How do you react when a classmate gets chewed out by the teacher?

<p>Well. I just got chewed out. And I feel flustered, indignant, embarrassed, and hurt.</p>

<p>What did you do?</p>

<p>When it’s someone else, I get serious second-hand awkward.</p>

<p>Depends on the context of the incident.</p>

<p>I got chewed out by my AP World teacher last year - it was hands down one of the most awful experiences I have ever endured in high school - and it was over something really small (I did too much work on a presentation and was therefore too long.) </p>

<p>However - when its someone else, it depends on what actually happened. If the classmate was being a jerkface and deserved it, then I tend to relish in it a tiny bit (say if a student was giving attitude or whatever) - but if it was a misunderstanding or an accident, I tend to feel really bad for the kid. :(</p>

<p>I forgot to bring my textbook to class. It’s the only time this entire school year that I forgot to. And lo and behold, I was made an example of. I got attacked by the teacher to the point where I was trying hard to suppress the lump in my throat, and burst into tears after I left the room.</p>

<p>if i get chewed out, i either sit there silently, or subtly fight back.
if a classmate gets chewed out, i sit there awkwardly and feel a little bad for the classmate.</p>

<p>when a teacher chewed me out last year for doing hw in class, i cried. LOL no shame</p>

<p>but when i see someone else (who i like) getting yelled at, i try to console them afterwards</p>

<p>I can’t stand when teachers yell at me, because I can’t keep my mouth shut. What I’ve learned over the years, never ever say, “are you done?” to a teacher when he/she is yelling at you.</p>

<p>When someone else is suffering, it’s really awkward when it’s someone who doesn’t really get in trouble often.</p>

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<p><em>gasp</em> omg it makes me nervous just thinking of that</p>

<p>have you really done that? s@ssy</p>

<p>^ Yeah, I’ve done it to two teachers. One was with a substitute, and the other incident was in 9th or 10th grade. The main reason I said it was because the teachers was constantly saying the same thing over and over, to the point where I was done with the conversation. We wasted like 5 minutes of class time.</p>

<p>you are a brave one</p>

<p>When I was in high school, I got chewed out by my teacher in the hallway right at the start of class. I had this teacher for 3 classes, so I was getting a bit too comfortable and was teasing her a bit too much (I’ll admit it), so she had to put me in my place and tell me to stop disrespecting her (which I wasn’t doing on purpose, but whatever). </p>

<p>Well, this happened in the 1st class, and for the next 2, she completely ignored me. It was to the point where I was the only one who had my hand up and she was looking around saying “nobody knows the answer? Nobody wants to raise their hand and try?” </p>

<p>THAT made me angry because SHE was being immature about it. I told all my classmates about it and we all were really snotty to her for the rest of the week (she wasn’t that popular of a teacher to begin with, and my classmates didn’t think I had been disrespectful and so had my back). </p>

<p>It was better the following week, and I still talk to her to this day. However, this was five years ago and thinking about it still makes me cringe and feel weird.</p>

<p>^Lol, the hypocrisy of that woman. I was once chewed out by my homeroom/English teacher in middle school because they started this “reward system” for doing good favors, and gave people tickets. All the tickets were put in a raffle in the end, so of course the more tickets, the better chance of winning. Except, *******s were given tickets, because they’d drop someone’s stuff and then pick it up and show the teacher how “kind” they were. Teachers also went out of their way to reward the usually bad kids, I guess to give them incentive to be better people. Yeah, no, not when the prize is an iPod touch. Everyone thought it was a bad system.</p>

<p>So in homeroom people were complaining about it, well we always were. I usually didn’t say much, just nodded and stuff, but one morning I said more. It wasn’t even insulting. I said stuff like, “The nicest people I know haven’t even gotten tickets. Like, Stephanie hasn’t gotten one, yet Darren’s gotten 10?” Then I said other things and I think she just got tired of me complaining, although I wasn’t the only one and I wasn’t being rude to her. She definitely chewed me out. Things like, “You know, maybe you don’t get tickets because you don’t deserve them” (although I never complained about only getting 2 or 3 tickets, since most did. My problem was those who actually deserved tickets never got them) and “Not everything will be the way YOU want it to be. Do you have a problem with people being rewarded? You know, it’s that bad attitude that stopping you from getting tickets. You know, you children are so ungrateful,” etc. etc. I started crying although I stopped fast, but everyone felt bad for me and hated her anyways so it’s all good :)</p>

<p>I felt guilty around the time it happened, but now I don’t feel bad at all. She was bipolar anyways and I found her insults way off base, considering that I was not <em>that kid</em> that was always getting into arguments with teachers. Even the teachers I hated loved me, so I don’t think one “incident” warrants me a bad person as she liked to make it seem. Ugh, still gets me ****ed though. Lol.</p>

<p>Oh, I forget to answer the question :3 </p>

<p>If the teacher’s just being really mean and the student’s either getting really upset or angry, I get annoyed. Of course I feel bad, but the main emotion is “This (wo)man is being unfair, they shouldn’t get away with this.” I think I’ve always had a strong sense of justice, so maybe that’s why. Nowadays if I’m getting chewed out I just bite my tongue. If I see an obvious flaw in their logic, I’ll try to point it out if it prevents me from getting into trouble. If they’re just letting off steam and taking it out on me, I ignore it.</p>

<p>If it’s myself (and it’s happened multiple times) I usually defend myself and kinda make a scene.</p>

<p>If it’s something else, often I’ll be the idiot to be like “ohhh” or make some comment but there’s been times when I defended them.</p>

<p>I kind if got chewed out today. Science is my forte and when I came into class I was spouting all these facts and what not about superscripts and subscripts. Well I was surprised because my teacher said I came into the classroom and said all that stuff. She was like no, you’re wrong and the whole class was like “oooooooohhhhhhhh!!!” All up in my damn ear, even after she said I had gotten half of the explanation right. Wow, people are so mature today.</p>

<p>^I hate when that happens.</p>

<p>Even worse when you ask a question.</p>

<p>Exactly. My teacher has is the type that is unintentionally condescending, meaning some things that she does may hurt people. She doesn’t deliberately do that but I image that’s how some people would feel. My goodness. I’m just waiting for my worst enemy to get yelled at and all that bad stuff… Yes, I sound malevolent and truth be told the anticipation is killing me… He ****es me off so much. Lol it’s funny because he HAD to next to me on the bus and nudged me and said my name and made somewhat candid remarks. I completely shuned him for the WHOLE 2 hour bus ride. I seriously faced the other direction during the whole ride and looked at him not once. I really,really,really just don’t like him.</p>