Student suspended for taking a pciture in class. . .of his teacher SLEEPING!

Hi Suzie, I don't think the student should be suspended at all. While most schools do have a policy against using cell phones in school, most do allow the kids to bring them. They just have to have them shut off. Many kids use them after school to call parents for rides or inform them of other plans etc. For all anyone knows, this kid turned his phone on just to take the picture. If I were the parents of this kid, I would fight against the suspension. Also the teacher should be disciplined. Falling asleep while he should be teaching a class is unacceptable.

I don't think he should have been suspended. If anything a warning should have been giving to him. Since they have the policy of no cell phones. Being suspended though I think is taking it to far. Hopefully though the teacher was disciplined as well since he was sleeping. I hope the teacher doesn't sleep regularly during class. Perhaps teacher was having a long week who knows, we all know how that feels.

I find this irksome and it convinces me that schools should get rid of tenure. I had two teachers that were as bad as this teacher, but instead of falling asleep in class they'd give the class a reading assignment then leave and we wouldn't see them in class until the next day where they'd do the same thing over again. I know there are good teachers, but they seem to be few in number. When people say teachers are under paid, I'm afraid I have no sympathy for them. In any other industry, the individual would be fired if he/she preformed their duties like teachers.

Most schools have rules which state that they're not allowed to use mobile phones in the classroom and, because of this, it seems right that the student should be suspended for a couple of days to set an example to the other students. However, I strongly believe that questions need to be asked of the teacher who was asleep in the classroom. He should not be asleep in class, because he is in a position of trust within all of those students, and if he was asleep then that just shows that he was not in control of the classroom at that time.

The school had grounds to suspend the student since he had indeed violated a school policy. It's ironic, though, that the one blowing the whistle is the one getting punished. I know I sound apathetic towards the incident. I'm not, actually. I just wasn't surprised since these types of things are so common in my country. What I'm surprised though is that it also happens in the US.

There is nothing wrong with the students suspension for he clearly violated the school policy. But, what did the school give to the teacher as punishment for sleeping. If the student was given proper action- the teacher must be given disciplinary action as well.

I think school should give notice to both teacher and student. Teacher job is to teach student rather than sleeping. If school keep doing such thing why would they get any respect from student?

I think that's outrageous. Yes he did violate the policy but suspension in my opinion is too much and the teacher wasn't reprimanded? That's just so stupid and I don't agree with it. I took a class in college once and there were two teachers teaching the class, well one of the teachers would always go to sleep during the entire class and would just wake up almost as the class was finishing. It did get me annoyed because this school is very expensive and I'm paying for these teachers to teach me and here she is sleeping! Even if it was public school I think it's very unprofessional for a teacher to go to sleep during class. Good for the student for catching the teacher in the act but bad on the school for punishing him more for breaking one infraction while letting not doing anything about the teacher. Unless they did do something and we don't know about it?

Ouch! That is a terrible experience of that student because he did not respect the privacy of others...

I agree that the student should be suspended. He was violating the school policy. BUT the teacher should be fired with no farther notice. How can anyone behave (and not violate school rules) if the teachers are giving such bad examples? What does the PTA do in these cases?

That a teacher sleep it the lesson is just not good and that than a student take his cell phone to make a picture is just normal. I think that teacher have to get a very big warning or just suspend him, because this is not normal. I must say i didn't have heard about this story but i also would tell it to people outside of mylot and ask them what they think about it. But if i was on that scenario i also would take a picture to let see the bosses of the school the picture. Because lesson cost the government much money and also the people individually have to pay much for lessons. Thanks for sharing!

Yes, I heard this story on the news and read it in the paper. I do believe this was handle correctly as far as the student was concern. The no cellphone policy is a good one. We send our kids to school to learn not play on their cellphones. However, I do think the teacher should have some repercussion. Again, we send our kids to school to learn. If the teacher can't do his/her job, they need to find a profession that allows them to sleep. This teacher was definitely in the wrong as well. No wonder our children are so far behind other countries. Sad, Sad, Sad. Best Wishes!

I don't think the sanction for the student was fair, the teacher should be the one to be suspended for being caught in the act of sleeping during his/her working hrs. as for the student bringing in cell phone there should be a disciplinary action to be taken but not to suspend the child.

The school should take action with this before they lost their credibility. They must promote more professionalism for teachers and proper guidance of the students. They should be a fair justification for both parties.

That's certainly not fair! I don't think the student should be suspended! I think the teacher needs a wake up call....no pun intended....that's rediculous......maybe a little deduction from his pay check might help!

First we do not know why the teacher was asleep. It could be that he or she had some sort of medical condition. Also we do not know what action the school authorities took with that teacher. We do know that the student broke the rules and quite rightly was punished

It is a sad state of affairs when the school is so worried about cell phones that they suspend a student for taking a picture with one! If they didn't take any kind of action against that teacher, I think I would be one pissed parent (especially if it were my kid). As far as the teacher goes, I don't know if suspension would be adequate punishment. Does that kind of thing happen often with that teacher and if so has anything been done about it yet? Thanks for sharing!

Hi Suzieqmom, I think you all got it wrong. Actually the school is aware of students bringing cell phones with cameras to school in spite of being told specifically not to. But the school authority did not have proof. So they hatched up a plan and roped in one of the teachers to pretend to sleep in class hoping that the student will snap a photo of the 'sleeping' teacher and send it to the school authority. That's how he got into the trap and got suspended! Now all the students will know that the school meant business and that their rules must be strictly obeyed. Have a nice day.

Hi! I think the teacher got pissed off fr what teh student did. Anyway, cellphone is relay not allowed during class hours except if it an emergency and it also depends on eh school policy. If that's their punishment then we cannot do something about it.

I think it is terrible that the teacher didn't get in trouble. Why in the world is this teacher sleeping with kids in the classroom?? Who knows what could be happening!! What if the children got hurt? That teacher should have been fired!!! The student should have been told not to bring the phone to school again and that should have been it. The teacher is not acting responsibly at all and I would NOT want my children having a teacher like that! And we wonder why some parents are worried about school these days... Hmmm...