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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kadydz97 0
This sounds like a teacher at our school!
Renalia 5
Sounds to me like an organized prank of sorts. Don't take it seriously.
08DIB 0
they made you their beeeyotch
AdventurousM 0
Welllll.. You must have done something wrong.
brigurl 3
is this u mr carroll?!?!?!?!
grasshopper385 3
I can relate. just finished my third year. I'm changing my career. I was sexually harassed by my boss who also turned all of the students against me.
jackrileymac 4
they might have been joking?
RebelYell14 4
take heed. teachers suck in general in this country.
thingamajiga 5
The fact that it was your first year is probably why they were saying that. You'll be better, don't worry.
Bludmagnus 13
As someone who actually knows teachers who have thrown their hands up and quit... here is a translation of what those summed up comments really mean...... "You're a liar"- you didn't let them do something they didn't need to be doing in the first place, but tried to trick you into letting them do, so if you said anything about how they could do anything they wanted to do in life, you lied by that interpretation. "You're a 'killer of dreams' "- you told them about real life and they couldn't handle it because their parents, or others, have been allowing them to fool themselves into believing the completely impossible was plausible. "You need to grow up"- you have yet to embrace the instant and self-gratification heavy culture of the last two decades, and you are not "today" to teach them anything. "You're a big disappointment to them"- You didn't fall for any of their crap, and they know that if teachers like you make a comeback, they will be dragged kicking and screaming back to when they actually would have to earn their grads as well as the privileges that being a good student involves. In short.. you are most likely a good teacher who is learning that corporal punishment should still be allowed in public schools.