As a parent, what would you do if you discover the the teacher of your Secondary 3 daughter wrote the word "IDIOT" next to a wrong answer in a test.
In Singapore, the peeved mother called the principal for an explantion and intends to bring the matter to the Ministry of Education. She felt that her daughter's self esteem had been distroyed. She claimed that her teacher called her daugther a potential "Ah Lian" ( check wikipedea for defination).
The principal verifed the facts & counselled both the student & teacher. He asked the mother to forgive the teahcer as he had been a good, passionate teacher who only want her student to change for the better.
The teacher had apologised to the student and clarified that what he meant was that the answer was idiotic not the student.
The student is undergoing counselling for matters unrelated to this incident....
In your country, would you do what the Singapore mother did?
What would you do? I grieved at our society!!!
2006-09-04 03:42:32 · 12 answers · asked by Roti-Prata 3 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Parenting
(Personally we homeschool)
But, if this happend to my kids, even our 18 year old who is in college, I would have the teacher terminated, point blank, period.
For no reason whatsoever should a teacher call a student or label a student as an "Idiot".
Would I forgive the teacher, yes, but he wouldn't be teaching at my child's school anymore by the time we finished.
There are some words that you just don't use when you are teaching students. No matter what. And that happens to be one of them in my opinion.
I read the question to my husband, and his response is WAY more "graphic" than mine.
2006-09-04 05:15:47 · answer #1 · answered by Pastors Wife 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OMG, I would flip out!!! I would be at the school so fast and would demand an explanation and apology from that teacher, then I would go to the school board and that teacher would no longer have a job!! I teach and cannot even fathom ever writing something like that to any student, never mind one that is so young and impressionable. I would have done more than that mom, an apology would not have been enough!
2006-09-04 03:50:38 · answer #2 · answered by **KELLEY** 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I know what I would have done would have been pretty much the same. I would have requested that my charges against him be placed in his employment file and request that the teacher be reprimanded in some way- to the discretion of the school board.
Unfortunately there are some parents would would skip that all together and just try and sue... those are the ones that bother me- those and the parents would go to the school to fight the teacher (both really good examples on why some shouldnt be parents)
2006-09-04 03:50:18 · answer #3 · answered by glorymomof3 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-06 09:14:40 · answer #4 · answered by karachalia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if in Singapore a man gets lashed for spitting on the sidewalk, this man should get lashed as well!! In the US, here, I would go to the teacher, and school and have the matter resolved, and have my daughter moved to a new class where the teacher wasn't such a basket of bad words.
2006-09-05 08:10:58 · answer #5 · answered by Serious Mandy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I feel she took the correct steps, but I would not have left it at that. No teacher has a right to call any one an "idiot" or even call an answer "idiotic". It is his/her job to "Teach" and "Encourage" the student. Not make them feel that there efforts are stupid....
Life is hard enough without some one in that position holding our kids self esteem down... Now that teacher is the true "IDIOT".
2006-09-04 04:25:14 · answer #6 · answered by Couple of Cents 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Working at a school, I think some of our parents would have contacted the school board and had the teacher fired. For some reason, the parents think that the teachers are never right.
2006-09-04 03:48:52 · answer #7 · answered by pamela_d_99 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A good teacher never would have written "idiot" or "idiotic" next to any answer in the first place.
The teacher was just trying to save face, but I would not have bought it.
I would have had the teacher write on the blackboard, "I will not humiliate my students" 500 times.
2006-09-04 03:55:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it was handled very well by the singapore ministry of education.
i would have been very upset and probably gone to talk with the teacher and principal myself.
Although forgiveness and second chances are under rated in our society, but i believe they should be more liberally expected.
2006-09-04 03:46:08 · answer #9 · answered by amosunknown 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When I was in the seventh grade, I had a teacher that would write "S.O.B" on some the stupid kids' papers. He told them it stood for "Sorry Ole Boy." lol
2006-09-04 03:55:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋