I’m just mad at my teachers for assigning so much homework for talking.
I daresay that they (your teachers) are pretty mad at the fact that students are talking, disrupting the class, taking up time, (and effort, and energy, and attention), and, above all, by their behaviour, preventing others from learning.
One of the many reasons I (far) preferred third level teaching (to second level teaching) was not just that one could assume that students had chosen to study what you were trying (hoping) to teach them, (and you could therefore assume a degree of interest in the subject and the material), but that you did not have to police them in class.
If my students (and this only happened - and then, very rarely - with giddy and excited first years, the students that Our Transatlantic Cousins refer to as "freshmen") acted up in class, I would remind them that I was a paid university teacher, not a police officer.
I would remind them that I treated them with respect - and as adults,- and that I expected the same courtesy extended to me, in return.
Moreover, it was not my task to impose discipline, or to ensure that they behaved like adults, and I asked that they extended to me - and to their classmates - the courtesy and respect of treating each other with respect, as adults, and paying attention while attending class (and I always made time for questions during, and - preferably - at the end of, class), and, that if they couldn't bothered to treat one another (and me) with courtesy and respect, then, there was no point in attending class.
And, I would remind them, that if, as a consequence, their grades suffered, 1) this was not my fault, but theirs, and 2) this was their problem, not mine, and, that, in the meantime, I had a course that I wished to teach.
Thanks for the advice. It’s just it gets so overwhelming being yelled at. I’m the good kid by the way.I don’t mind homeowrk. I mind being punished for not doing anything wrong.
What age are you?
Injustice rankles, but you do sound young.
I can even extend this sentiment to college, too.
Here, late assignments are accepted, though with an extreme demerit. Classes (especially music classes) count on the fact that everyone does their work thoroughly and on time. Disruptions make the class unable to function.
I go to an extremely small school, and am in an even smaller program, but I'd imagine the same holds true at public institutions, too.
As a teacher, I was exceptionally sympathetic about extending deadlines for people with genuine stress and stuff in their lives, - any sort of illness (themselves or family), or single mothers, or kids from less well off backgrounds who worked to put themselves through college, etc; I was a lot less sympathetic to individuals who had every advantage that life could bestow upon them, yet still insisted on testing boundaries, and believing that rules (such as deadlines) applied to others.
In college, if you don’t do your work, you fail. Unlike in school where you get points taken off for talking (not me).
Exactly.
No, it is not ridiculous.
Okay: I'll phrase it differently: How would you propose to deal with teenage idiots?
