I think it is safe to say that all of us have seen students be a teacher's favorite or "pet" or maybe you were a teacher's pet. What were your experiences growing up?

I went to Catholic school from first grade through 8th grade. Most of us in our class remained throughout the full 7 years. It was like a family, the same 30+ students started out in first grade and graduated together. Throughout those years, the same students seemed to be teacher's pets. Of course they were the ones who were the athletes. It was pretty annoying.

I never knew what it was like to be a teacher's pet until I was a sophomore in high school. I was the favorite in World History class. The teacher always seemed agitated with many of the students, but she seemed very nice to me and once pulled me aside and asked me where I had attended school before. I told her I went to catholic school and she told me how she appreciated how I was very attentive in class, not rude and always did above average work. There were at least three occasions when she kept the entire class after the bell rang, except me, because as she stated, I was the only one who wasn't being disruptive.

I think it is safe to say that all of us have seen students be a teacher's favorite or "pet" or maybe you were a teacher's pet. What were your experiences growing up?

I went to Catholic school from first grade through 8th grade. Most of us in our class remained throughout the full 7 years. It was like a family, the same 30+ students started out in first grade and graduated together. Throughout those years, the same students seemed to be teacher's pets. Of course they were the ones who were the athletes. It was pretty annoying.

I never knew what it was like to be a teacher's pet until I was a sophomore in high school. I was the favorite in World History class. The teacher always seemed agitated with many of the students, but she seemed very nice to me and once pulled me aside and asked me where I had attended school before. I told her I went to catholic school and she told me how she appreciated how I was very attentive in class, not rude and always did above average work. There were at least three occasions when she kept the entire class after the bell rang, except me, because as she stated, I was the only one who wasn't being disruptive.

I went to public School up until I was in the 6th grade then I went to an all girls College prep Catholic school. I was teachers pet when I was in Kindergarten and 6th grade. In 6th grade my Math teacher would let me get a way with everything.

As a big-time bookworm from the age of 3 1/2, I was always a favorite with the English/reading teachers. :lol: From first grade on, I was in the top percentage of kids my age when it came to reading - even kids older than me! I was probably the only kid in my school who enjoyed writing book reports. :lol:

Same here :) The English teachers loved me because I could read and write very well. I wouldn't say I was a 'favorite', though--I was just acknowledged for my abilities (which was nice).

I saw a lot of favoritism in high school...often times, the star athletes were a certain Government teacher's pets :mad:

As a big-time bookworm from the age of 3 1/2, I was always a favorite with the English/reading teachers. :lol: From first grade on, I was in the top percentage of kids my age when it came to reading - even kids older than me! I was probably the only kid in my school who enjoyed writing book reports. :lol:

Same here :) The English teachers loved me because I could read and write very well. I wouldn't say I was a 'favorite', though--I was just acknowledged for my abilities (which was nice).

I saw a lot of favoritism in high school...often times, the star athletes were a certain Government teacher's pets :mad:
Let's hear it for the bookworms! :cheer:

Maybe my 9th grade Algebra teacher. I dunno...I was the only one who got a nickname. :lol:

Other than that, I blended in with the walls. Athletes and the outgoing kids (read that loudmouth kids) were much more acknowledged. And I certainly wasn't the drama coach's pet because I didn't suck up to him.

Like some of you, I also went to a private school but all of my life. I did really well in school, I wasn't the bookworm, more like the very outgoing "easy" chick in middle and high school.

By high school, I was the Lindsay Lohan of my school and teachers really didn't want to deal with me even though I did really well. A lot of teachers thought of me as a spoiled, stuck-up, drunk brat who would end up dead before I graduated. A lot of teachers hated the popular kids because they thought we thought our s**t didn't stink.

But there was this one teacher by my junior year who believed in me. She treated me like gold, even though teachers warned her about me on her first day teaching. She would let me eat dinner over her house, took me out shopping, to the movies, etc. She would always come to events whenever I was cheerleading. I was the top student in her class and easily became her favorite. God, I really miss her, I adored her.

I was teachers pet until about Grade 8

After that I excelled at being a smartass (hard to believe but true), I enjoyed correcting the teachers when they screwed up which seemed to be quite often.

The Vice Principle and I had many 1 on 1 discussions but I was fortunate enough that school always came easy for me.

In university I tempered the sarcasm abit and was usually up there as teachers pet but I rubbed some the worng way (again terribly difficult to believe but true) :lol:

I was teachers pet until about Grade 8

After that I excelled at being a smartass (hard to believe but true), I enjoyed correcting the teachers when they screwed up which seemed to be quite often.

The Vice Principle and I had many 1 on 1 discussions but I was fortunate enough that school always came easy for me.

In university I tempered the sarcasm abit and was usually up there as teachers pet but I rubbed some the worng way (again terribly difficult to believe but true) :lol:


:lol: I know a student correcting them has to be the number one annoyance for a teacher.

I was a teacher's pet in 5th grade. I was quiet and earned my teacher's affection. He was nice and fair. I noticed whenever I approached him, he would put his arm around my shoulder. Normally, I didn't really like contact like that from another male, but he made me feel comfortable coming to him with a problem. He never did that to any other students.

I went to a catholic school, i was never a teachers pet i was a bit of a rebel, you had to be a frilly dilly goody too shoes to be a teachers pet in the school i went or your parents were friends with the teachers, i got on well with teachers just wasnt a pet i hated all that.:)

I nervery got along with any of my Teachers I had this one teacher and one time I lost my place when I was reading and she Slap me for loseing my place so I Kicked her in the leg and she was a Nun This Nun was always picking on me and I was doing a booklet for my mom and I Messed up The Booklet and The Nun Slap me for messing up The Booklet.

I nervery got along with any of my Teachers I had this one teacher and one time I lost my place when I was reading and she Slap me for loseing my place so I Kicked her in the leg and she was a Nun This Nun was always picking on me and I was doing a booklet for my mom and I Messed up The Booklet and The Nun Slap me for messing up The Booklet.

Yes the teachers that taught me were like nuns, i think they are terrible ive heard alot of storys about them they use to make fun of pupils for getting things wrong etc...

I was the teacher's pet a lot. I did my work and never bothered anybody.

I work as a teacher's aide and I hate to admit it, but I have my favorite students. I have a lot more respect and patience for kids who are polite and respectful, follow the rules, get their work done, and don't bully the other children.

I had more teacher-friends than I care to admit. I got a lot of flack for it in school. I still talk to some of them. One of these "friendships" ended badly. Sometimes I wish it all never happened. lol.

my mom tryed to get me out of her Class but could not I did not have nice teachers until I switched Schools in 1995 and I did strick a friendship with a techer and I write her an e-mail about ever month infact I just sent her a letter Yesterday.

I wasn't a teacher's pet. I did my work, got mostly A's & B's but just never became a teacher's pet. lol!

I was at a special school

I went to a catholic school, i was never a teachers pet i was a bit of a rebel, you had to be a frilly dilly goody too shoes to be a teachers pet in the school i went or your parents were friends with the teachers, i got on well with teachers just wasnt a pet i hated all that.:)
Funny, I went to catholic school and never knew what it was like to be a teacher's pet until I attended PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL. When I started high school, it felt good to not have the same "cliques", the same classmates, the same notions that so and so is the smart one and so and so is the dumb one, etc. It was a fresh beginning and it gave me the opportunity to "start over".

Well I don't know if this counts but last year in the 10th grade I think I was the teacher's pet in my Honors English class. Not cause I was the nicest person I just always made the class laugh. She thought I was so funny. Me and her would have some great conversations she offered me to service for her in my senior year.

the teachers use to always let me go before anyone else....now they dont cuz i am just as bad as everyone else....i dont know why :(

even though i am doing better now...i always seem to talk when the teacher is talking now...i never use to....and the grades show it :P - but i have good grades now :) IM KEEPING IT THAT WAY TOO :wave:

Let's hear it for the bookworms! :cheer:
AMEN TO THAT!!!

ahem.

yeah, I've always been a teacher's pet... but I wouldn't say I really suck up to a teacher.
I'm just pretty nerdy and my face is usually spent behind a book rather than talking to another student. Of course, I'm not entirely popular or cool but, hey. I don't care... too much... *sniff*

I've talked to my teacher on Facebook. ^_^

my mom tryed to get me out of her Class but could not I did not have nice teachers until I switched Schools in 1995 and I did strick a friendship with a techer and I write her an e-mail about ever month infact I just sent her a letter Yesterday. its good that you got a nice teacher.

Theres this one girl at school who is EVERYONE'S pet she's involved in every club parents are rich so she can actually afford to drive to every single event and makes straight A's and all the teachers love her. I'm on the yearbook staff with this girl and she always does all the work and the other 7 of us got marked down because of it, our teacher was in there with us when she is typing up everything and hears us ask her "what do you need us to do?" "do you need help?" "let us do something." and she says "oh no, I got it I'll do it faster than any of you." AND WE GOT MARKED DOWN. now I'm nice to people, teachers like me but i dont want to be at the level that she's at because no body really likes her.

I wasn't really the teachers pet in elementary school, I moved too much for them to get to know me.

In middle school I was and I guess I'm am now, haha. I'm kind of popular, but not really. Hard to explain.

some of my teachers in middle school treated me horribly. it was inexcusible, but i was too young to defend myself most of the time.

my history teacher in my junior year singled me out and scathed me for the rest of the year after i made a negative comment about george w. bush. it wasn't outrageous, but his intentions were clear.

my choir teacher from my sophomore through senior years seemed to favor me a little because of my talent, but it never got out of hand.

My teachers usually have no idea who I am. I'm extremely disconnected to school in general, I just go in and kind of vegetate for six hours. I've had who loved to call on me for questions about the discussion when it was pretty apparent that I was completely unaware of what was going on.

I was teacher's pet in far too many classes to name. I didn't try...it just happened. When I moved from Illinois to Ohio sophomore year, I had been in all the honor's classes, but Ohio thought that I couldn't handle it, so they put me in regular classes. Needless to say, I was way beyond everyone else. By my senior year, I was finally back in the honor's program, so I think all that had a lot to do with why they all liked me. And I was crazy-involved and polite and participatory.

Now I'm a teacher. I try really hard not to have "pets," but it really is human nature to just click with some people better than other's. I figure I can like some better than other's so long as those feelings have nothing to do with their grades or treating them better. I might just talk to them more in the hallway or something like that. I really can't stand kiss-ups, though. And I really, really can't stand people that kiss-up but think I don't know they're kissing up...they're so fake, it's annoying!

It's always interesting to hear about the working lives of teachers. My dad is a teacher, too. tdf4077, what grade & subject (s) do you teach?

Now I'm a teacher. I try really hard not to have "pets," but it really is human nature to just click with some people better than other's. I figure I can like some better than other's so long as those feelings have nothing to do with their grades or treating them better. I might just talk to them more in the hallway or something like that. I really can't stand kiss-ups, though. And I really, really can't stand people that kiss-up but think I don't know they're kissing up...they're so fake, it's annoying!
You mentioned something that is very interesting. The kids who "brown-nose" or suck up to teachers just practically begging to be the teacher's fave. Now, those are the ones who I really despise. I am glad as a teacher, you can clearly see through those kind of kids. Really, they think they can do that and NOT make it obvious.

Let's hear it for the bookworms! :cheer:i was a bookworm too so hooray for us

Now I'm a teacher. I try really hard not to have "pets," but it really is human nature to just click with some people better than other's. I figure I can like some better than other's so long as those feelings have nothing to do with their grades or treating them better. I might just talk to them more in the hallway or something like that. I really can't stand kiss-ups, though. And I really, really can't stand people that kiss-up but think I don't know they're kissing up...they're so fake, it's annoying![/quote]

I am a teacher too, and I can really relate to what you say--and you express it so well.