When will teachers....

[Boozy]

I don't know if it's unusual, since I don't know everyone. But in my experience, everyone I know is able to recall at least one favourite teacher very fondly.

[DesignFox]

I don't know if it's unusual, since I don't know everyone. But in my experience, everyone I know is able to recall at least one favourite teacher very fondly.

count me in that number.

[Cats]

While I understand how you feel, you must understand...good and bad people come from all walks of life, are of all ages, and work in every profession imaginable; teachers included. There are teachers that are good and caring and do quite well in their role as a role model for the next generation. These teachers do a thankless job, don't get nearly enough credit, but are remembered silently by their students nonetheless.

But there also exists out there teachers who DON'T give a rats ass about their students, their futures, or how much of a negative effect they have on the young ones who grace their classroom. Heck, some of them can't even pass the bare minimum of knowing the subject matter of which they teach!

I've had PLENTY of good teachers. There was Mrs. Willets, who was a very supportive math teacher who helped me transition into a lower level class and turned my year around, as well as a confidate I could turn to for the rest of high school (I felt closer to her than my own mom). There was her husband, Mr. Willets, who was an awsome funny biology teacher who knew how to teach the material well, never gave homework, and kept the class fun. There was Mrs. Mooney, my AP bio teacher, who was very fair in her grading and did her absolute best to prep us for the AP exam, even keeping the best essays of each student to compile into a study packet so we could help one another as well.

Then there was Mr. Jordan, arguably THE best teacher I ever had (US history). One of the first things he told us at the start of the year was that he wasn't just teaching us the facts, he was going to teach us WHAT facts were important, and WHY, how we could relate events in history to our own lives; and most importantly, not WHAT to think, but HOW to think for ourselves. We had mock debates and trails in class, he was very interactive, and everyone loved him. If you thought something related to the topic at hand was bullshit, you were well within your rights to say so, as long as you explained why. He taught what he was required to, while still respecting the students and their opinions and allowing them to be themselves. He was a great man, and to this day, I feel very privliged to have had him as an educator.


I've also had plenty of teachers who really didn't care and just did the bare minimum, or in some cases, not EVEN that. And unlike college, you couldn't write a review of the class or the teacher come the end of the year. And pile on the tenue rule, and you have some teachers still in the classrooms teaching and being role models, when they have, im my opinion, no right to be there at all. And while yes, there will probably always be that one asshole teacher that everyone hates in pretty much every school, this careless teacher thing happens far more often than it should, and sadly, they overshadow the ones out there who truely DO care and deserve better.

The ones who are good deserve cake and pie. The others, well, should take a lesson from them.

[McDreidel09]

Next school year, I am going in to be a high school english teacher. When I said on CS about when will teachers do their job, I was referring to the ones who see it happen and just shrug their shoulders and punish the victims. That happened to me so many times. They always turned it around on me, saying that I was too sensitive and was bringing it upon myself for being different.

I have many great teachers. They are the top reason that I am crying today,on my last day of high school. I did mention my amazing teachers in my post who don't tolerate the bullying. They are the ones who made my life great.

[shroo]

I do understand there are horrible teachers...trust me, I've had my fill. I think I took the comments to heart a little too quickly because of recent events at work.

Last month one of our students commited suicide.

I'm not going to go into details, but essentially he was caught doing something illegal on school grounds. Parents were called, he was sent home...and he killed himself.
Before he left one of the teachers (who actually had no idea why he was being sent home, the student had a history of being in trouble) told him "Don't worry buddy, we'll get through it."

The family turned around and blamed the school, claiming we failed him. I wish I could express how utterly wrong they are, but I don't have the words. We did everything for him...when he was even in school. The parents let him skip and drop out at will (yeah, he yo-yoed for a bit).

I wasn't trying to say there are no bad teachers...because I know there are, I became a teacher to off shoot the bad ones.
I guess right now I'm just a little jaded and defensive, and for that I am sorry.

[BuggedMei]

I've wanted to be a teacher ever since middle school.. Reading stuff like this almost makes me a little scared to finish college like this, but I just gotta keep thinking that I'm doing it to help the next group be less entitles whiny brats.

All I wanna do is say I changed ONE of them. Out of the hundreds of thousands of potential students I might have, I wanna say I turned ONE of them onto something that changed them, or helped them. It could be as simple as turning one of them onto classic literature or something as life changing as breaking the cycle of putting one kid down over and over. I'd prefer hundreds more, but as long as I can reach out to ONE.. I think I'll be allright.

Like someone said, we can all name one teacher who was memorable to us. Thats where I'd like to be.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Wow. Shroo, I'm sorry, that cannot be easy.

[tabbyblack13]

Shroo it is horrible that parents think that a school is there to raise their kids. Parents need to get there heads out of the sand (I would use other words but I need to tone down my language for the nephew). I feel sorry to hear such news and I wonder what else was going on at home that would cause him to kill himself. I also feel sorry for the teacher who tried to encourage him. The teacher was only trying to help then that happens.