Honestly, even though it was a skit, I would have pulled out my phone and started to text in FRONT ROW. Second, if you took said phone, and smashed it like some retarded Gallagher, I would have taken the several hundred dollars it cost me out on your skinny white pale pencil necked bootlipped ass until it stopped being funny. Don't be a pompous dickbag, and you won't have to deal with comments like mine.

Your a douchebag, just saying.

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To be honest, if I was in that class, I would have done my very best to stop the teacher from destroying that young mans personal property. Don't get me wrong, the rule is a good one but, destroying someones personal property is a crime and I couldn't just sit there and watch it happen.
I do know that there are better ways to handle this than pretending to do something that you'd never be allowed to do for real and I'll bet some of those kids are itchin' to put him to the test. I also think the teacher is more interested in being a campus celebrity (he did record this) than he is in being an example of leadership. A teacher needs to command respect but, not through fear.
I'll also bet the sledge hammer is not a permanent fixture in that room (duh!)... Our students aren't dumb and we need to respect their intelligence in order to gain their respect.

Fear mongers. This is an example of how whipped our society is that we will allow such tactics openly without standing up for our rights and that it could be used to dissuade people from acting. I'm sure the school will do nothing to change anything and life will continue.

COMMENT NAZI!!! I think it's really stupid to disable comments on videos. What's the point of silencing us? everyone has a right to comment, and it comes with the territory of uploading videos. You sir, are a comment nazi.

I just watched the video on your channel titled "Why students don't text message in my class," featuring the instructor who feigns smashing the cell phone of a student not paying attention to him. I've taught college courses for more than 20 years, and I find that the "not paying attention problem" is seldom about students' behavior - it's about the fragile ego of a self-important instructor.
From the first day of class, my students know that their respect and attention is something I neither need nor demand - it is only theirs to give. I only require that they are not disruptive to others. However, I promise that if they choose to engage in my course, I will offer them MY time and attention as we sojourn together. Demanding that students bow to the authority of the "sage on the stage" is a dehumanizing approach to pedagogy that reflects the oppressive, right-handed power of the Pharisees.

gotta love the people freaking out cause they didnt watch to see it was fake

I love all of these comments about the phone getting smashed and they didn't continue watching to see that it was a fake.

I find it very ironic as a higher educator you would restrict comments on their videos and I would have loved for you to have smashed my i phone, because I would have you charged with destroying my personal property. If my texting in class is being disruptive then ask me to stop, if I don't respect that then kick me out of class, but you do not have the right to destroy my property. Its really kind of sad that a video like this is on a university's official youtube page, as someone that is in the middle of going back to school as an adult, if the school I was going back to condoned this type of behavior I would ask form my $26,000 back.