The laughter is just as disturbing as the meltdown...
A teacher had to be escorted from school in handcuffs after smashing up furniture in front of a classroom full of jeering children. Donald Wood appeared to suffer a nervous breakdown as he struggled to control his teenage pupils at McGavock High School in Nashville, Tennessee.
Mobile phone footage recorded by one of the youngsters showed him throwing two tables, a bin and a chair during an algebra lesson.
The video starts with Mr Wood - who has been a teacher for 17 years - telling the pupils to "shut up". The classroom erupts as he is taunted by the hysterical students.
He then waves his arms and says: "If you can be absolutely quiet...if you can shut your mouth...you can shut your mouth and you can listen in absolute silence… "Do you know why? Cause I have the absolute…" "Power?" screams one of the youths.
"I've got it, and I know it," the teacher replies. "And guess who else knows it?" Mr Wood then knocks over a table, and strolls over to the other side of the room and upturns another desk.
"Do you know who started the fire? Do you know who started the fire in this school?" he asks. A student says something inaudible, and Mr Wood replies: "No - me!" He then hurls a metal bin to the floor as pupils flee in terror.
"Once everybody started running out he picked up a chair and threw it out the window and it shattered," pupil Joshua Jenkins told NewsChannel. The commotion could be heard in nearby classrooms and the teacher was removed from the school in handcuffs.
"He was very agitated, very scattered and he didn't make any sense," said the school's principal Robbin Wall. "We are very fortunate that none of our students were injured or hurt."
Mr Wood was taken to hospital for treatment, and has been suspended as investigations continue into the incident.
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Do you have any coach rants on tape? I've been wondering why that behavior appears to be acceptable in our society. What would happen if I left the stands, walked onto the sidelines, and gave the coach the identical rant he just gave a group of teens? I imagine that would be worthy of a police escort. If the coach did his rant on the officials, he would be ejected. If the principal entered that coach's classroom and ranted on him, a grievance would be filed and the district would be sued. What if a taxpayer stood before the BOE and performed the same exact rant? Not acceptable. MOST coaches are compassionate mentors who sincerely care about the students. Their contribution goes above and beyond any monetary reward. But there are a few stark raving lunatics.
P.S. The comments on the right side-bar don't match the speaks on it comments. Just an FYI.
Some of the comments at the YouTube site are appalling and clearly show that we are not in a post-racist society. The number and intensity of the comments was pretty stunning to me and I'm far from naive.
I forgot the link -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T65k5ADEGXo&feature=player_embedded#!
In my 43 years experience, I can't recall any teacher who went crazy in a classroom and smashed the furniture, etc. There will always be exceptions to the rule--and they are the ones who make news.
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