If You're Gonna Talk the Talk, Walk the Walk - Janae Champlin

If You’re Gonna Talk the Talk, Walk the Walk

by Janae Champlin

You know what bothers me? Teacher’s who contradict themselves. It is so frustrating to follow their rules when they can’t do the same. Teachers are not only supposed to educate us, but also be our role models. Take my choir teacher for example. He not only teaches us music, but he also gives us life lessons and pushes us to work hard because he is willing to do the same. I have great respect for him because he lives by the standards he sets for us.

Then there are the teachers who completely drive students crazy. My biggest pet peeve are teachers who use foul language in class. I understand that everyone has a bad day and something might slip out, but when I start making tally marks on my notebook because “d**m” “a**”  “s***” and “b******g” are thrown at us repeatedly, it gets annoying. That language is already used enough in the hallways, we don't need to hear it anymore in the classroom. Don’t be like us; be the example we should live up to.

There are also the teachers who lose their tempers in class. We all can get angry at each other, but if I can't give you a screaming lecture without getting sent to the principal's office then you shouldn't be able to do the same. Yelling at a classroom full of teenagers won’t do any good. You don’t scare us and we will only lose more of our respect for you.

My last bete noire is when teachers take forever to get papers back to me. They give us deadlines and we are expected to hand in everything on time. Even though we are able to work around our schedules and turn in our homework, it still takes them a couple of weeks to get it back to us? (Ahem, Watson?) That just doesn't make sense.

They all use the same excuses, that they're stressed and have a lot on their plate. Well NEWS FLASH, we are all human and we all have busy lives. We all have bad days and long weeks and that’s why we need the teachers to show us that we can get through it.