What I learned is you need to stop playing with kids named Michael 😜
I had a teacher like the one in the second story. It's so sad that kids or teens don't always understand that teachers are also going through their own issues.
And I will think about those Michaels and their behaviour ;)
About teachers and their issues. I think that it is difficult for young people who have no experience with mental problems to know what to do. And I also think that a school is a workplace, and such are gatherings of adult people who should be able to do it better – the other teachers/colleagues and the managers have an extended responsibility in this regard.
We are, in a way, blaming people for not being strong enough to self-manage such problems. Just like we shouldn't blame children for other children's misdeeds, we shouldn't blame anyone, child or adult, for being in the need of help. That's too cruel.
I will not blame us students for the letter, as we really believed that we were helping – we didn't know better, especially: we hadn't experienced the at time evil life in a workplace yet. Later in life, I have seen several times how people get fired for having problems. Even if the problems are directly caused by the boss or a colleague. It is usually easier to fire the victim than the bully.
In regards to the first story, I had no idea children in Scandinavia could be so rotten 🫢 Just kidding 😉 But where I come from (Germany), there is this ideal that children from the Northern European countries are always very well-behaved and disciplined and would certainly never do anything like what you described... That goes to show that kids are just kids everywhere!
They certainly are – and when adults display how to be even more rotten by being unfair and deliberately punishing the wrong children, these little, almost innocent creatures grow up to become as bad as adults always seem to be.
It's a pity that you get just one like for this text. When I have the same response, I wonder does it pay off to write. Maybe to try with something like... Good morning to all Substackers...:)
What I learned is you need to stop playing with kids named Michael 😜
I had a teacher like the one in the second story. It's so sad that kids or teens don't always understand that teachers are also going through their own issues.
Happy New Year, my friend!
Thanks, happy New Year to you too!
And I will think about those Michaels and their behaviour ;)
About teachers and their issues. I think that it is difficult for young people who have no experience with mental problems to know what to do. And I also think that a school is a workplace, and such are gatherings of adult people who should be able to do it better – the other teachers/colleagues and the managers have an extended responsibility in this regard.
We are, in a way, blaming people for not being strong enough to self-manage such problems. Just like we shouldn't blame children for other children's misdeeds, we shouldn't blame anyone, child or adult, for being in the need of help. That's too cruel.
I will not blame us students for the letter, as we really believed that we were helping – we didn't know better, especially: we hadn't experienced the at time evil life in a workplace yet. Later in life, I have seen several times how people get fired for having problems. Even if the problems are directly caused by the boss or a colleague. It is usually easier to fire the victim than the bully.
In regards to the first story, I had no idea children in Scandinavia could be so rotten 🫢 Just kidding 😉 But where I come from (Germany), there is this ideal that children from the Northern European countries are always very well-behaved and disciplined and would certainly never do anything like what you described... That goes to show that kids are just kids everywhere!
They certainly are – and when adults display how to be even more rotten by being unfair and deliberately punishing the wrong children, these little, almost innocent creatures grow up to become as bad as adults always seem to be.
It's a pity that you get just one like for this text. When I have the same response, I wonder does it pay off to write. Maybe to try with something like... Good morning to all Substackers...:)
"Free beer" usually attracts many people :)
True:)