Des Posted November 19, 2015 Posted November 19, 2015 A nephew, in a facebook conversation about spanking, said that at age 11, he asked a teacher: Who [the hell] do you think you are? He was caned and cried. I'm curious. Who did the teacher think he was? Caning has been outlawed and teachers renamed educators (without much real adjustment of approach).
Des Posted November 20, 2015 Author Posted November 20, 2015 Actually, I was in that mindset before, so an answer came to mind : " think I am a link in the chain of command between God and some of his creation". I think that the teacher assessed that it was expected of him to "maintain discipline". I used the passive form there, because his peers, headmaster, wife, friends and even the learners who are feeling some desire or pressure to learn or produce good marks, will be expecting that of the teacher (because they have that model for their expectations).
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