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So today I called a parent bc her daughter ran off at the assembly crying. The student informed me she was being bullied so I got her to fill out a witness statement and had her report it to my admin (can’t teach and investigate all day at the same time) long story short everything was handled the situation was resolved and when I called mom to inform her she said “I don’t appreciate you putting my daughter in a situation where she has to face confrontation in the office next time don’t make her report it.” Umm? Damned if I do damned if I don’t 😂 submitted by /u/Mysterious_Pace9459 [link] [comments]
Hey everyone! The copy machine is down. We called Susan, and she said it won't be fixed until next week. Anyway, since it's Friday... What were some challenges that you faced recently? Anything that irked you? Maybe a co-worker is getting on your nerve? Class caught on fire because little Billy shoved a crayon into your pencil sharpener? Share all the vents and stories below! submitted by /u/AutoModerator [link] [comments]
I swear it’s always something new with these people. I never received the classroom supplies I ordered through the school, and when I asked about it, I was told “Don’t ask about the supplies. We will discuss it at a later date.” It’s been weeks and still no supplies. To be fair, I’m not a homeroom teacher, but I still definitely need basic supplies to do my job efficiently. And yet, when I ask for simple things like paper clips and staples from the office (that I should’ve gotten with my supplies) they look at me like I’m stupid. I just want my rubber bands and manila folders. submitted by /u/JackfruitGlad1666 [link] [comments]
I’m currently teaching at a charter in Los Angeles. Our school has had massive budget cuts due to low enrollment etc. I’ve been at this school my entire teaching career (4 years) and it’s been great but I just feel like it’s my time to move on. However, I’m worried that if I leave, I’m leaving behind that tiny bit of seniority at my current school. Whatever new school I go to I would be the newest one and first on the chopping block if that district/school needs to let go of teachers. What do y’all think? Stay because my job is secure (for now) or move on? submitted by /u/whoisthis0022 [link] [comments]
I am fucked. I started at a new school this year and it has been about a month. I was in my last school for 10 years. I was told today that I have to turn things around in the next week or two. I am super stressed. It is in a new district and a different curriculum and a different batch of kids. I am worried and pissed and want to cry (or worse) and I am just frustrated. I wanted a fresh start at a new school and a new district. OMG. fuck my life. I get advice from my colleagues in my department and the instructional coach is also giving me bad advice. I am just speechless. If it doesn't work out at this school, I think I am going to be done with teaching. submitted by /u/IneligibleLand [link] [comments]
This year is a big anniversary of 9/11. As a Canadian teacher at the elementary level we don’t reference it. It impacted me greatly as an adult and witnessing it all unfold was horrific. That said, I am aware that I am almost fifty and was a full adult when it happened. My own teen children know what happened but don’t really grasp the magnitude as they are removed from it. What happens at elementary schools in the states around remembering this tragedy? Will different things or more happen this year? Edit: I am very surprised to learn nothing happens. What do you do for Remembrance Day/Veterans Day? Are historical major events not honoured or recognized? submitted by /u/GenXMom14 [link] [comments]
I just entered my third year teaching art at a HS. My first year was a breeze my second was rough and so far this year has been better. Last year one of our art teachers was cut because of population decline. So we went from four to three teachers. Last night my department head said that they got an email from principle about a las min meeting about fall leveling. There’s no way it’s gonna be one of us right? We just got knocked down to three teachers this year. Welp, not only was it one of us but it was ME! I got called into the principles office and said that I could finish off the year but my position has been cut. I didn’t realize how SAD I would be. I immediately started crying when I left the office and spent my planning period crying. I started my career here. It hasn’t always been easy but I love my team and knowing I won’t be here next year made me so sad. But the numbers for our school are dropping and there’s nothing I can do. I’m afraid I won’t find a good position next yea
I've been teaching ELA/History for 8 years - all in a regular public middle school. Now I'm in a high school. One of its selling points is that it has low class sizes. Usually this is good - my average class has 15 kids. Those are fantastic, really the perfect size. BUT - my first period has 7 children. 7. Children. They are freshmen. They do not talk at all. I can get one or two kids to volunteer sometimes but overall I am teaching to complete silence, blank faces. Has anyone taught a class like this? It's ELA, not an elective, so I need to get through content and I rely on collaborative work/discussions. These have been going great in my other classes but I am literally talking to myself and answering my own questions all the time in this period. I've tried the painful silence and I would be waiting until the next period if I stuck to it. Does anyone have any advice for teaching such a small number of kids that won't engage? submitted by /u/Realistic-Average-15 [link] [comments]
I am a current student teacher, for elementary school. I used to love being in the classroom, thought "I was put on this planet to teach". However, I cannot bring myself to like it anymore. It mostly started when I got punched by a student, to which no consequences were enforced. After that, I saw many things I don't like: no admin support, extreme and violent behaviors, kids swearing at teachers, overbearing parents, etc. Again, I am a STUDENT teacher, so not even my career yet. Whenever, I go into my student teaching placement, I just want to cry and cannot get out of my car. When I am in the classroom, I have to hold back tears because of how much I've grown to dislike teaching, and don't want to be there. In my program/collage, I feel so alone since everyone else is so excited to teach. I just don't know if this is something I need to push through. I have this passion towards wild animals where I want to get a degree in that instead. But it doesn't pay as much, so then I circle bac
I have a 1st grade student in my class this year who is autistic, has an IEP and receives a lot of services in and out of class. He is not really able to participate/follow along with the class except for brief moments with adult support. He will wander around and attempt to leave the room. Often has to be taken out of the room to calm down. I was told he was “nonverbal” but he will say single words in Spanish. His family speaks only Spanish and meetings have to be with a translator. When I asked about why he wasn’t in ESOL, I was told that they attempted to test him in both prek and kindergarten, but he refused to participate in testing both time and so they didn’t have the data to support it. Just looking for thoughts on this and if I should be advocating harder or if this is just….how it is. submitted by /u/throwaway256733 [link] [comments]
I teach college general chemistry lab, and I have for years. Its always fun to see the different struggles each round of kids has. This year though, I am just confused. The first lab of the semester is just using microsoft excel since they will have to do that many times through the semester. I usually get the same (super valid) excel usage questions. This time though, I have gotten the following questions more than once: How do i save an excel file How do i know where I saved my excel file What do you mean 'email the file to yourself' I am like umm.... how does one reach college and not know this? For context, the emailing a file to myself one was because a student did the excel work in class on a shared lab computer, but needed to complete it at home and needed her excel sheet to be transferred to her personal computer. I think I have been doing this since middle school and like was never taught, I just figured it out? This same student also was unsure how to log into her email. Bonu
I left the school I was at because after three weeks I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown and my administration was giving me such wizardly advice as sending a TA into there who told me one thing, with the school telling me another. I can't make this shit up. So I finally resigned. My mental health got to the point I was worried I might hurt myself. It was so bad I couldn't go in to hand in the resignation in person, just to fill out the form online. I also wrote a letter to my principal, trying to tell them that I am sure she is wonderful but we were not a good match and it's better to part now. My assistant principal said she was sad to see me go and I needed to take care of my mental health. My principal, the one I wrote the letter to, the one who called herself the princiPAL told me I didn't need to send her a letter and I should follow the official channels, otherwise not acknowledging the fact this job had made me suicidally depressed. There really was no winning here was th
I’ve been in education a long time however it’s been about 10 years since I worked full time in the classroom, I did homebound or part-time for the last few years. I started back full time a few weeks ago and am completely floored by the behaviors. I don’t know if it’s bc I used to have days to reset or if it’s really that bad. I teach preschool and half my students don’t even respond to their name. These are not children with disabilities. I have had to explain that when someone says your name you stop and look at them and they say “Oh! Ok!” They seem feral. Is this happening everywhere? submitted by /u/Odd_Butterfly_162 [link] [comments]
I don’t even mean just letting kids fail. I mean letting the chronically absent just be chronically absent with no followup from us. Letting kids who won’t turn in work just not turn it in with no begging from us. Letting kids who cuss and storm out cuss and storm out with no restorative justice from us. I graduated high school in 2018 and none of my teachers were doing any of that shit. And it worked better that way. submitted by /u/SaveSpiders [link] [comments]
I wear business/work crocs. He was giggling a storm after I looked down. I work with highschoolers. It's over for me guys. submitted by /u/Balefirex24 [link] [comments]
And apparently mom disagrees, and she will, in fact, be following my rules along with apologizing next time she’s in my classroom?. What unjust rule did I subject her to? Well, I told her that she’s not allowed to use the f word conversationally when addressing me. Who do I think I am? Thankfully, mom was supportive, but I’m genuinely just confused. Does she really think I’m not going to call her mom immediately after something like that and that I’m just going to apologize and tell her she’s free to conduct herself however she wants in my workspace that has my name on the door? Lol submitted by /u/South-Lab-3991 [link] [comments]
I have had constant issues with athletes being disrespectful and out of control in my classroom since the first day of school. I have tried contacting the parents- some respond saying they will speak to the child, others don't respond entirely. No matter what, the behavior still persists. Recently, I got so tired of it, that I emailed their coach with a few student names and the coach ended up making them all sit out their first game. The parents are upset and now it's escalated to admin and the athletic manager. I'm so stressed out about it and don't know where to go from here. Is this a normal thing that happens? I've been teaching for a few years and this by far is the worst parent reactions I've had. They have accused me of picking on their child, not contacting them before speaking to the coach, etc. I'm beside myself and now am second guessing ever reaching out. Please help with advice and/or similar experiences! Am I going to be labeled as a teacher that can't control her class
43f Florida USA I'm looking in to becoming a teacher and the news and former teachers are scaring the crap out of me with the horror stories. Yes I know the stories are true but how much of the norm are they? Is this just a distillation of the worst of the worst or is it wise spread? Are the stories of seniors not being able to read widespread or taken out of context? Basically don't sugar coat it but also don't tell me only the worst of the worst. Can I get a realistic picture of what kids are actually like today? 6 thru 12 I can't do elementary because I can't do all subjects. submitted by /u/Q8DD33C7J8 [link] [comments]
Hello. I am feeling completely unprepared and unequipped to do this and I’m only a few weeks in. If I feel this way so soon how will I feel in six months? I did the traditional route, got my BSed, did my student teaching, etc. I was looking forward to the career change. But now I have 5 different preps. I teach 15 85 minute classes a week, 13 of which are different classes. I do not have the skills to deliver 13 different lessons effectively a week, some of which are honors or IB II HL classes, which are easier classroom management wise but require more out of class refresher time on my part. I worked hard to get here but I do not think I could agree to do this another year. Has anyone else gone through this? submitted by /u/ACWhi [link] [comments]
When I ask what is wrong, he shrugs his shoulders and says really nothing. What do I do???? I emailed his parents about this exact thing Tuesday, adding in both positives and this "negative", and no response. I love my kids and I feel so much empathy for them but it stops at a point. I'm happy to change what I'm doing but I don't know WHAT to do now. I have 20 other students who are very needy. I hold him to very high standards like any other student and make sure to acknowledge when he is doing positive things like being kind or meeting expectations. Yesterday I spoke with him with another teacher to see how she would hold the conversation, she asked him if it would help him if I spoke with him every morning to see how he's doing. He said yes. This morning I made sure to talk to him extra, when we were in the class I quietly pulled him aside and said hi, good morning, asked how he was feeling (as in emotions), what he had for breakfast, etc. He answered all the questions. He worked wi
The forced forming relationships with staff would absolutely irritate me to no end. I’m not talking about asking how my day was going or saying good morning in a cheerful tone. I was watching our assistant principal (who is 100% about appearances and never says what he’s really thinking, just passive aggressive if he wants you to know he’s mad) giving fist bumps to every single kid walking into the school, and one of them obviously was not into it, and he was all in his face DON’T LEAVE ME HANGING!!! Sometimes kids want to be left alone and it’s not for any reason other than they just want to be left alone. Not all of them want to be engaging with adults and building relationships every moment of the day. submitted by /u/Last_Hunt_7022 [link] [comments]
Yesterday my work laptop stopped working during a class and I exclaimed that it was “bricked!” (which was word that I had always heard used colloquially to describe technology that was only useful as a solid, heavy, roughly cube shape object…like a brick)….yeah, it means something different now… submitted by /u/DuanePickens [link] [comments]
I’ll go first. A few years ago, I had to move a student’s seat three times in one week cause he kept having issues with other kids. When the student came to complain and asked to move seats for the fourth time, I told them that “If you’ve been switched to three different seats already, maybe the problem is you.” Student told parent what I said and parent complained to the school. Admin told me I had to “watch how I talked to students.” The amount of nonsense I’ve had to deal with in this career is insanity. I find myself striving for less and less, retreating into my classroom just so I don’t have to accidentally expose myself to more nonsense. Got any more ridiculous stories? submitted by /u/ohmycash [link] [comments]
I’m literally about to pull my hair out with how our admin has been this year. Last year we were able to print to the color printer at the office. Apparently they got new printers and the wrong one was installed in the workroom and had to be taken out because it was 'too expensive' for teachers to print color and wasn’t in their budget. Now we have to send anything we want printed out in color to our secretary or principal for approval. I literally spent my whole plan time trying to get the printer to print only to get this email about them restricting color. All of our phonics and chapter math games are things that we need to print out and I can tell you right now it will be such a hassle trying to get approval every time to print them. Now I’m probably going to have to spend more of my time trying to find digital math activities and phonics games. My principal also decided today that she is going to sit in with me and my partner teacher while we are planning for the week. Apparently
Ooph! I get so sick of that question, and this year we have 3 different schedules weekly, so none of us can keep up with it. I got it all on one sheet of paper and made each kid stick it in the clear protector of their Chromebook. No choice. Do it! I’m banning the question now. Don’t ask. Look! I think I’m going to contact paper it to my podium too. submitted by /u/Hungry-Following5561 [link] [comments]
Complete throw away account. I have a student who has prescription Meta glasses. I already have other kids who discussed they share the same fears I do (people have been disabling the recording light). Is there anything I can do legally? I live in Texas and this feels like it would violate FERPA and the rights of our students, especially those that can’t be recorded. Should I report this to my union? Our administrators and board don’t seem to see a problem with it. I want to add that I am perfectly okay with things like district added classroom cameras, it’s not a fear of being recorded, it’s more of a student privacy and the potential of clips of classrooms being added online to be altered. Especially since we live in an age where Those things can be plugged into AI and altered to appear very real. submitted by /u/Educational_Bite_894 [link] [comments]
Rant for today: middle school gen ed teachers should not be modifying down to 1st and 2nd grade. In masses, teachers are just passing SPED kids along and they never receive the support necessary. It’s a vicious cycle. submitted by /u/BiteThese8993 [link] [comments]
Do you work at the same school as your own kids, why or why not? submitted by /u/katie_54321 [link] [comments]
Must be appropriate for the student AND their parent. submitted by /u/pyesmom3 [link] [comments]
I’m teaching 6th & 7th this year and I recently had a baby, so I’m having to pump at school all year long. My administration is great about this and I have two 30-minute times to do it. One of them I’m choosing to do over my prep, but the other has to be during one of my classes. So that class is being covered by someone else for 30 out of 45 minutes every day, which is huge. What do I even tell them? I’ve debated telling the truth or maybe saying something like “I I have to go to a meeting” every single day. Not sure how mature I’d consider them (I would tell highschoolers the truth) and not sure what parents might respond if their kids tell them which I’m sure they would. What did you tell your students? submitted by /u/DuckFriend25 [link] [comments]
I live in a state that added new legislation requiring districts to put policies in place to ban phone usage during instructional time. My school (high school) had previously used teacher enforced phone caddies to very little success. But to go with the new state law, we switched to a full day bell to bell ban on ALL personal devices. Large ones like personal laptops or tablets are confiscated if brought, and small ones like phones, earbuds and smart watches have to be placed in a Yondr pouch for the entire day. While the pouch system isn’t perfect, it’s still good enough to the point where it’s immediately changed the culture of the building. It feels like I’m teaching in an entirely new school this year. I haven’t seen a device once in this first week so far, and kids are actually TALKING TO EACH OTHER! It has completely reinvigorated many of us as well—suddenly it feels like I can actually do my job again without having to be device police. Anyway, I’d seen posts like this the last
I was put in an incredibly uncomfortable position today. It's the second week of school, and one of my students in an Honors course, whose mom is a teacher at my school, submitted his summer reading homework with over 50% written in a noticeably different, much more polished academic handwriting, while the other half is clearly his. I am almost certain his mom is the one who completed more than half of his summer reading. At first, I was going to go speak with her, but I'm now thinking I'll do as I would with any other student - speak with him first, give him a zero on the assignment, log it in our system, and push it on to counselors/admin and CC parents. I am very uncomfortable as a newly tenured teacher in my third year of teaching, and she has been at the school for over a decade. However, how dare she assume she/her son can get away with this? submitted by /u/boredinbrooklyn22 [link] [comments]
Does what it says on the tin. Only one kid is getting an alternate assignment and reading. First time dealing with this kind of request. How do I accommodate without drawing too much attention to it? Some more details. HS English 1, Texas, and our final assignment on the original novel is tomorrow. submitted by /u/Former_Lock9367 [link] [comments]
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Hope everyone’s school year is off to a good start for those who have started! I am in my first year as a librarian at a title l high school in a rural area. It came to my attention today that one of our students is in the 10th grade but cannot read or write. He doesn’t qualify for SPED because of his IQ. This shocked me and I didn’t understand how this child had made it so far in school without these very necessary skills… is this happening all over ? It’s become apparent to me that the school will bend over backwards to pass kids who make zero effort but I just can’t wrap my head around this. submitted by /u/Regular-Day-5611 [link] [comments]
I have a 9th grade self-contained SPED class with about 15 students. Now I’m first-year special education teacher. And I feel like I’m in for such a rough year. At first I wasn’t too concerned about the class size (I didn’t know any better since it’s my first year), but now that I have had a chance to talk with other teachers and thanks to some Reddit users, I have realized that I have too many kids in a self-contained class considering that I have no paras and I am the only adult in the room. I’m starting to feel very angry. Now that I’m starting content with my class I understand why other more experienced teachers at my school have been surprised by the size of the class, as the need for a para or dedicated aid is becoming more evident. I’m worried about doing myself and the kids a disservice this school year, especially since I teach a tested subject. What makes it worse is that there are other teachers in my building who have only one student and three students on their rosters. A
Almost 69, love my job, and yet I came home today wishing I could quit. I need some advice about how to navigate this new normal. I’m a high school English teacher, almost 69, and I genuinely love what I do. I’m outgoing, cheerful, optimistic, and I absolutely love my students. But I am miserable in my department office in ways that are surprising since one-on-one each person is great. There are nine of us, mostly late 20s to mid-40s. Four sit together and the nonstop joking, teasing, and camaraderie between them is incessant. They have their own little world. I sit there feeling invisible.And honestly, it hurts. A new faculty member has made it worse. He is a friend of the principal, and the sucking up and ridiculous buddy-buddy behavior around him is hard to watch. My department chair is part of the group, and we don't have a dean of faculty, so I don't even know who I could safely talk to. I’m afraid to say anything because I worry I’ll be seen as difficult or overly sensitive, and
"Your job can't just be about education." My principal told me that. With a straight face. That as a teacher I wasn't just being hired to teach but to join a second family. I don't particularly like my first family, why would I want a second? I want to work and go home. My passion is writing and English. I want to bring that but not be a surrogate parent. Yet that's what schools increasingly demand. Lots of people say to just have firm boundaries. Good advice but useless when the school won't accept it. When the school says we are the problem. My job should be to teach, not to be on all the time. Teachers try to have firm boundaries. We're burning out because the schools won't do the same. submitted by /u/Jack_the_Lizard [link] [comments]
This isn't really a rant i'm more just shocked at the fact that a good half of the seniors in my Political Science class didn't know what the emancipation proclamation was when I talked about it in class earlier to use as an example of something else we have been talking about the past week. I had to sidetrack a little bit and have a mini lecture on the end of the Civil War today. It really shocks me because Civics and U.S. History are prerequisites for Political Science in the school I teach at. You have to take and pass both classes. Am I wrong in thinking this should be something they should know? I feel like I learned about the emancipation proclamation when I was in middle school. submitted by /u/Lazy_Inevitable4077 [link] [comments]
Refreshing. I know some of you all are drinkers and/or smokers. Anyone else like hitting the bar/pub after work even during the week sometimes? It relaxes me personally, and I don’t like drinking at home alone. I always find it funny seeing a parent of a student while I’m out on one of these excursions. “Ha! Funny seeing you here. Cheers!” submitted by /u/Vast-State-4548 [link] [comments]
Edit: Thank you to everyone who offered their advice. As mentioned in the original post I removed the main body to ensure the safety of my students and anonymity after getting advice. For context the original post was about observations on a brother possibly sexualizing his sister. I'd reported it to my supervisor at the time but was having doubts on whether I had done enough. I am not in the US but I am still a mandatory reporter. I have met the requirements of my state but am authorized to report further if I feel the need to. After reading your replies and talking to a helpline, I have decided I do need to make a further report, I'll contact my supervisor tomorrow to inform her and ask her for the appropriate channels. My top priority is the safety of my students, all of them. But for now I need to make sure I am mentally clear before any further actions. As much as I want to believe I am misreading the signs, my gut tells me there's more to it and that I haven't done enough yet to
How do you make it through a school year that you do not want to make it through at all? What are your tips? I'm a high school teacher and every day feels like a long, arduous emotional journey. I spend all day excited to return to the peace of my home. If the economy gods smile upon me, I'll leave teaching at the end of the year and get literally any other job. submitted by /u/yonicsymbol [link] [comments]
24 yr old teacher, 4th shooting in my teaching career, I think I’m gonna close the book on teaching. I don’t wanna contribute to making the world a better place by being in danger, I want money and to be safe. submitted by /u/wtfnmnf [link] [comments]
I was watching this TikTok video with 4 million views and it seems like this woman is claiming to be a principal when she is actually a social media influencer. The story is fake. Surprisingly teachers and administrators are believing her story and that she is a principal in every single comment. Also other TikTokers who are teachers have also made posts reiterating the story as the truth. Cmon, don’t believe everything you see. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8cYgqmW/ submitted by /u/Informal-Building267 [link] [comments]
Just a vent. I’m a teacher currently teaching my students how to produce strong writing and deepen their reading comprehension skills. They ask me frequently what the purpose of having these skills is, when all of the technology that could create their writing for them exists. When all of the information they need to know is provided in an audible format . I’m able to teach some media and digital literacy, but my hands are tied because I also risk being affiliated with either political party (putting my job at risk) and upsetting parents or others in my very ______ district . I tell my students that these skills are applicable in so many ways to modern life. I give the entire hoopla about communicating, having to write persuasive efficient emails, standing out from the robotic masses that use AI to do their writing, etc. But modern life is progressing much quicker than educational reform and I’m feeling really weirdly about it lately. As the adult in the room, I know that great readers
So right before my pre algebra class this 7th grader who just came in before class started to disrupt my class started getting loud and I angrily said “get out of my class” after he overstayed his welcome and the look of his puppy eyed sad face made me feel so bad and guilty and I still haven’t gotten over it even though I should have . Has anyone had this experience before or similar ? submitted by /u/NoelK132 [link] [comments]
Had meet the teacher, parent went through the list of reasons they can get away with more than other students, “whatever it is, we can work with it. I have high expectations for my class.” (* looks at student) * student acknowledges, shakes head *Parent chimes in: “Well I don’t…. I’m just hoping we get her through, im okay with a 60-65, but I don’t think she will pass the state test” why, like even if you think that, why say it? atleast push them to do their best submitted by /u/Delo-k [link] [comments]
I’m genuinely curious if other teachers in California are experiencing the same thing or if my admin is just lacking. This is my 10th year teaching in a California public high school. We have kids who lie, cheat, use drugs on campus and even in classrooms, get into fights, cuss out teachers, openly disrespect staff, and repeatedly refuse to follow expectations, and yet there are still very few meaningful consequences. What’s especially frustrating is that it didn’t used to be this way at my school. When I first started teaching, kids would actually receive consequences for serious behavior, and more often than not, the behavior would stop. They even received consequences for smaller behaviors, that now wouldn’t even warrant a response from admin at all. There was a level of accountability that seems to have disappeared. Now we can document, write referrals, call home, have meetings, etc., but so much of it feels like paperwork without any real follow-through. And the kids know it. It g
So I’ll get straight to the point. We had a student who was expelled last year for extreme violence against teachers and students. Well today I found out he is now homeless and because of the Mckinley-Vento act we are required by law to enroll him. He has stabbed multiple people. Today they informed me they are so understaffed that I will not be getting a para in the class to help with this student. Students are coming up to me telling me they are scared of this student. Fourth grade. I 100% believe this student deserves to be in school, deserves to learn among peers, deserve safety and stability. He needs a lot of help and he won’t be getting it this year, and my students are going to suffer because of it. submitted by /u/Dry_Kaleidoscope5012 [link] [comments]
I propose that we might consider the following policy change to deal with staffing shortages: Teachers are permitted to inform a student, on the very last day of school, that they are in fact an asshole. They made chose one student each year and not more, so that the conversation can be a true tier 3 intervention. Just a thought. submitted by /u/Kiwi-Sorry [link] [comments]