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Video Captures Students Bullying Teacher In Baltimore Classroom

November 9, 2012 at 11:33 am by Morbid

Baltimore, MD – A cell phone video was recently published on Youtube that showed a high school teacher being bullied by her students.

The video was taken inside a classroom at Digital Harbor High, a magnet school in Federal Hill. It shows a substitute teacher sitting behind her desk as she dodges objects being thrown at her while another student flicks her head and face. You can hear the teacher tell them to stop, threatening suspension, only to be met with laughter from other students as she is called a bitch and told to shut up.

“Respect for adults. Somewhere there’s just, no civility. They don’t even respect the adults in the classroom who are trying to deliver a lesson and this is the battle we fight,” said Marietta English, the head of the teachers union in Baltimore city. She has seen the video and says this type of behavior happens more often than most people think.

She recommends teachers report this kind of activity to school police, administration, and the teachers union. The teacher in this video did not file a complaint with the police or the teacher’s union, opting to let the school administration handle it.

According to reports, Baltimore City Schools says that the video was taken last month and that they have already conducted their investigation. They say one student in the video has been disciplined, but did not reveal how.

“I think it happens every day. We ask teachers to file a complaint with us, fill out the forms so that we can keep our own records. We just believe it happens every day in some school, somewhere,” said English.

Admittedly, we gave substitutes hell when I was in school, back when kids had a school issued abacus. But the blatant disrespect and not seeming to care about being filmed committing assault against an adult is a bit surprising. Even had I not been scared of school authorities, my parents would have painted my bedroom with my ass cheeks had I been caught doing anything remotely similar to what is seen in this video.

There was a time when I entertained being a high school teacher. But I dismissed it because I was worried about getting into jailbait trouble; not murdering a bitch in front of the class.

Tags: Bullying, Crime, Digital Harbor High, Maryland, student, teacher

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CT

That cow is a kid? Did the teacher take away her Cheetos too?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Sarah-Silcox-Martin/1460419094 Sarah Silcox Martin

The problem is the parents. My sister was a teacher and she used to get parents calling her up at home cursing her out and screaming at her because she gave a 0 to their kids who refused to do their homework. Parents raising kids who expect to get it all without doing any work is the reason our whole society sucks the way it does now. Bunch of lazy, whiny demon brats. If I were that teacher I would have had those 2 ham hocks arrested. Give em a little dose of reality.
Evan Oswald

let me guess, the penalties these kids guy wasn’t shit. I am an uncompassionate person and if possible – people like this would be expelled from the school district. any kids in the room that didn’t report it would be suspended for a short time. This is bullying, right?
buhbam

A magnet school eh? I thought magnet schools were for the gifted and talented in shit neighborhoods. I guess even smart kids don’t know how to act. Whoop ALL of their asses!!!!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=534902588 Meli Machiavelli

God I hope expulsions were handed out like candy.
Sometimes (though unreasonable) … I really want to just throw in the towel on this next wave of youth.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=736546181 Michael Heldman

Baltimore is a cesspool as it is but teachers need training on how to handle problem students. Training is almost never given. The first flick from the student should have come with a warning. “I will call the cops and press charges for assault.” Let them learn about real world consequences. I jumped right to the “cops” because I don’t believe this student’s parents are going to be a major influence here, just a hunch.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=534902588 Meli Machiavelli

I’ll give you an example of how Cops fail to scare a lot of kids these days.

My mom witnessed a 7th grader physically fight and spit on a female officer, while in the security office of the grammar school she teaches in, while in the process of being suspended…
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=736546181 Michael Heldman

luckily they have pepper spray for attitude adjustments.
Rachel Ann

Yeah I would have been putting my baton to that kids ass had I been that officer. Just saying.
Andyman

Too bad the video quality sucks so bad – maybe she could have gotten paid like the bus monitor lady. lol
Wildheart

If I had done something like this, my dad would’ve videotaped me getting my ass whipped and punished for life, then made sure it was shown at every movie theater within a 10 mile radius of my house.
Evan Oswald

maybe i am stating the obvious – but the generation/kids roughly under the age of 22 are some of the least motivated and unashamed people i’ve ever seen.
Patr1ckBateman

Usually, when someone says “the old days were better”, my eyes glaze over. Usually they are pining for some kind of perfect world that didn’t actually exist. But I am rethinking this attitude, big time.
Youth of today really does seem worse. Lazier, more disdain for work, expecting everything for nothing. The expecting everything really shits me the most. The lack of respect is nothing short of horrifying. And yeah I guess the parents have been poisoned with this mentality too, as they often defend these children of theirs. Makes you think the human race is circling closer than ever to the drain hole.

My missus is pregnant, due in March. Are people gonna think my kid’s a weirdo because they show respect and are willing to work hard to achieve their goals? I think yes.

With regard to these particular kids though, I reckon military school would be a great option. Film the whole thing and turn it into a TV show. I’ll be pissin’ myself laughing, watching them crying.
Pipsmom06

I snorted when I read the line about painting his bedroom with his ass cheeks! I will have to use that line some time
ShelbySP

Yep, my mom is a teacher, and they literally expect her to raise these kids. They’re ANIMALS.
Eliza Berntsen

I graduated 10 years ago. Not that long ago you would think. But, let me tell you, if anyone in my school would have as much as thought of doing something like this to a teacher they would have had their ass wooped by both the teacher as well as the parents as well as getting excluded from school for a month, and have their grades marked down at the end of the year. Of course we still did get the odd idiot who would think it might be oh so funny to call a teacher a cunt. I think those are still there at the same school trying to pass their exams.
Eliza Berntsen

Personally I believe that a lot of today’s kids should just get thrown into a dungeon and then whoever survives can then be allowed to join the society. Or just get them to write an abbreviation for you are correctly.
Rachel Ann

I’d shove my foot so far down this kids throat she’d be shitting shoe leather for a month at least. I want to be a teacher but I think sometimes its best I don’t I’d hate to go to jail for giving some kid an attitude check.
Athena

Dramatically less supervision. I hope we’ve about leveled off with the percentage of single parents or duel working parents, for now, but the damage has been done.
JohnQknowitall

Fat ass bullies. Baltimore: Shit raises Shit.
come_and_see

It’s because parents believe all you have to do is give your kids food, a roof over their head, and clothes and that’s parenting.
Patr1ckBateman

It’s really sad, but here in Australia the only way to afford a house is if both parents work. Prices are really high. I’m so glad I was lucky enough to inherit some money, so my mortgage is only small. I can tell the boss to shove the overtime so I can go home and be with my kid.
Athena

Preachin’ to the choir, brothaman. It’s no better here in the States. Congrats on the kiddo, though! May you enjoy a placid, problem-free, mood swing-light pregnancy.
Patr1ckBateman

Thankyou. It’s been OK so far, here’s hoping it continues that way.
abbys_mom

I agree kids aren’t really scared of cops, but regardless, the first attempt to touch the teacher should have been met with a warning of assault charges, and the first touch, the cops should have been called, period. Whether the kid is scared or not isn’t really the point…the teacher needs to know that she can and should call those trained to deal with violence to take over when a person is threatening her.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Cindy-Crawford/13964421 Cindy Crawford

Yet another reason I don’t like kids……
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1106642961 Alice Hennen

My mum is a teacher and if I ever heard of kids doing this to her…well there would be a few punishments I would want to dish out (break all their toys, sell them to pedophiles/sweat shops etc.) If I even thought about doing this to a teacher, I would have been smacked so hard that I couldn’t sit down for a week! Kids are just shits these days, parents are lazy and expect teachers to raise their kids.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Anna-Hall-Grillot/100000054600337 Anna Hall Grillot

I just have to say that y’all sound like republicans, because no bleedin’ heart democrat would ever say these things about these precious children. They just need more things. They are under-privileged . They need toys and nice shoes and expensive video games and an after school program, free lunch, dinner and a personal visit from Barack Clause.
JGo555

I can’t see the video, all I see it’s white. However I can see the ad before it.
I think my generation was the last respectful one. Ithas gone downhill after that. This is one of the reasons why I chose to teach in Elem. School. At least I got the height advantage.
Rachel Ann

The election is over no one cares about your politics lol.
BadNewz730

I LOVE YOU Dreamin Demon…But please, stop using the term “Bully!” It’s friggin’ laughable. So these kids bullied the teacher. It’s such a goto term now. Anyone is a jerk to someone…they’re a “Bully.” I just feel bad for the kids that are “bullied” and brought to a place of suicide and/or murder. This teacher is bad at her job. Kids hit you, throw things…write them up…even (God forbid) call the po-lice. I work with trouble teens. They attack me (at times), even spit at me…and yes, I can’t slam them to the ground (as I would do to an adult that attacks me) but am I (or any of my colleagues) “bullied?” This word now (unfortunately) means nothing. They call an @sshole boss now a (gasp) bully.

Okay, I’m going on a rant here… Joking on my own rage here (ala Moe Sizlack).
shadough

Bullying is terrible. Imagine being attacked by people for no reason. Or maybe there is a reason in their heads. Maybe you look different, or maybe you express an opinion people don’t like, or maybe your hair colour is unusual. Unfortunately it happens every day. Don’t ever say anything about the popular kids or you will be in trouble!
newstarshipsmell

Speak for yourself. The Right’s stupefied reaction to their loss is a veritable goldmine.
Heather_Habilatory

Yeah, I graduated 10 years ago, too, and for sure it is different!
Heather_Habilatory

Blow me, you stupid bitch.
Heather_Habilatory

Ho. Ly. Shit. If I did even a tenth of this to a teacher, my parents would have shipped me off to military school!
EveryVillainIsLemons

I think that it’s not so much single parenting or dual working parents that are to blame–I think that it’s the lack of supervision, parenting, discipline, and real consequences for bad behavior that are to blame. After all, there are single parents who had the odds stacked against them who managed to turn out kids who were not only well-mannered and good students, but successful as adults. They also worked WITH teachers and school officials to make sure that their kids were doing the work and not giving the teacher grief, and that’s a big problem, too–parents blow off parent-teacher meetings or really connecting with their children, and then they wonder why their children are doing poorly and engaging in attention-seeking behavior. I’m not saying there aren’t bad teachers, but self-centered parents who make sex, drugs, the internet, and/or TV more important a priority over raising their children easily outnumber the bad teachers.
EveryVillainIsLemons

That’s the primary reason I’m not a teacher–I have no patience for nasty little shit kids or their trashy, enabling parents who make chasing dick/pussy the center of their lives and ignore their kids unless they get in trouble.
MyHovercraftIsFullofEels

My dad is a substitute teacher. he has been an educator for 40 years. He tells me all the time about the asshole kids. but he calls them out for their behavior in front of their peers, seems to turn the tide rather quickly. my dad is also a man not to be fucked with.
MyHovercraftIsFullofEels

You know great people can have misbehaving kids. And bad parents can have great kids. Its not black and white.
chikonanklemonitor

Sometimes it’s just ok to fight a kid.
http://www.facebook.com/Leashaness Alicia Lynee’

I’m sorry but as a grown woman she should have called the Principle or left the classroom to let someone know. She just sat there & let them do it, no wonder they didn’t stop. Detention? High schoolers don’t care, it’s a 2 hour grounding at school, big deal. Had it been me, I wouldn’t have just sat there and let them verbally & physically assault me. I’m in no way blaming the victim but come on.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Rochell-Arnold/100000587657456 Rochell Arnold

Man, if these were my kids…..they would need the police when I was though with them. Like one person said here. It is the parents who obviously have not taught these children to respect others. It is really depressing that this happens.
Freckled_Toad

Agreed! If I didn’t do my homework and got a zero it was my own fault. Parents really are raising their kids to be looser’s these days.
Heather4877

No shit! Giving hell to a substitute is one thing but physically assaulting her is a totally different bag. It never, ever would have even crossed my mind when I was in school. That kind of behavior just simply wasn’t part of the “acting like an asshole when there’s a substitute” package.
http://profiles.google.com/coldlogic HAL 9000

This is good example of one-size-does-not-fit all (no pun intended). Just looking at the video for a couple seconds shows the fundamental problem: Mousy college-educated white lady not used to physical confrontations running into big black Precious who knows life via the ghetto. Its like a living stereotype of different worlds colliding – with predictably hilarious results. In that world, if people don’t physically respect you, they walk all over you. Just the way it is. Until you change the world outside that school that way, the kids will bring it to class every day.

Same thing with making five-foot-nothing lady a cop, and then sending her down to the hood. Even with the badge and the tasers and guns and backup, she isn’t shit and everybody knows it. Nobody down there respects that, and they never will. Its why women are maybe twenty percent of uniformed cops but bear the brunt of more than half the assaults on cops. Ditto for teachers, or anybody else working in those kinds of social environments. You need goons to deal with goons. Not Criminology majors or neophyte freshly-minted teachers who think its going to be all Stand by Me.
http://www.facebook.com/edward.macaskill Edward Angus MacAskill

Looks like a hate crime to me
http://www.dreamindemon.com Morbid

How so? I do not see the kids picking on the teacher because she is white. Either you are watching another video entirely, or you are one of those people that automatically jump to “hate crime!” whenever a victim is white and the perpetrator is black.
wastintime

I wonder if she was sent to the high school from her usual elementary school rounds. They do that a lot around here.
Twisted1

I used to do after school daycare for a “well known” daycare facility. The owner’s son and another employees daughter were put in time-out. The boy says if you don’t let me up I am going to tell my mom you hit me. I replied but I did not hit you, that would be a lie. So he asks the girl stated above to slap him across the face. (She hit him hard). I told the parents what happened and they both had their butts tanned. Not long after I quit, because I realized how easy it would be for a child to lie and destroy my life all because he was put in timeout. I am sorry but so many kids today are just evil little turds. It’s not that they don’t know right from wrong, they just don’t care.
http://www.facebook.com/edward.macaskill Edward Angus MacAskill

What do you mean one of “those people”?
http://www.facebook.com/edward.macaskill Edward Angus MacAskill

I am tired of double standards and political correctness,I wouldn’t call it a love crime or a ambiguous crime…those girls were filled with hatred for that woman.
EveryVillainIsLemons

Maybe it’s a magnet school for violent little shits?
EveryVillainIsLemons

I know, thus the “or.”
MyHovercraftIsFullofEels

Since you want to get into this; your statement should have
been worded as follows. “I have no patience for nasty little shit kids or their
trashy, enabling parents who make chasing dick/pussy the center of their lives
and ignore their kids unless they get in trouble.” Because you used
“their” it means that the nasty little shit kids are the ones
possessing the trashy enabling parents.
Rachel

If the government will put God and spanking back in school and not tell the kids if the parents spank them call the police.. Bull crap we should be able to spank our kids.. They came from us..My kids got spank it didnt kill them.. I believe that . i think if we would be allowed to do this maybe now days the kids would be better..
Twisted1

One of my daughters teachers called me last year telling me he was calling all the parents for her class. His exact words were “I am calling you first because I know you actually care and will do something about it”. He started telling me of the things they did to him in class and I was fuming. (He told me he has called other parents only to have them yell at him or pick on him themselves, disgusting). I asked if my daughter was doing it and he said no but she was laughing. When she came home instead of yelling at her I actually “talked” (shocking I know) to her. I felt bad because the teacher could not control his class room. I asked her if she was picking on him. She said no but she feels bad for him because no one respects him. So together we came up with a plan. The next time they acted up in her class she started making comments to the kids acting stupid. Like saying “What are we twelve” and “hey I am trying to learn here, you might be ok working at McD’s all your life but I have bigger plans so shut up”. After that the other kids who were afraid to speak up before joined her and they were able to calm the room. I told her it only takes one person to make a difference. In the end he thanked her and she felt good about the fact that she did the right thing.
On a side note: I think it’s crazy that when my kids go to other people’s homes they always call me to tell me how well mannered they are. I find it sad that its such a big deal. It should be expected.
Reen B

What vile, uncouth little shits. I would have had them laid out if they laid a hand on me. At least dragged them by the wrist to sit in the principal’s office to cool their heels while the principal processed their suspensions and called their parents to come pick them up and have a “talk” about their violent disrespectful asshole children’s behavior. I would have never even thought about doing this to a teacher. Or anyone.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Anna-Hall-Grillot/100000054600337 Anna Hall Grillot

Whip it out, you stupid gash. Prove me wrong, or shut the fuck up.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=529168773 Toy Thompson

wait for it……-_-………………BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!…
Heather_Habilatory

Wtf do we have to prove to you? Don’t like it here. Leave.
EveryVillainIsLemons

Great job! I wish that every parent was like you. I’m not a teacher, but I am a single parent, and I see good teachers ground into the dirt by students and families who think that their little special snowflakes can do no wrong. It makes me sad.
EveryVillainIsLemons

Fair point.
Twisted1

I hate that! I know my kids are not perfect. I am smart enough (not that it takes much in the brains department to figure out) to know that kids lie. Yes, even my own kids.
Nemesis

The only reason why these little bastards kept doing this is because they knew they could. They could do whatever the fuck they wanted to and the sub couldn’t lay a finger on them. If it were me, I probably would be in jail right now for breaking that little bitches wrist and punching her in the face. I can’t stand other people’s kids.
newstarshipsmell

I’ll blow you, if you don’t mind oreo crumbs on your cooch.
newstarshipsmell

If “filled with hate” is what you think constitutes a “hate crime”… Uh, I don’t know what to say to you, really. Put your GI Bill to use, maybe?
Heather_Habilatory

Dude, you need to brush your teeth first. I keep a clean gift shop. (Ha. Inside joke. hahah inside hahahaaaaaaaaaaa.)

I need to go the fuck to bed.
newstarshipsmell

According to Christian mythology, God is omnipresent – so he’s already there, in school. There’s no taking Him out, much less putting Him back in. But I’m sure He’s chuckling over all the silly debates down here on Earth, if He exists.
http://www.facebook.com/edward.macaskill Edward Angus MacAskill

Oh, aren’t you all smarmy LOL
http://www.facebook.com/people/Anna-Hall-Grillot/100000054600337 Anna Hall Grillot

Who the fuck is “we”? The voices in your head? I was talking directly to you. And what the hell does the the “don’t like it here, leave” comment mean? I have been reading the Demon almost daily for 4 1/2 years. I have even given it money. I love DD, I just don’t like uneducated cunts popping off at the mouth. That is all.
Heather_Habilatory

Just keep spewing vitriol about democrats and Republicans and Barack Clause. That helps make your point, really, it does.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Anna-Hall-Grillot/100000054600337 Anna Hall Grillot

Are you insane or just the dumbest cunt imaginable? My first comment is the only one I made about republicans and democrats. The only thing I have kept doing is replying to your asinine comments.
alphatroll

Something tells me things could only improve if they actually DID let the schools raise those kids. Most parents are completely unqualified to interact with children.
BEastDuo

Also, grats on teh future baby!!
ShelbySP

You are so right. My mom is a better caretaker, teacher, and role model to all 24 of her kids at a time than half of their parents are to just one or two!
Tanya Mobley

The parents are awful, some even animals. Now what kind of people do you think they are releasing from their cages..er…homes??
susan

my immediate response – I see two girls who will probably remain unemployed for most of their lives.