English teacher screams at girl. Reported?

So basically this my English teacher was explaining Irony this boy in my class, the boy was asking if irony was always intentional. Teacher said yes but this girl called Rebecca questioned her and said what about ironic situations? English teacher proceeded to shout as loudly as I thought humanly possible in this girls face "SHUT UP REBECCA".
The girl then asked to "go to the toilet" with tears streaming down her face. Now this is a tough girl and it takes a hell of a lot to make her cry so she must have been really shocked by this to react like that.
I heard the teacher apologise to her later but after said you shouldn't say complicated things that confuse the other students. Do you think she should be reported? Rebecca wont even tell her parents she's that embarassed.

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I think Rebecca should be the one reporting her though. If it was a more frequent thing then other students should report her too but wow.. She is one frustrated teacher.

Becky is asking me for advice whether she should or not, I came here.

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So basically this my English teacher was explaining Irony this boy in my class, the boy was asking if irony was always intentional. Teacher said yes but this girl called Rebecca questioned her and said what about ironic situations? English teacher proceeded to shout as loudly as I thought humanly possible in this girls face "SHUT UP REBECCA".
The girl then asked to "go to the toilet" with tears streaming down her face. Now this is a tough girl and it takes a hell of a lot to make her cry so she must have been really shocked by this to react like that.
I heard the teacher apologise to her later but after said you shouldn't say complicated things that confuse the other students. Do you think she should be reported? Rebecca wont even tell her parents she's that embarassed.

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Teacher is wrong anyway, irony is almost never intentional.

Actually I really can't think of a situation where deliberate irony could not be better expressed, e.g as sarcasm. Although technically you could describe sarcasm as irony, I've never heard anyone do it. The most colloquial use would be a situation or event that is bizarally contradictory to what it seems.




This is a classic example or irony. The teacher is not right about this, Rebecca definately did the right thing in pointing this out and shouldn't be punished as a result.

If I remember correctly, the teacher defined Irony as saying something with opposite meaning and sarcasm as the same but meant in a nasty way. Is this incorrect?

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Yes, that's more the difference between being sarcastic and being sardonic although language isn't perfect so there is no true right answer.

However irony is more of an overarching term used to describe an event, situation or expression that is subtly contradicts what you would expect. Technically sarcasm is irony, but you would be better off just describing it as sarcasm; I have never heard anyone describing sarcasm as irony. It is far more commonplace to use Rebecca's definition actually, and it is the one I would most associate with. So yeh, ironically Rebecca is probably more correct than the teacher is on this whole issue.

So basically this my English teacher was explaining Irony this boy in my class, the boy was asking if irony was always intentional. Teacher said yes but this girl called Rebecca questioned her and said what about ironic situations? English teacher proceeded to shout as loudly as I thought humanly possible in this girls face "SHUT UP REBECCA".
The girl then asked to "go to the toilet" with tears streaming down her face.

why did Rebecca ask to go to the ''toilet' in quotations? was she trying to add sarcasm to an already irony filled situation - this would be a recipe for disaster

Do you think she should be reported? Rebecca wont even tell her parents she's that embarassed.

Whilst I don't want to defend the teacher, I do find it unfair that a teacher shouting at a student puts them at risk of losing their job whilst a student shouting at a teacher goes unpunished almost every time in a lot of schools. I'm a teacher myself.

There was one teacher at my school who got a formal warning from the headteacher for being 'too aggressive' when all he did was point the boy towards the door after he was caught messing around in his classroom during a lunch break and upending tables. The student went to the head with a story and the head bought it hook, line and sinker.