My parents didn't stand teachers' bullshit in the late 90s. There was this one authoritarian bitch who constantly picked on me for no reason. One day I threw a piece of paper in the trashcan that was 2 ft away from my desk. She wrote me up for disturbing the class because I didn't get up and drop it in the can (which would've been a bigger 'class disturbance') and my parents let her and the VP have it.
After that, my parents talked to the principal to get me moved classes and the principal refused to cooperate, even after further teacher bullying. My parents contacted the superintendent and he showed up unannounced at a meeting my parents were having with the principal, flanked by our lawyer. I was moved classes the next day and enjoyed the rest of my school year.
A lot of teachers are authoritarian assholes who think any position that gives them a modicum of power makes them absolute rulers.
That teacher/principal sound like the professor/dean that I had in college. The "professor" was a diversity hire who couldn't teach code for shit, but was still regularly put in charge of big Comp Sci classes at the last second (often for mandatory subjects that students couldn't skip or get an alternative for).
After two semesters of worthless "teaching", my parents spoke to the department dean about her. The dean's response? "She's not getting as many complaints as she used to."
On an unrelated sidenote, the University of Central Florida's Comp Sci and Math departments are much worse than advertised...
I could not imagine my parents standing up for that in the 80s
My parents didn't stand teachers' bullshit in the late 90s. There was this one authoritarian bitch who constantly picked on me for no reason. One day I threw a piece of paper in the trashcan that was 2 ft away from my desk. She wrote me up for disturbing the class because I didn't get up and drop it in the can (which would've been a bigger 'class disturbance') and my parents let her and the VP have it.
After that, my parents talked to the principal to get me moved classes and the principal refused to cooperate, even after further teacher bullying. My parents contacted the superintendent and he showed up unannounced at a meeting my parents were having with the principal, flanked by our lawyer. I was moved classes the next day and enjoyed the rest of my school year.
A lot of teachers are authoritarian assholes who think any position that gives them a modicum of power makes them absolute rulers.
Don't mind me, I'm just taking notes
That teacher/principal sound like the professor/dean that I had in college. The "professor" was a diversity hire who couldn't teach code for shit, but was still regularly put in charge of big Comp Sci classes at the last second (often for mandatory subjects that students couldn't skip or get an alternative for).
After two semesters of worthless "teaching", my parents spoke to the department dean about her. The dean's response? "She's not getting as many complaints as she used to."
On an unrelated sidenote, the University of Central Florida's Comp Sci and Math departments are much worse than advertised...
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Studies show female teachers arebiased towards male students particularly with grading