I encourage this type of education. Kids need to be held accountable for their actions, just like everyone else.
Normalize humility
While damaging the bop zone can be serious, the double vinyl, sand filled base and bounce back action of the bozo allows it to endure years of abuse.
We pay a lot for this school
Then don’t. Send your kids to public school. Just don’t don’t pretend that by paying for private school your child is somehow entitled to act the fool and not be held to account.
But who am I kidding. In the USA a lot of private schools work just like that: mom and dad’s money is the worth of the student and they will be privileged accordingly.
I’m saying this with all the honesty. We need to start beating our kids again.
If you want to hit kids I hope you get ass cancer.
Or, from a thread on pain the other day: spinal stenosis!
Assuming school is the correct place for children. I think a lot of the problems in a classroom are due to the way teaching is done. The expectation is that the kids will sit quietly like adults while someone drones on with material that is boring and completely irrelevant to their lives. When the kids reject this garbage they are indicted as delinquent. It could be looser so the kids can focus on their strengths and feel good about themselves. Learning has always been a source of joy for me but it rarely happened in a classroom. I’m standing with the bozo on this one, this smug teacher is probably an absolute bore. The parents sound like cunts as well.
It’s the kinda parent to go full PI and make a case against the teacher. Say they are spreading hate by posting her texts online and violating her privacy
I think the teacher in this case was a guy
I think the “her” is referring to the parent here, but we don’t have anything to indicate how the parent presents.
Yay, let’s normalise bullying of students by teachers, what could go wrong?
I couldn’t be a teacher, because bozo would have been one of the kinder words I’d use in such a situation.
Yeah, the teacher is going to get a fun talk with management and probably be forced to write an apology.
Teaching is a risky job these days, and thus not done as well as it could be in a world without parental bozos.
rip bozo
I get it: teens suck, kids these days have it too easy, snowflake PC blah blah blah.
But if a child has felt it important enough to report to their parents that a teacher is calling them names, then that child is not learning in a safe environment. The child has been told directly by their teacher that they are not viewed as intelligent or capable. That is not conducive to positive learning outcomes, or mental health.
I agree that Bozo is a very light term, and if the relationship between the teacher and student were close, it could be seen as a joke between people with a mutual respect, but we don’t know the state of the relationship here. The teacher could be a complete asshole, and this is the fifth time they have singled out the student in this way.
People here are saying “toughen up!” “The real world won’t be so kind!”, but I would argue that that is a failing of adults in the real world. Why are we teaching kids that the world is terrible and the only way to survive is to become just as bad? I’d rather teach students to value each other’s strengths, and to not accept the hatred and sadness of other people.
Agreed.
And the fact that this teacher is sharing screenshots of private conversations with parents online makes me think it’s not such a bad idea if the principal does get involved, just to make sure everything is okay in the class.
I don’t think we have enough information either way. Could be the kid told their parent cracking up about it and the parent freaked out.
Or like a student who basically made up few other things about my aunt, his teacher, because he just didn’t like her. My aunt called him imbecile for distracting the class (or something similar like idiot) and the kid went home and complained to parents by making a story that my aunt has affair with other teacher, he claimed to have seen them kissing in the hallway. And my aunt called him imbecile because he confronted my aunt about it. Parents were obviously livid and demanded my aunt to be fired.
District disciplinary committee had to review six months of hallway footage, also footage in the class where there was no confrontation between teacher and student. Before giving my aunt clean chit. She was suspended for a week, she was compensated for it later. Thank unions.
Anyway I’m not speculating weather the kid deserved it or not, maybe my aunt was unfair in language, but kids sometimes make shit up with their parents. And we don’t enough information from the post about the full context.
Kids are dickheads like. They need to be taught respect early on or they are properly doomed in life. I dont understand when this became controversial.
We also don’t know if the child was actually distressed or took it as a joke and was perhaps just telling their parent because they thought it was funny.
There are better ways than calling names.
Yea I have never heard a story of someone who was failing at school, but got their shit together when an inspirational teacher called them a name.
Yeah, you also have to add an adjective for more power.
Like stupid bozo
Ok bozo
100% bozo energy from the person above you.
The amount of parents that think that teachers owe respect to their kids above all else is infuriating. It’s a real problem in Brazil, both in public and private schools
I think respect is fine and should be shown to everyone. These parents want the teachers to defer to their kids. Teachers cannot teach in an environment where they are subordinate to every child in the classroom. Kids will not behave if they know they will never be beld accountable, there is a perfect example of this undeveloping the USA as a nation.
Private schools are tough because you have to educate both the children and their parents
In public school, all the kids are smoking weed, and are chill, in private schools all the kids can afford and are doing coke, and therefore not very chill
Just gonna advocate for the devil on this one and say teachers shouldn’t be calling kids names.
I dunno man if a kid can’t handle being called bozo… it would be good to teach that kid to be more resilient.
Prob best not to call kids names, sure, but damn
Not every kid has had the same lived experience as you. You don’t know what’s going on in every kid’s brain. Try to have some empathy for the things you might not know.
As a teacher, it’s your job to teach the kid, not harden up their resilience to your satisfaction.
Edit: not to mention, what makes you think a grown adult calling a child names will build resilience? Is this how you want kids building resilience?
You’ll get called a lot worse in your first job. But who am I kidding, this is a fancy school, these kids won’t work.
Just gonna advocate for the devil on this one and say the devil would advocate for calling kids names. Fuck those little shites.
I agree. I’ve had problems with this working for a school district, when a student was younger a nickname teachers and students called them was innocent enough, but as they are getting older they find it embarrassing and they have difficulty communicating on top of that, so it was a headache. the adults should stick to preferred names only.
Also, thing about kids is you don’t always know how they feel based on their external reactions.
Forgot:
I see where he gets it from.
left off because, heh, reasons.
