Did you ever have a teacher that seemed not to care?

primalclaws1974

primalclaws1974

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This could be not caring about you, themselves, their job, or other students. I had an older woman who gave us assignments to do in front of the class. She never seemed to have any compassion for the student sweating it out. I didn't expect special treatment, but chewing me out in front of the class just added insult to injury. That is not a good teacher in my view.
 
You always have at least one or two teachers like this in every school. It just happens. I had a physics teacher who even seemed disinterested in the subject itself - she would sit in her chair and tell us what to write down, day in, day out. And when she asked questions, she always had that notebook in front of her, always looking whether you followed her definition and such. I didn't really liked her. I was the type of the student who would rather figure out things than learn them by heart. I could write down any formula or do any problem, but I could never learn something by heart and it seemed she only cared about that. I don't even have to mention this, but there were a lot of students failing her class. Physics is not something you can tell your students to write down - you need to help them, do some problems on the blackboard, explain a theory and such. It's not enough to sit and monotonously dictate the lesson. It just isn't.

I bet there are many examples like this.
 
It just seemed that as the teachers aged, the less some of them seemed to care about the job. I don't know if young teachers have a better attitude because they're fresh out of college, and think they are going to change the world, and as the years drag by they become lackluster. I know I seem to be generalizing, because some older teachers are quite good at their jobs, but it was a common occurrence where I went to school.
 
I went grocery shopping the other day and ran into one of my teacher from high school. She was still a sulky person and i greeted her and there was barely a smile on her face when returning the greeting. This is exactly how i remembered this woman back in high school and we even had a little nick name for her but i will not mention that name here. She was the type of person that seemed to be just 'going through the motion' and not liking her job as a teacher, she would always be shouting and saying mean things to us and we were really scared of her. She is older now, naturally, but still in the classroom. I suspect that at this point she is close to retirement and to think that she is going out with the same aura that she came in the profession with, it is really sad.
 
I think there's always one or two. I had them in my school,too. Their sole purpose always seemed to be to reduce students to nothing, and basically embarrass them. If you were slow, you'd get called all sorts of names and made the butt of everyone's joke. I think today's children are lucky in that experts have put names on such conditions such as dyslexia, plus they know a bit more about their rights. Some of the teachers I had would have no place whatsoever in today's education system as they'd be ruled too cruel to teach children.
 
I've had this happen to me too many times to count. When I was in high school, my geometry teacher was so rude to us. She basically gave up on 90% of the class, so she changed our seating arrangement to put us in order of our grades. If you were failing, she just shoved you in the back of the classroom and forgot about us. She didn't even care.
 
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