I have always been a little suspicious of alternative methods of schooling. I know that there are some parents out there who are completely competent at teaching their kids from Kindergarten to 12th grade, but I highly doubt that’s the majority of homeschoolers. Most of the time, kids who do their schooling at home would …
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Daycare teacher refuses to feed 2-year-old applesauce because it’s ‘too messy,’ doesn’t tell mom until she confronts them about it: ‘A part of me understands. Another part of me feels like this is kind of lazy?’
Little kids are the messiest monsters that ever lived, and there’s nothing you or I can do to stop that. I do not expect a two or three-year-old to be able to fully cut their chicken parmesan and eat it without transferring at least 40% of the bird onto their shirt, and neither should you! …
Seguir leyendo Daycare teacher refuses to feed 2-year-old applesauce because it’s ‘too messy,’ doesn’t tell mom until she confronts them about it: ‘A part of me understands. Another part of me feels like this is kind of lazy?’
23 Memes That’ll Make You Relive Middle School Whether You Want to or Not
Middle school was an era. Not necessarily a good one, but definitely a memorable one. It was the time of cringe-worthy fashion choices (gauchos, anyone?), aggressively side-parted hair, and math problems with absolutely unhinged premises (like Jim buying 150 pounds of fruit and needing to divide them into piles of seven). And if you weren’t …
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Principal makes 13-year-old cry and demands student apologize for ‘disrespectful’ email, then throws mom out of school for standing up for her: ‘The account was filled with lies’
Middle school is already rough enough without power-tripping administrators making things worse. One 13-year-old student was just trying to do something productive by volunteering to help her art teacher during summer school. With the help of the teacher, she sent a polite, well-written email to her principal to ask for approval. The student came home …
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Foolish teacher accuses her coworker of stealing books from his classroom library because he’s reading them during his lunch break: ‘You shouldn’t have to be told that stealing is wrong’
Although it’s obvious we are constantly surrounded by stupidity, harshly judging someone else’s intelligence can feel mean or unnecessary. I think MENSA and IQ test-obsessed people are extremely weird and need to stop hanging onto the glory of getting a 1580 on their SATs. Being unjudgemental is all well and good until you have to …
Seguir leyendo Foolish teacher accuses her coworker of stealing books from his classroom library because he’s reading them during his lunch break: ‘You shouldn’t have to be told that stealing is wrong’
25 Teacher Memes For Exhausted Educators Counting Down Until Spring Break
There’s something so wrong about how the spring semester is structured for nearly all K-12 schools. In college, the fall and spring semesters are the exact same length: 4 months. In K-12, the second semester is so much longer that by the last 4 weeks, everyone in the school is going nuts. After Thanksgiving break, …
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‘She immediately went into angry hysterics and called her Dad’: 13-year-old daughter refuses to tell her mom why she got detention, demands to stay with her dad because he says she doesn’t have to
Kids should be a little afraid of their parents. I’m not saying that it’s a net positive for children to be terrified that their parents are going to scream and holler at them for minor transgressions, but they shouldn’t feel like they’re the ones running the show. Parents who let their kids take the lead …
Seguir leyendo ‘She immediately went into angry hysterics and called her Dad’: 13-year-old daughter refuses to tell her mom why she got detention, demands to stay with her dad because he says she doesn’t have to
Cruel swimming coach mocks 16-year-old swimmer for being slow after 2 month break following his fathers passing: ‘It’s a pity your dad couldn’t have [passed] a little later to save you from this practice’
We all had that one teacher or coach who was randomly cruel to us for no reason. I will never forget my nefarious middle school P.E. teacher, Coach Wallace. For the first six weeks of the school year, he seemed to be just fine, but things took a turn for the worse when I got …
Seguir leyendo Cruel swimming coach mocks 16-year-old swimmer for being slow after 2 month break following his fathers passing: ‘It’s a pity your dad couldn’t have [passed] a little later to save you from this practice’
‘A child shouldn’t be taught to change themselves to make bullies happy’: 10-year-old with African name wants to use an ‘American name’ to avoid teasing, mother and sister-in-law disagree about whether they should let him
It’s no secret that Americans aren’t always the best at being knowledgeable, accepting, and just generally normal about other people’s cultures. We’re usually so caught up in our own self-conception that we expect everyone around us to bend to the same rules. We want them to fit into our boxes. Of course, this is a …
Seguir leyendo ‘A child shouldn’t be taught to change themselves to make bullies happy’: 10-year-old with African name wants to use an ‘American name’ to avoid teasing, mother and sister-in-law disagree about whether they should let him
1st year teacher yells at substitute teacher for using the teacher’s lounge, claims that substitute teachers aren’t staff and don’t count: ‘I didn’t know what else to do, so I just walked away and went straight to the principals office’
If you don’t think teachers get enough respect, you’d be shocked to hear the kind of treatment that substitute teachers get. I remember all of the memorable substitute teachers from my school days, most of them because of how badly the students would treat them. We had a sub in 5th and 6th grade named …
Seguir leyendo 1st year teacher yells at substitute teacher for using the teacher’s lounge, claims that substitute teachers aren’t staff and don’t count: ‘I didn’t know what else to do, so I just walked away and went straight to the principals office’