Teachers who gossip: a cautionary tale

[Anonymous]

This is bad
Not a cause for firing. However, it needs to reported, addressed by a supervisor, etc.

--teacher

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This year has really lifted the veil on teachers.

I could say the same thing about parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers talk. But in my experience, the moms standing outside the school and at the bus stop are even worse. They will trash talk another mom's child in a heartbeat. Overheard it too many times to count from a distance, because I avoid most other moms like the plague.

My kids are 9 and 6 and I’ve literally never heard a parent shit-talk child. Seriously.

You don’t need to hear the talk. Just by watching the body language and the face expression it’s enough. Many of those moms team up with some teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is bad
Not a cause for firing. However, it needs to reported, addressed by a supervisor, etc.

--teacher

How do you prevent retaliation against the student?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is bad
Not a cause for firing. However, it needs to reported, addressed by a supervisor, etc.

--teacher

How do you prevent retaliation against the student?

You can’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is bad
Not a cause for firing. However, it needs to reported, addressed by a supervisor, etc.

--teacher

How do you prevent retaliation against the student?

You can’t.

You mean the principal leads the retaliation?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At least she was fully dressed. One time in my office we had a very large town hall, Two people were have a side chat thinking they were on mute. They were totallly bashing the speaker, It was awful.

MoCo had this happen at a county council meeting this week. Ask Ms Navarro - she was mocked live when employees thought they were muted.

Mistakes happen. Some mistakes really shouldn't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

My team would just send a text. No way would call each other to complain about a student. We absolutely complain about students to each other. And sometimes that vent is what is needed to move on without being totally drained by the psychic vampire parents some of our students have.

I think you meant "psychotic vampire?" If the parent was a "psychic vampire", they'd divine what you're doing / thinking and then drain you; then you'd be really screwed.

It's a shame your ethos isn't to reach every child and teach them?

An energy vampire is a person who feeds off your emotional or psychic energy. People who display energy vampire traits generally lack empathy, consideration, and/or emotional maturity.

Essentially the denizens of DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, just to clarify...
Your kids had their computer on, and the class was still there (or the video link for the class was still on and active) and a teacher left that on and then called up another teacher and was talking about a kid?
That's... really bad.
I'm pro-teacher, but that should be reported.

Please report it. You could do it anonymously but you should still do it.
I heard from another teacher that a teacher was trash talking students in a staff meeting which is bad enough but at least behind the scenes. Anything that other students can hear and parents can hear shows another level of stupidity, lack of discretion, and ineptitude with technology.
If this happened in our child's school and it could for all I know I could guess the teacher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is bad
Not a cause for firing. However, it needs to reported, addressed by a supervisor, etc.

--teacher

How do you prevent retaliation against the student?

You can’t.

There was presumably a whole class listening. She can't possibly know which student reported it.
You could also report it anonymously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:why aren't you going to say anything, OP? Seems odd that you wouldn't. This is egregious behavior!

+1

You need to report.

That poor kid will face bullying from his/her peers because of this. Report!!

The kid will not face bullying from peers. The kid was essentially being bullied by the teacher. The kids thought the teacher was being a jerk.

My experience with teachers and administration has been hit or miss. Some handle tough situations with grace, while others hold grudges that transcend the school year and student and impact younger siblings.

I don't think that's true. Kids may think the teacher's a jerk but it will still impact how the other students see the student, and how the parents think of the other student. The student's reputation has been hurt and that's on the teacher.

This needs to be reported. It's not just a little mistake. This is bad.

[Anonymous]

I'm almost afraid to ask because my child reported something like this to me but I didn't get the details. Is it Eastern?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:why aren't you going to say anything, OP? Seems odd that you wouldn't. This is egregious behavior!

+1

You need to report.

That poor kid will face bullying from his/her peers because of this. Report!!

The kid will not face bullying from peers. The kid was essentially being bullied by the teacher. The kids thought the teacher was being a jerk.

My experience with teachers and administration has been hit or miss. Some handle tough situations with grace, while others hold grudges that transcend the school year and student and impact younger siblings.

I don't think that's true. Kids may think the teacher's a jerk but it will still impact how the other students see the student, and how the parents think of the other student. The student's reputation has been hurt and that's on the teacher.

This needs to be reported. It's not just a little mistake. This is bad.

You don’t know what was said, and you don’t know the student.

The student is a good kid. And, the teacher mostly embarrassed themself imho. The students knew the kid hadn’t done anything wrong. The teacher was just being a jerk.

[Anonymous]

I would definitely email the principal. What school? Now I wonder what my kids are overhearing....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would definitely email the principal. What school? Now I wonder what my kids are overhearing....

If this was a regular thing, you’d be hearing about it a lot more... especially on this hellsite. Stop overreacting to this isolated incident.