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Originally Posted by MysticCat
Maybe the teacher really is a whack-job, but I've had plenty of experiences of my kids coming home and sharing something eyebrow-raising that the teacher said, only to ask the teacher about it and find out there was a completely different and understandable context than what my kid picked up on. Wouldn't surprise me at all if the comment came up in a context like this. RANDOM KID: I don't like having to come to school. It should be against the law to make a kid come to school if he doesn't want to.
TEACHER: Sorry you don't like school. It's actually the law that you do have to come.
RK: That's not fair! How long before they can't make me come to school if I don't want to.
T: You have to be 16 before you can stop coming to school if you don't want to. That's a long way off, so you might as well just forget about it and learn to enjoy school.
Yep, had that conversation more than once with a certain random kid who lives at my house. |
Yep and that is one reason why K-12 schools and colleges/universities don't fly off the handle everytime a student complains about a teacher/professor or claims that a teacher/professor said or did something. Students of various ages complain about everything and sometimes exaggerate.
I had a convo like this with a random high schooler:
Random student: I hate this teacher. He's so mean and I'm not learning anything from this boring class.
Me: Wow! What is this teacher doing?
Random student: Well, all of this reading. I don't want to do all of this reading. I'm tired of being told what to do. And then he gets mad when we don't read and tries to make us take quizzes and stuff.
Me: Um...that's called TEACHING. What do you expect to have to do in school? Teachers work darn hard to prepare to teach. Why should you just get to sit there and run your mouth about nothingness?
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