I’ve done some classroom teaching, and I’ve seen how other students react to students who behave similarly (eye rolling, snickering, etc.) I’ve also seen this from the student side, people like to heap scorn on students who act like this (when they aren’t around.)
My experience classroom teaching suggests two things:
Hesperidia’s cocky laughter is not the sort of thing that makes students heap scorn on other students except, perhaps, the most sycophantic teacher’s pets or sometimes among cliques of less secure rivals who want to reassure each other.
The behaviours knb is equivocating with are not the same thing. They have different social meaning and different expected results. While for knb the most salient factor may be that each of those behaviours signals lack of respect for authority not all things that potentially lower the status of the teacher are equal or equivalent. Amused laughter that is not stifled by attention is not the same thing as eye rolling.
My experience classroom teaching suggests two things:
Hesperidia’s cocky laughter is not the sort of thing that makes students heap scorn on other students except, perhaps, the most sycophantic teacher’s pets or sometimes among cliques of less secure rivals who want to reassure each other.
The behaviours knb is equivocating with are not the same thing. They have different social meaning and different expected results. While for knb the most salient factor may be that each of those behaviours signals lack of respect for authority not all things that potentially lower the status of the teacher are equal or equivalent. Amused laughter that is not stifled by attention is not the same thing as eye rolling.