October 10, 2003
That'll teach them

There is throwing out and there is throwing out, and this is throwing out:

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."

Quite so. If your teacher suffers from depression, then you, the pupil, need to take this into account when you decide on your preferred classroom misbehaviour strategy. If you make her too depressed and she chucks you out of the window, you have only yourself to blame.

Has Dave Barry been told about this?

Posted by Brian Micklethwait at 12:02 PM
Category: Violence