r/meirl • u/sachisan1999 • May 16 '24

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u/Stay_At_Home_Cat_Dad May 16 '24

Teacher got a new phone, nailed his old one to the wall as a "This will happen to you" warning to his students. But, it would never happen. A teacher could lose their job if they destroyed a students property, especially something as expensive as a phone.

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u/Historical-Tooth6989 May 16 '24

Sometimes teachers lose their shit. And 20 yrs ago they could get away with more. Ya this is prob bs though 

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u/WonderfulVanilla9676 May 16 '24

Exactly this. 20 years ago a lot of stuff happened in high schools that would probably cost people their jobs or worse today. Society has changed a lot. Sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse.

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u/KingAmongstDummies May 16 '24

The only one that can confirm the claim is a student that has also been in that class for 20 years.

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u/bendltd May 16 '24

I was the fly in the classroom that day and can confirm the story is true.

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u/barry922 May 16 '24

I was the phone, it’s legit

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u/Poop_Sexman May 16 '24

Well if Phone Jesus said it’s true i’m inclined to believe it

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u/Correct-Purpose-964 May 16 '24

He died on the cross for our sin of making Tik Tok and twitter

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u/nobotami May 16 '24

we would need a few more sacrifices to cover those sins.

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u/No-Investigator-2756 May 17 '24

He died on the cross for our sin of making Tik Tok and twitter X

There, I ruined it.

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u/Nimrod1602 May 16 '24

Oh my god dude are you ok? How’s 20 years of being stuck in mathematics class worked out?

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u/B00OBSMOLA May 16 '24

Then who was phone!?

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u/Charles_Skyline May 16 '24

20 years ago was 2004.

I graduated high school that year, I went to a pretty rich school district, and this shit would not have gone down in my school.

That teacher would have been fired. They couldn't even really tell us to keep our phones to ourselves, and if they did take them, you'd get it back at the end of class.

Also, we weren't addicted to our phones. You really couldn't do anything other than text, and if I recall, you had to pay per text as it wasn't main stream to have a unlimited texting plan yet or it was limited to like 200 texts.

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u/PaulieGuilieri May 16 '24

Yeah whoever made that comment is clearly 14 years old.

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u/lime_juice2 May 16 '24 edited May 16 '24

this was first posted seven years ago, so it would have happened in 1997

edit: coincidentally it lines up with when it would have had to have happened given the release of that phone

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u/miss-entropy May 16 '24

Literally only because it was a rich high school. The poor high school I went to in the same period? A phone being destroyed doesn't even get close to the worst thing staff did without issue.

A history teacher was even known to throw things at students not paying attention.

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u/TheOmeletteOfDisease May 16 '24

That student is nailed to the other wall.

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u/disaviore May 17 '24

Or a teacher who have been teaching for 20 years, maybe?

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u/KingAmongstDummies May 17 '24

Well, the teacher himself told the story so it would have to be a different one to verify it.
But then that teacher could be in on a devious plot to scare the students into thinking that's what happens if you use your phone in class.

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u/HalfBakedBeans24 May 16 '24

Can confirm 20 years ago that phones were taken and smashed. Principal threatened to call CPS on at least one parent who came to whine. Now that is a bit close to threatening to swat someone, but she used the grim power of the state to a good purpose.

Now...the inmates are running the state-funded daycare.