I moved from a small school of not even 100 students to a big school with about 2000 students. There are a lot of differences: bigger lunch lines, more money to operate things, more choices of classes -- but the biggest difference is the lack of respect.
Where I'm from you respect every teacher. They went through college, got teaching a degree, and possibly have been teaching at the elementary school or high school for a very long time. You
respect that teacher, case closed. You don't back talk, play horrible tricks on them or are so cruel to them that they quit. The teenagers in my high school have no respect at all. A lot of it could be how they were raised. Some might say, "Well my parents were never around for me." Well mine weren't either, but I still know how to respect an adult.
Some people might be like, "Okay, why are you lecturing us about this?" Well, I was in my seventh period today, and a boy who I use to have in my old seventh period class came up to me and said, "Hey! You use to be in my period 7 class. That class is so much fun now, we got the guy to quit!" I'm thinking . . . wait that guy was the girls' basketball coach and he's been at this high school for a long time now. I asked him how they got him to quit and he started telling me some of the cruel things that they did. "I emptied hand sanitizer in his seat and he sat down on it and didn't realize as he walked around the class with it on his butt. And then one time we put some tacks on his chair." I was thinking, how can you do this? Especially to a man who is somewhere in his 30's-40's, if not 50's, has back problems from the basketball he use to play in college and is from a foreign country.
My perspective on the city kids and just teenagers and children in general has definitely changed. Honestly it doesn't matter how old a teacher is, they still paid for that teaching degree and they still deserve the respect. Teachers are still adults. All adults deserve respect no matter what they have done in their past or what they will do in their future. If you know someone who is going to do something cruel to a teacher you should tell the teacher. Who knows maybe one day that will be you or your kids or maybe a current parent.
So be nice to your teachers, respect them, and follow their rules. They help you, don't they? What if that teacher was your parent. Are you going to do mean things to them or watch someone else be rude to them? Most likely you wouldn't let anyone do that and you wouldn't play tricks and be mean. If you have a strict teacher get over the fact that they are strict. They're just teaching you something the fun cool teacher doesn't teach you -- respect. And hey, you'll actually get an education!
I'd rather have a mean teacher who taught me everything than a nice teacher who taught me nothing.
