"Nobody Leaves Until Campbell Climbs Rope!"
@danishcanadian (28954)
Canada
January 24, 2013 8:48am CST
Background: Frasier is dating a female gym teacher, and overheard her yelling the title line of this post, at an elementary school student. He starts to have second thoughts about the woman, because her harsh treatment of the student starts to give him flashbacks to his own difficulty with gym class. The line itself got me thinking.
You're a kid in Campbell's class, or Campbell, herself. Or maybe you're not a kid, but a parent of a kid. The teacher thinks she's motivating you to do it her way, left your peers all turn against you. However, she's holding the entire class hostage. If you were a child in that class, why not just get up and leave? It's not like the teacher can physically hold you there...not legally anyway.
And what if you're a parent of a child who just got up and walked out of the class, after such a threat? Quite frankly, if my kid walked out after the teacher tried to hold the class on account of one student, I'd defend my child. I'd also defend the student that the teacher was trying to shame into doing what she wanted her to do. Yes teachers deserve respect, but THAT is pushing the boundaries.
How would you handle the situation?
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@jillhill (37353)
• United States
24 Jan 13
I don't agree with what was going on....my kids when they were in school probably would have rebelled.....but that is because I taught them to be independent...sometimes teacher make mistakes too.....this might be an example of one of them.
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@danishcanadian (28954)
• Canada
25 Jan 13
While it's true that teachers are only human, just like p;olice officers, fire fighters, and Military personel, in my opinion there are some professions in which mistakes are inexcusable.
@BarBaraPrz (51818)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
24 Jan 13
When I was in grade school, my parents told me that if ever a teacher told me to do something that I thought was wrong, to just leave and come home. Of course, I never did, but the option was there.
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@danishcanadian (28954)
• Canada
24 Jan 13
Were you ever faced with such a situation where you chose not to walk out, or did the opportunity just never arise? Good for your parents! Some parents teach their kids that the teacher isalways right, when clearly, that is not true!
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@BarBaraPrz (51818)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
24 Jan 13
Not really. There was one time in grade 7 or 8 when the teacher gave the whole class a detention because they were too noisy. I, of course, was a perfect angel and didn't deserve the detention, but I stayed just to be fair. 
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@danishcanadian (28954)
• Canada
25 Jan 13
I could not have done that because fair to them is unfair to me. If 99 out of 100 people, for example, decide to toilet paper the school, but the 100th person goes to the library, are all 100 people guilty, simply for being sudetns of that school?
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@jalucia (1431)
• United States
24 Jan 13
As a child, I probably wouldn't have walked out because that would have been defiant. But I might have been totally embarrassed and traumatized, you're right. However, it could be that the teacher wanted the whole class to encourage the student. But this probably backfired. I remember as a student, I could never climb that rope. I was scared of that rope just like I was scared of the volleyballs. Gym class is terribly dreaded by the nonathletic.
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@danishcanadian (28954)
• Canada
24 Jan 13
I don't believe in defiance when the teacher is clearly wrong. As for encouragement that backfired, I'm sure all the other kids in that class just wanted to throw tomatoes at Campbell, and they probably opened her up to teasing, for the rest of the year, or however long those kids new her.
Amen about the non-athletic. I was never athletic, and had some physical challenges to boot. I always hated phys-ed.
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@wilsongoddard (7291)
• United States
24 Jan 13
I went to a school where teachers, school bus drivers and administrators did a lot of things for which the district should have been sued. One teacher forced us to pray every morning--in clear violation of the law. He was the same one who threw one of my cousins across a table. Another teacher would make racist jokes in class.
My children will be home schooled. Even though I don't think that all public school districts are quite as bad as the one I attended, I have heard more than enough horror stories--and have known plenty of future teachers. I would rather that my boyfriend and I be the ones to guide our children on their educational journeys.
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@danishcanadian (28954)
• Canada
25 Jan 13
I really can't respond the way I wish to this comment, because 99 of the 100 words I want to use will be censored by MyLot. Suffice it to say, I am glad we live in the age we live in. Now in 2013, if I had a child in such a place, I'd plant a recording device on the kid or something, to collect evidence, then I'd sue the school, and use the money to better the community.
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@wilsongoddard (7291)
• United States
25 Jan 13
Where I grew up, parents wouldn't sue the school district--and certainly not "back then" (I'm only a few years older than you). Most of the parents wouldn't bother to stand up for their kids if the kids even bothered to try the parents. Many of the parents and step-parents were problems as well.
I won't bother going into the socioeconomic factors, how religion plays a role or any of the rest of it. I am glad, though, to see that there is a bit more diversity arising--albeit, very slowly--in that area. That means that people are coming in from the outside--and, hopefully, bringing with them some values that don't involve "spare the rod, spoil the child" (Something you would never hear in a Jewish home, I might add.).
I am the sort who would advocate very fiercely for my children.
@SIMPLYD (90717)
• Philippines
25 Jan 13
Well, if that happens here i am sure that the teacher will be complained to her superintendent and will be investigated.
Nowadays, you cannot just harass the students, lest you will be complained. With the cellphone cameras and videos of the students, it's so easy for them to get a footage of what that teacher is doing.
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