Teacher writes "loser" on student's assignment..

[ejb626]

I know someone was going to post this, as soon as I saw it on Yahoo, I thought for a bit about posting it myself. I think this teacher seems like kind of a douschbag, and he definatly should be fired.

 

[SlasherX]

You know in like the 50s and 60s you could hit a kid and the parent would be happy now a teacher writes loser on a child who is probabley a loudmouth in her class but has her parents on her side and now theres talk of firing him for what?
Using free speech and speaking his mind i know some kids in my school who needs things like that and I live in the same state and he wont get fired only if he hits her thats it. Little whiny punk just doesnt like her teacher telling her how it is

 

[ProfessorLayton]

You didn't listen carefully in the video, I'm pretty sure they said it was a bloke.

Does that change your view at all?

No it doesn't because I heard that they said it was a guy. I don't see how that makes a difference.

 

[ryai458]

Thats funny maybe next time she makes a bad grade he can just announce it to the whole class just to get the point across.

 

[Jaranja]

http://m.www.yahoo.com/_ylt=At8wtZ3mEQlKtCuEQ5cBfe6bvZx4;_ylc=X3oDMTV1YmI0bzZ1BF9TAzIwMjM1MzgwNzUEX3MDOTYzOTMxMzkEYQMxMDAzMTIgbmV3cyB0ZWFjaGVyIHdyaXRlcyBsb3NlciBJVgRjcG9zAzIEZwNpZC0yMjY2OQRpbnRsA3VzBGl0YwMwBGx0eHQDVGVhY2hlcmNhbGxzZ2lybGEmIzM5O2xvc2VyJiMzOTsEcGtndgMxMARwb3MDMARzZWMDdGQtZmVhdARzbGsDdGh1bWJsaW5rBHNscG9zA0YEdGVzdAM3MDE-/SIG=1313d2bv1/**http%3A//news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/teacher-writes-loser-on-child-s-assignments-18593231

do you think this is wrong, i do..

EDIT: I think this teacher should be fired..

Not only fired, but flogged and ridiculed for the rest of his life. Show him what it feels like to be bullied.....

Or just for about half a year. Your method isn't equivalent.

Saying a student's not very bright is one thing, saying they're a loser is an opinion. The teacher's saying what he thinks of that student and she's in the fucking 6th grade. You can ridicule kids when they're older for a joke but not at that age.

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.

I'm still disagreeing. There are some reasons why more punishment is needed for the adult but the rest of their life is just stupid.

Oh really? Well then, let me tell you a little bit about myself. I was bullied during my early teens (starting roughly grade 6), right when I had just transferred to a new school. I was made fun of so much that I was afraid to make any friends until grade 11. More importantly, this has left me without the drive to commit to any serious relationship, because I instinctively hide my feelings, in fear that they might be hurt again. Now if you consider that sort of damage to be equivalent to only a year's worth of penance, then you may seriously want review your own morals.

I can't make friends either. Mine's because of a defence mechanism I have that pushes people away as soon as they get close to me because, now here's the kicker, I have a fear of losing people. It's not the same as yours, I'll admit, but I know what it's like to have a defence mechanism that screws you over socially.

I've always been the kind of guy that keeps moving, so yes, my morals are different and, no, I'm not going to review them until they are blatantly incorrect. We can not really tell how badly this affected the poor girl but his punishment would have to be dependant on her.

 

[Mr_spamamam]

Not particularly professional on the part of the teacher

 

[johnfistyadams]

It would one thing if it was high school and he had a friendly relationship with the girl, but she was too young. If she and her mom were getting pissed, then he should have just stopped.

 

[AVATAR_RAGE]

i have a teacher that tells me my work sucks and that im a failure regularly, and yet i got the highest grade in the January exams

 

[ShakerSilver]

Well, if this happened at my school in my class, I would applaud that teacher. But to a kid in sixth grade? That's not good. Some people say it's "tough love" or "constructive criticism," and they may be right about it if it happened say to someone in high school, but mostly it will hurt that person. It's one thing being called loser by a classmate, but when it's a teacher, it's totally different.

 

[ArcWinter]

In my school, one of my classmates was flipped off three times by a teacher, when he answered wrong, or was fooling around.

Everyone agrees that he is the best (or one of the best) teachers in the school.

There's a big difference in being "one of the best" and being a shit though. This falls well within the latter category.

Even when faced with some of the rowdy students, you tell them something that they are becoming a loser. Never a straight "You'll never amount to anything".

I see your point, but in high school, kids are at least more skeptical about believing that teachers have any authority at all. Although in middle school, saying something like that would probably debilitate anyone's motivation to do anything.

 

[General Ken8]

ow, thats one teacher I'm glad I'm never going to meet
I've had my fair share of crappy teachers, but that's bad

 

[mikecoulter]

What a dickish thing to do.

 

[JohnRLRF]

I'm surprized at how any people think this is a good thing. Nobody wants to take a bat to this guy while all the little kids cheer you on?

 

[Acier]

That's terrible. Everyone who is saying "We need to be harsher with kids", this isn't being harsh with them it's bullying. My Latin teacher whom I had for 3 years was "harsh" and "realistic". however he also had discernment, he was able to tell when a student would truly be upset by being called a "worthless sack of excrement" (one of his favorites)and he wouldn't be so blunt to them, he also gave you praise when you really deserved it.

he was wildly popular within the Latin students.


As a side story one of my favorite moment is when he called out a section of class, we were going over vocab and this group of kids who always fail and disrupt his lectures were being jerkasses like normal. he shut the book and said

"You know what? Forget it. You guys only need to know 2 vocab words for the rest over your life, "Paper" and "Plastic""

It was awesome.

 

[esperandote]

This reminds me of the time a teacher told me "Thank you, now we are all going to get sick" because i sneezed. I have alergies so it was nothing contagious.

 

[Xorghul]

Yey for verbal abusing of children.

 

[RicoADF]

oh waah. My math teacher used to staple burger king applications to failed tests,and nobody went crying to the media then. These kids need to grow up.

That teacher is full of win, sir.

At the OP:

I laughed when I first read the headline in Yahoo News, but I agree it's going a bit far. Start that crap in high school...only start putting bamboo splinters under figner-nails. I'm sick of all the idiots walking around thinking they're real cool shit just because they disrupt class, godammit...

what makes you think this is even acceptable at the HS level, childhood development extends well into college.. a HS student called a loser over and over again is more likely to drop out of school, start doing drugs, and might even become a criminal.all because a teacher broke his confidence in him or herself..

Bullying is never accpetable in my books, even after school, and should be pushed servearly (instantly fired from the job and possibly charged with harrassment/abuse).

 

[mrx19869]

oh waah. My math teacher used to staple burger king applications to failed tests,and nobody went crying to the media then. These kids need to grow up.

That teacher is full of win, sir.

At the OP:

I laughed when I first read the headline in Yahoo News, but I agree it's going a bit far. Start that crap in high school...only start putting bamboo splinters under figner-nails. I'm sick of all the idiots walking around thinking they're real cool shit just because they disrupt class, godammit...

what makes you think this is even acceptable at the HS level, childhood development extends well into college.. a HS student called a loser over and over again is more likely to drop out of school, start doing drugs, and might even become a criminal.all because a teacher broke his confidence in him or herself..

Bullying is never accpetable in my books, even after school, and should be pushed servearly (instantly fired from the job and possibly charged with harrassment/abuse).

yeah. i bet the teacher was bullied as a kid and this just makes him feel better, making other people feel like crap. if i was a lawyer i would offer my services to have this teacher fired, sued, or even jailed, or at least publicly humiliated..