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The Moves of a Teacher’s Pet

The Moves of a Teacher’s Pet

Going over the lines and making extra efforts just to win someone’s favor. It’s like begging and fishing for their approval to get what we have wanted. A teacher’s pet is the type of person who kisses up the hands of a teacher, professor or dean by doing a bunch of things in the hope of getting a good grade.

A teacher’s pet can be categorized into two categories, the low-key and the high-key type. A low-key type brings the waves in silence and not so hidden but demure like moves and the high-key type will bring the waves in high tide and can be easily seen.

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The low-key type would sneak like a thief that comes in silence but then that person is already gaining your favor. For example, complementing out of the blue and saying cliché things out at a normal pace just not to be found by his or her classmates. We cannot deny the fact that even when if we don’t like that person, once he or she would start to compliment the teacher even just in small ways, there would be a touch of change in their feelings with that student. Also, the low-key type will acknowledge little things that a teacher will do. It’s like reading the teacher’s heart, mind, and even small gestures that they could tell they only acknowledge it and thinking now what would be best to reply to that situation just to win them.

Being a high-key teacher’s pet can be easily found. Their gestures and the things they have done can is too blunt. For example, buying her or his teachers favorite stuff, oftentimes bringing food to the teacher, always complimenting both in public and private, raising always his or her hand in class, acts like he or she is interested in the lesson even in reality he or she doesn’t even like it, and the worst one is when the involvement of parents will happen. It’s when the parents would start to kiss the hands of the teacher also, like giving them gifts or treating them even on no special occasions.

But here’s the catch, some may do beyond things which you wouldn’t think just to win someone’s favor. Or they could be a half low-key and half high-key type. Being a teacher’s pet is like drifting from the capacities of yourself as you started to lower than your quality just to gain someone’s favor. It’s like giving yourself the chance to go back in the stairs you have climbed up.

Being on a school with those rampaging things needed to do, but it’s just a matter of how you can cope with the flux of it. Therefore, raise your glass and be not a person who wanted to fish someone’s favor.