My mom made me late everyday in high school. I’d miss the first 5-10 minutes of first period
I had a teacher in 4th grade that was an issue from day 1. My parents had moved right after Hurricane Hugo. I started at this school during the middle of the year, and due to the timing of everything also in the middle of the week.
The class had apparently been working on something earlier in the week that I was unaware of. The teacher hadn't mentioned it during my first day, and then expected me to have it on my second day. So my first grade in the class was a zero. It never went uphill. I have ADHD, and she was entirely unwilling to try at all with me; I spent many of my days in a vice principal's office. Generally she was unpleasant, and often specifically cruel to a 10yr old.
That school was doing a team teaching thing. Two teachers split subjects. I ended up with As and Bs in her teammate's classes, and Fs in all of her classes.
I did get some revenge on her later, but that's another story.
Ok let's hear the story. I had a similar teacher experience, even had the dual teacher thing, but it was not as bad. Although she ended up having a major seizure in the middle of class which was pretty upsetting for us, but obviously that had nothing to do with how she was treating me.
Since she often would just send me directly to the administration offices most days, I got to be very familiar with them. That school had three vice principals, and I got to know them all pretty well. They were having a hard time understanding why I was being excluded so regularly. As the school year concluded, they would come and "observe" me to see what about my situation was the issue. I wasn't perfect; I was a ten year old boy with ADHD. But neither was I any more disruptive than the other children in the class.
My parents decided to have me repeat the 4th grade, and I had an entirely different teacher pair. They also put me in the school's TAG program. This was definitely the right thing to do for me. The other teachers had none of the problems that that one teacher did. Meanwhile, that teacher had decided to to the same sort of thing with another child.
My fifth grade year was exciting, because that first teacher had apparently decided to start sending "problem" children out of her classes, and administration was not thrilled as they had things to do and couldn't monitor kids all day. I ended up being a part of their process to force her to retire earlier than she intended.
Over three decades later I'm still angry about how she treated me, and I feel like her punishment wasn't nearly as harsh as it ought to have been. She kept telling me I was a terrible child, and I internalized much of the abuse. I had a difficult time trusting teachers after my experiences with her.
I did run into her as an adult though. She recognized me and asked me if I had ever managed to "learn how to behave." I told her that I had, and because of her I even read the newspaper daily. This seemed to excite her until I told her that I checked the obituaries daily for hers, and asked her to not keep me waiting much longer. She finally died about eight years after that.
Fuck you, Mrs. Gamble. The only thing keeping me from pissing on your grave is my fear of urinating in public.
Vindictive & malicious teachers honestly have no place in the public school system or anywhere within 300 m / 1000 ft of children. I had one of those evil people as a teacher for 3rd grade. I hope she's burning in hell, if such a place exists. Terrible human being.
Back in my school days it was hit or miss as to whether the bus riders would be penalized if the bus was late getting us to school. I don't think I was ever personally called out for it though. Punished for it, sure.
High school was particularly ridiculous. If we were 10 (or maybe 15) minutes late for a class, we would get counted as absent and we'd have to spend the rest of the period in the holding room they used for in-school suspension. The bus riders were predominantly the kids from poor families, because middle class and up typically either the parents dropped the kids off at school or got their kids a car when they turned 16 (legal driving age). It was literally penalizing poor students for the bus drivers' inability to stick to the schedule.
I was in highschool and I used to do my art homework at lunch just before class started. So I would do still life drawings and stuff and then hand them in. My art teacher would always deduct points because she said, "you're supposed to do it at home".
I didn't have a desk. Parents were poor and didn't have work at the time so we were staying with my aunt who didn't have much room for us. Even if I did have a desk there would be my cousins running around and noise and stuff.
I figured I made the compromise. I didn't divulge why, I just did it for each homework assignment and she kept getting cross with me. I was like, whatever ...
I eventually failed that course because I just hated that teacher and it's only course I ever failed. Later on I wound up having the highest average in my year and getting multiple scholarships, so whatever.
Wow. Meanwhile, I asked my math teacher to put the homework on the board at the start of class everyday so I could read the textbook, and teach myself and start on it while she taught the whole class. She would still call on me, but I was able to figure out the answer most of the time. After I finished, I’d play Pokémon emerald on my calculator until the bell rang.
There are people who have no business having any power over others. Sometimes because they are corrupt and abuse the power because they can. Sometimes because they are stupid and don't understand the point of rules and enforce them for all the wrong reasons.
I wish schools did more to weed these types out, though suspect that the first step would need to be better pay and work conditions.
Screw that teacher. If there is a deadline and you hand it in before or on the deadline then who cares where it got done. Any teacher worth their salt would notice this pattern and ask what was going on that prevented you from doing it at home.
Which kind of idiot says that to an elementary student? That incredibly dumb.
I and all my classmates had walking distance to school - almost all of us without having to cross a road. It was very common at that age to walk to school alone, thus being responsible for being on time as long as we were sent out at an appropriate time.
I grew up in Europe.
The kind that only knows how to solve problems by punishing.
Elementary school teachers are often children themselves.
Oh, so that's a common thing and it wasn't just the mentally unstable morons at my elementary school? I'm not even surprised tbh.
Kids can't fight back after all, so there is no pushback punishing the teachers.
Good luck with teens, who will get parente hawking for them, or adults, who will rip her a new one right there and then.
Oh, it was definitely the mentally unstable morons at your school, but it was also the mentally unstable morons at everyone else’s school too
One of my siblings actually got repeatedly in trouble because my parents weren't dropping her off early. This was in elementary school. Some of the buses didn't even get there by the time she wanted them there (10 minutes before the morning bell rang). The school 'solved' the situation by moving my sister to a different class. Which I guess did solve it for my sister, but I still have no idea how the school decided that was a normal thing to tell children 10 and under to do??
teachers are cunts a lot of the time
Elementary teacher
They couldn't even graduate to middle school, such a shame
Every teacher and coach I had growing up. And I still hear it working in education.
I had this sort of shit from my teacher, she was such a cunt.
Depending on whether or not there's punishment, I might be somewhat OK with this. The whole point of school is to prepare kids for adult life, where your boss may not care why you were late, even if the circumstances were completely out of your control.
I mean, maybe in middle school or better yet high school absolutely. Primary usually means Kindergarten to 5th/6th grade in the US so mostly under 10s
That's why I said it depends on whether or not there's an actual punishment involved. If it's just a finger wag and a calm "you need to be on time", I'm not concerned. If the kid's actually getting in trouble, with associated punishment, then that's definitely not OK.
Nothing better to prepare for the horrors of the modern world than loading kids with guilt about things beyond their control as early as possible.
Based on the number of adults I've met who think that nothing is their fault ever, kids need to at least be introduced to the concept of personal responsibility even in situations not completely in their control.
They said that a lot to me
Nobody wants to work at a school by design, that means the people that do work there are scraping the barrel genetically.
scraping the barrel genetically.
Just because you are a piece of shit excuse for a human being, doesn't mean those wanting to teach the next generation are. Quite the opposite in fact.
My school system if you were late too me times you get detention. It happen to me one time. I hot mysrlf out of the second one
I think they expect you to walk your ass to the bus stop. Like - fuck that. But that's what they were expecting.
Ah yes, the bus stop you never use because your parent brings you. So you don't know where it is. And it probably picks up from your stop 30 minutes before you could even know you were going to be late.
Sometimes they don't even have a solution, just a problem.
Seriously, why would I ever take the bus to school? That's where all the bullies were. If my mom couldn't drive me, my neighbor's mom would.
I used to live just literally down the street from my primary school, so I could've very much walked instead of my parents taking me. It would take like 5 mins to get there, so "my parents made me late" would've not been a very good excuse for me. Not that I had to use it anyway, I was never late.. I used to be the kid with the classroom keys so I could unlock it for everyone cause I came first usually :p
I'm too American for this anecdote because what do you mean you had keys to your elementary school classroom? There's no way I would have been able to be trusted with that kind of responsibility at 7, I would've been like riding the trikes on the track at midnight on a weekend and painting the walls blue or something.
There's no way I would have been able to be trusted with that kind of responsibility at 7
Well technically since 6 in my case :3
Anywho, yeah, there used to be 2 kids in class that had the keys to the homeroom class, usually the kids who got there early, and 2 kids in case 1 gets sick or otherwise doesn't come to school etc. Those kids also usually were the class president/vice president, which came with it's own set of responsibilities.. I usually just had the key, not the president role tho, cause I was a quiet kid who didn't want all that attention x3. I got nominated for vice president once and passed on that role to someone else
Surprisingly we didn't destroy the school.. I did one time accidentally hit the wall with a bunch of coloured pencils which never washed out when we were cleaning the school over the years, but that was during a break rather than at any time I was in class alone :3
Yeah I mean it was a mile to school for me and I started walking there in kindergaten with my brother as the supervisor. He's almost 2 years older than me, so we were kike 5 & 7. All the kids we knew would walk to and from school, if they brought a bike they'd have a lock fot it and obviously have to remember their house keys everyday, you can't just leave the house unlocked everywhere (depending on the parents). Where I was at schools were constantly expanding do to population growth, so there were always portables ("temporary" classrooms outside the main buildings that were essentially cheap manufactured homes).
I can 100% see a teacher giving spare keys to whomever they thought was going to get their first so they could turn down the AC because they weren't supposed to keep it at moderate temperatures all afternoon/night. Extremely hot temperature days in portables were the worst. To be honest though I seem to remember that the portable I had in 5th grade you just pulled the door witg or without the key and it had enough flex on the door/wall that it would just pop open. (Think someone skimped out on some fasteners).
high trust soceity
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