Top 10 Secrets That Schools Don’t Want You To Know
Hello, welcome back to the Most Amazing corner of the internet, I am Most Amazing host, Rebecca
Felgate and today we are talking about the Top 10 Secrets School’s don’t want you
to know.
10 - Teachers have favourites…and least favourites…and it affects the way they’re
treated.
Obviously!
Just how kids have favourite teachers and least favourite teachers…and just how in
life we have favourite and least favourite people – teachers will pick favourites.
Teachers are more likely to help students who are polite to them, they’re more likely
to grade up their papers if they’re borderline, and of course they are more likely to cut
these students some slack.
Their least favourites are likely to be students who are rude or arrogant.
Even if teachers are supposed to treat their students equally, their emotions come into
play.
9 - Teachers talk About You Behind your Back Remember those least favourites?
Well…teachers don’t usually keep that to themselves.
Also, if they find you an interesting character, they’ll talk about you too.
If you rotate classes, you will have a number of teachers and they WILL talk about you.
They will probably share stories about you with one another.
8 - In Schools, teachers have drama just like the kids
It isn’t just you that hates Mr Fitz, Mrs Green does to…..
Whatever, teachers have staff room dramas too, especially as some of them are wildly
different people who have different ways and beliefs on how to do things.
Teachers sometimes can’t stand each other…but on the flip side, some of them are dating
…. And they really don’t want you to know about it.
7 - Teachers Look Up Kids and Parents on Social Media
Yup.
You might facebook stalk people…maybe even your teachers… but they look you and your
parents up too.
Curiosity is natural…and finding out that you were actually skipping school to drink
in the park or go to the mall is possible with the power of facebook.
Also creeping on your parents may go some way to explaining why you are the way you
are.
6 - Schools judge parents as much as the child Yup.
Bad kid….
Bad parents, or so it often goes.
A child never has any food with them for lunch…yeah…bad parents.
Often teachers will keep an eye on a child that they suspect has a parental issue and
they will decide whether or not to call them in.
5 - Failing a test isn’t the end of the world
I actually do hope that schools will tell you this, as kids sometimes crumble under
the pressure of exams and they should know that messing up on occasion isn’t the end
of the world.
When you are 40 years old, you probably won’t hinge the failings or successes of your entire
life on one exam.
So relax…also…you’ll probably get a better grade if you’re not feeling stressed.
Shh, don’t tell anyone but not doing your homework won’t affect your grade….
That is coming in at number 4.
In most schools, your day to day homework won’t contribute to your grade, however,
your essays and tests results will.
The reason you are assigned homework is to prepare your brain for the tests and essays
that will count, so it is always a good idea to do it…although a teacher can’t fail
you for not.
3 - Your Work isn’t always read when it’s graded.
Teachers are busy.
Imagine they take 5 different classes a day, and they need to grade work from each se of
students….it is an endless pile.
More often than not, teachers will want to get the additional workload done and dusted
so they can focus on having a life.
Because…they have one too.
The problem is it does seem a bit unfair when you spend hours on a piece of work that gets
three minutes of attention from teachers.
Sad but true, at number two; a lot of teachers are unhappy.
Teachers kind of have a tough time of it.
They’re not just working while you’re at school; they’re there before and after
setting up and preparing for your lessons, then after they’re there marking or preparing
for the next day.
Most teachers I know work from 8am til 5 or 6pm, and then have marking, too.
They don’t get paid that much either, which is a constant bone of contention.
Increasingly these days, they also have to deal with violent children, which is scary.
Finally, number one of our top 10 secrets that School’s don’t want you to know - Big
End of Year Exams are Bad For Students
There have been a lot of studies that have revealed that end of year exams with big weightings
on a students grade are harmful to them.
It turns out tests aren’t always the best way to decipher a person’s intelligence
and the system is heavily weighted against those who struggle with anxiety.
Hopefully one day there will be a better way to test people in the future – In Finland,
for example there are no tests except from one exam at the end of senior year at high
school.
SO….that was the Top 10 Secrets School’s don’t want you to know….are you a school….do
you have anymore secrets that you want to un-secret?
Let me know!
Want to continue your Top 10 Binge…why not watch our Top 10 most haunted Schools in the
world or our Top 10 Useless Things You Learn in School.