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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Thanksgiving
Questions about your love life, a burnt turkey and the cousin who knows everything: Thanksgiving, a contact sport.
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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25shark 5
keep it up
Lisa89 3
Well, I'm sure some of what they said was them just generally being horrible and trying to make you upset (small children may have the idea teachers are big bad adults who make rules and discipline them, regardless if they are a good teacher or not). I'm sure there are also some point you really need to think about. I think there are some criticisms that are true, you just didn't realise yourself. Maybe you sub-consciously put down students or raise your voice/shout more than is necessary. Be glad they were so honest with you and IMPROVE. Little things like saying you'll do something next lesson and then not doing it really can make kids loose respect for you (and make you a 'liar') or saying casually someone isn't good enough to be a doctor when they grow up, even if they are doing poorly at school, is a 'dream killer'. (I'm reading a book about teaching at the moment, I don't claim to know how to teach, just my opinion from what I've learn so far.) I remember I had a horrible teacher in year 3 (3rd grade in America?). She shouted and put students down constantly, I don't think she knew how much she actually did it. I remember one time she asked me to go to another class and give a teacher a note, I gave it them, they said okay and I went back, did what I was asked. Then she shouted at me for not getting the right information or whatever. Things like shouting at me for standing around and hugging my book (just walking along, clutching my book like kids do) and to 'engage my brain' if I got a question wrong... that sort of thing ever day. She damaged me a bit, even some years later *Sad face*. I imagine teaching isn't easy at all, but be strong, take things that are saidinto account, ignore blatant maliciousness, and maybe even revise some teaching 101.
Lisa89 3
Sorry for grammar mistakes, too late to change them now though!
florenzfang 0
Kids are honest
kkins 0
perhaps you should reconsider your career choice
Fab0luZ 0
wait, out of school already? Im jealous.
luckoirish14 6
punch the little inconsiderate pricks in the face..
tstevenson 0
haha
firecapez 4
oh, when I first read this FML, i thought OP meant that it was her first year as a teacher. It is more commonly said that she would be a first GRADE teacher where I live... (no trolling intended)
clemcool_fml 0
Uh, yeah. I'm 90% sure she IS saying it was her first year teaching. She's in Mississippi so what makes you think she's using the more European way to say first grade rather than meaning her first year? Horses man, not zebras.
Dcmachead 0
Don't sweat it. listen to what they said, make tweaks, and try again next year.
Lexi24679 0
So many haters in this world!