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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Two of my kids have gone thru middle school.  Respect is a two way street.  I have both heard and witnessed some pretty awful behavior by teachers -- cursing at kids, yelling at kids, denigrating kids, inappropriate discipline, discipline differentiated by race, lack of understanding about why some kids can't comply with demands due to lack of resources at home and misperceiving that as disobedience or insubordination, etc.

I'm not saying the behavior mentioned on the thread is acceptable, but you gotta give respect to get it. [/quote]
So on day one, the kid should go into class not respecting the teacher, and the teacher has to earn his/her respect?  No.  The kid walks into class, sits, stays quiet when the teacher is talking, etc.. [b]That is giving the teacher respect[/b].[/quote]

No, it's behaving appropriately in class. One would do this -- and I have done it -- even in a classroom with a teacher for whom one had zero respect.[/quote]
When one is quiet when another is speaking, that is also showing that person some respect.  It does go hand in hand with not being rude.

Perhaps your definition and my definition of respect is different.  To me, showing your teacher some respect also means doing what they ask, even if you don't like it, and not rolling your eyes and/or back talking.  When a kid walks into class from day one, I would expect that kid to have some respect for the teacher by doing all those things I stated.    When you have a not-so-nice/great teacher who yells, you may not have "respect" for that person, but you can have respect for the classroom and the teacher's position by not acting out.  I expect a teacher to start out with some sort of respect, then the teacher could lose that respect if that teacher turns out to be a horrible teacher.

It's a bit like having respect for the Office of President, but not necessarily for the President him/herself.

The respect you are referring to is the type of respect one shows to someone for something that person did, like being a good teacher, or inventing the internet (sarcasm).  
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