Sadly - teacher education training cannot make you a teacher. Too many young men and women go into education thinking it's a fairly well-paid job with lots of fringe benefits.

If you don't go into the field wanting to teach kids - which means putting up with unbearable behavior; and if you think that you are owed respect just because you're in front of the room - then you seriously need to find another profession.

Teaching is tough and it's work. I'm very glad that Clarke is out of the profession.

Teachers are to show DECORUM. That's the point. It doesn't matter Clarke was perturbed at events that had led up to his outburst and this just happened to be how that particular sentiment was expressed; teachers and professors are expected to behave in a professional manner and to serve as role models to this end. Teachers who lash out at students are going to have students who lash out at teachers back.

What's more, an Ivy League education does not make one better than everyone else. Handed to Clarke on a silver platter or earned by Clarke himself, an Ivy League education doesn't make one BETTER.

How much you wanna bet that this douchebag is just another Teach for America brat that thinks his intellect can move mountains? I taught ninth grade in DC, and this guys story sounds ALOT like the TFA'ers that I worked with, or rather, out-worked.

This is such a disturbing story. This guy was in way over his head and snapped. I don't think he should have been fired. People make mistakes and should be given the benefit of the doubt. Good management would have determined that he was struggling with unruly students early on. Instead of offering any semblance of guidance, they left him alone. It was irresponsible of the administration to hire him in the first place and subsequently to not monitor his progress as a worker. He lost his temper-he used language that these kids are very familiar with. They call each other far worse as means of normal communication. His punishment was absurd. Give him a written warning and move on. If there was such a thing as retroactive abortions, I would be all for it. We euthanize homeless animals for just existing and they cause far fewer problems to society at large.

Agree with BH....thank god for RvW.

Those kids didn't deserve an apology. The administration should be canned, not him.

"Keep the change, ya filthy animal!"

The public school system's only function is to provide the fast-food industry with an abundant supply of burger flippers and the democrat party with mindless voters.

No question, the administration let him down. My experience teaching at a really bad school (Franklin Lane) was that administration doesn't care about faculty, and doesn't care about students too much, either. They failed him. That said, this dick had a chance to simply apologize and keep his job, but he was too big of a fool. Move on.

No question, the administration let him down. My experience teaching at Franklin Lane was that administration doesn't care about faculty, and desn't care about students too much, either. They failed him. That said, this dick had a chance to simply apologize and keep his job, but he was too big of a fool. Move on.

Wow. I thought the only people they could get to "teach" in inner-city schools were lemmings fresh out of liberal arts universities. This guy seems to have, like, actual experience in the real world. What the hell was he doing there in the first place?

as a high school student, i will say that many tenth graders are filthy animals who belong in a fucking zoo.

I'm sure the kids deserved it. All 10th graders are assholes, and I'm sure they're only worse in the city. Some big-mouth parent probably got wind of this and made it a bigger deal than it had to be. I'd let Clarke teach my kids.

Those kids don't belong in school. they belong in a malaysian sweatshop gluing insoles into $200 sneakers. The fact that they are in a school miming the learning process is what's at fault here.

Blame the parents.

You mean parent, singular. In most cases there are no fathers, just semen depositors.

i agree with babyhitler accept "extermination of these fetuses", it is termination. women should have be forced to have children when they don't want them. It is unfair for those children who have no chance in life.

#15- it's not government funded birth control. These people have kids cause of the social specter of christianity deeming it bad to have abortions. Now if it was okay then I'd gladly have my tax dollars go into funding the extermination of these fetuses rather than housing them until i have to pay for their jail cells.

The only difference between Clarke and the rest of the high school teachers (myself included) is that he actually said what he was thinking out loud. A lot of these kids are fucktards who wouldn't even pass the entrance exams to get into a zoo.

Ok then I support forced abortions for any parent who is collecting welfare. Best of both worlds. Sorta.

That's ALWAYS been the problem with children. Sure they're cute when they're little but eventually they all grow into azzholes just like their parents. A pet rock is more useful.

The NYC school system has always been racist. The social promotion effort proved it. What they really were saying is "these kids (the description here is just being politically correct) can't learn, just get them out of here". The results were that the children couldn't identify a % sign, let alone what it meant. They were doomed to mediocrity and poverty. we can thank Mayor Bloomberg for taking the schools back from the Unions and the racists.