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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Ancient_Educator_76 on 2024-03-05 06:28:15.
Here's some MC, as quick as it is violent.
I teach in the Valley of the Sun, in the fancy part of town. I can't afford to live there.
We have a new Gate to Gate cell phone policy where students cannot have there phones out at all, anywhere, for any reason. If I see a phone, as a teacher, I am authorized to commandeer the phone until security comes to pick it up. Fair enough.
I've decided way ahead of time that I wouldn't touch a phone unless I needed to. Especially during the initial confrontation. I simply say "Schmoopy Pie, please place your phone on the grey table adjacent my desk" and then I put a sticky note on it (I even make sure I only touch the phone through the sticky note as I affix it with their name on it). I then call security who picks it up.
This hasn't been an issue all year. The kids are pretty good about it.
But not this time.
As our security guard, "Dave", enters the room he seems to not be able to find this miracle hot pink sticky note affixed phone, so I reach for the phone to hand it to him. As I grab the phone to hand it the thirty inches until it reaches Dave's hand the student runs up like the bionic man and places his hand on his phone also, grasping tightly. I don't know why I hold on but I do.. .instinct maybe.
Anyway he demands that I let go....
"Let it fuqqing GO!" and the second he emphasizes that word I let go while he pulls as hard as he can. The phone flies across the room and breaks the school window... as well as itself. Both items are shattered beyond recognition.
The fall out is just starting to fall, but the kid was "What the fuq did you throw my phone for!??" Crying and lying at the same time... wonderful.
I said back in the heat of the moment "Hey man you told me to let it go.. I did. This is on you my guy!!"
Dave couldn't agree more. His parents? Probably could agree a little less. Administration was, surprisingly on my side about this.
The parents did contact administration about paying to replace the phone, but they flat out denied it. They said that the student committed a bear minimum of two acts that led to his phone being destroyed.
He 1) had his phone out and 2) clawed a teacher in the process of grabbing his phone he already relinquished to his care. and finally 3) destroyed a window
The fact that Dave was there to witness all this was very helpful in making sure the ultimate MC being applied had only negative consequences for the culprit.
I'll never understand why he, after ten minutes of the phone just sitting there, did he decide to all of a sudden come for it.
TL;DR A student demands I let go of his phone. Mayhem ensues.