Memphis Middle School Teacher Calls it Quit Due to Unruly and Unpunished Students
Memphis middle school teacher
DaNita Martin has decided to stop teaching, after what she referred to as “continued student discipline issues” at
Grandview Heights Middle School in Memphis during a recent school board meeting, according to
WMC Action News 5.
The middle
school math teacher recounted horror stories in front of many parents
and administrators about out-of-control students that actually made a
few attendees gasp.
“I had a student take a
calculator and beat another student upside the head,” said Martin.
“Broke the calculator, and was not suspended…. Another student got the
scissors and started making a stabbing motion. When I went to the
administration, they said he was already suspended earlier today. What
am I supposed to do?”
According to Martin,
students at the high school reportedly lack respect for educators and
behavior is at its lowest point there. Martin went on to divulge how she
is called out of her name on a daily basis by many of the teens at the
school and her level of tolerance regarding the behavior has reached its
limits. “I’m called by my students, ‘Gay,’ ‘lesbian,’ ‘dyke,’ ‘sir,'”
Martin admitted. “And my favorite, ‘White girl.'” “Students tell me,
‘Who the f-bomb do you think you’re speaking to?’ and, ‘Shut the F up
when talking to me,'” Martin revealed. “But they go unpunished.”
One parent,
Latrina Robinson,
spoke to WMC Action News 5 regarding the reported state of blatant
disrespect by many of the students at the school towards educators,
saying, “When the teachers try to control them, they [are] even irate
with the teachers,” said the worried Mom. Robinson also said she’s
moving her son out of the alleged troubled school as soon as possible.
