No offense Amanda, but you do realize that because she said "no" to
taking a class in a crappy tone, you humiliated her in front of the
entire school?!?!

Wow girl, that's outrageous and really sad. Coming from someone who
was a student and is a teacher, I would never disrespect anyone in
that way, not a friend, a teacher, nor a peer.

What if she had gotten on the loud speaker and says those things
about you? Now we know it is given that wouldn't happen, but for a
moment are you imagining what it would be like? Are you feeling your
blood boiling yet? Yeah, it probably feels a little worse than being
told "no" with a bad attitude.

I bet if you had truly gotten caught, expelled, etc...it really
wouldn't be that funny. Kind of sad that you would take that kind of
joy for her embarassment...

On 6/28/09, A wrote:
> you wrote:
>
> "think about how YOU would feel if you were treated in the same
> way."
>
> I could turn this around and say the exact same thing. "How
> would SHE feel if she were treated in the same i was"? She is
> the role model who sets the tone in the classroom.
>
> you wrote:
>
> "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. "
>
> Everyone has problems in the home, and everyone laughs and
> cries and so on...Your point being? It is not my problem that
> she is frusterated with her personal life for e.g. Maybe I am
> frusterated with mine and decide to lash out on an authority
> figure or teacher? Can i use the excuse..."i am not a robot"?
> no...because nobody cares. You need to act accordingly while
> you're doing your job. Everyone can control their temper or mood
> swings..it is not an excuse.
>
> you wrote:
>
> "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."
>
> In my case, the teacher cried because she was humiliated
> lol..not because she "cares" about us.
>
>
> On 6/27/09, mrsd wrote:
>> 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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