Giveing Respect to teachers?

Question

Teachers think that they deserve respect the second you meet them..all because they paid a $60,000 tuition all just to get 20 to 30 thousand dollars a year...and for a job that they dont even work summers or the holidays that WE students get off on. i think that teachers should earn respect just like they say we have to earn theirs...just because they picked this lazy job and complain about kids not following their rules..they think we should automaticly give them respect..what do you think?

Answer 1

I think that any person who takes on a teaching job trying to give an education to the likes of you demands immediate respect. I'm not a teacher, but I find the phrase "just because they picked this lazy job" hugely insulting. Get a life!

Answer 2

Your question illustrates one of the biggest reasons that my colleagues and I are running fast and furiously from the teaching profession. There is a growing attitude in America's classrooms that teachers don't deserve respect, but that no matter how rude and disrespectful a student is, the student should always be treated with respect. In studentese, respect means being allowed to do anything you damned well please, regardless of the consequences to yourself or to others. It's not all students, not even 50% of them, but it's enough to make teaching a real burn-out profession these days.

Today students consider themselves disrespected if they are asked to remain seated during class.

They consider teachers lazy if they don't do the work for the students and then award the students A's and B's because they reluctantly wrote down the answers.

Because they have no idea of how much it costs to live, students consider teachers well-paid because they make $35K per year after three or four years of experience and the "$60K" degree.

There's a big push to recruit professionals from other careers into the teaching profession. I've seen them come and go. Most of them go after a year or two, citing their disgust with the attitudes of so many students, the difficult working conditions, and the lack of satisfaction that they receive from their jobs. They go back to their old jobs at twice the money and ten times the respect and satisfaction. It's very sad.

Answer 3

Teachers think that they deserve respect because they do. Yes, we paid a lot of tuition to earn a lot less. You may think that the teachers don't work summers, but I don't know a single teacher who doesn't work on lesson plans or go to workshops in the summer to have the skill to teach disrespectful, unappreciative punks like you so that you can have a better job in the future. If you think a teacher's job is "lazy," why don't you try coming to school at 7:30, working solidly until at least 4:30 while having to listen to disrespectful children whose only concern is having to go to the bathroom, then go home and grade papers? If teachers didn't command the respect of their students, the kids would run all over them, and you wouldn't learn anything. Give teachers a break, lose the chip on your shoulder, sit down and shut up!

Answer 4

Respect to me is something that as to be mutual. No matter how big you are, I don't care, if you can't show the basic courtesy or if you persist on acting in a way that is not humane, I would probably not show you any more respect than the meagre bit that is obligatory due to humanitarian grounds.

Teachers are no different, if they cant show the basic respect that a student ,or maybe just a human, deserves, they don't really deserve to be respected right???

However this question is a bit misleading. Teachers is too generalised a group. There really are some genuine teachers who dedicate themselves to their work and there are those who are just hmmm... hopeless. For eample my Geography teacher Miss Sharma is god-sent. She is really dedicated and it is a pleasure to learn from her and I wouldn't hesitate showing her respect. Hiwever, there are also those like my MT(2nd Language) teacher Mr Vanan who are just hopeless and just take whatever high spirits you have and smash them head first into a concrete wall. They would then pour water on your face to revive you, so that they can use a wooden pole to smash you to death.

Anyway, even if you are forced to respect someone that dosent deserve respect, there would be a voice within yourself that would assure your mind that you dont mean the "good morning" or "hello". To me its what the little voice says that matters because if there is something you can respect, it will definitely be the little voice- your conscience

"I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do."
~Christopher Reeve

Answer 5

Hi,
I teach because I love trying to help kids to do their best. Kids are fantastic and make me smile every day. I don't think that they should instantly respect me, but I do hope to earn their respect because I give them respect. I give them my best every day even if it means I am exhausted when I get home. I've been teaching for 18 years and I love what I do..... If you think that teachers are lazy, you've never met a good one. Most teachers work or take classes in the summer. Most teachers also get paid for 6 hours a day, but work 10. Try spending a week in a classroom and I think it'll change your view of what good teachers do!

Answer 6

Thank you for illustrating the problem here.

Teachers -- along with all other human beings -- deserve respect the second you meet them...not necessarily because they're teachers but because they're fellow human beings. Wouldn't you want to be treated with respect the second someone met you?

I think that a lot of problems in the world would actually go away if we simply treated other people the way we wished to be treated.

Leave people and places better than you found them, my best friend says. It's good advice.

Here's a suggestion: If you treat your teacher with respect, he/she may reciprocate.

No teacher in the US takes the job for the money. It's because they have a love of learning and a love for the students. They already have more love and respect for you than you can possibly imagine.

Answer 7

I think everyone deserves repect the second you meet them...for the simple fact that they are a human being and all people deserve respect. I am a teacher and we work harder then you think. Some students think it's fun to give us a hard time when we are trying our best to help them. It can be very frustrating when you spend your time and enrgy trying to help a student and they throw it your face by making your job harder. Yes, there are some bad teachers out there who probably don't deserve respect. But the majority of us do, because we work hard to help others. I respect all my students and I expect the same in return.

Answer 8

It doesnot work all time to judge a family ( of teachers) bad just by considering only a few of them. I want you to realize that judgement should be made by taking a very large amount of data (teachers) and that to while saying it is "bad".
Realize you just saw 7,11,13 and you are assuming that all other numbers are also prime.
Teachers deserve to be respected and students, even more, deserve to be loved.
Finally, once you follow the above basic principles you'll realize that you used "Lazy" instead of "Patience", "Complain" instead of "Care".
Wish you a bright future.

Bye,
Ryan.

Answer 9

People who believe that they "deserve" respect are in need of what they do not have.
Respect is not a substance that can earned, or given.
Respect is demonstrated.
Disrespect is a demonstration of low self esteem, and a poor self concept.

I do not need my students to give me respect.
I need my students to give me their undivided attention.
Why? I am respect-full. In other words, I am full of respect, and do not need any one else to "respect" me.
As a result, my students demonstrate a "mad respect" just for me.

You seem to lack the ability to even respect yourself, and therefore, are suffering from the lack of a working understanding.

Since you cannot even spell the word--giving--I suppose you have not yet met a teacher, or parent (you're first teacher) who has demonstrated respect for you.

Life is the Master Teacher.

Answer 10

Teachers ought to be respected because they provide us basic tools to choose and grow in our careers . They provide us a plateform where we can experiments for future life games, and still they take the risk of these experiments. Teachears are framework to transfer civilisation's knowledge to next generations. Because they tell you and then your children to love thy parents and repect them. They are to be repected not because they take these less paid jobs but the value and responsibilities involved in the job. They are role models and they have to always stand by it. They need to be repected because they ignore many of our mischieves , which we think they didnt knew. They deserve respect because you deserve respects, and their must be some people in The society who cary this responsibility of developing civilisations, and a world where no body hates any body. Where your parents should love and repect your feelings and where your children behave in a desired maner and Respecting you. You know after parents there are teachers only who guide everychild for rights and wrongs , and they fulfill reponsibility , when child is a blank book and anything can be written in it, ethical respectworthy or unethical .
what you want them to do and write in these blank books?