Posted on 03/13/2008 11:50:42 AM PDT by Koblenz
Danbury (AP) _ Danbury officials have been notified they are being sued by a student who was awakened in class by a teacher who made a loud noise.
Documents filed with the Town Clerk, a prelude to a lawsuit, claim that a sleeping student suffered hearing damage when his teacher woke him up by slamming her hand down on the boy's desk. in December.
Attorney Alan Barry says 15-year-old Vinicios Robacher suffered pain and "very severe injuries to his left eardrum" when teacher Melissa Nadeau abruptly slammed the palm of her hand on his desk on Dec. 4.
A city official says the matter has been referred to Danbury's insurance carrier.
Well then it’s a good thing I don’t go to school, and had access to a 100 watt guitar amp + guitar.
His head would be ringing for the whole day.
BS!
But, they only have to convince a jury of it. Just think back to the OJ trial, it wont be hard. 13 people to stupid to find a way out of jury duty will probably give the little twit and his lawyer millions of dollars.
did a little HS teaching in the late 50’s, mostly the geometries, and always used a meter stick as a pointer and to draw lines. There was nary a nodding head or closed eye for they knew well the sound of the meter stick popping a desk top.
my American History teacher used to take a car antenna, which he carried around as a pointer, or held as a sceptre when he sat in his big Laz-E-Boy chair at the front of the class, and bang it against the metal waste basket next to the sleeping student’s head... he truly was a fantastic teacher...
A jury of his peers: An acceptable juror must have taken a nap in class - non-nappers would be prejudiced.
When I was in high school a kid fell asleep in shop class. The teacher went out in the shop and returned with a small plastic bag filled with acetylene, which he ignited about two feet from the kid’s head. The sound rattled the windows. I’m surprised the kid didn’t piss himself.
Adding the state does not make it a new post.
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Our band director, retired from the Marines, would throw his baton at someone who wasn’t paying attention. If he didn’t have his baton, a metal music stand flew just as well. You knew to pay attention and to duck quickly.
20 or so years ago when you went home and told your folks, your Dad woulda slapped you upside the head and told you school was for learning, not sleeping. Now they drive you to a Lawyer’s office. sheesh
Well i think if she really did hate kids in her class, like you, that ain’t a good teacher. These stories people are sharing about their teachers aren’t because the teachers hated the kids, they demanded attention and respect from their students and weren’t going to take any crap or slacking off while they were in their class.
Disciplining out of love rather than hate.
I did a search for Danbury but forgot to do it for titles, not keywords, so I didn’t see it. I’ll remember next time.
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She wasn’t a good teacher, to her the yearbook mattered more than some classes. One of the reasons she hated me was I complained we weren’t learning anything.
Yeah, she wasn’t a good teacher. It’s too bad because it really hinders your ability to get much out of the class. I didn’t really enjoy history much until well into college because my high school teachers were the most boring, unexcited teachers about history. It just was awful being there. They luckily also weren’t angry on top of it, but man it just killed any enthusiasm anyone had remaining for the subject.
FMCDH(BITS)
Don’t tug on Supermans Cape,
Don’t spit in the wind,
Don’t mess around with the Lone Ranger
AND don’t mess around with Catholic school nuns with rulers...
Welcome to the madness that is my chosen profession. Those out there who insist that the teachers, the teacher unions, and government-run schools are the sole reason for the insanity inside education should only look as far as this brat, his attorney, and his family.
Don’t get me wrong. The union which supposedly represents me is a godawful mix of half-baked Marxism and Tammany Hall politics. I would prefer to implement Milton Friedman’s notions of schools based on a free market model.
Having said that, every teacher I know lives in mortal fear of the snot-nosed brat who uses the legal system as a hammer to ruin your career for an innocuous (or imaginary) offense. A sleeping student deserves to be thrown out of school on his ass and told not to return until he shows some respect for the class, the teacher, and the school. Do that in a modern school and the parents not only come unglued in defense of their little darling, but they also have a slimy lawyer following behind looking at the school district as the ultimate deep pocket. You have no idea how many times teachers have unruly, nasty, mean, or just plain abusive students in their classes who are backed up by their parents.
This includes conservatives, sadly. I’ve gotten the occasional parent who starts off their diatribe telling me that I’m a Stalinist mindwasher who hates American values.
Yes, the large majority of parents support me. I work for them. However, the minority of parents who work diligently to undermine my ability to do my job is growing.
Just me on my soapbox.
While in the 11th grade , during 4th (of 6) period a student fell asleep at his desk. The teacher enforced an “utterly no noise in my class “ edict for the remainder of the day. At 3:30 PM the teacher quietly packed his things and left for the day, while the student was deep in REM sleep.I always wondered what time he woke and what the result was. Never heard.
Poor baby!
Is it a mission for you? If not, why aren’t “good” teachers leaving in droves? You could do private or get together and start your own business. People that have to pay twice usually expect their kids to get their money worth.
>>>Is it a mission for you? If not, why aren’t “good” teachers leaving in droves? You could do private or get together and start your own business. People that have to pay twice usually expect their kids to get their money worth.<<<
CindyDawg....
Good teachers are leaving in droves. It’s a huge problem in education. The problem from my vantage is that the system rewards people for longevity, not excellence, and a lot of us just get plain tired seeing incompetence and malpractice receive the same reward as excellence.
Is this is a mission? Maybe, although I’ve always wanted to be a teacher since I was in the second grade, and I consider that to be a stronger driving force. I didn’t become a teacher until I was in my 40s, which helps me in the classroom - I’ve hired and fired people, I’ve been hired and fired myself, and I understand what it means to have a job unprotected by tenure. I come from a culture and family where teaching is respected, too. And not to sound like I’m bragging, but I’m pretty good at it. Teaching is easy if you don’t give a damn; it is very difficult if you care about it. Sadly, the system permits those who don’t give a damn to get a free pass.
Why don’t I go private? I’d like ALL teaching to be private, with parents as the consumers and the learning of children as the product. Sure, there would be some concerns (as there are in all human systems), but teachers would focus on excellence due to the competitive nature of the career.
By the way, I quit two school districts because of their lack of concern for quality. I finally found one which focuses on rewarding good teachers and drumming out the bad.
I like to keep things moving in my class to prevent boredom and tiredness. But if there’s a kid with his head on the table in my class, he either sits up immediately when I tell him to or he gets to visit the principal for a round of detention. I don’t let him or her get to the sleep stage, my principal supports me, and everyone in the system is willing to tell the parents that the student is not behaving according to our standards. We have a few parents who raise hell, but we maintain our standards. As a result, kids learn. My previous statements about lack of support still apply generally to the profession, though.
The students who wanted to sleep were directed to the back of the classroom - all they had to do for me was prove they could sign their name - so they could collect welfare.
Don't forget - the parents were treated badly while they were in school (~80s?) and it is their time to 'get even'. Of course, YMMV.
(BTW, sleeping beauties got Fs)
Any student who *wanted to learn*, sat up front and learned.
Discipline should be demanded, teachers and employers.
this kid probably figures why work, when I can hit the “white trash lottery”
the apocalypse is upon us.
I would love to know, where is the HELL are his parents? If I fell asleep in class, and my teacher woke me up like that — my PARENTS would tell me to get to bed EARLIER. If I ever asked my parents to sue the teacher, because she woke me up, my parents would tell me to get lost.
BTW, is the teacher related to Danbury’s Jerry Nadeau - the NASCAR racer?
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