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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]

My point is often the kids start out behaving respectfully, but the teachers are yelling and doing the other things I've mentioned above.  That loses the respect of the students quickly. Teachers do it because they have the misperception that being a nasty hard-ass is the only way to maintain control in the classroom.[/quote]

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