Summer break never feels as long as it should. It’s easy to get used to sleeping in, hanging out with friends, and completely losing track of what day it is. But then, reality kicks in, and the stores are full of backpacks and notebooks… Parents are pulling out school supply lists and purchasing school items …
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Teacher Records Student’s Disrespectful Behavior After School Administration Refuses to Believe That They’re Misbehaving
Was she wrong for doing what the school administration implied she should do? Working with kids means you have to watch what you say far more than most other professionals. If you tell your coworker something off-color about your personal life, there’s a good chance that they will think, «Wow, that was kind of weird,» …
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Substitute teacher rearranges teacher’s classroom and throws away her students’ ungraded assignments: ‘She also moved my plants, including an orchid that’s pretty particular about lighting.’
What made her think that she had the right to do that? When I was a kid, I tried my best to empathize with substitute teachers because I knew they had an incredibly difficult job. Kids were always trying to take advantage of the substitute’s ignorance and derail the classroom as much as they possibly …
Seguir leyendo Substitute teacher rearranges teacher’s classroom and throws away her students’ ungraded assignments: ‘She also moved my plants, including an orchid that’s pretty particular about lighting.’
17-year-old student constantly insults his 26-year-old English teacher’s intelligence: ‘I’m not sure how to write an essay that’s simple enough for you.’
We all went to school with some know-it-all kids who thought they were smarter than everyone there, including the teacher. I have empathy for kids who are genuinely advanced and don’t have the opportunity to take AP classes or other challenging coursework. If a kid is actually extremely bored and unchallenged by school, it can …
Seguir leyendo 17-year-old student constantly insults his 26-year-old English teacher’s intelligence: ‘I’m not sure how to write an essay that’s simple enough for you.’
‘Nikolas, if you’d like to teach the class, let me know. Otherwise, I’m going to need you to stop interrupting every 5 minutes’: 22-year-old student constantly interrupts his professor’s lectures, complains to the department when she finally calls him out
If you’ve ever taken a humanities class in college, you know That Guy. That Guy could be any person of any gender, but one thing is very clear: they are incredibly annoying. They always think that their opinion is of the utmost importance, chiming in whenever they can about anything that comes to mind. It …
Seguir leyendo ‘Nikolas, if you’d like to teach the class, let me know. Otherwise, I’m going to need you to stop interrupting every 5 minutes’: 22-year-old student constantly interrupts his professor’s lectures, complains to the department when she finally calls him out
17-year-old stands up to substitute teacher who confiscated cochlear implants thinking they were headphones, principal gets involved and student gets suspended: ‘I started full on yelling at this lady’
Remember when you were a kid and coming into school with a substitute teacher was either the best day ever or the worst? There was no middle ground. On the one hand, you could score the perfect sub who’d pop in a movie and let the class zone out all day. On the other hand, …
Seguir leyendo 17-year-old stands up to substitute teacher who confiscated cochlear implants thinking they were headphones, principal gets involved and student gets suspended: ‘I started full on yelling at this lady’
16-year-old gives candy to the 3 students who were listening to her in-class presentation, gets harassed for candy by the kids who were on their phones the whole time: ‘The teacher told us we could give out candy’
There’s something so uniquely humiliating about giving a class presentation in high school. If you’re underprepared, you look like an idiot and get a lousy grade. If you’re overprepared, you seem like a high-strung overachiever. You have to strike this perfect balance of being both knowledgeable and unattached to the material, which is incredibly difficult …
Seguir leyendo 16-year-old gives candy to the 3 students who were listening to her in-class presentation, gets harassed for candy by the kids who were on their phones the whole time: ‘The teacher told us we could give out candy’
8-year-old student with anger issues destroys his 3rd grade classroom, teacher takes rest of the class into the hallway and lets him reek havoc without consequences: ‘Are schools not allowed to punish bad students anymore?’
The rulebook for disciplining kids in the classroom has been thrown out the window. Nobody wants to return to the days of Paddlin’ Peggy Hill for good reasons, but there has to be a compromise between spanking students for misbehavior and just letting it happen without consequence. Even the concept of an afterschool or lunchtime …
Seguir leyendo 8-year-old student with anger issues destroys his 3rd grade classroom, teacher takes rest of the class into the hallway and lets him reek havoc without consequences: ‘Are schools not allowed to punish bad students anymore?’
25+ Memes for the Bilingual Struggle
English is all fun and games until you’re faced with to, too, and two. Or all the different uses of «was.» Or the endless homographs like bass and bass and wind and wind and wound and wound. To say nothing of the homophones. Or the myriad exceptions to the myriad rules. English is not easy, …
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Phone-Obsessed Student Would Rather Let Their Phone Dwindle to 0% Before Letting it Charge Across the Room
Teachers have seen it all. Like warriors returned from battle, they have flashbacks of classroom insanity, ungraded papers, and dreaded detention slip deliveries gone wrong. Although there are many shining moments of student pride and genuine happiness in class, teachers often deal with more BS than they’re given credit for. In the age of cell …
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