Figure 1.--Pupils at New Zealand schools often receive much needed individual attention. This is often true in some of the non-academic subjects. |
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Children love to complain about their teachers and poke a little cheeky fun. Most of course have quite positice relations with their teachers, especially in primary school. The relationship becomes some what more contentious as the children get older and more asertive. But even in secondary school, most of the students get on well with their teachers. This of course does not prevent a little healthy teasing.
Teachers are bossy, whining things. Who treat us like brats, and themselves like Kings. They say we are imperfect and a terrible disgrace, When its really them who
are out of place. We slave away at homework and assignments too, While they just watch the footy and shout, Ya-Hoo." They torture our brains and force us to
work hard. It's easy for them as they read off a card. They punish us for things that they think we did, When really it was some other kid! They say we are cheeky
and too much trouble, But they've just had a pay raise and now they're paid double. A TEACHERS word can scar us for life, An insult from them is like a stab from
a knife. Which brings me to the conclusion that I must tell, Maybe I'll become a teacher and put kids through hell.
- Chris Findlay, Form 2, Mangakahia Area School, 1997
These two teachers work upstairs. Our teachers are good frinds and they love fishing. One of them is short and one of them is big and tall and he just got a new shirt. We like both of them a lot. They are Mr Gregory and Mr Taylor.
- Pun Jayasuta, Year 8, Southwell School, 1999
I'm going to talk about why I think teachers have smaller brains than
students. Teachers obviously have smaller brains than us. Well, firstly when you
ask the teacher the meaning of a word they always tell you to look it up
in a dictionary(they obviously don't know) and then they make a stupid
excuse like,"You will learn better if you look it up yourself." Which is
not true. And when teachers put notes on the board, it all sounds like it has been
copied out of a book. They don't even have enough brains to rewrite it
in their own words.
Everybody knows that teachers have small brains. That is why answer
books were made. While we students, the ones withthe brains, get text
books, where we have to work out the answers. I think that if we took
away the answer books, teachers wouldn't be able to teach at all. They
wouldn'teven have a clue about what to teach.
Even with the answer books, they still have problems teaching. One of
theseproblems would be that they don't know how to explain things
properly. When you make a little mistake, (because they didn't explain
it) they start screaming and yelling at you and saying things like,
"You should have listened when I explained it!".When they didn't.
You know the way the teachers ask you to do a question on the board?
Well, it's not because they are trying to make you learn; it's because
they couldn't find it in their answer book. This is why they ask us
questions as well.
We all know that teachers are older than us, and I heard that as you
get older your brain shrinks. Some teachersin this school must be over
a hundred by now. Imagine how small their brains must be. Another thing
--teachers are so forgetful. Some have forgotten that they should have
retired over a hundred years ago. Since teachers have lived longer than us, they have therefore probably swallowed more alcohol than us. Alcohol kills brain cells. If you add up
all the alcohol they have drunk in their lifetime, you would probably
estimate they haven't any brain cellsleft at all.
Well, these are all the reasons I could think of for the moment. I'm
sure most students would agree with me. But I'm not sure about those
brainless teachers. [A speech given in Mr Mine's English Class.]
Yuen Mei Duan, Form 4Sa, Wanganui High School, 1996
Respect to the students
Never gets in back he says
Never be the same
Lymphad, Cashmere High School, 1993
