Brutal Honesty: Teacher Gives Students a Verbal Thrashing
February 21, 2008 | 11:55 am | by t-blender |Rate It:
liveLeak.com: Social studies teacher Michael Boculac at Poinciana High School FL was secretly taped screaming at students about the importance of studying for tests.
Shocked parents and students said he went too far.
The teacher is still teaching but Deputy school superintendent Terry Andrews told parents and press that the school makes sure it never happens again.
Transcript:
“go someplace else! go to another school and screw it up!
Go out there and find out what it’s like to dig a ditch every day. And do that for the rest of your life.
Stand on your feet in publix and punch a cash register because that’s about all any idiot can do!
And you’re all adults!
And we have to treat you like children!
It’s time some of you understood the truth, look in the mirror and find out!
Look in the mirror because you’re a joke!
T|B Opinion: Where’s the problem with this? Our nation’s academic rankings are pathetic. We continually lower the bar and allow lazy students to graduate with less than poor grades. A teacher finally stands up and tells his students what the real world holds for academic rejects and he is criticized for it? Parents and students are offended because he raised his voice?
The this teacher should be commended! As parents, you should be excited that a teacher cares enough about your child to get emotional over poor grades and lack of preparedness for tests.
These are 17 & 18 year olds - - they can handle a dose of reality, hell, most of them need it. If they have poor study habits and are failing they should be held responsible.
The last thing these kids need is to be coddled by their parents because the big, bad teacher “screamed” at them for aspiring to be idiots.
Thank you Mr. Boculac.
Teachers always get the shaft. They’re blamed for poor test scores but are not given the resources to implement effective change. They’re underpaid. They’re not permitted to punish students for disciplinary problems. Teachers shape the future & can make positive changes to the world. However, our heroes are not parents or teachers but sports athletes & movies stars. That’s completely understandable because sports & movies are revenue generating industries. An individual can make millions of dollars for hitting 50 home runs a year but that same individual is not given the same financial or social standing if they teach 50 children to read a year. Despite the fact that 50 literate individuals do more for society than 50 balls hit over a fence. With sports there’s an immediate, tangible return on investment through ticket sales, merchandise, ect. back to the organization but w/ teaching the return is not immediate nor is it returned directly to that specific institution.
As a society we need to think of our teachers in the same category as firemen & police officers. Currently in Phoenix AZ the Department of Public Safety has a budget surplus. They don’t have enough employees or material to spend their entire annual budget on. At the same time the teachers in Phoenix get $0.82 on the dollar compared to teachers in California & Arizona’s AIMS test scores are 49th in the country.