I hate to be negative, but, for a screenplay project I’m working on, I’m looking for examples of negative things said by teachers to students. Examples would be: “You should not be thinking of going to college,” or “Sit down and shut up!” If you have some real-life examples, please either post them here, or email them to me at: wkist@kent.edu. I’ll ask for some positive examples in the near future!
June 15th, 2010
Once, at one of the schools I have taught at, the students were grouped for reading according to ability. There were three groups. One of the other teachers told the lowest group that they were “institutional” because they would be janitors and such. She told the middle group that they were “industrial” because they would be working in factories working manual labor, and she told the high group that they were “college prep”. Ack! I was so disgusted by this!
Also, I have heard of a former colleague stating that we shouldn’t waste our time with students on IEPs…because ‘it wouldn’t matter anyway’. Disgraceful!
I was walking down the hall one day and i passed a teacher having a discussion with a student who was hispanic. Hispanic students are sometimes taught, in their culture, not to look at a person that is reprimanding you or giving you corrective feedback. The teacher was speaking to this student in a very condescending way and actually said to the student, “Your culture is so stupid, when I am talking to you look at me.” How hurtful for a student to hear that the place that they come from is unimportant.