Chapter 2: Respect, Liking, Trust and Fairness

Chapter 2 deals more with the feelings of the students in their learning environment and what the teacher can do to help the students' learning atmosphere. The one thing that stood out was the part about the students worrying about teachers betraying their confidence. The ability for students to trust their teacher is one that cannot ever be lost because you cannot gain it again.

This part surprised me because I could not think of a time when a teacher could break confidentiality except for in the case where the student was in immediate danger and needed more help than the teacher could offer. I feel that the students need to understand that in coming to a teacher confidentiality is respected but there is a point where safety is more of a concern than confidentiality, in those cases the student must understand that the teacher is not betraying them but helping them. The passage surprised me because of the students feelings that their confidentiality would be broken with the teachers.