I have been teaching for 33 years, and the profession has surely changed in that time period. When I first started, students were respectful, disciplined, and wanted to learn. That has certainly changed! Today's students are (on the whole) rude, disrespectful, and have no interest in learning. They don't want to be in school. Students don't want to work for anything, not even the knowledge to get a good job in the future; they want it all handed to them. Parents today don't discipline their children because they are afraid of them and the possibility of the government interfering in their family life (social workers, etc.) if they do their job as parents. Teachers have very little administrative support in controlling disruptive students because administrators are afraid of lawsuits in this age of "I'm going to sue you." I started teaching when I was 20 (almost 21) years old because I finished 4 years of college in 2 and a half years, and the students I had early in my career were fine and their parents didn't blame every problem on the teacher. As time has passed, it's always the teacher's fault.....never the rude, obnoxious child or the timid parent afraid to stand up to their own kid. Have you ever thought that perhaps a teacher's "harshness" (as you call it) is really that teacher's way of showing you they care about you and your future? Perhaps the teacher is really wanting you to succeed, to be responsible, to face consequences for your actions, etc. Perhaps his/her harshness will prepare you for life out in the real world....where not everyone will be impressed with your attitude, *********, irresponsibility, etc., and things won't be handed to you simply because you were born. As I look back on some of the "harshest" teachers I had, I see now that each time they were harsh with me, I deserved it. I am a responsible, tax-paying adult due in part to parents whose philosophy was (in regards to things that happened in class) "You're guilty until you can prove yourself innocent," and teachers who didn't worry about whether I "liked" them or not, but whether I learned what I was there to learn.
2007-02-17 10:30:22
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answered by educator1953 2
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I have three answers for you:
1. I'm having a bad day and I've had it...so I got a little harsh. I'll suffer hurt feelings just as much as you will at the end of the day about taking it out on somone who's fault it wasn't. Teachers are people too.
2. I've asked over and over and some students just don't appreciate the fact that I'm sick of asking. Show some respect, do what you're told and pretend you care about being here.
3. There are teachers out there who cared and saw there was nothing else they could do....so to stop getting hurt, they stopped caring.
By the way, please try harder to use proper English. Your question should have read:
Why do teachers need to be hardh towards their students, is it because they suffer a mental disorder?
Considering that tons of people in the US suffer from undiagnosed mental disorder, you could only answer yes to this question if you were willing to take out teacher and substitute it with "my momma" or any other person! Because mental disorders aren't the only thing that make you harsh and teachers aren't the only ones with mental disorders.
2007-02-10 16:54:38
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answered by capeal 2
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All teachers are not harsh towards all students. In fact, most teachers are not harsh at all. When they are, it is often over a question of discipline - and requesting a student to comply with a directive is hardly indicative of a mental disorder!
2007-02-10 16:52:00
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answered by old lady 7
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I do believe some teachers are harsh just to be mean, but being harsh is sometimes the only way to get through to a student. Being too lenient doesn't teach the child anything, and leads them to believe that everything is life is easy.
2007-02-18 12:50:29
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answered by Anonymous
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For some of them, yes. For the others, they are either old, bitter and wish they had never become teachers, or they are just jerks. Here and there you will get a good teacher but alot of them are real mentals!
I understand that alot of them are tired of nobody caring and everyone eating in their trailer classrooms, turning the place into "cockroach hell" but I do not epreciate it when everone in the class is failing while the teacher is just sitting there sending her bf Emails and refusing to take late work from the only person in the class who care, me!
2007-02-11 02:30:06
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answered by Anonymous
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If you had a bunch of students who had no respect for authority you would probably get tired of dealing with it. Many teachers quit teaching forever because of the inability to put up with unruly students. People always want to blame the teacher, when the parents don't teach their children how to respect them either...society is partly to blame in the United States because parents are not allowed to discipline their children the way they were disciplined...resulting in overflow of juvenile hall, jail and prison populations.
2007-02-15 09:06:20
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answered by Jalapinomex 5
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NO. Its because students are very annoying for them so they try to scream to them so they can behave but it doesn't work so they have tobe harsh evry day or just send them to the office. The teachers are used to be trated bad so they sometimes treat kids bad.But they still like teaching.
2007-02-18 09:12:20
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answered by angel#23 1
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the only word that comes to mind is ¨frustration ¨they´re not happy their salary, with the board of education, with the union promises, the principal, plus the nagging and aggravation they get at home or the neighbors (especially if they have a nicer house or car ) you just happen to be in the middle of his or her universe. try a little encouragement . don´t be offended if your teacher uses harsh methods to get to you. instead use your ¨street smarts¨to get him or her to you side. empathy comes to mind. be careful, at first he´ll smell nothing but bs from you, but if you honest and consistent toward her or him, your teacher eventually open up to you and share some of the misery i mentioned above. your teacher will somehow look for excuses to improve your grades. it´s no a bad deal for just listening.
2007-02-10 16:53:51
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answered by tichergeorge 2
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2016-10-01 22:54:01
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answered by Anonymous
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No, it is because no matter how hard they try, they still can't get you to use proper English.
2007-02-10 15:15:32
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answered by NSnoekums 4
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