Our geometry teacher was also our tennis coach and he was a huge guy.
This kid - a tall one- kept disrupting the class after being quietly and sternly warned, so the teacher, upon having the kid give him some more sass, strode over, grabbed the kid by the shirt collar and dragged him out of the desk, then out the door of the classroom into the hall, with most of us straining to hear what he was going to do, and then “BOOM!” with just one arm slammed him up against the lockers like a rag doll, with the kid’s feet dangling helplessly below, and then quietly told the kid, “Now that I have your attention, I want you to know that nothing would please me more than to see you straighten out and pass this class with flying colors, but I will not have you here disrupting everyone else’s chances while you ruin your own. If you’re not a model student from here on out you are flunked, gone for good, no graduation. Now, let’s save ourselves some time. Do you want to be here or not? This is your last chance. Yes or no?”
The wide-eyed kid couldn’t nod while hanging there in the teacher’s grip, but managed to stutter affirmatively.
The teacher marched him back in, gestured another kid from the center front row, and parked the red-faced wayward student in front of the teacher’s desk, where he stayed the rest of the semester, meek as a mouse, and passed the class with flying colors.
I get what you are saying here. I am too young to have ever been in the public schools when this kind of thing was allowed. I don’t care what questions parents ask. I am just glad they are asking questions and finally getting involved in this failing district. Most of them are asking: Why is this teacher duct-taping the student? A better question might be: Why is this teacher so desperate that she feels this is her only option? The schools are a disaster. It’s too much for one teacher with a roll of duct tape to tackle.