The one who can control students’ attitude at school is a teacher, and the one who can control children’s attitude are parents. In this point, I’ll talk about students only. We can find good and polite students as long as teachers guide them to do so. This is my first hypothesis.
I can find many students who don’t have good norms here in my new school; they speak roughly even mock each other with nasty words. They have a very great ‘courage’ to confront their teachers and mostly can’t speak politely with Bahasa Kromo or Indonesian. Most students speak ‘ngoko’ which is regarded as impolite language to use with adult in Javanese culture. Ngoko is a language which is usually used to talk with their peers. This language shouldn’t be used to talk with adult, in this case teachers.
As time goes by, I can understand those kinda things happen because of the teachers’ attitude themselves. The teachers in my new school don’t teach the students how to behave and how to respect them. They liberate the students to do anything, including in doing test. They let the students cheating in front of their eyes, and even they themselves give the answer to the students. Then, I can understand why the students hate me and confront me and my anti-cheating idealism. They call me as ‘pahlawan kesiangan’ when I maintain my rule. Yea..the students are taught to do so. The students think that my anti-cheating idealism is weird because they are used to cheating.
Another thing is about how they behave. I’ve proven that teachers’ attitude have an important part in building students’ character. Everytime the students speak ‘ngoko’, I ask them to repeat the words in ‘kromo’ or Indonesian. Otherwise, I’ll ignore them and don’t response them. Gradually, the students whom I teach these two months (2nd grade) speak ‘kromo’ or Indonesian with me. However, I doubt I can continue this if I weren’t a homeroom teacher because as an English teacher I’ll only meet them 2 x 35 minutes per week.
What do you think teachers? Does teacher’s attitude influence student’s character?
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