if it's something that distracts the kid from learning what they are supposed to be learning, then I say, sometimes. It should be used sparingly and only in situations where the teacher really knows her kids and knows how the kid in particular would handle it.
I emphatically disagree. Humiliating a student is uncalled for, and I can't see how it would do anything other than put the kid off that subject/school for good. I've never heard anyone say their path in life was steered right by that really good dose of public humiliation they got from their teacher in front of the whole sixth grade back in P.S. 131.
It's really a gross misuse of the power imbalance in the classroom.
Is humiliating a kid to make a point to the entire class about something as bullshit as text-speak really worth it?
I think how you posed the question is not how I would pose the question. In my mind, I'm reading the discussion as something more like: whether or not a teacher has a right to give a zero grade if a student hasn't answered a question satisfactorily.
Didn't she say the student wasn't named? I was called out in classes in school and not always humiliated by it, even to have my paper or answer held up as a bad example.
I think if this particular kid *had* been humiliated, Aimee might have posted a very different story.
I think how you posed the question is not how I would pose the question.
That's okay. We just see different aspects of the issue.
She's one of those people that teaching is just innate for.
Honey, it's "for whom teaching is innate."
-2 points.
(I'm so going to get it.)
Personally, I think Aims' sister wasn't lenient *enough*. I would have shot the student in the face. Seriously. Pulled a gun and just shot the girl right in her face.
Ow. Bit my tongue. Shouldn't keep it in my cheek.
I was in an advanced English class in the 7th grade where the teacher hung a diaper on the chalkboard because she felt we were being "babies"--she had to go back to diagramming some sentence structure after the whole class performed rather badly on a written assignment.
Over the top? Maybe. Humiliating? Yeah. I don't bear any emotional scars from it.
I emphatically disagree. Humiliating a student is uncalled for, and I can't see how it would do anything other than put the kid off that subject/school for good. I've never heard anyone say their path in life was steered right by that really good dose of public humiliation they got from their teacher in front of the whole sixth grade back in P.S. 131.
The whole French school system is pretty much based on this--or rather, highlighting both the bad and the good. I remembered a few incidents in grad school when a French TA or professor didn't understand that calling someone out for shoddy work or a bad grade was something just not done.
A crazy bitch in my Catholic school used to throw erasers at people. Not even a nun! Just an evil old lady.
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