High-school teachers, sound off

[Jenson71]

My girlfriend has "observed" high school classes in her student teaching days where they were allowed to get up and walk out of class and it was not necessary to come back at all, where they were allowed to listen to their IPod (as long as one ear was left uncovered), and had no reason to listen to the teacher or follow along in class. Absolutely pathetic, but no, not half as bad as the opening poster's obviously extremely exaggerated, if not entirely fictional, experience.