Teaching is not a profession for the weak. The hours are long, the pay isn’t enough, and the rewards can sometimes seem nonexistent. Do you know what this does make the job good for, though? Complaining! After spending enough time around those thankless kids, you start to have some pretty strong opinions on the whole …
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30 Teacher Memes for Educators on the Brink of Spring Break
Teachers, you’re almost there. I know you can catch a whiff of your bright, beautiful week off ahead of you, and it already tastes so good. Sure, much of it will be spent catching up on grading and stewing in the inevitable last leg of the semester, but you don’t need to worry about that …
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‘I have seen students who can’t write a complete sentence’: Teachers share the innumerable ways their students are significantly behind
It’s no secret that many kids are getting left behind in the education system. When I was a kid, America was all about not leaving kids behind in this exact setting (when I was a kid, I thought it was about getting left behind at the grocery store), but now that it’s been 20 years …
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30 Teacher Memes To Pass Around The Teacher’s Lounge
There are so many reasons I cannot imagine being a teacher, but one of the main ones is that I’d be completely outnumbered. Even if I taught at a school with a nice and low student-to-teacher ratio, those kids would always be able to overpower me if they decided to lay siege on my person. …
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25+ Teacher Memes For Educators Counting Down Until Spring Break
I will fight anybody who thinks teachers get too much time off. If anything, they should get even more time to do as they please because they are doing one of the most critical jobs in the world. They are the most essential profession, IMHO. It’s a common misconception that teachers only work during school …
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‘[She] spilled it on my papers’: Kindergartener steals teacher’s iced coffee, spills it all over her desk
Some kids have absolutely no boundaries, and I was one of them! I was one of the most terrifying types of kids to people who don’t like being touched; I was a hugger, and nothing could stop me from going up to absolute strangers and wrapping my gangly arms around them. Somebody really should’ve told …
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«I would lose my mind here»: Incompetent teacher claims 1 divided by 0 is zero, principal backs her up on incorrect answer
Math is one of those subjects that has a distinct right and wrong. In English class, you can write an essay that argues basically anything you want as long as you can use the text to support your arguments. In art class, there is so much room for creative liberties, even if you’re given a …
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Little Girl Freaks Out After Being Forbidden From Riding a Pony, Mother Enables Her Bad Behavior
I have seen Gone With The Wind enough times to know that little girls riding ponies can have devastating consequences (Spoilers ahead for a movie from 1939). Imagine being Scarlett O’Hara, doing the long con of getting Rhett Butler to marry you after your first two husbands are killed in situations that were beyond your …
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Teacher Assigns Passive-Aggressive Crossword Puzzle After Student is Absent For One Day
There are many different ways for educators and school administrators to prevent truancy. The most crucial step is to meet with parents to figure out why a kid is repeatedly absent from class. The child or the parent might have health issues that the school doesn’t know about, or they might discover that a teen …
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Teachers Complain About All the Basic Knowledge That Pupils No Longer Have
Childhood is a vital time of life for many reasons, and perhaps the most important one is that it’s a time of learning things. We don’t just pop out the womb instinctively knowing every single thing that we’re supposed to do. Our first eighteen years are instrumental in setting us up for the practicalities of …
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