You said it yourself: at that kind of age bullying can have far greater impact than it does to an adult. Bullying, especially from a position of power, can leave LASTING emotional and psychological damage to the individual, so I think that a life time of physical and/or verbal abuse is perfectly equivalent because us adults can take it more.Jaranja said:
well about ur statement that kids say that to each other all the time, that is true i mean i was swearing like hell when i was in grade 6 and being called a loser by another kid meant almost nothing, however a teacher is a figure of authority in the school students may or may not respect the teacher but they also know that he knows stuff they do not and what he says are usually facts, so through that logic the student feels that she is being called a loser by a teacher. Especially on a paper where u cannot even convey the fact ur joking unless u actually write ur joking but then its not funny cause ur explaining the jokeProfessorLayton said:
Oh please.Blizzaga19 said:
Well, maybe this is just me and I couldn't care less about verbal abuse, I mean they're just words and I can take some rude words thrown my way but if a teacher wrote that on my paper, I would probably laugh. It's actually kind of funny, in my opinion. And a teacher is a teacher is a teacher, you know? That doesn't mean they can't joke with a student and I know that even back in 6th grade I could tell if they weren't being serious.chaos order said:
Why are you telling him to grow up, while I find it very immature to not be able to take insults like that. I'm going to sound like a terrible person for this, but why would someone kill themselves over something like this? Verbal abuse, to me, is probably the weakest kind there is and basically nothing you should worry about. There are bigger things to worry about than someone jokingly calling you a loser. In fact, the biggest reaction I've ever had from the mountains of verbal abuse I've taken over the years is been slightly annoyed.Kortney said:
He's a bully, good teachers(Like a chum of mine) don't use this angry overgrown man-child technique, and actually help students, you don't have to coddle them, but you do have to explain to them atlesat once why they need to succeed or else they'll be making mcgriddles and burgers all their lifes.iggyus said:
OFT. You basically just ninja'd what i was going to type. Basically the youth of today needs to understand what goes around comes around and if you a little shit in someones class the teacher has every right to to grade accordingly. Also some think skin or balls might help us out too.LogicNProportion said:I think it's acceptable in high school because as a high schooler, I see a lot of the kids that this discussion pertains to. I'm even in the same state as the one where this "loser" business is going on, and while I particularly don't care for North Carolina (or most of the southern USA for that matter), I still see what goes on.mrx19869 said:
I can tell you that at my school, most everyone does drugs of some type. While I do none of the stuff myself, I hang out with crack-heads, pot-heads, heroin addicts, and pill-poppers, and I know for a fact, that all of them started doing drugs not because of self esteem issues or that kind of crap, it was because they're bored and had spare cash on hand.
I say that the teachers should be a bit more abrasive in high school because I see most students as disrespectful, disruptive of class, and spoiled/lazy. Maybe a good (verbal) slap upside the head will do some good, because God knows that all of this 'postivie reinforcement BS' isn't working on the majority of today's youth.
Bottom line: While personal attacks are a bit petty and harsh, teachers should be able to be vocal with their students.
Case and point: A kid in my middle school's History class would NOT SHUT UP. The teacher, usually a very nice woman (I think her name was Mrs. Cook), couldn't take it anymore (and neither could I) and she stood up and yelled out, "Jamal! Shut the HELL up!"
Jamal never talked out of turn again. And all was right in the world.
Want to know the key phrase there? "To me".ProfessorLayton said:
oh ya i agree a teacher should joke and interact with the students i mean my social 30 teacher in high school made class awesome, but i still think that this kind of "joking" should be left to high school teacher or higher levels of educational institutions. as i said before elementary school is a very impressionable time for kids situations like this can make kids have more contempt for school(i mean more than normal) and eventually that could lead them to failure in school. you may have been able to handle teasing in elementary school but some student cannot.ProfessorLayton said:
It's sure going to be awesome for all the other classes that become even more overfilled because of the sensationalizing of the event.mvg_26 said:
Yeah I had a chemistry professor who would call people stupid in class in front of everyone. she was an inspirationpark92 said:
. I worked extra hard to impress her (she had a lot of character) and ended up memorizing the whole damn periodic table.
