So A Teacher At My School Was Just Fired...

ElectroJosh

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It seems odd he would be fired over this incident.

But then I don't know how the law works where the OP is. Doesn't he need to have a warning or two first? Or is this not the first time he's broken school protocol.
 

Beryl77

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High school? They've seen much worse than that and some probably done. Even if not, he wasn't forcing them to watch that. If someone has some serious trauma or anything like that because of this then alright, I understand the reaction.
However, it's just people who have decided that the video has done some damage to the kids. We don't know what the kids think about it.
 

El Dwarfio

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Obsideo said:
All of the students at my school loved him and are actively protesting his termination. He led our school's Buddy Olympics and was an avid supporter of many school clubs and organizations. While I didn't have him as a teacher, I've heard nothing but good things from fellow students.

That being said, I want to know The Escapist's position on this. If a beloved teacher pulls a stupid stunt, should they get a second chance was my school right in firing him?
That's pretty tame, 5 teachers got fired in my time at school, one for perving on girls (which is brilliant cos I went to a boys school) one for being a druggy, one for giving every GCSE paper the same grade cos she cba to mark them, on because sixth formers changed the teachers desktop wallpaper to porn, took a picture of it and reported him and a final one for giving a dumbass student beer as congratulations for doing well on a maths exam.

And I went to a prestigious school :p My cousins went to a comprehensive where teachers got the sack for both assaulting and impregnating students.
 

GrandmaFunk

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Dethenger said:
Obsideo said:
watched the movie "Jackass 2" on his laptop while students worked at their desks
He wasn't just fucking around, the students were given their assignment.
he WAS fucking around. just because he's not giving a lesson doesn't mean he doesn't have work to do: course prep, correcting homework, grading tests, etc...

even substitutes usually have work-related shit to fill their time.

my mom was a substitute teacher for 30 years, sitting around watching a movie or reading books is not what they get paid for.
 

Monkeyman O'Brien

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Sucks to be him but ultimately the school is right to fire him.
I hope he enjoys his "lessons on the consequences of violating social norms" when hes lining up for unemployment.
 

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I think the school was in the right. Regardless of whether the students had seen that or "worse" before, it wasn't his place to show them a movie that was likely rated above their age group. (Where I am, R = 18+)

Plus, as others have said, Jackass sucks. Poor judgment all around.
 

Tiamattt

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I think the fact that the cops are involved makes his firing justified. If he broke some kind of school-only rule then he would probably would've kept his job with a major punishment, but in the case of criminal charges I can see why the school had to get rid of him. Also even if they didn't fire him immediately I don't see how they could've kept him around without the parents raising hell about it.

Personally I feel sorry that he'll probably be paying for this for a long time over something that I seriously doubt affected those teens in any way. That said it was a extremely stupid thing for him to do and I'm wondering why he couldn't have just watched that crap later. Here's hoping that he could somehow bounce back from this, but not at the same school.
 

Fieldy409_v1legacy

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Yeah that was wrong. You don't show R rated stuff to kids. If the parents want to let their kids see that stuff at home that's their choice.
 

Arakasi

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WON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDEREN?!?

Jokes aside, this is nothing. I had a teacher retell her traumatic childhood to us all, suicide attempts included.
My science teacher also put sodium in a tray of water in front of us so we could watch the reaction. It was awesome but illegal.
 

ottenni

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I agree with the school, that skit was terrible.

Pontius the Barbarian is much better.
 

peruvianskys

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I like how people are saying, "The students loved him!" like that means anything. When I was in high school, the teachers that kids loved were the ones who didn't teach shit. Kids rarely like those who make them do real work.

Teacher showed ridiculously poor judgment and Jackass is dumb.
 

Merkavar

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arent school systems world wide struggling for teachers/good teachers?

shouldnt good teachers get more slack
 

Yopaz

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Honestly, he didn't deserve to be fired, but I'm not surprised that he was. As others have said he showed an R rated movie to the class for no reason. A teacher shouldn't do such things. Sure it wont harm the class since most have watched as much and worse, but that's not his responsibility. What happens in class is. He is stupid for thinking this was a good idea.
 

lacktheknack

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Our school made us get special permissions from each parent to watch "Freak the Mighty" in English class. It's rated PG.

So yeah, I can see the teacher getting in deep trouble for a spectacularly tasteless movie that barely made the "R" rating (I believe this was the film where they had to censor out the horse-semen-drinking bit under threat of NC-17, tell me if I'm wrong).
 

chadachada123

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They're high school students. They've seen worse, and hear worse every single day.

Not to mention, probably a third of my high school teachers did something just like this at some point.

He is probably known as one of the "cool" teachers, and for an obvious reason: he doesn't baby the kids that are just about ready to be real adults anyway.
 

vipLink

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I'm sorry but really? In any other Job you'd get fired for watching the Movie during working hours anyway.
This was dumb and immature. I have no problem with teachers showing Movies of any kind in class personally, as long as they have a significant value to a lesson being taught. And if it's in anyway a rated movie, maybe just inform the parents, saves everyone the hassle later.

I'd argue first offense, but I can't be sure of that really. And let's just grow up for minute, this is the real World, make a really stupid mistake and you get fired. There are other teachers willing to do a good Job, and not jerk around.

Sure if it's in any way controversial, that schouldn't apply. But this was just a plantant miss step due to poor judgment. If he'd thought about this just a second longer bevor showing the movie, he should have smelt this thing a mile away. And if he didn't see this thing coming, I wouldn't want him teaching my children anyway.