South Florida teacher wields knife to shush students

[RagingInMiami]

It was a dramatic -- and wrong-headed -- way to get a class to behave, the Broward School District contends.

District officials say a science teacher at Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland was irate at two girls who were talking in the class. So the teacher, Lynn Deering, took an 11-inch knife and plunged it into one of their desks.

Students in the anatomy class notified school administrators, and Deering, a veteran teacher, was removed from class pending an investigation.

''She was trying to get their attention,'' said Joe Melita, the school district's chief investigator

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11056321.htm

[elperromagico]

1. It's like something out of an episode of "Boston Public."

[FreedomAngel82]

2. It seems like

so many people are going bonkers.

[The Doctor.]

3. Well, she got their attention...

I'll give her points for that.

Think the school should have let her get away with it, the kids would probably listen better.

[UdoKier]

7. I don't think they can do that.

It's one thing to slam a ruler or other object on the desk to get their attention, but a huge-ass KNIFE? Not only is it kinda scary, there's always the chance that she could've slipped and really hurt someone. Extremely irresponsible and unprofessional behavior by this teacher.

[realisticphish]

4. oooook

an 11 INCH KNIFE? WTF did she have one for??

[Swamp Rat]

5. Act of terrorism. n/t

[rzemanfl]

6. First thing that popped into my head was a student doing a

"Crocodile Dundee" thing and pulling out a much bigger knife.