I encourage this type of education. Kids need to be held accountable for their actions, just like everyone else.
Normalize humility
In what world is it OK to text a teacher? Like how does this person even know their teacher’s phone number? This conversation is exactly what parent teacher conferences are for.
The majority of my daughter’s teachers in primary and middle school gave out their numbers. Not all, and it wasn’t a requirement, but the majority.
Not that I ever used them. Teachers work hard enough, they don’t need to be available 24x7.
That’s beyond strange to me. The only time I’ve ever used my personal phone for work purposes was the one job I had where they paid for it.
Often there are apps specific for school, which I think is totally reasonable. (Although I’d like the schools to use less proprietary software and more open).
I agree, it seems odd; however, I will state that my kid’s school provides an app that allows you to communicate in both directions with teachers. They also use the app to make general announcements like closure for snow, etc. My wife is generally the one doing non-in-person communicating so I haven’t actually used the app (I only recently learned it exists), but hopefully the teacher can filter notifications outside of school hours.
Were I a teacher, I’d be glad to have a way to communicate without sharing personal information.
It is a very expensive private school. Probably got different rules.
this is the primary way I interact with my kids teachers, and they’re in public school. we use an app, so the parents don’t have access to the staffs personal phone numbers, so there’s really no response unless the staff member is available to read and respond as part of their job.
Private schools are tough because you have to educate both the children and their parents
In public school, all the kids are smoking weed, and are chill, in private schools all the kids can afford and are doing coke, and therefore not very chill
Forgot:
I see where he gets it from.
left off because, heh, reasons.
The amount of parents that think that teachers owe respect to their kids above all else is infuriating. It’s a real problem in Brazil, both in public and private schools
I think respect is fine and should be shown to everyone. These parents want the teachers to defer to their kids. Teachers cannot teach in an environment where they are subordinate to every child in the classroom. Kids will not behave if they know they will never be beld accountable, there is a perfect example of this undeveloping the USA as a nation.
We pay a lot for this school
Then don’t. Send your kids to public school. Just don’t don’t pretend that by paying for private school your child is somehow entitled to act the fool and not be held to account.
But who am I kidding. In the USA a lot of private schools work just like that: mom and dad’s money is the worth of the student and they will be privileged accordingly.
Its like when i was in high school when people would say “aww feck” and teachers would swear jar us, or tell us off. So everybody just said fuck instead, if your gonna bitch about us “swearing” and using alternate words to comply with your “appropriate language” we might as well make it worth the 25 cents
well… I agree you should just swear.
Man. If my kids teacher ever contacted me like this, you can be damned sure my kid would be disciplined appropriately. Most likely a reduction of privileges until the teacher acknowledged that their behavior had improved. This kind of shit would never fly in my house.
Luckily my kids were all very well behaved and conscientious about their schooling.
I’m with you. Call my kids out if they are being dickheads. Call me if it doesn’t improve - I’ll set them straight
Righteous parenting.
Is that a paladin subclass? Can’t find it in the player handbook
Punished if ever they screw around? Already well behaved.
Hmm, what a coincidence 🤣
My sarcasm meter is broken.
Had to look up the derivation ‘for fun’. - 1920, “muscular low-IQ male,” originally appearing in boxing slang (compare bimbo).
Apparently the derivation goes back to vaudeville and stereotypes about immigrants:
“Bozo” was in fact a personal name among immigrants to the United States from Serbian and Croatian regions. It seems likely that vaudeville’s Bozo originated from this immigrant name and stereotypes surrounding eastern Europeans (akin to the use of palooka to refer to an oafish boxer, probably related to the Polish name Paluka).
https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/wordroutes/where-does-bozo-come-from-lets-not-clown-around/
I couldn’t be a teacher, because bozo would have been one of the kinder words I’d use in such a situation.
Yeah, the teacher is going to get a fun talk with management and probably be forced to write an apology.
Teaching is a risky job these days, and thus not done as well as it could be in a world without parental bozos.
Just gonna advocate for the devil on this one and say teachers shouldn’t be calling kids names.
I dunno man if a kid can’t handle being called bozo… it would be good to teach that kid to be more resilient.
Prob best not to call kids names, sure, but damn
You’ll get called a lot worse in your first job. But who am I kidding, this is a fancy school, these kids won’t work.
Not every kid has had the same lived experience as you. You don’t know what’s going on in every kid’s brain. Try to have some empathy for the things you might not know.
As a teacher, it’s your job to teach the kid, not harden up their resilience to your satisfaction.
Edit: not to mention, what makes you think a grown adult calling a child names will build resilience? Is this how you want kids building resilience?
Just gonna advocate for the devil on this one and say the devil would advocate for calling kids names. Fuck those little shites.
I agree. I’ve had problems with this working for a school district, when a student was younger a nickname teachers and students called them was innocent enough, but as they are getting older they find it embarrassing and they have difficulty communicating on top of that, so it was a headache. the adults should stick to preferred names only.
Also, thing about kids is you don’t always know how they feel based on their external reactions.
rip bozo
I can’t imagine where he learned to be an entitled little shit…
Bozo dubbed over.
It’s the kinda parent to go full PI and make a case against the teacher. Say they are spreading hate by posting her texts online and violating her privacy
I think the teacher in this case was a guy
I think the “her” is referring to the parent here, but we don’t have anything to indicate how the parent presents.
