I wonder sometimes how the world winds up with teachers like that. There’s not any money in teaching so it’s not likely that, but just sniping a kid from out of the blue at something they’re actively proud of (assuming the teacher found out from the kid) and enjoys makes no sense unless you hate kids and learning enough to go be a teacher. Maybe the teacher is stuck there, or just doing the job for the insurance, but come on.
I understand that there are industries where compliance to a slow, crummy (but approved) process saves money over someone working a problem in a better, faster way that nobody else can duplicate (and therefore not process approved), but I don’t see how that would ever apply to children reading. They’re not going to run out of books to read.
From my experience most teachers shouldn’t be teaching. Some downright hate kids. I had one who admitted she didn’t manage to get into medicine, so teaching biology was the second best. She definitely shouldn’t have gone into teaching.
My elementary school literature teacher loved my creative writing and always left a note on my assignments, encouraging me to continue. Then in high school my literature teacher consistently gave me lower grades because she didn’t like my wiriting. Completely killed it for me. To be honest, I don’t know how she could even be a literature teacher, because the creative writing she loved from other students my friends and I agreed was unimaginative garbage.
In the 12 years of mandatory education, I can count on one hand the good teachers who made me interested in the subject. And I’ve had well over 24 teachers in a wide range of subjects.
I can count on one hand the good teachers who made me interested in the subject
I had some very good ones that I consider myself lucky to have had.
I’m not sure that the bad teachers really understand how much they stand out even to schoolkids. There are so many commonalities between people once they get out of school and start swapping teacher stories that you’d almost think there was a class on how to most effectively derail a kid’s ambition.
I always bring up this story when talking about (bad) teachers. Once on my way back from school on public transit, I saw a teacher grading essays. They give this one essey an A, then close the notebook, check the name, open the notebook again, cross out A and write a B. Obviously I don’t know the backstory, but I was still looking at it in disbelief. I’d definitely been graded lower based on how the teacher liked me. Even on things that should be objective, like science subjects.
Yeah, I’d be pretty curious why I had an A on something that got lowered to a B. Not exactly the implementation of “inspire curiosity in kids” part of teaching that I think anyone had in mind.
I wonder sometimes how the world winds up with teachers like that. There’s not any money in teaching so it’s not likely that, but just sniping a kid from out of the blue at something they’re actively proud of (assuming the teacher found out from the kid) and enjoys makes no sense unless you hate kids and learning enough to go be a teacher. Maybe the teacher is stuck there, or just doing the job for the insurance, but come on.
I understand that there are industries where compliance to a slow, crummy (but approved) process saves money over someone working a problem in a better, faster way that nobody else can duplicate (and therefore not process approved), but I don’t see how that would ever apply to children reading. They’re not going to run out of books to read.
From my experience most teachers shouldn’t be teaching. Some downright hate kids. I had one who admitted she didn’t manage to get into medicine, so teaching biology was the second best. She definitely shouldn’t have gone into teaching.
My elementary school literature teacher loved my creative writing and always left a note on my assignments, encouraging me to continue. Then in high school my literature teacher consistently gave me lower grades because she didn’t like my wiriting. Completely killed it for me. To be honest, I don’t know how she could even be a literature teacher, because the creative writing she loved from other students my friends and I agreed was unimaginative garbage.
In the 12 years of mandatory education, I can count on one hand the good teachers who made me interested in the subject. And I’ve had well over 24 teachers in a wide range of subjects.
I had some very good ones that I consider myself lucky to have had.
I’m not sure that the bad teachers really understand how much they stand out even to schoolkids. There are so many commonalities between people once they get out of school and start swapping teacher stories that you’d almost think there was a class on how to most effectively derail a kid’s ambition.
I always bring up this story when talking about (bad) teachers. Once on my way back from school on public transit, I saw a teacher grading essays. They give this one essey an A, then close the notebook, check the name, open the notebook again, cross out A and write a B. Obviously I don’t know the backstory, but I was still looking at it in disbelief. I’d definitely been graded lower based on how the teacher liked me. Even on things that should be objective, like science subjects.
Yeah, I’d be pretty curious why I had an A on something that got lowered to a B. Not exactly the implementation of “inspire curiosity in kids” part of teaching that I think anyone had in mind.
one invests a lot of time and money into a field and then sunk cost takes over is my guess.
I guess that teacher gets to go down in history as example of how not to be.
Also, at least I’m not as burned out as that person.