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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Sammara 0
Wait...did you ask them to do this? The most awkward moment of my academic life was when a teacher made us write compliments of everyone in the class, INCLUDING HER. She's just lucky she didn't ask for comments, because it wouldn't have ended well. Teachers shouldn't fish for compliments from their kids; it makes them trust you less. If you don't have confidence in yourself, why should they have confidence in you? Use this bad day as inspiration to revamp your class and teaching style. This does not sound like the random outburst of a few angry kids; this sounds like something you really should think about. If this was a school-mandated survey of the students (like what colleges do of professors), then this is DEFINITELY something you need to take into consideration. Your boss reads these, too, and it will have an effect on your continued employment. Oh, and in the states, first-year teacher means this is the first year she is teaching, not that she is teaching first grade. These are probably not little kids.
dudeitsdanny 10
^ I have to agree, about the asking for comments herself. My girlfriend teaches singing, and I've never seen someone get so much praise from students without asking. Kids were excited to go see a musical just because she's the lead, but I'm used to kids hating real musicals. Treat your students right, and the positive comments will come in time. I actually went back to see my 6th grade teacher last year, because I realized she was really a fantastic teacher. She was strict, but with respect. She never made anyone feel dumb, though she did reward excellence a little more(I got three scoops of ice cream, and everyone got at least one). Building relationships with students is the sure-fire way to get what you want. Kids want respect, and will typically return the favor
ScuseMePrincess 2
You obviously didn't instill enough fear in them, OP. Who cares what a bunch of dumb kids think?
TheNightDances 0
how can this be deleted? this was posted without my permission.
skyeyez9 25
Change your profession to a prison guard. You will probably see quite a few of your former students.
TheNightDances 0
HOW CAN THIS BE DELETED?
slraw24 0
your a shitty teacher if first graders r saying that about u
whitecloud197 0
oh great. your one if those teachers
titan87 0
So bassically your students told you to go suck start a shotgun.... Time to rethink how to be a teacher.
cybermolly10 7
Why did you let your students talk to you that way? They should know that even if they don't like their boss they shouldn't talk that way to their face.
jdshady 0
Mrs. soik?