now i think that, if, at that time i was attending school, if some of the teachers had reprimanded us and just been firm with us and told us not to do something or to refrain from something wrong, without trying to humiliate us, then i wouldn't be writing this. One of the main problems i feel is that some teachers think they have the authority to treat you like some 'hopeless' thing - like as if you haven't done anything, and that you have a duty to listen quietly to any rubbish that they hurl at you. and then another time, i hadn't completed some work given by the teacher, and she had the impertinence to ask me this absolutely absurd question - whether i hadn't been able to complete the work due to family problems - what on earth? i remember one thing - i suuuuuuuuure didn't have any symptoms of that kind. one slightly different experience i had was when i had to send a message to another teacher and left the class only for a little while, to find out, when i came back, that the teacher had said something about me behind my back. i mean, most of the time, the child hasn't even done anything serious, and he/she just gets lambasted in front of all his/her friends. Getting to know their students as individuals when they have so MANY students to teach. That is one of the the challenges that teachers face. What might inspire one student to behave could crush another student. It is NOT okay to humiliate or degrade a child in front of his peers, to the point that it will damage his self esteem.Įach student is an individual. It's okay to correct a child in front of the class withing reason. Unfortunately our system is so messed up that the good teachers don't get the credit they deserve and the lousy teachers can't be fired. There are teachers who bully and humiliate children just because they can. These kids are probably a major cause of teachers who burn out.īut, there are also teachers who use their postion as a power trip. Some kids are harder to deal with than others. Sometimes they just do the best they can with the situation they've been delt. I realize that teachers have a lot to deal with. If the child has a short attention span or perhaps even some self control issues, you don't demean them. If the child is having trouble learning a lesson, you don't call the child out in front of the class to make an example of him. What I don't think is acceptable is when a teacher takes his or her own issues out on a child, or when the teacher doesn't bother to try to see the whole picture. If that happens in front of his or her peers, so be it. #Teacher worktime fullOf course, if the child is disrupting a classroom full of children in the middle of a lesson or during worktime, the teacher must address the situation imediately. There is a difference between scolding a child for disrupting the class and humiliating or demeaning a child for something that he cannot do or control.
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