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In life, you get to choose who and what you'll put up with for your own reasons. I suspect that a lot of people feel trapped with jerks because when they were children, we trapped them with jerks and gave them the idea that this was somehow the right thing to do.
This parent watched a teacher repeatedly call her child a terrible person, in front of her, even *after* he'd burst into tears, and promptly removed him from the situation because Holy. Fucking. Shit. WSJ: "Well, that may be a bit extreme. What message are you sending?"pic.twitter.com/O6SVEEGWhO
FWIW, the school I observed at for a full year had *extremely* high behavioral expectations for the kids. But everyone on staff went to great pains to indicate that they thought those kids, each & every one, were already great and capable of further greatness. Because it's true.
And still, those kids struggled, and they felt pain, and they encountered challenges that caused them to fight between hesitancy and action. Because that's the battle for all of us, and we don't need to be unloved to learn how to fight it.
Teach children when to stab teachers and hide bodies.
Best thing we ever did was change our youngest to a different school when she had issues with a teacher.
Wow homeschooling looks so overdetermined at this point
I know, right? I feel like I'm seeing a new reason never to touch a school every week, sometimes twice a week.
You do have to teach the kids to deal with the situation. But not by accepting however little abuse.
I taught my kids the magic words, and gave them freedom to use them with their teachers: "please", "thank you", and "step off, bitch" (via @Eminem)
It almost seems like this WSJ article wants us to train kids to live in some type of dystopian authoritarian society !! A year w/ an abusive teacher not only means emotional harm, but how much learning would a kid lose ?
Holy shitballs.
FWIW, Dr K seems to agree with the parent here, but caution that this is a clearly bad situation, and not to take switching classrooms lightly.
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