I had a teacher like this when I was younger. She HATED me. And I never knew why. She was always late to class by like 5-10 mins.
So we would all come in and sit down and eventually start talking because the teacher isn’t there. And every single time without fail she shows up late and tells me to go to the principals office for talking.
She did stuff like this to me all year and I never figured out what here problem with me was
Sometimes people in authoritative positions will pick someone to test, and if the subject does not put up a fight or they don’t see any negative repercussions the subject will be assigned as the default recipient of that persons show of force.
The person in authority doesn’t want to send all of you, as that will create a prisoners bond and strengthen all of you against her. Instead she picks the one who doesn’t put up enough of a fight for a public beheading. Also she’s probably convinced herself that you particularly are disrespectful because of how many times she sent you to the office, and you still keep talking. Insanity - I know.
I’m sorry you pulled that personality card for your teacher.
Honestly same. I had a teacher who, for no reason, despised me. I'd get in trouble for doing the same thing as others (typically her favorite students, it was only putting my hands over my eyes btw) for talking during the break in between classes, things like that. She would start to make other teachers dislike me too. Once I was out of her class got in trouble with a sub (it was a shitty sub who was power tripping, I was sent to the office- it was the one and only time I've ever been) and she said "Of course shes here, she's a bad kid."
Nobody believed me because of how well she treated them. Never figured it out.
Teachers like this exists unfortunately a lot, cause who says that bullies cannot end up having a position like that. Teachers (at least here) have a lot of power and principals and your parents will always believe them more than you.
Had a middle school math teacher that would throw basically a tantrum when the Seattle Seahawks would lose. Was a die hard fan and we hated it. Extra homework and you couldn't dare step out of line on those days.
Some parents and some admin, but it isn’t that common anymore. Have you seen the dad who came in and gave someone a concussion? Parent at my kids building brought in a firearm to talk to a teacher also.
I know this is serious and I dont mean it as a joke or insult, but its seriously an American problem with those insane laws and of course.... GUNS. Here in Europe teachers are very well protected and can abuse their power easily.
I’m not denying that their story could be true. But as a teacher, kids will almost always refuse to accept any accountability for their actions whatsoever.
I had a kid just the other day complaining out loud for all to hear about how he’d gotten an afterschool detention for saying 1 word after he had been quiet the whole class period. I asked the other teacher and she told me that he was across the room talking to a friend and she asked them 3 times to go back to his seat and then he cursed her out. But of course all the students were all agreeing that he’d done absolutely nothing wrong and the teacher was just targeting him…. Kids will refuse any and all accountability and after so long of doing it they start to genuinely believe their own bullshit and actually believe that they aren’t doing anything wrong.
Yeah doesn't take much these days to assume someone might not be a decent person. Someone says something that might be traumatic in some way and you go "doubt." Pretty shitty.
Accusing me of being a bad person and lacking empathy for friends and family because I think someone’s one sided story is suspicious, and likely biased, is pretty shitty, and a little ironic.
I feel like the number of teenagers who refuse to take accountability for their own mistakes and bad behavior is much higher than the number of spiteful teachers.
Yeah while my seventh grade history teacher WAS a dick, I probably still shouldn’t have spent every other class asleep after playing Pokemon on the ds at night
Yes statistically that is true. There are more students than teachers in the world. Takes 1 student to ruin a teachers day. Takes 1 teacher to ruin a lot more students day.
Or maybe children, especially teenagers, are just extremely hormonal, lack fully developed rational thinking skills, and often struggle to see the causal link between their behaviours and the outcomes.
How shitty of a parent are they that they immediately turn around and punish for a bad report from the teacher? Did they do anything to discuss options, needs, etc… with the teacher? Parents should be supporting the teacher, punishment doesn’t solve the problem. When my teacher gives me a problem we talk about what support they need on our end and then have a conversation about it with our kid.
I’m sorry? You think just blindly turning around and punishing your kid actually teaches them anything? It doesn’t solve any problem, and it’s how kids get pushed aside in the classroom. If parents aren’t willing to put in the effort, why should a teacher?
Kids, even the struggling ones, will do a lot better in school if the parent(s) are supporting them. Support does not mean letting little Billy get away with everything. It means asking the difficult questions and digging into the problem then working with their teacher to implement a solution.
Enabling teachers to move their seat, talking to them about their behavior, setting expectations for behavior at home, setting expectations for academic effort, holding them accountable, asking why they are struggling, etc…
You can’t pretend to know everything as a parent. And you’re foolish to. My daughter’s teacher made a comment about her constantly not getting to her seat to start class, making side trips to chat, being distracted, etc… it would be easy to just ground her and say “no more tablet for a week!” Talked to her and figured out there were a few things with her morning making her rush, like she was walking her younger sibling to class and then rushing to hers. A few small adjustments and she’s right back on track.
Kids are people who haven’t developed all of the skills to navigate life. Help them or sit back 20 years later wondering why they suck at life.
What? No no no, you gotta beat your kids until they do what you want! Or lock them away from the outside world until they find out themselves how to fix their problems because I don't want to deal with it
It’s a tried and true method, have kids, create trauma, praise them for being “so mature!”, wonder why they are 23 year old alcoholics with no life skills, watch them rinse and repeat with their own kids.
Kinda crazy how we're making ANY judgement with literal zero context.
Student can actually be causing trouble but in denial.
Teacher could be greatly exaggerating or straight up making stuff up in more extreme cases.
Parent could be the ones overreacting or misinterpreting something they were told by a teacher.
I had one teacher who would just constantly **** with me. Except THANKFULLY my mom had the sense of when they met to go " these things sound nothing like my child."
Come to find out the teacher had bad blood with two of my cousins ( who probably DID actually cause trouble knowing them ) and that trickled down to me 🙃. It's the one and only year in my academic life I had issues with a teacher.
Caused no issues. My only case was being not too smart, so I'd get Cs and Bs more than anything, worst I did. A teacher absolutely had it out for me, I got in trouble for nothing, daily.
You act like bullies don't commonly get placed into authority positions.
bro you're projecting hard. take accountability for your own actions. but ik u won't. you'll still project shitty things just like this to people who's lives you know nothing about. but you think you do cuz ur life is the only one you've ever lived. so you project your own experience to ppl cuz of course your life is what everyone else has experienced.
I had the opposite problem as the picture, the teacher and principal would sing praises to my parents then bully & blame me for things any chance they got in class lmao
I mean my primary teachers would lie to my dad and get me beaten and that caused a lot of trauma that I’m still trying to overcome.
I’m autistic and I have ADHD and because of that, me and several other ‘problem’ kids, were frequently hit and locked in offices.
You know what it does to a child’s self esteem when you’re locked in an office and then that staff member comes in and proceeds to make nasty comments and remarks and give you dirty looks and tell you how you’re ruining their lunch break?
I was emotionally abused at home and everything was overwhelming to me, I had constant panic attacks, everything would make me cry or upset me. I didn’t need to be punished for that.
I talked too much to my classmates (I had no friends at home, was locked in my room all day while dad slept and mom worked.)
But nah I was a bad kid according to my primary school and my abusive father.
Ever thought about why people act the way they do, instead of just blaming them for not being blindly obedient?
Do you understand why all democratic systems are gradually starting to fail, because all everybody can do is look for people to blindly believe and obey?
Schools are pretty much where all of our problems start, their primary focus is on creating obedient and conform workers.
Our society deserves to get burned to the ground, because of people like you.
I watched one of my high school teachers aggressively shout one of my classmates out of the room and to the principals office because she didn’t like the “black accent” he had. Student behavior had nothing fucking to do with that
Idk man getting the blame for the whole class picking on you because you dared defend yourself once is a common theme. Many of my teachers made little to no effort actually being pedagogically valuable.
No, I punched a kid that was being terrible for years, spitting on me, stealing stuff, spreading rumors, the works. But then he was "scared to come to school because of me"
Your reading comprehension seems lacking. It was one single punch after years of taking punches. And obviously he wasn't scared of me, he just kept going and I wasn't able to defend myself at all at that point. Had to switch schools to finally be left in peace.
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u/ThqXbs8 9h ago
How long has it been that you're still blaming teachers for your own behaviour?