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| The meanest thing a teacher ever said/did... |
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| rkhan |
| 05/17/05 at 13:42:30 |
| [slm] my daughter came back from school today and swears she's never going back because of something a teacher said...it's not abuse or anything, but she seems pretty traumatized and has been really nervous all day...not doing her homework, not preparing for the next day etc.. >:( ..it's only two weeks until school breaks up here..I tried telling her abt really mean teachers that I hv had in the past..but to no avail. maybe hearing abt others' experiences with *difficult* teachers and how to deal with them could put things in perspective for her... ...jazaakumullaah for your input/insight |
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| Fozia |
| 05/17/05 at 14:03:40 |
| [slm] Oh this an easy one for moi to answer. My math teacher in secondary school Hated me and I mean H-A-T-E-D me, if I yawned she'd tell me to 'Be quiet'!!! :o Not because she'd heard me speak, but because she'd seen my mouth open, and above the general hubub of the classroom decided I was speaking, this really surprised the rest of the girls at my table too, who were all thoroughly confused by that particular remark. Then there was the time, I was stood in line waiting to speak to her about a difficult math problem, and she finished dealing with all the girls ahead of me and [i]walked straight past me out the classroom to deal with some thing else, leaving me feeling humiliated, and tearful[/i] (I was 15 at the time and these things were really mortifying), the classroom assistant who saw this, took me aside and told me [i]he'd[/i] help me if I had any questions, so it wasn't all in my head. Then the mother of all mean tricks, the evil moo pulled me out of class the week we were due to sit our maths exam and told me I shouldn't bother sitting maths, I was going to fail, she expected me to resit next year :o :o :o :( :'( >:( >:( Oh yeah and she also marked all my course work down, claiming my formulas were too complicated (note they all worked). I have to mention I was never a disruptive or naughty child, I was always rather shy and hardworking, top of the class kind of girl (well with the pressure my parents put on us, so would you be too). If I'd been naughty in any way, my parents would have told the teachers to cane us, good old desi fashion :D :o Anyways, me being me, I got the highest maths percentage in the whole school hah so smoke that in your pipe miss what'syourface. BTW, miss horriblewitch got the sack about two years after I left :D :D. And yeah I probably earn like twice whatever she did about six months after graduating from uni, if not more :D :D :D I hope she's really miserable wherever she is, she made my life miserable for three years (a long time for a teen). I may forgive her ....... but I cant find it in me to do so just yet. Perhaps you could get your daughter to read this thread, maybe she'll share with a bunch of strangers ;). Hope she recovers from whatever it was the teacher said to hurt her feelings so Inshallah. Wassalaam |
| 05/17/05 at 14:07:27 |
| Fozia |
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| theOriginal |
| 05/17/05 at 14:48:00 |
| [slm] I went to 9 different schools...I met mean teachers from all corners of the globe. It was VERY traumatizing. My worst year in school was 11th grade (have I ever mentioned that High School SUCKED?!)...Anyway, I think that year everything used to bug me... Worst teacher that year...Mr. Soho..he did EVERYTHING in his power to make my life a walking misery. He accused me of cheating, made me stay at school until 5pm every Thursday, told me that I wasn't "very smart", complained about my behavior to the VP, who almost suspended me because I started cutting Mr. Soho's class very regularly. Ughhhhh I HATED high school with a passion. Wasalaam. Sarah. |
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| bhaloo |
| 05/18/05 at 00:33:17 |
| [slm] In 9th grade drafting class, I was given detention along with some other classmates because the teacher thought I wasn't doing any work. Obviously it was a lie, and when my mom came to pick me up from school, we confronted the teacher and argued with him for 15 minutes before he let me go. He used to have some weird expression when he wanted to bet someone. He would say, "a dollar to a soggy doughnut" that this..... is right/wrong. |
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| rouge_paquerette |
| 05/18/05 at 07:31:47 |
| [slm] i dont have such experience, but i think you should try to ask her class mates, they might know something. gud luck. :-) [wlm] |
| Re: The meanest thing a teacher ever said/did... |
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| Orange_Tree |
| 05/18/05 at 15:26:11 |
| [slm] Worst thing a teacher said to me: "your writing style is immature". okay, that doesn't exactly seem like the worst thing a person could say but it was a massive confidence knock and something I haven't really been able to get over till this day. The sad thing is, i believe it. It shud be noted I consistently came top of the class in my English lessons and got an A in my A levels. Ah well, some teachers don't realise what impact their words have. Incidentally, I work in a school (I'm not a teacher tho'). If you want to complain about a teacher you have the right to. all schools have a complaints policy and if you tell them your complaint you'll get to chat to a teacher and the teacher in question will also be spoken to in private. That is what happened when an angry parent complained about one of our staff. Teachers can be stressed, crabby, in a foul mood and sometimes they can snap. It's hard not to take this to heart but let your daughter know that teachers don't hate kids. altho' this thread is leading me to think otherwise! you have to know whether the 'meanness' is a one off thing or a sustained attitude of picking on her. To see it from the other side of the fence, you'll find teachers who feel personally attacked when pupils are misbehaving. Just a thought. I cud talk endlessly about the state of school but i might bore the pants off everyone :) |
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| rkhan |
| 05/18/05 at 16:18:56 |
| [quote] It shud be noted I consistently came top of the class in my English lessons and got an A in my A levels. Ah well, some teachers don't realise what impact their words have. [/quote] [slm] subhaanallah sis, your words gave me such a sense of deja vu... In Grade 9 and 10, my English teacher was a French nun called Sister Delphine. ...for some reason she decided she didn't like my mug, my writing style and/or accent ...and the result was a loooooooong year of :zis is not ze way we say zis and notebooks spilling with the blood of my butchered sentences... ..it was awful, since until then I had got along fairly well with my English teachers ...and was generally the quiet, studious type in school. I used to literally have nightmares abt her.. ..funny thing is, my daughters did their preschool from the same institution, and when I went to drop them off I used to bump into her often...now that I was out of school, she seemed so ordinary, so benign.. thanks for sharing everyone, I got my daughter to read this thread today and it really made her feel better...jazaakumullaah. |
| It's called a Swagger stick! |
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| Aadhil |
| 05/18/05 at 17:28:11 |
| [slm] In Sri Lanka, I wen't to a school where the majority teachers were fond of rulers...Though not to use for measuring, but to use as a cane. The Principle out did them all by arming himself with a bamboo cane about three feet long. None of the students were excemp from this method of 'discipline'. The vice-principle out did them all though, cause when ever he entered a class, it would go deathly quiet. So Our class room would hear the other class room go quiet, and we would go quiet too ::). His cane was never far from his hand :o Ah the good ol' days.....I'm glad i'm out of it [] |
| 05/18/05 at 17:31:16 |
| Aadhil |
| OHHHHHHH…..did I have my fair share of mean teache |
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| Trustworthy |
| 05/20/05 at 17:17:25 |
| [slm].... Harsh Bro....Sometimes I feel like using the cane myself, but I think my temper would get the better of me. My first experience still traumatizes me. It was an ESL class and I was fairly young since ESL was one of my classes. Anyways, I was watching Fred Flinstones the day before and got excited to go to class. When I walked into the class I yelled, “Eeeeee yaba daba DOOOOO…..” Don’t know why I really did that, but it’s not like I disrupted the class. We were all just walking in. She put me in the corner for the whole entire p eriod. I was so embarrassed, but more angry. So she became the first teacher ever that I hated. I did not want to be in her class anymore so I pushed myself really hard to learn English and I did which got me out of the class and English became the first subject I advanced in. You’d think that I should thank her for that. Nope. No way. Because of that I can no longer speak my native tongue fluently. I literally sound like an American trying to speak a foreign language. Still hate her and I still remember her name. And I’m really bad with faces and names except hers. My second experience was in 5th grade with a male teacher. We were studying genetics and so I raised my hand and asked “How come all the chickens look alike?” He thought that was the funniest (more like stupidest) question he’s ever heard. He laughed so hard and asked me back, “Why do we look alike?” and continued on laughing at me. No one else was laughing cause I’m sure they understood my question too. We were all confused with his answer but no one ever dared to ask him any more questions. I was so humiliated and I still did not understand his reply. I do now, but then I was like in my head, “We don’t look alike at all.” But I responded to him, “Oh.” And to top it all off, one day, we were standing in line to change classrooms and the zipper on my pants were open. I was the first person in line. I notice he walks all the way to end of the line and have it passed down, student to student, to me that my fly was undone. The entire classroom was laughing at me and looked down there. I was so MAD. This was the last straw. So I played a very cruel joke on him. Needless to say, we never looked in each others direction after that even years after in High School when he became my Chemistry teacher. It got so bad, I had to drop the class. Science became my first favorite subject because after that humiliation I no longer depended on his teaching skills and learned science on my own finding it then to be very interesting especially learning about our Universe. OH. And then the three worst experience I believed had to do with me being a Muslim. A math teacher in 6th grade who was Jewish had a really bad thing against me. The whole class was loud at the beginning of the class except for me of course. And so she tells the class to quiet down. Then someone makes this noise and she looks at me with evil eyes, walks towards my desk, and screams from the top of her lungs, “Didn’t I tell you to SHUT UP??” And her breath wreaked of cigarettes so I was just like “oh my Gawd…” in my mind and started coughing. She continues on screaming (literally), “DO YOU THINK I APPRECIATE COMING TO THIS CLASSROOM AND HAVE YOU DISRUPT MY CLASS EVERYDAY? DO YOU?” “But ma’am I did not say anything.” “ARE YOU CALLING ME LIAR? ARE YOU CALLING ME A LIAR?” “No ma’am, but I swear to you that it wasn’t me.” “THEN WHO THE HELL WAS IT (TrustworThy)? WHO?” “It wasn’t me.” “ARE YOU CALLING ME BLIND AND DEAF NOW? ARE YOU?” Then someone softly says, “It wasn’t her.” She turns to him and screams, “WAS I TALKING TO YOU?” Then she turns to me. “DO YOU WANT TO BE SENT TO THE OFFICE?” Puts her hand on her forehead, stands up, then leans back down to my face. “You know what? YOU MAKE ME SICK. YOUR FACE MAKES ME SICK. GET OUT OF MY FACE AND GET OUT OF MY CLASSROOM.” I walked out of that classroom with tears in my eyes. I went to the bathroom and took it out on this poor African American girl. I thought she was a boy in a girls bathroom so I yelled at her. Poor girl was like “But I am a girl.” I didn’t cry though. I just paced in circles until I cooled down. I became a math wiz and never ever needed her help. While in that classroom. I just sat quietly and did my work. Despite that and having to move my desk next to hers, I still got blamed for the noise level. I really don’t what happened to the teacher and frankly I really don’t care either. There are more stories, but you can tell your daughter to just do her work well and don’t mind the teacher. If the teacher gets to be intolerable that she can’t focus on her work or anytime she wants you to intervene and talk to her school, then you definitely will. Allah (SWT) will take care of the teacher. What comes around goes around. Just be patient. Have a bebzi Little One.... [] Allah (SWT) bless….. Ma-assalaamah…. |
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| theOriginal |
| 05/20/05 at 22:33:20 |
| [slm] HAHAHAHAHAAHAH...Sister Trustworthy you should post on the board more often....seriously. I follow your posts, because they are just so funny. I mean...I'm sorry all those teachers were mean to you, really... but "why do all chickens look alike?" hahahahah!!!! I just laughed so hard my dad walked in to ask me what happened. Thank you... :) Wasalaam. |
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| Trustworthy |
| 05/23/05 at 14:38:53 |
| [slm].... JustOne Ukhttiiiiii....... :-X I'm glad I can make you LOL, but I really did not understand why the teacher laughed at me and you did. Masha-Allah. I understand now, but mind you I was only 10 then. Not science smart at all. I really thought chickens looked alike and humans didn't. I still do. It's not like I have x-ray vision to the chickens genetic structure. Eh. Oh well. Have a bebzi []. I'll have one too []. Allah (SWT) bless.... Ma-assalaamah..... |
| 05/25/05 at 16:29:55 |
| Trustworthy |
| Prove her wrong... |
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| ummnajmah |
| 05/25/05 at 13:33:17 |
| [slm]I remember when I was in my last year in High school, in my home country, my English teacher was just plain mean.She used to plainly favor some students over others and was especially critical of me >:(. It seemed like I could not do anything right and it was hard on me because English was my favorite subjects. Whenever we had assignments on essays, you should have seen how many remarks she had on my paper or words that were circled in red. Ultimately, we had end of year exams and guess who finished first and scored the highest marks in my school. :D ;).You guessed it! Alhamdulillah, you should have seen her face when I went to get my results and award...alot of the staff and students were congratulating me. She had the nerve to say to those around, I knew she had it in her, I saw something in her. >:( :o ::) My younger sister had her next and guess what she would say to her. Why can't you be like your older sis, she was such a great student and my fav by far.My poor sister felt like she would tear her hair out., whenever she came home she would say she was tired of being compared to me.I felt bad for her but I know that this is her( the teacher's) new drum to beat on...So I said" Good luck, it's your turn now, I did my time....." ;) |
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| Trustworthy |
| 05/25/05 at 16:34:23 |
| [slm].... Forgive me Ukhti JustOne. :'( I always knew she was a Sister. :-) Have a bebzi [] My Arabic just went flaky there. :( Can't we all just speak one language? ??? Just needed to make this known because people might've read my post and saw Akhiiii instead of Ukhtiiii which was a doofus mistake on my part. Allah (SWT) bless..... Ma-assalaamah..... |
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