Punished if ever they screw around?
Already well behaved.

Hmm, what a coincidence 🤣

My partner and many of her friends did IB in the late 2000s and every single one has trauma from the workload and culture of expected achievement and it doesn't seem to have benefited their careers at all. (I did Running Start instead, a Washington State early college program, and had a very positive experience)

If the kids being a twat, then it should be fair game to call them one.

Forgot:

I see where he gets it from.

It is a very expensive private school. Probably got different rules.

Just gonna advocate for the devil on this one and say teachers shouldn’t be calling kids names.

Private schools are tough because you have to educate both the children and their parents

I agree. I've had problems with this working for a school district, when a student was younger a nickname teachers and students called them was innocent enough, but as they are getting older they find it embarrassing and they have difficulty communicating on top of that, so it was a headache. the adults should stick to preferred names only.

well.. I agree you should just swear.

this is the primary way I interact with my kids teachers, and they're in public school. we use an app, so the parents don't have access to the staffs personal phone numbers, so there's really no response unless the staff member is available to read and respond as part of their job.

Also, thing about kids is you don’t always know how they feel based on their external reactions.

In public school, all the kids are smoking weed, and are chill, in private schools all the kids can afford and are doing coke, and therefore not very chill

I'm with you.
Call my kids out if they are being dickheads. Call me if it doesn't improve - I'll set them straight

Spent years working in schools and guarantee this parent would find something else to complain about

The amount of parents that think that teachers owe respect to their kids above all else is infuriating. It's a real problem in Brazil, both in public and private schools

Bozo feels worse than twat or shithead for some reason

Just gonna advocate for the devil on this one and say the devil would advocate for calling kids names. Fuck those little shites.

He'll get his payback when he never comes back and goes through the legal loopholes to change his identity.

Fear makes for interesting motivations.

I dunno man if a kid can’t handle being called bozo… it would be good to teach that kid to be more resilient.

Prob best not to call kids names, sure, but damn

I agree, it seems odd; however, I will state that my kid's school provides an app that allows you to communicate in both directions with teachers. They also use the app to make general announcements like closure for snow, etc. My wife is generally the one doing non-in-person communicating so I haven't actually used the app (I only recently learned it exists), but hopefully the teacher can filter notifications outside of school hours.

Were I a teacher, I'd be glad to have a way to communicate without sharing personal information.

There are better ways than calling names.

I think it's because bozo is an insult to intelligence while twat and shithead are insults to behavior.

Ok bozo

I get it: teens suck, kids these days have it too easy, snowflake PC blah blah blah.

But if a child has felt it important enough to report to their parents that a teacher is calling them names, then that child is not learning in a safe environment. The child has been told directly by their teacher that they are not viewed as intelligent or capable. That is not conducive to positive learning outcomes, or mental health.

I agree that Bozo is a very light term, and if the relationship between the teacher and student were close, it could be seen as a joke between people with a mutual respect, but we don’t know the state of the relationship here. The teacher could be a complete asshole, and this is the fifth time they have singled out the student in this way.

People here are saying “toughen up!” “The real world won’t be so kind!”, but I would argue that that is a failing of adults in the real world. Why are we teaching kids that the world is terrible and the only way to survive is to become just as bad? I’d rather teach students to value each other’s strengths, and to not accept the hatred and sadness of other people.

We also don't know if the child was actually distressed or took it as a joke and was perhaps just telling their parent because they thought it was funny.

I don't think we have enough information either way. Could be the kid told their parent cracking up about it and the parent freaked out.

Or like a student who basically made up few other things about my aunt, his teacher, because he just didn't like her.
My aunt called him imbecile for distracting the class (or something similar like idiot) and the kid went home and complained to parents by making a story that my aunt has affair with other teacher, he claimed to have seen them kissing in the hallway. And my aunt called him imbecile because he confronted my aunt about it. Parents were obviously livid and demanded my aunt to be fired.

District disciplinary committee had to review six months of hallway footage, also footage in the class where there was no confrontation between teacher and student. Before giving my aunt clean chit. She was suspended for a week, she was compensated for it later. Thank unions.

Anyway I'm not speculating weather the kid deserved it or not, maybe my aunt was unfair in language, but kids sometimes make shit up with their parents. And we don't enough information from the post about the full context.

On the first point, it might have been a combined grade so that the fail is based on doing badly in multiple components. Eg if you take a French exam here, it's

• 20% aural
• 55% written
• 25% oral

We only hear about the oral component because of the interesting story, but decent chance the student was a bozo and bombed the other components too.

Very strange that the second attempt wasn't simply stricken from the record if it wasn't allowed at all. If second attempts weren't allowed, why give them a third attempt? I wonder if there was a proper way to get a second attempt that wasn't followed, like you have to apply to the state exam body rather than handling it in house.

rip bozo

I did GATE (Gifted and Talented Education) from fourth through eighth grade and went with an AP-heavy high school (graduated in 2010) instead of an IB school in the district, and I'd say it left similar scars.

There were aspects that I think were beneficial, such as specialized math tutoring and more hands-on projects, but god the pressure and workload was truly damaging at such a young age. Add undiagnosed ADHD, and you've got an 11 year old self-harming as a method to stay focused during the hours and hours of daily homework.

Righteous parenting.

My sarcasm meter is broken.

Yeah, the teacher is going to get a fun talk with management and probably be forced to write an apology.

Teaching is a risky job these days, and thus not done as well as it could be in a world without parental bozos.

Yeah, you also have to add an adjective for more power.

Like stupid bozo

left off because, heh, reasons.

Agreed.

And the fact that this teacher is sharing screenshots of private conversations with parents online makes me think it's not such a bad idea if the principal does get involved, just to make sure everything is okay in the class.

Yea I have never heard a story of someone who was failing at school, but got their shit together when an inspirational teacher called them a name.

I couldn't be a teacher, because bozo would have been one of the kinder words I'd use in such a situation.

Yay, let's normalise bullying of students by teachers, what could go wrong?

It's the kinda parent to go full PI and make a case against the teacher. Say they are spreading hate by posting her texts online and violating her privacy

I dont know about the american/uk system, it might be better there. I went to the international line in europe and it was a complete disharmony between how the teachers thought they should teach and what kind of teaching IB required. Theres also a lot of shady stuff with IB, like you can basically pay for an expensive tutor and completely coincidentally they will teach you the exact right knowledge to get a good score on the exams. The problem with this is that if the exams dont have a certain subject in them that year, the tutor wont teach that. Basically if you want your kid to be a successfull businessman or whatever, and you have a lot of money, 100% send em to IB, but if you want them to think for themselves, theres very probably a better option. Once again this mainly applies to my experiences in europe, there are many countries here where IB is a joke, like in hungary nobody goes there cause you have to pay, get worse education, and dont really have any oppurtunities going forward with it. Id say go ask other people but some of them will be absolute IB shills for no reason, and others will say its the antichrist itself. Also from what i understand, you do have to pay for education in uk to get somewhere right? Then id guess IB isnt that bad cause youre paying either way for school.

I think the teacher in this case was a guy

You can pay for better education ie a private school but it’s very expensive (in our area, about 3-4k a term) and the state schools are almost as good.

Also, we want our child to grow up in the ‘real’ world, in a more diverse environment, worldviews, cultures etc. We could, just about afford to go private with a lot of cutbacks and scrimping… but we’ve thought about it a lot and would prefer he goes state.

They offer both academic and vocational, both the traditional (age 11-16) GCSEs, and the IB, as well as pathways to vocational trades. I know absolutely nothing about the IB side.

Assuming school is the correct place for children. I think a lot of the problems in a classroom are due to the way teaching is done. The expectation is that the kids will sit quietly like adults while someone drones on with material that is boring and completely irrelevant to their lives. When the kids reject this garbage they are indicted as delinquent. It could be looser so the kids can focus on their strengths and feel good about themselves. Learning has always been a source of joy for me but it rarely happened in a classroom. I'm standing with the bozo on this one, this smug teacher is probably an absolute bore. The parents sound like cunts as well.

Id say probably stick to the local schools and try to get your kid into an erasmus program? You can save up the money you would spend on private and have them travel europe, its a really eye opening experience(i havent done it but have friends who have).

I developed a different coping strategy. When I figured out I was smarter than everyone else my age I simply stopped doing homework and coasted on high test scores. That worked from age 8 to 16 when I had to contend with the fact that I had never learned how to actually study or manage my time. Pretty easy to slip through the cracks when you're well-behaved and the district didn't have any money for advanced learning programs anyway~

100% bozo energy from the person above you.

You'll get called a lot worse in your first job. But who am I kidding, this is a fancy school, these kids won't work.

Not every kid has had the same lived experience as you. You don’t know what’s going on in every kid’s brain. Try to have some empathy for the things you might not know.

As a teacher, it’s your job to teach the kid, not harden up their resilience to your satisfaction.

Edit: not to mention, what makes you think a grown adult calling a child names will build resilience? Is this how you want kids building resilience?