I didn't read the thread you wrote about, but one thing you
have to consider - teachers ARE people. We make mistakes, we
laugh, we cry, we have families. We usually do the right
things, but sometimes we don't. Some teachers have attitudes
too. But, think about it. When do you have attitude? It's
when you need to toughen yourself up. It's when you've been
embarrassed or hurt. Teachers do that too. I know that I've
been terribly hurt by students' behaviors. I've cried more
than you care to know. And you know what? I wouldn't cry or
be upset if I didn't care. You see, teachers get into
teaching for a reason. But, sometimes students make it so
hard that we forget WHY we got into teaching, and we lose our
tempers or cry or do other emotional things. Gee, just like
our students, because we ARE human beings with feelings and
emotions. We are not robots, programmed to always act
professionally, kindly, and with caring. That's what we
strive for, but frustration and anger sometimes come through.
So, when you are acting all proud of yourself for getting to
your teacher like that, think about how YOU would feel if you
were treated in the same way. Karen (8th grade teacher)

On 6/24/09, Amanda wrote:
> On 6/18/09, the real real world wrote:
>
> reply to "the real, real world"
>
> you wrote,
>
> 3. You must teach in a pretty interesting in between kind of
> school really - in some schools doing what you did would
> get your
> tires slashed on a good day and one angry teenage girl
> coming at
> you the next day when slashing your tires hadn't expelled
> enough
> of her negative energy. You're clearly not going for a
> learning
> environment but your kids can be sufficiently controlled -
> with
> parent help - to sit still.
>
> I have to completely agree with you. I remember back in
> highschool
> I attended summer school for failing my science class due
> to
> indifference to the subject and my concentration on my
> hobby i
> took professionally; dance. Anyways, there was this one
> teacher,
> by the name of, "Ms.Ho" who told me i cannot take her
> summer class
> because i got lower than a 50 percent. She said it in such
> a mean,
> tone. It really stuck with me, i was annoyed. I talked to
> my
> school administraton and they said it was fine for me to
> take her
> summer class. I have told her this, and she just
> said, "that's
> fine" in mean tone once again. During this time...i
> befriended a
> boy which really, really liked me. I told him the story
> about the
> how whole story of the teacher using "that tone" with me
> for no
> apparent reason and that it hurt. He asked me the number of
> the
> classroom i was staying in..i asked why he wanted to
> know...he
> didn't tell me but nevertheless i gave him the number of my
> classroom. So in the middle of the science lecutre the
> speakers go
> on in our class (he must have dialed in to that
> class)...and that
> same boy who liked me started to put her down in every
> possible
> way. For e.g. Ms. ho, get on your knees...brush your teeth
> after...blah blah blah you get the jist. She was nearly
> near
> tears...(inside i felt like i defeated her) i was
> smiling..i felt
> like she deserved every bit of it. This has been going on
> for a
> week and one time she bursted out crying and said, "who
> knows
> about this? i will fail you all" ...she went to the
> principle and
> began to investigate. They saw in the camera that i am
> hanging
> around this boy quite a lot during breaks and decided to
> test the
> situation by calling in that boy (they didn't know it was
> him for
> sure) and said why he's doing this....and he replied he had
> no
> idea what they were talking about. But then the principle
> decided
> to lie and said, "your little girlfriend confessed to
> everything".
> He was shocked and never talked to me again until
> recently...and i
> really liked him. That was a prick
> principal..anyways, "Ms.Ho came
> to class the next day announcing that she knew who was
> behind all
> this...and there will be a consequence..(my heart was
> racing
> really fast) she told me to stay in and talk to her. In a
> very
> upsetting and shakey voice she said, "did you get mad at me
> because i wouldn't let you take my class in the beginning"?
> BINGO!
> she knew exactly well she was a prick to me, yet was still
> mean.
> That makes me think...what made her so mean to me? So i
> agree with
> you, you should be very careful with kids...they are very
> gentle
> individuals with feelings...and you might just be in for it
> if
> you're not careful. lol :)
>

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