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Yknow, I never had much a problem with teachers at my school.

Yknow who I always hated? The study hall monitors.

Idk if they were former teachers, or just people they'd grab off the street, or whatever, but they were just the nastiest people. Hated kids, clearly just wanted to be at home. All ladies in their 60s or 70s.

I get needing to be authoritarian to keep control. Study halls literally consisted of throwing 20-25% of the student body in the commons area and enforcing silence for the period. No small feat, if a bad one.

That said, there's authoritarian, then there's yelling "Don't you LOOK at my study hall!" at some poor sap as he walks past. And then giving him detention and an office referral when he looks at you in surprise when you yell, for "insubordination." No, thats no exaggeration. Sad sap here, reporting in.

Let's see... there was also the time I was brand new to the school, just transferred in after being in Montessori style schools my whole life. Was pretty dumb back then, had no idea how public schools even worked, and asked what I presumed was a teacher for directions to the classroom was going to (in fairness the school was laid out very oddly, with lots of offshoot hallways and little rhyme or reason to the numbering system). Got screamed at and given a weeks detention because I unknowingly asked one of these bitches. For asking for directions. Because I apparently "insinuated [she] was stupid."

Ooh, ooh, there was the time I got detention and a referral when they screamed at me to spit out my gum... I didn't have any gum. When I tried to prove such thery gave me detention. When I pretended to spit gum out to placate them, they gave me another. Then when they literally made me stand there, mouth open, while they inspected it, they gave me an office referral for swallowing the gum.

And every time one of these old bats retired theyd somehow find a new one. Just as mean as the last.

Seriously, fuck authoritarianism for authoritarianism's sake. It commanded no respect and made all of us hate them more. If you're going to be punished anyway, what incentive is there for following the rules?
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