Do Teachers have respect for their students? (Ireland mainly, but anybody welcome!)

[teenage-kicks]

In primary school, everybody was entitled to give their opinion. it was even encouraged! But since I've moved to secondary school I've noticed that teachers don't seem to have the same respect for their students. They make it seem to outsiders that they letting people give an opinion by setting up student councils etc. but do they really listen? Of course not. Not here anyway. They treat us like shit, yet expect us to respect them? Obviously there are some great teachers who respect their students but they are hugely outnumbered by the ones who don't give a shit what anybody else thinks.

So, what do you think?



P.S. Primary School would be the equivalent of "Elementary School" and Secondary is like "High School" for the Americans.

[Human]

Teachers are pretty cool where I'm from

[Hypers]

Where I am teachers either care about money or care only about scores.

[ReginaGeorge]

Well, I live in Australia, and I've found you're respected more as you age here. In Primary school, yes, you're encouraged to have you own opinion, but in reality, they're not actually listening, you're just a kid, they're just teaching you how to say what you feel, which is a good lesson in itself.

In high school, most of the teachers seem to have friendships with the students, and they really strive to help them as long as they're willing to put in the effort. Even the strictest teachers at my school have a soft side which does come out. We have choices for class work, and projects, and we're encouraged to speak our minds, and that in itself usually works better than the student council.

In general, the education system has a lot of flaws, a lot, that shit needs to be worked on, on a students personal level, there is respect and voice do get listened to.

[Thanatos]

Throughout my school career I have had a majority of teachers who truly did respect their students and care about their opinions. Especially in university now, I've had professors completely change the way they graded exams because of students pointing something out, or giving their opinion on why something is right or wrong.

[Sir Suomi]

At my school, if you get deceant grades, listen, and are an athlete, you get all the respect in the world.

[Cicero]

At my school, if you get deceant grades, listen, and are an athlete, you get all the respect in the world.

which is 99% of american schools lol :P if your an athlete you also get extra chances with your grades, they'll be easier on grading you,which sucks for the non athletes like me ahah

[vitorioso]

I personally believe that it depends on the location and community in which the school is situated in. Also, you "technically" receive greater respect in secondary school than primary, actually.

[Mortal Coil]

Really? I've found that teachers respect me more as I grow up. In primary school they were really patronizing. But now... they treat us like we're human beings. We get to call them by their first names, and they look you in the eye the entire time you contribute to a class discussion (okay, that last one creeps me out a bit, but yeah.)

[FreeFall]

Teachers gave us more respect as we grew. If they didn't, we reminded them we weren't going to tolerate being treated like a herd. It was usually new teachers that thought we'd bow down to their all powerful selves even if they treated us like bugs, we were very good at teaching them we were not a herd.

[teenage-kicks]

Well from what I've read here, it looks like the vast majority of secondary schools in Ireland are about 40 years behind the rest...

I personally believe that it depends on the location and community in which the school is situated in. Also, you "technically" receive greater respect in secondary school than primary, actually.

What do you mean technically? How is that?

Double post merged ~ Mike/ImCoolBeans

[Silver Fox]

I'm from ireland :) and I get where you're coming from. In primary school some teachers do care about you're opinions, but often enough, they're just pretending to. I am guessing that you are in first or second year since you imply that it has happened recently. First or second years are generally treated like children, but once you get to third year and above, then the teachers will start to respect you. This isn't the same in all schools, but its how it happened in mine!

[Halcyon]

Nearly all of my teachers treat me and my friends with a lot of respect as long as we listen and aren't rude, etc. My PE teacher is horrible though, never stops teasing me for my horrible lay ups -.-

[nice]

I've found as I've gotten older they treat us better sure sometimes they are harder on us and tough but I think they just really want to see us succeed

They also let people swear to a degree and aren't afraid to swear infront of us.

[Human]

Damn, a bit off topic but I hate it when teachers don't let you go to the toilet.
"YOU SHOULD OF GONE AT BREAK" bitch I did go at break, fluid has entered my bladder naturally therefore it is a basic need of me to go release it. She carried on saying no so I just walked out and went to the toilet.
I was considering pissing in the bin in front of everyone.

[Mikedamaniak]

They all want to bring the kids up to love democracy, fairness and respect, but in the real world it's not like that. They figure secondary school comes around and exposure to the real world will no longer destroy your taste for respect they tried to give you in primary.

[vitorioso]

What do you mean technically? How is that?

Double post merged ~ Mike/ImCoolBeans

Well, because you are now older and supposedly becoming more mature, it is the norm for adults to treat you more as equals. This doesn't really happen though.

[dan8854]

YEAH! and i HATE IT!

[Abigballofdust]

In primary school, everybody was entitled to give their opinion. it was even encouraged! But since I've moved to secondary school I've noticed that teachers don't seem to have the same respect for their students. They make it seem to outsiders that they letting people give an opinion by setting up student councils etc. but do they really listen? Of course not. Not here anyway. They treat us like shit, yet expect us to respect them? Obviously there are some great teachers who respect their students but they are hugely outnumbered by the ones who don't give a shit what anybody else thinks.

So, what do you think?



P.S. Primary School would be the equivalent of "Elementary School" and Secondary is like "High School" for the Americans.
It was the other way round for me.
Primary school was filled with moralist teachers, calling parents at school because you talked during class, broke a chair or went to the fast food across the street because you were hungry and had nothing to eat.
High school was very liberal, on the other hand. Teachers were more friendly (yet strict, we could barely exploit them and even in the rare cases, they allowed us to), very cooperative and open to discussion. We even had cake with our main teacher the last day and many others wrote us goodbye letters when we were to leave at the end of high school (something nobody got in elementary). Not to mention the endless times we invited a teacher to have a coffee with us or the other way round.
However, we were a good class: we never had disciplinary actions taken against us, no problematic students nor bad stuff done to the school, so it's kind of an exeption to what usually happens.

[TheBigUnit]

you are kinda right but i see teachers really respects kids who are smart and respect the teacher back

[PerpetualImperfexion]

I've been going to a parochial since preschool. When you're younger, like preschool - third, the teachers can be kind of demanding and disrespectful. I'd be the same way if I had to deal with little brats all day. From 4th to 5th grade it was better, I was losing that "teachers are out to get me" mentality. I personally have loved my 6th-8th grade teachers. This is coming from a kid that generally gets along with his teachers, even with the one everyone hates. Respect goes both ways. If you throw some at them they'll probably throw it back.