"Stephen Zeldag, a student at Oak Ridge High School in El Dorado Hills, said his Algebra II teacher crushed a fly between his hands during class last month and dared any of his students to eat it.If this kid lived in Minnesota, he'd be out on the playground with his tongue frozen to the flagpole...
"He said, 'If anybody eats this fly then I will give them an A on this test,'" Stephen said. He volunteered and swallowed the fly, sealing the deal with a handshake with his teacher.
"I didn't think he was joking at all," he said.
Stephen didn't get an A on his test: He got an F, with a score of nine out of 46...
The principal said he is launching an investigation into the incident."
Humorous discussion thread at Reddit.
Addendum: See the comment by the third Anonymous in the Comments section...
Can't blame the kid. I've had plenty of teachers that give you credit for doing things which are COMPLETELY unrelated to the class they are teaching (like bringing food for a party, etc). Assuming the story is true, most of the blame is on the teacher.
ReplyDeleteIf all of this is true, the teacher needs to be disciplined. A) No teacher should make a joke about this and allow a student to go through with it; and B) If the teacher is so bereft of responsibility and ethics as to allow this, then the teacher should keep his/her word.
ReplyDeleteCCL
This kids story is all untrue. I know the teacher and his daughter is my close friend, and the kid is just stupid. My friend said that they know they kid and they say he is just an attention getter, and he lies all the time. Plus, the teacher jokes all the time, and he wasn't being serious and everyone else in the class knew that he was just kidding.
ReplyDeleteThe kid was just being stupid.
That's right -- try to discredit the student.
ReplyDeleteThe teacher still has a responsibility to keep even an alleged "stupid" kid from doing something like this. Why did the teacher give the fly to the student
instead of throwing it in the garbage, and why, when the kid claimed the fly, did the teacher not tell the student that the teacher was only joking?
Who is in charge in this classroom?
CCL