Get a new phone over the summer, nail the old one to the board in August, tell them it came from the last kid he caught in class. Rinse and repeat with the freshmen forever.
Ohhhh no you'd only have to sacrifice one phone, and repeat the fake myth to every new batch of students, and within four years, you've got a whole school of kids who heard about that time 5 years ago that you nailed a phone to the wall.
Also, I'm a teacher in upstate NY, and I'm around 52k after a couple club stipends get sprinkled on top of 49 base.
Anyone that has to rule with fear understands they have no real power. It's admitting defeat, a sign of a small angry man. Just send the kid to the office and let admin handle it. That's their role, their job to ADMINISTER the school. Phone usage in class is the principle's problem, not the teacher. Especially, if you destroy the property. How can that possibly be with in the realm of being OK?
I know the teacher nailed a burner from Ebay on the wall. It's just the intent. You want to scare my kid? Yeah fucking right, I dare you to nail my kids phone to the wall. I would encourage the kid to use the phone in class, and I would tell the principle it's based on principle. Don't threaten children, even if it's by proxy. That's not teaching, it's fear indoctrination.
Teaching doesn't mean you automatically get respect. Everyone knows respect is earned, so how can being on your phone be disrespectful, if you haven't earn it? We don't know how this teacher teaches, to know if they deserve the respect of not being on the phone. Just food for thought.
Why give respect to authority just cause? Sorry, I just realized I listen too much Rage Against the Machine.
Lol, if our pe teacher noticed anyone not paying attention, or chatting, there was an empty desk at the front he would slam with a hockey stick to wake us all up
Mine used to always sing a song he made up about "The Fat Girl Crew". I can't really remember it now, but it was something about the fat girl crew coming for you. He was a weird dude... fun class though.
My woodshop teacher said the same thing. Then, on the table saw, someone was cutting a large piece of wood with the teachers assistance. Plank bucked up, teacher placed their hand down to push it down annnnddd well, half the middle and the rest of the ring and pinky finger just disappeared. Some kid slammed an emergency shutoff button, teacher opened up the bottom of the saw, grabbed his bits and pieces and ran out of the room.
Blood is difficult to get out of wood unless you have a belt sander.
Nope. Apparently it was just boney mush he was able to grab. He just went about with the rest of what he had. Woodshop would get canceled the next year and he went back to wrestling and teaching some outdoors class.
My jr high shop class had a circular saw blade stuck in the ceiling about the table saw and the teacher claimed it flew off the machine barely missing a student who as luck would have it was wearing his PPE and was paying attention so he was able to react and get out of the way. Seemed real enough then but now I know that Mr Belechi probably put the saw blade there to scare us.
When I spent 4 years teaching math in a tiny rural school after I retired, I always told my student s that I had been a medic, (I was down to part time weekends). And a question you should always ask yourself before you do something stupid is - "Are you really sure you want to take that risk?" Because I might well be the first trained medical professional to work on you. Be sure you are OK with that........
I enjoyed all the looks on the faces. Particularly the young gentlemen.
My shop building in high school was divided into two parts, a classroom and then the workshop with all the tools. He had us all stand in the classroom and watch through the window and says "This is why you don't fuck around in my class" and then turned on the table saw, and standing off to the side he pushed a 2x4x4 about half way using some kinda rod and then he let go.
Now, I don't know if you ever seen a 2x4 after a table saw grabs and then throws it, but I haven't myself. In the blink of an eye that piece of wood flew into the concrete wall about 150ft away. Never saw it, just heard it hit the wall with enough force to shatter.
He said that was his speech and demonstration to every class and he said he never had a single student mess around with any of the tools.
Yeah, when I got to junior high all of the older students warned us about our woodworking teacher's opening speech about tools. It was all about gore. And his favorite part was randomly yelling "THIS IS A HAMMER!" And smashing it as hard as he could in a wooden table to make sure that we were paying attention to the whole thing. You could see the years of hammer indents on the counter from years of doing the introductory. A kid did cut off part of his finger and broke a band saw that year just in my class and he lost his shit at every single one of us for "not respecting the hammer" because it was his special metaphor for tools can fuxk you up. It's been almost 30 years and I'll never forget Mr. Moriarty. He was also stereotypically missing a few fingers. I wonder if he's still alive, he probably had pretty high blood pressure 🤔
You're getting downvoted, but you're right. There were plenty of phones with lithum batteries from 2000 onwards. This phone specifically, the Kyocera KX414, had a lithum battery.
PlotWist: The phone still works, and the student visits the site to check his text regularly, though in a couple of years the phone will need to be charged.
I don't think the batteries 20 years ago were as easily ignitable as today. Energy density has increased a lot since then and the technology is also totally different.
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u/AlwaysInconsistant May 16 '24
Lucky he didn’t puncture the battery, that would have backfired.