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30 Unnecessarily Ableist Things Students Saw Teachers Do, As Shared By Twitter
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Humanity has progressed quite a lot when it comes to human rights, respect, tolerance, and the like, but there is still a ways to go as inequality and discrimination is still a thing—quite a big one, actually. And the internet has become a bit of a platform for people to share such experiences.
Shira (@shirainspired) recently went to Twitter to ask people what was the most unnecessarily ableist thing a teacher ever did to them. For those unaware, ableism means discrimination and social prejudice against a person with a disability. This is usually based on the belief that typical abilities are superior.
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A good number of people responded to her, sharing some of the most heartbreaking experiences they ever had in school.Bored Panda has compiled a list of some of these responses, which you can find, vote and comment on below.
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Teachers should be encouraging this. If i have a student that is a fast learner and well ahead of the others i will ask him/her to help those that are behind. This helps me out and it gives the student a sense of pride that he/she is doing something good.
I would report that if it was me ( then I would probably chicken out tho)
You should of had a word with her after class and tell her how degrading it was her acting like that.
That’s horrid. But if they trigger your gag reflex, take revenge and throw up on her.
People think that we can control our ADHD but we really can't help it!
That's just dumb! You are a amazing artist if you are careful and you draw neatly! Teachers should be proud if their students are so neat and draw like that!
Just because someone seems lazy doesn’t mean that there isn’t something else going on. It’s hard not to think somethings like this but that’s still no reason to publicly shame someone
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I had to stop reading at one point because I was getting flashbacks to my fifth grade teacher. I have ADHD, and am a generally disorganized person, so in my 504 plan it says I can bring home an extra set of books so I couldn’t forget anything. My teacher refused to let me do that, so when I brought my books home she wouldn’t give me another set and mocked me for asking for another set. (we had extra books I could have easily taken.) She was also hard core racist and made the only black kid in our class color a confederate flag.
She can go choke on a pencil.
make sure its nice n sharp
Forget the pencil, she can go chocke on a porcupine! (No offense, porcupine, you're adorable)
She sounds like a terrible person.
A relative of mine is a racist teacher who tries to make his little students, who don't know nothing, use the n-word for colored people. And then being happy as a devil as soon as the not knowing kids start using the n-word by themselves as they speak
Report this to the school board and police. You know about a child being called a nîgger and you’re doing nothing about it. You might as well call them that yourself then.
This is a public school? Can't see someone holding onto their job doing that.
What the what now?!?!?! 😰
W H A T
That would be my worst nightmare.
Reminds me of my German music teacher when I was in pre K. He excluded me from other groups of children just because I was asian. Then he kicked me out into the hallway for one class and another teacher came along and decided that the german teacher was a big fat git. I left the school after that incident and I went to another international german school in Dresden. I made lots of friends there, fortunately.
wow.
The list of times teachers have been insensitive to my autism and noise sensetivity is a long one. Back in first grade I keep disrupting class because I was having panic attacks due to overstimulation because of all the noise. My teacher told me that because of that my friends didn't like me and even went so far as to ask one of my friends to control my behavior. In second grade, my teacher suggested that my mom make lots of noise at home (which was my safe space) so I could get used to it. Thankfully, Mom didn't comply. There was also an incident in fourth grade that, while I was not a part of, I was a witness to. This kid is a bit distracted in class so the teacher tells him he has to stay after school. Kid starts crying because he has a doctor's appointment that day that he can't miss. Teacher yells at him for crying, which only makes things worse, and we're all watching wide-eyed as he does this going "what the frick, man?" Teachers can be surprisingly abusive at times...
Students having to go through this is disgusting! Adults in those positions are supposed to care for children / teens, not make life more difficult for them. I hope they get a good dose of karma. And learn from their mistakes.
Fire the bitch/bastard!
I had to stop reading at one point because I was getting flashbacks to my fifth grade teacher. I have ADHD, and am a generally disorganized person, so in my 504 plan it says I can bring home an extra set of books so I couldn’t forget anything. My teacher refused to let me do that, so when I brought my books home she wouldn’t give me another set and mocked me for asking for another set. (we had extra books I could have easily taken.) She was also hard core racist and made the only black kid in our class color a confederate flag.
She can go choke on a pencil.
make sure its nice n sharp
Forget the pencil, she can go chocke on a porcupine! (No offense, porcupine, you're adorable)
She sounds like a terrible person.
A relative of mine is a racist teacher who tries to make his little students, who don't know nothing, use the n-word for colored people. And then being happy as a devil as soon as the not knowing kids start using the n-word by themselves as they speak
Report this to the school board and police. You know about a child being called a nîgger and you’re doing nothing about it. You might as well call them that yourself then.
This is a public school? Can't see someone holding onto their job doing that.
What the what now?!?!?! 😰
W H A T
That would be my worst nightmare.
Reminds me of my German music teacher when I was in pre K. He excluded me from other groups of children just because I was asian. Then he kicked me out into the hallway for one class and another teacher came along and decided that the german teacher was a big fat git. I left the school after that incident and I went to another international german school in Dresden. I made lots of friends there, fortunately.
wow.
The list of times teachers have been insensitive to my autism and noise sensetivity is a long one. Back in first grade I keep disrupting class because I was having panic attacks due to overstimulation because of all the noise. My teacher told me that because of that my friends didn't like me and even went so far as to ask one of my friends to control my behavior. In second grade, my teacher suggested that my mom make lots of noise at home (which was my safe space) so I could get used to it. Thankfully, Mom didn't comply. There was also an incident in fourth grade that, while I was not a part of, I was a witness to. This kid is a bit distracted in class so the teacher tells him he has to stay after school. Kid starts crying because he has a doctor's appointment that day that he can't miss. Teacher yells at him for crying, which only makes things worse, and we're all watching wide-eyed as he does this going "what the frick, man?" Teachers can be surprisingly abusive at times...
Students having to go through this is disgusting! Adults in those positions are supposed to care for children / teens, not make life more difficult for them. I hope they get a good dose of karma. And learn from their mistakes.
Fire the bitch/bastard!