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My Personal Philosophy

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Punishing the problem
People develop personal beliefs and philosophies as they grow up and mature through life. These philosophies can be brought on by certain events that have occurred or even just personal goals you have set for yourself. For me, my personal philosophy is that teachers should punish the student, not the class. When it comes to school, I am a very obedient person who would rather follow the rules than cause trouble for the teacher. However not everyone has this same belief. Many students think teachers are below them and treat school as social hour. These types of people usually cause the teacher to become impatient and angry. Most teachers would just deal out punishment to the problem student and be done with the situation. This is not the case for all unfortunately. …show more content…

With causing problems for others in the class. This philosophy is mostly based on that I am a logical thinker and like to take the most efficient solution to a problem. Now I understand the whole idea of “you are only as strong as your weakest link”, but my problem is I am not the one causing trouble. I am not the one being rude and obnoxious to others. If a student makes the choice to misbehave then punish them, not the rest of us. I feel that my choices have consequences, so if my choice was a poor one, then I should face the consequences. This situation occurred once during ninth grade with a teacher I didn’t particularly like. The problem student was constantly disrupting here and spewing out profanity after being told not many times before. The teacher reached the end of her limits and snapped. She said “fine if you want to disbelieve like this, then the whole class will stay back 5 min and I will add an extra page to tonight's homework”. This statement was received with a multitude of groans and angry students. Now the teacher might have thought that if you punish the whole class for one's actions, then the one causing problems will feel sympathy for the

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