Teachers dont care do they ?

Donahg

When you have finished school, even if you were the smartest person in the school your teachers forget about you very quickly. Its like you were just a number to them, When september 1 comes after the lc you might as well not excist to them.

Bipolar Joe

It depends. It's mostly just a job, which is sort of fair enough. I was in contact with a teacher for years after I left school, but I reckon that's fairly rare. The way kids act in school it's no wonder.

MugMugs

Donahg wrote: »

When you have finished school, even if you were the smartest person in the school your teachers forget about you very quickly. Its like you were just a number to them, When september 1 comes after the lc you might as well not excist to them.

Judging by your spelling, they've forgotten you with good reason!

watna

In my experience, that's completely not true. Also, even if it was, so what?

FloatingVoter

I'd be more concerned if they were stalking me / sending me birthday cards etc.
Besides, kids are boring little ****s.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Donahg wrote: »

When you have finished school, even if you were the smartest person in the school your teachers forget about you very quickly. Its like you were just a number to them, When september 1 comes after the lc you might as well not excist to them.

I wouldn't have said that at all.

Maybe you weren't a particularly remarkable student/person and your instantly forgettable - the 'grey man' so to speak.

emeraldstar

Donahg wrote: »

When you have finished school, even if you were the smartest person in the school your teachers forget about you very quickly. Its like you were just a number to them, When september 1 comes after the lc you might as well not excist to them.

So what if they do forget you? I don't exactly want them thinking of me for years to come. That'd be weird.

booboo88

Donahg wrote: »

When you have finished school, even if you were the smartest person in the school your teachers forget about you very quickly. Its like you were just a number to them, When september 1 comes after the lc you might as well not excist to them.

No I dont agree, one of my primary school teachers approached my mother to asked how I was doing a few months back, and I was never in trouble in school. And Im 23

FueledByAisling

I wish it were true, my older sister and brother both graduated from my school (7 years ago) and I still daily get asked by every teacher I have on how they're getting on etc.

arybvtcw0eolkf

FueledByAisling wrote: »

I wish it were true, my older sister and brother both graduated from my school (7 years ago) and I still daily get asked by every teacher I have on how they're getting on etc.

I was going to post something similar.

My daughter is always asked about her brother too.

stovelid

Set fire to the school on the last day of exams and they'll remember you then.

Fozzydog3

Donahg wrote: »

When you have finished school, even if you were the smartest person in the school your teachers forget about you very quickly. It's like you were just a number to them, When september 1st comes after the lc you might as well not excist to them.

i have to write something here

coolperson05

I'm a teacher and I still remember my students. We're not divine beings, just normal people! lol

bigneacy

I left school 8 years ago. I know one teacher that I would always stop and chat to. We hated each other for most of school, but she is one of the soundest people I've ever met. About 50% of my teachers would recognise me and say hello, the principal would stop and chat if I seen him.

I'd say your probably just not a very remarkable individual OP. You should work on that. (:pac:)

J K

coolperson05 wrote: »

I'm a teacher .... We're not divine beings

You got that right.

kelle

OP you probably live in a city, I live in a small country town and 20 years after leaving school I'm constantly bumping into my former teachers and have great chats with them. When my parents died, I was so pleased to see some of them at their funerals.

So I can't agree with you there, OP!

biko

Teachers are like everyone else, except they see and have to remember the names of ten times more people that you'll ever have to OP.
Maybe that's why?

Broads.ie

OP funny you mention that. I was recently stuck in a queue (such a stupid effing spelling) in Lidl with my old Maths & Irish teacher. He remembered me... and my brother who he also taught, and we had a grand aul chat.

Maybe you weren't an exceptional and memorable kid in school, like me.


Broadly,

Broads

reap-a-rat

I still meet up with a couple of my teachers from school for a coffee and a chat, we got on well while I was in school so no reason not to carry that forward as a friendship! I also went back into the school to help one of them out, teachers I didn't even have all stopped to chat and ask how not only I, but most of the girls in my year were getting on!

I'd say it really does depend on the location of the school and the amount of pupils, there were about 80 in our year when we finished. I'd say a school with 200+ per year, the teachers don't even want to remember the pupils!

All my primary school teachers stop and chat too any time I see them, it's nice to think you're not just another "project" to them:)!

Roshua

I think it's less about how remarkable a student you are and more about your personality. I was more or less failing Irish for the last 2 years of school so I had no reason to be on the teacher's good side. However, she was also my debating teacher ("coach", could you say?) and we got to know each other so well we'd consider each other friends. I'm in college now and we'd still met up for coffee or whatever.
I'd say the football coaches miss their lads too!

ShamoBuc

Fozzydog3 wrote: »

i have to write something here

September;)

Nolanger

Donahg wrote: »

Its like you were just a number to them, When september 1 comes after the lc you might as well not excist to them.

That's women for you.

FloatingVoter

Roshua wrote: »

I'd say the football coaches miss their lads too!

Well, if you castrated the football coaches, you are certainly well remembered.

who the fug

biko wrote: »

Teachers are like everyone else, except they see and have to remember the names of ten times more people that you'll ever have to OP.
Maybe that's why?

Always amazed me as a Kid how our head master to could recognize one his 600 odd charges, and still remember our names ten years later

dotsman

I'm 12 years out of school. There are still several teachers who would recognise me whenever I bump into them. At my 10 year reunion, most of my teachers remembered me (and my classmates) straight away.

Mike 1972

Donahg wrote: »

When you have finished school, even if you were the smartest person in the school your teachers forget about you very quickly.

If theyre anything like a lot of the teachers I had it sounds like a perfectly reasonable and mutually beneficial arrangement TBH.

Noodleworm

My mams a teacher and most of her friends are people she works with so I've quite a few chats with teachers.

Only young teachers seem to have any enthusiasm, eventually their having their own families and are more concerned with that, teaching becomes something to just pay the bills. Then they get older and they are just sitting around waiting for retirement. Up until that various horrible, stubborn, or disruptive students just make them sick of it all.

Irish Guitarist

I left school nineteen years ago. Recently I saw the principal from my secondary school and he recognised me after all these years.

There's also another teacher from secondary school that stops and talks to me. She even asked if I wanted a lift home one day when she drove by and saw me walking in the rain. Strangely she didn't even teach me in school but still recognises me.

Lord TSC

I still say hello to teachers when I see them and the majority stop and talk to me. The majority will stop my parents to ask how I'm getting on. But then I worked hard in school, my parents constantly got involved when they could and I went to Uni which wasn't as common as I'd like to say it was in my college.

Having spent a year teaching during my PGDE, I can tell you this though. A year later, I can remember the top 5 and worst 5 students' names from each class I thought but the rest have all become blurred together. And that was when I was only dealing with 120 students. I can only imagine how hard it must be for teachers who have dealt with 1,000s of students over the years.

raah!

Why don't you tell us about this time where you went up to say hello to a teacher and he/she didn't recognise you and hurt your feelings.

Lanaier

Interesting topic, not something I've really considered before now.

I went to 6 different schools, I only remember a small handful of my teachers (and I liked even less of them) so I won't really blame them if they don't remember me out of all the students they had over the years.

The chances of me having a chat with one of them in the street are pretty much zero.

Hmm, makes me wonder what become of some of them though.... ah well.

eirn

A couple of older teachers I've worked with told me that they remembered all the people they'd taught early on in their career really clearly, but the later ones kind of blended!
As a teacher, I genuinely want the best for all of my students, but people are people. Some you'll like, some you'll find it nearly impossible to take to. You still have to behave as an impartial professional.
I'm really fond of most of the kids that have been in my classes, and I'll always have time for them. But there has been a very small number of pupils that I wasn't quite so sorry to see the back of.
Maybe it's because I've always worked in relatively small schools, but in my experience, students are reffered to by name, they aren't though off as statistics.

mattjack

Donahg wrote: »

When you have finished school, even if you were the smartest person in the school your teachers forget about you very quickly. Its like you were just a number to them, When september 1 comes after the lc you might as well not excist to them.

Is there something else you want to tell us ?

opinion guy

I think OP had a crush on teacher and it went unrequited.

Feeky ??????
Is that you ??????

John Doe1

Well i still have teachers who ask my sister about me 5 years on and i wasnt the loudest kid in class or anything. Theres a small percentage who just have the job for the money and some just for the sense of power. But i think i was lucky in my time there.

Lord TSC

See, OP is a typical example of what annoys me when people bash teachers; its an attitude of "I had bad teachers ergo all teachers are bad." :P

ToddyDoody

I rememberThe secondary school teachers union the ASTI trotting out the line that teaching is a caring profession and so pay based on exam results was not feasible. I'd say some care just when it suits them but i know a few teachers who, god help them and their caring nature, do care.

stripysocks85

ToddyDoody wrote: »

I rememberThe secondary school teachers union the ASTI trotting out the line that teaching is a caring profession and so pay based on exam results was not feasible. I'd say some care just when it suits them but i know a few teachers who, god help them and their caring nature, do care.

Yeah and judging by responses on here about teachers asking after past pupils and such verifies this. What is your point?

ejmaztec

Those Columbine teachers always remember the kids.

whydoibother?

How did this turn into whether teachers are good at their jobs or not?

It's not part of a teachers job to be able to identify a past student they haven't seen for years on the spot. It's nice if they can, but it's nothing to do with how good a teacher they are.

ToddyDoody

stripysocks85 wrote: »

Yeah and judging by responses on here about teachers asking after past pupils and such verifies this. What is your point?

Point is that the official line by teachers representatives, teacher do (or should) care about their pupils so the official answer to the thread title is no. Anything else is personal experience.

deisedave

I am sure they might have an interest to know how there past students have turned out. But I dont think they would really overly care to much.

You would have to be seriously needy to give a crap if the teacher cares or not.

Wertz

I dunno, a few teachers from my school remembered me when they saw me afterwards...20 yrs later there's still one I'll stop and talk with on the street if I see them. Do they care? Don't know, doesn#t matter...but they remeber the face and the name and that's pretty good going when they've maybe seen a few thousand in their careers...
Some care, some don't...I'd have to say that most of the older ones (at least in my experience) had a better memory and manner toward past pupils...
Mate of mine that went to the same school has his son there now and any of the teachers still there remember him when he goes to parent teacher meetings...

7sr2z3fely84g5

You could be a right lil bollox in school or a dimwit,but if you come successful or famous the teach will appear on tv telling you what a great student you where!.

lily09

Would only ever speak for myself but it is one of the biggest perk of the job to see the kids move on. Having taught infants for years it's amazing to see teenagers coming up to you in the street to say hi, all I can see are the snotty noses and bloody knees I wiped!

booboo88

ejmaztec wrote: »

Those Columbine teachers always remember the kids.

cold, just cold.



still laughed though:o

chiloutus

My father is a secondary teacher and from my experience that's not true at all!! Every year he takes pride in what his students get in terms of exam results and unless the student is a right cnut he will remember there face and often says hello to lads who would be out of his school for 10 years!

byhookorbycrook

I paid a medical consultant €120 for an appt 2 weeks ago. Saw her last week and without her notes she would have had no idea who I was. Doesn't bother me,omce when I'm with her she knows who I am.