A 17-YEAR TEACHING CAREER COMES TO A SCREECHING END

I am sure there are a lot of other teachers who occasionally feel like doing this themselves.

TEACHER REMOVED FROM CLASSROOM ON A STRETCHER AFTER THROWING CHAIRS AND TABLES WIHILE PUPILS TAUNT HIM
　
Mail Online
October 11, 2010
　
A teacher has been suspended from a high school after hurling tables and chairs around the classroom following taunts from pupils.
　
Donald Wood was teaching an 11th grade algebra class at McGavock High School in Nashville when he began swearing at pupils as one of his students recorded his actions on a mobile phone.
　
He then paced across the classroom, overturning two tables, before picking up a metal rubbish bin and slamming it into the ground.

Alarmed pupils get out of their seats and flee the classroom as he grabbed a chair and hurled it at a window, shattering the glass.
　
The video started with Mr. Wood telling a group of laughing students to 'shut up'.
　
When they carried on laughing, he waved his arms around and said: 'If you can be absolutely quiet... if you can shut your mouth... you can shut your mouth and you can listen in absolute silence... do you know why? Cause I have the absolute...'
　
When one of the teenagers shouted 'power', he replied: 'I've got it, and I know it. And guess who else knows it?'
　
He then knocked over the two tables, before shouting: 'Do you know who started the fire? Do you know who started the fire in this school? No... me!'

Students can be heard laughing at the start of the footage, but they began to flee the classroom after realizing Mr. Wood had lost his temper.
　
One pupil, Joshua Jenkins, told News Channel 5: 'He picked up a chair and threw it on the ground - not at a student, but towards a student, but it was close - and that's when I got up and started walking away.
　
'Once everybody started running out he picked up a chair and threw it out the window and it shattered.'
　
Witnesses described Mr. Wood - who has taught in Nashville schools for 17 years - as being handcuffed by school security officers when they arrived at his classroom.
　
He was then removed from the school on a stretcher and taken by ambulance to a hospital.
　
Principal Robbin Wall said he had not experienced anything like it in his 32 years in education.
　
He said: 'He was very agitated, very scattered and he didn't make any sense.
　
'A chair had been thrown through the window, broke the glass and everything - and being honest, we are very fortunate that none of our students were injured or hurt.'
　
Mr. Wall sent an automated message to parents at the school to inform them of what had happened.
　
Part of the phone call said: 'We had an incident in the school this morning, a teacher had a nervous breakdown in class.'
　
Parents of some pupils withdrew their children for the rest of the day.
　
Metro Schools officials said Mr. Wood had been placed on administrative leave pending further investigation.