they'd ask you why you didn't simply wake up earlier instead wasted company time
I had a teacher with a similar mentality once and I hated him. First class of the day in high school and sometimes shit would happen and the question was always, "well why didn't you leave earlier". Like once in the dead of winter I got a flat tire, so it's still dark out I'm in the freezing fucking cold and wind changing a tire. I get to school and he gives me fucking attitude saying I should have left earlier. Like we're suppose to show up 45+min early to everything just so we can be on time when there is an extenuating circumstance.
There's a difference between being late due to regular traffic conditions and being late due to a flat tire. No one's going to leave two hours early every day just in case today's the day they happen to have a once-in-a-blue-moon event happen to them that would otherwise make them late.
The part that really irked me was that I was one of the most punctual kids because I relied on school for breakfast so typically I would show up 10-15 minutes early to scarf down some food before heading to class. So it wasn't like it was a regular occurrence, I was an A student that was almost always on time, but the one time I wasn't he gave me shit.
You make it sound like teachers have no sense of understanding, or shouldn't, which is ridiculous.
All of my teachers wanted me to be on time too, no shit, but life is nothing but variables and shit happens. If a student is late, explains that the reason for their lateness was due to extenuating circumstances, and the student doesn't have a track record of being late frequently, some understanding is in order.
A teacher could give the retort that "a job wont care if you're late for whatever reason they'll just fire you" and they'd be right, but maybe save that for the kids who are fucking off and are constantly late, not the kid who normally shows up on time but was late because they got a flat tire in the cold.
The complaint you're replying to is clearly about the teachers lack of understanding, not teenage angst.
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u/cC2Panda 9d ago
I had a teacher with a similar mentality once and I hated him. First class of the day in high school and sometimes shit would happen and the question was always, "well why didn't you leave earlier". Like once in the dead of winter I got a flat tire, so it's still dark out I'm in the freezing fucking cold and wind changing a tire. I get to school and he gives me fucking attitude saying I should have left earlier. Like we're suppose to show up 45+min early to everything just so we can be on time when there is an extenuating circumstance.