people piss me off

Ok so everyone at school considers me a hippy. I go to a really small school and everyone else is really preppy and stuff. They usually make hippy jokes just for fun and I laugh with them. But today it was like one joke after another to the point it was like they were making fun of me. Like in homeroom my teacher made an announcement that Appalachian State was coming and he looked at me and said "that one was for you. At lunch take your organic food and go talk to the hippy college rep." I have the same teacher for a class and every chance he got he made some kind of hippy comment. I was getting really pissed off that a teacher was making these kind of comments. I don't really mind it when my friends do it but he had this really smart ass tone. I was really tempted to say something. It really pissed me off.

 

Just stand up and look him in the eye. See what he does. Or play along with him. Eventually he's going to make himself look like even more of an ass. I wouldn't put too much thought into dealing with idiots like that...

 

go to the counciler, they could switch your teacher or something.

 

He's the only Latin teacher in the school so I'm stuck with him. He's only 23 and has no friends his own age. He hangs out with students. He has no life basically. So I guess he's just a really unhappy person but it was his choice to become a teacher. Who wants to teach a dead language anyways?

 

But, you didn't, so don't bitch and moan.

 

wow, this is deja vu...same thing used to happen to me in high school all the time. i told people they can stereotype me however they want because it became so much of a pain.....people kind layed off once i'd say that. i learned to use it to my advantage. it's incredibly annoying tho, when someone says, "pot" & all eyes go to you. then it moved on to just about every word...
"tofu," "green," "tree," words that could mean anything. i started to glare at people & that made 'em stop.i know what you're going through.

he sounds like a perv

 

Don't take it to heart. People will be people and will try to break you. The teacher might just be testing your beliefs. Take it on as a challange you have to face, not a setback which causes irritation.

 

I wouldn't do what he says up there, just say to the local Greenpeace/Friends of the earth group that the school-burners burn UN PROSSESED CRUDE OIL! My school burns coal. They have won awards, and I shall get my Ecological Revenge! SOLAR AND WIND, ALL THE WAY!!!!! :X

 

I thought you were home schooled...


and if yer not, im now sure what school yer at...

 

You just have to throw it back in their face, find some way to make them look ridiculously stupid over all their stereotypical comments.

 

First of all, a teacher isn't supposed to make comments like that...
Second of all, FUCK EM. Those boring-ass preppies. The're just mad 'cause they all look alike. You are a rainbow in a sea of grey. I would look at it as a compliment...you are an induvidual, and no one knows what to think of you.

 

This is true, and very nicely said too.

 

This isn't a bad approach. It's how my husband as a teacher, deflects the stereotypes tossed at him by his students.

I would talk to the teacher directly though before going to a higher authority figure. He's awfully young and his judgement might not be all that great if he's trying to be more like a friend to these other students. Infact, if you are outwardly reacting like it doesn't bother you, he might not even have a clue that he's crossed a line and is offensive. Let him know!

On an unrelated note: Shiiiit...23 and landed a full-time secondary school job? - that's a pipe dream here.

 

I think she is at the school where they prepare you for real life situations people make nasty comments about you in front of you. Then you go and make nasty comments about them behind there back, that part was learned before in home schooling. lol

 

I get stereotyped all the time. But the fact is, I do listen to the dead, I do have dreads, I do smoke herb, I am vegetarian, etc. etc. Basically, I fit the damn stereotype so I can't complain! But think of it this way, every time someone puts you in a box, they are giving you the upperhand. They are making assumptions as to who you are, what you think, and how you will act so in any discussion you already are a step ahead because you can throw some shit at them that they aren't expecting.

besides, if you know who you are, and what you are all about, then whatever anyone else says doesn't make a damn bit of difference, because you can sit back and smile to yourself knowing that you are the raddest person in the whole damn school.

 

they're just mad because you're cooler than them. seriously.

 

highschool is like that...... dont sweat it.....

 

I got stuff thrown at me on a regular basis in high school....

Buck up, get over it and find a way to look infinately better than them. If this means stanging an impromtu dance and song solo about how they'll never get laid (this is what I did) then do it.

 

At least at my highschool, people didn't really get picked on for no reason.

 

when people call me a hippie in a deragatory way it is funny. they usually have no idea what they are talking about and i dont really take offense to being called a hippie. it is a sort of compliment. everyone loves hippies even if they hate them. they love to hate them. hippies are such an easy target but such a positive force in a negative world that people can't stand it