She used to bully students, I cleared steer of her bad side mostly but a few friends got the full brunt of it.
One got a detention for arguing cause he had missed his mock exam. I told her in class when she asked he was at his uncles funeral and her response was "so a funerals more important than his mock?"
She also spent roughly 10mins each lesson, finishing her lesson plan before teaching so clearly uninterested in the job.
Throughout my school career I had quite a few teachers and principals that were just on a power trip. There were some awesome teachers I will always remember, but in my experience, more were on a power trip than not. A lot with a similar cop complex
As a teacher myself, the bad apples in education need to be dismissed if they do t improve. Like or or not, teachers are gate keepers. We could ruin a kid’s chances to scholarships— or even just finishing HS. Bad teachers drive away vulnerable and disenfranchised students. Our decisions could impact a lifetime.* Those teachers have to be found out and appropriately assisted to improve or dismissed.
*That said, with the teacher shortages as they are and have been for a while, and the non competitive pay, some schools really just need a body in there doing even a fraction of the job. I HATE that, but it is reality in some schools in the US. Even in my own.
**I also know that most people, once they leave the school, don’t think again about their teachers. I’m not trying to over aggrandize a teacher’s role.
Petty tyrants. My principal pulled me out of class to rewrite my school newspaper editorial on a current event to match his views. The worst part was we agreed, but he was too stupid to catch it
I literally tell my students “I’m not a cop, I’m a teacher. My job is to support your development, not police you.”…so yeah, I think it is an important distinction.
My local community college had an absolute genius of a math professor. But he had bailed on academia and decided to teach math in a community college, because he felt those people needed math the most.
He would dress up and do whatever he could to make the students understand. I remember him dressing up as a surgeon in algebra to talk about "operations".
He was great. He would hang out with students in the rec center, and I asked him a question about calc, and he broke it down so well, I completely got it.
It's the hard work and sacrifices of those teachers like him that worth to be consider and to be thankful.
Teachers are the true hero when we talk about knowledge!
Big thanks and more power to them.
I had an art teacher in elementary school that would dress as Santa on the 25th of every month and wear a Walmart smock and other costumes throughout the year
Our principal and PE teacher were infamous for rewarding the students for something or other (grades maybe.) and the reward was the two of them dressing in realistic gorilla suits and exploring all over the place while visiting each classroom. Their dedication to acting like genuine gorillas for the kids in what must have been crazy hot suits is impressive in hindsight.
In the post, we see that 1 student appeared to be annoyed by the teacher’s costume. We can also see what appears to be 3 different students. We may deduce that none of those heads belong to the annoyed student since they most likely took the picture (however, their friend might have taken the picture and shared it with the annoyed student).
Regardless, 1/4 = 0.25 … not half.
More info needed to conclude that half the students were annoyed.
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u/Cupcake_dipper Aug 10 '21
it's good to see a man dedicated to make the life of his students better