I think so much of that is a truly inherent disrespect for the children theyāre supposed to be teaching. Itās certainly what I experienced from the bad teachers I had when I was growing up and these were a mixture of the full time teachers and the substitutes so familiarity or lack of it with the children is never an excuse.
Iāll add my, no where near as traumatic, but certainly symptomatic of the tales shared so far.
Iām blind in one eye and have real depth perception problems that have affected the types of sports I could play. (Oddly Hockey was fine because I was padded and protected within an inch of my life lol)Ā Ā Ā At school when we played softball or baseball I had to be the catcher when we were fielding because I was able to wear the mask and chest pad, I had some trouble seeing the white ball when it was coming at me, but I could use my padded chest to help catch it when I was the catcher.. The whole class knew this and didnāt grudge me (usually kids all want to play catcher because it was the only position that you actually got to use equipment for.)Ā
One day we had a substitute teacher and we were playing softball, we went out to the diamond and I immediately went to put on the catchers gear when he stopped me and told me he would decide who played what positions and I didnāt automatically get to play catcher. i respectfully explained the reason at which he opnely scoffed and told me to come up with a better lie than that. the ENTIRE class backed me up and everyone on my team tried to refuse to play catcher to allow me to be protected but this twit just had to prove his authority and threatened the whole class with a weekās detention. I told everyone to back down, looked him in the eye and said I should play in the outfield then, hoping that Iād be far enough out to avoid the ball and that my team mates would understand when i allowed the ball to drop rather than attempting to catch it.
The twit exerted his power again and made me play third base. On the fourth batter up it was a line drive to third and I never saw the ball before it smacked into my face and broke my nose. Blood and snot everywhere!Ā It hurt like hell and I had to go to hospital, but I got a little revenge by smearing blood and snot all over the guys white shirt before I left in the ambulance.Ā
At first the school board was going to treat it as just a fluke accident, but while I was out of commission for the week, the whole class trooped to the principals office and told the whole story and refused to actually sit in the class with this sub. Our Principal who was a really stand up guy, made sure the sub never taught again. The guy was just lucky it was in Canada and not the States or his ass would have been sued as well Iām sure.
Teachers often go on about a lack of respect from pupils, but Iāve seen a massive amount of disrespect pouring out of teachers themselves so what do they expect??