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Angry Moroccan teacher throws pupils out of window

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.

wow - yeah they should of listen - do u think they got the message!!!!! Might of been drastic - but with today's kids - the only thing that gets thru to them is going extreme or postal on them.

Maybe this is common practice in Morocco. All I can think of is a lawsuit waiting to happen.

I imagine they'll listen from now on! I'm wondering too if this is common practice in Morocco.

I would also like to say this teacher is clearly in the wrong profession! Over here, this teacher would be behind bars by now. And would never be allowed to teach again or be in a position to work with children.

We as parents and I'm sure as teachers, reach our wits end at times......kids can drive you nuts.....but there's fine line between being very annoyed and going postal, as someone said here. When I saw this topic, I just had to read it - to see if a teacher really threw a kid out the window. What if she had been teaching on the third floor?

Mary

PS - if anyone's familiar with the kids book/movie, Matilda, this story reminded me of the Trunchbull. But that's fiction, and a twisted character only Roald Dahl could come up with.....this sad story was reality.

LMAO!!

Unbelievable...

I know a few people that I'd love to toss out a window

This is sad.... of course Topeka West HS doesn't have stories... but Topeka High on the other hand... they got 3 stories and a bell tower.

wx247 wrote:Maybe this is common practice in Morocco. All I can think of is a lawsuit waiting to happen.

That's true.

David wrote:This is sad.... of course Topeka West HS doesn't have stories... but Topeka High on the other hand... they got 3 stories and a bell tower.

Are you sure you don't go to Menasha High??? 3 floors and bell tower (there are 2 foreign language classrooms in the attic)

That seems a little harsh.... but the teacher suffers from depression....... ???????? and she did warn them.!!

Jeez....in Morocco, maybe...here, the teacher
had better be able to cover the $$$$ for that LAWSUIT!!!

I've seen a few students that I'd love to throw out the window....you know the type....those who think they're never wrong, whose parents think their child is never wrong, and then there are those who can't sit still and are constantly disrupting class. I've often said that I could be one rich dude if I could invent a way to put ritalin in a spray can similar to Lysol! LOL Just give the room a good spraying right before the kids come in and all will go well.

Seriously, I can think of no other job I'd rather have. Sure, there are moments when I wonder why in the world I'm doing this, but then maybe a student will finally understand a new concept, or the one student I've been trying to reach for weeks will finally see that I'm not the enemy and it makes all the "hell" worth it!

I've often compared being a teacher to being a preacher. I believe that one has to have a calling to do both. The pay stinks. There is a big lack of respect for teachers in this day and age. But to reach a child, to help a child that is struggling in a subject, or just to be there when a child's world falls apart and to know that you've had just a little part in helping to shape and mold a life makes it all worthwhile.

Tim

Maybe in Morocco, things are like it was here 50 to 60 years ago. You know, when your parents/grandparents claimed to walk 10 miles to school uphill both ways in a blinding rain or snow. And teachers would throw unruly students out the window.

timNms wrote: I've often said that I could be one rich dude if I could invent a way to put ritalin in a spray can similar to Lysol! LOL Just give the room a good spraying right before the kids come in and all will go well.

I think I'd pay a small fortune for that. My one experience teaching private schools was a total disaster- the children were WELL aware that I wasn't allowed to touch them/use any negative words to redirect thier behavior (including No!) or really do anything but reason with them.

YOU try reasoning a 6 year old off the top of a piano (She had a hula hoop and a grass skirt and the other kids were cheering her on...) without saying a single negative or threatening word. I tried... I really did...

but I very nearly threw her out the window myself!

Fortunetly the principal and I agreed a day later that I simply wasn't suited for the school... and I went back to college and decided teaching midgets was for the birds!

We need to return to the good old days when teachers and principles could give misbehaving students a good paddling or crack their knuckles with a ruler. Nothing gets the message across better than having a sore rear end for a couple of days, or 2 sore hands for a couple of weeks.

LOL Derek!!!

Wait...

You were joking, right?

I blame all the teachers been weak on the courts.

If a teacher punishes a student i.e Cane, striking a student etc the parents of the little *** will have the teacher in court in a flash for abussing "poor little timmy" even though "poor little timmy" may be a little ****.

The majority of teachers get my respect, each and every time. Sure there are bad teachers out there, as with this extreme example! You just hope that a teacher recognizes he or she just doesn't belong in that profession, long before a situation like this arises! Opera Ghost - LOL! What do you do now? Just curious..... Derek - I was taught that way! Scary nuns swishing back your desk, at a very fast pace, with let's see a rosary dangling from their belt, a pointer stick (you wanted to break all of these in two) and always, always those nasty rulers. And I was a good kid!!!! But I got smacked on the hand a few times. Probably for spelling a word incorrectly.......and yes many students got paddled. Thankfully I didn't. And we all know NOW what really went on behind closed doors in Catholic Schools - so give me the hands off, open door policy anyday that we have in my kids schools over the way I learned. The only thing I came out learning better was reading/language arts/writing/spelling. That area truly does seem to have fallen by the wayside in today's world. I joke my youngest daughter would benefit from one day with a strict nun teaching her how to spell correctly. You WILL learn to spell correctly in MY CLASS. I get the willies just thinking back on those days. I had a knot in my stomach most days - honest! That just isn't the way to teach kids - through fear!

Mary

LOL well a story of a teacher that did not back down :o WOW you don't see that often.
Yes a huge lawsuit if this had happened in the States.


Aaron