A Teacher's Reputation

All students talk about their teachers and how they're either so nice or so mean. A teacher creates his/hers reputation with their attitude and the way they chose to manage their classroom. Just last year I was talking to a classmate and she was telling me about an English teacher who was so strict and even scary! I didn't even bother asking her who she was, I thought to myself, "if that was the teacher I was going to have someone would of told me about her already" , so I didn't even say a word I just felt bad for the students who were going to have her as a teacher. The next day I find myself a little curious of who that teacher might be so I go up to my classmate and I ask her what that teacher's name was and she told me the name I did not expect to hear. It was MY teachers name! I was no longer calm, no longer looking forward to going into her class. Her reputation now scared me, I felt intimidated by a person I didn't even know yet. Sometimes what people say about you, defines who you are, in the eyes of those who don't know you well enough. A teacher is sealed with a reputation and whatever the reputation might be, either good or bad, students and parents view that teacher by what others have said. As a teacher I believe the way to protect my reputation would be to act the same every year and treat all my students equally.