Kids need the opportunity just to be kids without the pressures of academic achievement. If a toddler shows interest in reading, that’s an excellent opportunity to expand their world through literacy. But if a 3-year-old can’t read yet and doesn’t seem particularly ready/interested in reading, that doesn’t mean you have to hire a team of …
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23-year-old niece tries to help homeschooled 13-year-old cousin who can’t do his times tables, enrages aunt who thinks her teaching is just fine: ‘Charlie needs to learn to be accountable to someone besides his mommy’
People are so split on whether homeschooling is a good thing or a bad thing for a reason. Homeschoolers either grow up to be the biggest slackers who have very little common knowledge, or hardworking, professional, and incredibly smart. I’ve never met a former homeschooler who was totally middle of the road in every way: …
Seguir leyendo 23-year-old niece tries to help homeschooled 13-year-old cousin who can’t do his times tables, enrages aunt who thinks her teaching is just fine: ‘Charlie needs to learn to be accountable to someone besides his mommy’
35 Memes for Teachers Counting Down the Lesson Plans Until Summer Break
Summer break as a kid felt like a magical, three-month-long fever dream. No alarm clocks, endless popsicles, sprinkler parks, and watching The Price Is Right at your grandma’s house while your parents were at work. And while kids are still living their best lives once June hits, let’s not forget the teachers who have been …
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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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Unschooling mom enrolls 7-year-old son who’s still in diapers in 1st grade, is convinced he’ll be too smart for the class: ‘She wants to email the teacher ideas because 1st grade curriculum is too simple’
It’s always kind of funny when a parent thinks that their kid is a genius. I don’t really think there’s any real harm done in thinking your kid is going to Harvard because they rolled over a month before babies typically do so. It’s something that most parents grow out of by the time their …
Seguir leyendo Unschooling mom enrolls 7-year-old son who’s still in diapers in 1st grade, is convinced he’ll be too smart for the class: ‘She wants to email the teacher ideas because 1st grade curriculum is too simple’
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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‘Fair play, kid’: 3-year-old turns his own teacher’s words against her during playtime, makes mom and teacher burst out laughing
Whether you are a parent or work with children, you know they can sometimes be the wittiest most impressive people you have ever met. Sure, they might still be fresh to the world and society, but sometimes they just hit you with a zinger that you wouldn’t even believe a full-grown adult to come up …
Seguir leyendo ‘Fair play, kid’: 3-year-old turns his own teacher’s words against her during playtime, makes mom and teacher burst out laughing
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.’