do teachers favor certain kids?

Question

just wondering.

Answer 1

no

Answer 2

yes teachers do favour some children over others. studies have shown that kids that are good looking are given more attention then kids who are not good looking.
another example is that a teacher that reads a report saying a certain child has had poor grades as a result of a learning disability will then accept that she or he is not worth the time and so that child will not be seen by the teacher as much. this is very sad as it did not matter if the child really did have poor grades or a learning disability before or not once the child has learning disabled in the file that will stick to them for life.

Answer 3

Of course they do. Everyone has different people they get along with. Even teachers. I know I like some of my pupils more than I like others. Its just a fact. I enjoy teachign some and not so much others. As a private teacher, the opnes I really don't like... I dont teach them for very long before suddenly I 'find' that I can't fit them in any more.

Its not really a reflection on the child or the teacher, more of a reflection on the gelling of two people. I home school my son for that very reason.

Not everyone will get along, whether they are paid to or not.

Answer 4

Yes. All teachers favor kids. But a truly professional teacher does not let anyone know which kids they favor. And no one should be able to tell which kids you favor.

Answer 5

They favor or disfavor the kids with the track records, which is unfair to many. Not all teachers are biased or have students they dislike, but most do have favored students, with whom they won't admit to favoritsism of course.

Answer 6

Yep, but don't tell anyone. :P We favor the kids who try their hardest, regardless of their ability. Some kids just have a special place in our hearts. On the other hand, I personally love all of my students, even the ones who seem to get on my nerves on a daily basis.

Answer 7

Some do, but no one really should Kids do sadly end up getting reputations by their behaviors. Sadly that often gives some teachers a reason to treat them differently than others.

Answer 8

Teachers are human, and they absolutely favor some students over others.

The obvious: they favor students who do their homework, work diligently, follow instructions, act respectfully, and contribute to the classroom. They disfavor students who don't do homework, don't do work in cass, ignore instructions, act disrespectfully, and are passive in the classroom.

But there are other factors. Teachers tend to favor one gender over the other (usually, they favor boys with more attention and more tolerance of misbehavior); they tend to act on their own subconscious prejudices and biases toward students who are ethnic, religious, or cultural minorities, or who are perceived as "different."

Also interesting: teachers often favor students who "act like" or "remind them of" other favored students from past classes. This isn't just evident as "racial" or "ethnic" but also in many other ways.

Teachers somtimes continue to favor students who acted nicely or positively in the first few days of school, and to disfavor students who acted inappropriately during the first days of school, even if that conduct changes dramatically.

Much of the "favoring" is unconscious, but some is clearly intended to try to focus other students' attention on specific conduct which is clearly identified as "desirable" or "undesirable."

When I was teaching, I learned some surprising things about myself by videotaping myself teaching on several days (always with the students' knowledge). I was shocked at how I tolerated misbehavior from some students but not others; how I allowed some students to interrupt me but not others; how I reacted differently to questions or actions by different students. (I was NOT surprised when I saw, on the tape, student conduct that I hadn't noticed during class -- as we all know, 90% of what happens in the classroom, including much of the learning, is never perceived by the teacher.)

Answer 9

it's hard not to favor a kid that does what is expected.
It's kind of when you have a favorite teacher or subject in school

Answer 10

They are not supposed to, but most of them do. They favor the best behaved ones. The rowdy ones are a pain to control. It disrupts everyone and interrupts the train of thought.

Answer 11

yea possibly...but i knotice in college level also there are teachers that have favorites or they remember there name or something. Also in grade school teachers too. And sometime it depends if they the kids do well in there class or not.