Teacher mistakes Guns N Roses PA karaoke for death-threat, calls in the heat
A teacher working after hours in Roxbury, CT barricaded herself in a classroom and called in the police in force when she heard three teenagers (including the school custodian) performing a karaoke version of Guns N Roses's "Welcome to the Jungle" (Welcome to the jungle/You're gonna die") and mistook it for a death threat. The kids thought they were alone in the building.
State police say the teacher at Booth Free School barricaded herself inside a classroom Wednesday when she mistook someone singing a Guns N' Roses song over the public address system for a threat.Link (Thanks, Bill!)She was working after hours and thought no one else was in the building. Then she heard someone say over the loudspeaker that she was going to die.
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Thank goodness the terrorists haven't frightened all of us into abandoning reason and common sense and behaving like a bunch of trembling Chicken Littles.
"three teenagers (including the school custodian)"
The custodian is a teen too?
...watch it bring you to your shuh-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-knees, knees!
Yes, apparently the custodian is a teenager.
teenagers can't take custodial jobs after school hours?
true story: i read this in my rss reader right below an onion article, and clicked through expecting to get to the onion. this is just too good to be true.
This is f'in hilarious; honestly though, if I thought that I was alone in a building and all of a sudden someone started shrieking, "You're in the juungle baaaby! And you're gonna DIIIIIIEEEEE" over the PA, I'd probably be a little freaked out too!
And it's one of my favorite songs. Now imagine if you weren't all that familiar with vocal stylings of Axl Rose...
Well it was karaoke, what do you expect.
and dark schools are _really_ frightening.
Wait a minute. That's the exact same music we were listening when I was in high school, before these kids were born!
Don't they have their own music?
Oh wait, I forgot. We were also listening to Led Zepplin or The Doors or some other rock that was already aged at the time.
So I'm sure they all got tasered, right?
What planigan and kobbah said.
It sucks to be a teacher these days...you can't even beat the kids anymore.
#9 - Guns n Roses is their classic rock!
I can see how she would be freaked out.
I bet they all had a good laugh afterwards, though.
To be entirely fair, if one were to trap a hated teacher in a school and then hunt them like an animal, Welcome to the Jungle would be a good soundtrack.
BSD, you've put too much thought into this!
YIKES!
:D
I think they're already using G'n'R as one of those "enhanced" interrogation techniques we've been reading about in the news
bsd qft
Wait a minute. That's the exact same music we were listening when I was in high school, before these kids were born! Don't they have their own music?
John Markos O'Neill FTW!!! B-)
No wonder the education system in this country sucks. The teachers are idiots too.
"No wonder the education system in this country sucks. The teachers are idiots too."
Our military is the best, are schools... not so great.
Why?
Look at all the billions and trillions of dollars that go into the armed forces.
Our schools have to beg like trained seals for every cent they get.
You get what you pay for.
PS: if someone made me listen to Guns'N'Roses, I'd call the cops, too! Sorry, but they have to be the most over-rated band since... well, ever.
How public education cripples our kids, and why by John Taylor Gatto:
Shortly after I retired from teaching I picked up Conant's 1959 book-length essay, The Child the Parent and the State, and was more than a little intrigued to see him mention in passing that the modem schools we attend were the result of a "revolution" engineered between 1905 and 1930. A revolution? He declines to elaborate, but he does direct the curious and the uninformed to Alexander Inglis's 1918 book, Principles of Secondary Education, in which "one saw this revolution through the eyes of a revolutionary."
Inglis breaks down the purpose - the actual purpose - of modem schooling into six basic functions:
1) The adjustive or adaptive function. Schools are to establish fixed habits of reaction to authority. This, of course, precludes critical judgment completely. It also pretty much destroys the idea that useful or interesting material should be taught, because you can't test for reflexive obedience until you know whether you can make kids learn, and do, foolish and boring things.
2) The integrating function. This might well be called "the conformity function," because its intention is to make children as alike as possible. People who conform are predictable, and this is of great use to those who wish to harness and manipulate a large labor force.
3) The diagnostic and directive function. School is meant to determine each student's proper social role. This is done by logging evidence mathematically and anecdotally on cumulative records. As in "your permanent record." Yes, you do have one.
4) The differentiating function. Once their social role has been "diagnosed," children are to be sorted by role and trained only so far as their destination in the social machine merits - and not one step further. So much for making kids their personal best.
5) The elective function. This refers not to human choice at all but to Darwin's theory of natural selection as applied to what he called "the favored races." In short, the idea is to help things along by consciously attempting to improve the breeding stock. Schools are meant to tag the unfit - with poor grades, remedial placement, and other punishments - clearly enough that their peers will accept them as inferior and effectively bar them from the reproductive sweepstakes. That's what all those little humiliations from first grade onward were intended to do: wash the dirt down the drain.
6) The propaedeutic function. The societal system implied by these rules will require an elite group of caretakers. To that end, a small fraction of the kids will quietly be taught how to manage this continuing project, how to watch over and control a population deliberately dumbed down and declawed in order that government might proceed unchallenged and corporations might never want for obedient labor.
I normally have the same response when I hear a Guns N Roses tune!