Violent high school teacher becomes a YouTube star

You have to be kidding me.  Instead of focusing on the unruly students they go straight for the teacher.  I don't have enough information on him yet, but he seemed to be trying to teach... Note how the author of this article describes the situation and states that the Students where Cowering.  They drove the guy over the edge it's obvious.  

 

Violent high school teacher becomes a YouTube star

STARR KESHET | Tue 12th Oct 2010, 01:40 pm

source: TG Daily

A high school algebra teacher who suffered a violent nervous breakdown in a Nashville classroom has become a YouTube star nearly overnight.
The shocking video of Donald Brian Wood - who was filmed turning over tables and yelling at cowering students

- has garnered approximately 180,000 views since being posted on October 8.
Unsurprisingly, Wood has been placed on administrative leave as he receives psychiatric treatment at a nearby hospital.
His sister, Leanne Smith, told a news conference that Wood regrets his actions.
"He expressed his passion and love for teaching and concern for his students [at McGavock High School]," Smith said in an official statement quoted by CBS News.
"[But] the lack of respect for authority in our society's classrooms across the nation is [certainly] one of the many consequences of the way public school teachers are forced to deal with their classrooms today."

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8 year old to miss 2 years of school over a toy gun.

Samuel Burgos has fond memories of his friends at school, but he only gets to see them in pictures now.

The 8-year-old boy hasn't been in school for a year and will likely miss another year if the Broward County School Board has its way.

Burgos was suspended from school in November after a teacher found a toy gun in his backpack. But when the boy went to register to go back to Pembroke Pines Charter School, he was told he will be expelled for this school year, too, as part of the county's zero tolerance weapons policy.

"He made a mistake, but why the severe punishment? I don't understand that," said Magdiel Burgos, Sam's dad.

School board officials said the rules are quite clear and that the toy gun constituted a weapon. A school board report on the incident mentions that Samuel showed the toy gun to another student and it was capable of firing projectiles.

That's all it takes for it to be considered a weapon.

"This is in his backpack and it's a toy. It's not a real gun. It's a toy," said Magdiel Burgos, twirling a plastic gun.

The school board said they would admit Samuel into a correctional school for problem children who have been expelled located in Hallandale Beach.

The parents refused and believe their son has already paid for his mistake enough. Samuel has since been home-schooled, but his parents want him back in public school.

"I can't sit here and allow them to send my kid to a school where students have committed actual crimes," Burgos said. "He hasn't committed a crime."

Next week, the family will attend a school board meeting to try and get their son back in class as soon as possible, but that could be after Thanksgiving.

Burgos says his child has been set back emotionally and will probably have to repeat the second grade. He thinks there should be some room to determine that his child didn't bring a real gun to school.

"I understand the board is concerned about schools, and as parents we are concerned, too, but they need to work with us," he said.

The school board says it's common sense to know that this kind of item can't be allowed on school campus and that responsibility also falls on parents to know what their children have in their backpacks.

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