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What a repulsive and useless so-called teaching method! This man should be ashamed of himself. I am pleased that the school system took appropriate action. Let's hope this arrogant human being takes the time to do some soul searching and self-educating to realized that this is the type of teaching approach and attitude that only encourages kids to either "hate" or fear school and thus give up on their educations. This man's approach seems to basically encourage young people to DROP OUT of school. Perhaps this man should change his career and enlist in the armed forces. He could use his "talent" in a more appropriate venue!

The following is an exerpt written by a REAL teacher! These are the people we need educating our children! Erin Marie Crouch is a teacher that posted her philosophies and early professional experiences on the Internet. What a wonderful human being and a gift to the teaching world.

Definition of Teaching

Teaching involves much more than the imparting of knowledge to the children in a teacher's classroom. Beyond book know-how, youths need to be introduced to the various aspects of socialization and other interactions with their peers and teachers. When a person becomes a teacher, he/she takes on the responsibility of being a role model to each one of his/her students. This positive influence can be the driving force that keeps certain children in school. A teacher starts to resemble many separate people in a student's life, such as someone to listen, someone to advise in a hard time, and someone to model.

When I take a look at the grade levels I will personally be involved with, I notice other aspects that need to be required for teaching to be complete. With young children, a nurturing and caring tone must first be initiates before teaching of book knowledge can begin. By modeling such behavior as honest and true concern, the child will be more apt to follow the same guidelines for his/her own life.

Overall, teaching contains components such as being there for your students, modeling behavior you wish your students to reflect, and being the positive influence that creates the best learning environment possible. The actual instruction of facts is what we measure teaching and its quality by; however, the lessons are only a small fraction of what teaching is all about. When considering the book information, a teacher must teach to each individual child. Everyone will have his/her own style of learning and a teacher must bring out the best in his/her students through the instruction.

Now these are the words of a dedicated and gifted teacher! Hopefully one day she will participate in educating folks for this profession. Teachers are amazing and need so much more respect and support from "society" than we give them. Perhaps if we respected and supported them more, we would not be reading articles like this. We would not allow folks that believe in the ridiculous and frighting approach that the subject of this article practiced to set foot in a classroom!

Well what would have happened if the teacher wrote under achiever or out of the entire class you had the lowest score. What's this students mother going to do when her kid takes the SAT and it comes back showing her child is in the bottom 10%? Maybe if the kid studied his/her books instead of the ads to see what was on sale at Wal-Mart he/she would have seen the grade of A at the top of his/her paper.

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Let me get this straight....this supposed "teacher" wrote "Loser" on an 11 year-old's paper and the response of the administration is requiring the teacher to undergo "training in professional and ethical classroom behavior." Really??? If I wrote "Loser" on any sort of evaluation in my business, I'm pretty sure the powers-that-be would NOT be coaching me on appropriate behavior. This is ridiculous. We are talking about an 11 year-old child being subjected to harassment. Suspension without pay for 2 weeks is hardly punishment for this repeated cruel behaviour. Given that Roland was given a warning last November to put a stop to the demeaning commentary, why wasn't the teacher simply fired after this last incident???

My son was called "stupid" (in front of the whole class) by his 5th grade teacher. Unfortunately this teacher is still at Colfax. It happens way too often because a lot of teachers just don't care about the kids they are entrusted with.

I absolutely love the responses. Although there can obviously be no justification, it remains that we are hearing only one side of the story. That never stops the pontification of blowhards from passing all encompassing judgment. I blame it on the sad liberal attitude that has gripped our society of late. Sort of a takeover by what we used to call the "do gooders". It appears that we can no longer withhold judgment on anything, in spite of having only half of the information.

Sounds like the only real "loser" here is the teacher. Nice way to encourage young minds........idiot!

I think the teacher was being ironic. I find it hard to believe that any teacher would sincerely call a kid a loser.

When we were kids, I used to condition my younger sister this way. I would make absurd claims that she could counter with complete confidence. For example, sometimes when she expressed an opinion about something, I would insist that it was not her opinion.

"I like the color yellow," she'd say.

"No, you don't. You like no other color but red," I'd insist.

"I hate red. I like yellow."

"You're wrong. Stop being stupid! Or else!"

"Or else WHAT?"

"You're going to get IT!"

"Ooh, what will I get?"

"You know what you're going to get. You know. IT!"

"No, I don't know. What is IT?"

I liked giving her empty threats and calling her stupid when it was clear that she was not being stupid. I did this to condition her.

By calling my sister stupid when she knew she wasn't, I took away most of the power the word (or similar words) could have had over her.

The kid in Asheville got a grade of 80% on her assignment. If the teacher really felt compelled enough to sincerely (and stupidly) call his student a loser, why would he give her a passing grade?

After closely examining the quote at the end of the third paragraph, I find that the only person calling the kid a loser is the parent.

I lilve in Union County NC and you better believe there are Teachers who Bully students every day. My child has a 6th Grade Math teacher who has called Students names from Day 1 and no matter how much I complain, he still stands in that classroom. How about "Wimpy Snot Boy", "Train Tracks or Shiny Mouth", "Squinty" or "Shorty and Shortstop". This Teacher is an insult to the rest of the professional teachers. No matter how many complaints have been brought to the attention of the school, he seems to be exempt from the Policies of the School District. This teacher makes inapproriate comments to students, talks about fantasy football, grabs kids by the collar and throws books. There is NO excuse for this behavior - find a new job if you do not like kids and teaching. I knew the teacher in Asheville would not get fired and thankfully he got a slap on the wrist and he got exposed. The parents that defend his writing loser obviously have no idea how much a comment like that hurts a child.