Teachers Pet is a real thing

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We’ve all come across one right?

The kid that is overly helpful, overly complimentary, overly smiley and confident. The kid that is also mean and vile to other kids always out of ear shot of teachers. The teachers never seem to figure it out or be aware that these kids are manipulators and make other kids lives hell.

iabu never come across one
ynbu yes I’ve had the pleasure of one

I was the teachers pet but only because I was well behaved, quiet, polite, friendly, helpful.

I never bullied anyone or was mean to anyone so I don’t see that your post stacks up 🤷‍♀️

I have teacher pet parents too! Parents that don’t harass me by email every bloody day telling me a load of rubbish that their child has swore blind has happened. I bloody LOVE those parents and will bend over backwards for them! Parking spaces in school, let them choose parent evening slots first!

Their children are my absolute favourites too. Best part in the school plays, best EVERYTHING actually.

Go and volunteer in school and see what actually goes on before you start another teacher bashing thread.

How is it teacher bashing? I literally am a teacher and I experienced this as a child. I do wonder, with the rigours of teaching and how mentally robust you need to be to do the job, how some of the alleged teachers on here who go out of their way to get offended manage to cope when Ava in Y10 is standing on a desk screeching because she was told to be quiet or when Archie in Y8 is trying to stab you with a biro because it's Tuesday.

The worst kind of teacher's pet is the actual child of the TA. The child could be horrible to my dd and other kids, stole favourite pens etc, which when you are 8 is a big deal. My dd had to complain about her to her mother, who always used to reply that she knew for a fact that her dd would not behave in such a way.

I remember the teacher's pet in my class years ago. Smiley, over confident, lickarse, little bitch of a kid who would get up early to go get the teacher's paper in the morning and hand up first for everything. The teacher thought the sun shone out of her ass. She was a really vile, nasty little bully, not to the popular kids but to the children who were quieter, maybe had autism or had the wrong shoes or were poor. She used to terrorise them and get away with it because they either never told or were not believed.

Yes a girl at my kids school is the head of years teachers pet, this kid was soooo mean to my daughter in year 7, and when I spoke to the head of year she completely dismissed it. This kid still walks around like butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth!

Me too. The girl who made everyone’s life miserable also bullied the teachers. But only the ones who had some kind of vulnerability, since bullies choose their victims carefully. One teacher had a breakdown and left, that’s how relentless she was.

So all the nice well behaved kids are actually awful? Hmmm. Bollocks

One of my primary school teachers picked two girls as her favourites and gave them all the perks and praise and treats she could, but it was all on her and not them. They were nice girls. I never encountered any kids who sucked up to teachers in a manipulative way.

How are they nicely behaved if they are bullying other children? They PRETENDED to be nice.

This is different than a genuinely nice, well behaved kid who a teacher takes a shine to, that is not the child's fault. But there ARE who disingenuous little fickers who put on a act of being the nicest kid on the block who are actually the opposite.

I had one teacher who had a pupil she clearky disliked. It was awful. I was about 7. The chikd was pretty badly behaved, but didnt deserve the way she was treated.

Yes this was the teachers pet in our school, completely sucking up to the teacher but also very wet and liable to be teased

My niece was a Teachers Pet. She got picked for the lead role in every school play through Primary from Mary in Nativity, Matilda and Belle in Beauty and the beast. She got picked to show parents around school and to help on Sports day so she didn't have to enter races, picked for the choir, and always picked to go on school trips when there were limited spaces. She even got picked to talk to the Ofsted person and show her books to them. My DSister thought it was funny.

There's one of these kids at my son's swim club. Coach thinks this kid is amazing and believes everything he says, which has got my son in loads of trouble for things he's not done.

I don't blame the kid. I blame the parent and I also blame the coach for being so naive.

I can't really recall any "teacher's pets" when I was at school although I'm sure they existed.
However......switch school to workplace and you have a whole different ball game!!
I might start a thread on "workplace pets" 😀🤣

3 close relatives are teachers. They all have favourites. Ones favourite is the kid in care as she feels sorry for him, other ones favourite is the pretty cute girl who is apparently the sweetest child ever, and last ones favourite is his mates son.

Omg yes. Why are they always the worst 🙈

There was one in my daughter's reception class. Loved showing off to adults, clearly needed praise for everything and with blue eyes and blonde curly hair he got a lot of attention. However, he pinched children on the top of their legs and arms, pulled hair, spat, etc. No teachers believed the kid until parents took photos of injuries and they started to believe them. Unfortunately he killed his pet and was taken out of mainstream school.

My DS has been bullied for being the "teacher's pet". He has different interests to many of his peers is super academic, gets concepts easily, is unfailingly polite and enjoys the company of adults. It really hurts when his peers say this to him. Don't make assumptions.

so true 😂

I don't think the teacher's pets are unpleasant behind backs but i think most teacher's have very, very obvious favourites, usually a well behaved, eager to please girl, who works hard, produces neat careful work and is moderately bright.

DS teacher's favourite pupil is blindingly obvious. She's got 30% more gold stars than any other child, her work is always right in the middle of every display, star of the week twice before other kids had even had it once, chosen for the special reading at the carol service (in a class with lots of lovely readers), chosen for school council. She's a nice child but its such a shame the teacher shows her adoration of one child so openly. The other children notice it.

Nice. And you wonder why people get pissed.off with teachers.

I think, at least some of the time, the parents who bitterly shout 'teachers pet' are wrong.

I have a very unkind boy in my class. He is verbally really quite mean. He targets vulnerable pupils and he has had a lot of support this year to try to help him regulate his behaviour.

However, whenever I try to talk to his mum, she tells me he's completely innocent and I shouldn't believe the 'teachers pet' that he constantly seeks to bully.