Togo - //
At least you know why the darlings all grow up to be so sensitive Tora. Problem is it only extends to themselves or a so shall me deah frenzy. The teaching staff are no longer meant to fulfil a need but to create one. It is call so shallism. //
Correct me if I'm wrong, but your point appears to be that part of a teacher's role is to insult the appearence and self-worth of young people because that will toughen them up and make them ready for the 'real world'.
Since, in due course, the same young people will actually be the real world, wouldn't it be better to simply indulge their need to express their still forming personalities externally, as teenagers have done for over sixty years, rather than simply belittle them and insult them?
Because I for one, would not like to give them the message that this is what 'the real world' is actually like - rather that they are going to have the power to actually change the wrong attitudes in the world they are growing into.
Teaching tolerence and respect for each other is surely the message we want our young people to understand?
Bullying and belittling people who have no power to answer back is not going to build a world I would want for my grandchildren. That simply teaches them that power is there to be abused, and respect does not matter.
This teacher's arrogant and pompous opinions may sit well in the chatterspehere where any idiot can be as rude as they like under the cloak of keyboard anonimity, but referring to pupils in his care in this dreadful hurtful way shows how unsuited he is to teach anything to anyone - except arrogance and stupidity, and there is already too much of that around as it is.