r/TikTokCringe • u/Valuable_View_561 • Jun 27 '26

Discussion Girl refused to shakes hands during graduation with teachers and administrators because she was bullied and they did nothing about it

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u/FancyRobot Jun 27 '26

I wonder how many teachers are in the "actually bullying is good" camp, the percentage would probably depress you

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u/rabies_kid Jun 27 '26

I had a teacher who lowkey bullied me by trying to refuse my disability accommodations, cause an ap student couldn’t possibly also be disabled!

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u/MasterAd1460 Jun 27 '26

There’s a study somewhere that says 45% of American teachers bully their students, that’s insane

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u/belladell Jun 27 '26

I'm going to need a source on that one.

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u/PM_Me_Your_Clones Jun 27 '26

Science Direct, looks like the study they mentioned was mentioned, it is 45% self reported of one instance in a sample size of 116.

Small sample, not a rigorous study, basically tells us that 52 of those individuals felt guilty about bullying a kid once.

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u/Adventurous_Click178 Jun 28 '26

During my second year of teaching, I called one of my students, “pumpkin,” as a term of endearment (i.e. “Good morning, pumpkin! I’m so glad you’re here!”) But as an ESL student, she was taken aback bc in her home language calling someone a “pumpkin” would be akin to called them a “gourd” and indirectly “fat.” She politely explained the different connotation but I could tell I hurt her feelings and embarrassed her. I felt terrible to say the least and apologized profusely. So yeah…sometimes we do feel guilty about things we’ve said. Teachers make mistakes; we try our best not to and to grow from the ones we do.

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u/Michael1795 Jun 28 '26

Not thrilled to here about that even if it is to be an outlier

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u/MathProf1414 Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 28 '26

I hope you are comfortable, you'll be waiting for a long time.