Jack's Lead Blog Post Response

In this blog post, I'm going to argue that the students in Jacks's clip could also be an example of the superiority theory. The clip starts with the substitute teacher walking in and saying "don't mess with him." The students give each other weird looks and seemed confused at first. Eventually, the substitute teacher starts to go through attendance. He pronounces the first girl's name wrong, and she tries to correct him but he just yells at her. This continues as he continues to call out people's names. Eventually, the students give in and just let him pronounce their names wrong. In my opinion, the students aren't scared of the substitute teacher. Instead, they realize that their names are going to be pronounced wrong so there is no point in arguing. In this case, they are superior to the teacher because they know that the teacher isn't going to change the way he says their names and they might even find this amusing. They all keep giving each other looks like what the heck is happening and sometimes are even smiling. For example, when Aaron doesn't respond right away the teacher gets up in his face and Aaron is smiling as he finally tells the teacher why he didn't respond was because the substitute teacher was pronouncing his name wrong. This could be an example that Aaron felt superior to the teacher because he thought he had finally corrected the teacher but instead that moment of superiority is quickly released when the teacher goes up to the desk and swipes everything off of it. This video also reminded me of someone's paper I read on Friday for peer editing. They came up with their own theory called "exaggeration theory." This video reminded me of this theory because the teacher is purposely pronouncing their names wrong and is getting mad when the students try to correct him. This video is mocking and exaggerating how substitute teachers come into a classroom not knowing anything and try to go through attendance without messing up. We find this video amusing because most of us can relate to it in some way even though it is greatly exaggerated. Overall this video was fun to watch and was a good example of the superiority theory and the exaggeration theory.