Today, it was the last day of school. My students shared what they thought of me. Expecting to hear wonderful things, all of their complaints can be summed up in a few words: I'm a liar, a killer of dreams, I need to grow up, and I was a big disappointment to them. I'm a first-year teacher. FML
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Wild Nights Out
Last call, bad decisions and 3 a.m. texts you'll regret until noon. Cheers.
Today, it was the last day of school, and I said goodbye to one of my students. She then told me how to correctly pronounce her name. I'd said it wrong all year. FML
Today, I ran into my favorite teacher from high school, the one that really inspired me to become one myself. I told her that I'm in my last year of college preparing to become a teacher, to which she replied, "Wow, they really are letting anyone have a crack at being a teacher these days." FML
Today, I started my first teaching job ever. As I was teaching, another teacher interrupted my class about 5 times because she thought it was her class. Not only did she ruin my confidence, her behavior caused my students to laugh at me. FML
Today, I went to my first class of the year. The first thing the teacher said was, "I hate this f*cking school." FML
Today, the feedback my teacher wrote on my English assignment was so horrible that it took me half an hour and help from both my parents to decipher it. It turned out to be a scathing criticism of my "poor communication skills". I hate my teachers. FML
Today, I had 15 teenagers literally laugh in my face when I asked them to be quiet. I'm a student teaching in a high school, which is the culmination of 2 years of my life and $20,000, and I might in fact actually hate doing it. FML
Today, I’m a high school teacher and I finally learned how to use the smartboard properly. I connected my laptop to demonstrate a lesson… and projected the last thing I had open: a half-written email complaining about how loud this exact class is. Thirty teenagers read it in silence. One kid raised his hand and said, “Fair.” FML
Today, I lectured my second-grade class to be more descriptive in their writing. I gave them an assignment to describe something in the classroom. I was grading their work later, and one student wrote, "My class is taught by a fat teacher with gray hair." FML
Today, I started at a new school. It's a pretty great school, but there's only one problem: Everybody thinks I'm a teacher. I'm only a freshman. FML
Today, I’m a middle-school teacher. Handing back graded essays, only to realize halfway through that I’d left my personal notes visible on the projector. One said, “Great kid, but talks like a podcast on 1.5x speed.” The student read it out loud before I could close the tab. FML
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BrittanyCelesteP 0
...Maybe over the summer you should consider changing a smidge.
marinus_fml 20
Teachers like you are the reason society has gone backwards. No wonder teen suicide rates are going up, teens living on the streets doing drugs and alcohol, get high off paint and petrol and then start graffitiying everywhere. Yea you should be shot. Jks, that sucks OP, should have brought them all cookies and ice-cream on their last day! Suddenly you'll be their favorite teacher!
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Nuttyicecream 2
better start kissing ass next year
tnlander 20
Don't sweat the haters OP. You're there to educate them not coddle them. Real teachers teach, not babysit.
ugliness 6
true but I have always learned best from the nice teachers
PSQ91 6
Imagine being a teacher in 10th grade or so then. Change your attitude and bring some cake or sweets to class. That'll work.
staceysgenesis16 0
wouldnt that make things worse? O.o
PSQ91 6
Naah, it depends on the teacher I'd say. I had an awesome philosophy teacher that brought food to every class. We loved going even though it was hella boring, but in the end we participated in class because of this :)
SGT_DBL 15
I had a teacher once who it was their first time teaching. When the school year started the person who was supposed to teach was already eight months pregnant so she dissapeared pretty quick once the school year started. The school (administrators are usually the real problem) made the genius decision to promote her assistant, who had just been hired and had never been a teacher before, to take her place. She had no clue what she was doing, was unable to control the classroom and all the students (myself most of all) exploited that for all it was worth. I used to think she sucked as a teacher, but looking back on it now I see that it was just a case of "wrong place, wrong time" caused by the school promoting someone who wasn't ready to teach. On the other hand... she wasn't a liar and didn't kill my dreams sooooo... YDI?
KayleeFrye 39
That's pretty much exactly what happened to me my very first year teaching. Please tell me you're not from Connecticut!
dudeitsdanny 10
So.. Try to be better next year. Learn from your mistakes. I know an AMAZING first year teacher, one of the best I've had, so that doesn't have everything to do with the quality, especially dream-crushing. If you're crushing kids now, i can't imagine how terrible you'll be to them when you've taught for a few years, and have grown bitter.
shovels 0
Bring a belt or use a ruler, that will straighten 'em up...
sheethapins 13
Tell them if you wanted to truely kill their dreams you'd be a sex ed teacher.
SpectSelf 0
it's your 1st year. don't even sweat it. learn from it.
hilariexcore 0
That's what I thought but the comments make me think she's a first grade teacher, not that it's her first year of teaching.
dudeitsdanny 10
Based on location, it's her first year. A lot of users are from countries where they call first grade first year, so it seems that way to them. I assume she's a new teacher, because she's from the US, where we(I think always) call it first grade.
hilariexcore 0
Thanks Danny (: I'm on the Android app so I can't see the location. I agree, we pretty much all call it first grade so you're probably right. I wonder what grade she's teaching.
ChibiChibi_fml 28
Except the Mods correct with British English, or the OP could be foreign now living in America. Plus the way it is phrased as "I'm a first-year teacher" makes it sound more like a title then an explanation of how long they have been teaching.
mrahhhhh 21
*Achievement Unlocked: Freddy Krueger"* "Get the legendary and secret 'Killer of Dreams' title. - 50G"
mrahhhhh 21
Xbox? **** NO! Xbox is shit! I use free online LIVE having, superior graphics possessing, infinite backwards compatibility featuring (emulation and roms for almost every video game system released in the world), very cheap and sometimes free game pricing (especially through piratebay), best web browser integrating (**** PS3 Internet), blu-ray movie viewing, portable for easy carrying, 1080p screen built in including, support for both Xbox and PS3 controllers having, really fast loading/saving (seriously, compare console Fallout 3's loading time with this version), gigantic hard drive toting, incredibly easy modding, ability for console commanding (God help you console gamers if your character gets stuck on a wall and you didn't save. All your work gone. All I have to do is type in the no clip option and just walk like a ghost through that wall :D), non Red Ring of Death getting, non centralized server like PSN has for easy hacking, and just plain better PC GAMING!!
mrahhhhh 21
BTW when I said portable, I meant that I own a gaming laptop. 4 times more powerful than a ps3 at a lesser weight and size.
dudeuranass 4
perhaps it's time to reconsider your career choice?