Teacher Memes for Educators Dreading Going Back to School

Happy summer vacation! You were probably much happier about summer a month ago when the whole thing was still ahead of you. Right now, it feels like August is creeping up on us, and there’s nothing we can do about it. Even if teachers aren’t back teaching just yet, there’s still so much prep to …
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Daughter Sues Parents After They Use Her College Funds for Brother’s Wedding, Tearing the Family Apart

Having an education is a wonderful luxury. But what would you do if your own parents stole the money intended for your education, thereby depriving you of the chance for a prosperous future? Would you fight to secure what is rightfully yours and go to any extent necessary, or would you quietly accept the circumstance out …
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UPDATE: Daughter Sues Parents After They Use Her College Funds for Brother’s Wedding, Tearing the Family Apart

A college degree is considered somewhat of a luxury. Having stated that how far would you go to guarantee that your education is of the highest caliber? The individuals you love the most, will you let them go? An update to a long-since-posted piece can be found below. The original poster (OP) goes into great …
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40-year-old teacher with a masters degree realizes he makes less money than his 18-year-old son: ‘He’s paid $63 an hour, my rate is about $25 an hour’

It’s no secret that teachers don’t make a lot of money. You meet people in their twenties who make at least $65K for pointless laptop jobs that don’t contribute anything to society, yet the educators of our young can make as little as $45K years into their careers! Just because teachers don’t make a lot, …
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Free schooling mom boasts about 6-year-old son spelling 3 letter words by himself: ‘People should not be allowed to homeschool their kids’

It should not be controversial to say that education is a human right every kid deserves. While it’s true that there are some lessons that we will only learn from the school of life, reading, writing, and arithmetic are foundational building blocks that most children are going to need support to understand. Unfortunately, though, not …
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Educated adults worry that ‘reading and writing on a normal level’ is becoming a thing of the past for Gen Alpha: ‘The literacy level has dropped so much in last ten years’

The whole goal of school is to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. The bare bones of knowledge. But now, according to some pundits on Twitter, some of that is starting to disappear. We all know that social media is dwindling our attention spans and the proliferation of user-friendly AI has made it easier to cheat, …
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‘I should suspend you’: Teacher Mistakes Another Teacher for a Student, Snatches Phone Out of Her Hand and Sends Her to Detention

If you were blessed with young-looking genes, you encounter some pretty funny things. You get asked for ID in your thirties. You get told by a distant aunt at a family dinner to go sit at the kid’s table. You get mistaken by teachers for being a student… that is, if you work in education. …
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25+ Teacher Memes For Exhausted Educators Celebrating Summer Break

Teachers, it’s finally that time of the year. It’s the time that everyone always negs you about. It’s the time that office workers who get paid twice what you get paid and do half as much work tell you you should be grateful for…it’s summer break. If the 2023-2024 school year was difficult for you, …
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‘I’m a surgeon, I don’t have time for you’: Teachers Share Stories About Parents Who Need a Lesson in Parenting

Teachers deserve better pay, more respect than they’re given, and honestly, a gold medal per kid that’s learning in their class. One teacher took to r/teachers and shared a story that bothered them, asking fellow educators to share examples of parents being ‘too busy’ or ‘too successful’ to pay attention to their kids. The teacher …
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Begrudged ex-employee exposes boss’ fraudulent Masters and PhD, gets them revoked: ‘The university just thanked me’

Higher degrees hold a lot of weight in our world, for better or for worse. The thinking behind this usually is: this person worked so hard for years, they must be intelligent, be knowledgable in their field, or at the very least, mean business. So jobs are more likely to hire you, and people are more likely to give …
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