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?’
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School superintendent docks teacher’s pay after she took 1 day off to get married before a 3 day weekend: ‘My principal didn’t care and approved my PTO’
PTO can be such a contentious issue in already contentious workplaces. If your company is functioning well, an employee should be able to take off whatever days in the year that they please with the paid time off they’ve earned. If they’ve earned a 2-week vacation and take a 2-week vacation, the company should not …
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‘My 3rd grade teacher told me wield is not word’: Former students share the times their teachers marked their correct answers as incorrect
Everyone remembers at least one time when they got the wrong answer on a test. I vividly recall a test I took on the states of matter in the 4th grade; one of the questions asked us to write examples of a solid, a liquid, and a gas. I was trying to be creative (I …
Seguir leyendo ‘My 3rd grade teacher told me wield is not word’: Former students share the times their teachers marked their correct answers as incorrect
22 Teacher Memes For Educators Counting Down Until Thanksgiving Break
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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Mom allows 5-year-old daughter to dress herself for kindergarten, grandma is horrified at the clashing patterns of her outfits: ‘She thinks kids will start to think my child is the weird one’
Kids are very opinionated about how they dress. When my little sister was in preschool, she wore the same rainbow dress nearly every single day. There was nothing you could say to her to get her to change when she had her heart set on that dress. Our mom was willing to accept that this …
Seguir leyendo Mom allows 5-year-old daughter to dress herself for kindergarten, grandma is horrified at the clashing patterns of her outfits: ‘She thinks kids will start to think my child is the weird one’
‘Oh the humanity’: Helicopter parents call their 5th grader’s educator a ‘horrible teacher’ because their star pupil son is getting straight A’s
Teachers nowadays are expected to wear a lot of hats–and not in the fun way that you’d expect. Being a teacher means that you’re a part-time parent, a babysitter, and an educator all wrapped up in a complicated, rule-bound package. With a curriculum to follow, angry parents to please, and a tenured principal ignoring your …
Seguir leyendo ‘Oh the humanity’: Helicopter parents call their 5th grader’s educator a ‘horrible teacher’ because their star pupil son is getting straight A’s
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 …
Seguir leyendo 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.’
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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16-year-old’s teachers and therapist pressure her to cut her beautiful long hair for wigs for kids with cancer, tell her she’s obliged to do it: ‘The poor kids don’t have the chance to choose, you have’
There’s such a hullabaloo about cutting your hair off to donate it to the wig charity ‘Locks of Love.’ If anyone has long, beautiful hair and is just walking around existing, they often get asked if they want to donate their hair to make wigs for cancer patients. While it’s a noble thing to want …
Seguir leyendo 16-year-old’s teachers and therapist pressure her to cut her beautiful long hair for wigs for kids with cancer, tell her she’s obliged to do it: ‘The poor kids don’t have the chance to choose, you have’
3rd grader with difficult home life asks her beloved 2nd grade teacher to adopt her: ‘It broke me and she was being serious. I would adopt all these kids if I could’
Nearly every kid has accidentally called a teacher «mom» and felt embarrassed about it. In many ways, teachers are second parents to so many kids. Kids spend the hours of 8 AM to 3 PM at school, and if they’re in elementary school, that whole time (outside of gym, recess, and electives) is spent with …
Seguir leyendo 3rd grader with difficult home life asks her beloved 2nd grade teacher to adopt her: ‘It broke me and she was being serious. I would adopt all these kids if I could’