r/Maliciouscompliance Teacher: ARE YOU LISTENING? Student: I'm Deaf 

One of my high school friends was completely deaf and mute, she had a translator auxiliary teach with her at all times so she could answer questions, have a voice, be able to interact teachers. In maths our teacher demanded Carly, who is mute, audibly speak to answer questions because she was fed up of her “attitude” Carly’s auxiliary got mad, a few of us students got mad, and Carly raised her hand to silence us because she could see us shouting, and struggled to answer some questions, making it painfully obvious to everyone that she’s deaf and mute. This teacher didn’t learn, she decided Carly was “mocking” her and started screaming at Carly, who watched her like she was some baby throwing a fit, unable to hear her screeching. I left the class and got the deputy head teacher Mr. Engstrand, he was a former marine, really understanding, and hated ableism of any form, so he immediately came to the room and stood outside for a few seconds and could easily hear this disgusting woman’s ableist tirade. He walked in the room and it went silent, he asked her to repeat herself and she attempted to claim that Carly was “talking back” and “giving her attitude”, so Engstrand dismissed the class, asked for voluntary witness statements (about half the class stayed, we really liked Carly), and asked her auxiliary what actually happened. She got immediately suspended whilst they investigated, but never came back because of all the witness statements that clearly explained “Carly is deaf and mute, the class and Carly’s auxiliary tried to explain this to Mrs Dummy but she refused to listen, and even when finding out Carly was mute she forced Carly to audibly answer questions where she then claimed Carly was making up a “weird accent” to “mock her” was “disrespectful”, refused to listen to her auxiliary who is her deaf aid, and refused to believe Carly was telling the truth”, so she got fired. She was such a nice girl, there was literally no need for her to treat her in such a way just for being deaf and to completely disregard anyone who tried to stand up for Carly, she 100% deserved getting fired. We got a new maths teacher, and she was extremely friendly, understanding and tried learning a little BSL to speak to Carly a wee bit.

I'm sorry, but...did that music teacher seriously forget the kid was deaf? I mean Beethoven was also deaf, but you really can't expect him to make music inspired by a specific piece if he can't hear the specifics. At the very least, she shouldn't have ignored his raised hand. Deaf student or not, as a teacher, it is your duty to answer any questions the students may have to ensure they understand the assignment. What is this teacher's problem?

That teacher was ableist AF. I would have gone off on her and ordered a disciplinary hearing for first thing after her shift. If not firing, mandatory retraining and an apology MINIMUM.

I learned this the other day the saying "the costumer is always right." Like other sayings is only half of the phrase. It's actually "the customer is always right, in matter of taste."

OP: **Raises Hand** Teacher: **Ignores** Also Teacher: *"dO I sMeLL DiSReSpECt?"* OP: "I'm deaf." Teacher: **Surprise Pikachu Face**

Fun fact: “The customer is always right” is another example of a phrase being misquoted to push a different idea. The real phrase is “the customer is always right in matters of taste”, meaning aesthetics. Another example is “blood is thicker than water” when the real quote is “the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb” meaning bonds of friendship forged on the battlefield are stronger than familial relations

Expecting a deaf person to listen is like expecting a blind person to see without their guide dogs.

My mother was determined deaf after the age of 3. She lost all of her hearing and my grandmother found out by saying “Rhonda! Rhonda come eat dinner!” And my mother had no reaction, She just kept playing with her toys. The doctors then determined that she was rendered deaf due to imitate hearing loss. (Doctors still have absolutely no reason why) From then on, she went through elementary, middle, highschool and college NEVER HAVING an interpreter. She had to lipread the entire time (which is extremely difficult). She then got her bachelors degree and then her MDA degree. She is the strongest women i know BY FAR and I look up to her till this day. The amount of people who discriminate against deaf people is INSANE and you don’t realize it until you encounter a deaf person. Please don’t be frightened or worried. They are people just the same as you. Just act normal and make sure to enunciate your words. Using hand gestures also helps a lot! Deaf people are not weird or different, they just have differing circumstances than you do. Treat them like they are human, Not some freak show. Thank you!

I love how Rslash can barely hold his laughter in when trying to emulate the blind story. "Describe the picture." "It's thin... It's smooth... It feels like paper..."

Had a blind classmate once. She loved messing with substitutes when she could, lol. I'd give her the heads up, she'd stow her cane and I'd walk her to her seat. One time she got sent out because the lesson plan was a video, and no amount of curtain adjustments from the substitute teacher allowed her to be able to see the screen. Everyone had a laugh at his expense, poor guy. She wasn't sent out because she was in trouble, he had a good sense of humor. She had alternate lessons when videos were presented.

If I were blind or seriously visually impaired, I'd be pretty pissed off if I had to take color theory. I already did and I'm still mad about it.

With the deaf student story. I have a funny one that is similar. I used to be a secondary teacher - years 7 to 12. And ran a program for troubled or ‘at risk’ 15 year olds. This included taking several classes for this one group and doing a lot of mentoring. One of my students ‘Dave’ had Tourette’s. And ALL teachers knew about this, but many never had him in any of their classes so couldn’t pick him out from a group, and most would have forgotten soon after being told about any disabled kid’s special needs. Every student who’s needs required consideration from teachers, the school’s welfare coordinator would brief staff about. An example I remember was this girl who had issues with incontinence and has permission to get up and leave class at anytime, without asking for teachers first. She may access her locker at any time and use toilets as she deems necessary. (what 15 year old girl wants to announce in front of a whole class that she has just wet herself. So she would just get up, leave class and change. And teacher never said anything to draw attention to her. Dave’s issue was more apparent, but everyone was just used to it and so also stopped even noticing. This day, Dave’s class - the one taught about a third of the week - was having another teacher, a math’s teacher (MT), fill in for a sick colleague. I think the class was English. I was nearby - following up some paper work. I heard MT’s voice first shouting ‘What did you say’ and I start listening. And then the whole class laughing. I knew them well. They were rat-bags on a good day. And looking through the open door I saw which class it was. Then Dave in full Tourette’s mode said ‘fuck’ and every one of the student laughed even harder. They had known Dave for years and were used to it. Teachers just ignored it and the class pretended it wasn’t going on. But MT was showing that he had no idea that Dave couldn’t help it. Most of Dave’s vocalisations were an ‘oooh’ or Hhfff’, meaningless sounds. But when we got stressed the sounds became words and progressively got worse. I have no idea how long this had been going on with MT yelling at Dave to be quiet and threatening to suspend him for disrespectful and unacceptable language. This must have been the first time in years any teacher took offence to Dave’s vocalisations and this is what made the other students laugh. They were laughing at MT for being so stupid. MT had been at the school longer than me and should have known better, should have know that Dave had Tourette’s. But he was the kind of teacher that was just focussed on retiring and had long since stopped caring about the students. I heard some of the other students calling out that Dave had Tourette’s, but with all of the laughter, he must have thought that people were just trying to confuse the issue. Teenagers, especially ‘at risk’ 15 year olds were always coming up with BS excuses to avoid responsibility and if they could belittle teachers, even better. So MT’s automatic response was to double down and try and win back control of the situation. With Dave continuing to call out ‘arsehole’ or whatever - this was a long time ago I can’t remember the exact things he said, but they were not ‘appropriate’ for the classroom. Once I figured out what had been going on, I knocked on the door and asked to speak to MT, who didn’t want to step out of the class. So I front of the entire class I politely informed MT that Dave did in fact have Tourette’s and couldn’t help his vocalisations. That MT could check with ‘The Office’ (administration) which I was certain he would do - although he had been given that information at the start of the year. I also informed MT in front of everyone that once he stopped singling Dave out, his vocalisations would return to being tolerable. MT knew that I was this class’s ‘home-form teacher’ and knew everyone well. I left and soon the class settled down. Needless to say, my class were twice as certain that MT was a douche from then on. And of course within a day or two everyone knew how MT had made Dave arc-up and made a fool of himself because he hasn’t bothered to remember critical information that he had been told about a student with special needs. Even if that special need was to ignore or minimise Dave vocalisations even the rude ones.

Oh man, the deaf bit reminds me of the time my friend and I were doing voice recordings for school, and the music student recording us was like "okay there's two ways we can do this. Way one is you each take turns doing your lines and we do cuts, and way two is you stare into each other's eyes and try to like, psychicly communicate when it's the other person's turn to talk." Me and my friend laughed and the music student is clearly confused so I clear it up by saying "You want us to read each other's body language and facial cues, but I'm autistic and she's blind." People usually forget that I'm autistic because I'm decent at masking, but my friend was albino, so people usually remembered her. He was embarrassed, but smoothed it over quickly with a decisive "option one, then"

This reminds me of the story I read, once, in another malicious compliance thing. The pointy-eared boss assigned the deaf employee to spend the afternoon transcribing recordings. So, the deaf employee spent the afternoon "transcribing" recordings. She dutifully sat there and "listened" to the recordings, and typed up, "Nothing," and "Silence." The pointy-haired boss naturally blamed HER for being a bad performer, or something like that, despite the fact that she had REPEATEDLY said, "You KNOW I'm deaf. I can't do transcription." and "Are you SURE you want the DEAF person to do the transcription? I could cover for X or Y, and they could do transcription, instead." "Oh, no! What they're doing is far too valuable. You're low on the totem pole, so YOU will do the transcription. ANYONE can listen to a tape and type out what it says."

"Ms. L"... the "L" stands for "LAWSUIT", because that teacher is a lawsuit waiting to happen.

"There's no rule in the rulebook that says I have to move my car" so he's only a decent human being when theres a rule saying he has to be, what a jerk

I always love how the "NO EXCEPTIONS" bosses suddenly change their tune when you make no exceptions. LOL

From what I've seen, the people who shout the loudest about respect are mostly interested in GETTING it, and tend to forget that for the respect to last it has to come from both sides. Almost nobody will keep respecting someone who doesn't respect them back... and yes, that includes you Mr/Ms/Mx grumpyface.

I have a cochlear implant and I'm a violin teacher for children. I have never had my batteries last for 2 days ever. Mine last about 16 hours each so that part blew my mind. The rest of the story that is normal to have at least one teacher never understand and you are deaf and cannot hear. I get that mostly from college professors. I had a professor call me "deaf and dumb" which is a old phrase coined in the 1950's. So I totally understand what this person is going through. The unfortunate part of being deaf is some people can still never wrap there heads around being deaf. For hearing people though that is never a problem you have to deal with.

Sounds like music to my ears! But probably not for the deaf student.

As someone who has been in many a music classroom with many a different music teacher, they're all insane. As someone who's studying to become a music teacher I'm dreading the day my mind slips and I start screaming at walls

As a music teacher in a school with many Deaf children.... that teacher is no good. I do my best to provide one-on-one help for my students who may need it. How embarrassing for this teacher.

Story one, I'm dyslexic, in elementary school through high-school I can't count the number of science and math teachers who docked me points for spelling mistakes. I have two masters degrees in chemical engineering and applied mathematics with a chemistry focus. To this day I carry a pocket speller with me and I still test at a 4th grade level. I'm never going to improve, your helping no one.

Once my glasses broke in highschool, and at that time my seat was quite far from the board. The teacher who was in that class told me to read the board (he knew I have glasses, but didn't realize they weren't on my face at first), and I told him I couldn't. He then proceeded to try and mock me, saying something along the lines of "well why not? Do you need glas-...." At that moment he realized what he was saying, and everyone in class laughed, while I had a grin on my face. He said 'sorry' to me and asked another student while having a chuckle himself.

I'm pretty sure that music teacher could and should lose their job over that.

I sorta relate to the first OP as my glasses broke in half (the nose part broke) during school once so I couldn't really see (very short sighted), but I held on to the pieces as the lenses were intact (much cheaper to get the frame replaced than whole new glasses). During my last lesson, the teacher asked me to read something from the board and I just held up my glasses pieces and said, "I can't." To her credit, the teacher realised her mistake and had a good laugh at herself.

First story: Mrs K is the kinda teacher who refuses to understand or are to old fashioned to understand that hey there's people who can't hear (or for people who have issues with sight) people like Mrs. K annoy me to be honest. I've been in special needs classes and that's exactly how they teach and fake smiles. I just wanted to put my personal touch to it. People like Mrs K are making people who has disabilities hell Side note. Ik its Mrs L but she was being a Karen so therefore she is now known as Mrs K

Amazing that that teacher tried to double down once she realized her mistake. What she did was frankly discriminatory to begin with, but to try and double down on punishing a disabled student could have opened her and the school up to discrimination lawsuits, especially if the headmaster sided with her and not the student.

That teacher sounds like the one who tried to get me suspend because i was using ASL to practice a song after i finished a test in her class. I had chorus after her class and i was i was practicing so i could sign one song for my older brother who's deaf. she thougt i was doing gang signs....

I can relate to OP in the first story, as I am completely deaf on my right side and it's almost as bad on the left, and if I were to get hit in the head, I'll go completely deaf, so I have a doctor's note saying that I can't play sports, but one gym teacher that I had in 7th grade decided one day that we were gonna play dodgeball, and even though I had the doctor's note, he insisted that I play, stating that 'a growing boy needs to play sports' and that I need to 'be a man and face my fears', so I complied with him, and lo and behold, I get smacked in the face with a big rubber dodgeball... I fell on the floor and accidentally hit my head on it (luckily, it wasn't a big enough hit to cut my hearing) but I was dizzy, which set off red flags, so to sum up, the nurse did a check up, and the gym teacher was reprimanded for making me play sports while I had an excuse from them

That 1st story reminds me of 1 time in elementary school. I have adhd & the meds I was taking at the time made me prone to sensory overloads. 1 day the teacher had us all reading a textbook & I got hit HARD by a sensory overload. It was so bad it gave me a headache & I started crying. The teachers assistant that day didnt about my sensory issues & tried to get me to keep reading even when I started crying. The teacher, who knew about my sensory issues, got 1 look at me & immediately sent the assistant away & helped me calm down. That teacher was an absolute saint & she tutored me outside of class 2 days a week, so she knew how to handle my sensory issues really well. Never saw that teachers assistant again after that incident

Unfortunately at the school I went to your lack of a record didn’t matter. If the teacher said you did something then they took the teachers side. I got a week of detention and my parents called because I had been accused of bullying a girl during lunch…I had a different lunch period and had never met the girl before.

Story 1: the other teachers weren’t going out of their way, they were following OP’s IEP or 504 plan which is protected by law

Seriously though ever heard of Evelyn Glennie? She's a legendary Scottish percussionist. She's deaf, btw. Also, he could have taken a page out of John Cage's book and composed along the same lines as his 4'33". (it's a silent piece)

When I was getting evaluated for kindergarten, I was taken into the gym I am severely visually impaired, and they wanted to test my reflexes they were made aware of my visual impairment before I got there, when I got there and when I was taking into the gym. So, they thought it was a good idea to bounce a ball at me. Predictively, I did not catch it with my hands, but with my face. Later on during the same evaluation I was taken into a room and asked to describe a picture. My mom says the person evaluating me kept getting angry because I couldn’t describe it. Again they were made aware of my visual impairment. Also I’m reminded of the time in seventh grade or eighth grade when I had a science teacher who insisted despite the fact I’m a strictly braille reader that if she blew up the work sheets big enough I’d be able to see it. When she asked me what I saw, I told her the paper was blank because all I could see was the paper but not what was on it. She wasn’t pleased

I would backhand slap the s*t out of that teacher. Why would you ask a blind child to describe a picture having full knowledge that that student is blind. And if the school didn’t inform her they need to be subjected to some strenuous crash courses on how to properly accommodate for the physically disabled.

5:15 on an online English homework I was supposed to describe a picture of a singer on a stage, the picture was cut in half so my autistic self just said, ‘well, he’s got no legs!’ My mum nearly had a stroke from laughing

The deaf student probably should have just got up and got their batteries from one class over. If the teacher asked where they were going or what they're were doing they have the perfect answer and reason. They need their batteries regardless.

I'm totally deaf on my right side, and I have been since birth, so to me my hearing is 'normal'...it's what I grew up with...so why wouldn't I? Anyway...my hearing problem wasn't discovered until I started secondary school ( around age 11 ). Being one of the tallest in the class I was always seated right at the back of the class, on the right hand side...you can probably tell where this is going. So one day I'm in class and ( obviously ) I can hardly hear a thing. The next thing I know is the woman teacher screaming at me ! Eventually she yelled 'What's the matter with you boy...are you deaf' ?! ME ( in a totally expressionless tone of voice ) 'Yes Ma'am'. She literally rocked back on her heels, finished writing on the blackboard while throwing the occasional dirty look at me over her shoulder. As soon as she finished she said she was 'going to the headmaster to 'report' me'. I just smiled internally. As soon as she was out of the room everybody turned around and were telling me about 'How much trouble I was in'. Less than 10 minutes later she was back. She looked at me and told me to get out of my seat and come and sit in the front of the class ( were I would be able to hear pretty much everything. She was actually a decent teacher and made sure that I'd understood everything during the lesson. Her patience was rewarded by my marks for that subject leap-frogging up the list.

The first story has me triggered. I have a cochlear implant and I can’t hear anything out of my left ear. I can’t imagine if anyone would try to do that to me.

The teacher in the first story can and should be charged with a hate crime how the hell do you still have a job like that

That first story had me feeling frustrated, it's like adults refuse to believe youth can have disabilities. I know this isn't on the same level, not even close but my friend & I had to deal with this about 3 years ago, back when traveling was much more common because it was before 2020. Anyways, I was in my late 20's & she was around 30 when this happened but she easily looks 10 years younger than she actually is. We were out of town for a convention, we had this tradition of taking the train there & back each year, it's around a 3 hour long trip by train. I typically cover most of her expenses such as taking care of the hotel room & the badges because she doesn't have much money but she splurges on the train ticket because she does have a strong sense of anxiety & a condition that is kinda personal but since I'm not revealing her at all, I will say it's a bladder problem like she always needs to be near a toilet or have a reliable place to go because without warning, snap, it's there & needs to be released asap. It's due to the combination of that with the anxiety when we traveled up for the convention & they ended up replacing our train with a bus because there was a problem with the train, she got very nervous because the bus only has one toilet, you get all the passengers meant for that destination from the train to the bus, that means a potential long wait to use the toilet in a moment she might need it immediately. At least with the train, if one toilet is occupied, you can go to another. This is why we paid extra for the train instead of taking the bus. She had an aisle seat & was extremely thankful that one of the few times she had to go, there wasn't a line but it was extremely anxiety inducing & we had the thought we'd have the train going back. Well, as it turns out, they overbooked the train & needed to move a good amount of people to buses & this time, we refused to take a bus because she couldn't handle it, I had a long weekend myself & I'm not fond of tight spaces which is why I always like paying extra for the train tickets as well. People were trying to talk us into taking the bus since we're young & could handle it & we couldn't exactly explain my friend's disability, the second one, since that is very private stuff so we at least tried to explain her anxiety & there were people that was telling us we were making it up. We stood our ground & was able to get spots on the train but so many people were ticked at us & were saying that fine young people like us should of taken the hit. They would of put us on a bus that already sold bus seats to other people & it would of just been a big mess. I don't know why, a lot of people just don't think that young people's disabilities matter or whatever. My friend was officially diagnosed by doctors too, she's not making up her anxiety or bathroom stuff. It's just annoying, wish people would gain a bit of understanding for others. I got that not everyone there could take the bus, I know everyone has their own things but targeting the young adults because we looked capable just rubbed me the wrong way.

4:08 Never understood after school or weekend detentions. Teachers have no control of students after the bell rings

The first story reminds me of a time in class for this kid who didn’t have a arm but was wearing a long sleeve hoodie on both sides. Teacher yelled”take your hand out of your jacket” so he scrunched up his jacket and put his nub on the desk it was a substitute I think I never saw her again.

A lot of comments are going off on the teacher for asking a deaf student to listen, and while she obviously didn't have this mindset and has lots of other behaviors that were properly horrible, there could be some interesting teaching moments from having a deaf student in music class or a blind student in an art class focusing on painting or colors. The piece OP made was inspired by what they heard, silence. Not exactly that catchy, but could be interesting. And a blind student in art class, yeah, they can't tell what color they're using, if you want to go basic paint a full sheet straight black or mix a bunch of colors until it's probably black and paint with that. Or paint with random colors and try to make something recognizable. There's amazing creative ventures available when you're constrained, and a good teacher would be able to draw on those so that a disabled student wouldn't feel singled out and ignored.

My first real (non baby-sitting) job was for a man who was also obsessed with targets and numbers, and who could not, would not, comprehend that you don't get phone calls if people aren't calling. OK, to set the scene: I worked in a business that made products for AIR CONDITIONERS. Not heaters. AIR CONDITIONERS. During the summer months, of course, we were busy as could be, but January? No. It was super quiet. Once, the boss and his wife went out of town, and left me (the receptionist) to "hold down the fort." For three days, I sat there, doing absolutely NOTHING, because I'd already done all of the anything that was within my pursue, and had nothing left to do, except to do the "make yourself look busy" work I had come up with to please the boss: Looking through the supply catalog and "order supplies," but really just pretend that I had unlimited funds to furnish my own dream office. It was fun, and I looked busy, and he was happy, and when supplies did need to be ordered, they were always ordered quickly. But, anyway, it's winter, and we had NO CALLS. I was supposed to track the number of in-coming and out-going calls. Just the number of calls, mind you. Not what the calls were about, or who they were from or to, or anything like that. Just the number. My boss chided me after seeing my tracking sheets and that "your performance metrics have gone down since the beginning of winter! Why?!" "Well, we're not getting a lot of people calling about stuff for air conditioners." "Don't try to pass the blame onto the customers! You need to beef up the numbers of incoming phone calls! And what about these outgoing phone calls?" "Well, I haven't had a lot of assignments that involved calling people, since nobody's buying, right now." "Again! Again with the passing the blame onto the customers! It is YOUR JOB to make and receive phone calls for this company! Now, I want to see those numbers going UP!" So, I did what would please my boss. I made LOTS of personal phone calls. And tracked them. My performance metrics went through the roof. I called my Mom, my Dad, my neighbor, my friends, my fellow church-goers. But I'm not the kind of person to lounge about chatting on the phone, especially not a personal call at work, so I just explained it to all of them, and said, "So, I'm going to call you, from time to time, and ask you to call me back. We don't have to chat. I just need to make a call, have it answered, and then pick up the phone when you call me, and give the company greeting, OK?" And I did. I'd work through my list, every day, saying, "Hi! It's me! Call me back, please?" Oddly, my out-going and in-coming phone calls were almost completely the same numbers for a solid month. And my boss was thrilled. He even gave me a raise! This, by the way, is the same boss who yelled at me for washing all the coffee cups (which was part of my job), because I had destroyed his science experiment. I told him, "There were NO clean coffee cups left, because every last one of them was stashed around the office, half-full of coffee." "I know! I was watching the stuff grow in them." (Indeed, stuff WAS growing in them. I have only had ONE incident of dishwashing in my life that was worse than that.) "But, you're a scientist." "Yeah! And I was doing science experiments." "You have your very own lab." "This was more convenient." "And you have petrie dishes." "This was more convenient." "And you didn't label anything." "Yeah, but *I* REMEMBERED." "OK, how about we make a new rule for my job. I must wash the coffee cups that are located in these three rooms. Anything else is off-limits." "Fine. I guess I won't use those rooms for my experiments. But don't let it happen again!" "OK! So sorry!" Honestly, that boss... I thought he was really weird, and that surely all my future bosses would be so much more... sane? Spoiler alert: They weren't. Some were fine, but some were... well... I think the worst was the lawyer who specifically wanted an assistance with NO legal experience, so he could "train her up the way HE wanted." Yeah, so he could break labor laws, and she wouldn't know, is what he meant. I held the record for being the longest-lasting employee in his office. His secretary had been with him for years, but since she regularly quit and was re-hired (with an apology and yet another raise), technically, I had the longest time in the saddle. At 11 months. That says a lot. I had one that was phenomenal, though. MAN! I loved that one boss. Best boss in the world. I was so sad when he retired.

I was a teacher for 25 years. Anyone who disregards a student's disability so openly is unfit to be a teacher.

The teacher. Here is another one. I had a classmate who lost his arm in an accident. The class was a bit rowdy (she was a ,AH) so she asks him to come up front the class. Now he has his sleeve tucked in his pocket, I mean the one without an arm. When she shouts at him to take his hand out of his pocket. Suddenly the class went silent, you could litterally hear a pin drop ... from the back one student shouts "hey" and he raised his stomp up to say "hey back. .. She went white as a ghost and almost fainted ... no one, I mean no one help her up, she had to call another teacher. The stink eye she got from all of us the rest of the year was glorious.

Talking about teachers and their twattery, my son had to wear a hearing aid in school and I specifically asked for his aid to be left in his drawer during sports and PE class, she thought she knew better and demanded he wear it at all times then it ended up broken during PE, they were not cheap and had to be replaced. Being a teacher doesn't automatically come with common sense 🙄

I had a legally blind classmate is fourth grade. Our teacher had her aid come in one day and they explained the situation. She could see a little. She didn't need a cane. She even played piano. Why can't more teachers be like my fourth grade teacher?

Deaf student has a fight with a music teacher? Wait ........

First story: That is reprimendable for the teacher by intencionally ignoring the needs of a disable student.

ok, so waaay back in the 90's the elementary school I went to had a classroom set up for the visually impaired. it was the ONLY classroom in the entire district so it was bustling. I'd befriended a few of the students and was often invited to join their class for special events. one of those events was learning how to use a Perkins Brailller (braille typewriter). After a year or two the VI kids were invited into the sighted classrooms for "socialization". One of the regular teachers did NOT like this so tried to do shit like put things up on the board and ask the blind kids to read them or describe them. She was raised in the whole 'disabled people should be locked away and never thought of' era and just never let it go. Cue me, in the middle of a pack of blind kids, with my loaned Perkins Brailler, writing shit out for my friends. The teacher was flabbergasted that she couldn't humiliate the blind kids and accused them of faking their disabilities. took her a week to pick up on the fact that I was helping them. She only figured it out when one of the children used the term aubergine in the description of a purple flower. needless to say no children got in trouble and that was her last year teaching

This person actually had the audacity to ask a death student if he’s listening HAHAHA

the deaf student is lucky he cant hear the crappy music teacher for the 1st time being deaf is a gud thing

The deaf student wasn't being disrespectful. He even did his project! Think about it: He couldn't hear anything. The silence inspired him. He created... The Sound of Silence. Or his own version of such. The teacher should be proud of having such a creative student! (Think about all the pieces of "art" which are nothing more than canvas painted black, paint literally just thrown onto a surface, or an insultingly simple geometric object... and these are sold for thousands!)

5:14 why do so many teachers pick a fights with disabled students i remember my teacher once confiscated candy from a diabetic student it didn't ended up well

Ignorant discriminating teachers are frigging awful. I had one when I was in university, whilst not as bad as the beeyotch in the first story in that he didn't try to actively obstruct me or treat my disability as a personal attack on them, he also made absolutely zero effort to help out whenever I asked for help or couldn't handle the lecture-room environment beyond the absolute bare minimum that he was required to provide by law. He treated my visual impairment as a personal inconvenience to him. I also heard him once remark when he thought I was out of earshot (I have pretty good hearing) that disabled students didn't belong in university and that it was just a waste of resources that could be better used on "normal" students. I make more money now than that prick did though, so... eh.

Imagine asking a deaf student "Can you not hear me?"

The second to last story about OP working for an ISP... It sounds like I'm one of the old people that depends on these folks to help with my stupidity in all things regarding phones smarter than I'll ever be. We have a list of personal phone numbers of ISP personnel that each one gave us if we ever had issues with our phones, internet, whatever. When folks talk about large corporations they tend to forget that people, individuals, work for that place and they love a cup of coffee and/or a pastry while they work or afterward to take with them. Very kind folks who do their hardest to do their jobs.

Under 10 minute gang, come get your brownie points here

"I've got a double period" Me, a woman: *PANIK* _Where did you get THAT?!_ "It's about 1hr 30min long." *KALM*

"Why aren't you playing the Music?" but Miss so&so, I AM playing Music. I call it "The Sound of Silence". *Surprise Pikachu Face*

I would think OP would be able to get out of that class as they have a disadvantage to other students.

Fourth story: One of my carrer teachers taught me something the previous semester, in our field the client is never right because they don't know what we do and what exactly they want. And for me just shut up a smug client who believes himself smarter than the expert is worth quitting to knock out those s**t-eating grins.

First story reminds me of a equally shitty teacher. Back in (what wikipedia calls) lower secondary school, I had a teacher who really could not understand how someone can be allergic to music. I'm autistic, Asperger's syndrome, and I have problems with filtering out noise. While I have improved a lot since my teen years (this was in the mid-2000's), I will never be "normal". I had problems with that teacher during the entire school several incidents over the years. I hated him. But worst incident of all came when we were during rehearsals for a end of school celebration thing, on the last year. He played music I couldn't handle. Barely half a minute in, and I started having symptoms of sensory overload. To put things into context, this was not long after I had my worst ever episode of a sensory overload on a school-trip. You have probably not experienced a sensory overload, though most autistic people have. Just believe me, it's horrible. Now, combine this with an undiagnosed problem of verbal expression, basically, I had, and still have, problems finding the correct words when speaking in person. So, with the stress of an upcoming sensory overload, and with problems of finding words to describe what is wrong, I tell him (paraphrased): This music is not good. You have to find some alternative for me, or I'm going home. He laughed. And responded as such: Who doesn't like music? Just dance. Join the others and dance. But I did as I warned. I left. Walked home. That was the only time I ever "ditched school", if that counts. I don't think he even noticed. It was the last class of the day, and my absence were never mentioned or noted anywhere. I have forgotten his name. And I'm faceblind, so his face was never memorized to begin with. But I have not forgotten my hate. And I'm not sure if that's a good thing. He was not the only ableist teacher I had, but he was the only who never listened at all.

First story. Beethoven was deaf. You have no excuses! Is what I imagine the attitude of this teacher was like.

Story 1 - There was a huge conflict at the university out here in Newfoundland a few years back between a deaf student and a professor. The student uses a wireless mic system that the teacher wears. A professor refused to use it for religious reasons.

teacher: ignores student student: ignores teacher teacher: *surprised pikachu face*

With the first story that teacher is the one that disrespected her student. Someone with authority being disrespectful is far worse than the person they are in charge of being disrespectful. Teachers have a serious responsibility to model being a competent adult.

That sofa joke caught me off guard 😂

What sort of school would make a severely hearing impaired student take a music class? Do they also force blind students to study art and quadriplegic students take phys-ed? I certainly wouldn't let them do that to any of my children or grandchildren. If they tried, I would instantly shift into Momma Bear mode.

Being disabled but back when I was healthy I used to do a lot of shipping receiving work and manual labor. One thing I learned when making pick ups on heavy furniture is *Always Tip Well, make sure to help and always respect the people who will be loading and securing your furniture. Treat them like human beings, they're already at work you don't have to act like an ass because you're miserable and feel that everyone else around you should be miserable too. It's just a bad mindset to have.* Do that and you'll always have able bodied guys who always remember you because you actually treat them like human beings instead of drones. If I get a prescription delivered from the pharmacy the driver Luke will get here at 4:05 - 4:10 as deliveries go out at 4 and I'm always his first stop. I'm on Provincial Disability and lucky to have my prescriptions covered but I always duke Luke the small 10$ or 20$ and he's always showed up first. It's great and it works.

You know, for all of today's talks about diversity and inclusion, you don't see as much of a push to end ableism.

I'll never, never understand teachers that ignore students. It would be one thing if a teacher is in the middle of a lesson and a student keeps putting their hand up/trying to interrupt, you acknowledge them, every single time. If the teacher believes that the student is continuing to interrupt as some form of disrespect then you send them to the office. What you don't do is ignore the students in your class because you think you know better.

shouldn't deaf kids be excused from music class? same with blind kids in art class. it just seems so unnecessary and kind of a fuck you to them to have them there. would probably be better to give them some free time/study time to catch up on assignments or something.

I wear hearing aids because I'm partially deaf, teachers were not very understanding about it. Most of them would refuse to help if I came to them with a question about the lesson because I couldn't understand what they were saying, they always responded with "You should have been listening" only to turn around and help everyone else. I've been sent to the office almost weekly for "refusing" to take out my "earbuds", life was hard for me at school

Jerk Teacher: "No deaf people allowed!" Deaf Student: "WHAT?"

I have a story actually about a teacher. I live in the south, lots of loonies down here. One kid was scared of cameras, thinking they'd steal your soul or something like that. So this teacher brings a camera in(like an old fashioned camera that would give you a physical picture right there) and chases him around the room with it and eventually out of the room. Never heard what happened from it. The next day everything was back to normal, though the student was a bit off for a while.

Okay so I've never had the pleasure of composing music digitally (can't even play piano lol) so I'm not sure how it works but But if I were the kid in the first story, I would've created the worst composition in the world. Like a series of "chords" comprised of notes next to each other - high pitched too so it hurts more. Or even, since OP said he's not great at music so maybe wouldn't know to do that, just alternating high and low notes. Something that just FEELS wrong. Like "teacher I tried to do your assignment :oo I had to guess though bc my eARS DIED ON ME"

The blind student should've channeled Toph: "Well, it sounds like a piece of paper. But I'm guessing you're referring to what's ON the piece of paper."

Unless the guy is disabled I have no idea why he's so crazy about that spot I mean yes it's convenient to have your car parked basically right outside your door but is it really that big of a deal to walk

Teacher:ARE YOU LISTENING? Me, who's only partly hard of hearing:Oh boy do I wish.

I can relate to the deaf story, I was born before the war in Europe and towards the end of the war a dreadful measles epidemic swept the UK and of course I got it, the bug destroyed my eardrums (even now age 83 I suffer with deafness) and o boy did I suffer at school, I was considered a dunce as I couldn't hear the teacher so was always put at the back of the class which made the situation far worse as what fractional bit of hearing was left to me was useless. This was in the days before hearing aids. I wont go into the trials and tribulations I suffered at school and workplace until the modern hearing aids were developed.

I have a friend who iv known for years and she has hearing aids. And she has trouble without them (we've had time where aids have died but it was usually at lunch) So I hope a teacher hasn't treated her bad. I love her

As a former teacher. I have my personal policy THAT ANY STUDENT CAN LEAVE MY CLASS WHENEVER THEY LIKE! I am their teacher. Not a prison guard.

Man if we had smartphones in the 90s everyone outside my mom and grandfather would have been fired and sued for their actions. It was the wild west back then.

To me as a disabled person, a teacher ignoring me is the ultimate insult

5:13 just like Toph's description when Sokka shows her the wanted poster "Well it sounds like a sheet of paper, but I think you're referring to what's on that sheet of paper"

Sales Targets Story: OP's Boss was likely obsessed with meeting the Targets because his Bonuses were dependent on his people meeting their Targets each Quarter... So if a Target was missed, he lost money...

When I had dinner at the first restaurant I worked, I'd ask my boss for a raise as a joke. We both knew "the customer is always right" isn't literal or absolute.

I [58M] have been slowly going deaf for several years. I'm not totally deaf and I can still hear fairly well with my R ear but when someone is on my L side and tries to communicate I have to turn to hear from my R ear. I also have tinnitus that sounds like a Cicada lives in my L ear.

Ouufh. I've had issues in school with being mute. I legit had my maths teacher get ENRAGED at me for not responding to him and i quote "Staring at me like a re*ard" he legit thought I was faking it despite how many times other students had told him otherwise, until one day he got so enraged at my disrespect, he grabbed me an pinned me to a wall by my throat.. my throat which is where my throat tumor is! I had also recently been released after having an operation, he was straight up choking me. Now I'm just a 154cm 90lb femboi, I pretty much looked and smelt like a girl ( Hey.. smelling nice and pretty is awesome ) also helped I have exceptionally long hair. I was treated like the school mascot by the girls, they would often dress me up in 'cute' clothing, which I didn't mind, they weren't bullying me and I actually enjoyed it, they were all lovely with me and we often went out to town together after school and since I looked like a girl, I was often treated like a girl. So when our Maths teacher did this, I was choking, but primarily because he had slammed me so hard and was gripping hard enough to cause internal bleeding, so I was coughing up blood. He was too busy shouting, so one of the girls boyfriend, a big ol jock fellow, big muscular tower of a guy barged into the room, since she apparently called him an was begging him to come help, he grabbed the teachers wrist, squeezed until he let go an threw the teacher to the ground, saw that I was coughing up blood, the other students were now gathering an complaining, shouting at the teacher. But this guy, bless his heart, bundled me up bridal carry style an just hauled ass to the medical office, told the nurse on hand what had happened. Nurse checked me over as I was having trouble breathing properly, so she called for the police and an ambulance. The ambulance came before the cops arrived, I was taken to the hospital while charlotte stayed with me as she called my parents, telling them to meet her at the hospital so she can explain to them what had happened. Meanwhile, from what her boyfriend said, the police first got statements after arresting the Maths teacher, checked the security office and confirmed on the cameras that, yes he did just grab a tiny 'girl' as they thought I was a girl which spurred them on even more. They also did a breathalizer and found him 4 times over the legal limit to drive, which.. to be expected, we always spelt alcohol on him whenever we did Maths, students were scared of him in the first place, not because he was strict but because he well would obviously get physical if you pushed it. Teacher was charged with drunk disorderly, assault, assault of a minor, battery and abuse of a minor and four other things that I dont quite remember. He was fired, charged and was imprisoned for 5 years. So thats how a quiet day went from 0 to 100 in a manner of seconds. Thankfully, nothing serious was damaged, I stayed in hospital for a few days under observation and later returned to school where everyone was sharing an image of charlotte's boyfriend bridal carrying me, simply because.. giant 6'5 tall muscular athletics dude bridal carrying tiny 5' girly boy. For awhile after that, there was actually drawings of us in a joking anime cliche kind of meme with flowers around us with the letters B.L at the bottom, it was funny af.

I get the “customer is always right” type of people occasionally at work when loading up products and it’s either them asking for help after they repeatedly insisted that the couch will fit in their car, and then look at me dumbfounded when it’s 3/4 hanging out. Or try to get me into saying that the way they strapped or tie down their item is safe, to which they always get the similar replies of “I cannot say due to liability reasons” which they get really agitated about.

The last story is funny, manager says what to do. OP does so on their managers dad, who's totally alright, but than the Son/Manager freaks out. XD Wonder if the Dad/Customer in question asked his/their son for 200$ after. XD

Re: I'm deaf and the music teacher got very mad I'm glad that the ablest teacher was put in her place!

If I had the misfortune of working for a company with a "the customer is always right" policy with my current knowledge, I would look the manager dead in the eye and ask them a bunch of questions, including but not limited to "So are you saying that the customers are our bosses now? Will they pay my salary? Do they manage our sales and taxes? Do I have to send my requests for vacation and PTO to them? Will they cover my health insurance?" and so on. Just completely overwhelm them and make them realize the stupidity of such a mindset.

5:12 It looks like a picture of ravens drowning in a tar pit at night.

5:18 Teacher:"What is this?" Toph: "I DON'T KNOW. Seriously, what is it with you guys, I'M BLIND!"

The kid is deaf who would have known?!? It’s not like the teachers are usually told about this kinda stuff. That teacher deserved to be put in detention themselves