I can see a substitute teacher doing something like this, after all, they get zero respect from students.

The teacher, Tuyet-Mai Thi Vo is a full time teacher, and says she has a recent positive recommendation letter from a former Superintendent vouching for fitness in the classroom. She says the charges are not true.

'According to a district report, “Ms. Vo told her class that if robots were teachers, Ms. Vo would program the robot to shoot the students every time the students didn’t pay attention, talked back, or even talked at all. Ms. Vo told her class she would program the robot to zap the students with a Taser if the students failed to complete homework assignments or arrived late to class. Ms. Vo told her class she would program the robot to kill all of the students.” U-T San Diego

Oceanside Unified School District officials in California investigated the complaints that  teacher threatened to have a robot shoot and kill students, and Tuyet-Mai Thi Vo was allowed to resign and receive a $92,000 settlement instead of being fired.

This is certainly not what I would program a robot to do. Programming a robot to cook, clean, and mow the lawn come to mind.

What would you program a robot to do?

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