“My school is normally pretty cool with this kind of stuff, and they were very patient, waited for me to calm down before asking questions, I really appreciated their work here.” “I did describe the entire situation, the pedagogue even said that since the teacher had ‘started it’, they would only notify my parents and then they had a talk with me about controlling my emotions, not being impulsive and having the appropriate reaction.” “You won’t be able to convince me that mocking a student is right and she was not trying to be popular with the students by putting my friend under the bus, knowing it might be delicate.” “That’s why I’m asking if I’m the AH for my approach, not if the teacher is innocent.” “The bullying was heavy enough to put my friend in therapy.” The OP also clarified that the ongoing jokes Karen faced always hit her fairly hard, and also clarified that the substitute teacher’s behavior did not go unnoticed by the pedagogue. “I tried to help her and because of my approach she is feeling guilty, but I also feel like our school life would have been ruined if I didn’t do anything.”
“I disagree, she didn’t force me to do anything.” “My friend is feeling really guilty because she thinks it’s her fault I got in trouble.” “My parents are not very chill, so I was punished, had a long argument and I’m now grounded for ‘ not respecting the elders’.”
“Well, the teacher got obviously mad and took me to the pedagogue, who sent an email to my parents detailing the situation.” “The whole class was laughing very loud when I finished.” “And she is too shy to answer with another joke, but I am not, and I was fuming, so I decided to fight fire with fire and went on a long streak of jokes basically mocking the teacher for being old and trying to fit in with teens by using outdated internet memes.” “If I had confronted the teacher in a serious manner I would become a wanna be goody two shoes.” “If she had confronted the teacher she would be a stuck up boring jerk.” “If my friend just let it be, she would become unable to defend herself from our colleagues because ‘even the teacher makes jokes!’.” “Now, this is where high school politics come into play so please bear with us dumb teenagers.” “When she got to my friend, she looked at her name and haircut and said ‘are you going to ask for my manager, Karen?’.”īut the OP found nothing funny about the joke, and felt the only solution was to give her substitute teacher a taste of her own medicine. “She started to ask for the students names to familiarize herself with us and would occasionally do small comments like ‘you have the same name as my niece’ and stuff like that.” “She was kind of desperate to fit in with the class, but seemed okay enough.” “Today one of our teachers went on maternity leave and of course we had a substitute teacher.” “She is VERY insecure about it and normally only introduce herself as ‘Ka’, unless the situation asks for her full name.”īut poor Karen would soon find herself the source of bullying at school once again, though from a rather surprising culprit. “It got worse recently because she normally do highlights in her hair, but because of a mistake when bleaching, she had to cut it short, so it’s almost an ‘internet Karen’ haircut.” “I (16 F) have a childhood friend named Karen, and as you can imagine after the internet meme her life turned into a living hell.” The OP first explained how her best friend saw herself become an easy target for bullying over the last year. “AITA for mocking a new teacher in front of the whole class?”
when her parents scolded her for doing so, the original poster (OP) took to the subReddit “Am I The A**hole” (AITA), where they asked fellow Redditors: Redditor FluffyDirection1582 felt that a recent substitute teacher made their classroom an unsafe environment for her best friend, and wasn’t afraid to say so to the teacher’s face.īut. It is for this reason that one of a teacher’s main duties is to make sure that their classroom is a safe space, where students are protected and can learn in an encouraging environment.įor if a teacher makes a student feel unsafe, the chances of their learning will be severely limited. Being a teacher comes with many challenges.