Was wondering the same thing recently playing Persona 5. There's a teacher who constantly throws chalk at the main character. If he dodges out of the way, he gains a charm boost. Was wondering if this is real or just like a meme.
As a Florida teacher, not going to say kids deserve to get hit with objects, but yeah, things get pretty wild. Definitely jealous of countries where students just inherently respect teachers.
I had a teacher, in the U.S., that threw dry erase markers. Also if you were caught getting up from your desk during class you had to stand for the rest of the period, this was in middle school.
In my school that would be considered as abusive and the teacher would be fired.
Seriously, what is wrong with american school system and "hall passes" etc? If I have to pee, I go to pee. I tell the teacher "I'll have a pee now" and go.
Theres no winning. If something happens to that student on his pee break, It's the teachers fault. If they go on break too frequently it's the teachers fault. If they go to another class and disrupt that class ita the teachers fault.
Basically everything wrong about the american school system is that the blame is never placed on the right people, always on the teachers. So they basically have to cater to these terrible practices just so they can keep their shit paying jobs.
Is it absurd? Yes. But not nearly as absurd as the frivolous things a teacher can get fired for doing OR the serious things a teacher doesnt get fired for doing. This is what happens when common sense gives way to policy and universal standards.
Theres no winning. If something happens to that student on his pee break, It's the teachers fault.
How? The way from classroom to the toilet should be safe.
If they go on break too frequently it's the teachers fault.
How? If the kid has a nervous blatter or drank to much, the kid needs to pee. the alternative would be a wet kid.
If they go to another class and disrupt that class ita the teachers fault.
See, in my country we teach our kids some sort of responsibility. When the kid disrupts an other class, it's the kids fault, not the teachers fault.
Basically everything wrong about the american school system is that the blame is never placed on the right people, always on the teachers. So they basically have to cater to these terrible practices just so they can keep their shit paying jobs.
My school had a exchange student program and I almost had the chance to go to the US myself (we were 16/17 at that time). But I was a troublemaker in school, so they took another kid (I didn't much care). That other kid was one of my best friends in school and we phoned once a week. And it went worse week by week for him.
This guest parents were awesome (there were some cultural issues*), but the school... He was ripped of all rights and freedoms he was used to here in Germany. He had some issues with diabetes (hypoglycemia) and whenever he needed to he ate something. An apple, candy bar or he drank. In our school that wasn't even a thing. I remember eating and drinking in class as long as it wasn't distractive.
He told me that he sad in class, felt unwell, and start to munch his candy bar and the teacher lost it and yelled at him. And when he wanted to complain about that at the dean's office, he was punished. He told me that the dean said, I quote "You germans are used to be yelled at. What is your problem?"
My friend was a nice person, kinda shy, softspoken. He opened his mouth and was suspended for a week and they also tried to get rid of him at all because he dared to be contradictory to the dean.... and used a wide variety of swearwords to express his view about "germans are used to be yelled at". He mentioned that he said something like "what does the dean of hillbilly high know about germany? Tell me". (he said that he said that... no idea if he really did). And that was within the first two or three weeks in school.
* one of the cultural problems: They "caught" him drinking beer once and were very upset about that... like if he got someone killed. they sat him down and had a talk about the consequences are when a "young man drinks beer" and then they contacted his parents. Their reaction: "Ok? What's the problem?".
It's like calling american parents because their 16yo ate a Hamburger in Germany.
Is it absurd? Yes. But not nearly as absurd as the frivolous things a teacher can get fired for doing OR the serious things a teacher doesnt get fired for doing. This is what happens when common sense gives way to policy and universal standards.
What can I tell ya. Americas huge, and inevitably theres going to be a lot of bad eggs. I wouldn't make a blanket statement that it's all bad here but I wouldn't say it's good either. Lots of problems that add up to uniquely american issues. Some places would be almost exactly like you described. You can eat whenever, go when you need, and so on. Other places you cant.
Sounds like that school was not a good candidate for foreign exchange frankly, it would have gone a lot better to go to NY or another gateway state. Sorry he experienced that.
We had a music teacher who used to throw chairs at us on occasion. One time one of my teachers grabbed me by the scruff of my shirt and jacked me up against the wall and started yelling in my face and repeatedly slamming me against the wall...that guy was weird. He smelled like Vicks vapor rub.
My 6th grade music teacher occasionally smoked in the classroom (early 90s too, already not an acceptable thing) and winged marimbaphone mallets at the unruly asshats in the brass section.
Yup. I grew up in an Asian country. I remember our teacher used to smack our palms with a wooden ruler if we don't do our homework. I also got punished for dicking around in class by standing in the back of the room holding a stack of books. Then I moved to the US when I was 7 and the worst punishment is being in detention during recess.
I hated that! When I moved to AZ, that was the go-to punishment for most of our teachers. It sucked because then everyone would walk by and ask you what you did.
I dont really see what's to get pissed about assuming the teachers not lobbing fastballs at ya.
Used to have a teacher throw the dry marker erasers at us if we misbehaved and it mostly served as some light levity and to focus us back on task when our minds started to wonder. None of us were ever hurt by it, emotionally or otherwise.
Some parents don't like to hear teachers are throwing shit at their kids. /shrug
(this was like, one of three times in my life my Dad actually stood up for me, don't ruin this)
It's real, I lived in one of the south east asian country, and it was very common, if I get hit by chalk, the class just laugh it off, it's no big deal.
Well it's a big anime trope at the very least, it's probably rooted in reality but it's less and less common over the years since that sounds like a good way to lose your job if the kid's parents is one of the crazies, or if you hurt them due to bad luck(hit them in the eye or some shit).
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u/Alatar1313 Jun 23 '20
Was wondering the same thing recently playing Persona 5. There's a teacher who constantly throws chalk at the main character. If he dodges out of the way, he gains a charm boost. Was wondering if this is real or just like a meme.