This, is how BAD the realm of education is getting, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
Awhile ago, there’s the incident of the female middle school teacher, waking up a student who fell asleep in class who got beaten up and kicked by the student. I’d worked as a lecturer for the university for a decade, and met an assortment of students, and, although there were, those who respected the instructors, and there were also those, who behaved outrageously too.
Walking across the campus, most of the students, when they’d bumped into me, they would greet me, “Hi, professor”, out of courtesy (because I’m hearing impaired, I’d told my students, to not talk behind my back), and I’d return their greetings with my smile.
Once, I’d met a female student who wasn’t in my class, with a colorful cartoon character printed on her coat, it was, really cute, and so, I’d given her a compliment, “It’s such a pretty coat you’re wearing!”, and she’d returned, “Do I know you?”, and, showed me a bad face, then, turned around, and left.
It was, my mistake, because my father had worked as a school instructor for over forty years, and I’d recalled a story he’d once told me, “a certain middle school instructor, returned from the classroom to his first floor office. There was a male student who saw him, he’d mocked the way the discipline officer’s tone of voice, and, walked behind the school teacher, yelled in front of everybody, “One, two, One-Two, One-Two…attention! Stand up straight!”, the teacher felt insulted, ran up to the second floor, and, beaten the CRAP out of the student.” My father commented, “the fault was with the student, but, the instructor was too easily angered, causing the issues to be harder, to resolve. I’d held on to the belief of “College students should have the abilities to manage themselves”, and so, I’d given the students who showed up late for classes, who’d talked out of turns, who played on their cell phones, three strikes, and I’d reminded them often, to stop it, but I wouldn’t repeatedly nag, or beaten the crap out of my students in front of the rest of the class, I believe, that the students who were there already KNEW my point.
Once, a student started playing poker in the back of my class while I was teaching, I’d warned him twice verbally already, “Don’t play cards in my class”. But he’d still continued to shuffle the cards. The third time I’d put down my text book, told him, seriously, “I’m NOT going to repeat myself a fourth time: don’t play cards, this, is NOT a gambling ring, if you want to play cards, then, leave the class, I’ll mark you down as a no show; if you continue to play cards while I’m lecturing, I will surely FLUNK you. Which options would you want?”, in the end, they’d put up, their playing cards.
In sum, as the public sighed about, “The respect toward the teachers had decreased!” actually, both the students AND the teachers ARE responsible, for how the class sessions go, so, there’s NO blaming JUST one side.
And so, the disrespect for education is shown here, and, instead of getting angered by how the students refused to focus, this particular lecturer gave his students the options, and, the students had chosen, wisely, as compared to how the former instructor in the article had lost control and beaten the SHIT out of the misbehaving students, the latter was more constructive.
Life, the Obstacle Course 