I do not envy the workload that teachers deal with. They have to teach kids all day, grade papers all night, attend administrative meetings, make new lesson plans, and deal with needy parents. I felt overwhelmed just typing all of that! Not to mention, they must manage and optimize productivity for the most distracted generation …
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Assistant principal bans teachers from failing kids, insists they give students A’s or B’s instead of F’s: ‘If they know the material but don’t turn in any work, then they should have an A or B in your class.’
When I was in high school, there were extremely generous late-work policies. You had three days to turn in late work, and if you didn’t turn it in after those days were up, you’d get a big fat zero. They would threaten zeros, but I knew nary a kid who actually got a zero if …
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24 Teacher Memes To Scroll Between Passing Periods
I do not envy the workload that teachers deal with. They have to teach kids all day, grade papers all night, attend administrative meetings, make new lesson plans, and deal with needy parents. I feel overwhelmed just typing all of that! Not to mention, they must manage and optimize productivity for the most distracted generation …
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Mom applies to be a substitute at her children’s school district, gets offered a position as a 5th grade teacher: ‘I’m not a licensed teacher! I don’t have a teaching degree.’
It’s no secret that we’re having a teacher shortage right now. They’ve been an undervalued and unappreciated profession for years, and with great teachers leaving the profession at a startling rate, some schools are getting desperate to fill teaching positions. This summer, a mom got an unexpected job offer from her children’s school. She applied …
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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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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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Principal bans teachers from showing movies during the last week of school: ‘There’s 7 days left. Who does she think she’s kidding?’
The last two weeks of school are always the best. If you’re too old to remember what it was like, let me refresh your memory. Once the exams are done and the grades are closed, students get a lot of time to screw around. That either takes the form of going on a ton of …
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25+ Teacher Memes For Exhausted Educators Ready For Field Trip Season
Congratulations, teachers! You’ve finally reached the end of the school year, and all of the chaos, madness and confusion that comes with it. Sure, the unique madness of state exams are mostly over and done with, but you still have final exams creeping around the corner. If you’re a K-8 teacher, you probably have no …
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‘Square dancing’: Former students share the most useless things they learned in school
When it comes down to it, much of the information we learn in school does not pertain to our everyday lives. Sure, maybe the skills I learned in English class are pertinent to my current career, but I’m not thinking about the contents of my Chemistry or Physics classes regularly in my adult life. To …
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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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