Bullied by My English Teacher
By KK on Oct 4, 2007 in On therapy, Blogging, PMN
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During a heated discussion, I declared to my husband that “I come from a Third World country but I have never been bullied in school–from kindergarten to college.” Thinking back, though, my mind screamed: “Oh yes you were! By none other than your English teacher, remember?” I went to a private Catholic school, where most of my classmates were sons and daughters of the crème dela crème in Baguio City. Lawyers, doctors, business owners, high ranking PMA officials and the many others who had a name in society sent their children in this highly regarded school, expecting only the best. continue reading
Other insignificant facts about this teacher: she has bad breath that her blood red lipstick cannot hide, she still owes my Mama the lunches she ate when my Mama was catering(walang hiya talaga, ang haba ng listahan niya!). Children remember details! So treat children with respect because one day they can become bloggers!
I watch my child like a hawk so she doesn’t go through the same experience. If the same thing happened today where I am now, she will be sued BIG TIME for child abuse. I don’t feel that I should waste my time suing my ex-teacher as I know she is in a pathetic state now.
See why my blog is a therapy session sometimes, things come out. I let go of the negative feelings and it get’s logged.
Forgive and forget? Nah! Maybe if she apologizes to every child she mistreated.
bill | Oct 5, 2007 | Reply
love reading the article. i’m glad i never had a teacher like that. imagine favoring students who give you gifts. and i think it is a crime to the highest degree to say that a student is “tanga”.
ina | Oct 5, 2007 | Reply
What my sister says is true because I’m also one of the students she loves to pick on when i was in grade school, …because she feels so perfect…to add to that she also loves to wear poison perfume.
KK | Oct 5, 2007 | Reply
Hi Bill,
Thanks for reading the article. I guess I should consider myself lucky somehow because I saw how bad it was and I shouldn’t follow her example. I also saw how pathetic to be in-debt upto the eyeballs as long as they are looking good dressed to the teeth(utang naman pala).
Hi Ina,
Do you want to sue her? She’s not worth our time though. Specially now that I found out that pang-Magsaysay ave. lang pala siya bwahaha.
Joana | Oct 7, 2007 | Reply
I know you remember how much she used to pick on me too…although she’d throw fits most of the time because I had subtle ways of irritating her–remember how she kept telling me to stop giggling and I just wouldn’t…even if she made me stand up in class? Remember how I refused to dance for the field day and she had no choice but to stop bugging me to dance? Ahh.. those were the days… Now I’m a teacher and I have tried so hard NOT to be like her. I remember this particular teacher even had subject-verb agreement slips and sentence construction issues.
I do hope other teachers and parents would learn from what we had gone through because of her.
School administrators should also be very picky in selecting their teachers. One teacher like her can drag down the name of the entire school!
KK | Oct 7, 2007 | Reply
Hi Teacher Joana,
I am so happy you spoke up! I only improved on my English during high school and college.
It is so true that a teacher can cheapen/drag the school down.
Classy is not seen from wearing nice clothes but it’s the attitude and some people don’t seem to get it.