That teacher deserved what he got.
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mphsss — 14 years ago(December 08, 2011 12:40 PM)
I knew a teacher in high school who seemed to daily ridicule this kid I knew who I think was in special-ed classes and maybe had been in one of his classes, but anyway I personally felt he treated this kid like crapand went to levels no other staff member has ever done.
Now I'm generally very quiet but one day I was standing around with this kid and I went to put a dollar in the vending machine which I had gotten from someone else and which had previously not worked in another machine and again didn't now in this one. So the kid and I are talking in this hallway area outside the cafeteria and this teacher was like the most into telling people "Get back in the cafeteria." out of all the other teachers on lunch duty. And the kid and I are talking for a little bit.
So as I'm walking away he says to go back in the cafeteria and as I get further he goes "You may not be smart but you probably know how to use a vending machine". Now I assume he may have only said that because of the presence of this other guy, but for all I know he was actually saying it to me. And so completely out of character for my calm self I go "What the FUCH was that!"
To which several of the vice principal-type members of the administration respond negatively toward me and don't even seem to care that involved one of their teachers. Now I was just looking out for the kid because I got tired of listening to the dude bully him all the time.
And while they're talking to me he kinda stands off in the distance like a coward watching me get in trouble. I point directly at him explaining that it was in response to what one of their staff members said but they didn't really seem to care. They told me I was a senior and should know better than that! Apparently bullying someone with learning disabilities and challenging the intelligence of someone you don't even know and as a teacher is OK though!
Oh I was pissed. -
mphsss — 14 years ago(December 09, 2011 01:17 PM)
Wow I'm surprised this board is still active.
I think part of what pissed me off was he said that 2 days after I had taken the ACT, which is some sort of equivalent to SATs. And I knew I didn't do so well because I left much of the math and science portions blanktook it as a senior, had been 18 months since I'd done algebra!
However, I did discover that I was more advanced in English than 63% of students in the U.S. That part was fun. -
Cherubim1 — 14 years ago(March 28, 2012 05:56 AM)
It's pretty low behavior for a teacher to provoke a student who is clearly suffering trauma from the loss of a parent.
I remember back in High School when a teacher made a crack about my European heritage which I took offense to. I asked the teacher to explain what they meant and he made some remark which was totally offensive. Needless to say I reported this jackass of a teacher to the principal and with the help of student witnesses I was able to get this poor excuse of a teacher expelled. -
mphsss — 13 years ago(April 09, 2012 09:44 PM)
Expelled, that's amazing!
I had a great math teacher the first two years of high school. He told us how hard it is to get rid of a teacher based on how much they're not doing their jobs, because they have to go through all the crap with contracts and all this junk about stuff.I'm assuming something to do with school board and all that bullschit. Well anyway he said it can take a long time to get them fired based on performance but then if they get in trouble for something sexual he say something to the effect of "Well, they can get rid of 'em right away."
I actually did have a couple horrible teachers that year whose classes either one or both followed that dude's class so I could very much relate to what he was saying.
Some will cast judgment on the fact that he shared something like that with us, but I think I could trust him being alone with my children if the situation came up. I don't have kids, I speak in speculation. -
mphsss — 13 years ago(March 17, 2013 03:52 PM)
You unjustifiably put me in handcuffs and one way or another I'm gettin' your badge!
This is perhaps a weird observation, but I kinda view such a gesture as near he equivalent of touching you inappropriately. Not an actual molestation, but sorta like when you go to the pediatrician for your first physical and you don't know what's coming. Mine sucked really bad and freaked the hell outta me and bothered me for several years (not horribly, just enough to be frustrating) because it wasn't my regular doctor and on top of that I didn't know he was gonna squeeze me. Didn't understand for several years what he was checking for, and maybe at that age it's for something different I still don't know of.
Anyway, back to what I was talking about with cops. I think you'd feel extremely violated during and feel that discomfort long after it's over. Of being made to feel you've done something wrong.
I got pulled over a few years ago in a small town at about 3 in the morning and then for what felt like forever these 2 cops looked for all these opportunities to potentially bust me. They frisked me, searched the car, then one of them goes "You sure you don't have anything in your pockets." and decided to search me again, and then STILL wouldn't let me put my hands in my pockets. It was late October and I was wearing shorts, I was chilly. Dickhead! When I'd go to put 'em in there, partially outta nervousness as well as just to have a place to put them, he'd grab my arm and have me pull them back out. This ass hole even asked to see my phone, I'm guessing to check the phone numbers. They were asking if I was there to score drugs, like I couldn't get them a little closer to home and in a REAL city.
When we were close to the end of the oversteppings, he then proceeded to tell me, in relation to my hands, "You do that to a Kansas City cop, they'll take you down." To me that comes across as a borderline threat.
I so badly wanted to respond with "A real cop wouldn't have pulled me over." All I'd done was change lanes on what I thought was a divided 4-lane highway, but that section was apparently only 2 lanes. I explained this to these guys but they just couldn't let it go. That was the first thing I told them, and then they proceeded with all that other stuff. And still at the end, the one who'd pulled me over was still stuck on 'You were weaving pretty bad back there.' His lack of reasoning for pulling me over and contributing to me experiencing what I had to go through last night almost makes me more upset with him than the other one who was doing everything.
My respect for police in bigger cities escalated that night. They don't pull you over for being out past Mayberry's curfew! And the only reason I'd even pulled into the left lane was because that cop was on the side of the road on one of those streets that enter the highway diagonally, and because it was dark I decided to give him space in case that had actually just been a shoulder that I couldn't see very well and since I didn't know the area.
Sorry for the long story, that situation just PISSED. ME. OFF! I was never placed in handcuffs, just saying that if I felt harrassed and that uncomfortable just from being pulled over and pestered and searched for a half hour, I feel bad for anyone who's ever been placed in the chains of shame for nothing. My guess is it'd give you a feeling that never really goes away. -
mphsss — 12 years ago(December 28, 2013 11:24 PM)
To ask why he didn't do the homework, or if he wasn't able to focus in class because of what had happened to his father? It's like the teacher didn't consider that the reason he was struggling in there had something to do with losing his dad (as opposed to just showing off or whatever) so saying it the way he did was like the worst kind of low blow! He's gotta be an idiot to not see that the two are linked.