Thursday, December 4, 2008

TEACHERS...as I see it

Today it’s weird, I have been more excited today than ever to write in this thing, but with that is pressure. With the rapid increase in readers…or so I think…there is the ever present possibility of failure which frightens me. I have no idea what I am going to write about as I set here. For the first time I have no idea where this is going to end up, if there is ever a time when you should stop reading in the first paragraph, its now.
Let me vent first of all on something that happened today. This might be where my advertisement of “school safe” ends for the blog. I had a sub today in one of my classes. The sub in my mind is there only for the 60 dollars a day. I have had her before in the same class and last time she let us leave for lunch early. A certain teacher who very few students have respect for…(we shall call him “M” for the sake of me getting in trouble and never being able to share my thoughts with you fine people again) decided he wanted to take matters into his own hands and told our teacher about us leaving 3 minutes early when she came back thus getting us a “your seniors you should know better” speech. This speech echoed in our minds for about 3 seconds at the time, that of course was until today when Miss 60 dollars is back and the same scenario is played out. This time she claims that we HAVE to go because she is locking the door and turning out the lights whether we are out or not. We happily but reluctantly go to lunch only to be greeted my big bad M again. He puts on his authority pants and rides his power trip stating that we are in “big trouble this time.” I politely laugh at his immaturity, but am completely thrown off guard when he uses the argument that we should have stayed in the room and got locked in because it was the “right thing to do.” I guess insubordination is no longer grounds for getting written up. I am still astounded at the illogicalness of his argument and am forever surprised at the power trip and arrogance displayed by SOME of the teachers at our school. I find it utterly hilarious that some teachers are so out of control of their lives that at the smallest opportunities to have authority they choose to exploit it often beyond the grounds of their job description. Let me say something to teachers….IT IS NOT A STUDENTS GOAL TO TICK YOU OFF AND RUIN YOUR DAY, IF YOU DON’T LIKE KIDS FIND A NEW JOB, YOU’RE A HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER…ENOUGH SAID.
Let me say one thing before I close: The teachers that get most of our respect get it because they give us respect. They remember how much it sucks to be a teenager. They realise whats important in high school life. They realise their class isn't the only one we have. They have come to the conclusion that you cant reinvent the wheel and change the world, we are the way we are and nothing is going to change that by now. I'm not saying that they don't care or their class is the easiest, but they treat us a equal human being, realising why we are both there, and focus on developing some sort of personal relationship with the student, attempting to be a friend, not just a superior.

I’m already curious as to how that paragraphs ripple effects will rock the boat of my life. I’m sorry today’s entry was rather short. I will do my best to come back tomorrow with a little more meaningful entry. I thank all of you once again, and choose to close by challenging you to point out a teacher’s flaw to them just once over the next couple weeks……They point out yours every day.

3 comments:

Nikki said...

I completely agree with your statement. I feel that a lot of the teachers at good ol' FCHS only care about the paycheck that they receive once every two weeks. They hate kids and only try to make their lives miserable. On the other hand, however, there are some teachers that completely make it worth it to show up every morning. Some of them generally care about your well being and will continue your relationship even when you aren't there. take this for example, a teacher that i had my senior year is taking me and a bunch of people i graduated with out to lunch one day while we are home for break just to see how we are. Out of sincerity, not because she has to.


once again sir, well done.

holycrapoctopus said...

I have nothing to say other than that the word "illogicalness" might be the greatest thing you've ever come up with. And that includes rubber testicles.

Kevin said...

Its about time somebody comes out and speaks the truth. This is one of those problems that all of us FCHS alum. past and present have noticed through our time there, especially at the new building. SOME teachers constantly take whatever authority they have much too far thinking that there will be no consequenes for their actions, only the students. I agree that its important for teachers to make sure stundents are where they are supposed to be and doing what they're supposed to be doing, but to take such a mundane incident and completely blow it out of proportion just to get that little tiny feeling of power and authority is ridiculous to say the least. Its disrespectful towards the sub. teacher to have another teacher blantantly challenge their judgement and authority in front of students. The sub was hired to fil in for the reg. teacher and lead the class as they see fit. I could go on but I think I've made my point, but props to you Keirsh for standing up for your class and talking about these everday issues that seem to go un-noticed by administrators at FCHS.