Today, while I was substitute teaching a middle school class, a boy, named Chris, refused to get in the boy's line for the bathroom. After I had said, "Chris, what makes you think you're a girl?" in a very loud voice, one of the other students said "She is a girl." I've scarred a child for life. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, on my first day as a middle school substitute teacher, the class I was in had blue passes for boys and red passes for girls. The kid in the front row raised a number two for the bathroom, so I handed her a red pass, only for him to brush his hair back and say, "I'm a boy." The whole class laughed and called him "Babe". FML
Today, I was riding a bus. After having a conversation with my friend, I looked down and saw a little boy looking at me. He asked, "Are you a boy or a girl?" As if that wasn't bad enough, when I responded that I was a girl, he said, "Oh. So, why do you have a boy voice then?" FML
Today, I had to suspend a student. Apparently, someone convinced him that he turned invisible. He walked into the girls locker room thinking he could not be seen. I work at a high school. FML
Today, as two of my students walked into my classroom, I said, "Hi, ladies". One of them screamed at me: "Did you just assume my gender?!" FML
Today, a little girl came up to me and asked, "Are you a boy or a girl?" I said, "I'm a girl of course!" She walked away, looking dazed and saying, "Whoa." FML
Today, while in class, I was called down to the office. The principal showed me a video of two guys fighting in the school parking lot. I'm accused of being one of those guys. I'm a girl. FML
Today, I’m doing my clinicals at a teaching hospital. An irate patient began hurling slurs and demanded I leave the room during her exam. She didn’t care that I was a student; she thought I was a man. I’m not now nor have I ever been male. FML
Today, I tried to stop a teenage boy from entering the woman's bathroom. When he argued with me I had him thrown out. Turns out, according to their parents and driver's license, it was a girl. 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, a coworker at school yelled at one of our students to be quiet. The kid got pretty upset, so I went to comfort him. He held my hand for the rest of the class, telling me in vivid detail how he was going to kill my coworker. Now I'm afraid to look at him. FML
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sccrismyantidrg 4
That's horrible!
Kevlar29 0
Lolz next FML "Today, I got fired from work for making a 5 year old sob uncontrollably"
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monkeyCanDoMYJob 7
wow! I had a teacher just like you elementary school! She actually pulled me into the boys line because I had short hair. I hated her guts since then...
Igor_g5 0
Maybe you should find these things out before you argue with kids about their gender. Most kids know if they're a boy or girl before they start school.
biskitbukit 7
I wonder how he / she feels now, lol.
wondergurl 0
Thank you! Typically grown ups don't know how to treat children who don't look like their gender. It's sad, really. Shame on the OP for making that poor girl feel like shit for being a girl. On the other hand, as a substitute teacher, I once made a 7 yr old (1st grader) cry because I had been threatening to send bad children to the office and a phone call came for this particular child to go to the office because he was being picked up for early dismissal. I didn't watch my tone and told the kid "Hey, you have to go to the office." It wasn't until after he started crying I realized what I had done. I reassured him that he was fine, he wasn't in trouble and that I was sorry for making him think that he was. Moral of the story is: You don't know the context of the time in which the post happened. This could have been a horrible class and the sub just blurted out something as a mistake. If this is the case, I understand. Otherwise, this person is an asshole and I agree, shouldn't be stepping foot in a classroom.
sofakingweetoddi 0
OP, you're still calling her a boy?!?! Don't worry, she is not scarred for life. She probably knows there are closed minded idiots in this world. What made you think she was a boy? Did she have short hair? Did she have smaller breasts? Did she wear jeans? What was it? Was she good at math? YDI for being so closed minded!
Hopersz 0
OP thats was seriously messed up. How can u not know whether the child is a girl? Its not hard to tell and its your fault for not looking harder and realizing the childs gender. I would have reported your ass to LAUSD and taken it to the schools attention. Grow up
mike3775 39
My main issues with this are: 1) why bathroom lines in middle school?(in my area grades 6-8, ages 11-13). 11 yr olds DO NOT need bathroom lines to know which bathroom to go in 2) Why a group bathroom break? Its not like they are little kids who need to be supervised going to the bathroom
xFaust_fml 12
Am I the only one shocked by what she said, not by the fact she thought Chris was a boy?? I understand she could have thought that. But saying "what makes you think you're a girl?" ?? And loudly? This could be very badly interpretated. If Chris HAD been a boy, but one who felt more comfortable as a girl, I'd say such a comment would be plain discrimination. Turns out Chris was a girl, so OP is just an ass. You don't do that in front of everybody. And why the hell do you put people in line for the bathroom??? Especially in middle school. In ALL my schools, if there was a dude in the girls' bathroom, you just had to give them the death stare, or state matter-of-factly that it was the women's bathroom.
VertigoSD 0
Maybe you shouldn't be around children.
SwtCherryPie 26
Umm this seems like more of an FML on the childs part if she wants to be recognized as a girl maybe she should dress and act like a girl and I would imagine Chris is short for Christine/Christina so maybe she shouldnt use a boys name for a nickname... And every single one of u commenters dogging the OP... I really dont see how no one can see that its the child's fault here
auto_da_fe 2
Because the girl has every right to dress as she wishes and every right to shorten her name as she wishes. I really can't see how YOU put the child at fault here. The whole point of the FML is that OP questioned the girl's gender so the whole class could hear, which is EXTREMELY rude especially if said girl is transgender.
Emrysa 1
Since you've indicated that you are female, I hope that you wear skirts every day to back up your brilliant statement.