Which of these would you find offensive if directed at you?

All of these are very offensive! This teacher should be reported, and be banned from EVER teaching again. What a pompous ass!

Biggles, I am sorry you had a HORRID excuse for a teacher. He had no right to do that to children he was being paid to teach.

Some are offensive. Most of them, though, are probably the truth. Most of these I might say myself is I had to tell a child how they were acting. If they were just to be mean, then it's bad.

They're not all offensive because they're not all true. If they apply to me, personally, they're offensive. But most are not.

I hope that teacher has since been fired and had his/her certification revoked.

i wouldn't find any of them offensive now....... i would ignore the person who said any of it. but i checked the ones i would have found offensive at 12 or 13.

All of these!

I don't like this:

Were you brought up or dragged up?
My hamster's better behaved than you!
You are THICK!
This class is the most spineless and have the least amount of character out of anyone that I have ever met.
You are absolutely hopeless!
You have spent too long at infant-school colouring in and it's dulled your wits. You have had no decent upbringing. You are vulgar! You have a lack of personality. You've got a sad, pathetic life! There's an arrogance in your personality! You are mentally ill. You think everybody else is wrong but you. You're always talking about 'girly' things. You are an attention-seeker. You have a witch-like, attention-seeking cackle. You are a spoilt little child. You have no life.
Speaking is an uncontrollable habit for you. You think it's like breathing, you have to do it, but it's not! You are a class of spoilt little children who think that they can do what they want, when they want because their mummies and daddies let them.

If this is true, this individual should not be teaching. They should be reported to the appropriate authorities. I don't know where this is taking place, but if it took place in Canada it would be illegal and the teacher could be charged with a criminal offense.

I would find all of these offensive if directed at me by a teacher...although I wouldn't give the insults much merit. The best teacher I ever had was one who berated us on a daily basis.

As a teacher, I find nearly all of these offensive and an indication that the teacher should not be there. I sincerely hope he or she gets fired or leaves.

Was Anne Robinson a teacher before hosting The Weakest Link?

I would find it offensive that someone felt the need to insult me, but I probably wouldn't be offended by the insult itself.

LOL LOL

I would find some of them offensive. I would find most of them offensive if delivered in the manner you mention in your explanation text.

Except the hamster one. I think my 5th class teacher used that one too.

I don't listen to insults, but none of these are things teachers should be saying.

It depends entirely on context. All of these are, to some degree, insults, but many of them could well be justified in certain circumstances.

I would find all of these offensive.
Except for one;
Speaking is an uncontrollable habit for you. You think it's like breathing, you have to do it, but it's not!

It applies so well to my son - every year someone in his entourage has to complain about it. Most appreciate his wit, but the duller people just get annoyed and complain. Their complaints never get anywhere though since he's always among the top students - I think that bugs them even more!

A grade 2 teacher called me stupid in front of the whole class - THAT I never forgot...

coming from a teacher these are disgusting. When your young, adult words can be pretty powerful. The term Self-fulfillng prophecy means that if your told something often enough you'll become - especially if spoken by someone who's words are 'powerful'.

It really depends on the context in which it is directed at me.

Some of these would be funny when joking with friends, but I hope that teacher lost her job and never gets to teach again.

Now, they would mean nothing to me, but as a 12 or 13 year old, I'd have been pretty gutted if they'd been directed at me.

Bastard!

The worst thing he ever did was ask a student what his problem was. This student had been in a lot of trouble with the teacher although his behaviour had drastically improved in all other subjects. So quite truthfully, he answered "You are!" I know that those were the first words that came to my head. He was disciplined for telling the truth.

To everyone who said he should be reported: after he insulted my friend's family, I began recording all his little insults in the back of my exercise book. If we'd ever had to hand them in I would have been in so much trouble, but he never marked our work......

After almost two years I had a lot of his insults recorded. I mentioned it several times to the two form tutors I had over that period - neither wanted to get involved and I didn't want to go directly to the Head. Eventually, two girls got so upset by his bullying that they persuaded their parents to write a letter to the school. The asked to borrow my list to show their parents. Unfortunately for me, they got in a fight with the teacher concerned and ended up showing him the list

I was always a good girl and I'd never been in any trouble so I was rather mortified when the Head sent for me!!! She had a quick chat with me about when I'd recorded the details and said leave it with her. I was relieved not to be told off (I think it was because I didn't get upset or cross, I just told her calmly what the problem had been.)

The next day I was sent for again. This time I had to have a discussion with the Head *and* the teacher. Needless to say I wasn't keen on that idea, but I did it anyway, explaining exactly how difficult it was to work in those conditions.

I think he was quite shocked actually. There were only two of us he seemed to like and give good marks to in that class - we sat quietly in the corner and got on with our work. He didn't expect me to have written down his nastiness.....

I'm not sure what the Head said to him, but he did apologise to me and one other girl in my class. I wanted a class apology but that nevr happened. He certainly wasn't fired or seriously disciplined. And his behaviour didn't change. He caught my younger brother writing down what he had said a year later and had him in tears but then said it wasn't my brother's fault - it was obviously his vindictive and evil sister who was using him in her personal hate campaign! lol

But no-one in my year was ever taught by him again - I'm not sure if that was just the way the timetables were or whether they decided he'd cocked up his relationship with our year.

He's still there though

lol

No she was a very mediocre tv presenter. She presented a consumer rights programme.

I wouldn't find any of these things offensive if they were directed at me. I would, however, be deeply offended if they were said to a class of 12 and 13 year olds.

Don't forget Points of View... why oh why oh why oh why oh why...

Urgh - PoV! I hated her most on Watchdog though!

I find all of these offensive. There is NO excuse for anyone to heap verbal abuse on another person, no matter that person's age. Verbal abuse can be inflict far more long term psychological damage on a person than physical abuse. That teacher should be fired or required to get counseling.

People still say these things to me.

Some of these, but especially the one about me laughing like a cackling witch. Oooohhh!

This is a teacher??? I'm afraid this teacher would be walking around with a black eye if he dared say any of that to one of my kids!I've taken a round out of a few of them in my time and it sounds like this guy needs a wake-up call.

All except for the one about the entire class. I hate to be made fun of.Most people I know don't care, and I know it's supposed to be a sign of low self esteem, a weak character and all that, but I just don't like it. I try and tell myself it isn't true, but it still hurts.

The ones I would find offensive: Brougth up or draged up, you're abolutly hopless, you have spent too long at infant school, you have a sad pathetic life, you are mentally ill, you are a spoiled little child, you have no life.

Any insult that comes from a teacher about a child intelligence is definatly offensive. It's part of a teacher's job to help a student's self estem. If a teacher were to say something like that, then he/she should probably get fired(unless they happen to be some one like Mr Lipshulz for Boston Public who doesn't know any better)(BTW: SC, thanks for reminding me, Boston Public is on today) The insult regarding "infant school" is probably the most offensive out of all of these because I still get crap from my dad even though I am already in college by now. Thank god for dorms.

Any insult regarding a student having a bad personality doesn't really seem to bother me. If a student gets called lazy and a talker, then they probably deserve it. HUM, Some of these "non-offensive" insults sound familiar. Well, I wasn't exactly a perfect angel back them, and neither were some of my classes, so I admit, we probably deserved it.

As far as the "you have no life or no persoanity", I don't particularly have too much of a problem with it, but its just that "looks whose talking" Someone whose a teacher for a living babysiting little kids have no room to tell anyone that they have no life or got a sad pathetic life. I understand that teachers are underpaid and most that do teach do it because they love their jobs, and not the $$$, I respect that, but if the part of their job that they like is that they get to put down 12 and 13 year olds instead of helping them, then thats just pathetic.

If I was 12 or 13, all of those. This one time? At band camp? The clarinet instructor told me I was playing too loud and stuck out like a sore thumb. Right in front of everyone. I cried. And then afterwards everyone was talking about me. Then I cried some more. Then they felt bad for me and befriended me out of pity.
I was a horribly needy person when I was an adolescent.

I would find them all offensive. I would never let a teacher speak to me like that, but then I was always good, so they never had to!

WoW!! Really! That's a bit extreme. Teachers like this shouldn't be teaching, but criminal charges? It's nice that Canadians care about protecting their children with all of that "political correctness" but sometimes they can go to far. That's just my opionion. Here in the US, a teacher can't be criminaly charged for doing any of this(I don't think), but they might face civil lawsuits(I am not really sure) On Boston Public like two episodes ago, I have seen a bunch of high school students getting together and suing their high school teacher as another teacher's class project. They lost though. But in real life, I am not sure how things work, depends on the situation.(I am no layer, so don't ask me)

In my college, we get to rate all our teachers at the end of each semester. This is the first time I got to this in my life, so I am pretty exited. I have alreay rated my computer science teachers and I rated my English teacher. I still have yet to rate my Calculus teacher, my Chemistry teacher, and my Univ Ed teacher. Each department has their own system so we rate them at different times, but it all falls at about the same time period. Pretty cool, huh?

I would only find certain of these offensive if directed at me personally, but I am 30 years old and see a lot of things very differently than a 12 year old.

The important thing is that as an adult I can stand up for myself a lot better than a 12 year old can, and I think some of the comments are inappropriate to use with a young person. I remember my teachers at school using phrases like that though, even when I was as young as 7 or 8. At the time it would make me feel bad; now I look back and just realise the teachers sucked! I do think some things are damaging though.

Yeah, one of my buddies is a university professor. He hates those student evaluations. He's a bit unorthodox, so he's always afraid one of the really straight students will criticise him.

As far as the criminal stuff, I may have over-stated that a bit. I'm not sure. It is very serious to subject anyone to that kind of harassment though. These are fairly new laws, probably less than 10 years old. I'm not a lawyer either...

I wonder?? Might this be another reason why kids come back to school to do their teachers in??Just a thought............

Is that why postal workers become postal???

Did you fall out of an ugly tree and hit all the branches on your way down.

Yes

So did the tree fall on you too?

I had a teacher in high school who did this kind of thing. I hated his guts at the time. But I remember much more about medieval European History than I do about nearly any other subject I took.

That doesn't make sense to me. Why would a teacher be more afraid of the A students more than the B and C students? The B and C students are the ones more likely to complain and try to blame their grade on the teacher (even though it wouldn't do them any good). Unless of course the opinions of A students weigh more than the B and C students, all votes are pretty much equal.

And why would he be worried that ONE of his strait students would critizise him. If he has like over 500, then one or two wouldn't do much difference in computing the average. Unless of course the students are asked to write a short essay explaining what the teacher could do to improve.(which by the way is for the department's as well as for the teacher's benifit)

What kind of evaluations is your buddy recieving. The type where the students fill in the dots (exellent, good, avg, bad, horrible) OR where they write about the teacher, OR some combination of both ??

Too bad you and your brother doesn't own a tape recorder. It would be hell of a lot easier than writing it all down and your chance of being caught would be much less. Also, why did you write his replys in the back of your work book. You should have wrote them down in a looseleaf or in the back(better yet the middle back) of some notebook for a different class, and make sure that you have more than one notebook out at the same time(unless of course your teacher might then suspect you doing homework for another class) Also, instead of writting word for word, you should of tried paraphrasing and instead of using formal English, you and your brother should have used abriviations, code, and what not. Also, your brother should have known that now that the teacher knows that you have been recording what he said, he would be more likely to get caught. He should have gotten some other class mate to do it instead. Someone the teacher would expect the least.

What were you and your brother thinking?!
Oh, that was real smart
(you and your brother are old enough by now to handle insults and sarcasm? I hope sure so lol)

And all the branches. *And* the monkeeeeeee that fell out of the tree because it was dead. *And* the monkeeeeeee that fell out because it was holding the dead one's tail.......

This was some time ago. I'm several years older now! I would have got in trouble if I'd had a book for another lesson out in class. Or even a notebook. It wasn't like he took our books in ever anyway - that would have meant marking! The tape recorder was something we considered but it would have been difficult to smuggle in. We have a dictaphone, but it's noisy when it records.

Paraphrasing was used but I couldn't do that too much. I wanted straight evidence not anything that could be claimed as my interpretation. The insults flew thick and fast enough when they happened to make a code difficult.

What was I thinking? I was thinking that I had the right not to be taught in a bullying atmosphere. I was thinking that I didn't want to see my friends and classmates bullied - I don't recall any insult being directed at me personally. And I wasn't "caught" as such. And I wasn't punished. And I got my apology - not quite the one I wanted, but still.

Did you know that sarcasm is the lowest form of wit?

I would take my child out of that class faster then you could say spit!! These are horrible things to say to anyone, especially to a class full of children.

First off: marking? You mean like grading as in "If he were to pick your book/notebook up, it would have been to grade it"

Second: If you weren't allowed to bring in even a notebook from another class, then why didn't you just use the notebook for the class you were already in? BTW: What subject was this class?

If the whole class was being bullied, then why were you the only one doing anything about it? If he was so offensive, then how come no one else tried writting anything down, or at least complain to someone. Did you go to a public or a private school? I went to a private school from 7th grade till graduation, and we had some pretty lousy butt-hole teachers (mostly teacher-coaches whose primary job is to coach our football team, and then do some time in the classroom as 'babysitters') I hardly had any classes with them but I could hear some of them yelling at their class down the hall from other rooms, that's how loud they were. I could only imagine what the people in those classrooms had to go through. By the time they get old, some of them might need hearing aids like two or three years ahead of the average person lol!.


As far as sarcasm goes:

Oh, I've always known that. This is why is very rarely use it. The fact that you have stumbled upon my sarcasm just now is just an unfortunate coinstance. I don't normally revert to this form of pedestrian level of wit!

Exactly!

Marking is like grading I suppose - but it doesn't always result in a grade being awarded. Often it's just ticks, crosses and lots of notes in red pen!

I did use my exercise book for the class I was in - I said that, what else could I have written on - my hand? lol. It was Geography.

My class was made up of half of my form and half of another. My form had the reputation of being the worst in the school. That wasn't true, but we had a lot of teachers who were very bad at controlling a class. Also, the people who got it worst weren't the brightest people in the class nor were they the ones best able to approach the head. They were expected to be disciplined, who would listen to their complaints? Besides, we did have form discussions about the bullying with my form tutor who agreed that he was a horrid man but wouldn't do anything about it. If that's the response you get from your form tutor, what chance do you have of getting a reasonable response from the head. It was well nown in my year what I was doing, no-one else needed to record what he was saying - sometimes I'd get particularly indignant people asking me to add something that had ahppened in their lesson to the list.

I didn't go to a school that was called public or private. In this country they are the same thing (fee-paying). I went to a state school (government funded and following the curriculum set out by the government). I would hate to go to a public (private) school!

I wasn't referring to the student's grade's. When I said "straight" I meant those most likely to object to his unorthodox style. For example: Most professors wear suit and tie. He wears a black leather jacket, has pierced ears, has dyed his hair etc. He sometimes uses profanity when lecturing: "A really fudging big capacitor." He plays flamenco guitar, and incorporates it into his work as often as possible. He has occasionally allowed students to drink in class, and imbibed himself...stuff like that. A majority of the students are of Asian heritage (as he is himself) and the female students often have cultural objections to these kind of behaviors.

So it isn't so much the overall "grade" he gets that concerns him. He is an excellent teacher who spends considerable time helping his students outside of class. It is the possibility of someone reporting specific things I've mentioned above.

I don't get it. What is wrong with wearing black leather jackets and having pierced ears, and dying ones hair that would particularly offend the Asian female students? Do they consider him like a sexist person or something. What does him being Asian and the female students being Asian have anything to do with it.

Many people from Asian cultures...hell many people from all kinds of cultures...have very conservative attitudes about what university professors are supposed to be like. We may not have a problem with that kind of image (leather jacket etc.) but for some people it would make a very negative first impression. Obviously we don't agree with that, but there is no escaping the fact that there are people like that. From what he has told me, the Asian females tend to be the most conservative in this regard.

I have an old bearded woman professor who wears slumpy clothes and sits on the desk with hel legs wide open while we speak of consciousness, evil, faith, dheaven, aetheism, etc. I love that class. I bring the Eastern element to these critical comparisons of western cosmology, teleology, theodicy, etc. Fun, fun, fun, especially since I visit these things in meditation living as we go along. {Creation was fun }
Hopefully I'll make professor some time. I'm sure I'd rock a few students.

I betchew would

I think I do already. I quite often hear these drawn out 'whoa's when i make comments in class.

I have an old cassette tape of me and my buddies in conversation from October 1979. There are a lot of those and "fudge" with similar intonation. A lot of bong smoking too.

Well, I guess it depends on where IN ASIA are his students from. When he means Asians, does he mean mostly Japanese or mostly Chinese. From what I heard, the Chinese are the ones who are really strict and uptight, meanwhile the Japanese are like the really "libral" open minded people. Hell, they're the one's who invented Japanese aminations. Here in the US, we wouldn't be able to get away with Acira and stuff like that. From what I heard, to the Japanese, anything goes. The Chinese on the other hand, well thats a different story.

Maybe the reason the girls are the most uptight is because they have to put up with things like Acira, so they end up resenting everything thats anti-conservative. Then again, the person who writes Rape Man is a woman. Who would of guessed?

We don't smoke in class, but yeah, same thing. Sometimes they say 'what?' as if gears and springs just popped out of their head.
Back in 1979 it took a lot less to inspire such reactions, like the concept of existentialism, not the experience of it amidst many alternatives. I feel life is like a video game, cyclic remergence of the same stuff on a higher level.

I think it pretty much ran the gamut for us...deep concepts...shiny objects...

Oh yeah, not too many Japanese. Here in Vancouver we have a very large Cantonese (Chinese) minority. They tend to be the majority on university campuses however. In his classes I know they have Koreans, Indians, Pakistanis and quite a lot of Iranians. I know the Iranians are not so conservative. I've met quite a few. The ones that stay there are quite a different story, but the ones that have left the country tend to be pretty wild themselves. I know what you mean about the Japanese / Chinese thing. We get a lot of Japanese tourists here. I can't imagine confusing one with a Cantonese local. The Japanese tend to be very trendy and stylish when it comes to dress and hairstyle. Even if they aren't, there is always more attention to appearance.

It never ends, creating shiny worlds. So, you understand cats better now?

Cats and Crows...

If you understand crows, you got it down. They eat sparklies. Cat's just soak them up and play with them.

Thick as in stupid or luscious? Since Alicia Keys is usually called 'thick', I wouldn't mind it.
I guess the 'absolutely hopeless' thing.

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Don't start another blahhhhhhhing match!!!

but I find it offensive

Oh I see! I'm being slow on the uptake at the moment, sorry!

Had a teacher who called kids "meatheads". Didn't bother me.

My aunt who is a schoolteacher once said to her pupils "I'm going to glue you with the ears to the wall" or something similar.But that was the same class of cute little children that used to call her "you cretin teacher!!"