Family Fuming Over Student's Unflattering Awards
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1. What is an "Intermediate Learning Center?"
2. I don't get the "least likely to have children" award. Is he gay? Did he get hit in the nuts at some point? |
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It's a cruel award for a "teacher" to give out, but we seem to be having lots of trouble with teachers these days and their judgement.
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I don't get it so I can't make judgments about its appropriateness/cruelty.
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I can't think of anything positive you would mean by "least likely to have children".
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For cryin' out loud, nobody can take a joke anymore.. I betcha, this kid was the freakin' class clown.. Teachers probably thought a little payback was in order. Who knows.. but I see they are saying the kid needs Therapy now ??? give me a break.
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I doubt it's positive, but that doesn't mean it is inappropriate or cruel.
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It's is completely inappropriate and cruel and a notice should be added to this teachers folder as evidence of a habitual problem should these lapses in judgment continue....and although I seriously doubt the children need therapy, I can understand how being presented with this "awards" in front of their classmates would be somewhat traumatizing. |
I sure would love to hear the "other side" of this story.. 6th graders can be big pains in the ass. If the teachers involved are "good" teachers.. I would tend to think this kid had it coming.. other than that, we'll all just have to speculate.
Sometimes when a kid is being a horses' ass, you have to call them on it :) |
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Children should never have it coming. If they cut-up, you punish them, you don't hold a grudge until the end of the year then publicly humiliate them in front of the whole class....that's a sign of someone with their own problems. I'm not suggesting these teachers should be punished or reprimanded in any way what so ever. They should simply be told to refrain from such activity in the future...their boss doing his or her everyday job and taking extra note of the particular problems each of his employees displays. |
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I still don't get the "have children" one so I can't comment on its cruelty, but a "Sir Clowns a lot award" isn't exactly "humiliating."
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When my 18 y/o son was in sixth grade at Evangel and it was time for their graduation, we (the parents who organized graduation) let the students in the classes vote on several "awards" for the students. There was one award per student. The awards were things like "Most Likely to Suceed", "Most Likely to be a Doctor, "Most likely to marry a Hollywood Star", "Most likely to be a rocket scientist" and etc. You get the idea. The awards were all on the positive side and none of them poked fun at anyone. Each student received an award at graduation and they were so excited to see which one they won. It was a positive experience for all even the boys and girls who were trouble makers all year long.
My whole point is there is a time and place for everything and some things have no place. Humiliating the point or even giving the merest hint of humiliation was unnecessary. If the boy was a behavior issue, he should have been dealt with at the appropriate time and not like this. None of us would like our children being treated that way and you know it. |
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I swear, I don't see the big deal. Heck, the kid might even had thought it was funny "at the time" joking around.. then momma finds out about it and has the freakin' fit.. ?? who knows ? Both my boys have a very good sense of humor.. I guarantee something like this wouldn't find them coming home complaining about it.. but joking about it. I will say, this is all dependent on the "Delivery/context" etc.. which we all know nothing about. |
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Now school shootings are my fault ? :)
Look.. I don't feel like discussing this much more, without any of us knowing the context of all this. If the kid was shy, or already had issues etc.. then I could see this being a problem.. But i've been coming at this, as "what if" this kid WAS the class clown.. and IF that WAS the case.. then he should be able to take a joke, or quit cuttin' up in class, and wasting everyone else's time. That's all I'm saying. But we don't know if he was the class clown etc.. it happens all the time.. student screams "Teacher called me a horses' ass!" turns out he was acting like an ass. I'm talking particulars.. and we don't have any yet in this story. |
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And saying you'll never have children isn't "exactly" calling someone ugly or impotent either... |
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"I was standing in the middle of (the two teachers), and they (were) reading them off," he said. "Everyone was laughing." Matt felt humiliated. "They (were) putting us down and everything," he said. "That is not what their job is for, to put kids down. They are supposed to teach us." Does it still sound like he thought it was funny? Quote:
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However a child being an ass DOES NOT give the teacher the right to call him an ass in front of the entire classroom....and in that particular example, the use of profanity by a teacher in front of the student would indeed warrant some type of reprimand. You punish children for bad behavior, you reward them for good behavior, under no circumstance should you intentionally humiliate them. |
>And saying you'll never have children isn't "exactly" calling someone ugly or impotent either...
I know. Maybe he got kicked in the nuts. Maybe he said he was never going to have children. Maybe his class did the flour bag baby thing and he left his out in the rain. There are plenty of ways this could be the most non-offensive thing in the world. Without knowing anything else about this I can't say whether or not it's an over-reaction. I'm pretty sure this is an over-reaction to a "class clown" award. |
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Just as when you got some kid walking around school with his pants hangin' around his knees.. I appreciate the teacher who will call them on that too.. public humiliation being a good starting point. So we'll just have to disagree on that one. |
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As an adult, you should not hold a grudge then intentionally humiliate a 12 year old child. |
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"I'm sorry my actions hurt your feelings, that was not my intention"....case closed, issue resolved, we don't have to listen to some guy to lazy to use a car seat tell us he doesn't see what's wrong here either. |
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Public humiliation teaches kids that it's ok to bully others. If a kid has his pants "sagging," yank him aside and tell him to pull them up or 3 day's detention. There is no excuse for public humiliation of ANY student, be it at the hands of teachers or other students. |
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