When a teacher publicly talks about a student's private matters in front of other students, it causes the student to be embarrassed. The more embarrassed the student is, the less comfortable he or she feels in class. When a student no longer feels comfortable in class, he or she is less likely to focus on class work because he or she is more concerned about how other students judge him or her. An example of this misinterpreted quality is found in the essay “Shame” by Dick Gregory, when the teacher spoke before a class of students about him claiming to have a father. He said, “We know you don't have a dad.” Although Richard Gregory not having a father in the family was common knowledge in class, it should not have been said so openly. If he had spoken to him privately knowing that he doesn't have a father and therefore couldn't donate to the community trunk, he wouldn't have felt so embarrassed and would have walked out of the room. An example of this quality done right comes from a personal experience. In eighth grade, I had a math teacher who wouldn't tolerate students doing anything that disrupted everyone's learning. One day we were learning a difficult algebra problem and this student decided to purposely yell out the wrong answers and because I was sitting next to him and I was getting the answers right he started calling me a nerd and a geek. Eventually the teacher left the room and went into the hallway with the student to talk to him privately. A few minutes later the teacher returned to the classroom and the student remained calmly sitting in his seat. The class soon resumed and the student remained silent for the remainder of the lesson. Because the teacher spoke to the student privately, he prevented the students from knowing anything personal about that student