[ SECRET POST #2667 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2667 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

Re: Non-fandom secrets!

[herpymcderp]

My students disagreed. When I told them I was going to leave the job they didn't want me to go because I had succeeded in teaching them more in one year than the last three people who held the position had done in their terms combined.

I'm a fair instructor, but I expect you to show up on time, pay attention, and contribute occasionally. Can't do that? Well then you shouldn't be in my classroom.

Re: Non-fandom secrets!

[yield]

uh huh. calling out someone purposefully to mock them aka let everyone "know he's not going to pass the class" truly sounds like a+ teaching behavior.

Re: Non-fandom secrets!

[herpymcderp]

Okay. Assume you have a student who comes in ten minutes late to class and disrupts everything, as a routine. After he's in the classroom he proceeds to kick chairs around with his feet, try to play on his phone or any other device he's got on him, have conversations in the middle of the lecture, he never answers a question of his own accord in the entire 12 months of you teaching him. If you give him an inch, he'll start trying to steal supplies and throw things.

Since I'm not allowed to do anything else about it, how else would you suggest I assert authority there? Keep in mind I can't throw him out of class; it's a private school and the boss doesn't allow it.

That is the kind of shit one has to deal with in certain teaching jobs. If all students were roses and sunshine that would be one thing.

Re: Non-fandom secrets!

[yield]

ok, but this is an entirely different type of story than just some kid not paying attention. i understand being between a rock and a hard place when it comes to how you are able to discipline students (ive grown up all my life surrounded by teachers and their stories).

there are however some teachers out there who have no problem calling out/mocking students publicly for no damn good reason, or not understanding that not all students learn the same or want the same things from their classroom experience. your initial comment made you sound like you fell into that category.

Re: Non-fandom secrets!

[herpymcderp]

It would be the same idea if you weren't doing your homework in my class. If you've gotten to the point where you're consistently not participating, poor assignments, no involvement... you're wasting my time and resources that I could be devoting to the people who are actually there to learn.

I'm not saying I would be cruel to people who might have had a late night, but trust me when I say that as a teacher I know your base performance. I know when a good student is having an off day, I know when a student is just not applying themselves, and I know when a student is willfully trying to cause dissention. The difference is huge.

Those last two circumstances are the only times I would ever consider using shame to kick someone into shape or keep them in line. And then it would have to be a problem that I hadn't already tried other methods of dealing with.

Re: Non-fandom secrets!

[diet_poison]

do you actually think that everyone who struggles/doesn't always do the work is really just purely lazy and there's never anything else going on there?

this makes me pretty angry tbh, and it makes me feel like uptight profs/teachers like you would just have told me to drop out of college four years ago instead of stick it out.

you are also taking it WAY too personally when people don't perform to your standard. I promise they are not doing it because of you.