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The San Diego Unified District confirms nine male students from Bell Middle School were suspended in May, but legally could not say why the students were suspended.
Now, a parent is telling NBC 7 San Diego the students were allegedly watching pornography on their cell phones during English class and masturbating.
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The teacher in the classroom at the time, Ed Johnson, allegedly did nothing to stop the incident, only saying he would give students referrals if he caught them. Sources said Johnson then continued reading to students while at his desk.
The parent, Edith Duran, said she had a meeting with the vice principal who told her about the sexual activity.
Duran says her son was not involved in the incident, but was in the classroom at the time, afraid to speak up for fear of being bullied.
“When I send my child to school I want to feel he's safe. I don't send him to sit in a classroom next to boys watching porn, explicit porn which [the] vice principal did tell me [was] very explicit,” she said.
“I asked the vice principal how is it this was going on under his nose, a group of boys huddling around a cell phone watching porn; how is it this was going on and he had no idea?”
According to Duran, the vice principal had no answer for that question, but said this about the teacher's reaction.
“She said he is in shock. Mr. Johnson is in shock, he can't believe this happened. That's what she said,” said Duran. “Let this be a reality check that he needs to do a better job as far as teaching our children and not just sitting back reading and letting them do whatever it is they want to do.”
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In the end, Duran believes her son and other students in that class are victims.
“I do expect a phone call. I want therapy, I want some kind of counseling, not just for my son, but for other children victimized in this situation,” Duran told NBC 7 San Diego.
Duran said the school did initially promise therapy and counseling for the students in the classroom, but she has heard nothing from the administration, despite her attempts to follow-up.
She wants more Bell Middle School parents to reach out to her and join her in demanding something be done for the students in the class who she said were victimized by this inappropriate behavior.
The school district would not comment on whether that teacher is currently under investigation, but sources told NBC 7 San Diego a substitute teacher was placed in the classroom with the teacher following the incident until the end of the school year.
NBC 7 has been unable to reach the teacher for comment.
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Kids these days!
"Kids, they don't make them like they used to " - Anonymous, 1500 B.C.
"Kids, they don't make them like they used to." - Anonymoucs, 2500 A.D.
uuuummmm seventh grade...I remember like it was just yesterday...a whif of the teachers perfume, when she was passing out graded papers...pep-rally fridays, when all the cheer leaders wore their uniforms to classes...good times....(Mrs. Wooley, if you're out there, I apologises for the thoughts i had about you)
I wonder...Was that the year we learned the difference between, their and there, your and you're, to and too, accept and except, affect and effect ...cause that would explain alot
I am pretty sure he was just teaching new math:
If Jenna Jameson has sex at the same time with 17 men, and 13 women, answer these questions:
They blame the teacher when the real culprits are the parents.
'Wet Willy' wrote:
Ah, yes. And this ironic finger-pointing-lesson-in-adult-responsibility-and-blame-assignment is brought to you by ... an adult who goes on a public Internet forum and calls himself "Wet Willy."
Notice I wrote "adult", rather than "grownup." =)
PS. As for assigning responsibility and blame, I would assert that the boys had a hand in this (pun intended)
What do your kids need therapy for? The explanation that, Yanky the wanky is bad in public? That'll be 100 dollars, please.
who was 'victimized' here? the mom needs to get a grip. she is the one who'll get her kid bullied with this nonsense. then she'll blame someone else.
Echo that Juliet: WHY should the teachers be responsible for raising their kids?
Apparently the instructor went to the administration about what was going on in his class AND who it involved or no one would have been suspended in the FIRST place. Parents need to GROW UP: just because it is YOUR little angel that was involved doesn't make him a victim. Didn't YOUR little angel come home and COMPLAIN about the porn that the other kids 'made him watch'? NO? WHY NOT? Instead he doesn't say anything, even though he probably KNEW he was going to be suspended - probably after already having confessed in the princable's office. There is a hell of a lot that went on between her kid and the school administration BEFORE his mother even knew about it and THAT isn't covered in this article, either. Normally, there aren't many "accidental suspensions": all of the ones I recall that happened were because my class mates DESERVED IT.
Teachers are - and should be - responsible for what happens in their classroom. If boys are huddled together watching ANYTHING on a cell phone during the class lesson I would expect the teacher to briefly pause the lesson in order to escort the misbehaving children out of the classroom. PERIOD.
That's if they were watching anything on their cellphones rather than pay attention to the teacher.
now a days, that's likely to iether get you shot by disgruntled student, have false accusations brought before you of inapropriate physical contact, or even bullied to a point of making you no longer wanting to come to school to teach...teachers no longer have the authority that was once accepted and afforded to them as before; should phones be allowed in class or at school? well, gum is still banned from school consumption for a reason, most students will abuse the right to chew gum on the premises! having cell phones in class/at school should be a REWARD, NOT a given right of students! if it's abused, even if only by a few, then it's should be removed, suspended, or taken away permanately! students are suppose to be at school to LEARN! that's no longer the case, now it's used primarily as a babysitting service and social club!
This mother is right! This issue should not just rest. We'll be seeing more and more news related to pornography as we sit back and allow it to permeate our society. Wake up people...
people screwing on video is not going away nor should it
Now that's just wacked.
michael - you think its acceptable for students to watch porn videos in class, in middle school, while class is in session and the teacher is reading an assignment to the class?
Porn, videos, whatever........how could any of that be acceptable behavior during a child's classroom environment?
If it's anyone's responsibility, it's the parents who gave a 7th grader a smartphone and didn't put any kind of parental control software on there.
If you give 12-13 year old boys un-restricted internet access, what do you think they are going to do?
alex the blade- when a parent drops a child off at school for 7 hours, it is the resposibility of the school to keep the child safe! nobody said the teacher is raising those kids but its very obvious the children are not a priority to that teacher, so for those children that may not be your precious angels are angels to their parents! that woman has every right to come out and speak out on behalf of the rest of the parents who's childrens were victimized and yes i said vicitmized! when a fellow student dies or passes away the school is quick to have counselors and therapists ready to speak to the children that were affected by the death so is wrong if a mother wants therapy for the children that have lost their innocence to watching those disturbed children masturbating to porn and doing it in front of innocent children and now will have to carry this memory with them for the rest of their lives! it is the death of their innocence gone! you may not care about preserving the innocence in children but there are alot of parents out there that do! so i praise that mother for speaking out and fighting for her child! point said!!!!!
These are 7th grade middle schoolers. This is nothing new. I can remember 30 years ago the boys hiding playboy and hustler in their text books. I am sure they were doing something in study hall that wasnt' studying. These are boys being boys, which at this age means being stupid. Don't blame the parents, they are going to get ahold of it one way or another if they want it that badly.
Should the teacher have stopped it, heck yes, and then the parents should have ben notified.
Victimized? Please. Look it's very inappropriate to be watching that in school but 7th grade boys are going to be 7th grade boys. She acts like porn is going to turn these kids into Satan
Umm, no, But watching it in class is disgusting. It isn't okay, and if you think it is then you have serious issues yourself.
While the mother is very right that this is wrong (assuming her side of the story is correct), she's overreacting. Therapy and counselling? Really? How 'bout no. He's gonna be wanking in a few years anyway. Will she try to get him therapy when that happens too, which is completely natural with teenagers? If she does that she'll just end up damaging her son. I speak from personal experience.
Some women enjoy a lot of attention from therapists hired to talk endlessly about feelings as it is better than watching Dr. Phil or soap operas. Mom just wants someone else to pay the bill.
It's her fault for allowing internet usage on the phone. Parents need a little common sense about their children and their cell phones. Instead of blaming the school for her bad parenting, she should take away those privileges and ground him for the entirety of his summer vacation and making him volunteer, instead of having fun.
That's what's wrong with the schools these days. As a substitute teacher and seeing first hand the lengths these teachers go through to keep order, I hate reading that these parents blame the teachers. If a teacher spent time stopping each and every kid from "letting them do whatever it is they want to do," they would spend the entire day with no learning going on. It's time parents start stepping up and supporting the teachers and start raising your kids to speak up when they see something and then support their child to make sure they aren't bullied for what they tell.
It is not the video that's so bad it is the circle jerk that the teacher probably liked watching. Seven guys in a cluster in a classroom with a teacher present playing spank the monkey and MR TEACHER saw nothing. That is impossible.
hey DR: WHO was it that went to the admin of the school and reported WHO was doing WHAT in his classroom that got seven kids suspended? The f'ing TOOTHFAIRY?
To write such rubbish (for knowing it all) you must have some pent-up past aggression towards instructors - tell me, were you abused at school by your teacher? Was there an instructor in your childhood that made you cringe, made you feel unworthy and .... stupid? I'm here to help you, guy - DR ALEX IS IN!
"AlexTheBlade
hey DR: WHO was it that went to the admin of the school and reported WHO was doing WHAT in his classroom that got seven kids suspended? The f'ing TOOTHFAIRY?
To write such rubbish (for knowing it all) you must have some pent-up past aggression towards instructors - tell me, were you abused at school by your teacher? Was there an instructor in your childhood that made you cringe, made you feel unworthy and .... stupid? I'm here to help you, guy - DR ALEX IS IN!"
Hey AlexTheDullBlade. This is a quote from the story that it seems you didn't read or the words are too hard for you to understand. Maybe this time you can read it real slooooow
"The teacher in the classroom at the time, Ed Johnson, allegedly did nothing to stop the incident, only saying he would give students referrals if he caught them. Sources said Johnson then continued reading to students while at his desk".
He saw them and then continued reading while they masturbated as a group. I guess it must be normal for that to happen where you come from. DR. ALEX MUST BE OUT
If the parents are so upset about this, how about their parents stop buying them smart phones (I'm assuming that if they're able to watch porn on the phone, it's a smart phone). How about giving them a very basic phone with which all they can do is make a call! You give them phones, tablets, notebooks, PCs with 24/7 Internet access and then don't think that a teenage boy is looking at porn at some point? Get a clue!!!
That's right. They enable their kids and then blame somebody else for what happened; probably hoping for a law suit.
Amen, John B! Eliminating smart phones from schools will dramatically cut down on so much of the melodrama, misery and even tragedy that permeates middle and high school these days. Activity like this and cyber bullying would all but disappear if kids under 18 didn't have unlimited access to unsupervised Internet use 24/7.
I don't have a problem with kids owning smart phones but it's ludicrous that they're allowed to bring them into class. Our kindergartner lost two toy cars and a bouncy ball because the teacher caught him playing with them in class. He knew it was against the rules and he learned the hard way that breaking rules have consequences. Maybe if kids lost their phones for this kind of behavior they'd behave more appropriately. And maybe if mom and dad had to eat the cost of a $400 toy THEY would parent more responsibly.
http://www.womens-health.com/boards/sex/50103-porn-induced-ed.html
If that was my mother, I'd hang myself right now! Her name is in this article, which means her son's name will be all over the school and all over the whole world with the consequences that come with it. Just like those kids who bullied the bus monitor had hate and scorn worldwide. Her son will be the laughing stock of all his peers worldwide! I can't imagine that at 13.
If that creature was my mother I'd hang myself right now! Her NAME appears in the article which means her son's name will be all over the school and the internet Monday morning with all the impending consequences. Now he'll be bullied! Sheesh! how much does she hate her kid? It's like those kids who bullied the bus monitor. Can you imagine having hate and scorn aimed at you from the whole world? Those kids must feel like Saddam Hussein felt in that hole! Now this poor kid has to put up with world wide ridicule because his mother feels masturbation is unsafe!
This isn't the principle's fault, it's the parent's. Why would you give an adolescent kid a web capable phone?
Use your common sense you ditz, they're gonna look up some porn! Bet my life on it!
sorry didn't quite have the hang of this yet. But to the point, the son isn't just going to need counseling, he'll need the witness protection programme
sad but true! :)
Ah. I too am old enough to remember my teachers....unfortunatley, they were leftovers from the George Washington era and their perfume (I Believe) was some kind of disnfectant maybe early doctors used. Why me? After I graduated the older teachers were retiring or dying off...THATS when the good stuff started to arrive. Sorry teachers.....thats the way it seemed to happen with me.
I'm sure after this parent receives psychiatric help for her poor traumatized child she'll need to sue for a few hundred thousand for further treatment as viewing porn would surely scar him for life. Rolls eyes..........
Its just wrong in a class full of kids ? What is wrong with our society?
What are the state laws here regarding sex offender classification? In my state if someone had exposed themselves publicly (i.e. classroom) and/or masturbated in public they would face criminal prosecution. Being in a classroom of minors the charges would probably be related to contributing to the delinquency of minors or reckless endangerment of minors. If convicted they would have to register as "sex offenders". 7th graders are certainly old enough to know not to engage in such crass and vulgar behavior in school. I can't imagine a middle school environment that would lead the kids to think they would - or should - get away with doing this in front of others in the classroom. Its sick, and I do feel for the other students in the class (if what was reported actually happened) who were witness to it and who had to sit through this uncomfortable behavior in class.
Whatever opinions are on porn or masturbating or teenage boys..........no person of any age, let alone a middle school age student - should be forced to sit through public group displays of porn or masturbation. That's just horrifically crazy for a classroom! I don't think the mother was over-reacting, but I think her choice of words will cause more humiliation for her child and subject him to more teasing, which is wrong. She could've focused her wording on the crassness of group masturbation in a classroom and demand the school ensure that all students are free from uncomfortable sexual situations in the classroom.
I agree, remy. If my girls were sitting in that room and we exposed...literally...to something like that I would be livid. No, I won't allow my kids to have smart phones in grade or high school, no, they will only have text/call capabilities to the family, and yes, we take our responsibilities seriously as parents. That is disgusting in a classroom...well, really anywhere...and my girls would be really traumatized to see that kind of thing. I would be and I am an adult. Ick. I am no prude, but there is no public situation where boys watching porn and masturbating is anywhere near okay. Those of you who laugh this off just don't see the whole picture. And the fact that the other boy was afraid to speak up for fear of being bullied tells you something about the situation, too. That is nasty.
Yes....And these "criminal" 7th graders also deserve to have registry profiles side-by-side with a genuine child molester who actually does harm to children......
Have I pointed out how preposterous you sound right now? Or should I try harder till you get it?
"Whatever opinions are on porn or masturbating or teenage boys..........no person of any age, let alone a middle school age student - should be forced to sit through public group displays of porn or masturbation."
Well, let us compound unfair oppinions, shall we? FIrst, it's those alternative ideas on "porn or masturbating or teenage boys". Next, it's Mr./Mrs./Ms. Remi's preachy opinion on what people should not have to be exposed to.
Again, have I pointed out the patheity (noun form of pathetic") contained in your message?
The teacher does not need to pay more attention...he needs to be fired and banned from all teaching jobs. It's teachers like him that are allowing our school systems to deteriorate into hoodlum makers.
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Mental label of Reverend Tactless Firebreath for BillinSC
If a teacher tries to discipline someones little monster he or she will get fired and sued.
If a child beats the crap out of a satanic bully he or she will get sued and expelled.
The satanic in this world have set things up just the way they like it and there is nothing you can do about it.
Look at Phoebe Princes father, he just let those scum get away with destroying his daughter and there was nothing he could do, poor man, my step dad says most men would have taken things into their own hands in the old days. Now everyone is a potential helpless victim to these satanic monsters.
My step dad says that if the parents or families of these kids who are driven to suicide, killed the scum who tormented their child, then you would see allot less suicide due to bullying.
If I ever have children, they would not have a phone until at last junior year in high school when maturity starts to set in. I think it is a shame that some parents let their kids - or worse yet - insist that their kids have a cell phone at young ages. They have no idea what their kids are doing and they ignorantly think their kids are doing nothing wrong. The worst part is that these kids are going to grow up with no sense of propriety.
Kids today do not feel that a cell phone, etc is a privilege - IT IS A RIGHT!!!
A child under the age of 16 should never have a phone that has internet access, its ok to have a phone for emergency situations, so on that point it is the parents of the child who was using the phone to view porn who is at fault. As for the teacher I am going out on a limb and say that I assume the school has a policy against cell phone use while on school property and if they do not they should. The teacher who claims not to have known what was going on is a liar and should be fired and if he is not the parents should file a lawsuit against the school for not protecting their children. The children who participated in this should be expelled for the remainder of the school year. If the children's parents really give a crap about their education they will home school them so they will pass their test's and advance to the next grade level. There is a lot of blame in this story to go around. In my opion when you reach 16 you should be treated as an adult and pay the consequenses of your actions.
So....16-year-olds are allowed to jack off in the classroom? O.o
I mean, not to say that they can't be punished just like those 7th graders. Just that they should be allowed to do it to face their own consequences. Right?
Mayhaps ban cell-phones altogether?
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"The children who participated in this should be expelled for the remainder of the school year."
Oh Heaven's graciously golly good Lollipops for sucking.
First, we should protect those 7th-graders. Next, we should punish them for posing a threat to 7th graders....*head spins in an exorcist fashion*
Are people in society really investing their energy into creating a safe environment for the young ones? Or are they simply bored and need to somehow make a petty name for themselves?
The parents are at fault not the teacher; who is restricted on what they can do. I say raise your kids better and be involved with them and take their phones away. I also think we would be a better society if the schools had corporal punishment. within limits. As long a the kids know the teacher can't touch them they will disrespect them.
Are parents really so stupid to not know that if you give a child internet access without supervision they will find pornogrophy if available and are they to stupid know that it is. If they are then they have no business with children. This is one screwed up country, parents are not raising their children, the children are raising themselves. America started a downward decline during the sixties when they said it was ok to murder unborn babies and taking prayer and pride for this country from the class room. Now they are oking the devient homosexual lifestyle as normal when is a crime against nature and against God. America is doomed, the military will go completely electronic and computerized because of the immorality that is being allowed and the taking away the soldiers religious beliefs.
Oh seriously. This isn't related to the things you want to preach about and your post is silly. Grow up. The only part that makes sense is not giving kids unrestricted internet access, but otherwise you are just trying to get all your talking points in.
Sadly for you, Jerry, parents would always be "stupid", according to everything you just posted. Since, as far back as history's timeline goes, kids would likely know the next generation of technology better than their parents, so they would always have access to the forbidden; and to break the parents' "rules". The threatening "computers" of tomorrow will always be a threat to the parents as long as they are the parents.
Then again, the pertinent question remains as to why these kids use such "future computers" in the first place. Mayhaps it's because kids are rebellious by nature? Mayhaps they feel that the blessings of their generation would bring them better things than what their parents' blessings have brought them during their younger years? And, perhaps the parents simply don't see the same blessings in those future comps as they do? Regardless, if it's something that's occurred forever in history, who's to say that what they're doing is so punishable? (Obviously, these parents have, at one point, been punished too for the same, right?)
An alternative is to simply accept human nature as it is, no matter how much it breaks the morality in society. That's just my .02, which you can totally take or leave.
Let this be a lesson to the teachers?? How about let this be a lesson to the parents. Their kids don't NEED phones that they can watch movies from, and they certainly shouldn't be having them in class. I remember once a school was trying to ban cell phones in class, the kids could keep them in their lockers but not take them to class, and parents raised all sorts of hell on it saying that their 'precious special ones' should have access to their phones at any time. If the teacher truly knew what these kids where doing then shame on him for not taking them out of class and punishing them for it, but I would wager if he knew they where on the cells he didn't know they where watching porn. Come on parents, step up and parent. Your kid doesn't need the latest and greatest gizmo in school, they are there to learn and that is partially your responsibility as well.
right you are lyrica this is just another example of the public school cesspool where the precious little one are always right and the teachers are expected to be babysitters......what a mess......this is why home schooling is becoming more and more prevalent. but what do you expect from today's privileged society that thinks they are owed and don't need to ever repay. if a teacher disciplines then the parents are up in arms about that and are calling for the teachers head if they do nothing the parents want their heads.....what right thinking person would ever want the job of teacher........teacher job ad; wanted person who thinks they can change the world and wont get upset when they cant. must work ridiculous hours put up with spoiled brats.....and their kids who do no wrong. must have no problem with being questioned by superiors who are afraid of being sued and will throw you under the bus to save their own asses. all this and more for ridiculously low pay. apply in person at the insane asylum.
Yes the teacher was an idiot and should be disciplined, as far as the mother going overboard on this, saying kids need counseling, come on what junior high kid doesn't want to look at porn (curiosity factor) and there isn't a junior high kid in the universe that hasn't masturbated. The only things these kids are guilty of is not being smart enough to do this kind of stuff in private.
Oh sure...but very rarely do they do it in public and that ISN'T okay and shouldn't be dismissed. Yes, seeing a bunch of boys doing that in your class can be traumatizing...gives me the creeps thinking about. If your parents give you web access and aren't bright enough to stop that stuff at least go do it in private. The fact that they did it in front of other kids in class is nasty, seriously over a line of how you treat other people, and does need to be addressed as a serious issue.