Male teacher gets dress-coded for wearing a t-shirt despite half the staff wearing t-shirts daily: ‘Our school is near being an F school, half of our staff are not certified, but my shirt is the problem’

Your outfit can tell a lot about the job you do. That’s why I don’t understand why we insist that teachers, the profession that interacts with children more than any other, mustn’t wear informal clothing ever. I understand the idea that if kids are going to respect their teachers, they need to dress professionally. If …
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21 Mid-Septmeber Teacher Memes to Give Our Beloved Professional Educators a Good LOL

If you aren’t a parent, student, or teacher, then you probably forgot that school is back in. (Unless you live near a school or on a bus route and then you know because because those busses are giving you road rage…) But school is back, baby! Kids of all ages are learning all kinds of …
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Math teacher only allows students 1 bathroom pass per week, gives them extra credit if they don’t use the restroom at all: ‘Both the rule and the reward are problematic’

When you’re a teenager, you don’t always have control over whether you can go to the restroom when needed. Both my minimum wage service job and my high school teachers made me ask permission to use the restroom, and if they said no, then I couldn’t go! I had a friend who peed on the …
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Teacher takes away 5-year-old kindergartener’s breakfast for being ‘too unhealthy’, doesn’t give him a replacement: ‘My poor boy was so confused and hungry when I got him’

We all have a fundamental human right to food. We might not always make the best choices about what food to put in our bodies, but that doesn’t mean we deserve to be hungry or have our food taken away from us! This story follows an educator who believes that children who are served food …
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A Bus Full of School Bus Memes for Students Going Back to School

It’s about that time for most kids in the U.S. right now… That horrid time of *lightning strikes* *thunder cracks*  BACK TO SCHOOL. That’s right, if it hasn’t happened yet, it’s coming for you’re kids very soon. For the kids, dread has filled the air. For the parents, it’s a sigh of relief. You get …
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30 Teacher Memes for the 1st Day of School

Whether the first day of school was/is a week ago, a month ago, tomorrow, or the Tuesday after Labor Day, it’s undeniably Back To School season. Teachers across the Northern Hemisphere are preparing to meet the students they will spend five days a week with for nine months, and emotions are running high. Every class …
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21 Back to School Memes for Parents, Teachers, and Students Experiencing the First Days of the 2024-2025 School Year

Back to school is such a fun time of the year. I miss the thrill of the first day of school: getting all new teachers, figuring out my walking pattern, and slowly but surely discovering which of my classes will be problems. Every new school year, nay, every semester, was a chance for new opportunities, …
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Mom complains to school that her 13-year-old son comments on his well-endowed teacher’s body, accuses her of not following the dress code: ‘I’m just a curvy girl and I physically cannot hide it’

I can’t imagine how frustrating it must be for a teacher to be constantly bragged with inane complaints from parents. I’m always wary of moms and dads who never assume that their kid might be the one in the wrong or are even just in need of a teachable moment that a teacher can’t provide. …
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20+ Daycare Memes For Exhausted Teachers and Broke Parents

Ah, the joys of daycare: It’s expensive, understaffed, and is singularly responsible for giving your toddler 20 communicable diseases per calendar year. Other parents are known to shame those using it as a tool to rear their children because how dare you not quit your job and mess with your family’s financial future so you …
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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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