Why are English teachers so mean and evil?
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We sign a blood pact with the Secret Leader of the Cult of English Teachers, aka She Who Must Be Obeyed, aka The Greater Gerund Goddess!  On penalty of losing our right to wield red-ink pens and snarl at poorly constructed essays, we swear to be mean and evil and visit our wrath upon those poor wretches, our students.  \n\nSo you see, if we didn't cackle like the Furies and berate like banshees we'd be in serious trouble.\n\n-A former English teacher
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They want teachers to agree with them that "my child would NEVER behave like that!!"\nThey want teachers to give their children something for nothing...i.e. grades.\nThey want teachers to suddenly come up with an extra-credit assignment for their child (so the little darling can pass) when there are two weeks left in the final semester and their child's average is sitting at 47%.\nThey want teachers to put their own life on hold while they spend their entire weekend grading extra-credit assignments so their wonderfully well-behaved, academically groomed child WILL pass, dammit!\nAnd so on, and so on, and so on......
442806
From my experience, the English are aloof - they do their own thing and they are not proactively friendly.  This is NOT to say that they are boring or mean.  It's just that they don't go out of their way to be friendly nor wish to display excitement.  Stoicism at its finest.
988526
Everybody hates mean teachers, but I think teachers can be strict without being mean. Teachers that are too easy will not prepare you for the real world. Strict teachers hold students to high standards of effort and behavior, but if students make a genuine effort then they are happy. Mean teachers, on the contrary, expect a certain perfection... and are mean about it! Teachers can be strict and mean, yes, but mostly there is a fine line. Strict teachers are good, but kids want easy teachers. Or, they just don't want mean teachers!
1005654
This teacher is not behaving the way she should. She is being seductive and she could get into alot of trouble. You need to stay away from her because she is not following the rules. Please talk to your parents or a counselor about this. She is going to get some kid into a real mess -- worse than you can imagine.
521166
some teachers are ok but some are just downright nasty and unfair and i loathe them.
329200
Hah, nobody likes teachers.\nTeachers do things they shouldn't.\nThey get away with it.\n\nLa la la life goes on.
121543
I agree with Bumper, I too teach students. And based on what you said, I don't think it's that the teacher hates you, it's more obvious that you are making it difficult for the teacher to teach. For instance, you called the teacher racist. Whenever a student says that, more than likely it's the student who's racist and not the teacher and it sounds like you have anger issues also. Thus, you have a negative outlook on this teacher, resulting in you thinking they feel the same way towards you. \n\n     If you want the teacher to like you and not feel hated, try helping the teacher out; like telling the students to shut up and paying attention and doing everything the teacher says. Your teacher will realize you want to make a difference and he will change his behavior towards you. Like the saying goes, "If you can't beat then, join them." Best of luck to you in school. Remember, it's not the end of the world if you have a teacher like this. All you want to focus on is getting a passing grade, going on to the next grade level, and making it easier on yourself and the others around you so it's not stressful. Again, best of luck.
448958
Since all teachers have different ways of torturing their students, I suggest you take your query and the answers you receive directly to the source.  Make your teacher EXPLAIN exactly what it is that they are expecting you to do.  To me "cleanup" would mean to rewrite it to benefit your original statement, but even that seems too bizarre for a solution to your problem.  Maybe it is the use of real & ficticious characters your teacher was making reference to.  Good luck, I'm probably NO help. Thanks for the brain teaser!
1063618
In every walk of life their will be people like that. Being a teacher is no exception.
716816
Don't you hate it when people say listen carefully instead of listening themselves. People suck.\nAnd besides, it was the correct answer. The teacher got it wrong. Teachers suck.
889880
power goes to their head !!!!! we had a chemistry teacher in our very last semester of nursing school,who made it so hard (more than u ever use in actual nursing) that everyones average grade fell,most of us barely passed her class- and i had been on high honour roll for 4 years !!! she laughingly told us she liked to take everyone down a peg or two before we graduated.i got by,as my other grades were gr8,but for some,it put them in real jeapordy. i thought that was just plain mean and spiteful.she was a drinker,maybe that had something to do with it.amazing what u can get away with,once u have tenure !!!!
858697
I am a teaching assisant and there are so many children now in the 'inclusion' zone, it is sometimes impossible to have a controlled classroon. There are ADD, Aspergers, extreme low level learners, just plain old bad behaviour alll in the mix as well as the normal good children that are just there to learn. The teachers hands are tied. They can't get rid of any of these children as the law states they have to be included. It can be hell. I feel most sorry for the good ones who are getting left behind because so much time is taken with all of these demanding children.
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I taught in a public school for three years.  The "powers that be" actually told me to stop grading for grammatical and spelling errors, saying all of my students would fail.  That is a travesty.  From my perspective as a teacher, ignorance (which is what I believe you are really asking) is on the rise.  Despite compulsory education, it almost appears to me that we are reverting to a 19th century-like model with an educated few and masses of ignorance.
170654
That is very rude and surely causes the kid alot of pain. The teacher should be dealt with by her superiors. She should know better. You might try becomming this kid's friend. He could probably use one that's understanding and kind. If someone starts taking his side that person may get some flack but the best part is knowing you're doing the right thing for the right reason. Good luck.
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Sixth graders can be very moody and oppositional. They are impulsive and this can sometimes appear as rudeness, they just say whatever pops into their heads. If you have a classroom climate where there is a lot of rudeness it is usually because it has become "cool" to be so. The ringleader might be the only truly rude one, he/she might have family or emotional problems and the others are mimicking him as they can tell it is a way to gain power over the adults or other children. They are not inherently rude beings, but they want desperately to fit in and be cool. This is the beginning of the peak of cliques.\n\nThey are very self-absorbed, and things are only important if they are important to them, at that moment. They love to argue and disagree as a way of showing their independence. They are still children and they have limited areas of power, but they can disagree with you, and they will.\n\nThey have extremes of emotion and can be cruel to eachother. They can sound like adults, and sometimes it is easy to assume they think like adults and know what they are doing, but they generally do not think as clearly as we do. They love humor in any form.\n\nIn class they will generally respond better to new information and activities than the overload of review they can sometimes get at this level.
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Some of the problems arise from the student's inability to understand the English language.  Other problems are induced by a cultural dialect that the student refuses to shed.  The largest problem in teaching English is not the teacher, but the rebellious student and the legalities of not being able to punish a student for being disruptive or rude.  These name a few; I'm sure there are many more reasons.