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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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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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erongetti 2
I was a teacher for 5 years. my first year or two didn't go so great, only because I thought I had to "control" the kids, and that their behaviors reflected badly on me (plus I took things personally). By my third year, I got it figured. Treat everyone with respect, spend your efforts on developing relationships outside the classroom (coaching, etc), and sarcasm is the best thing for those kids who "push" you constantly. Once you've "owned" them in front of class a time or two, they'll smarten up (and that doesn't mean dream-killing, mean spirited sarcasm. Just appropriate, calling it how it is sarcasm). this is all based on teaching grade 8-12.
y0u11 0
oh haha hi
FlipInBrosky 4
Maybe teaching is not your calling. From what your students wrote to you, you should instead sign up to be an assassin?
dubstepp 15
Yeah you first year teachers don't know how to act
tencalories 3
actually I have a first year teacher at my school and he has become my favorite teacher
captainbj2 0
nah, it's the spoiled brat kids who don't know how to act...suck it up... you are there to be taught by your teacher, not be friends with them
ADub55 0
its just constructive criticism.
Leftieswillrule 3
perhaps expecting wondrous reviews from a generation that hates knowledge was the problem
Jasper8713 2
A generation that hates knowledge? Please. They only hate knowledge if they have been TAUGHT to hate knowledge, by a previous teacher who has killed their inquisitive nature, or by their current teacher for having a strict or impractical teaching style. I am a teacher... And I can tell you that I have had them hanging on to every word I say because they want to get started the activity and don't want any disruptions.
Lisa89 3
good for you :)
Sammara 0
Hates knowledge? I'm an elementary librarian, and these kids are THRILLED to have access to all of these books. You wouldn't believe how many students beg me to let them check out more books than the number they're allowed. Oh, and non-fiction is my most popular section. I have to close the library a month before the school year ends (the school is closing down and I have to inventory and pack all of the books, by hand, as we don't have a computer system) and the kids are just crushed. "But, I wanted to read every book in here!" Do these sound like kids who hate knowledge?
turtle_brigade 0
you must not be from america. kids here hate knowledge. it's a fact.
dudeitsdanny 10
^You're an idiot. When I was a kid, I read book after book after book from the time I was four. Fiction and non-fiction. My favorites were animal books, especially dinosaurs. I could tell you everything you wanted to know about dinosaurs. I read everything, though. I almost always had the discovery channel on in my room, but I did love cartoons so my time was split. When I moved to an elementary school with a library, I spent recess locked in there.. And lunch shoving food in my mouth to go play soccer and basketball. So no, kids who are raised right don't hate learning. Hell, even now I'm like that.. But with internet access ;) Lrn2Lrn =3 But seriously, generalizations make you look like an idiot.
itswhateveridk 0
just because you hate knowledge doesn't mean the world does...:/
mlck1996 0
year 2012... manual??? silly goose, upgrade system low cost. develop white paper, petition school. librarian not teacher...
SorrowFull 8
you know I almost thought you were my ex at first, then I saw where the post came from, my suggestion is Lighten Up Francis
ScuseMePrincess 2
If you touch my stuff... I'll kill ya.
PeteElMalo 0
if they hate you that much, you're certainly doing something right. Keep up the good work.
xixifwadi 0
annnnnd THAT is why most teachers quit in 5 years of teaching. if you can push past it congratulations you are a teacher. if not you shoul find a different job fast.
mlck1996 0
yes tenure is wonderful... real teacher after 5 years then never have to really teach but hold title. less than 5, only pretending? idiot.
clemcool_fml 0
I guess learn from it, but don't use "first year" as an excuse. i mean, come on, "liar"? "dream killer"? that came from somewhere. you don't have to be an asshole to kids to be an effective teacher; it starts with building mutual respect. my husband just finished his first year teaching high school and he was wonderful. nominated for teacher of the months 4 times by students (won once) and once for teacher of the year (lost though). and his students' test scores showed the second highest margin of improvement in the entire school. as one poster said, sarcasm and kind of calling out the kids who act shitty is the best way to handle it. poke fun at their immaturity and then ignore them and a lot of students will follow suit. I have to admit though, it helps immensely to be at a school where the administrators back you up and are strict and consistent with discipline.