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Ruu-tan

Of Scumbag Teachers, Facebook Drama and Asocial Little Me

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Ruu-tan
, May 12th, 2012 at 03:37 AM (2815 Views)
I'm not a social person. That is the fact. I'd rather bury myself in books and sketchpads and pencils for weeks than hanging out at malls every day during holidays. I do enjoy spending time with my closest friends but I don't feel inclined to checking on them via text messaging or the online social networks daily.

Which is why I'm banging my head against the wall when my best friend informed me of our mate's recent trouble: She had been accused of slandering by her Japanese teacher, and the matter would be taken to the courts. Long story short, said teacher had been extorting money from her and several others so she had recklessly decided to warn a kohai on Facebook. On the walls. Not very smart, sadly. No names were mentioned, but the teacher somehow found out she was the topic of the conversation and immediately took out the big gun. My friend has been very distressed this several days. Those of our circle, excluding me, tried to support her within their power. One of them is currently persuading the kohai to coax the teacher (because she's sensei's favorite pupil) into dropping the matter. For now we can only wait and hope for the best.

Most of my life, I see teachers as a parent figure. I am aware there are less than ideal people in the profession, but most of my mentors are teachers, giving them certain level of respect in my perspective. That is why I find extorting teachers especially despicable. I am also a victim to one of these scumbags, admittedly caused by my own eagerness to learn to the dismay of the family account. I'm not going into details because ranting on that sad excuse of existence will lead to a wall of curses and death threats.

Anyway, I will try to repair my PC (I am currently borrowing a very laggy laptop) and try to reconnect with my peers. Hopefully I can weed out my rather anti-social habits before leaving for college where assignments and projects will inevitably cut my online time.
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  1. Kotonoha's Avatar
    Isn't it technically not slander if it's true? I don't really know how that works. But if they were actually extorting money I think it's okay to say so.

    Actually if it was on Facebook I think it would be libel. Or not-libel. Since slander is spoken.
  2. Ruu-tan's Avatar
    According to my friend, she (friend in trouble) only used 'sensei' to address the teacher on the kohai's wall (Most likely) when suddenly the devil appeared and demanded justice. Even with the other victims' statement I doubt they could take the gold digger down. Our law system is kinda fucked up, especially if you're a Chinese-descent.

    I wish someone on my friend's side had been sensible enough to screenshot the conversation -- Kohai had apparently deleted the related posts 'in hope that things will settle down'. Either she's with the teacher or kid was stupidly naive. Unfortunately, the teacher had taken a screenshot. Just a little editing and the odds would be with her.
  3. Theocrass's Avatar
    *Hugs Ruu-tan.*

    You have my sympathies in these troubling times, Ruu-tan.
  4. Dark Pulse's Avatar
    ...If anything, the biggest mistake is that she went to a kohai and not to the principal. Still doesn't make it any less disgusting.

    If the accusations are indeed true, it's not slander, and if they are true, I hope she gets shitcanned. Extorting students... that's fucking wrong, It's that simple. If you're going to take money from someone, be fair and give them what they expect. Education, even in a private, pay-for school, is not something you should be forced to pay the teacher directly for or she'll flunk the shit out of you.

    Absolutely no respect or sympathy if the accusations are proven true. The best thing you could do for her would be to see if you can find out who these other students are that she has supposedly extorted, and convince them to act as a group - then she's going to have to sue ALL of them and that's a lot harder to do, not to mention generating a whole lot more publicity and attention; doing this alone may damn well make her drop it because if she's found guilty, then she's really fucked.

    It's easy to silence an individual, but it's much harder to silence a crowd.
  5. Ruu-tan's Avatar
    @Theo
    Thanks.

    @DP
    She was trying to warn the kohai from being extorted, but yeah.

    I heard the money was for their study-tour or some sort. Still didn't make them less pissed-off, but people here would rather stay quiet and hope that the same shit won't hit twice unless they have the money.

    The other students are her schoolmates -- I personally know them too. I think my friend is more worried of avoiding courts than sue the teacher for the past. Even if the other students want to help out, I don't think their parents would allow it; Everyone here usually stay out of troubles when they can, even when they could have helped out... Argh.

    Now more bad news: Kohai has failed. The gold digger already hired two lawyers for the case. Overkill, I'd say, against a seventeen-year-old.
  6. Dark Pulse's Avatar
    In that case, I'd urge you to get the rest of them banded up. If this friend of yours has to go it alone, the burden of proof is, admittedly, on the defense.

    Otherwise, without someone else coming forward, your friend is probably not going to come out of this very well.

    AND GO TALK TO THE FUCKING PRINICPAL ABOUT THIS ALREADY. If you can get even one of your other friends summoned in there who is willing to confirm this to them, that can change the game. Complacency is going to kill you. Again, one person can be written off as a silly accusation, but it's a lot harder to think a group of six people is lying.
  7. Dark Pulse's Avatar
    Sorry, Koto. But your wiki is in another post.

    (I have no fucking idea how that got there. Seriously. I must've thought I copied something else to paste in there...)
  8. Kotonoha's Avatar
    These darples try to fade me.

    Also this teacher sounds kinda nuts.
  9. Ruu-tan's Avatar
    @DP
    Everyone is trying to collect evidence against the teacher at this moment. It'd be difficult to prove the extortion though, because they never received a receipt from the gold digger. She hasn't said anything about her classmates giving statements though....

    I should have put up more details on this... The Japanese teacher is a native Japanese and member of this Japanese community of which my friends are in through their Japanese private school/course. They never said whether they've informed the local teachers on this though....