privacy
...lish class a teacher ask the students to pull out their journals and write about topics such as; draw a picture of your house and family occupants and write what each one is saying; who has the last word in your family; reveal who in your family brings you the greatest sadness and why, who brings you the greatest joy and why. Journal questions like this invade a kid’s privacy. Children wouldn’t know the difference if they were asked a general question or a question to know what’s going on their household. Thus, selected parents and organizations protest against any activities or questions that ask students what they think, feel, believe, like or dislike about anything? Questions like this are still being asked in the classroom. When I was younger I was asked similar questions. Teachers don’t realize that they are taking advantage of children, because a child will not say or think that these questions are none of the schools business. Roberto made straight A’s all his years of high school. At the end of his senior year he had taken precalculus and studied hard for his final exam, which would result in his final semester grade for the end of the year. The teacher said that he would post grades outside of the classroom. Roberto came to class the next day to find a group of his friends laughing and gawking around the posted grades, Roberto went to the wall where the grades were posted and realized that his friends were laughing at him because he had failed the final exam. For the first time in his life he was unsuccessful in an area that he worked so hard to comprehend. His reputation of being a “smarty-pants” was now diminished. Now, anyone could go up to the classroom and look up his grade and anyone else's grades for that matter. This act is truly an invasion of privacy. If Roberto was a weak minded person and couldn’t take the gawking and taunting about his “new grade”, he may try to kill himself or others if it was led to that extreme. He may get the mentality that it’s all down hill from here and loose his motivation to succeed. Because of the possibility of things like this happening, I believe that posting grades is an invasion of privacy. In Phillips case, reading grades outloud may have been a good idea. The teacher did not want to make Phillip feel as though he was different or that he needed special treatment compared to the other students. Embarrassment coming from reading grades outloud may push students to work harder for better grades. Journal entries on personal topics are not considered as teachers being nosey, teacher’s simply just want to know what type of students they are dealing with on a daily basis. Also, to see what the family background is so they won’t offend anyone. Furthermore, when children write about subjects that they are aware of they tend to write better. This e...