Chapter 2: Respect, Liking, Trust, and Fairness

This chapter of Fires in the Bathroom was all about how teachers can gain respect from students, and how to create trusting relationships between students and teachers. In this chapter, students discussed what teachers can do to earn that respect and how teachers can form good relationships with their students. Some of the major things teachers can do, is treat all students fairly and give all students a chance to succeed.

The part of this chapter that stood out to me the most was actually something one of the students said, something one of their teachers did that made them lose respect and that was saying grades out loud to make students feel bad. My history teacher when I was a sophomore in high school would read the grades out loud after quizzes to the entire class, this was only if you wanted to know the grade right after taking the quiz, but you only had the option of having it read out loud or waiting to get the quiz back. It always felt really unfair to have your grade read to the whole class, especially because the teacher would always adopt an almost mocking tone of voice when reading the grades if they were lower grades.