You actually listen to your teacher? How boring!

hi dawn yes I think down in grade school I was just a typical kid too but I wrote poems and once the teacher caught me and read my poem out loud to the class. In stead of laughing at me they were 'all real quiet and then I got called to the principals office. I was shaking but he said,"You do not belong in this class. next year I am promoting you from five grade to seventh grade as you can do the work. that poem showed me you do not belong in grade school any longer.: I was both scared and thrilled too

Now that never happened to me, I just got accused of being lazy.

Hi Dawny I was naughty as hell... I took a lot of caning, I still have marks to show...

hi spalladino oh yes for me it was very long ago. though I did go back to the U OfCa irvine to finally get my last two years and a BA in English when I really wanted a B A in library sciene lol. oh I still love to play solitarie even now.

I think it is fun learning when we try not to make education a burden for us. I think it is okay to learn at one's own pace. Some teachers are very good at educating children and their classes are very good and they teach like telling a story and is able to make children interested without getting bored.

hi bunnybon oh I was so bored in the first grade and got held back then was skipped a grade and did so well that later on I was moved from fifth grade to seventh grade.I do think children should be moved up or down according to their needs. to really learn one must be really interested in the subjects.

funny the same thing happened to me. failed first grade cause i was uninterested. skipped 6st grade cause they said i had a high enough IQ, i should be in 7th and it was fine. i did fine in 9th also after i skipped 8th grade then, as my mom said. i lost my mind and ran away and got married. yes, i was stupid after all and its been downhill ever since.

his catdlai I would write poems occasionally if I got bored but I did listen enough to get g ood grades. I thought it was odd the teachers would allow cell phones in the class room. that scaling of grades when I was in junior college seemed so stupid as you got a good grade even when you might not merit it. I had complained that I wanted to earn that A or B not just get it because someone else had an f.I wanted to know if I really knew the stuff.see I went back to junior college in my early thirties so I was mature and really was there to learn.

I think many young people today would benefit from taking a year or two (or more) off between high school and college. Added maturity and better defined goals for themselves would help many to take their education opportunities more seriously.

I really think that Iappreciated more going back to college after I was married and my son was mostly grown, I enjoyed the classes I took and i did better than some of the younger ones asI had a 4 point grade average.

hi quita oh my yes my parents did not let me goof off like kids do now. They wanted me to learn and really sort of helped to spur me on. Yes life has changed so much and a lot of youngsters seem to have no respect at all for teachers.

hi foofermen and glory I wrote poems and sometimes the teacher would catch me and then she got to where she realized what was going on and I was pushed up a grade and really got challenged. oh yeah not the boss. lol staff meetings could be sort of boring. we had them in the library and the subject was always that the county was almost broke and we would not be getting raises. oh yeah

I drew, too! Most of the time, cartoon characters. But when inspiration hit, I drew the teacher. But, I was listening. I still do that during staff meetings now that I'm working. But, I'd never draw my boss.

hi gabs I have wondered that myself and too so many have computers and learn somethings and then come to school and think this is a waste of my time, I am so smart I don't need to listen to her. Sometimes I wonder 'at parents too as when I was a kid my parents would get on me if I did not get a good grade. they cared that I get a good education and told me I had to do my part by listening to my teacher a d also studying hard.We were also trained to respect our elders whether our teachers or the family doctor or the people on the next farm.'Why are some parents now days not participating in their children's school lives?

hi GardenGerty I think they have a good point and I feel kids expect to be entertained all the time by the teacher instead of listening and actually comprehending what she is trying to teach them.

hi ElicBxn I had one in college who sort of drowned and one day I fell asleed and actually snored.He was interesting to listen to only if he had not droned on without ever lifting his voice. I taped his lectures as I would miss some of the words. He got so he would raise and lower his voice so then I realized he was actually an interesting lecturer.

That's sad that schools have become so impersonal now. I think if it gets really bad for my son, I'd start homeschooling him..

I think the simple fact that they can do the work they know, for example if a child has problems in math, they can take a math class that challenges them, but not so much that is overwhelms them. Then if they are good in English, they can take a class that is right for them. This way it make sit interesting to them too. This is also why I love online classes. Plus I have flexible time and though at my age I don't care about making friends as much as getting good grades, but children are not like this, at least most are not..

hi carmel I have noticed a lot of mylotters are doing just'that and some say their children are actuall getting better grades and are more interested in their studies too.

hi Youreyes4today y ou are so right , the teachers must have reall passion for their subjects and want to help the kids learn not just follow a game plan but go beyond and improvise to eacite the kids, I had a teacher in thefifth grade who would take us on field trips t o get an up close look at whatever we were studying. this was so excigting for us and she helped me to skip a grade because she got me so interested in learning.

hi lady I really feel that students should try to learn by listening to their teacher no matter if shes boring or not as it is part of their responsibilty to help the teacher to teach them.The student will have plenty of time after his classes to talk to friends and play aro und. the classroom is not the place to play in at all.

hilady I do feel for teachers that r eally want to make a d ifference then talk to a class of kids who are not interested ejnough to listen to her. I would never teach as I have about as much patience as a flea. I would be on their cases if I saw they were not listening to me. Sure some teachers are not so good but s till the kids should have been taught by their parents to behave in class and to listen to the teacher.

Yes, I hope they understand that too...that there is a time for everything, and even though they are itching t talk to their seatmates, they should respect the teacher and listen to him or hr first, we still have lots of recess and lunch to chat with our friends..

hi AJsmom yes I sure do agree. even in college I had teachers who turned me off the subject even though it was one that was required.While I had others who enjoyed what they were teaching and had innovative and interesting ways of presenting what we needed to learn.Anyone can just open a dull book a nd drone away practically reading from the page 'but a passionate teacher will draw you into her subject and make you really care to learn about it.those are the teachers one always remembers.

hi zoeandrea yes I think the kids just do not realize if they will stick around and listen, sooner or later its all going to make good sense. I was always a pretty good student as it was during the second world war years and high school students and parents alike were worried as a lot of us knew the boys in our senior class' were all eventually going to be drafted so we all studied and listened more that last year than ever before as we did not know what was going to happen next. the war had struck home as we were now getting involved and this was real life, not a war movie that you could leave and know it was not real.

hi opinder I was also a pen a nd paper person taking notes. but with ohe teacher whose voice sometimes went too soft I taped all his lectures.'I sort of enjoyed goiung b ack to junior college and senior U after marrying and having children. Myt own son was enrolled in the same junior college too. I did go on to get my degree in my fifties and it wa s much harder than if I had just continued college in my twenties insteadof quitting for all those years but I graduated with a three point gpa.

hi Paula yes it struck me as odd that they had no regard at all for the teacher . I mean what the heck did they think she was doing if not talking to them and why did they think they did not have to listen and p ay attention. I would hate to be a teacher now days. C ommon courtesy did not seem to be in this one young mylotter's vocabulary but he was interested in how others spent their time when the teacher was talking as if she had nothing to do with them. wow.

hi jotomy I always felt if a teacher is bpring its because he or she is not into her subject. I think if a te acher is really passionate about her subject the students are not going to pay any attention. I got interested in botany from my Fourth grade teacher who was passionate about nature and took us on a walk around our small town . she taught us the names of the various trees and we all took leaves to press and make a collection of. I put mine into a nice unlined notebook and wrote a caption under each leaf and gave the species and the name of the tree.I remember being excited at learning about the Catalpa tree as I had never seen one before and we had a lot of different trees on our farm.This trigger my love of botany which helped when my husband ran a lawn and garden service and I helped him.Back then I really knew the names of most plants used in gardens here in Southern California. I often went with him and helped plant flowers, shrubs and treees too.

hi angelic yes indeed as those who I remember fondly were the ones who made the subject really exciting as they were passionagte about their' teaching and often they would get a back and forth discussion going in our class room;Nobody was bored as we all had fun in her classses. some who taught me history just droned on and on about dates so it felt like being in a room with dust in the air.and he did not even seem to like what he was teaching I do no know why a person who does not even liketo teach wou ld inflict himself or herself on impressionable young people.

hi majody well I have had a teacher who droned and paced and talked so low I could not get all the wo rds and his droning actually put me to sleep.now mind I was in my fifties and I snored; a younger class m atge whispered Mrs Hatley you were snoring. I did feel so embarrassed. b ut someone clued this professor in and he started lifting his voice. I taped his lectures as I did not always get all his words. but when he started almost yelling p art of his sentences I realized what he was sayng really was interesting. I know we all go into classes actually wanting to learn and a bad or poor teacher can turn our love of learning off.

hi cssiduyz yes I have seen that and felt for the teacher yet also some teachers do not even try to interest children in their subject but just talk on and on and even I would be bored.But still student is responsible to a large extent in working with the teacher to get a good education