It's not dictatorship when you kick someone out for making a disturbance in the classroom. It's the right thing to do. How do you know this is a public school?
The right thing to do in whose eyes? When I have an argument or a dispute with someone, I don't force them out of the room to be punished by some other figure. It should be absolutely no different anywhere else, especially when it concerns children.
If you have a gripe with someone, especially a teacher, you don't just go off like that. You do it after class civilly. Did you hear the other kids going off in the same way? No. They were laughing and recording it.
If you approach this from a purely objective standpoint, and ignore conventional classroom etiquette; he's likely being forced there against his will, along with 95% of other students K-12. Him getting up, voicing his opinion, leaving (meanwhile no aggression is taking place aside from the teacher forcing him out of the door), is perfectly acceptable. Where is the harm in this?
My issue is thinking that students must behave a certain way based on authority alone. It's also a crappy way to approach education and learning in general, which is what his rant was about.
My point is, he's going about it the wrong way. I think he is lazy because he's sitting in the back of class and thinks he's the teacher.
Maybe he was forced in the back of the class? And what does his physical location in the classroom have to do with anything?
Attitude is everything, and he's displaying blatant disrespect.
Do you think your friends disrespect you when they critique you? Sometimes you have to man up and accept the feedback. Just because he's younger, and she's the teacher, does not justify respect. For instance, I don't expect my children to respect me just because I'm their parent. I want to earn their respect based on how I interact with them. The same way we do with friends.
Not everyone can hold your hand in life!
Exactly! And this guy sticking up for his preferences shows he can handle himself. He's the exact opposite of what you're portraying him to be.
I don't know about you, but if I couldn't read and write properly, and do math, I couldn't be an entrepreneur. So yes, it is important to not be a total idiot.
Whoa, wait a second. Are you implying that one can not learn to read or write properly, or do math, without a formal education? You should look into the Unschooling movement to see that you're wrong. Beyond reading, writing, basic math skills, the rest of what HS teaches you is pretty much irrelevant in the real world. Those basic skills can be easily learned on your own.
And yes, he does have to respect her because of her position. If he doesn't, they'll kick him out until he does.
Right, just in the same way we have to "respect" the hundreds of thousands of ridiculous, unjust laws or be imprisoned/fined. That's not the point I'm making. If schools wanted to improve their really poor, shitty track record, one thing they could get rid of this notion of showing respect simply due to position.
He did raise his voice and said "Bitching" - at least that's what I heard. And this is Duncanville TX, not South Central Los Angeles - it has nothing to do with race.
So what? What we consider bad words is another bullshit construct. My daughter is 3, takes after me and swears sometimes. What is my kneejerk reaction? Nothing. Her mouth, tongue and vocal chords came together in such a way to produce a certain noise, context is what matters. He said, "I'm not Bitching", how is this bad? Would you have felt better if he said, "I'm not ranting"?, "I'm not giving you grief"? You shouldn't, because that's what he means, he just used a different word to describe it.
