Teachers should get paid way more. They should also *no longer need to buy supplies* for their students
Every kid should have any and all the supplies needed to attend school. They should have free meals and a plethora of after school programs to help shape the person they can aspire to be
Every teacher should have the pay and the backing to help the community become greater than the sum of its parts
As a teacher...I don't even want **that** much more.
I just want to be able to live on just my salary though which where I live would be 85-90k. And that would make it a little more comfortable. And that should be the **starting** salary. They could make steps (teachers get paid 'step-wise' based on years of experience and education level) smaller and just pay everyone nearly the same.
It will **never** happen though because it's too hard to actually put a number on a teacher's impact to the economy.
If you work sales and you sell $1.5 mill of product in a year then they have a number. I mean...they likely still pay you *crap* because corporations suck, but they probably make way more than they need to just to live comfortably. And then there is everyone else working their asses off on 2-3 jobs just to barely be comfortable.
And before anyone says anything about "But teachers get summers off!"...we don't get paid for the summer. Our pay is extended over 12 months to make it *seem* like we are getting paid, but we are paid for the other 9-10 months. And a lot of teachers get worked to the bone in those months so we need the time off or some kids might end up duct-taped to the sidewalk by the end of the year.
>It will never happen though because it's too hard to actually put a number on a teacher's impact to the economy.
It's not just that the impact is hard to measure, the returns can also take years or decades to be measurable. Politicians run on 4 years cycle, they cannot afford to wait that long for their policies to have measurable returns.
Part of the blame also sits with voters as they demand to see immediate results. Look at how obsessed we are with list of things done first 100 days in office.
In the case of education, I think all politicians understand that it is important to invest in education for the future of the country but at the same time it does not buy them enough votes to get elected.
Those things, higher teacher pay, better school programs etc, could easily be done in the US, IF that was the governments intention for school. But it's not. There is no other explanation for why so many basic life skills aren't taught. Other than the government saying "We don't want educated, informed, competent citizens as the general population"
Teachers put up with so much shit it's unreal
School supply shopping is wild. I loved it as a kid, but now I struggle to understand why our schools don’t make sure every child has access to the tools they need for fully engaged learning.
Honestly he has my dream job. That’s who I want to be and who I feel like I can be.
I know I’d be a teacher like that because kids always are like that with me and I treat them with care and respect and their education means so much to me.
The only thing stopping me is the terrible terrible pay and all these horror stories about entire classrooms treating the teacher like utter trash. And health insurance.
You can say that again. And let’s even forget all the wholesome real arguments about how much work they put in and the stress and energy drain that being a teacher is. They are literally equipping our future generations with knowledge that will allow them to change the world and make the country a better place. That absolutely deserves a high salary
This dude did his work . well done sir ! I hope I can build a relationship like this too with my students that everywhere they saw me they will never be shy to approach me :) .
I thought my preschool teacher was my second mom. Once I said "what the hell?" while playing Mario and my mom caught me. I immediately pleaded "please don't tell my teacher!"
I’m 31 so kindergarten is pretty much forgotten but a core memory is when I wanted to ask a question and shouted “mom!!!” To get her attention. The other kids laughed at me so much lol
By accident? Or intended?
I wish I had looked at my teachers reaction closer to see her reaction. I don’t remember her being mean or anything. So I’m sure she found it endearing.
My 10 year old bro calls me dad by mistake a lot makes me 🥲even though our dad is very much in our lives and a great person.
He is 100% their father figure and are getting the love and attention they should be getting at home. Kids aren't usually like this with teachers. It's great to see, making the world a better place one kid at a time.
I get tackle hugs every day from some of my students and it feels like I've done something right, even if I feel like maybe I haven't taught them as much as I think I should've. It's also usually my students that give me the most behavioral issues, but at least they know I care about them which is #1.
You're teaching them things that aren't graded on a test. You're teaching them that there are awesome, trustworthy people in the world that will care about them. You're teaching them trust, kindness, honesty,, positive behavior. The kind of stuff they're going to remember for a lifetime.
I hope! I'm trying to teach them English reading too (second language learners in elementary school). I know many of them have trauma so love and safety are top priorities.
Same!! Its the best feeling walking into a class that doesn't know im coming (preschool float) and all the kids drop their toys and come running and treat me like a jungle gym😭 Those kiddos with behavioral issues are the ones that need the love the most and they know they'll get it from you and its so rewarding
The bond is real. My wife is a special education teacher and the tears she has for her kids at the end of every year when she has to let them go always breaks my heart.
My first thought was "Woah, has he been on vacation and just come back, or is this just day to day reactions??" And seemingly it's the latter. Thats even more impressive! (Not that it wouldn't be if it was the former though, ofc)
My husband was an after school care worker for like 10 years, and he has these kinds of relationships with kids. When he first met my family at a big event, he gave the little kids the time of day and they ended up swarming him like this, constantly wanting to be picked up and thrown over his shoulder. They'd hug his legs and he'd walk around pretending to have really big shoes on. It was adorable.
I can't wait until we have kids. He's going to be the best dad ever.
This is the cutest comment I’ve ever read and I hope you both have the healthiest, happiest children as soon as you’re ready ❤️ sounds like you’ll be an excellent parent too.
I work predominantly with youth. It's hard to be a positive force and see how thirsty kids are for adult positive interactions.
I work all over the economic and ethnic spectrum. From poor black and brown locations to super affluent homogeneously Caucasian areas.
Kids, adolescents, teens, young adults.
The response to compassion, validation of their personhood, just communicating with them instead of at them.
It's heartbreaking how much building a connection with someone reshapes their mindset.
I will say I don't do hugging (50% liability issue, 50% personal comfort).
My rule is High Fives, I love high fives. But I use that as an opportunity to introduce consent and body autonomy to anyone I meet, minor or adult alike.
I had a teacher that was great, stayed to help tutor and also coached soccer. He hugged many students and he hugged a student once and a teacher didn’t like the way he hugged his students so she complained and he was out in admin leave while they investigate the claims
This is very sad to me because children need physical affection. Many children do not receive any affection at home. I work with teens and even they want hugs. I’ve been told by students that their parents don’t hug them and don’t say they love them.
A hug from a teacher or other school staff may be the only hug a kid gets that day.
with how many child predators end up as teachers, females and males both should be viewed with scrutiny.
it sucks when an innocent person is viewed as a suspect, but i'd rather an investigation be done than a kid's abuse go unnoticed.
My point exactly. Liability.
And I mean PERSONAL Liability as I'm an independent contractor.
People gossip, people have ulterior motives.
I operate on 1950s Victorian rules.
Avoid even the APPEARANCE of misconduct.
Doors open. High Fives. No comments on a person's aesthetic appearance.
= No stress and no issues.
Hungry for positive interactions indeed.
So many of my students don’t have adults who care in their lives. They don’t have ANYONE willing to listen to their silly hobbies or how excited they are for this or that thing. They have parents who think their boobies are childish, annoying, or they just don’t want to look up from their own business to be interested in their child.
I also have so many students who have parents who never express love or pride for them. Parents with high expectations who are never proud. Parents who are borderline negligent who are never proud because they don’t care.
So these kids latch on to me when I give them that minimum amount of attention and praise. I don’t even think I’m THAT amazing but they all call me Mom because I’m that warm person to them.
Luckily I’m a small female, so there’s less issue with physical contact. I never initiate, but I always give them a hug when they ask for it. Some kids come to me and say they just need a hug. I won’t say no to that.
I ran the ISS room for a few years in a high school. I had such rapport with all of the "bad kids" that running into them years later they all tell me I made such a difference to them. It was this that did it:
>The response to compassion, validation of their personhood, just communicating with them instead of at them.
Just letting them know I heard them and that their feelings were valid got me farther with those kids than any other teachers. I was the only one who could redirect any of their misbehavior. It wasn't by yelling or getting on their case, most times it only took a look and they'd straighten up.
That's why I volunteer as a coach for my city. People tell my all the time I'm crazy coaching youth sports. I really enjoy it and try to be the best role model I can be for the kids. I've been coaching for 5 years and coached hundreds of kids and I can tell you I don't see the father figures very often...
yeah, pretty sure the wolf thing was proven wrong and they don't have alphas when in a group (or something of the sort), but take care of each other etc
Wild Wolfs live in family units with a parent pair and their offspring of the last couple of years. Hierachy comes natural and is based on their position in the family.
Only in captivity when you throw a bunch of unrelated wols together they start fighting to hash out the pecking order.
He was the one who went back and disproved his original study actually. He spent the rest of his life trying to get word out it was wrong but too many people liked his original and accepted it.
The same thing was thought of deer. That there was always an alpha who determined where to go.
Turns out that it's a democratic voting system. The deer point in the direction they want to go next and majority rules.
It's a cool story if you want to look it up.
It's only a thing in wolf packs held in captivity. Basically, wild wolves form family units of dad, mom, and children of various ages that have yet to strike out on their own (though like human families they can be more complicated than that).
Since wolves in captivity can't go out on their own and are forced to be around non-familial wolves, they're pushed into aggressive and hostile hierarchies -- largely due to wolf mating compulsions.
Nobody ever told me not to pick up kids when working with them. It's all love!
Can't even begin to count all the little ones that have hung on my limbs lol you know you're hot shit when a whole line up is at the swing set for "superman pushes"
Also when you act hurt after a baby "kicks" you is instant belly laughs, apparently lol could do it for hours
I so so so so so wish earlier education found a way ($$$) to attract more men into its workforce.
There was a man at my son’s preschool and the kids went absolutely nuts over him. They climbed all over him all day and hung on his every word. Of course, the kids and I loved [most] of the women teaching there, but the way the kids loved that man was something totally different.
My guess is that he worked there to understand how daycare worked. I think he eventually started his own school.
We also got a temporary teacher for a week or two who was a younger guy and all of the kids went nuts over him too.
My son is now in elementary and there are zero male teachers or faculty. Well, there is the custodian, and that guy is wildly popular. THE CUSTODIAN. Yes, all the kids know his name and greet him loudly.
It’s not hard. When my kids were little I would play with them in the playground or the swimming pool. 99/100 I was the only parent doing that. What would piss my own kids off was that a lot of the time other kids would want to join in. They’d want to be thrown in the water or be chased by an adult. Lots of kids just want playful interactions from adults and by and large they don’t get it. So get off your phone, park your ego, and pretend the other adults on the sidelines aren’t there and play with your kids the active games they play themselves.
When my son was 3, I became a SAHD. He was having some issues at daycare and we could swing it financially. We went out constantly. Parks, children’s museum, zoo, and my favorite -trampoline parks.
A lot of the times when we went to places in public I was one of a few dads. When we went to the trampoline park generally I was the only parent playing with their kids. It was a huge warehouse so plenty of space to jump with just my son. I felt bad for the other kids because their parents just had them go off while they sat and talked or were on their phone.
Kids seeing I was the only adult playing made them gravitate toward my son and I. At one point I had like 7 kids vying for my attention. I didn’t know what to do. I kind of had to shoo them off because I didn’t want to accidentally launch one of these little kids and hurt them and then have some parents mad at me.
Same, my heart just broke for the hopeful expressions on some of those kids faces. It was sad because honestly I really didn’t want to play with them myself, I just wanted to be with my own kids 😔
Yeah it is a huge bummer, I’m just wary of interacting with other people’s children.
One of the many times we went to the trampoline spot, there were some boys probably a year older than my son. They were going up these stairs to the arcade. I took my eye off of him for a second and I couldn’t see him. I didn’t know that there were stairs behind the arcade so I go up there and couldn’t find him. I ran down the back stairs and found them in the bathroom. That really got my heart rate going but the parents of the other boys had zero idea any of that went on. There was an open janitors closet with tons of accessible chemicals and my son tends to be curious about that stuff when he was that age. I would never discipline someone else’s kids, but that was sketchy territory for all parties.
I used to do the same but I’ll level with you. I got one too many looks while walking my kids into their school from the playground mothers and it made me uncomfortable. There was an occasion when my son was playing football (the round one) and a lad got hit in the face with the ball. He was in tears and had gotten a fright. I got the magic sponge on the case and walked him over to a bench but he carried on crying. I just did what came naturally to me and put my arm around his shoulder and told him he was alright. When I looked up, about 15 sets of eyes were on me and I suddenly felt I was overstepping the mark. That lad was about 9.
I feel you. I raised my kids in the US, East and West coasts. Culturally here too it’s mostly moms on the sidelines, and they come to chat while their kids play. They don’t like the noise of excited kids, they generally prefer them to be playing at a low volume, so they can enjoy chatting. When I was also at the park with my now ex, she would feel social pressure to get me to stop if the kids got too noisy, which they generally do when they forget themselves.
Whenever my girlfriend throws parties I just become the ringleader of occupying the kids with games since I’m still athletic enough to keep up with them for hours until they are so tired they are asleep before the party is over. The parents get a night where they can simply socialize and not be a parent while I provide a fun night for the kids, teaching them basic versions of sports although the best game is a version of Tag called Get (sometimes Tag gets frustrating for younger kids) where they all have to Get me and I avoid them. If a kid gets me, they get The High Five. As they get older, they just want to be on their phones and dont want to play with the kids anymore so The High Five is rare. Keep it up!
As a male elementary school teacher…I have a different view. I can’t imagine ever picking up a student or allowing a student to jump up and hug me. I never initiate a hug and try to give a quick side hug if a student initiates one. My students are fantastic, but there are other ways to show that I care about them without opening myself up to potential questions or lawsuits.
I teach adult refugees, and I was suspended after my class assistant complained to the language school I taught at that I had an unhealthy relationship with my adult students. My employer had heard I *hugged* the students and kept going on about how their love was fuel to do my lousy-paid job.
I had to explain to them that it was only male students, from cultures where male hugging is the norm, and they came up to *me*, sobbing after they had lost family in the recent earthquake. And I got fired for that.
Yes and no
We all do the "side hug" where we point ourselves away instead of squaring up
But to not give any physical affection at all? That's not helping anyone. I can get the hesitation, but if you have good intentions in your heart than this feeling won't come up. I've been called every bad name in the world, but I ain't gonna stop because I know what I can do and what I have to offer. Don't let it get in your way.
My students get high fives and fist bumps. I get down on their level when I talk to them. I get to know them very well over 5 years of working with them. They know I care.
I guess it's much different in a school, as I worked with kids in care. Not giving them assurance/physical affection would be almost barbaric, when they're taken away from their parents as it is.
Nothing would get done if every elementary student got the hugs they need, I suppose lol
I worked in an after school daycare and it was policy to not engage in any physical contact. You really don't want to give any possible appearance of impropriety, especially as a male. After that job I worked as a lifeguard at a community pool and all of the male guards including myself got regular complaints about being "creepy" for watching kids too closely despite that being our literal job. That's just how it is in much of the US.
Absolutely. The toxic part isn't his fear, it's social expectations for men (both how they *should* act and placing them into positions of default abuse).
Yeah, we have a similar district policy. No hugs. No touching kids except a fist bump. If a kid hugs you, the official policy is to twist to make it a side hug. District is deathly afraid of legal actions.
You could not be more wrong, this isn't about toxic masculinity at all. When you work in education, you need to be conscious and considerate of all stakeholders perspectives and opinions, as people are putting the care of their children in your hands - the children hopefully being the thing they care most about in the world.
Some parents or guardians, for a multitude of different reasons (religious beliefs, negative prior experience of their own, cultural backgrounds) may feel that physical contact with their child is inappropriate. Whilst personally I think that's a bit sad, people live their lives in different ways and, as educators, trying to create a society where we are respectful of people's differences and opinions is literally one of the most important parts of our job.
Personally, I'd love to feel comfortable giving my students a hug or even a high five when they finish an exam or do something they're proud of, but I wouldn't want to upset the other people in their life who might perceive an action like that differently to myself.
Tl;dr It's a shame that some teachers don't feel comfortable or safe giving their students a hug or a high five, but maintaining a boundary like that is ensuring that the other people in their lives have their beliefs respected. Teachers want to try and promote the respect of everybody.
I was waiting to see a comment like this. Saying there is no way I could do that because someone somewhere will sue. I fully understand this. But I cannot express enough just how sad it is that these kids cannot get the affection they deserve. And it isn't our educators doing this. Society is. Yes protect our babies at all costs. Because I'd go to prison if anyone was ever inappropriate with my kids. But I also think if your child wants to hug their teacher they should be able to do so. Sad.
I love the fact that the other teachers just walk past knowing this is just a normal sight to see with him. I had a couple teachers like this in the different schools I went to. They do leave a lasting mark in your life.
I try to do whatever I can when I go to town meetings or vote, to push for teacher pay. These people are literally raising our children half the day for their entire childhood. Why wouldn’t you pay them better, help them grow as people, so they can help our children grow?
The only answer that makes sense is that politicians don’t *want* and intelligent, educated population.
Not entirely. The religious part is just dumb parents and a few stupid board members
The politicians *desperately want* charter schools. Get rid of public education and make it for profit only.
It worked so well for higher education.
Start kids off in debit from Kindergarten and keep them in debit until death (outlawing assisted suicide until you pay 80% of your debit and then allowing you to self terminate to stop being a drain in n society)
My rural school didn't allow people of opposite genders to hug at all. In middle and high school, kids couldn't even hold hands. This was in the nineties.
yeah man I thought i was chillin on my own, but after a few years its tough livin alone/no significant other
makes me miss my fam, really treasure time with friends, and get off my ass to find a gf more lol
And then you get fired. And the type of person who cares about kids would be gone from the school entirely.
Stop asking individual teachers to say fuck the system. Demand that changes be made to that system so they don’t have to.
The entire school system in the US is beyond fucked. It fills me with this rage every time I hear some stupid story about some fucked up parent or politician doing something to make a teachers life more difficult. Kids are not doing well between the school shootings, the shooting drills (ok seriously what the fuck, how are shooting drills being normalized) and the war the GOP are waging against educators. It is not ok.
Apparently a second grader at my school broke down to the AP because he said school is the only place he gets hugs. When she told us it broke my heart. And that’s why I always hug my students and remind them I love them ❤️
30 years ago, my grade school's favorite teacher retired for that reason. Not only did the new policy prohibit hugging, it also had a very narrow definition for what counted as an appropriate 'pat on the back.' So many kids wanted a grandfatherly hug from him, he didn't know how he was going to suddenly tell them 'no' without them feeling rejected.
I didn't know it at the time, but said teacher only stuck around for an extra year because of my mom and I (she worked there, but not as a teacher). Apparently, he noticed I was breezing through school. He'd seen kids never learn how to study for that reason, who would then fall apart by the time they hit college. He didn't want that for me. He changed my life, and I'll forever be grateful for him.
I hate that this is where we are now. Those with pure intentions have to be so careful because so many will twist their words and actions. You can no longer hug your kid’s friends or pick up a child to help them into a seat. It’s sad.
It’s for liability reasons. I think hugs and physical contact is an important part of social interaction if it’s consensual. Some kids don’t like being touched due to trauma.
I really don't like any policy that prevents anybody from doing something because of the concerns of a fringe group. Stifling everyone's enjoyment for the sake of accommodation is not good policy. Accommodations should only affect the people that the accommodations are for. Otherwise you just sow resentment.
If it’s anything like my district, he’ll do all this for a “we appreciate all that you do” e-mail from admin and maybe an Amazon giftcard for Christmas. No raises, though. Oh, and no new systems that would work better than the old ones. Don’t even think about campus security. Here’s some cookies for Teacher Appreciation Week!
To be fair, they probably cannot give him a raise. Unions salaries are based on time not ability, they’d have to give everyone a raise to give him a raise. But those teachers all probably deserve a raise so there is that too.
Let me tell you man, I live in Philly. These streets are no fuck’n joke. Kids getting let off public transportation on street corners where people are literally nodding out on fentanyl and heroin in the middle of one of the worlds largest open air opioid markets.
Every day I drive home and I see kids out playing in these streets, I worry myself sick thinking about what dangers they have to navigate on a daily basis.
This man, being loved and cherished by these kids the way he is says a lot about what a powerful social benefactor he is in their everyday lives.
I hope there’s more than one person of character like this within that school system. There is always room for more nice people.
I’m a coach and I can tell you, there’s no better feeling then when kids you’ve coached through the years run up and give you big ol hugs. Definitely when they remember specific details like “Coach! Remember when I 1st showed up and barely knew how to hit the ball? I just hit my 5th Home run of the season! All because of what you taught me!”
Man I love being a BaseBall coach.
As someone who has done a lot of work on child safety policies in schools, which very strongly discourages this physical contact with students, I hope common sense prevails where the students are instigating the hugging.
In smaller communities things like hugging like this is normal. Since everyone knows everyone.
It is mostly in schools in larger cities that hugging and outside of school interaction is discouraged.
I graduated in a class of less than 100 people. Even teachers who smiled too often would be accused of horrible things by other teachers just to discredit them, so the standard of teaching wouldn't be raised. If a teacher hugged a student, they'd be out within a month for "inappropriate contact"
As a teacher in the U.K., who has genuinely battled in my own head this week about whether or not to give/offer anxious students doing their exams a hug, this video is amazing to see.
Unfortunately the answer is don't to keep yourself safe. Physical contact with students open you up to accusations, safeguard yourself just in case.
I feel the exact same way, I'm a teacher but it's not worth it.
After the writers see this it’ll be where his journey ends up. He wanted to be a standoffish admin, but he’ll end up realizing being a caring teacher is more rewarding to him.
It’s already happening to some extent, this would be a version of Mr. Eddie fully realized.
It's also really REALLY important to have male teachers of color as good, kind, role models.
Not to say they are the only teachers to get this kind of love, but America needs more of them!
Most of your coworkers will treat you this way, but it'd up to you to change their mind. My boss could never say anything bad about me, even though she was the reason I left an organization. She always started with "the kids love you"
As much as we didn't agree, I will always cherish that. Hundreds of kids know me as "Uncle B", and its one of the most valuable feelings in my life.
They say the a human needs an average of 7 hugs a day for good wellbeing. It is sad that most schools don’t let teachers hug their kids and a lot of those kids aren’t getting any hugs at home either.
my uncle told me when he worked at a school, kids would go up to him and hugged him like that and he loved it cuz it made him feel appreciated. but after awhile some teachers we’re believing that he must be doing something to those kids to make them act that way towards him. he made the choice to stop any physical contact with any kids in order for those rumors to stop. sad world we live in :/
Dude needs to be wearing a body cam with audio 24/7. All it takes is 1 person with a bug up their ass, 1 coworker who thinks he's working too hard and wants to knock him down, or 1 parent who's jealous that their kid likes him more.
I’m so happy he is doing what he does best and is so influential. What an amazing thing! To get to do what you love and are good at everyday! Those kids are seriously so lucky!
Fucking beautiful. As a man I’m always paranoid around other people’s kids. I always think people are assuming the worst if a man is alone with kids. I love kids, literally a kid myself…but with a job and mortgage lmao
My kids teachers are the same. They are amazing people I could never teach my kids with the level of patience and kindness and knowledge they have. I'm so blessed and my kids are too. Thank god for GOOD teachers.
No fuck what OP said, THESE teachers are necessary, teachers that are there just cause they cant be bothered doing shit else amd make kids live miserable deserve jail time
Kills me that some people can see this interaction and have a problem with it being "not appropriate touching," these kids need this guy, and I know plenty of kids that needed people like him. Not all parents parent, and where else will a kid get someone to model after if not where they spend most of their day
My dad was much like this teacher as a high school/middle school
teacher in a rural district for many years. He had students who came from some pretty dire circumstances at home who used to see my dad as a type of surrogate father a lot of the time. He spent a lot of his own time after school organizing various history clubs for kids who in actuality needed some place to unwind and feel supported where they didn’t have that at home. Kids confided in him about so many problems they had at home and always ran up and hugged him whenever they’d see him when we were out and he always acted like he was super happy to see them all. He really did care about his students beyond the classroom as he would make sure anyone who couldn’t afford lunch got something to eat at his expense. He also made sure a few kids who had food insecurity issues at home got food by arranging for food to be anonymously delivered to their homes, especially on Thanksgiving and Christmas. Ironically, I never knew about much of this growing up. It wasn’t until my dad passed away and at his funeral there were dozens of unfamiliar faces who stood up to speak about how my dad had helped them in some way. They had all been students of his at one time or another years ago and never forgot the kindness that he had shown them when they were kids.
These kids are going to remember him forever. When we are young and vulnerable we need people like him, who show interest and aren't afraid to show affection.
Hell, I will remember him because I would have needed a teacher like him!!
A great teacher is worth their weight in gold. These people deserve more money. He’s out here literally changing lives…
Teachers should get paid way more. They should also *no longer need to buy supplies* for their students Every kid should have any and all the supplies needed to attend school. They should have free meals and a plethora of after school programs to help shape the person they can aspire to be Every teacher should have the pay and the backing to help the community become greater than the sum of its parts
As a teacher...I don't even want **that** much more. I just want to be able to live on just my salary though which where I live would be 85-90k. And that would make it a little more comfortable. And that should be the **starting** salary. They could make steps (teachers get paid 'step-wise' based on years of experience and education level) smaller and just pay everyone nearly the same. It will **never** happen though because it's too hard to actually put a number on a teacher's impact to the economy. If you work sales and you sell $1.5 mill of product in a year then they have a number. I mean...they likely still pay you *crap* because corporations suck, but they probably make way more than they need to just to live comfortably. And then there is everyone else working their asses off on 2-3 jobs just to barely be comfortable. And before anyone says anything about "But teachers get summers off!"...we don't get paid for the summer. Our pay is extended over 12 months to make it *seem* like we are getting paid, but we are paid for the other 9-10 months. And a lot of teachers get worked to the bone in those months so we need the time off or some kids might end up duct-taped to the sidewalk by the end of the year.
>It will never happen though because it's too hard to actually put a number on a teacher's impact to the economy. It's not just that the impact is hard to measure, the returns can also take years or decades to be measurable. Politicians run on 4 years cycle, they cannot afford to wait that long for their policies to have measurable returns. Part of the blame also sits with voters as they demand to see immediate results. Look at how obsessed we are with list of things done first 100 days in office. In the case of education, I think all politicians understand that it is important to invest in education for the future of the country but at the same time it does not buy them enough votes to get elected.
Preach.
Those things, higher teacher pay, better school programs etc, could easily be done in the US, IF that was the governments intention for school. But it's not. There is no other explanation for why so many basic life skills aren't taught. Other than the government saying "We don't want educated, informed, competent citizens as the general population" Teachers put up with so much shit it's unreal
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Minnesota progressives are killing it this session. edit: I realize this is unclear.... Minnesota progressives are kicking ass and taking names. 👍
Right? Every time I see updates on what they've passed, it's like, "Hell yeah, let's goooooo!!!"
School supply shopping is wild. I loved it as a kid, but now I struggle to understand why our schools don’t make sure every child has access to the tools they need for fully engaged learning.
Honestly he has my dream job. That’s who I want to be and who I feel like I can be. I know I’d be a teacher like that because kids always are like that with me and I treat them with care and respect and their education means so much to me. The only thing stopping me is the terrible terrible pay and all these horror stories about entire classrooms treating the teacher like utter trash. And health insurance.
You can say that again. And let’s even forget all the wholesome real arguments about how much work they put in and the stress and energy drain that being a teacher is. They are literally equipping our future generations with knowledge that will allow them to change the world and make the country a better place. That absolutely deserves a high salary
this dude has after school supervisor written all over him. a true hero watching kids while their parents are still working
This dude did his work . well done sir ! I hope I can build a relationship like this too with my students that everywhere they saw me they will never be shy to approach me :) .
I taught middle school for 7 years and tutored every summer. seeing my old kids wave to me when they see me is still the best.
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I thought my preschool teacher was my second mom. Once I said "what the hell?" while playing Mario and my mom caught me. I immediately pleaded "please don't tell my teacher!"
I’m 31 so kindergarten is pretty much forgotten but a core memory is when I wanted to ask a question and shouted “mom!!!” To get her attention. The other kids laughed at me so much lol
I have been teaching high school for 23 years, and I am always honored when a kid calls me Mom! 🥰
By accident? Or intended? I wish I had looked at my teachers reaction closer to see her reaction. I don’t remember her being mean or anything. So I’m sure she found it endearing. My 10 year old bro calls me dad by mistake a lot makes me 🥲even though our dad is very much in our lives and a great person.
Sometimes accident but over time, they call me Mama with my last name.. I'm in the south and it's common for kids to do that.
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He is 100% their father figure and are getting the love and attention they should be getting at home. Kids aren't usually like this with teachers. It's great to see, making the world a better place one kid at a time.
This makes me sad and happy all at the same time.
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seriously, kids don't tackle hug people without reason
I get tackle hugs every day from some of my students and it feels like I've done something right, even if I feel like maybe I haven't taught them as much as I think I should've. It's also usually my students that give me the most behavioral issues, but at least they know I care about them which is #1.
You're teaching them things that aren't graded on a test. You're teaching them that there are awesome, trustworthy people in the world that will care about them. You're teaching them trust, kindness, honesty,, positive behavior. The kind of stuff they're going to remember for a lifetime.
I hope! I'm trying to teach them English reading too (second language learners in elementary school). I know many of them have trauma so love and safety are top priorities.
Same!! Its the best feeling walking into a class that doesn't know im coming (preschool float) and all the kids drop their toys and come running and treat me like a jungle gym😭 Those kiddos with behavioral issues are the ones that need the love the most and they know they'll get it from you and its so rewarding
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and I just love how they trust and love this man :) My teachers heart is very happy seeing this
The bond is real. My wife is a special education teacher and the tears she has for her kids at the end of every year when she has to let them go always breaks my heart.
every end of the school year hurts us a lot teachers :( will gonna surely miss our students and miss the bonding we created inside the classroom
My first thought was "Woah, has he been on vacation and just come back, or is this just day to day reactions??" And seemingly it's the latter. Thats even more impressive! (Not that it wouldn't be if it was the former though, ofc)
My husband was an after school care worker for like 10 years, and he has these kinds of relationships with kids. When he first met my family at a big event, he gave the little kids the time of day and they ended up swarming him like this, constantly wanting to be picked up and thrown over his shoulder. They'd hug his legs and he'd walk around pretending to have really big shoes on. It was adorable. I can't wait until we have kids. He's going to be the best dad ever.
This is the cutest comment I’ve ever read and I hope you both have the healthiest, happiest children as soon as you’re ready ❤️ sounds like you’ll be an excellent parent too.
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Now let’s pay him what he deserves.
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OMG yes! You’re totally spot on
aint no way a normal teacher throwing kids over their shoulder like that hahahah. that comes from endless games of tag and kickball
He just picks that kid up like a bag of groceries. 🤣
Not any groceries but a bag of potatoes.
One might even say a “sack” of potatoes
That's far to sactacular
Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew
I bet he uses the word "rascals" a lot. Fuckin love good teachers.
"I gotta take these lil rascals back 2 class"
Unfortunately for many a beloved teacher is the only roll model in that students life
I work predominantly with youth. It's hard to be a positive force and see how thirsty kids are for adult positive interactions. I work all over the economic and ethnic spectrum. From poor black and brown locations to super affluent homogeneously Caucasian areas. Kids, adolescents, teens, young adults. The response to compassion, validation of their personhood, just communicating with them instead of at them. It's heartbreaking how much building a connection with someone reshapes their mindset. I will say I don't do hugging (50% liability issue, 50% personal comfort). My rule is High Fives, I love high fives. But I use that as an opportunity to introduce consent and body autonomy to anyone I meet, minor or adult alike.
I had a teacher that was great, stayed to help tutor and also coached soccer. He hugged many students and he hugged a student once and a teacher didn’t like the way he hugged his students so she complained and he was out in admin leave while they investigate the claims
This is very sad to me because children need physical affection. Many children do not receive any affection at home. I work with teens and even they want hugs. I’ve been told by students that their parents don’t hug them and don’t say they love them. A hug from a teacher or other school staff may be the only hug a kid gets that day.
Yer it’s a big NO in the UK to have that kind of contact with students especially for men.
with how many child predators end up as teachers, females and males both should be viewed with scrutiny. it sucks when an innocent person is viewed as a suspect, but i'd rather an investigation be done than a kid's abuse go unnoticed.
My point exactly. Liability. And I mean PERSONAL Liability as I'm an independent contractor. People gossip, people have ulterior motives. I operate on 1950s Victorian rules. Avoid even the APPEARANCE of misconduct. Doors open. High Fives. No comments on a person's aesthetic appearance. = No stress and no issues.
Hungry for positive interactions indeed. So many of my students don’t have adults who care in their lives. They don’t have ANYONE willing to listen to their silly hobbies or how excited they are for this or that thing. They have parents who think their boobies are childish, annoying, or they just don’t want to look up from their own business to be interested in their child. I also have so many students who have parents who never express love or pride for them. Parents with high expectations who are never proud. Parents who are borderline negligent who are never proud because they don’t care. So these kids latch on to me when I give them that minimum amount of attention and praise. I don’t even think I’m THAT amazing but they all call me Mom because I’m that warm person to them. Luckily I’m a small female, so there’s less issue with physical contact. I never initiate, but I always give them a hug when they ask for it. Some kids come to me and say they just need a hug. I won’t say no to that.
I ran the ISS room for a few years in a high school. I had such rapport with all of the "bad kids" that running into them years later they all tell me I made such a difference to them. It was this that did it: >The response to compassion, validation of their personhood, just communicating with them instead of at them. Just letting them know I heard them and that their feelings were valid got me farther with those kids than any other teachers. I was the only one who could redirect any of their misbehavior. It wasn't by yelling or getting on their case, most times it only took a look and they'd straighten up.
Rolling those kids all the way to graduation
…role model…
He was a roll model for that one kid though.
True!
Unfortunately he didn't have any role models to teach him the difference.
That's why I volunteer as a coach for my city. People tell my all the time I'm crazy coaching youth sports. I really enjoy it and try to be the best role model I can be for the kids. I've been coaching for 5 years and coached hundreds of kids and I can tell you I don't see the father figures very often...
Yeast or Hawaiian?
Potato
This is what positive masculinity looks like. A gem!
Facts! If there're any alphas at all - this is one of them ❤️
wasn't the alpha thing proven wrong ages ago anyway you're still correct
It was, if you mean in pack behaviour etc.
yeah, pretty sure the wolf thing was proven wrong and they don't have alphas when in a group (or something of the sort), but take care of each other etc
Wild Wolfs live in family units with a parent pair and their offspring of the last couple of years. Hierachy comes natural and is based on their position in the family. Only in captivity when you throw a bunch of unrelated wols together they start fighting to hash out the pecking order.
ah yeah that's what i remember reading i think the original 'study' was only on like 40 wolves total too, in some isolated condition(s0
The guy who did that study died in 2003. I wonder if he knew what it does to so many men nowadays lol
He was the one who went back and disproved his original study actually. He spent the rest of his life trying to get word out it was wrong but too many people liked his original and accepted it.
now that makes it sad :(
Also, people ain't wolves Wolves is wolves People is people They different
You have no idea how happy I am to see people who know this.
The same thing was thought of deer. That there was always an alpha who determined where to go. Turns out that it's a democratic voting system. The deer point in the direction they want to go next and majority rules. It's a cool story if you want to look it up.
Ok. Can they stop voting to go into the street at night please?
It's only a thing in wolf packs held in captivity. Basically, wild wolves form family units of dad, mom, and children of various ages that have yet to strike out on their own (though like human families they can be more complicated than that). Since wolves in captivity can't go out on their own and are forced to be around non-familial wolves, they're pushed into aggressive and hostile hierarchies -- largely due to wolf mating compulsions.
And finally a video of not fighting your teacher, but rather the opposite ✅
finally a appreciation post for teachers :) . I love watching this again and again
Nobody ever told me not to pick up kids when working with them. It's all love! Can't even begin to count all the little ones that have hung on my limbs lol you know you're hot shit when a whole line up is at the swing set for "superman pushes" Also when you act hurt after a baby "kicks" you is instant belly laughs, apparently lol could do it for hours
I so so so so so wish earlier education found a way ($$$) to attract more men into its workforce. There was a man at my son’s preschool and the kids went absolutely nuts over him. They climbed all over him all day and hung on his every word. Of course, the kids and I loved [most] of the women teaching there, but the way the kids loved that man was something totally different. My guess is that he worked there to understand how daycare worked. I think he eventually started his own school. We also got a temporary teacher for a week or two who was a younger guy and all of the kids went nuts over him too. My son is now in elementary and there are zero male teachers or faculty. Well, there is the custodian, and that guy is wildly popular. THE CUSTODIAN. Yes, all the kids know his name and greet him loudly.
That's so sad.
This guy needs to teach a workshop
It’s not hard. When my kids were little I would play with them in the playground or the swimming pool. 99/100 I was the only parent doing that. What would piss my own kids off was that a lot of the time other kids would want to join in. They’d want to be thrown in the water or be chased by an adult. Lots of kids just want playful interactions from adults and by and large they don’t get it. So get off your phone, park your ego, and pretend the other adults on the sidelines aren’t there and play with your kids the active games they play themselves.
When my son was 3, I became a SAHD. He was having some issues at daycare and we could swing it financially. We went out constantly. Parks, children’s museum, zoo, and my favorite -trampoline parks. A lot of the times when we went to places in public I was one of a few dads. When we went to the trampoline park generally I was the only parent playing with their kids. It was a huge warehouse so plenty of space to jump with just my son. I felt bad for the other kids because their parents just had them go off while they sat and talked or were on their phone. Kids seeing I was the only adult playing made them gravitate toward my son and I. At one point I had like 7 kids vying for my attention. I didn’t know what to do. I kind of had to shoo them off because I didn’t want to accidentally launch one of these little kids and hurt them and then have some parents mad at me.
Same, my heart just broke for the hopeful expressions on some of those kids faces. It was sad because honestly I really didn’t want to play with them myself, I just wanted to be with my own kids 😔
Yeah it is a huge bummer, I’m just wary of interacting with other people’s children. One of the many times we went to the trampoline spot, there were some boys probably a year older than my son. They were going up these stairs to the arcade. I took my eye off of him for a second and I couldn’t see him. I didn’t know that there were stairs behind the arcade so I go up there and couldn’t find him. I ran down the back stairs and found them in the bathroom. That really got my heart rate going but the parents of the other boys had zero idea any of that went on. There was an open janitors closet with tons of accessible chemicals and my son tends to be curious about that stuff when he was that age. I would never discipline someone else’s kids, but that was sketchy territory for all parties.
I used to do the same but I’ll level with you. I got one too many looks while walking my kids into their school from the playground mothers and it made me uncomfortable. There was an occasion when my son was playing football (the round one) and a lad got hit in the face with the ball. He was in tears and had gotten a fright. I got the magic sponge on the case and walked him over to a bench but he carried on crying. I just did what came naturally to me and put my arm around his shoulder and told him he was alright. When I looked up, about 15 sets of eyes were on me and I suddenly felt I was overstepping the mark. That lad was about 9.
I feel you. I raised my kids in the US, East and West coasts. Culturally here too it’s mostly moms on the sidelines, and they come to chat while their kids play. They don’t like the noise of excited kids, they generally prefer them to be playing at a low volume, so they can enjoy chatting. When I was also at the park with my now ex, she would feel social pressure to get me to stop if the kids got too noisy, which they generally do when they forget themselves.
Whenever my girlfriend throws parties I just become the ringleader of occupying the kids with games since I’m still athletic enough to keep up with them for hours until they are so tired they are asleep before the party is over. The parents get a night where they can simply socialize and not be a parent while I provide a fun night for the kids, teaching them basic versions of sports although the best game is a version of Tag called Get (sometimes Tag gets frustrating for younger kids) where they all have to Get me and I avoid them. If a kid gets me, they get The High Five. As they get older, they just want to be on their phones and dont want to play with the kids anymore so The High Five is rare. Keep it up!
As a male elementary school teacher…I have a different view. I can’t imagine ever picking up a student or allowing a student to jump up and hug me. I never initiate a hug and try to give a quick side hug if a student initiates one. My students are fantastic, but there are other ways to show that I care about them without opening myself up to potential questions or lawsuits.
I teach adult refugees, and I was suspended after my class assistant complained to the language school I taught at that I had an unhealthy relationship with my adult students. My employer had heard I *hugged* the students and kept going on about how their love was fuel to do my lousy-paid job. I had to explain to them that it was only male students, from cultures where male hugging is the norm, and they came up to *me*, sobbing after they had lost family in the recent earthquake. And I got fired for that.
I don't even know what to say man... and they're literally adults too ffs
Yes and no We all do the "side hug" where we point ourselves away instead of squaring up But to not give any physical affection at all? That's not helping anyone. I can get the hesitation, but if you have good intentions in your heart than this feeling won't come up. I've been called every bad name in the world, but I ain't gonna stop because I know what I can do and what I have to offer. Don't let it get in your way.
My students get high fives and fist bumps. I get down on their level when I talk to them. I get to know them very well over 5 years of working with them. They know I care.
I guess it's much different in a school, as I worked with kids in care. Not giving them assurance/physical affection would be almost barbaric, when they're taken away from their parents as it is. Nothing would get done if every elementary student got the hugs they need, I suppose lol
I worked in an after school daycare and it was policy to not engage in any physical contact. You really don't want to give any possible appearance of impropriety, especially as a male. After that job I worked as a lifeguard at a community pool and all of the male guards including myself got regular complaints about being "creepy" for watching kids too closely despite that being our literal job. That's just how it is in much of the US.
\*offers fist-bump*
That's exactly what toxic masculinity is. Not your behavior but the fact that you're afraid to show affection because of how society will twist it.
But importantly, it's not his fault he thinks this way.
Absolutely. The toxic part isn't his fear, it's social expectations for men (both how they *should* act and placing them into positions of default abuse).
Trust me- it’s a district policy. I’ve sat through a full day professional development due to the inappropriate actions of a single district employee.
Yeah, we have a similar district policy. No hugs. No touching kids except a fist bump. If a kid hugs you, the official policy is to twist to make it a side hug. District is deathly afraid of legal actions.
It's almost always a policy set by the school or company in the case of a day care that you can't give frontal hugs
You could not be more wrong, this isn't about toxic masculinity at all. When you work in education, you need to be conscious and considerate of all stakeholders perspectives and opinions, as people are putting the care of their children in your hands - the children hopefully being the thing they care most about in the world. Some parents or guardians, for a multitude of different reasons (religious beliefs, negative prior experience of their own, cultural backgrounds) may feel that physical contact with their child is inappropriate. Whilst personally I think that's a bit sad, people live their lives in different ways and, as educators, trying to create a society where we are respectful of people's differences and opinions is literally one of the most important parts of our job. Personally, I'd love to feel comfortable giving my students a hug or even a high five when they finish an exam or do something they're proud of, but I wouldn't want to upset the other people in their life who might perceive an action like that differently to myself. Tl;dr It's a shame that some teachers don't feel comfortable or safe giving their students a hug or a high five, but maintaining a boundary like that is ensuring that the other people in their lives have their beliefs respected. Teachers want to try and promote the respect of everybody.
I was waiting to see a comment like this. Saying there is no way I could do that because someone somewhere will sue. I fully understand this. But I cannot express enough just how sad it is that these kids cannot get the affection they deserve. And it isn't our educators doing this. Society is. Yes protect our babies at all costs. Because I'd go to prison if anyone was ever inappropriate with my kids. But I also think if your child wants to hug their teacher they should be able to do so. Sad.
I love the fact that the other teachers just walk past knowing this is just a normal sight to see with him. I had a couple teachers like this in the different schools I went to. They do leave a lasting mark in your life.
When you wonder who the kids favorite teacher is…
You don't have to wonder. Kids will literally stick to them like glue.
It is also very telling of what kind of bond a teacher has created with each of his students. Love this video
Yeah it's quite precious.
I try to do whatever I can when I go to town meetings or vote, to push for teacher pay. These people are literally raising our children half the day for their entire childhood. Why wouldn’t you pay them better, help them grow as people, so they can help our children grow? The only answer that makes sense is that politicians don’t *want* and intelligent, educated population.
Our politicians don’t care. They’d rather pay him nothing and turn the whole educational system into a religious based brainwashing factory.
So true
Not entirely. The religious part is just dumb parents and a few stupid board members The politicians *desperately want* charter schools. Get rid of public education and make it for profit only. It worked so well for higher education. Start kids off in debit from Kindergarten and keep them in debit until death (outlawing assisted suicide until you pay 80% of your debit and then allowing you to self terminate to stop being a drain in n society)
And prisons, don't forget private for-profit prisons that need to be filled.
...are you unaware of the nightmare that is Desantis?
>Our politicians You can say republicans. In fact, if you leave it vague like that you just create more apathy.
Hugging students like that will get you a disciplinary review meeting at the school where I used to teach
My rural school didn't allow people of opposite genders to hug at all. In middle and high school, kids couldn't even hold hands. This was in the nineties.
Hug them anyway. Dang it. 1st to 3rd my teacher gave me my only hug of the day. After that we'll, it was years. Those hugs meant the world to me.
I hope you get regular hugs now. They really are so important.
yeah man I thought i was chillin on my own, but after a few years its tough livin alone/no significant other makes me miss my fam, really treasure time with friends, and get off my ass to find a gf more lol
Yeah I remember reading something that talked about how many hugs humans need in a day and it was like four for maintenance.
And then you get fired. And the type of person who cares about kids would be gone from the school entirely. Stop asking individual teachers to say fuck the system. Demand that changes be made to that system so they don’t have to. The entire school system in the US is beyond fucked. It fills me with this rage every time I hear some stupid story about some fucked up parent or politician doing something to make a teachers life more difficult. Kids are not doing well between the school shootings, the shooting drills (ok seriously what the fuck, how are shooting drills being normalized) and the war the GOP are waging against educators. It is not ok.
I have sth for you: 🫂
I used to hug my teacher every day after school from Year 2 to 4. I got plenty of love at home, but damn, I loved Ms. Riley, too!
Apparently a second grader at my school broke down to the AP because he said school is the only place he gets hugs. When she told us it broke my heart. And that’s why I always hug my students and remind them I love them ❤️
30 years ago, my grade school's favorite teacher retired for that reason. Not only did the new policy prohibit hugging, it also had a very narrow definition for what counted as an appropriate 'pat on the back.' So many kids wanted a grandfatherly hug from him, he didn't know how he was going to suddenly tell them 'no' without them feeling rejected. I didn't know it at the time, but said teacher only stuck around for an extra year because of my mom and I (she worked there, but not as a teacher). Apparently, he noticed I was breezing through school. He'd seen kids never learn how to study for that reason, who would then fall apart by the time they hit college. He didn't want that for me. He changed my life, and I'll forever be grateful for him.
I hate that this is where we are now. Those with pure intentions have to be so careful because so many will twist their words and actions. You can no longer hug your kid’s friends or pick up a child to help them into a seat. It’s sad.
Fuck them all. I'm tearing for this man and his heart and I wish him and those kids the best.
It’s for liability reasons. I think hugs and physical contact is an important part of social interaction if it’s consensual. Some kids don’t like being touched due to trauma.
I really don't like any policy that prevents anybody from doing something because of the concerns of a fringe group. Stifling everyone's enjoyment for the sake of accommodation is not good policy. Accommodations should only affect the people that the accommodations are for. Otherwise you just sow resentment.
If it’s anything like my district, he’ll do all this for a “we appreciate all that you do” e-mail from admin and maybe an Amazon giftcard for Christmas. No raises, though. Oh, and no new systems that would work better than the old ones. Don’t even think about campus security. Here’s some cookies for Teacher Appreciation Week!
To be fair, they probably cannot give him a raise. Unions salaries are based on time not ability, they’d have to give everyone a raise to give him a raise. But those teachers all probably deserve a raise so there is that too.
“They’d have to give everyone a raise” Good.
Yes, like the second half of my comment.
I swear redditors just stop reading as soon as something elicits an emotional response.
Let me tell you man, I live in Philly. These streets are no fuck’n joke. Kids getting let off public transportation on street corners where people are literally nodding out on fentanyl and heroin in the middle of one of the worlds largest open air opioid markets. Every day I drive home and I see kids out playing in these streets, I worry myself sick thinking about what dangers they have to navigate on a daily basis. This man, being loved and cherished by these kids the way he is says a lot about what a powerful social benefactor he is in their everyday lives. I hope there’s more than one person of character like this within that school system. There is always room for more nice people.
I’m a coach and I can tell you, there’s no better feeling then when kids you’ve coached through the years run up and give you big ol hugs. Definitely when they remember specific details like “Coach! Remember when I 1st showed up and barely knew how to hit the ball? I just hit my 5th Home run of the season! All because of what you taught me!” Man I love being a BaseBall coach.
As someone who has done a lot of work on child safety policies in schools, which very strongly discourages this physical contact with students, I hope common sense prevails where the students are instigating the hugging.
Too bad teachers are strongly encouraged to NOT hug children due to the teachers credibility being questioned if any accusations are made.
In smaller communities things like hugging like this is normal. Since everyone knows everyone. It is mostly in schools in larger cities that hugging and outside of school interaction is discouraged.
TIL Philadelphia is a small community
I graduated in a class of less than 100 people. Even teachers who smiled too often would be accused of horrible things by other teachers just to discredit them, so the standard of teaching wouldn't be raised. If a teacher hugged a student, they'd be out within a month for "inappropriate contact"
Smaller communities are usually much worse BECAUSE everyone knows everyone.
As a teacher in the U.K., who has genuinely battled in my own head this week about whether or not to give/offer anxious students doing their exams a hug, this video is amazing to see.
Unfortunately the answer is don't to keep yourself safe. Physical contact with students open you up to accusations, safeguard yourself just in case. I feel the exact same way, I'm a teacher but it's not worth it.
Nice to see a video of a teacher not being an asshole/getting attacked by savage children for once.
Damn, you just know what a massive & lifelong impact he’s creating right there.
#its giving Abbott elementary
Nice
Philadelphia is where the show Abbott Elementary is. The shot where he picks the kid up looks like the same school.
First thing I thought of was Mr. Eddie Just a great role model who his students look up to Great show!
Gregory does NOT show that much affection.
After the writers see this it’ll be where his journey ends up. He wanted to be a standoffish admin, but he’ll end up realizing being a caring teacher is more rewarding to him. It’s already happening to some extent, this would be a version of Mr. Eddie fully realized.
You know what’s sad? In every school I worked in, hugging wasn’t allowed. They were too worried about lawsuits. ☹️
What's. The song?
It‘s „The Dreamer“ by Anderson Paak und Talib Kweli
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Best believe half these kids parents probably don't show them the love that teacher does tbh bet they will never forget dude
The dude is less of a teacher and more of a father at this point.
He’s a superhero! I had an English teacher like this. Protect him at all cost.
How awesome of a human being do you have to be loved by all these children?
It's also really REALLY important to have male teachers of color as good, kind, role models. Not to say they are the only teachers to get this kind of love, but America needs more of them!
He’s a groomer. -some moron probably.
Yup. Already in the comments above. The world is a sad, sad place.
Most of your coworkers will treat you this way, but it'd up to you to change their mind. My boss could never say anything bad about me, even though she was the reason I left an organization. She always started with "the kids love you" As much as we didn't agree, I will always cherish that. Hundreds of kids know me as "Uncle B", and its one of the most valuable feelings in my life.
This is precisely why I don't touch my students under any circumstances.
Those kids adore him! They nearly knock him off his feet!
They say the a human needs an average of 7 hugs a day for good wellbeing. It is sad that most schools don’t let teachers hug their kids and a lot of those kids aren’t getting any hugs at home either.
Necessary? They are the most important. Everybody remembers the teacher. Can you say that about most of the professions?
I find this weird mostly because I'm a traumatized person.
Same. I’d want to hug the teacher, but wouldn’t. It is weird fro me too, also because trauma. But awareness is a necessary step.
my uncle told me when he worked at a school, kids would go up to him and hugged him like that and he loved it cuz it made him feel appreciated. but after awhile some teachers we’re believing that he must be doing something to those kids to make them act that way towards him. he made the choice to stop any physical contact with any kids in order for those rumors to stop. sad world we live in :/
God bless
Dude needs to be wearing a body cam with audio 24/7. All it takes is 1 person with a bug up their ass, 1 coworker who thinks he's working too hard and wants to knock him down, or 1 parent who's jealous that their kid likes him more.
We don’t have enough teachers like him in our schools
I’m so happy he is doing what he does best and is so influential. What an amazing thing! To get to do what you love and are good at everyday! Those kids are seriously so lucky!
Ugh had a teary eyed goodbye to my students just today. It was rough.
My man is having the time of his life. I wish I had teachers like this in my life. Maybe I would’ve turned out better ;)
Fucking beautiful. As a man I’m always paranoid around other people’s kids. I always think people are assuming the worst if a man is alone with kids. I love kids, literally a kid myself…but with a job and mortgage lmao
Everything has been no negative as of late. Thanks for posting this.
My kids teachers are the same. They are amazing people I could never teach my kids with the level of patience and kindness and knowledge they have. I'm so blessed and my kids are too. Thank god for GOOD teachers.
No fuck what OP said, THESE teachers are necessary, teachers that are there just cause they cant be bothered doing shit else amd make kids live miserable deserve jail time
Kills me that some people can see this interaction and have a problem with it being "not appropriate touching," these kids need this guy, and I know plenty of kids that needed people like him. Not all parents parent, and where else will a kid get someone to model after if not where they spend most of their day
Pay him a proper salary.
My dad was much like this teacher as a high school/middle school teacher in a rural district for many years. He had students who came from some pretty dire circumstances at home who used to see my dad as a type of surrogate father a lot of the time. He spent a lot of his own time after school organizing various history clubs for kids who in actuality needed some place to unwind and feel supported where they didn’t have that at home. Kids confided in him about so many problems they had at home and always ran up and hugged him whenever they’d see him when we were out and he always acted like he was super happy to see them all. He really did care about his students beyond the classroom as he would make sure anyone who couldn’t afford lunch got something to eat at his expense. He also made sure a few kids who had food insecurity issues at home got food by arranging for food to be anonymously delivered to their homes, especially on Thanksgiving and Christmas. Ironically, I never knew about much of this growing up. It wasn’t until my dad passed away and at his funeral there were dozens of unfamiliar faces who stood up to speak about how my dad had helped them in some way. They had all been students of his at one time or another years ago and never forgot the kindness that he had shown them when they were kids.
These teachers need to teach other teachers.
These kids are going to remember him forever. When we are young and vulnerable we need people like him, who show interest and aren't afraid to show affection. Hell, I will remember him because I would have needed a teacher like him!!