Viewers React To El Dorado High Teacher Who Resigned Over Rant

ABC-7 viewers hadvaryingresponses toourstories about the El Dorado High School teacher who resigned after a student recorded him shouting obscenities at students:

Just wanted to comment on the El Dorado verbal abuse story. I think we are focusing too much on the teacher and we keep ignoring the attitude that a lot of teenagers have nowadays. They seem to think they are untouchable and purposely provoke the staff. (Let’s be honest, we all remember high school). Sometimes good old discipline is exactly what some of these brats need. After all if the parents aren’t taking care of it somebody has to.

As for the teacher that was yelling at the students, I was watching your newscast report from what appeared to be the teacher’s side. All too often, it goes unnoticed and covered up of how the teachers treat the students. I am not agreeing with the way the “child” took things into his/her own hands…but I am grateful someone had the guts to bring the “adult’s” behavior out into the public eye. There was no excuse for the way that teacher was speaking to the student (child) and I am glad to see he resigned!!! If he could not handle his job…then he needs to find another profession. There is no human being that should be spoken to in this manner. I think charges should be brought up against the teacher for abusing that student and he should never be able to teach again!!!

The subject regarding the suspended teacher who had a bad day and lost his job over it is an example of how bad times have gotten.

I’m almost sure this isn’t that particular teacher’s first year as an educator so I wonder how many years of undisciplined students it took for him to get to that point. If the school districts enforced certain ideals such as cell phone use at schools, maybe this teacher would still have a job.

Teachers are the most underpaid professionals on this planet because without them, we wouldn’t have doctors, lawers, rocket scientists, etc. Drive by any campus and count how many students you see texting or talking on cell phones. Aside from the self-initiated obstacles these students have created, I feel sorry for the teachers who have to compete with preoccupied students texting away while lessons are being taught. There should be a zero tolerance rule regarding cell phones in school. If an ignorant parent asks how a student is supposed to call home in case of an emergency, ask them how they did it when they were in school!

I could never be a teacher unless, corporal punishment was brought back into the system. Believe me you, I’d be the first one in line applying for a teaching position!!!

I’m writing about the teacher in El Dorado High school. I graduated from a local high school nine years ago and I always experienced teachers losing it, and at times they used profanity. I also agree that it is hard for teachers to control a large amount of kids at once. Kids can be a handful no matter their age. I would like to give a suggestion to the schools; To place cameras in the classrooms, since people act their best when they know they are being watched. So, this could help the teachers and students act better during class time.

I don’t think that the teacher should have been fired from El Dorado. I know exactly what kids are like. When I was in high school we had forced a teacher to quit and another teacher had a mental breakdown. I think that that whole deal was planned out because what student is going to record what the teacher is saying for the hell of it. I don’t think so and if it was just by accident then why didn’t more students record this teacher. The school should have investigated more those students and see why the teacher went off on them. Please help me understand that injustice.

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