Personally, I think the student should be expelled... Pa. student humiliated over Broncos jersey BEAVER FALLS, Pa. (AP) - A 17-year-old high school student said he was humiliated when a teacher made him sit on the floor during a midterm exam in his ethnicity class - for wearing a Denver Broncos jersey. The teacher, John Kelly, forced Joshua Vannoy to sit on the floor and take the test Friday - two days before the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Broncos 34-17 in the AFC championship game. Kelly also made other students throw crumpled up paper at Vannoy, whom he called a "stinking Denver fan," Vannoy told The Associated Press on Monday. Kelly said Vannoy, a junior at Beaver Area Senior High School, just didn't get the joke. "If he felt uncomfortable, then that's a lesson; that's what (the class) is designed to do," Kelly told The Denver Post. "It was silly fun. I can't believe he was upset." Vannoy was wearing a No. 7 Broncos jersey on Friday, because he is a fan of John Elway, the Broncos' retired Hall of Fame quarterback. Vannoy said he was so unnerved he left at least 20 questions blank on the 60-question test, and just wants out of Kelly's class because he's afraid the teacher won't treat him fairly now that the story reached the media. "I'm going to have to deal with him for two more nine weeks (school quarters) and he's going to want revenge somehow," Vannoy said Monday. "I took the test. I'm shaking. I'm furious. I didn't know what to do." Kelly, who wore a Ben Roethlisberger jersey Friday, and his principal, Thomas Karczewski, didn't immediately return messages left on their school voice mail Monday. Big Beaver Falls Area School District Superintendent Donna Nugent said she was aware of the situation, but said confidentiality rules prevent her from commenting specifically. "We'll take whatever action we need to in order for the student to feel comfortable," Nugent said.
No doubt the kid is deliberately blowing this out of proportion, but the teacher was out of line for making him sit on the floor for his midterm. A little playful ribbing is fine, but that was just r****ded.
During JR high I lived in Utah, it during the Rockets-Jazz playoff series (don't remember which year), but I took a lot of **** at school even after a win. I remember walking into gym in my Rockets shirt getting boo'ed... I flipped them off and kicked their asses in basketball.... But never got **** from the teacher about the Rockets...
The thing I look at is that this took place in his ethnicity class, perhaps there was some type of lesson the teacher was trying to teach, I dont know. Still I find it interesting that the teacher was wearing a steelers jersey to school.
Or it could be the other way around and that this is exactly contrary to the goal of an ethnicity class. The teacher should be teaching kids not to embrace other cultures and ethnicities but I guess Denver fans don't merit very much. This is just flat out ridiculous although I'm sure the article may have exaggerated somewhat
lol thats just like my old spanish teacher in BX sci, Ms. Chudnovsky, some russian with a heavy accent, i hated her. anyways, there is this greek kid, who wrote "ghetto" for condition of the text book, and chunosvky made him move to all the way back of the class in the corner, a place she called Siberia. and i thought secluding a student was against the law.
Texas was playing Notre Dame when I was in High School. One of my friends was a huge ND fan so his dad got him tickets to the game and a new ND cap. The first day back to school after the break, he's wearing his cap when our Defensive Coordinator sees him. Coach runs up to my friend, rips the cap off his head, throws it down in the parking lot and starts jumping on it while furiously yelling "You live in Texas!" over and over. When things calm down, the cap is destroyed, everyone around is laughing hysterically, and my friend is standing there with a dumb, shocked look on his face. (Note: Our Defensive Coordinator was one Bob Alpert, a good guy and a great coach who went on to bigger and better things as a HS Head Coach... and if you knew him, you can certainly see this happening. I think he did reimburse my friend for his cap after the theatrics.)
Don't be surprised at the Steelers jersey thing -- for the past week I think I've only seen like a dozen people who weren't wearing a jersey. They had a story about this on the news up here. It doesn't surprise me one bit -- this town is CRAZY about the Steelers. Honestly, take the rabid Astros mania over the World Series -- that's how the city of Pittsburgh is about the Steelers ALL THE TIME. And it's been even more intense over the past month. Heck, last week they had a story on the news up here about, get this . . . a family whose last name was "Bronco" . . . there was also a story about people painting Ford Broncos orange and blue, and then beating the crap out of them. I won't condone the teacher's actions, but the kid should have known he was going to catch hell for that jersey. He probably got a lot more crap from fellow students than from that teacher. Again, the teacher's actions were wrong, but I am not surprised at all about it.
I'd be pissed if someone did this to me or ruined my hat like in one of the aforementioned posts. I'm a Patriots fan living in Florida...I've got the Jaguars who the Pats beat in the playoffs on one side of me and Miami fans on the other. Yeah, I may be living in Florida now, but I was born and raised a Pats fan. It's not my fault my father is in the military and I've lived in like 10 different states. Who knows what this kid's deal is...but I sure wouldn't be caught wearing a Miami jersey just because I live in Florida now. I applaude this kid for supporting his team. I can see the teacher making a remark or something along those lines about his jersey, but secluding him from the class by making him sit on the floor because of what football team he cheers for? Absolute ignorance.
Meh... the kid should've defaced his teacher's jersey somehow. It's all in good fun. You expell the kid, you fire the teacher...
This kid is a total p***y. Any teacher that pulled this stunt with me in high school could have expected a hearty "**** You."
