The Favorites
As many students start the new school
year, they might not see eye-to-eye with the teacher,or they might be adored by
their teachers.
"With very few exceptions, each kid
has something that endears them to a teacher, so there don't tend to be
dramatic, clear-cut favorites," says Freed. It's more like a collection of
beautiful, funny, endearing little people, a couple of whom happen to stand out
slightly at one end of the spectrum or another."
I think that every teacher has a favorite
in every one of there classes. I
personally think its wrong for teachers to have favorites because every student
is equal. No student should be taught less or given less help because the
favorite or "Teachers Pet" is in the class and is getting all the
attention from the teacher. Don't get me wrong, being a favorite in class has
its advantages. But it is still wrong for a teacher to treat any one student
better than the test of them.
But
it's not as simple as having one favorite. In a class of 27 students, Freed
says, the majority of the students would all rotate and have "moments of
being one of the favorites."
"I would say, first off, that teachers do
their best to treat all kids fairly," said Dryw Freed, who has taught for
16 years in public schools in North Carolina and Virginia. With that said, we
are only human and do respond differently to different children.
I think most of the teachers in my school
have there favorite or "Teachers Pet". You can clearly see who the
teacher treats better and gives more slack to and to other kids its not fair.
In some cases it might hurt another students feelings, because they might think
that the teacher doesn't like them or they might think that the teacher simply
just doesn't care about the student.
As I said before, favoritism is wrong. No
student should be treated less or unfairly or be treated better than everyone
else. Everyone is equal, and nothing less or nothing more.
