Reminder: Teachers are human and deserve to be respected.
Most of us went into education because we are passionate about helping young people grow and develop and explore and discover.
Of course there are ignorant, rude students along the way who break us down and wear down our resolve to change the world. I plan on leaving teaching when my contract expires at the end of this year.
And I will have students who will beg me to stay and tell me I was one of their best teachers. But I don't know if I have it left in me.
2006-10-13 18:05:18
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answer #1
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answered by bunstihl 6
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From the tone of your question it seems like you believe that students have the right to mistreat teachers and that teachers should expect to be harrassed and absued in the workplace. You may wish to rethink this.
In almost any other occupation, if a coworker attacked, verbally or physically, his boss - he could expect to be disciplined and fired. But teachers have very little legal recourse when confronted with hostile students. Thus, teachers often face a level of harrassment (verbal, physical and even sexual) that no other professional would be expected to endure silently. This makes the job very damaging to a teacher's psyche. Parents and some administrators seem reluctant to punish students who misbehave or who are abusive.
We have become a very squishy culture that does not respect a child's need for disciplineand to learn how to manage emotions and control behavior. Consequently children learn that they can behave however they like and it is the teacher's job to stand there and take it, without giving it back, without ignoring the student or without crying or demonstrating any emotion whatsoever. And it is my experience that any response a teacher gives to a hostile students usually is perceived as weakness whether it be responding with hostility, turning the other cheeck, showing emotion, or meting out a disciplinary response. Teachers cant win. At least, not until parents and administrators join with teachers to punish misbeahvior and change the cultural perception that students are entitled to mistreat educators.
2006-10-15 10:49:54
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answered by Lucky 2
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The tone of your question is kind of harsh. Teachers are people, too, and could be going through some tough things outside of school just like some students are. I taught for 34 years until I retired in June. During my last year I had a couple of near breakdowns myself because the rudeness of some students had reached a personal level that I had not experienced before.
Don't be so judgemental. Work hard at getting a good education and treat your teachers like people who are trying to make your life better.
2006-10-13 18:16:27
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answered by PatsyBee 4
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Yeah it is part of teaching and yeah we do put ourselves there but it is a human thing to cry and so what...? Better that than treat some kids the way THEY treat us!
I teach to teach not to have somebody's ignorant behaviour inflicted on me. I'm sure the other kids (the majority ) don't want that behaviour in the class either.
And you never cried???
You actually don't sound tough as you'd like to think, you sound rejected, hurt and deep down really very sad. Get the chip off your shoulder change the attitude and you never know, there's hope for you.
Mona, the 1 and Only....I'm loving it!!!
2006-10-14 06:58:57
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answered by Anonymous
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Some do, some don't. Some shout, some insult. We aren't cut from the same mold.
It's too bad some break down, but boy some kids are pretty rude. You talk to a boss they way some kids talk to a teacher and you'd be out a job.
2006-10-13 20:10:55
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answered by atheleticman_fan 5
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you're making the theory the clarification he took your telephone, yet no longer theirs, is using the fact he's in some way showing favoritism in the direction of the different woman. that's no longer inevitably the case. We frankly do no longer continually have the skill to punish truthfully everyone who does incorrect in school, so we %. somebody to punish whilst the class is misbehaving. in case you have been continually the single picked, and that they have got been in no way picked, that is favoritism. the actuality which you have been picked this time does not make it unfair. yet another ingredient to recollect is which you assert which you're no longer a severe-achieving student and that she is a form student. the instructor might sense that, even with fooling around, they're getting their paintings performed precise besides. You, regrettably, might continually could paintings greater solid to realize the comparable point of consequence. the telephone replaced into preserving you from doing that, so which you have been the single that replaced into distracted, whilst she could do properly whether she have been to apply her telephone. regrettably, life isn't honest. some human beings can do outstanding issues with little attempt, whilst others could placed forth great skill and nevertheless arise short. that's no longer the instructor's fault; all he cares approximately is that each and each of you performs properly. she will try this even with fooling around. i'm afraid that in case you attempt to tutor your instructor which you discover this unfair, it is going to easily reflect badly upon you lower back. Your superb guess is to stop stressful approximately the different woman and concentration on your very own paintings. consequently, you have been incorrect to have taken your telephone out. you will get it decrease back, of path, interior the long-term, yet for now, he has saved you from being distracted via it.
2016-12-26 18:50:38
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answered by ? 3
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As a computer teacher, I'd teach you how to type with better punctuation and the CAPS LOCK turned off.
Seems to me, you have personal, infantile, mental issues with those responsible for making you a better person. You deliberately and maliciously sabotage yourself, and any that come into contact with you for reasons only you and your prison psychiatric staff may one day understand.
I wish you were in my class, or whoever you're talking about, were in my class. Guaranteed... I wouldn't be the one crying.
2006-10-13 19:04:53
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answered by Snaredrum 4
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some students need a smack in the mouth.students are at school to learn not to piss of teachers as you are stating.
2006-10-13 17:30:36
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answered by Anonymous
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perhaps they cry, because they can no longer smack the kid and get them in line because the parents can't take the time to teach children proper manners and respect.
2006-10-13 17:29:08
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answered by Peter G 2
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