I've had enough teachers in time to know that the stricter ones can be completely spontaneous. I feel that generally, no teacher really intends to have every student hate them. Rather, that they are (hopefully) doing their job to the best of their ability and their goal is not for you to like them, but for you to actually learn something, and if that means a no-nonsense attitude toward a class then that's it.
This week I was sitting in class taking notes, and found myself sitting there, debating on whether or not to point out the gramatical error within a section. In the end, I chose not to point it out, fearing the risk that I'd be lectured about talking back or being disrespectful or whatever other offensive action they would think of. Which leads up to my point, sometimes these stricter teachers will see that you noticed and award you a bonus point for being observant or paying attention or whatever. Other times the teacher will deduct points or give you an after-school for the same action.
Which raises another question: Is this a sense of favoritism? Or is it just the spontaneous way people can take a simple statement and feel insulted/offended by it, despite whether that was the speaker's intention? I wonder if teachers would react differently to the same action performed by a different student. For example, say a student who's generally at the top of his class points this out and is awarded a point. Can you see the same teacher awarding that point to a student in the class who generally doesn't take notes and puts his head down?
I would hope that if the latter student pointed out the flaw and the teacher took it offensively, that this would be taken in such a way because they honestly cannot see a situation where such a student would try to be helpful, but rather point this out to make the teacher look inferior. Obviously if such a circumstance were to arise, anyone would be offended.
ur talking bout hamdog arnt u i stopped reading it half way through after i figured out who u were talking about i think ur problem was thinking about english/grammer is is easily the worst subject i dont know how u like it. i refuse to capitilze if the thing dosnt fix it for me i hate english im also terrible at spelling but im glad after a week i finally found ur blog molls, o and im digging the black bow in ur hair its preatty "denk"
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