eve
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i was called motor mouth in school. my mother said do not talk so much. maybe the parents of these children should have told them to stop acting like they are so poor.
after all what is the insult with the term "trailer trash". it is that anyone that lives in a trailer must be trash. since a trailer is the choice of homes for those that can not afford a standard home if you live in a trailer you are poor and therefor trash.
do i want the teacher jailed for harassing the students? of course not. if a student calls a teacher a derogatory name they should be suspended. i feel a adult teacher should be at the very least held to the same standard.
i am shocked that a teacher would take the time to write a memo telling students they are poor and worthless (unless of course this teacher thinks trailer equals rich and trash is valuable) and then takes the time to find the student and deliver the memo. i would be somewhat more understanding had the teacher lashed out and said this in a moment of high stress in the classroom. the length of time between the stress's and the action give me concern.
yes kids today are harder to teach than in the past. a child dresses like a *advertiser censored* star. a teacher should not use that as a excuse for sleeping with a student. a group of 3rd graders plot to harm their teacher and a teacher 2 states over leaves a loaded gun in her 3rd grade classroom. i am sorry if you do not agree but i do not feel you can use the bad behavior of a student to excuse the bad behavior of a teacher. both should be punished when they misbehave.
sherri
I do not think the teacher should have said anything of the kind. I am not even going to try to define "trailer trash" but I suspect this teacher meant to describe more by the term than economic status alone. I think she was trying, however poorly, to describe a certain behavior that she was observing in her students. Let me elaborate. My students have very foul mouths. Very. They also like to discuss extremely off-color topics. They also "get in each other's faces" and threaten one another with bodily harm, and often the ones doing this are girls, interestingly. The things they talk about - my jaw is on the floor! Their manners are atrocious. I love 'em but OMG.
So I said to my class once - "Hey, this isn't the flippin Jerry Springer Show! Clean it up! You are reflecting very badly upon yourselves!"
Was I wrong?
Eve