As Tigerbaby going to "school" aka Kindergarten now, I start to encounter with teachers. It gave me a flash back to when I was primary age 12 and recall to one of my primary teacher, Ms Tan. *i forgot her full name, I can't even recall what subject she taught..* but I remember very well how she treated her students.
Note: Eventhough my mom was busy working full time she tends to check on our homework. Usually she would take out our homework and go through them and so a small sign at a corner of a page to mark where she stop so she could continue from there on.
One fine day, this Ms Tan was very angry when she entered the classroom. She called out my name and gave me a lecture. Seriously I couldn't recall what it was and didnt understand much. However she was scolding me and told me to get a new exercise book because she say that the book is meant to have only her writings and mine ..etc... I didn't know what was going on seriously.. and started to cry.
In a way I was humilated in front of my whole class and couldn't understand what did I do wrong as I was in shocked being called to stand and yelled at. The next thing she did was called up another boy and did the same and started to scold but i don't know what it was about but not the same case as mine.
It lasted for a while and when i got home and told my mom about it , i couldn't even tell the whole story. As of course as a parent, my mom called the school and "check" what had happen and after a while I understand what was all about (which enable me to write this)
Till today, that incident of me being ask to stand in class (I think was throughout the whole session) and to be scold for such a thing at such a young age is totally unaceptable. As a teacher she could have found other ways to tell me about it and not make a scene of such. As what the teacher did, she made me felt shameful of myself. Shameful of my mom. Thinking why my mom had to do that? But all she did was to check her daughters homework. It wasn't a big sign it was a little one that pretty much isn't any effect on the main work. Far most, other teachers didn't have any problem but only her. But What she did just made me feel ashamed.
She would also be very nice to student who are talented with singing as she was a choir teacher for the school. Always praise the kids who are good with academic a lot in front of others but de-moralise other kids who are academic poorer in front of others.
As a primary school kid and as all kids these days, we would always try to impress our class teacher. Indeed due to my family background I wasn't one of the favourite and that cause me felt a exclusion of the usual academic or musically talented kids. Due to this incident, it indeed allowed me to experience what discrimination is all about. As later on, my mom found out more about this teacher and was told she is just jeolous of who we are and felt she was a teacher and should be more supreme... >.<
I know I am writing this post bit and pieces here and there but i think you get the glitch :P
The point of my this post:
If you don't have a good heart to be a teacher, please don't be one. A kid childhood may be scar due to what you do. Evenso, these days it is harder to be a teacher as you need to teach, and prepare teaching materials and even attend to curiculums activities, please have a heart of a teacher. A child soul is so pure which can be easily scar by your one action or one sentence. If you have a turf with the parent , you can always talk one to one with the parent and not take it on the child.
As a Parent, you have your rights to be parent. And if you think you are doing something benefital to your child or helping / supporting academic, please do it! If you think you are worry that teachers might get offended, just check with the teachers first. However I find if a parent show their concern for their kids , the teacher should be happy that a parent cared for the kid and not the other way.
My Primary School was in a small town called Seremban in Malaysia.
