The Superior Teacher

I used to think that there were only really two breeds of teacher. The first is "the blissful teacher" that in their first couple of years of teaching has a hard time with the students, yells occasionally in class, always wears a smile no matter what the circumstance, gets cranky when the time to write reports rolls around but is genuinely a happy person-caring and just high on life.

The second is "the repulsive teacher", the teacher that in all circumstances needs to be kept away from, this teacher yells and screams significantly in class, find any little means in which they will persecute you, is angry and snappy all year long, somehow hasn't learnt how to smile and most probably is either divorced or old and unmarried.

But no, this year i have discovered yet another breed of teacher....usually only one or two per school, believe me thats enough, "the bizarre teacher". this is a most dangerous breed, one not to be trifled with. oh, they may seem very all and well for the first couple of months. the months i like to call the 'settling in months', the months in which they settle in and then once they have done that they can begin to weave their web of lies, deception and just plain mess around with your mind.....not to mention that they are friggin weird!

well it just happens that i am a student of one of these teachers, lets call her Mrs X. Mrs X also happens to be my drama teacher, it seems that drama teachers have a reputation for being a bit nutty and out of the water, but this teacher blows the water right out.

i have to admit that when Mrs X first became my teacher i loved her. i thought that she was so bubbly and different and just high on life. i couldn't wait till drama, i couldn't wait to get into that classroom and laugh and have fun. it soon became all too clear what she was really like and it was completely different to what i first thought. to me she was no longer the bubbly and wonderful teacher...she slowly but surely began to show her true colours. she was now a nauseating and unthoughtful teacher that no one could stand being around for too long!

let me describe an incident that she was involved in or should i say 'started'. these incidents have happened this year, although there are many other incidents that follow.
this year we only have 6 people in our class. the group is small and intimate and everyone has a good time. in this particular lesson we were practicing for the 'Shakespeare Festival' which was coming up shortly. my friend and i were quietly talking in the corner while the rest of the class was practicing their section of the scenes.

Mrs X then began to yell at us and at one point swore and called us 'bitches' saying that we were being rude and disrupting. now i know that in a sense we should have been watching and paying attention but the whole class agreed that her outburst was totally unnecessary. after she yelled at us and calmed down the class erupted in laughter. if i could only remember the numerous hysterical and weird things she said.

everyone left that lesson laughing. although we shouldn't have fueled the fire, though how could you not, we all figured that she would be over it, just like every lesson. how wrong we were. she then stopped my friend and i and told us that we had to see her at lunch. 'okay' we thought 'we'll go and just explain to her that we were only whispering and we didn't mean to disrupt the class'. so off we went to her staffroom. she wasn't in her room so we asked the Head of Drama where she was. He said that we would have to go and find her and she was probably on duty. we then proceeded to looked for her and finally found her around B-block.

we cautiously walked up to her ready to explain until she gave us the biggest death look and yelled at us. at this point my friend and i exchanged glances which said 'didn't she want us to go and see her? what is this all about?' she said that we were supposed to see Mr Y the Head of Drama, that he was going to talk to us about what had happened today. then off she bounded to Mr Y and we sheepishly followed, not knowing what the hell was going on.

when we arrived back at the staffroom Mrs X then had hushed tones with Mr Y who obviously didn't know what was going on either. one at a time Mr Y took my friend and i into the nearby room to talk to us. he said that Mrs X said that we were always disrupting the lesson, we were always putting down other students (one of which has turetz) and numerous other accusations.

my friend and i were completely blown away by what she said, and the fact that she couldn't even say it to our faces. she had to use the Head of Drama as a pawn to talk to us...even when he hasn't even taught us before and barely even knows our names. although we tried to defend ourselves its hard when you're the student. i mean what child hasn't been told off once or twice for talking in class or not putting their hand up or whatever, but what this teacher was saying about us was completely off the graph!

Our parents were completely outraged by what Mrs X had to say. One of which even tried to schedule a meeting in which they could basically yell and defend their child from these out of line accusations. she didn't comply of course. she said that she would love to have a meeting but then didn't end up actually properly organizing the meeting.

My mother who just happens to be a teacher at the same school was absolutely disgusted at what this teacher had said. so much so that she can barely look her in the eye or hold a conversation with her, even though Mrs X thinks that everything is alright.

there is a lot more that i could tell you on this teacher but i think that I'll wrap up and save it for another post. but i must add that the next week, in our class she actually walked backwards while she was bossily explaining something to one of my fellow classmate and fell over a little set of black drama stairs and broke her arm in three places and hurt her back. many people think it was karma, that she deserved it for what she did and what she is continually doing. in a tiny way i think that she may have deserved it but in the long run no one really deserves that kind of pain.

its funny that on my recent report she wrote that i was always disrupting the lesson and my most recent performance was basically pathetic, but I'm actually coming a close second in the class just behind my friend who was also abused by her. its also funny that now she is sucking hundreds of dollars out of the school system for transport and medical bills, etc. I'm just glad that the heats off me! :)

Drawing On Desks

At school, many students have the urge to write on the school desks and graffiti such things as their name, a question so that other students may answer it in another lesson, or some students even go to great lengths to scracth stuff into the desk with a drawing pin or scissors.
On one occasion a certain boy happened to scratch into the desk, "poo in a can" with a circle around it so it looked like a can.
Everyone thought it was really funny to see this boys artwork on the desk. This boy never thought he'd get caught, but even though teachers don't say anything at the time they are watching everything you do.
This boy was sent up to the headmasters office and was told to pay for the desk, Im not one hundered percent sure how much it costed but it was around $150.
This boy was devastated that he actually got caught and had to pay for a new desk, but that didn't stop anyone from still writing on the desks.
So the writing kept coming, it was like mail sent from someone unknown for you to read during class. Teachers were mortified that people were still writing on the desk, but yet it didn't stop.

Its still continuing to happen, students contine to graffiti on schools property and write offensive things about other students and about which teacher is gay or not or who needs to go to hell...
These things that are written on the desks also distract other people from learning and listening in class, they are more focused on whats on the desk rather than what the teachers are saying. Also if the language is really bad the teachers have a little cleaning fest at the start of the lesson for 15minutes, which wastes learning time that would be useful, especially since its school certificate at the end of the year.
Wouldn't it be great if the desks could clean themsealves, it would save alot of valuable time.

Student and Teacher relationships....

I am in year 10 at the moment, so i have a pretty good idea on how students view certain teachers.
In a recent class, last period of the day, students behaved worse than ever. The teacher was new, young, nice, and had a very gentle voice, and yet the students of this class disrespected her numerous times thoughout the lesson. Unfortunately during this lesson there was a an exam happening, a competition which didn't necessarily go towards the school certificate but there were some people in the class that wanted to complete it, to try and get an award.
Some students thought it would be funny to do the multiple choice in a zig-zag pattern because thay couldn't really care less. Some students thought it would be funny to ask stupid questions such as "do I write my name on my sheet". Some other students thought they would talk, disrupt the lesson and yell out silly comments; all to get the teachers attention and to make her feel dreadful.
After many failing attempts to try and calm the students down and to get them to do the test, she resorted to putting students outside or to see the 'head of the senior school' who would hopefully discipline them. Naturally these students who were told to leave made some "witty" comment as they walked out, making the rest of the class laugh, and leaving the teacher feeling even more inferior. By the end of the class, the longest 50 minutes ever for that poor teacher, after students had marked any answer on the question sheet and made patterns, she collected them and let them go.
So had the students fulfilled there mission, to make a new teacher feel welcome in a new school? Some students felt appalling, some thought it was funny to bring this teacher down and some felt ashamed, the fact that they had broken down a teacher in class.
As i left the class i was one of the people who felt terrible, that i had sat there and smiled and watched this teacher be ripped to shreads infront of the whole class. i went back and apologized to her after, she managed to form a smile. I couldn't imagine what this poor teacher was thinking.
I would like to put this question to school students, especially in year 10, how would you feel? How would you like it if you were trying to teach a lesson and there were some students who mucked around, threw paper, yelled inappropriate things and disrupted the people who were trying to learn, becasue the teacher has to put all there energy into making you be quiet and listen ???
My mother is a teacher at the same school, and is also friends with this poor teacher who suffered an awful lesson that day. She comforted this teacher after the class was over, and this teacher was a mess.
Teachers have feeling too.
Students, days after, still talked about the incident how funny it was that they made a teacher really upset. They said "if she gave us the respect, we would give her respect." What kind of accusation is that? You need to respect teachers. They have a hard job.You may think writing essays and doing assignments is hard, try being a teacher and having to mark them, write reports, plan lesson and try to control a class at the same time.
Some students make it there duty to give teachers a hard time because they don't like that certain subject, i say those students need to get a life, because there are so many other students that want to learn and excell to get ready for there furture.
This may seem bias, but teachers try their hardest to make the lesson fun, let you play games and talk and have a good time, while learning. Don't have ago at them, have ago at the students in your class who make trouble and stop the rest of the class from enjoying the subject and having fun.

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