being a teacher

i think that the society holds high hopes for our teachers, hoping for them to be the very best. Since they are the ones the young generation look up to everyday as "role models", other than their parents perhaps.

well, thats not the point of discussion here though. my point is that i believe teachers should be behaving appropriately. What they are employed to do is to educate the students, and i believe they should have a decent level of respect for the students while they expect the same way in the reverse direction.

There is a teacher whom i have seen posting stuff about students on facebook, of which started last year. i witnessed that incident and i was quite shocked by the way he does it. im not sure if the only one who disagrees with his actions. some of his ex students even began commenting and discussions began.

That time, the material posted were photos he took of students' answers of which he found to be say "ridculous" or "funny". in the sense that i guess he was shocked at that kind of answer being written. And after that, he gave those photos captions which didnt put the student in any form of good light as well. and ppl began LIKING those photos, or joining in the mocking of the poor victims of the exams.

It is rather disgusting to me, i feel. i mean, the students are all trying to do their best and sometimes they dunno the answers and in times of desperation, they would just try to scribble something in hope of some lucky points. or if they have a poor understanding of the topic they might give answers that would sound "funny" to an teacher who, we all expect to know the content of the subject very very well. so why did he have to make it into a joke!? its like a form of public humiliation although the names were not shown. but still. why do we have to make fun of them in this way. shouldnt the teacher be more worried and eager about helping them, to correct their mistakes and to educate them better? instead, amidst his own frustration he has decided to share those silly mistakes with the world. incredible, i feel.

if the material were about like stuff they said that were funny, or like content that are purely funny like ppl writing their dates wrongly or something, i guess thats acceptable. but to post their answers and to criticise them on fb, isnt the way to go, Sir.

and the reason why im posting this after so long is because these few days, i have seen such incidents again. this time, he updated his statuses with some answers he saw while marking scripts i suppose, and once again this is a form of expression which i feel is no way acceptable.

then again, i know teachers are humans too and when they are concerned/frustrated/angry they have to vent it out as well. but probably should be using other methods instead. and definitely not on such open, accessible and popular online channels like facebook.

(i guess some of you alr know who this teacher is but pls do not disclose here. this is just meant to be my stand and opinion on the issue, not on the person. thanks.)