disgraceful teaching discipline?
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disgraceful teaching discipline?

I saw following video from Mr Whitfield's one blog entry How to Maintain Classroom discipline (1947). He was an English teacher (perhaps still is).

You only need to watch the first 5 minutes 40 seconds.

Mr Whitfield stated, “Not all of it is irrelevant sixty years later... Groundhog Day! Really! To be honest, I have been Mr Grimes I as well as Mr Grimes II -- but never in Maths, of course.”

What was wrong with Mr Grimes (and Mr Whitfield admitted he did so)? Pray allow me to list:
1. Giving students negative feeling about themselves. ("This is the poorest class I've had for a long long time.") Some students might become extremely depressed and perhaps have a thought about suicide.
2. Issuing detentions at will without proper justification. This may sadly be allowed, however extremely unethical, and deplorable without a doubt.
3. Threatening students with the possibilities of repeating the class. Playing the threatening game? Geez.
4. Prohibiting students from sneezing? That was an educator without a heart to his/her students. The teacher who disallow students from sneezing should be sued and shamed.

If this teacher was teaching in a public school (in plain words: taxpayer-funded school), all those disgraceful and unethical disciplines should be condemned publicly.

I commented in Mr Whitfield's blog entry, and he responded.