What do you think of a teacher calling students idiots?

[RedRage]

From my personal experience, I had teachers back in the 90s say things to me that made me want to breakdown and cry. However, as the abuse got more pervasive, it ticked me off and lit a fire in me to the point that, I went from being a B-, C+ student to an A student (we also switched school districts so that may have helped).

[English_Rose]

Originally Posted by bloominscranton

So my 12 year old sixth grader comes home and tells me his techshop teacher routinely refers to some students as idiots. Needless to say I am livid, and want to speak to the principal. Am I overreacting? He also had another student monitor my son's attention level and point out when he was not paying attention. Is this a new teaching techique I am not privy to? My son is a good student ( currently a 94 average) who lives with ADHD, so I it is more than likely he may not have been paying full attention.

There has to be more to the story than what was posted .I have been called retard more times than I can count all by students in those cases the kids got into some form of trouble.

[MacPablo]

Usually when a teacher insult a student is because he has a good reason.
I remember when I still were in high school. One day I were in music class doing the moron with a friend while the teacher was playing a beautiful classical music, finally he got angry and shouted us that we are a couple of *******s who don't have a **** of sensitivity. And this a lot of days, we were idiots, all were our fault , not teacher fault.

Sorry for my English, I'm Spanish.

PD: Well, explicit parts were censured.

[Mrs. Skeffington]

Back in the '70's, we had a teacher who called students who didn't make the grade "vegetables"...she had a section of the room in the back known as the "vegetable patch" and they had to sit there (kind of like the dunce chair). It ended up being kind of laughable, but nobody really wanted to be sent to the garden if they could help it after realizing that "vegetable" meant "brain dead".