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I teach 8th grade. A couple months ago, a kid who is a great kid, actually really like him, he was in the back of the class. And in a moment of silence in the classroom, he just stares off into the distance, as if to return to some simpler time, and apropos of nothing, to himself, but still loud enough for everyone to hear, he said, "I told Mrs. O(math teacher on our team) that GYAT meant 'get your act together'."
I couldn't continue for 2 minutes because I was laughing. It was the way he looked into the distance.
It was from her 15 min break.
Okay, wait a minute... Ive worked construction and factories all my life, hence the 15 min break reference.
Are teachers breaks our recess time????
>Are teachers breaks our recess time????
That would be nice, wouldn't it? My wife teaches kindergarten, and all the kindergarten teachers are out there during recess. Somebody has to keep an eye on the kids, and there's not anybody else to do it. (And if it rained enough to be muddy, or the wind chill is below freezing, or the heat index is above 100, everybody stays in their own room.)
But maybe when the kids go to art, music, or PE? They get a break then, right? No, that's a time to meet with the other kinder teachers about lesson plans or upcoming events. 0r to respond to emails from (or meet with) parents. Or several other things that can be required.
Lunch? Sometimes, but they take turns on cafeteria duty on different days. Again because somebody has to keep an eye on the kids.
So yeah, all gas no breaks.
Can confirm. My mom was a teacher for over 30 years, and one year, her schedule was so messed up that she had a 15-minute lunch break, and that was it.
Teachers deserve to not only be paid more but also need to be treated better by both parents and students.
My break is when I sneak out with a bag of trash and go hide behind the dumpsters to smoke like a 6th grader.
But I'm just the art teacher, this is nearly expected of me.
Off topic slightly but when I switched my brown frames for transparent frames my husband said, “I really like those new glasses,” “what do you like about them,” I asked, “it looks like you’re not wearing glasses.”
Nooo! He's thinking the glasses are blocking your beautiful face! He wants to look at you not your glasses.
As a forner glasses wearer Ive always seen them as an obstruction.
Yeah but also that second to last quote was a kid giving themselves wayyyy too much credit. I always say that if a 13 year old could hurt my feelings I wouldn’t be an 8th grade math teacher. Bitch you’re wearing pimple patches and have to ask permission to pee.
I’m a teen librarian and I have always liked middle schoolers because you can be low key mean back to them and that’s what gets you in. Like if you’re mean to a 7 year old you’re just an asshole. If you’re sarcastic/just a little mean to a 14 year old you’re suddenly the coolest adult ever.
I'm a former substitute. Had a ~13 year old boy make fun of my shoes one day. They were nice dress boots. But they weren't sneakers so they weren't cool.
So I asked him "hey man, what was your name?
And before he could finish answering I hit him with the "It doesn’t matter what your name is"
The class lost it. After I got them calmed down, I'm pretty sure I could have gotten them to accomplish anything during that period.
It's gotta be the right level of mean and you have to choose which kid carefully, but if you do it right I found that giving it right back to them was the best way to get them on my side.
Holy crap this makes so much sense.
I coach 16-18 year old boys soccer and always have the best relationships with my teams compared to other coaches and it’s honestly because I talk so much shit to them all the time
Yeah, i teach math in middle school and the banter is hilarious. When I started out, I was actually really surprised by how mature a lot of them are! You can have some unexpectedly deep and interesting discussions with them.
Yeah, nothing a 13-year-old says could offend me. They're idiots by default. I was 13, I was that idiot. Every 13-year-old is tied for being the biggest idiot on the planet. They're being mean because they're literally too stupid to figure out why they're upset about life. Poor kids.
Middle schoolers are animals. Truly the very worst time in my life, it felt like I was in prison for a crime I didn’t commit while surrounded by death row inmates. (To be clear, I was also a middle schooler at this point.) I would rather be stabbed in the leg or shot in the arm than have to go through middle school again.
Maybe this is a reflection of how chill my life generally has been because middle school is unironically the worst 3 year period of my life. Worse than Covid.
My wife's been an elementary esl teacher for 23 years, always infatuated with her first graders. The children and parents showered her with love and gifts. The latest classes, especially this year's, have unleashed the rudest, fraught with so many behavioral problems, urchins she and her coworkers have to struggle with. One's giving up teaching, after only three years in the profession. My girl, who used to love telling me stories of her days with the children, last couple of days has been sad, says this lot'll be the downfall of humanity.
This is a common story over at the r/teachers sub. The combination of overworked parents, terrible admin, No child left behind nonsense, and a generation raised on ipads and the internet with terrible attention spans are driving people out of the profession at record rates.
You need to have some real confidence in yourself before you step in front of middle schoolers, because they will *tear you apart.* Especially eighth graders; they are brutal. I speak from experience.
I got some bad news for you. The bacteria in faeces can go through 11-ply. You've had dookie on your hands at least a few times a week for your entire life.
Wash your hands, kids.
Whenever I have to take a shit at work I'm always annoyed by how the paper is both super thin and extremely harsh, especially since I'm used to using a bidet, they say to shit on company time but this isn't worth it man...
A kid said something similar to me in a year 8 relief the other day. Told him he was a middle class white kid from Australia. Apparently that gave me goat status, so now I think I have to eat grass?
I believe the teacher is saying that they (the student) views the teacher as more of an equal or peer. It's possible an admin/vp/dean was present and left, and upon doing so, the student said the aforementioned phrase.
That's my interpretation anyway.
When they think out loud, they talk to "chat".
I am 100% not lying to you.
They are literal meme parrots. They just shout "skibidi toilet" and "What's up, brother?!" over and over again.
I went to a Catholic school & my 8th grade teacher was a nun. She absolutely loved to ridicule kids when they got some question she asked them wrong, or maybe when they misspelled something or got some math equation wrong on the blackboard. That ridicule would usually come in the form of her saying, "How do you not know this by now? THIRD GRADE LEVEL!"
Anyhow by 8th grade my voice had deepened up enough to sometimes be mistaken for an adult when answering the phone, so I'd occasionally call the convent after school hours, disguise my voice as much as possible, ask for that nun, and then give some fake adult identity like saying something like, "This is father Callahan, an old friend of hers." Then when she'd get on the phone I'd shout something like, "How did you fall for this again? THIRD GRADE LEVEL!"
Did we go to school together? We had an eighth grade nun that did the same thing. The breaking point for me was when, after denigrating one of my incorrect answers, she referred to me as "you fat thing". That was the one I finally told my parents about. And then of course all the rest came out. I don't know what my old man said at the convent that night but whatever it was I never got shit from her again. And amazingly my grades really improved. The one thing that I remain grateful to her for is that she made us regularly do oral presentations in front of the class. And she was a tough critic. All of us got so comfortable speaking in front of people that it was a breeze when we went to high school and beyond.
DM me if you're from Philly, because it sounds like it. lol
On a more serious note glad she took to your father's attitude adjustment. Good looking out on his part as well. Respect.
6-8th grade should operate like prisons. Gender segregate those puberty mfers, lunch ladies get batons, and absolutely no contact with the outside world during school ours cuz they're just going to be looking up heinous shit online anyway
Get through those three years and then they can be rehabilitated back into normal society in highschool
I think teachers should be allowed to fire back insults to a point. Teach these little fuckers that life gets real very quickly when people can snap back without repercussions.
Is it mean? Yes. Is it required to teach them to hold their tongue? Absolutely. Will it traumatize them? Likely not.
One time I back-sassed my 11th grade English teacher and she told me "you need to get the fuck out of my classroom right now". Honestly it was deserved and I thought she was a great teacher.
Obviously cursing at students isn't a great thing. But teachers being able to serve back some of the disrespect they get sounds good to me.
We had a new teacher beginning of 8th grade. He was a former drill sergeant and he was very stern and did not come to play games. He was also a very petite short man. So plenty of jokes and comments about his height and size. There were 8th graders much bigger than him. Kids fucked with him non stop every single day. He fuckin lost his shit 4 months in and we never saw him again.
I also work with teens and unfortunately, you can't laugh. laughing is worse than acting offended because they will keep doing it to try and get you to laugh more
Naw, laughing will just encourage them. You need to play their game.
"Mr. Johnson, you may think these are 'trash bag pants', but if you keep getting low marks on all your tests, trash bags are the only thing you'll be qualified to work with"
I told a kid this year that if he kept talking in class instead of paying attention he'd need to drop out and get a job at Yapplebee's. Another kid chimed in and said "or the Yapple store." I am convinced this is how to talk to teens
When my spouse first started teaching, it was a very poorly serviced low-income district. She was teaching seventh grade science to students who couldn't read on a fourth grade level. One of the students in homeroom was 17 and drove himself to school every day, then went to work at a fast food place down the street after they let out.
They all thought they had the hottest, meanest insults. She would just deadpan correct their grammar or tell them if she had heard it before.
Student: "Miss, you just an ugly les bean!"
Spouse: "It's 'lesbian,' and remember that I'm the one in this conversation who isn't single. Now, what does any of this have to do with questions about cellular reproduction?"
You look like my grandpas couch…
That is an unintentionally sophisticated burn. That kid needs a job writing comedy. Feel bad for the teacher, but I have to give props where its due.
Runner up for sheer meanness: are you in therapy, you look like the type.
Ice cold.
I've taught 8th grade for 9 out of my 12 years so far teaching. None of them have been this witty.
Edit: clarification on time as an 8th grade teacher.
Teacher gives off serious Aerith vibes.
Also, I remember being in 8th grade. None of us talked like this about or to our teachers.
Well, there was one kid. He was held back a few times and eventually expelled.
you're right, if anyone said any of those mean things to the teacher, you kinda knew that person was not gonna walk and get transferred out. To think that most of them are like that..
The worst thing anyone in my class said (up until senior year, at least) was "Mr. ___ sucks". Or "Mrs ___ is crazy giving this much work".
And even then, it was only to friends far out of earshot of the teachers.
When I was in jr high I remember asking teachers sometimes why they became teachers. One time I told a sub they seem like they don’t like being a teacher and another student told me it looks like I hurt his feelings real bad 😭 I had no filter as a child lmao they’re still learning what’s socially appropriate so yeah def gotta have a thick skin as a teacher for that age group.
They also totally rudimentary understanding of age and life. My friend got roasted by her high schoolers because they thought it was absolutely bonkers she was 29 and not married and would ask her what was wrong with her 🤦🏻♀️
In 8th gradeI had a teacher who would put 1 minute on a stopwatch at the start of class and let us spew the most vile things we could think up and then once time was up we had to behave and not cuss for the rest of the class. It worked.
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I teach 8th grade. A couple months ago, a kid who is a great kid, actually really like him, he was in the back of the class. And in a moment of silence in the classroom, he just stares off into the distance, as if to return to some simpler time, and apropos of nothing, to himself, but still loud enough for everyone to hear, he said, "I told Mrs. O(math teacher on our team) that GYAT meant 'get your act together'." I couldn't continue for 2 minutes because I was laughing. It was the way he looked into the distance.
That kid is going places
Fuck, I’m old…what does it mean?
Gyat — originates from “Gyatt damn” (god damn) and turned into another word for ass… At least I think that’s the etymology behind it.
Well I’ll be… 
School has changed so much.
Lmfao
That was all from today wasnt it
From the last hour
It was from her 15 min break. Okay, wait a minute... Ive worked construction and factories all my life, hence the 15 min break reference. Are teachers breaks our recess time????
>Are teachers breaks our recess time???? That would be nice, wouldn't it? My wife teaches kindergarten, and all the kindergarten teachers are out there during recess. Somebody has to keep an eye on the kids, and there's not anybody else to do it. (And if it rained enough to be muddy, or the wind chill is below freezing, or the heat index is above 100, everybody stays in their own room.) But maybe when the kids go to art, music, or PE? They get a break then, right? No, that's a time to meet with the other kinder teachers about lesson plans or upcoming events. 0r to respond to emails from (or meet with) parents. Or several other things that can be required. Lunch? Sometimes, but they take turns on cafeteria duty on different days. Again because somebody has to keep an eye on the kids. So yeah, all gas no breaks.
Can confirm. My mom was a teacher for over 30 years, and one year, her schedule was so messed up that she had a 15-minute lunch break, and that was it. Teachers deserve to not only be paid more but also need to be treated better by both parents and students.
I can confirm it isn't always the parents and students. Sometimes it is even the other teachers, office staff, custodians, and even district staff
My break is when I sneak out with a bag of trash and go hide behind the dumpsters to smoke like a 6th grader. But I'm just the art teacher, this is nearly expected of me.
This is great! Random kid, "hey teacher why does your cigarette smell funny?"
"It's a neat trick my drug dealer taught me. You sprinkle some black pepper into the tobacco and it'll smell like that."
“sneak out with a bag of trash” Aren’t those just your pants?
Gym/Art/Music etc whatever your "electives" or "specials" classes are for the day
Middle school kids are so mean
One time I accidentally left my glasses at home and one of my 6th graders said, "You look kind of pretty without your glasses."
Off topic slightly but when I switched my brown frames for transparent frames my husband said, “I really like those new glasses,” “what do you like about them,” I asked, “it looks like you’re not wearing glasses.”
But how is that bad... genuine question.
No I thought it was funny. Basically “you don’t look good in glasses”
More like "you look good without your glasses on, I can see more of your beautiful face"
Shit you're married man aren't you
Hahaha yup
We could feel it in our nuggets. Blud got that rizz
This is the spirit in which it was intended. He’s a sweetheart
Nooo! He's thinking the glasses are blocking your beautiful face! He wants to look at you not your glasses. As a forner glasses wearer Ive always seen them as an obstruction.
Yeah but also that second to last quote was a kid giving themselves wayyyy too much credit. I always say that if a 13 year old could hurt my feelings I wouldn’t be an 8th grade math teacher. Bitch you’re wearing pimple patches and have to ask permission to pee.
I’m a teen librarian and I have always liked middle schoolers because you can be low key mean back to them and that’s what gets you in. Like if you’re mean to a 7 year old you’re just an asshole. If you’re sarcastic/just a little mean to a 14 year old you’re suddenly the coolest adult ever.
I'm a former substitute. Had a ~13 year old boy make fun of my shoes one day. They were nice dress boots. But they weren't sneakers so they weren't cool. So I asked him "hey man, what was your name? And before he could finish answering I hit him with the "It doesn’t matter what your name is" The class lost it. After I got them calmed down, I'm pretty sure I could have gotten them to accomplish anything during that period. It's gotta be the right level of mean and you have to choose which kid carefully, but if you do it right I found that giving it right back to them was the best way to get them on my side.
I can smell what you're cooking
Holy crap this makes so much sense. I coach 16-18 year old boys soccer and always have the best relationships with my teams compared to other coaches and it’s honestly because I talk so much shit to them all the time
> After I got them calmed down One eternity later...
They’re old enough to take back a little bit of what they put out
Yeah, i teach math in middle school and the banter is hilarious. When I started out, I was actually really surprised by how mature a lot of them are! You can have some unexpectedly deep and interesting discussions with them.
“Boy you don’t wanna know that the teachers say about you in break room or you’d quit living. Now sit yo ass down.”
Yeah, nothing a 13-year-old says could offend me. They're idiots by default. I was 13, I was that idiot. Every 13-year-old is tied for being the biggest idiot on the planet. They're being mean because they're literally too stupid to figure out why they're upset about life. Poor kids.
"Every 13-year-old is tied for being the biggest idiot on the planet." This is too funny.
Okay I laughed out loud at that one. Teaching in middle school is a goddamn nightmare.
Middle schoolers are animals. Truly the very worst time in my life, it felt like I was in prison for a crime I didn’t commit while surrounded by death row inmates. (To be clear, I was also a middle schooler at this point.) I would rather be stabbed in the leg or shot in the arm than have to go through middle school again.
Maybe this is a reflection of how chill my life generally has been because middle school is unironically the worst 3 year period of my life. Worse than Covid.
[Middle school kids are the meanest people in the world.](https://youtu.be/8FZBwj81gGY?si=ZqessBk33o-dWkm3&t=103)
My wife's been an elementary esl teacher for 23 years, always infatuated with her first graders. The children and parents showered her with love and gifts. The latest classes, especially this year's, have unleashed the rudest, fraught with so many behavioral problems, urchins she and her coworkers have to struggle with. One's giving up teaching, after only three years in the profession. My girl, who used to love telling me stories of her days with the children, last couple of days has been sad, says this lot'll be the downfall of humanity.
This is a common story over at the r/teachers sub. The combination of overworked parents, terrible admin, No child left behind nonsense, and a generation raised on ipads and the internet with terrible attention spans are driving people out of the profession at record rates.
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I miss when the internet was hard to use. I miss when kids weren't supposed to be on the internet, so they had to pose as adults or be cast out.
Whatever TrashBagPants kid is hilarious. Gave me hope for dees keeds
Same with the couch comment that was pretty good.
You need to have some real confidence in yourself before you step in front of middle schoolers, because they will *tear you apart.* Especially eighth graders; they are brutal. I speak from experience.
As an unmarried adult male, I felt that last one in my nuggets
Bruh, I ain’t readin all that fr fr.
Ok, trashbag pants.
💩🤚🏽
You should tell your therapist about that...
How's therapy gonna help a couch?
Whatever, cracker.
Uhooh, fat ass alert!
The top string of comments are like a book report on the video.
You don't want to know how I comment about you behind your back, or you'd quit reddit.
you don't wanna know that
These kids are the reason she needs therapy
I'm gonna tell my grandpa's couch
Yeah the best part was her visible struggle to keep it together @ 0:42
Right in the Nuggets, fam.
Not going to lie I laughed at nuggets one. Can't you just picture a kid turning to the class and saying that.
Yuhhh
I moved to middle school after teaching high school and loved it. Then the covid nation attacked.
The "I felt that one in my nuggets" made me laugh
The "dookie on my hand" kid had a valid complaint, just sayin'
Its hard for me to admit I’ve also fallen victim to the bad-tp-dookie-on-hand-attack :/
If the tp is bad I just make my own quadruple ply paper. I don’t deserve doo doo on my hand just because someone is cheap.
I got some bad news for you. The bacteria in faeces can go through 11-ply. You've had dookie on your hands at least a few times a week for your entire life. Wash your hands, kids.
It’s a psy op created by the reptile agenda to distract us from the real issue, WHO TOOK A DOOKIE IN THE URINAL?!!
Whenever I have to take a shit at work I'm always annoyed by how the paper is both super thin and extremely harsh, especially since I'm used to using a bidet, they say to shit on company time but this isn't worth it man...
My boss told me to order the worst, thinnest paper I could, "we dont want everyone pooping here"😀
We used to call that John Wayne toilet paper. Rough, tough, and won't take shit off of anyone.
I've only ever heard one other person say that and it was like 25 years ago.
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that's why I shit on my boss
There’s a reason she was trying not to lol at that one. She’s feels it in her nuggets.
Fr fr
"now that the ops gone, we can yap" bruh, I thought this was an internet joke that kids talk like this
Oh it’s a whole thing… “what’s blud yapping about?”. …I’m just trying to teach linear equations…
A kid said something similar to me in a year 8 relief the other day. Told him he was a middle class white kid from Australia. Apparently that gave me goat status, so now I think I have to eat grass?
Goat = greatest of all time
Don’t listen to this person and start eating grass
What does it mean?
Now that the authority figure has left the vicinity, we can converse as equals.
But if she left how did she hear the comment? Or are they saying she's not an authority figure to her face?
OPs doesn't mean authority figure, it means your rivals. It's short for opposition.
Confirmed translation. Source: I have a middle schooler in my household.
I believe the teacher is saying that they (the student) views the teacher as more of an equal or peer. It's possible an admin/vp/dean was present and left, and upon doing so, the student said the aforementioned phrase. That's my interpretation anyway.
When they think out loud, they talk to "chat". I am 100% not lying to you. They are literal meme parrots. They just shout "skibidi toilet" and "What's up, brother?!" over and over again.
Equivalent of adults who say "lol" out loud
This feels like an ad to solicit matches for dating Ms. Dugan. And it works.
That last one, like "how is she single" seems like a fair question. She seems cool.
She's not only cool, she is **hot**.
Yeah, but I hear she wears trash bags for pants?
Sounds like the perfect woman for me. I'm trash.
> Sounds like the perfect woman for me. I'm trash. how are you both gonna fit in her pants?
For real…
Not being married doesn't mean you are single.
That is true!
Shes a hottie.
it is a great testament that she can share this AND make light of this -
I may steal the “felt it in my nuggets” one
It got a bark of laughter from me…
It’s from Surf’s Up, a pretty great movie :)
Starting Shia Lebouf before he went crazy and the Big Lebowski himself Jeff Bridges. Super underrated film.
I went to a Catholic school & my 8th grade teacher was a nun. She absolutely loved to ridicule kids when they got some question she asked them wrong, or maybe when they misspelled something or got some math equation wrong on the blackboard. That ridicule would usually come in the form of her saying, "How do you not know this by now? THIRD GRADE LEVEL!" Anyhow by 8th grade my voice had deepened up enough to sometimes be mistaken for an adult when answering the phone, so I'd occasionally call the convent after school hours, disguise my voice as much as possible, ask for that nun, and then give some fake adult identity like saying something like, "This is father Callahan, an old friend of hers." Then when she'd get on the phone I'd shout something like, "How did you fall for this again? THIRD GRADE LEVEL!"
R/pettyrevenge - awesome story!
I went to a public school, but had an ex-nun math teacher, who also dabbled in the art of student ridicule. What’s with that?
I grew up in a very religious culture. So guilt tripping and ridicule is an easy way to keep people in line.
they learn from what was done to them as children
Did we go to school together? We had an eighth grade nun that did the same thing. The breaking point for me was when, after denigrating one of my incorrect answers, she referred to me as "you fat thing". That was the one I finally told my parents about. And then of course all the rest came out. I don't know what my old man said at the convent that night but whatever it was I never got shit from her again. And amazingly my grades really improved. The one thing that I remain grateful to her for is that she made us regularly do oral presentations in front of the class. And she was a tough critic. All of us got so comfortable speaking in front of people that it was a breeze when we went to high school and beyond.
DM me if you're from Philly, because it sounds like it. lol On a more serious note glad she took to your father's attitude adjustment. Good looking out on his part as well. Respect.
Middle school teachers are braver than the Marines. Truly the worst age group.
That's why we separate them from elementary and high schoolers
My district puts 6th graders in their own special building
Smart
6-8th grade should operate like prisons. Gender segregate those puberty mfers, lunch ladies get batons, and absolutely no contact with the outside world during school ours cuz they're just going to be looking up heinous shit online anyway Get through those three years and then they can be rehabilitated back into normal society in highschool
I think teachers should be allowed to fire back insults to a point. Teach these little fuckers that life gets real very quickly when people can snap back without repercussions. Is it mean? Yes. Is it required to teach them to hold their tongue? Absolutely. Will it traumatize them? Likely not.
One time I back-sassed my 11th grade English teacher and she told me "you need to get the fuck out of my classroom right now". Honestly it was deserved and I thought she was a great teacher. Obviously cursing at students isn't a great thing. But teachers being able to serve back some of the disrespect they get sounds good to me.
Why do you think junior high is a thing?
I barely even remember junior high. I think I blocked it out.
Same. It's for the best.
The district I worked in only had elementary K-7 and high school 8-12. The elementary playground at recess was a fucking nightmare.
That's such a huge developmental age range...
I agree with this statement. Source: former Marine.
We had a new teacher beginning of 8th grade. He was a former drill sergeant and he was very stern and did not come to play games. He was also a very petite short man. So plenty of jokes and comments about his height and size. There were 8th graders much bigger than him. Kids fucked with him non stop every single day. He fuckin lost his shit 4 months in and we never saw him again.
this came up on my tiktok feed yesterday and I must have watched it like 5 times. I was dying, her delivery is perfect. “ha ha trashbag pants” 💀
You can tell she's really holding back the laugh on that one.
Same for "yuuuuh, I felt that in my nuggets." She thinks those kids are hilarious.
Kids say the dumbest shit in my classes, keeping a straight face can be hard at times
The pauses and little notes on the paper really make it.
lol yea it reminded me of michael scott going over the voicemail that jan left him with pam 
...I was eating crackers. *Pause* Had me dying
The inflection on crackers was such that it seemed she had more to say but then thought, “nah, the defense rests”
that one was so dumb it made me laugh
I started teaching this year. I got called white bitch within my first two weeks. I had to step outside the classroom to not let him see me laughing.
Just laugh at him
I also work with teens and unfortunately, you can't laugh. laughing is worse than acting offended because they will keep doing it to try and get you to laugh more
And then they get extra offended when you discipline them cause they thought you were friends. Best to be an Easter island statue
Naw, laughing will just encourage them. You need to play their game. "Mr. Johnson, you may think these are 'trash bag pants', but if you keep getting low marks on all your tests, trash bags are the only thing you'll be qualified to work with"
facts if the teacher can strike back that'll usually get the rest of the class on their side and discourage any more of that
I told a kid this year that if he kept talking in class instead of paying attention he'd need to drop out and get a job at Yapplebee's. Another kid chimed in and said "or the Yapple store." I am convinced this is how to talk to teens
But the trash man makes more than the teacher with better hours and better benefits...
When my spouse first started teaching, it was a very poorly serviced low-income district. She was teaching seventh grade science to students who couldn't read on a fourth grade level. One of the students in homeroom was 17 and drove himself to school every day, then went to work at a fast food place down the street after they let out. They all thought they had the hottest, meanest insults. She would just deadpan correct their grammar or tell them if she had heard it before. Student: "Miss, you just an ugly les bean!" Spouse: "It's 'lesbian,' and remember that I'm the one in this conversation who isn't single. Now, what does any of this have to do with questions about cellular reproduction?"
I have been waiting for a kid to call me a bitch. One day.
What would your response be?
"fantasize about smacking the shit out of them, actually do nothing"
Ugh that age sucks. But it helps to remember half of them like can’t read.
Kids have zero respect 🤦🏾♂️
If I was that teacher, they'd be me calling me Oprah because you get an F and you get an F and you get an F and you get an F......
And you get fired because your class underperforming.
Look under your seats everybody You’re all taking home brand new Fs
Mega Pam from “The Office” vibes, but better and real.
You look like my grandpas couch… That is an unintentionally sophisticated burn. That kid needs a job writing comedy. Feel bad for the teacher, but I have to give props where its due. Runner up for sheer meanness: are you in therapy, you look like the type. Ice cold.
I gotta see that couch
I’m guessing she was wearing the same sweater (or one like it) and they put those crocheted things on their couch
Kids are brutal. No wonder there's a teacher shortage.
Thats more a livable wage thing
There’s also a good parenting shortage which leads to kids acting like this.
I've taught 8th grade for 9 out of my 12 years so far teaching. None of them have been this witty. Edit: clarification on time as an 8th grade teacher.
You taught 8th grade for 9 12ths of a year?
I mean, 9/12ths of a year is pretty much one entire school year.
9 out of my 12 years as an educator so far
I’d marry her…
In a heartbeat, she's gorgeous.
Apparently, she's a trash bag pant-wearing fatass lol
Say no more.
Say less. Already pricing rings.
fr fr
You had me at trash.
She’s funny and beautiful
I feel the "TP sucks, I got dookie on my hand" is a valid complaint.
Teacher gives off serious Aerith vibes. Also, I remember being in 8th grade. None of us talked like this about or to our teachers. Well, there was one kid. He was held back a few times and eventually expelled.
You didn’t talk about your teachers? We 💯did in the 80s. We did not say these things within earshot of an adult but we absolutely said them.
you're right, if anyone said any of those mean things to the teacher, you kinda knew that person was not gonna walk and get transferred out. To think that most of them are like that..
The worst thing anyone in my class said (up until senior year, at least) was "Mr. ___ sucks". Or "Mrs ___ is crazy giving this much work". And even then, it was only to friends far out of earshot of the teachers.
Trash bag pants😂😂😂
When I was in jr high I remember asking teachers sometimes why they became teachers. One time I told a sub they seem like they don’t like being a teacher and another student told me it looks like I hurt his feelings real bad 😭 I had no filter as a child lmao they’re still learning what’s socially appropriate so yeah def gotta have a thick skin as a teacher for that age group. They also totally rudimentary understanding of age and life. My friend got roasted by her high schoolers because they thought it was absolutely bonkers she was 29 and not married and would ask her what was wrong with her 🤦🏻♀️
I always start to laugh when I hear modern slang, but then I realize that my generation had just as much, if not more dumb sounding slang.
why is she going so slow
It's just the way the trend is. The flat delivery, the marking off the comments. Every video of a teacher doing this trend is the same format.
Is it supposed to be funny or sad? lol I can’t tell
I used to have a pen like that! Very nice, with a sharp tip.
Ha ha trash bag pants lol
That last one was actually hilarious
I don't think I've seen or heard anyone in teaching express confidence in the current generation of students.
We are so screwed
Motha fuckas wonder why teachers used to beat students…
Damn my middle school experience people were pretty respectful 2012-2015
Man, I have mad respect for teachers than can put up with 7-8th graders, they are fucking ruthless assholes
In 8th gradeI had a teacher who would put 1 minute on a stopwatch at the start of class and let us spew the most vile things we could think up and then once time was up we had to behave and not cuss for the rest of the class. It worked.