What Non-Teachers Don't Understand About Teaching During a Pandemic
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- The uncertainty, the unreasonable expectations, the increased workload for no extra pay, the lack of support, the number of absentees, and the overflow of ignorance from parents and admin, we did not sign up for this.
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“you know what we’re gonna pay you? we’re gonna pay you no attention”
just brilliant
😅 ikr 😼 to good
You should talk about student fights and what to do. One of our favorite long term subs was fired due to not breaking up a fight fast enough according to the school. Keep in mind he is 75 and is recovering from cancer.
Hold up-
That-
That's just wrong
What the actual f*ck?!?!
That Is beyond wrong.
What's beyonde the university of univers kinda school is that did nobody protest against it
@@ChickenOnTheNugger i would love to know the answer to that too
People. Not in the room. Casting judgement on an incidents they didn't witness. Holding people to a higher standard than they stay at.
My son’s 3rd grade teacher had her first year of teaching in 2020-2021. We started all virtual, the decision to do so was last minute, and then went hybrid in April 2021. I have no idea how, but she managed to look like a seasoned veteran and was always so supportive when kids were struggling. I felt like she and I were a team working together for my son’s best interest. That woman is a saint and she’s leaving the district for better pay in a new district closer to her home next year. While I am incredibly sad that my daughter won’t have her as a teacher, I am SO proud of her for advocating for herself.
"Use your school stomach" as a mom of 3 teens I approve this message.
My music teachers(before he got fired) best friend died and he only took about 4 days off and was forced to come back to school, and I can’t tell you how many times I would just see him crying while we were watching a movie/video
Sadly that is something that occurs with nearly all jobs here in America. Or if you are on hourly pay often you literally cannot afford to miss more than a few days.😕
dude, only 4 days off? thats really short :(
As a someone within the payroll, I can relate so much to that. The difference was I lost my dad on my moms' B-day and then six months later my aunt died. Schools don't care. They want you back to work. To be unfair, the whole US take on mental health and grieving is really psychotic to me. We have all this talk about mental health awareness, but do we really practice it??? NO! We're not Canada or other Euro-centric nations. The whole US has a really toxic mind-set over the topic of depression and grieving. It is a nation about the bottom line and could careless. There is no compassion in this nation. I received better mental care by my Economics professor who is from Italy than anyone here in the states. I apologized to him for missing out the classes and tired to do my online assignments, while also attending family duties because my mother couldn't. I explained everything to him and he listened attentively in a way that I never received from anyone besides my own mom. He understood the difficulties I had and told me it was okay. He curved the grade so I would pass the class with high grade so that my GPA would get higher to receive book grants. If he went by US school laws, I would've failed that class and lose my grant money. Again, the US has a strange way with handling depression and grief. It is good that your music teacher cried... bottling up emotions like that isn't good. Must've been a grand best friend to that teacher. So sad that he couldn't exercise his right as a teacher to take a temporary leave of absence to attend to his needs for grieving. The system is so broken that it is soulless.
Daughter of a teacher here... I've never found a more remarkable podcast i am 32 and my momma is nearly 64.. been in it since before I was born... and this sounds like a phone call, or a Saturday afternoon with her besties. I love teachers soo much!yall are amazing
I was having dinner with some friends from Germany who are teachers. We were talking to our waiter and he said he was a teacher at the local high school. They were so surprised a teacher was working as a waiter during the summer and that some teachers need to supplement their income.
My kiddo thrives on in-person school and we couldn't send him back until he was fully vaccinated because we're an immunocompromised household. This meant he was home for 18 months. My son's special ed elementary school teacher would get on Zoom and play Toca Boca games with him to get him used to Zoom. His former para for his old middle school must have spent hours finding videos on CZcams to keep his attention. Both of those women are priceless and are serious examples of why we don't pay teachers nearly enough for what they do.
The general population has zero idea what we do to ensure kids have access to a public education.
@@TheM163 Truth.
This video came at the perfect time. I am actually writing a paper about burnout for college (33 year old went back to become a paralegal). I do not think people really understand the effects of burnout across all professions. Self care is a thing and it looks different for each individual. I started watching all of you (here and on social media) because I joined the PTO and wanted to understand what would really help teachers. Thanks for giving the insight that you do!
hope you get an A+++++++++++++++++!
I'm not a teacher and don't have children myself. I just like these guys but wanted to take time out to say that's really thoughtful of you. I bet your kids teachers really appreciate the extra effort and understanding.
Me as I can’t even get off the couch for my university classes today
Teachers who taught during the pandemic needed hazard pay and still need a higher pay scale.
The teachers in my district had to work without a contract because, once again, the district was trying to tell them they couldn’t afford a modest salary increase and to keep their health benefits intact. Mind you this is the same district who claims that teacher turnover is largely due to a lack of loyalty from younger teachers. “Loyalty to what, Karen?!? They can change districts to any of the ones 30 minutes north and get an automatic $10k-$15k/year increase.”
@@lorrins8230 it makes you wonder if the people at the top just play dumb or are they really that stupid.
I work With Infants and Toddlers and recently left the school I was at because my center director denied me a mental health day that I had to beg her for because I'm going through a divorce and denied me time off to go see family during a family emergency. They also relied on me to keep the toddler room running when the other teachers didn't care about the room or the children.
"They also relied on me to keep the toddler room running when the other teachers didn't care about the room or the children."
D@mn... and I thought my schools were toxic for hiring incompetent, mediocre people off the streets due to nepotism was bad... your center takes the cake. 😵😱 Also, toddlers... they need 24/7 care, what is wrong with those people? You need all of the extra pair of hands, eyes, and whole sets of bodies to make sure those kids needs are meant. Did they fail to take that PD class about the importance of social skills with younger children?
In regards to the absences, I’ve asked my kids why they miss so much and they’ll say “I didn’t feel like coming so my mom lets me stay home…” excuse me. WHAT?! Nobody “feels” like coming to school everyday but you have to! She misses class about 1-2x a week. It’s so sad.
Or the parents don’t feel like waking up and taking their kids to school. It’s ridiculous
well i guess you dont have to come anymore really if no one is going to enforce it.
In 3 years, I knew 3 people pass away on a Friday and no one knew until Monday afternoon but their jobs were posted the same week. I'm a nurse and I have worked four 10 hour shifts a week during the pandemic and whole hearted believe in self care. I now take 2 weeks off every 6 months to recharge my mental health.
If y’all ever have guest teachers!!! This podcast is incredible. As a teacher myself, I not only find this educational to non-teachers and educators, but also refreshing to see teachers be humanized. I feel like parents and students forget how much mental, emotional and spiritual work teachers do to help students be as successful as possible.
One year, my sophomore year, my school had 11 fights in the span of a week. And it was RIGHT AFTER the Monday assembly of anti bullying
Talk about things going right over peoples' heads, 🤦I had seen four fights in the first week of school. First week of school and already a bunch of suspensions. What are these kids watching that makes them want to fight like this? We had fights in the 1990s, but never on the first week of school. It was an unwritten code of ethics we had. Zoomer kids be breaking all of the sacred codes.
I worked with this guy at a grocery store and he texted his boss the day before saying “I need a mental health day tomorrow” and the bosses response was “well considering how badly you need the money your gonna have to come in tomorrow” he quit right then and there cuz we all knew he didn’t need the money, he had the job just to have some extra money
Honestly my one brag throughout all of the pandemic was that I actually lost weight because I got so many extra shifts because of people not coming in. Though I am fully jealous that I do not live across from a grocery store lol
Wow as a Nurse who started working during the pandemic I love listening to you guys I can relate teachers are the best!
Life would be simple if when a teacher needed a day off they had a teacher on staff thats whole job was to be a life skills teacher and they would substitute and teach life skill things as the lesson plan. That way teachers can just pick up where they left off and the kids still learn something.
I love that idea! That should be a legitimate thing
most schools nowadays have required life skills electives tho
@@saintnicole3209 Do you have a source for that? Or are you just assuming that because your school did?
I would love that... and we use self help books as the textbooks. LOVE IT! 😎👍Would make substitute teaching millions of times easier too. I don;t have to remember every subject, just the one I am great at which is preparing and building a garden or organizing small spaces or sewing to maintain clothing items... some real Home Economics.... time to surf for coupons and online specials.
@@saintnicole3209 We have life skills but it is mixed with Science Tech, so most of the time the kids are taught Science only. I don;t see any books or magazines to be used as textbook replacements to put skills into practice in an controlled environment for learning purposes. Unfortunately, this is available to EVERY school across the nation. Ideal every school ought to, but most don't. I substitute in South Florida, so not all schools have this... unfortunately. 🤔🤷
Story time: My first week at the DOE as a new teacher in a public school (I taught sped in preschool prior to) was the first week of the pandemic when ALL of the public schools got shut down and had to prepare for virtual teaching. Going into my 3rd year I am still learning EVERYTHING that comes with teaching in a district public school.
OMG! This is why teachers need union representation!
At 16:50 when Mrs wooly says she has kids that miss weeks at a time I can speak from experience when we miss more than a week of school as fall so far behind. back in November I went to school for one day and then I stayed off for the rest of the month untill December the 6th whilst eveyone else was still in school and then last month I was off for a few weeks aswell and I've been off in-between that but it seriously throws us so far behind. And as a student who already struggles in school because I absolutely hate it there I have to LITTERLY forse myself into school and even then I won't go to all the classes I can say that the teachers doing even just small things can help. Like I enjoy giving teachers fist bumps it always puts a smile on my face, it doesn't harm anyone and it just enlightens my mood but most teachers won't give me a fist bump. the only reason I come to school is to see three teachers and I don't think they realise how thankful I am for them. Laura, Pauline and Mrs Moulse are the only reason I show up to school, when I see them they always but a smile on my face and it's the minor things they do that make school okay for even just a few minutes. For example I wasnt in school today and I got an email of Pauline and Laura asking if I was okay and just checking in on me, and Pauline said she brought me a chocolate bar because shes proud of me for coming into school the past few weeks and shes proud of me for not being kicked out and she's just proud of me and that made me cry because I've never ever liked any teachers all they've ever done is scream and shout at me but Pauline and Laura are patience with me and when I refuse to go to class they sit me down and talk with me explaining how missing out on class is actually effecting my education and all that instead of screaming at me and shouting at me.
ITS TEACHERS LIKE THIS THAT ACTUALLY HELP. I can't explain how greatful and thankful I am for them even if I told Laura I hate her the other day and still haven't apologised. I screamed at her and cried and she just said okay let's sit here for a bit and I not once apologised to her and she still emailed me today to make sure I was okay
I have a different kind of respect for teachers after the pandemic. I couldn't handle my own let alone you having 20+ I a room. Omg I love ya'll even more. Thank you so much. 💓
I just finished my first year teaching and I had a colleague who would shame and guilt me whenever I would consider taking a mental health day. He was on his eighth year teaching and would boast about how he hasn’t taken a sick day in over six years. Good for you. I’m still trying to figure this sh*t out and am overwhelmed. I never ended up using any of my days off unless I actually got sick. I think next year, I will. Thank you guys 💕
I had no idea having a complicated principal was something teachers dealt with, I've learned so much from you all and I can honestly say my high school principal was a genuine sweet man that was like a best friend to all the students and teachers in his high school
As a senior in high school I love listening to this perspective from teachers. It really shows me a whole different story of what happened in my school; what the teachers must have delt with since Covid happened. I could write a story but I don’t have the patience right now 😅
Currently watching this at shcool while doing work and some of the things you guys say makes me look crazy cus the room will be quiet and then I start laughing at my paper 🤣
In Brazil we are paid for time off. The payment is still shit, but still. Private schools still recieved the monthly payment for parents also.
Is not because the children are not at school that the school will be closed and there will be no expenses! Security, cleaning, renovations, admin, etc...
I feel working as a teacher is so tiresome and we work so many extra hours during the year that I honestly think it is fare for us to be paid full for time out.
Before I was hired as a teacher by the private school I was working on, I had to clock in and out school. At the end of school year I had so many extra hours that they had to give me the whole summer off!! At the time I was only working as teacher's aid. Can you imagine how many hours extra a teacher works in a year??
The principle at my high school would make fake accounts to stalk students' on social media
Exuse me what-
Um... ew
I was a first year teacher when we went virtual. It was an interesting time😅
Me too, I started a full job in 2019, so the last half was really messy. Due to a shortage in our region I had to work at a primary school as well as at my high school and of course they did most things differently. But hey, on the bright side we really learned to adapt to rules changing every week, eh?
Yes! "Building the plane as we fly." Absolutely!!!
My mother taught for about 400 years, and when I was at the age, I was in her school. On Friday afternoons I was always, "Mommy, can't we go home yet?" and she always had to write complete lesson plans for the next week. Just in case.
Your mom is a vampire? 400 years is a lot of teaching. Talk about dedication.
I work in Healthcare and we get no pay for sick days.
When I was in high school, a sub literally threw a chair at a student because he asked to use the chair she had her purse sitting on (I went to public school - there weren’t any extra seats)
WTF!? I actually gave up my "teacher" chair the other day, because a student was helping me set up the Kahoot web page. Treat them well and when a school shooting happens they know who to let pass through the gates alive. Subs don't get paid well enough to be throwing chairs at the kids (we literally get paid $90 at best per day). Just be kind and move along.
This is literally the teacher support group I needed.
I started last spring and I have started crying three times watching this video 😬 Definitely needed this kind of validation on basically all the topics you covered here
What makes me mad about the kids missing school is what happened to having the becca bill?!?!?! That shit was sooo stressed when I had to miss days.
We had a English teacher in 6th grade, I will never forget this. She told us if we had any problems at home to leave it at the door. We told our social studies teacher what she said, that very moment we could hear him across the hall chewing her out. Her told her, you never know what some of these kids are going through and if they’re having problems at home especially if it’s causing them harm(mental or physical) they need to come to one of us.
I hated that English teacher and I still do, idk what her problem was that day. She told us this a few times before then and we broke down crying that last time. She yelled at one of the kids for not being able to sleep at night because his parents were fighting all night.
I know not a single one of you wouldn’t do this. But it needs to be addressed to a lot of teachers and staff.
Well that is why we need to improve our education system to keep all of our good and high qualified teachers. Otherwise, we're going to continue with bad teachers like that English teacher
@@animecookies8784 it’s kinda hard because that school is in a small little town and the rich people don’t care about what happens to that town. I moved and I’m on to better things now. I think she got fired I’m not sure.
i cannot believe only $200 for perfect attendance. that’s like two 8 hour shifts at my job. teachers don’t get paid enough smfh
Even if you could get a perfect attendance award it is not worth your mental health.
Only sub I loved was a teacher that looked like Snooki. Honest to god, she was her twin and was the sweetest most kind hearted teacher ever, but hated being called Snooki.
Ok so huggggeeeeee shout out to booth my 2020 fifth grade teachers. They were so helpful and were able to make online learning something I looked forward to in the morning. During Easter and the end of the pandemic year they found time to bring us goodies and encouragement to get through the year. Almost all teachers deserve triple what they make and quadruple the respect ? So I reallyappreciateall the crazy hopes all y’all jumped thro for your students. THANK YOU
I really love the point y'all made about using your days off. I know I'm blessed to work at a school that has two dedicated subs but even if I didn't, as long as I know my kids are safe, I don't care if they do the assignment I leave. Once, I took a half day and I came into the room and the person watching my class was playing a game with the kids instead of them doing the worksheet I left. I was frustrated but I knew that my kids were safe and cared for and they had the biggest smiles on their faces so it wasn't worth my time to stress about it. Use those days off, people!
I love playing Kahoot! with the class. The kids are learning while having fun. I see nothing wrong with that. Thank you for not being hard on the sub.
Hearing your admin stories make me even more thankful for my amazing team!!!
Lol I love watching these before y’all got the intro down😭 it shows how much y’all have grown & got comfortable on the pod and as pod hosts!! 🥰
In New Mexico you have Army people subbing
I am not a teacher, but I absolutely love these videos! I have never thought y’all had it easy, but I still am shocked at your stories. I have such respect for teachers. I work in a Florida grocery store and feel like I know on some level how y’all feel. It was a stressful time for all essential workers. I wish y’all continued success with this platform!
Lauren, as a sub, you’d be my favorite teacher to sub for. I love the detailed plans because I don’t feel lost, I know exactly what to do. It’s fantastic. Shoutout to every teacher who leave ANYTHING for a sub to read to gain information we need (emergency stuff, allergy info, etc). Love y’all.
37:00 I literally had the same conversation with my principal just two days ago. Told him I was really overworked right know, partially because of all the additional stuff he was giving me to do. He made me a form teacher without even telling me, I got two A level groups, been grading A levels for the first time and checking the results of another course, I have to mentor a beginner teacher, additional programming class for a gifted student, after school science club who regulary attend a science competition, a science project which will be presented on a fair in our district capitol, language classes for some of our foreign students. Some things I choose freely, some I was preassured to do. All this while doing half of my classes for the first time and the other half bearly a second time. Our beginner teachers allways get the bigger share of additional work, but I am doing even more than the rest of the younger ones.
He just got really cross, telling me I should look around and "think for an instance how all the others are feeling, they were struggeling too and fyi, when he started he had to do 27 h week so I had no right to complain". Then he implied it was my own fault for doing so much, I should just quit something, like doing the field trip (the whole school does it and my class is really looking forward to it) or the science fair (where we signed a contract). On the other hand he keeps on giving me additional tasks. I do not get it. Then he implied I was not doing all this stuff for the kids anyway, but just to impress him - which is really mean and really not true.
You do all you are asked and even more and all you get told as a result is that it is not enough, that you fu**** it up anyway and that you should do more, while your professional motivation gets questioned. I wanted to be a teacher since the age of 12, I love my job and usually my principal is an awesome guy (I knew him when I was a student and he is still one of my heroes), but this hurts so frigging bad.
Long story short: Thank you for your podcast, it really helps to see our daily struggles taken with humour and to know that one is not alonecin feeling left alone.
I remember when they first started implementing online schooling in 2020 and my mom just called me in a panic because 2 weeks before school started they had just given her the training for the online platform the state decided to use and then wanted her to set up a virtual classroom, for 5 different classes all with different lesson plans, in those 2 weeks. So I went over to her house and helped her set up all her classes, got the lessons in order for her for the next 3 weeks, while also teaching her how to navigate this completely new website. Like I don’t think people understood how last minute some of those online classes were and how hard it was for older teachers to try and figure out how to use the technology they were barely trained to use. Some of those teachers don’t know how to set up a projector and you want them to make a whole online course? From basically scratch?
flipping LOVE these podcasts
Omg I love you guy! I just got covid and I just discovered you guys on CZcams laying in bed. I just want to say that I no longer feel so alone. You guys talk about the same stuff my teacher friends and I do.
My center did not close. We stayed open throughout the pandemic and you would be surprised at how many children we had daily while the parents were at home. We closed 3 times in 2 years due to my teachers having COVID.. And when we had to close, most of the parents were livid and wanted the staff that was not sick to work. I had the hardest time explaining to the parents what the guidelines were.. It was so frustrating!!!
Speaking on sub plans. I had a class where all we did was watch movies and talk about the different cultural significance of them or in them. And the teacher said to the sub just play 25 minutes of this movie for each class. And the sub played 40minutes for one class and 32 minutes for another and just completely messed up what she thought was a very simple plan
Play 25 minutes of the video and then what else afterwards??? Do teachers really think students will respect substitutes at all? Please we don't even get paid half as much per day as teachers do, but expect us to follow a lesson plan that is like half way finished like that??? What are we suppose to do in the other hour and 10 minutes per class period??? You know when there is no lesson plans or half-0@$$ed lessons like that one the kids will start doing stupid stuff to keep themselves busy and is always something to cause chaos.
I’m gonna say this is the first year I finally practiced self care this past March. my brother, SIL, sister and my husband all wanted to do a siblings trip so I took a week off and we all went to NOLA and had a blast drinking dancing and laughing. My sister is also a teacher and we both enjoyed it and needed it We all want to make it yearly trip and I think we’re gonna do it. I have so much time saved up and I need to start using it 😊
If my daughter's out for a day I asked for the assignment we try to do it and my daughter gets so overwhelmed at home it's like homework is the most overwhelming thing for her. I don't know how to overcome that
Has she been assessed for learning disabilities like dyslexia and adhd? I found homework extremely tiring and overwhelming because I am dyslexic. Once that was diagnosed I could get specific help for the areas where I was struggling and that helped a lot.
38:21 where did that starbucks come from? Lol love y’all
I taught in a school for a few months with Americorps before it was mutually agreed upon that it was not working with my Principal and I was transferred to work in an afterschool program. We were expected as first year teachers to in addition to teaching, leading an afterschool program or coach a sports team, in addition to once a week being there for study hall.
Sour cream instead of my favourite yogurt. Lunch box let down 😞. Teacher greetings from Canada 🇨🇦!
Just thinking about the times I have substituted and been completely confused. I have walked in to high school classes with no roster and the class was so enormous there werent enough seats. Later I found out they were just all sitting in the class to avoid going to their own. So many crazy things happen for substitutes as well.
Ok, I am in college, and we use blackboard. That truth just changed my life. Thank you for telling me. I do all my work and on time, but it is helpful because then professors can know if I am struggling on a certain topic.
It's Ms Rodgers clapping in anger for me lol 😀
My 11th grade English teacher would record her classes when she was gone. By the way, this was back in the late-90's.
I was hoping all the talk of grace and social emotional health would have overflowed into how we treat each other the first year back but that’s not how it went. We never got to recover before it was “business as usual”, in addition with everyone coping continuing pandemic affects. This year felt just as hard as last. We lost one good teacher per grade and many of us are now planning exit plans for the next year or two. Two teachers had breakdowns and didn’t return after this year’s spring break.
Honestly students (and ya'll, i respect you. My mom is a teachers, my dad's parents were teachers, I've watched what ya'll do) also need those mental health days. Last year, as a freshman (and Rebecca I know you hate sophmores, but I am one.) the thought of going back to school the next day made me want to cry. I stayed home that day. It was awesome.
I'm so happy you guys are on here together. Now just need Greg
I’m newer to this podcast. I’d love to hear about your views, thoughts, and stories about teachers who teach in adult and/or juvenile prisons or treatment facilities. How many, or few, differences are there?
I’m really enjoying the podcast and as a child of a teacher. I have heard a plethora of stories and have witnessed my parent work countless hours while getting a master’s degree. I have the upmost respect for the field of education.
I be actually made a conscious decision to lose weight during the pandemic. I figured the time was going to pass anyhow. I lost 100lbs.
I just resigned as a building sub today, you are so correct about subs not being trusted with kids learning. I tried my best to bring my best everyday day with sub plans, and most subs I worked with would just be silent in the class or mean to the kids. I’m planning on sending in an email for your story segment soon about why I resigned (involves daily assaults from kindergarten students)
28:33 Having a "mental health day" means stressing out to work twice as hard, because those sub plans need to be written, worksheets need to be copied, and everything laid out so the sub can find it. After the day off requires stressing out to to work twice as hard because now there is work to be graded and the following day to prepare for. It's easier just to suffer through a day of school than to attempt a vacation day.
23:10 when I worked at Walmart one of my friends said two of her coworkers died while they were on break and walmart was advertising their jobs on Facebook within a day. I know that's two different professions but I think of that whenever my job asks too much of me.
I remember that ER episode! It is DEFINITELY traumatizing lol
Why is one of your podcasts unavailable in the playlist??
Like I am not going to lie. This is some solid advice for anyone that is doing any type of social work. I am a caretaker for refugees in europe so you might be able to imagine what is going on here. And 2 months in I feel the burn out already happening. Tomorrow is my first day off since the crisis started.
Incase anyone is interested what my job became since the crisis started. Hold your horses cause I am not being paid enough. This ís a long one last bit is just a story time No need to read that if that is not interesting it is not about the work in of itself.
Because there is so much chaos, we do not have the resources to take care of all the people coming in. So caretakers are now substitute everything. Substitute therapist, governmentworkers, teachers (for children and adults) while being a janitor and cleaner. We also do catering.
And at the end of the day I get called racist by a white as person because the Syrians are being treated "so much better". Most syrian refugees are already fully integrated into european society. The crissis started in 2014 so they obviosly have more already set up. But in some cases due to the slow process and the amounts of people that came in, a few refugees were kinda left behind and are still waiting for a work visa or even a solid asylum status.
Most of the syrian refugees that are still going through the process live in something called refugee villages. Those are huge properties with doctors, therapists, schools and government bodies. They also tend to have a own apartment. To Ukraine refugees want to live in the refugee villages built for the syrian refugees. And because we are not kicking them out and leting Ukrainians in, they think we are being racist because we "treat syrians better than ukrainians". First of HELL NO Ukrainians are being treated miles better. They get nice food ffs. Syrians only got expired bread to eat when they lived in the same situation as they are doing now. Also the beds are so much better. I should know, I slept and ate in Syrian refugee camps and Ukrainian refugee camps.
We can't magically make appartments apear out of thin air. Most richer nations in europe ALL are going through a housing crisis to begin with.
This honestly frustrates the hell out of me because the caretakers are being blamed for the entire situation, while being blasted in newspapers with false abuse alligations (we only had one as of now).
Story time about the aligation from 2 weeks ago:
One of my facilities I worked at was "called out" for child endangerment, the truth is. A volunteer called the police because she found herself in the middle of a verbal argument (betweeen two adults no children were involved at all) and she didn't know what to do, and because she got scared she called the police (we have security on the premise but they must have really scared her, most volunteers are not used to confrontational situations. It can get very heated when the nerves are on edge).
The lady from the newspaper knew we had the police over because it was talked about on facebook. she came over to make a newspaper article about it, but we didn't talk to her and she wasn't let in. So she made up a story trying to explain why the police was called.
But she didn't think to maybe assume that the police, government and our staff already wrote reports on this and it has been legally accepted what happened that day. She was told by volunteers that there are official documents out afterwards and she said she knew she was corect because "she had her sources" her sources turned out to be other volunteers that didn't even work in the same district as the camp was in.
Side note, yeah great reliable sources you have there. Next time I want to know about my flu I will go to a vet instead of a human doctor. after all they are both doctors right?
Her news paper was charged for false allegations, because it is documented and we have no reports of any hurt child (we had the doctors [all volunteers too, but volunteers with medical degrees ^^] over every day for the children, trust me they would have noticed a nearly dead child). (yeah the abuse accusation was kinda graphic. I will not say it for that reason. But we are technically talking about a potentialy dead child, if it were true)
At the end of the story. F you lady from the Newspaper, you literally just got volunteers fired from their jobs and blacklisted (as volunteers) hope your sensational false news story that had to be taken down was worth the trust you broke between you and everyone that worked with you. Plus friendships. You are kinda lucky that nothing worse than that happened.
We had full virtual in fall of 2020 and hybrid the following semester. At least half of the kids stayed virtual. It was weeeeeird.
In 5th grade, they pulled me out of class for a couple of hours 2 days in a row (with my mom's permission) because one of their preschool teachers for the morning class was gone (I don't remember the reason why) and they didn't have a sub. They knew I helped my mom with her daycare when I was at home so I was good at with little kids. So they had me fill in as the second person watching the preschoolers. Seriously, when she says any warm body she means any warm body.
My school made us wear our uniforms when we were on the calls and I kept forgetting and it got to the point where they got kicked out for wearing a AC/DC shirt instead of a itchy navy polo at 7:30 in the morning
Oooooooo! You should do one about the worst substitute teachers! Btw my fav channel right here lol
I lost 20 lbs during lockdown. I attribute it to a 45 min lunch. I could cook and go for walks 🤷♀️ as soon as school went back in person in March, I gained 19 by june 😩
I’m an educator in ECE. When the pandemic happened we had to petition for our center to close for covid. We closed for 2 whole weeks and we were obligated to work from home, in order to get paid. And if we chose not to work , they used sick time , pto, etc to cover you without asking to supplement what your check was missing since you chose not to work. I essentially worked the entire pandemic. When we returned from the pandemic, I had 1 student for an entire MONTH.
For the packing lunch I once thought I took a can of coke to work. I opened it and took a sip and noticed it was not coke. Ended up being a can of Tecate. They are the same colors I didn’t even notice it was not coke until that sip.
My incorrect lunch would be fireball tea and that's it nothing else.
Yes, I had to pay my daily rate and sub when on maternity leave! Leaving me with a subtraction of -$1400 on every paycheck til august for a 6wk maternity leave. I came back to work with no clearance note because I couldn’t afford to lose anymore money! I told my ob to back date the letter! It’s referred to as “LOST TIME”! Lesson learned…always read your CONTRACT! Always…
My parents were crazy. I used to get strep a lot and at the onset of symptoms my stepmom would email all of my teachers to get all notes, assignments, etc. for the days I’d be gone. I had to have it all done before I went back to school. lol
I looked it up. The most relevant state was California with this option. If a teacher wishes to use more days than given in the year, they must, by state law, pay for their own substitute teacher. Going through college during a pandemic is tough. I can't imagine how hard it must have been for teachers to deal with online learning. That also mixes with the stress of the pandemic itself and the personal lives of the teachers.
I have totally done the whole, "it's easier just to go in" but not because of sub plans. It was because I was required to find several part timers to sub for me during my preschool day. I had bilateral pneumonia for over 4 weeks, ended up in the ER and was pregnant. It was terrible. Then the supervisor was all, " we can never tell if you are really sick or not because you call in sick and then you just come in anyway."
Uh duh, after the fifth day of people telling me they can't sub and you telling me I have to be there if I can't get anyone. They knew I had depression and anxiety... I have never felt so gaslit.
I did student teaching during during 2020-2021. Just a mess of in person and virtual teaching. And since I was 20/21 at the time, I was often Tech Support for my mentor teachers(I had 4 of them to keep up with) and the older teachers. It was a year long residency as well! So exhausting. I ended up so burnt out and when I took a mental health break one of my mentors lectured me on it and told me I just need to "smile and be more bubbly" which spoiler alert. IT MADE IT SO MUCH WORSE. I would say that 2021 was easily the worst year of my life. I had to take like 4 months off of working to recover. Now I'm teaching virtually and looking for a permanent in person teaching job cause I Finally feel ready to enter a classroom again.
Proud of you, best wishes in your new journey!
Oh we had one sub who just left the class half way through. I was the teachers aid so I was in charge but it was a class of 4seniors including me and the 2juniors and 3freshman.
This same sub went home during lunch to feed his cat or something and fell asleep and then the next 2classes just sat in class alone for an hour
i had a kid at a school was a ta for. and there was a kid that missed school for three months this was in may. he was on spectrum and was hard to work with him because missed so many days. it was a upk program. and the school brought him back like it was nothing
over quarantine I gained the bad habit of eating a bowl of Ice cream every day and I've continued to do it since then (the beginning of 2020 till now) Bad self care but Its something to look forward to every day
Bri has such good sayings and new ones every ep - school stomach 🤣
Teachers deserve so much more
My mom gave me a mental health day every month. I had 1 per month and I could choose when I was going to use it. I always chose a Monday or a Friday because I’d get a longer weekend.
I remember one day after me and parents got into a fight I went to work and I couldn't stop crying, my coworker told me she would be fine and that I could go home. When I got home my parents asked what I was doing back and I said they sent me home bc I couldn't stop crying and then they told me you need to not let home drama get in the way of working. That was only time I ever left work for a break down and they still told me I was in the wrong
My kids miss a lot of school. My 17yo missed 82 days this past year. Typically, an usually when they miss multiple days in a row, I grab their work before the days. I don’t have healthy kids though. I don’t know others’ reasons, but mine is doctors and therapies don’t happen on the weekends. So to all teachers, I’m sorry. I do my best to make sure my kids don’t fall behind though.
I literally never close the Blackboard tab, so I must be one heck of a student according to the tracking lol
Why does everybody have a "I went to the store at 2am every night" story 😂 mine was with Coney island!! They closed at 2am
Oh my Gosh Mrs. Rogers, You had a Friend in NY Fashion Week?!
At my school we have a academic counselor and if they have missing work they go to something called catch up cafe where they finish there work during lunch and recess.
We have this rule where you can't be inside the building during lunch or recess, and because I have so much homework to do, I basically just ask the teacher running lunchtime detention if I can sit in there.
I can’t believe full-time American teachers don’t get paid over the Summer…We get leave loading in Australia. They pay us extra to not be there…and the teacher conditions are still bad enough for a shortage. No idea how there’s any teachers at all in the US.