Here's the thing, for as long as I've been in school I've always strived to be on my teachers's good sides. Some people call me a suck-up, a brown-noser, and most of all a teacher's pet. I used to get upset by this term, as it was frequently used in a derogatory sense. But I've come to a realization:
There is nothing wrong with being a teacher's pet.
In fact, there are endless benefits. If your teachers like you as a person they will most like treat you with more respect. Teachers appreciate students who take extra initiative in their classes, and going that extra brown-nosing mile will result in an excellent grade. Plus, if you build a good relationship with your teachers, then you have more adults in your life to go to and depend on.
Sure if you decide to be a teacher's pet it won't be easy. Your friends will make fun of you and some of your classmates may hate you. But it's worth it in the long run. People who are teacher's pets in school are 10 times more likely to succeed in their careers (totally false statistic, made up by myself, but it's probably true anyways).
People who get angry or frustrated with teachers' pets are simply jealous that they cannot perform as well in the classroom. I just hope that the negative attitudes of the hopeless underachievers won't deter teacher's pets on their path to success-- as if that were possible.
I totally agree with this, but I guess I was always doomed to have this opinion. My mom is a high school teacher--she taught at my high school. She was always around the corner (or the block, during my K-8 years). I knew a lot of my teachers before I had them for class.
ReplyDeleteI have a lot of respect for teachers, and always give them the benefit of the doubt. They're human too, after all. I don't think kids give them enough credit and many are eager to call them incompetent or jerks.
Needless to say, my friends quickly learned to take their teacher-rants elsewhere.
-Emily Bradfield
i agree with this. just imagine, if everyone was doing that well in the classroom, then there would be no teacher's pets. but since the world isn't like that... there are obviously gonna be some stand-out individuals, and people need to accept that.. I was always kind of a teacher's pet, depending on the class. For example, by my senior year i had almost every art teacher in the art department as my own teacher for different classes, art, photo, art history, etc., and being one of the strongest students in the art department, it was almost like having them all wrapped around my finger... not really, that sounds wrong, but i loved being close to all of them, and even the ones I never actually had as a teacher. Then there was my english teacher that i had for 2 years that even though i wan't the strongest in her class, i always ended up doing random little favors for her because we had a really good personal relationship... and somehow my grade always seemed to be alright in the end ;).
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