VietNamNet Bridge – “Are you nuts?”, “Have you just returned from Trau Quy?” (Trau Quy is the name of a mental hospital), “I’ve never met such a stupid person like you”--are all words spoken out by teachers at their lessons.

Insulting is a part of the… lesson

“Mum, why does the cow wearing hat look dazed?” a fourth grader of a primary school asked his mother.

The woman, who related the story, said that at first she could not understand why the child raised such a funny question. Later, after talking with the child, she realized that in the class, the teachers insult students “as dazed as cows wearing hats.”

They also use other crude words to express their dissatisfaction about their students, who cannot understand the lessons or do exercises.

Duy Anh, another primary school student, one day asked his father what “water off a duck’s back” means. He and his classmates could not understand why the teacher usually uses the words when she finds someone not fulfilling his home exercises or making noise in the class.

Hieu, a third grader, said that one day he gave a wrong answer to a mathematic question. Then the teacher said to him: “Why are you so stupid?” Hieu got red with shame. Since then, after seeing someone failing to do something, he said: “it is because he is too stupid.”

Meanwhile, the teacher of a fifth grade in a primary school in Hanoi, like describing her students as “mad people.” If someone cannot do exercises well, he would hear something like: “I think I need to return you back to Trau Quy mental hospital for further treatment.”

The teaching method of the well-known teacher has brought immediate effects. Her students also try to use crude words in daily conversation. “Are you nuts? You have just returned from Trau Quy?” are the words the students usually speak out.

It seems that secondary and high school students have to hear more crude words from teachers than primary school students, because they are more active. Of course, when teachers feel unsatisfactory with the students, they would grumble and criticize their students severely.

“If you do not want to study, get out of my sight” seems to be the most “gentle” words students expect to hear when they mistakes. In many cases, teachers spend the time of the lesson to insult students.

Huy Hoang, an 8th grader of a secondary school, said that he and his classmates really feel hurt when hearing the words of a teacher, who said that we have lost all self-respect, and that “students’ awareness is even worse than that of a fly.”

In general, the students with bad learning capabilities would be the main targets for teachers to insult. Duy Anh, a 9th grader of a secondary school, related that a friend of his could not do a mathematics question, and he was so tremulous when seeing the rod on the teacher’s hand. The teacher, who could not make the student understand the lesson, asked the student to return to his seat, saying: “I don’t know if you are human or animal. Why are you so stupid?”

Not only general school teachers, but university lecturers also like insulting their students. A student complained that she could not imagine why a person with higher education can have such a crude behavior.

A student, who drowned during the lesson, was described by the teacher as having the face of an “intellectually disabled person.” The students said that they do not want to attend the lectures because they fear that one day, they would receive similar crude words.

Source: VTC