One experience that I remember, was when I was a junior in high school. I was accused of staring at a student with malicious intent, having bad influence on my friends, and being controlling. Due to that accusation, my spot in the National Honor Society was being threatened.
In that moment, I was so annoyed and tired. I knew that student was always going to spread lies about me, but to tell my NHS advisor was a new level of disrespect that I couldn’t allow to go unchecked. My character was being questioned by a teacher that I actually respected and the fact that she believed her favorite student, didn’t help my case at all.
I understand that favoring a student over another happens, but if it’s clouding your judgement, you shouldn’t have “favorites” at all. If you have a close relationship towards a student, you should be able to discern what the truth is, especially if you haven’t even directly talked to the student their accusing, and you shouldn’t be enabling their toxic behavior.
This situation changed my views on the teacher, and I lost my respect for her. As an adult, you should have a neutral stance when dealing with situations that have no concrete evidence on the accusers side.
I found your story to be really interesting and one that others can relate too. I feel like your narrative can help out other students who may be in a similar situation. I feel like favoritism among teachers and students are really common and for you to share your story could help bring more attention to it.
Hi Ninmah, I really like your story and I definitely can relate to it because it happened to me in the past too but I actually complained about my teacher being biased with me and she actually got kicked out of the school which I felt bad afterwards lol. Your absolutely right that teachers should be neutral to all their students because if they do favouritism to some then other might feel left out which is wrong. Teacher’s duty is to be there for everyone not just specific students and your story actually tells us that favouritism could lead to mess up some students educational stuff because of not properly getting information about their subjects. You’re actually right that some teachers lost their respect that way too.
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