Mean Piano Teacher? Help?
Okay so this isn't the type of question about me being whiny about a piano teacher who was mean to me because I didn't practice, this question is about my piano teacher who makes me cry or have a bad day every class. So today I had a Piano recilat and I thought that I wouldn't have piano today because of it, and I didn't show up. So she calls my house and my dad picks up and she asks why I didn't show up. My dad told her that I thought there was no class and said sorry for that, then SHE starts TELLING my dad that he shouldn't take this so lightly and that he should be more alert about these things. Now first of all I know my excuse is not a good one and I should have called my teacher to make sure and I feel upset with myself about that but what I don't like is that she blamed my dad and practically told him how to parent me. Later my dad told me what happened and told me to apologize to my teacher right now, and I did, i told her I was sorry and that I should have called and then she yelled at me saying that I should stop imagining things and hung up on me. My dad came up and asked how it went and I just started bawling, after I explained what happened he told me it is my fault but she shouldn't have hung up me he told me that he would be looking for a new teacher I just nodded and my dad left the room. But there's just a whole other problem something big like this happened a few monthes back when she told me that I was a dumb person and that I should just go home and quit everything because there's no hope with me! My mom and dad told me to Finnish this month and I could quit after, but before the month ended they just told me to give her another chance and now I'm scared there going to say that again this time. What should I do!!! I really don't want her as a teacher! I told my mom and dad I wanted to quit so many times but they never went with it... HELP!
Did your teacher ever do anything in class that shocked you?
When I was in standard 6th(around 11 years back), there was this maths teacher who was over friendly with girls. He used to give a set of questions for everyone to solve and then call each girl one by one with their bags. As usual the front benchers would get busy with the questions and the back benchers would start making noises. But as a teacher he wasn't bothered with the noise at all. He was just interested in the contents of the bag, of the girl he had called. He would start chatting up with her and start rummaging through the backpack. It was insanely weird.The year ended for us and we moved on to standard 7th. But this stupid act of his continued and we kept on hearing the stories from our juniors. This one time, he was delving in a girl's backpack and he found a sanitary napkin. He took it out and started asking questions about it. Now after being in a coed school, sex-ed is absolutely necessary which includes the knowledge about menstruation. But the syllabus weren't that generous for us Indians back then and because of not having a knowledge about this particular female atrocity, it was considered similar to a taboo. So every guy's attention is now drawn to the sanitary napkin and the girl is getting immensely embarrassed. When the class ended, all the guys started teasing her and giving her looks. This was too much to handle and she broke down crying and ran to the vice principal's office. She complained about the teacher.Later the teacher was confronted about his behaviour and he got very smug about it. He rebuffed it saying he is just trying to get to know the students better. Nevertheless, we don't know what the confrontation led to but we know it was quite severe because he didn't come to teach classes for a few days. When he returned, he was seething with anger, deducting marks in tests, and beating students on petty things.One day, the girl was a duty student for the class (one who stays back to look after the bags of other students during recess). The teacher came over, asked the other student to leave and latched the door from inside. Nobody knows what happened inside, but we know the girl wasn't physically harmed though she was scared. Later she changed schools, after finishing the year.This was the most shocking thing I have seen a teacher do.
Uhmm... my teacher's period leaked at school today?
If you did your best to tell her in a discreet way, then you shouldn't feel bad. It's only natural that your teacher was embarrassed, especially if she realized that the whole class had noticed. When she returns to class you should all just act as if nothing had happened; you sound like a mature group. BTW, she didn't teach you the correct spelling of suRprising. Just kidding, I know it was a typo.