public humiliation

noisy_penguin · November 2009

My bff is a 6th grade teacher. A parent has decided that she's forcing her students to be publicly humiliated each week. You'd think that my bff was doing horrible things to the students, like having all the students list their faults on the blackboard, or insulting their math skills to the entire class, or something.No. She asked her kids to tell her how many pages they're reading a week. She just wants to check in with them on their home reading. And she said they can do it in private, or their parents can email her, or whatever. Some parent decided this was public humiliation, and biitched her out in front of the principal.

Cneajna · November 2009

How did she respond?

TSD · November 2009

That's ridiculous. Public humiliation is a 2nd grade teacher repeatedly telling me to stop twirling my hair because it's annoying to her. Back then, in ancient times, they had "attendance cards" to keep track of whom was there and whom was not. She said if I did it one more time she was going to do something about it. Well, it was an unconscious thing, so of course I did it again. She grabbed the regular rubber band that was around the cards, grabbed my hair and put it in a haphazard pony tail in the middle of class. You don't put a regular rubber band in anyone's long hair without knowing it's going to rip some out in the removal. Yeah, I guess it scarred me and I needed to share. Thanks for this opportunity.

Cneajna · November 2009

I've known more than one teacher who refused to let kids go to the bathroom enough times that they pissed themselves, and one teacher who locked us in her closet if we talked too much.

BobLoblaw · November 2009

My 5th grade teacher used to make us stand at the front of the class and call us "bozos" when we didn't do our homework. And if you were caught chewing gum, you had to wear the gum on your nose for the rest of the day.Kids these days, man. They don't even KNOW.

Cneajna · November 2009

Ha, that reminded me of Mrs. Beak Tweak! A sub, obsessed with orange (orange slices, orange invisible crayons, orange you glad, etc), who would make you carry a "goose nest" (your cupped hand) in front of you and if you felt the need to talk, you were to cover your mouth with the nest. If you dropped your invisible goose egg, she made you clean it up with real soap and towels.

KristenBtobe · November 2009

In the 4th grade, we had a long term substitute. She told the class not to be like Kristen--very smart but with terrible penmanship. My parents were none too pleased.

aligrrl80 · November 2009

my 5th grade teacher tried to publically humiliate me once, but she just wound up looking crazy. i was slouching in my chair with my textbook on my lap, propped against my desk. she thought I was hiding another book or a note or something inside my text book, and bellowed while charging across the room, and snatched the book out of my hands, all AH-HA I GOT YOU NOW!, and of course I had nothing hidden. and then she searched my desk for the hidden whatever, and of course still found nothing. and we all just stared at her like she'd lost her mind. that was pretty cool.

Irishgrl417 · November 2009

Wow. If my kid bitched about that, I'd be the one humiliating them and making sure they had a number to be proud of, not going off on the teacher. The other day I had a parent ask how long I've been teaching and where because their kid's almost daily temper tantrums must be a result of my 7 years inexperience and not their less than stellar parenting skills.

weddingplanningscaresme · November 2009

My fiance is a high school AP English teacher. At the beginning of the year he ended up with a student who told him she didn't speak English, so he sent her down to the counselor to see what class would be better suited for her. She wrote a note to the principal (in English) saying that he was a racist because she's Hispanic. Lameness.Kids today man... kids today

wingedbride · November 2009

It is amazing how sensitive and overprotective parents have become. We are raising a generation of wusses.

tarafire · November 2009

As far as I know, my school is still harsh. With a graduating class of 30, you can tell we were a small town. I guess we had less parents who were super crazy/over protective. I remember my favorite English teacher failing a lot of kids because they simply would not do work, and they complained to their parents about it, but their parents just made them take the class next year. You can bet they're somewhat smarter now. You know, wanting to pass the class and all. However, my band teacher married a high school student on her senior year. I was in 8th grade, and he left to Arizona with her after they got married, so that's weird...

noisy_penguin · November 2009

It sounds like she reiterated her offer to the parent to have her talk via email or over the phone, apologized that she hadn't understood that that was an offer, and reminded her that she doesn't even HAVE a minimum number of pages she requires - she's just trying to keep up on the kids' interest in reading.

Cneajna · November 2009

Freshman year a coach/gym teacher who looked JUST like a young Bill Clinton was fired for a bj with a senior

Cneajna · November 2009

Sounds like she handled it well. I couldn't do that, I decided in 10th grade that teaching was not the thing for me. I do not have the patience for that kind of idiocy. Tutoring two 9th grade girls taught me this lesson.

noisy_penguin · November 2009

Some of her stories are ridiculous. I don't know how she does it.

Irishgrl417 · November 2009

Some of her stories are ridiculous. I don't know how she does it.If she's like me, with lots of booze. Kids can try your patience but usually it's the parents that cause the real headaches. My school thought it would be a great idea to give the parents a discussion board.

_Fenton · November 2009

Our 8th grade teacher would call a misbehaving boy up to the front of the room and KISS him on the cheek, in front of everyone, as punishment. She was like an old granny and it was gross b/c she was old, not because it was weird and sexual. Of course it was no BFD, but these days, the sh!t would hit the fan.

CaliopeSpidrman · November 2009

My 4th grade teacher smacked my friend in the face with a folder and gave her a fat lip. When her parents (and mine) complained to the principal, he basically explained that she was "un-fireable" and got transferred from school to school every couple of years. Awesome.In 7th grade, I wrote my English teacher a note asking if I could be moved to the advanced class (I always tested high in English, but the criteria to get in that class had been if you were in TAG in grade school....which I intentionally didn't qualify for). Another girl had done it, so I thought I could too. She pulled me aside and told me she laughed and laughed about it, and that she showed it to another teacher who laughed about it as well. It wasn't public, but it was some serious scarring humiliation. I went from the honor roll to just about straight C's after that.My 7th grade math teacher told me and 2-3 other girls in my class that we shouldn't skip the next math class despite testing high enough to do so "because we were young girls"....emphasis on "girls".

wendyld · November 2009

Awww, CaliBFF, your story makes me angry for you. I mean a lot of these stories are ridiculous, but I HATE it when a teacher tells a kid that they can't succeed. Foffers.

shanollee · November 2009

My HS Latin teacher was the debil in a 4' 9" body. She was truly evil. She frequently called us stupid when we asked questions, and had all kinds of clever new ways to humiliate us. One day she came at one of the football players for asking a question, he got mouthy, so she popped him in the face. He stood up, picked up his desk (one of the ones where the chair and desk are connected together with big metal bars) and threw it across the room like it was nothing. He was clearly humiliated. Or roid rage, whatevs. Either way, the look on her face was priceless. And then she gave us all a lecture about how she was a tenured teacher and couldn't be fired and the principal would never believe our side of the story blah blah blah

CaliopeSpidrman · November 2009

Don't worry BFF, there's a happy ending. Junior-in-high-school Cali publicly humiliated her back! My junior year English teacher was this awesome woman who gave us the assignment to write a letter of complaint. So I wrote mine to Mrs. Smith (evil 7th grade teacher). Current English teacher suggested I actually send it and even offered to do it via inter-district mail. So I did. Mrs. Smith called my teacher freaking out about it, claiming she never did such a thing and had NEVER in her 25 years of teaching received a complaint from a student (BS!!). My teacher firmly told her she was talking to the wrong person and that she should send me a letter back. Then I got to read her letter and share the whole story with my class, who all concurred that Mrs. Smith was an evil hosebeast. I felt vindicated.

wendyld · November 2009

And was she Shamwow? I had a teacher in college declare that I couldn't possibly be as stupid as my test score implied in front of the whole class (I had made a 17. Yes, 17. Percent). Because I'm a dumb girl, I cried. Then I made a 100 on the next test. I still hate him.

CaliopeSpidrman · November 2009

I thought I was smarter than the TAG kids because I failed the test on purpose. Being in TAG meant extra homework! There was no way I was going to do that.

noisy_penguin · November 2009

I got two teachers fired. True story.

FallinAgain · November 2009

My sixth grade teacher gave everyone birthday spankings. Can you imagine that today-esp. since she was a big ol' butch lesbian? Oh, the lawsuits. We LOVED her.Generaly, I'm pro humiliation as a punishment for teens.

shanollee · November 2009

No, Wendy, she did not get fired. But she's also the only teacher my mom ever had a screaming match with (over a completely separate issue, after I was her victim of humiliation). She was a real peach of a person

FallinAgain · November 2009

I had a grad school professor out of the blue ask me to read a poem to the class. Totally caught off guard, I flubbed it badly. He said, "Do you have a roommate" Uh, no. "A cat?" No. "Well, you should practice reading aloud to a wall." Oh, how I still hate you Rob Stillman.

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