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
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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, 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 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, a student told me to fuck off. I work with 3 year-olds. FML
Today, I was working on a project in my school's library when a group of teenagers came in and began talking and laughing and being loud. When I asked them to please quiet down, the librarian asked me to leave for being too loud. FML
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
Today, I was teaching and a boy sitting in front kept laughing and smiling, even after I asked him to cut it out. I got so annoyed that I jokingly said I'd knock his teeth out, and asked him to leave the class. The kid went to the principal and told him I intended to hurt him. I'm a college professor. FML
Today, as I was yelled at by a middle school teacher in front of 30 6th graders for breaking the rule of "no cell phones in school." Luckily, I escaped being sent to the office after explaining I'm a 21 year old college student doing student teaching observations, not a middle schooler. FML
Today, I returned to my teaching job at a local community college after surfing for the weekend. I'd got sunburned, one student immediately noticed and said to me, "Morning, Mr. Pinky!" Now they all do it. My students are assholes. I hate teaching. FML
Today, after being annoyed one too many times by my students' whiney attitudes, I accidentally blurted out, "Quit being such a bitch," to the superintendent's daughter. FML
Today, I was doing my job and trying to teach a lazy bunch of 16-year-olds. A girl entered the room just 15 minutes before class ended, so I snapped, "Someone had better have died for you to be this late!" She immediately burst into tears. Turns out, someone had. FML
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Top comments
tenniemo 20
Hey. No shame in doing something else. I fight with that decision every year... I’ve been teaching for seven now and with all the policy changes, kid behavioral problems, and lack of teacher support I’m fiddling with finding a new career.
MidnaLink 35
Are you allowed to slam books down for belligerent teenagers?
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MidnaLink 35
Are you allowed to slam books down for belligerent teenagers?
Charlie Given 28
Nope it falls under emotional abuse in most schools 🙄
MidnaLink 35
Awww…
BurnInDemonFire 39
How about body slamming the students? Better yet, each time a kid steps out of line, perform a finishing move of a WWE wrestler. I'm sure they'd behave after a suplex or two.
tenniemo 20
Hey. No shame in doing something else. I fight with that decision every year... I’ve been teaching for seven now and with all the policy changes, kid behavioral problems, and lack of teacher support I’m fiddling with finding a new career.
ojosRojos 28
First, if you’re not feeling it, don’t be a teacher. It’s my passion and I still struggle to return to it every year. It’s just tough being a teacher in the US. Second, where did you get a teaching degree in 2 years for $20,000?? I get that you’re still a student, but student teaching usually comes at the end of your schooling. I’m jealous!
Tim Carver 9
and the reason you didnt put the fear of God into them is?