Should This Teacher Keep His Job?

[Doomsday2007]

This next one is interesting, and depending on how you think about it, disappointing and sad.

I have friends who are teachers, and seeing as I can barely stand being around teenagers (no offense if you are one) for 5 minutes in the mall, I can how the guy can lose it. But on the other hand, if you sign up and train to be a teacher... you need patience. The job isn't for everyone. Despite the years of service, should this guy get to keep his job just based on the evidence in this video (below)?

Here's the story. Words by Frances Martel at Mediaite

"Don’t let anyone tell you teaching is an easy job. This isn’t the first or last time, but a Tennessee high school teacher seems to have suffered a nervous breakdown in the classroom and, shouting for everyone to “shut up,” repeatedly, began to throw furniture. As a student had the tech-savvy to take out a cell-phone camera, Donald Wood’s breakdown will now probably go viral.

Wood had been teaching math for seventeen years At McGavock High School in Tennessee before his outburst, which included, besides profanity and physical violence, a confession that he had started a fire inside the school. No word yet on whether Wood’s breakdown was in any way provoked or if he had a past history of mental instability. In any case, no one was harmed save Wood, who was reportedly escorted out of the premises in a fit of profane shouting. It’s like the ending of a John Hughes movie, except the teacher is not a one-dimensional antagonist but instead seems to be a human being in need of much help."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9RLp8wZAlE

[Neptunus]

haha i would so be one of the last ones to leave the class room just to see how it goes down

[TheBleached]

I bet that wasn't in his lesson plan for the day.

But I don't think he should keep his job. Anyone who loses their cool like that isn't working in the right job. I can understand that kids//people can get out of hand or on your nerves at time but throwing furniture in a professional setting?

[jimicy]

Well since I'm a teenager and I know I make jokes or comments in class since it's funny and I'm just having some fun, but there are students actually don't do work or put in an effort and they disturb the class a lot. As a teacher you have to know how to handle these situations accordingly.

[babyB]

Thats nothing, when I was at school our maths teacher used to go mad all the time. In fact we used to wind him up so much that we enjoyed watching him flip out, we thought it was funny. He was a fairly young teacher early 20's, brillant maths teacher, super brainy but was almost completly bald on top of his head. I think it was his first teaching job ofter all his education and was no married.
So first you could see it he used to go all red and he used to clench his fist and sometimes bang them on the table. Sometimes you could see his veins pop out on his head of his red head.
Other times when he was real bad he used to pickup the kids with two hands up agains the wall and shout at them right in from of there face. I am glad to say I was not one of those kids.

[joakim02]

He shouldn't lose his job for that. Everyone gets angry and makes mistakes.

[Levitys]

Kids today are so much worse than they used to be
If he started the fire in the school as he claimed than obviously he should lose his job and charges should be filed.
Otherwise a teacher with seventeen years under his belt has an outburst and is fired?
I don't think so. I think he deserves a couple more to be honest with u.
Id probably end up strangling one of those little shits. Lol

[doose]

The union will save his job or make sure he gets paid equally to do something else.

[worlplugz]

I think this guy will get his job back if he wants it back. If I was him I would make something completely different.
This guy is nuts. I had a teacher that was like him and he never came back after to my school after he was sent to the loony bin, but he still is a teacher afaik. My teacher knocked a student out if the chair cause he didn't greet him at the beginning of the class and the student knocked the teacher out.

[Theta]

Crazy teachers. I think if they feel the profession wasn't for them, then they should change career, if they're not happy, why stay? In this case described by TS, it would be better that the teacher should undergo some therapy, zen living, yoga and other ways to help him calm down and manage things in cool way. Its like an Anger Management movie, simple things shouldn't easily get on your nerves and should take things easy. There are many factors that affects human behavior. As such, it might be childhood background, family problem, stressed relationship with a partner, or just plain depression in life... that is why a therapy is recommended. If the teacher progresses, then his career would be waiting patiently for him to come back, giving him a second chance.

[Solocrisch]

He was provoked and he lost temper. I don't think he should lose his job for this - but is up to others to decide. What saddens me most is that future where those former students will become teachers...

[joshboyturner]

Well, he signed up for being a high school teacher, which is severely underpaid, and under-appreciated is the US, it's tough. But it doesn't justify anything he does, so asking whether or not he should be fired is really meaningless. Yes, he should be fired, if not prosecuted for the arson he allegedly committed.

[Callaghan]

...except the teacher is not a one-dimensional antagonist but instead seems to be a human being in need of much help."

Exactly. Given the way those little f___ers act nowadays, he showed remarkable restraint...:laugh: