A few times in school (college), I'd write funny stuff on the blackboards in our Spanish classes, & the professors would come in & make more jokes about it & correct my sentences. I was trying to practice my Spanish here. So I tried it in one class, & this man (another student) yelled at me, cursed me out, & threatened me because he was afraid I was going to get the whole class in trouble & cause the professor to get upset & make him not graduate. He was unnecessarily paranoid. The professor wasn't even worried about what I did. I didn't write anything bad.
***& when I told my counselor about it, she told me that I should never ever again in my life write on blackboards because of his reaction. He overreacted, & why should I do what he says if he was graduating? I'll never see him again. Now what if I were to become a teacher/professor? I can't write on blackboards anymore because of what HE & my counselor say?
2007-09-02 16:33:22 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
If you want to practice your spanish on the blackboard, do it. As for stupido, who threatened you, you should have warned him by telling him, " to first not threaten you, and if he continues you will call the police on him. That will calm him down. Dont let him or the conselor deter you from what you feel is beneficial.
2007-09-02 16:57:34 · answer #1 · answered by Amenity 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Professors don't 'punish' a college level class as teachers do in primary grades.
The other student had no right to behave as he did - and if the prof wasn't chuffed about it, there's no reason to stop doing it.
Sounds like your counselor is living in the dark ages somewhere. It would make more sense to talk to the prof and ask him if he objects to the comments you write on the board. It's his classroom, his blackboard, and his agenda. Go with what he says and forget the other guy.
2007-09-02 23:54:50 · answer #2 · answered by old lady 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You can't stop people from having an opinion, however remember it is just THAT. In theory, if you are comfortable and happy with yourself as a person, the opinions of others can either be taken onboard or discarded (it's a choice). BUT... if you doubt yourself or your actions, an opinion from others will automatically send you into defense mode and you'll feel the need to "justify" things. I don't think YOU are 100% comfy with YOUR behaviour on that day which is why you've sought an answer on here. Rather than try to defend yourself, look at the incident as a learning curve and take what positives you can out of it.
Just remember that in any situation in life the only thing you have total control over is yourself (both actions and words) so be true to yourself and if that means writing on blackboards so be it! :-)
2007-09-03 04:58:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
You can easily write on a piece of paper instead of a blackboard. Paper is much easier because you can hand it to the professor and ask him how you did. A chalkboard is for the PROFESSOR to write on during class, and if HE asks someone to write on the blackboard then it is their turn.
You should learn how to grow up. You are in COLLEGE, not kindergarten!
2007-09-03 09:28:22 · answer #4 · answered by Terri 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Who gave you the right to write on the blackboards? You don't have that right. Grow up and stop playing juvenile games.
You're in college? You can't write on paper? You NEED the attention that comes from writing on the blackboard? Are you SURE you're not in 3rd grade?
2007-09-03 08:24:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, I hope you have a few more years before you become a teacher. You still have some growing up to do. Are you sure you're in college? Stop overreacting yourself. This is high school stuff. What your counselor was trying to tell you was grow up.
2007-09-03 02:41:05 · answer #6 · answered by onedrin 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You have the right to do pretty much whatever you want as long as it is legal... Other people do not have the right to threaten you. At my college we had an 'honor board' that would deal with incidents of cheating, or inappropriate behavior towards other students. If your's had something similar, you could have reported this incident to it.
Also, a couselor's job is to help you work out problems to make your life better, not to give you rules for what you may or may not do. Remember, you are employing her, not the other way around. And if she is dictating your actions to you, she isn't helping you grow or improve very much, is she?
Bottom line, neither of these people have any control over you. You should at the least ignore them, and at the most, take some sort of action against them.
2007-09-02 23:50:36 · answer #7 · answered by Charlotte 1 · 1⤊ 3⤋
The paranoid student overreacted, probably due to other problems in his life, but you also have no business helping yourself to the blackboards unless invited to do so by the teacher. Jokes, on occasion, are all right but it sounds as though you regularly do this. You need to sit in your seat and behave. You're there to learn; not do horseplay as if you are a juvenile.
2007-09-02 23:45:32 · answer #8 · answered by D 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
I would have kept writing on the black board and I would have wrote a PS at the bottom that read, this was written at the objection of (name the guy) who had nothing to do with this.. That would have put him in his place, and the professor would have got a laugh.You can't live your life worried about who you may offend, there is always some moron that will gripe about what you do.
2007-09-02 23:47:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Maybe you should focus on why you have a need for attention that causes you to be the only one who draws on the blackboard.
2007-09-02 23:41:24 · answer #10 · answered by Paulie D 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋