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The Teacher Does Have Favorites

The teacher gave gifts to those who were behaving. Many other students pretended to behave For about two seconds Then they got loud, unruly, and disrespectful. They began screaming at her They were yelling about unfairness They yelled that she had favorites. They threw things at her head. She did have favorites. The children whose parents taught them respect The children who behaved The children who had home-schooling Who can blame her?

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Gershon Wolf

Date: 5/19/2022 6:41:00 PM

Ooooh! Very delicate topic. All I can think of is this: Yes, of course, we teachers have favorites. But when we show that we do, we lose (most of) the non-favorites... and (most of) the favorites take advantage of our pandering. ~ Just sayin.'

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 5/20/2022 1:54:00 AM

We cannot show it, but you know that it is much nicer to be with the nice ones.

L Milton Hankins

Date: 5/19/2022 8:54:00 AM

It's only human nature. Every teacher has a few delightful students whom they naturally show small favors. Only too bad that the loud, unruly, and disrespectful ones cannot seem to understand why they are not among the favored!

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 5/19/2022 12:18:00 PM

They get ANGRY and LOUD and begin BERATING and BELITTILING the teachers sometimes, and they learned this from their parents.