How would you react if you were a parent and you logged into Facebook or turned the news on to find a video of your children being disrespectful and terrorizing a teacher?

A video from 2011 has just resurfaced. A few students from the Chicago Vocational Center Academy were seen on video threatening and disrespecting their substitute teacher. Even though the video was first released back in 2011, it is just now going viral because of the recent incident that happened at Spring Valley High School in South Carolina where a deputy tossed a 15-year-old student across a classroom floor because she refused to leave the classroom after being told to put her phone away.

The 2011 video shows a teacher known as “Mrs. Cox,” quietly sitting at her desk when a student starts to throw things at her and telling her to sit down. A male student wearing a red shirt was lunging towards the teacher acting like he was going to hit her. Other students then tried to hold him back, but he picked up a desk and held it above his head like he was going to throw it at her. Then a few minutes after that he threatens to smack the teacher in the face with a whole bag of M&M’s.

“That video was wrong and disrespectful to do; students don’t respect teachers anymore like they used to,” Victoria House, junior, said.

In the midst of all this drama, the teacher remained calm and continued to ask the students to have a seat. She even asks for a student to get security, but the students continued to laugh and hype up the student in the red shirt.

The students’ identities and whether their behavior was addressed by the school or not is unknown. But this video does show that teachers do get bullied and it’s not just students.

“All those students should be punished. A childish teen acting like that and treating the teacher poorly is never acceptable. Then you have the females just laughing and filming instead of helping her,” House, said.

Chicago Public schools made a statement on the video saying, “The safety of students and staff is our top priority at Chicago Public Schools, and the behavior in this video is completely unacceptable. Over the past four years, CPS has worked hard to provide all schools with restorative justice and social and emotional learning supports, both of which are shown to reduce misconducts and keet at-risk students connected to their school communities.”

“Is this how we want our young men to treat women and other human beings? Is this how we want our young girls to act when a man is terrorizing another woman? School is for learning and a teacher should not have to put up with that kind of behavior,” Brianna Campbell, junior, said.