What is happening to the younger generation nowadays, that there are students who have no qualms physically hurting their teacher? Long gone were those days when teachers were revered, respected and feared. Just a word or look from them would make the students cower in fear and behave themselves properly. Nowadays, students can argue and quarrel with the teachers, showing no respect whatsoever.
I just heard a true case from a teacher. The student was reprimanded by his form teacher for not handing in his homework for a week. He is already in the final year and his national examinations are due end of the year. When the teacher turned her back, he took up a chair and threw at her. The edge of the chair scratched against the side of her face and her glasses got distorted. She was so angry that she walked out of the classroom and asked for help from the teacher in the next classroom.
As teachers, no matter how angry, they are not allowed to show their anger in class in front of the students. The reasoning is that as adults, they are supposed to have more self-control. But when a student started turning violent, is it not justifiable to be angry? Anyway, when the teacher went out, the student followed and chased after her, intending to push her. He succeeded and she fell down, crashing into the teacher in the next class. The second teacher then called through the intercom for help, and the discipline master and another male teacher went up to stop the student.
Now when a teacher or principal so much as even lay hands on a student, our local media blew up the entire story and the teacher or principal was then forced to step down. But why is it that when a student injure a teacher that she had to go to the hospital for stitches, nobody did anything? The school requested not to blow up the matter as they did not wish to ruin the reputation of the school.
What is this?! Why are the students so much more priviledged that a teacher or principal can lose their jobs by enforcing punishement, but when the student injured a teacher, he / she can get away scot free? Are teachers not humans? Do they have to take this kind of treatment from students? The student in question not only affects the teacher's mood but also the entire class, as because of one trouble-maker, the teacher could not carry on the lesson effectively and the rest of the class suffers as a result.
The worst are the parents. They always defend their children, saying that it was the teacher's fault for reprimanding the kid. But who is going to defend the teacher? Certainly not the Principal or the school board because they only listen to the parents and the teacher will then get away with a warning or forced to apologise when it was not even her fault in the first place. Who wants a job like that? Certainly not me, which is why I left.
I just heard a true case from a teacher. The student was reprimanded by his form teacher for not handing in his homework for a week. He is already in the final year and his national examinations are due end of the year. When the teacher turned her back, he took up a chair and threw at her. The edge of the chair scratched against the side of her face and her glasses got distorted. She was so angry that she walked out of the classroom and asked for help from the teacher in the next classroom.
As teachers, no matter how angry, they are not allowed to show their anger in class in front of the students. The reasoning is that as adults, they are supposed to have more self-control. But when a student started turning violent, is it not justifiable to be angry? Anyway, when the teacher went out, the student followed and chased after her, intending to push her. He succeeded and she fell down, crashing into the teacher in the next class. The second teacher then called through the intercom for help, and the discipline master and another male teacher went up to stop the student.
Now when a teacher or principal so much as even lay hands on a student, our local media blew up the entire story and the teacher or principal was then forced to step down. But why is it that when a student injure a teacher that she had to go to the hospital for stitches, nobody did anything? The school requested not to blow up the matter as they did not wish to ruin the reputation of the school.
What is this?! Why are the students so much more priviledged that a teacher or principal can lose their jobs by enforcing punishement, but when the student injured a teacher, he / she can get away scot free? Are teachers not humans? Do they have to take this kind of treatment from students? The student in question not only affects the teacher's mood but also the entire class, as because of one trouble-maker, the teacher could not carry on the lesson effectively and the rest of the class suffers as a result.
The worst are the parents. They always defend their children, saying that it was the teacher's fault for reprimanding the kid. But who is going to defend the teacher? Certainly not the Principal or the school board because they only listen to the parents and the teacher will then get away with a warning or forced to apologise when it was not even her fault in the first place. Who wants a job like that? Certainly not me, which is why I left.
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