy superintendent John Baker says the teacher was placed on leave because there was a police response.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

That kid needs it's ####### beat in the worst way. I hope the parents at least had he decency to pull that brats cell phone from her and then apologize to the teacher.

[Blob18 111]

If I was her parent, I'd go in her room when she was sleeping every hour, on the hour and shake her bed and then walk out.

Stupidity has no bounds it seems in some kids these days...

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Teachers need to be more sensitive.

[Ban Hammer 13,484]

ban cell phones!

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

Teachers need to be more sensitive.

...and paid less.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

If I was her parent, I'd go in her room when she was sleeping every hour, on the hour and shake her bed and then walk out.

Stupidity has no bounds it seems in some kids these days...

LOL...the parents are probably afraid the kids going to 911 their #######.

[Amby 490]

this doesn't even make any sense. if no one else was bothered then why was the teacher put on leave? just because there was a police response?

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

this doesn't even make any sense. if no one else was bothered then why was the teacher put on leave? just because there was a police response?

I wonder how many DV's this kids future husband racks up just by looking at her wrong ?

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

this doesn't even make any sense. if no one else was bothered then why was the teacher put on leave? just because there was a police response?

There seems to be a trend of lack of thinking on the part of administrators at schools (think of the weird zero tolerance problems that have arisen in the last few years). They follow policy no matter how irrational it might be which I guess is the safe thing to do in terms of lawsuits.

[^_^ 5,021]

Maybe she has a medical condition that is triggered by the noise of a rattling table - what sounded like a table rattle to others may have sounded like the earth splitting in half to her.

Or maybe she's just spoiled rotten.

Edited March 2, 2011 by \

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

BTW...did anyone notice that this incident happened in California...

[^_^ 5,021]

BTW...did anyone notice that this incident happened in California...

Oh yeah, this would never happen anywhere else.

[Amby 490]

There seems to be a trend of lack of thinking on the part of administrators at schools (think of the weird zero tolerance problems that have arisen in the last few years). They follow policy no matter how irrational it might be which I guess is the safe thing to do in terms of lawsuits.

it must be something like the zero tolerence thing. it just seems so silly if no one else was bothered by it. I guess it is just as silly as someone getting expelled for bringing a knife in their lunchbox to cut their food.

[Ban Hammer 13,484]

BTW...did anyone notice that this incident happened in California...