do your teachers act like teenagers to try and fit in?
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i think it is disgusting that teachers behave like this instead of setting standards higher - and being a role model. Instead, they feel they have to be one of the gang - creepy if you ask me.
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There could be a number of reasons why a teacher may appear to be "rude" to their students. Think about each of these, watch your teachers, and decide which one(s) you're seeing (or if you notice something else). If it's not your behavior or attitude that's causing it, be understanding. Teachers are human.\n1. If a student is rude, or reacts to a teacher as a peer rather than as an authority figure. Teachers are your boss while you're in their classroom, just like your boss when you get a job. Are you treating them as in charge?\n2. If students are not attending to course content, turning in work, or attempting to learn what the teacher is trying to teach. (Do you like doing things for people, and then have them act like they don't care about what you're trying to do?)\n3. Too many students, too little time.\n4. Too much paperwork, too little time.\n5. Too many administrative demands, too little time.\n6. Too many parents, too little time.\n7. Too many bills, too little money.\n8. Personality conflicts with other teachers.\n9. Personality conflicts with family members.\n10. Personality conflicts with non-work friends.\n11. Annual teacher performance evaluations are coming up.\n12. You do the same thing, year after year, after year, after year, after year, after year, after year, after year.... and how many of the people whose lives you try to improve say "thank you"....?
464405
Yes!! Sub teachers are people like us who come in and give out a worksheet for you to take an hour to do. They are not the ultimate lecturer. They are in most cases the people you want to end up in your class (if your teacher is a prude)! But there are some that want to actually be teachers and try to give a student pure hell. However if the sub is the person who gives you a hard time pray about it and just know that chances are they wont be there tommorrow!!
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It's not fun, I know how you feel.\nYou just have to learn to not care.\nIt's tough...and I know it's a lot easier to say then do.\nSo what if they find out? If they treat you any differently, then they aren't good friends and don't deserve to have you as a friend.\nAnd if you are worried about people like, making fun of you or something, then just know that the only reason they are making fun of you is to raise thier own self-esteem, and that you are better then that.\nTry and take pride in being irregular, then again, I'm not sure exactly why you're irregular, but ya.\nIf it still bothers you, talk to the teachers about it, and ask them if maybe there is some way you could be called on the normal roll call.\n\n\nI hope that I helped. ^_^
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I understand your frustration.  I have taught high school for 8 years and it is very discouraging at times to see the situations that exist in the classroom.  First of all, there is a mandate that Special Education students be mainstreamed into the general classroom population.  I have had a class of 34 students with 9 Spec. Ed. students (this is becoming more and more typical).  There are supposed to be teacher's aides to help in classes like that, but school budgets are spent so unwisely, at times, that there is no money for a teacher's aide for every teacher with a significant amount of Spec. Ed. students (who either have a learning disability, a behavioral disability, or an emotional disability).  This leaves the teacher and the students at a disadvantage.  Teachers now use more time on class management than on class instruction.  And, it's not just because of Spec. Ed. students.  For some reason many students like to "dumb down" on their own as to not be ridiculed by their peers for being too smart, a nerd, or a "lame".  School administration look at teachers with disdain and often let go of teachers with too high of a failure rate, so many teachers, when presented with a class or classes that do not produce on the expected level then create a curriculum that they feel the students have a chance to pass, even if it does not prepare a student to be on level.  Our educational system is in deep need of reforms that work, not just reforms that look good on paper but have no substance or effectiveness in the classroom or to the students.  I try to prepare students for high school and beyond, whether they are college bound, interested in vocational training, or ready to work once they graduate.  Teaching is a many tiered profession (teacher, counselor, mentor) if children are to be educated properly.  I worry about the same things you do, but I also know that the big decisions about education often do not rest upon  teachers' shoulders, but on an administration that is often too long out of the classroom to remember or know the things that work and the things that do not.  I only hope that it gets better before it continues getting worse.
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There is no magic answer.\nWhat is it that experienced teachers do to keep good order? It might be to do with thorough preparation and oganisation, praise, reward, engagement with pupils, talking with pupils rather than to pupils, listening, humour, quick response to signs of disorder, consistency, sparse use of punishment and clear boundaries, etc. The list is long!\nExperience is a major aspect as is working in the same place for some years.\nAnybody will get fed up and restless with a diet of uninteresting, meaningless, academic stuff - especially if they can't understand it.\nEverybody responds well to stuff they enjoy, do well at ,is interesting and is relevant.
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They have to deal with kids every day, which is stressful in itself.  They don't get paid that much, and their job is very important.  It doesn't make it any easier when their students act up.  I had some mean teachers when I was a kid, but I understand why some are like that now.  Of course, some people are just mean in general and shouldn't even be teaching!
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Teachers may "dress up" (or not) for a number of reasons.\n\nSome teachers dress up because their schools require it.  Dress codes are probably as typical for teachers as they are for students.  (Teachers just don't complain about them as often or loudly.)\n\nSome teachers dress up because they think that students will respect it.  Other teachers "dress down" because they think that students will respect it.  (Neither the up- nor the down-dressers realize that students think the teachers look like dorks in any case.)\n\nSome teachers dress up because they are "old school," and they believe that a person doing a professional job should be dressed in clothing appropriate to a professional.  (And they're right about this.)\n\nSome teachers dress up or down because they feel that clothing is, or should be, a reflection of personality.  From their perspective, the style of dress is just "who they are."  (And some of them don't realize that certain aspects of personality don't need to be on display on the job.)\n\nSome teachers dress up out of respect for their topic and for their students.  They believe that their topic deserves to be treated well, and that their students are important people.  Dressing well is one way they can reflect this belief.  (And, again, they're right.)
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well i have a couple\nthey have less of a social life and interaction with other people and because of that if they later decide to start going to public school in high school like a few people i know did they are kind of thought of as being nerdy and dont really know a lot of the slang...which i suppose is also a good thing sometimes, but they have to learn everything like that.
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For some yes.  For others, it's a job.   But considering how little we pay them, you'd think there's something else there besides just a job.\n\nNow consider this.  Teachers are human too.  They have good days and bad.  They have favorites (even if they don't say it).  So what you are feeling might be some of that.
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I have trouble with the strictness at my school.  As much as I understand it, it's really a bummer for us kids that are actually well-behaved, you know?  *sighs*  It's sad...
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I think it helps.  Depends on what student see as the problem. Students don't like strict teachers at first, but hopefully see that that teacher cares about them.
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No, I have always been kind and thoughtful to all teachers.\nMy mother taught me to treat people the way you want to be treated.  With respect.  Oh and by the way I am a substitute teacher.  I remember how students in school treated the sub.    I love the job.  Not all kids are trying to get one on the teacher. I like my kids..Have a great day!
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Our actions can have effects that travel and/ or we may be unaware of how things affect those around us. As a teacher, I wonder at how i'm affecting these kids lives. Many really like me and i wonder if they'll remember me for a long time (like i remember some of my teachers) and how much do i shape them.
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teachers aren't mean, kids are brats.
558760
Not at all. If they are a good teacher, they are a good teacher. Put it this way; do you recall being influenced by your teachers sexuality one bit? I know I ceratinly wasn't. Things like homosexuality are part of the world, hiding it away from kids is not the answer.
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wow....\nno, teachers don't live at school. they have normal lives just like all other people. they live in houses.