You're a mean teacher giving a student an injustice &/or somehow being very unfair. S/he tells you...?

Question

You're a middle-school teacher making a student feel spited and overly oppressed. You're talking to her out in a hallway, or in some office.

(Some teachers are that way, and should be fired. People older than students may think/feel differently, but in my 23-year-old opinion, I agree with a lot of adolescents still.)

S/he doesn't want to put up with your spewing him/her an earful anymore. S/he snaps and says,

"How 'bout ya pluck off ya pluckin' canute???"

You get confused, but a few seconds later, realize s/he said,

"How about you fucк off you fucкing cuпt???"

Being the mean authoritarian teacher that you are, what do you do to him/her?

(If you don't want to imagine yourself as that teacher, just think of what such a teacher would do to that student, telling it like you're a 3rd-person witness who watched this verbal scuffle from a distance.)

Answer 1

What on earth are you rambling on about!

EDIT " what on earth are you rambling on about" is my message to the poster!

Answer 2

Hmmmm...well, I'm neither mean nor authoritarian, and I never yell, but something similar to this did happen to me a week before school was out.  My student caused everyone problems and refused to do a bit of work.  When I told him he needed to get busy, he responded in just such a way verbally in front of the other students. I don't lose my cool in such situations, just pointed at the door.  The result was he was sent to the office, I called my vice-principal and reported what had been said, and the student was suspended for the rest of the year.

Answer 3

Ummm, what?

Answer 4

I don't understand what you mean.  I had hoped you were being ironic with your "mean and authoritarian" description of your potential reader, but it sounds like you are serious.  I have been teaching high school for fifteen years, so does that make me one of those mean and authoritarian types?  I learned a lot (and continue to) from teachers older and more experienced and have great respect for them.

By what you say, the very act of talking to a student makes him/her feel spited and overly oppressed.  I think it depends on HOW one talks to the student.  I understand that there are some teachers who have poor communication skills.  But I've seen many more examples of teachers being patient and professional when dealing with a student who is upset.

If anybody speaks to me in the way you mentioned in your example, that person has crossed the line.  Nobody should address another person in that way.  If you are an educator, studying to be one, or ever become one, one of the most important things to learn is classroom management.  It sounds like, from your example, that the teacher (or me, since you are using 2nd person and addressing the reader directly) is attempting to manage the situation by talking to the upset student alone.  That's one way to deal with a disruptive student.  I try to talk to my students in a respectful manner, but I always expect them to do the same.

Answer 5

I would write them up. Even if you think some is injust, there is no reason to curse at someone.