Unfair punishment? Unprofessional?

Question

This happened at my school a couple of years ago. I just want to see what people think..

A 13 year old boy in my class drew a picture in his notebook of a widely disliked (and unprofeesional, I might add) math teacher jumping off a cliff. He forgot the notebook in his history class where it was found by another student who turned it in to the history teacher (not the teacher in the pictuer).

When everyone came into the class the next day, the boy was sitting in the corner with his back turned, crying. The teacher let the class have a game day. The class was sort of shocked because the boy was always a funny, lighthearted guy. she started interrogating him about why he drew the picture within full view and earshot of the class while he was still crying. This went on for around half an hour until she made him go play games with the rest of the class.

Does this seem unprofessional to you? this situation should have probably been handled in a private setting in my opinion.

Answer 1

Yeah that was unprofessional and childish. I totally agree that it should have been handled behind closed doors. That teacher needs to be put into a corner.

Answer 2

Boo Hoo. You know when I was a kid I had teachers that would lock students in closets, make them hold stacks of books for the entire recess, jump up and down for an hour, etc.

I'm 31 now. I'm not talking about the 50's. You know what the problem is with parents today? THEY ARE ALL WOMEN. If they are not single mothers, they think like single mothers, or perhaps, the mother wears the pants. And look what that has gotten us.

High crime, bad government, poor education, lack of discipline, a loss of manners, and one h**l of a welfare system.

In my opinion, when a child is not acting correctly, you shouldn't cater to the child and protect him/her. You point out that what they are doing is wrong and demand positive behavior. I'm not suggesting that people do what I mentioned in the first paragraph. I'm just saying, they started doing those things when spanking and standing in the corner became unacceptable.

If you were still able to do those two things and you didn't have parents that felt they had to caudle their poor little babies from the real world AND the school system still was able to have high educational and behavioral expectations and enforce them when necessary; we wouldn't have single mothers and gangs over populating the schools today.  

It's time to wake up America. Raising weak children creates a weak adult, a weak, society, a weak government, a weak country.

Answer 3

Always praise in public, criticize in private.

In any case, at that point, I don't think it was the teacher's place to confront him at all. If anything - that's an issue for the principal - which goes back to the 'private' issue.

Answer 4

Not only is it unprofessional, it is abuse.

Answer 5

It is totally unprofessional. Things like this should be confidential. If I were that kids mom, I would be down there screaming until that teacher was punished or fired.

Answer 6

I agree with you on this one, this situation should have been handled behind closed doors, not in front of the entire class, no matter how upset the teacher was.

Answer 7

yep very unprofessional my mom works at a school and basically plays principal when the principal is gone (teacher in charge or something like that) and whenever kids get in trouble she pulls them out of class. i work at the same school and even when i have to talk to kids i pull them outside the classroom to talk to them not within earshot of everyone and this is in an elementary school where i work but its not right

Answer 8

No child no matter what the age should be punished in front of all of there peers to a degree that it causes them to cry.  The teacher might have just asked him what was up but not have put him in a corner the way she did and if he did not answer the question in front of everyone then she should have pulled him to the side to let him explain.

Simple fact there is always one teacher that the majority of the students do not like and get pictures and notes about them.  The kids are being kids and this is a way for them to express their feelings and nothing more.  I am sure the kid had no intention of shoving the teacher off a cliff.

The teacher acted unproffessional and uncaring and if it would have been my child i would have went and demanded a public apology from her then made sure my kid remembered his notebook from then on.