I encourage this type of education. Kids need to be held accountable for their actions, just like everyone else.
Normalize humility
I encourage this type of education. Kids need to be held accountable for their actions, just like everyone else.
Normalize humility
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.