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[Sweetsee]

What is the worst thing a student's parent ever said about you?

[basiltherat]

"You mean, that long-haired slouch is your teacher ??"

In Indonesian: Parent to her child (a student): Overheard in reception while parent was paying fees to the school. I happened to be hanging around in reception before class began.
Not one of the best compliments I've been paid.
Clearly didnt realize i understood every word.
basil

[Sweetsee]

Good one, basil.

Today, I had a mother say to JTE during parent/student/teacher conference that she would "curse" me if her daughter left school. I don't know what that means exactly but JTE said he was shocked to hear this and that in over 20 years at the school, never did he experience such a thing. The woman went on to say that she knew the mayor, perhaps she got her verbs wrong.

[eslHQ]

the worst is when they say nothing.

[Guy Courchesne]

MOD EDIT

I find that the Korean students' mothers don't say anything at all directly to the teacher. They call my wife (DOS over here) and complain.

Korean students? In Mexico? Strange but true.

[Sweetsee]

There seems to be no end to what the students say to JTE about me. Already, a group of students in my class say, "I hate Sweetsee". Today, while discussing said students JTE told me he was speaking to a former student recently who told him there were 2 students from her class that, "hated Sweetsee". The reason they gave was that they had spent 2 or 3 months in Australia and supposedly I said to them, "You have spent a lot of time in Australia, why don't you speak English with me?"

I was more than a little bit hurt by this. I give so much of myself at this poor excuse for a school and in return this is what I get.

Has anyone ever experienced this with young Japanese female students? I am told that they are notorious for holding a grudge.

[PAULH]

[Sweetsee]

Or maybe I should have kept my mouth shut.

I did pass them. All of them got 45%, except one got 30. That was the first term that I failed them in. Whooops!!!

Gee, that never occurred to me. Of course, they hate me. I failed them for failing to do anything and failing to shut up for one second. I guess I'll never do that again.

[Chris_Crossley]

In China (as in other countries), there are arrogant, bull-necked, bullying men who believe that the only place for a woman is in the home, cooking the food, cleaning the house and, generally speaking, being a slave with no say in anything.

On at least two separate occasions when I was working at the private school in Wuhan I taught at for two years full-time, a female colleague was barely able to suppress her rage at being told by a somewhat embarrassed course consultant that so-and-so did not want her to teach their child because "I don't want my child to be taught by a woman".

You can imagine the scene at the reception desk when an arrogant bully berates the course consultants, shouting at an extremely high voice. It often happened when a parent complained about "unsatisfactory" teaching, yet it was an entirely different matter to hear about a complaint about a teacher purely on the grounds of gender.

Clearly, the bullies were men with some kind of deficiency in their personalities, as they sought to be the ones who, just because they had money, deluded themselves into believing that they had the right to dictate anything to anybody in whatever manner they saw fit. As for what their children thought of their fathers' behaviour, I never knew.

[Ben Round de Bloc]

[Deconstructor]

[Chris_Crossley]

[Guy Courchesne]

mmmff, mmmff, mffff!!! Can't take the muzzle off!

[PAULH]

[Glenski]

Paul,

I believe Sweetsee is at a Japanese high school. I'm at one, too, as you know. Sadly, 45% is passing. In fact, even 40% is.