Teachers vs. students and respect - Comments

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See, a lot of teachers here were genuinely passionate about the subjects that they taught, but you did get one or two who just didn't care at all so I get what that's like. Yeah, it sounds absolutely disgusting. I don't understand why you'd humiliate someone like that. Getting people to record it is just plain mean as well, it makes it so much worse for the pupil involved. I genuinely hope that something gets done about that teacher because that sort of behaviour shouldn't be allowed to be encouraged.

I mean, I get that students should respect teachers and authority figures, but only if they earn it. Respect has to be earned by everyone else in all parts of life, so why should teachers think they can just automatically be respected and no one should question it? If the teacher did that and then interrupted her student while the student was talking, the teacher clearly doesn't have respect for her students. She shouldn't expect to be respected if she isn't going to respect anyone else.

Oh yeah, they're no supposed to follow students, but that doesn't stop just tweet watching. it's gross.

If the professor interrupted her, clearly the professor doesn't have any respect for her students.

@ Kinki Jinki
That's just freaking immature and unprofessional. I've never gotten any trouble from anything like that and I even rant on facebook about my (now ex)job and I never had any repercussion because it is my own private outlet.

@ dougie poynter;
We were like that in middle school. A professor bad-mouthed or ridiculed a student, we stood together and made that professor's week a living hell until they apologized. In high school it was more difficult because I was in a public one and teachers in public high schools here in Mexico just don't give a fuck as long as they get paid. We had the few who really did care for students, but the majority were out to make monetary gain from themselves. But what I saw in this classroom is the students making fun of their classmate and how the professor is ridiculing her in front of everyone; they even have cameras pulled out and they uploaded the video online, which is just horrible for the girl.

@ indigo adam.
Exactly; I think it's just ridiculous how much power the teacher has on that classroom that even on their own time, students can't say anything about the class or her because there will be repercussions.

@ deandra the new girl
Isn't there like a... ethics code that does not allow a teacher to follow students on twitter or befriending them on facebook? Or how do they even get their usernames on twitter? That's just freaking ridiculous and a blatant invasion to privacy

Teachers and my principal are all the time tweet watching. They'll bring up shit we said (THAT'S NOT EVEN ABOUT THEM) up trying to bust us. They'll bring up stuff not even about them, not even something that was tweeted during school hours, trying to somehow embarrass or get us in trouble. I think it's wrong. I don't care what my teachers have to say on twitter, why do they care what I have to say?

Anyway, that rant is over.

On to the next, I think that that professor is beyond immature and needs to grow up. I feel like that was basically a time waster and she just had her panties in a twist. She wasted class time. She should have spoken to the girl individually instead of that.

Social control at it's best, I reckon. We got it quite bad in high school. The only thing is, because our school had a rep for bordering on prison-like control issues, it really didn't seem like that big of a deal.

We had this problem with my old secondary school. They used to actually send letters home to students who badmouthed any part of the school on Twitter. I actually got one for complaining that my school blazer was too hot and uncomfortable (we weren't allowed to take them off in class unless it was boiling) and I thought it was actually a little disgusting that everyone in my year at school with Twitter had to turn our accounts private so that we could actually post silly things like that. It isn't as if it affects anyone. We're ranting, which is a perfectly natural human response to things we don't like. I understand that students need to have respect for the school's authority figures, but there is a way of going about it and that teacher just seems to have this warped view that she can force people to respect her. That's not going to work, it's going to do the exact opposite. I don't know if the students at that school are like the ones at my old school, but if we had been subjected to a teacher like that, we'd have made her life a living hell. She wouldn't have gotten one ounce of respect from us. In a way, we used to operate on a "we respect you and you respect us" with most of our subject teachers and it worked well. Our headteacher was the same as this teacher though, he demanded respect. He didn't get it because he did it in an intimidating way and people would rebel.

Public ridicule isn't acceptable anywhere in life, so I don't see why someone in such a high authority position should be allowed to get away with it.

When I was in 12th grade, I got pissed this one time my English teacher decided to give a girl a 20 (scores here are 0-20) when her English skills are average, and gave me a 19 when my presentation was much better. I posted on facebook about how some people get good grades without deserving them. The next day, the entire class knew about that post, even people who weren't my fb friends, and so did the teacher. I got suspended for writing on my own facebook page.

@ Kurtni
Exactly, and the comments on the other side of the argument are commending her for "demanding respect" (that's exactly the wording, "Exigiendo respeto" in Spanish), but respect is not something you can demand; you have to earn it and that's why I think the professor was completely out of line there.

And the thing with where I live in, both on the side of Mexico and of the U.S., the Latino population has that idea that teachers are authority figures that you cannot argue with and have to obey with everything they say. It's horrible when teachers have such an enormous amount of power over the students and parents don't put forth complaints because "the teacher is right and you're a student so you should respect them". This is the reason why I get so many teenagers on counseling, because teachers want them to act the way that they want and demand respect and parents don't do much to protect their children, so we see conflict within the family and we see kids feeling like they're not worth it and disenchanted with education and learning.

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I think the teacher was unprofessional and wrong in the way she managed the situation; she publicly ridiculed a student in front of her whole classmates f

The fact that she would think that's acceptable suggests to me she hadn't earned any respect to start with. It doesn't sound like she was really teaching about respect or ethics, but trying to shame her for daring to criticize an authority figure.