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shirley · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 45 Location: Italy

I just had to share this true story with you. I'm sure most of you can empathize with the teacher Idea

RABAT, Morocco (Reuters) -- Two Moroccan schoolboys were injured Monday when their teacher threw them out of a first floor classroom window for being too noisy, an Education Ministry official said.

One of the pupils, aged nine, ended up in hospital with a fractured shoulder and serious injuries to his face and head while the other, age 10, suffered only slight injuries, the official from the ministry's delegation in Casablanca said.

He said the teacher had warned the pair she would throw them out if they were not quiet.

"They did not listen. They should have listened," he told Reuters by telephone. "She (the teacher) suffers depression."

The official had no comment on whether the teacher would be disciplined.

leeroy · Joined: 30 Jan 2003 Posts: 777 Location: London UK

The windows in my class don't open wide enough Crying or Very sad

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

I teach in portacabins on the ground floor in the desert( sand is soft)) Sad

guest of Japan · Joined: 28 Feb 2003 Posts: 1601 Location: Japan

My worst students are all on the fifth floor. I think the students would get the point quickly, but I wouldn't remain in the school long enough to enjoy it.

"No officer. I didn't mean to kill him. I was trying to help the students learn the word gravity."

lajzar · Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Posts: 647 Location: Saitama-ken, Japan

Where I am, the kids have a legal right to remain in the classroom under all circumstances while a lesson is going on. So I can't chuck them out of the window. Fortunately, I have very ell-behaved students. The exception being the 2% who are officially described as special needs kids.
Rolling Eyes

Gordon · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 5309 Location: Japan

If the class got so bad, the teacher should have thrown herself out.

SweetOne · Joined: 19 Jul 2003 Posts: 109

"No officer. I didn't mean to kill him. I was trying to help the students learn the word gravity."[/quote]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! I am laughıng my head off! Oh, how many times I wished to do something like this!

Capergirl · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 10:13 am Post subject:

I was tempted to throw a few of my Korean students out a window. Rolling Eyes

I can't understand (and perhaps someone knows the answer to this) why Korean kids are so poorly behaved and Taiwanese students are so well-behaved. Confused

Wolf · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 1245 Location: Middle Earth

Throw students out a window? I'm blessed with no behavioral problems. There were a few classes in my less experience days when I wanted to throw myslef out the window (19th floor). They just didn't get it.

Roger · Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 9138

"I am sorry, Mr Principal/headmaster, could I spend the next 43 minutes in the schoolyard until the row dies down (when the bell rings)?"

october · Joined: 01 Oct 2003 Posts: 49 Location: Israel

What's that phrase?
If you cant stand the heat, get out of the kitchen?
Throwing kids out of the window?
Being married to a one who's parents come from Morroco, i can understand where that came from... Laughing

I think teachers should have a Beeper thing (that's good ENglish) that when we just cant take it we beep for a sub.