Scared Straight: Public School Teacher Edition
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The name of the jail is "Professional Development" 🤣
The warden is called "This Could've Been an Email"
If there weren’t any “professional development” or “staff learning” days, teachers wouldn’t be as burnt out.
Gotta love a 6 hour seminar on information readily available online. I guess superintendents' cousins gotta eat.
I still dream about when I used to cut grass for a living in 100° F weather for 8 hours a day in high school and college. No arguing, no conflict, no headaches, no professional development, no duty, no observations, no referrals, no meetings, no planning, no grading. Just flat grass and headphones. And some dust.
And you probably made about the same amount of money cutting grass and teaching class.
Living a simpler life is definitely best.
Sounds heavenly!!!
Exactly
I feel bad for the teachers in the U. S. The amount of disrespect from students, parents and admin is just nuts.
As a Mexican teacher who lives in Mexico, I can tell you is just as bad if not worse in Mexico. If you work in a private school, get ready to get things thrown at you, and to be insulted by students.
@@leonardo899 Oh wow. I had been told by my Latino families that I teach that there is so much respect for teachers there.
I feel bad for the students. They have to tolerate people that were too stupid to plan on a different career, and instead chose to pursue this one and complain about it everyday. The teachers are idiots.
Very true.
It was a problem created by too many egos. For too long school faculty would assault, harass, fail as educators. The problem went on for too long with the educators pointing the finger at parents and students. School faculty would not take responsibility for their actions so they were forced to take responsibility. This did not fix the problem because one of the problems was always criminal minded faculty keeping their mouths shut, making sure the abused students were made out as thugs so no one would believe them, and the people who were supposed to be there for checks and balances not doing their job.
True story: for about eight years during my teaching career ONE of my "second" jobs was a seasonal park ranger at a federally owned lake for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. That included citation authority to write tickets for various park violations and even the authority to remove problem people from the property if necessary. That meant that my citations and decisions were going to and be addressed and accepted in Federal Court. However, I was never able to get discipline referrals for unruly students to be accepted by my HS admin.. In their eyes, the problem kids were ALWAYS in the right & I was never justified in my actions for even major classroom issues. I learned to just lay low & just deal with whatever happened. Kind of a morale extinguisher to accelerate teacher burnout.
Yes...support makes all the difference.
you sound the like power tripper who gave me a ticket for fixing someone's fishing pole who had their fishing license... apparently being the group Eagle Scout that everyone leans on isn't a defense.
@@TrueHelpTV Nope, not me or any other COE people. All fish & game laws are enforced by state game wardens. The COE has no authority over game laws. All the COE rules involve personal safety or park property issues. About the only thing I ever wrote tickets for violating park rules (& then after REPEATED verbal warnings) like jumping off dangerous cliff, glass on the beach, large dogs running loose through crowded parks, & other "hard hitting" violations like that. I would much rather get voluntary compliance so people would have to have had at least three warnings before elevating it to a written ticket. And then be complete jerks that absolutely refused to just go along and be just cool. In the case of drunks, fights, mean or unruly individuals or groups, I generally called the local sheriff's deputies that also patrolled the lakes to deal with that. Those offenses generally involved criminal offenses that the deputies were more than happy to handle. Most of my time was spent in customer service types of activities, recovering drowning victims (usually several each summer season), towing boats from the lake after mechanical failures, and such. Definitely not on a power trip. That would have involved more paperwork that I didn't want to do. I got enough paperwork during the school year to last through the summer.
Are you still a teacher?
@@GaryLiseo No, or not in the practical sense. I taught in public school for 26 years & another 8 in a private setting. During that time I quit education twice (out of utter frustration) & retired once. I loved the actual teaching & the students. It was the ADULTS in charge I couldn't deal with. They took all of the fun out of my classroom and thusly put out my fire that wanted to be there.
I love sharing my passion of science and nature & have it my mission to have people out to my property in central Texas to share my passion with anyone that wants to visit. I have had several college level groups (Texas A&M, Baylor, Steven F. Austin, & Texas State) and a few other groups out to conduct field work but I'm trying to set up visits from public school groups. I have a CZcams channel that show some of the animal interactions collected from my trail cameras but I want to see people get "boots on the ground". Videos are nice but to truly experience and develop a passion for nature and the related sciences, one must get into the field. You have to be able to see it, feel it, smell it, hear it and experience it in a way that sadly most people in today's world don't get a chance to experience. I'm blessed to have upland, wetland, riparian habitats as well as caves and karst geology features so it's a very diverse area.
I'm sure I gave you more information that you wanted but it wasn't a simple "yes/no" question as you intended. I guess I'm still teaching but with my own rules and minus a paycheck.....and no useless time wasting PD.
On Homecoming the staff had the "class color" of orange for one of the dress up days. We all came as inmates with our room number on our shirts and gave our principal a warden shirt.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Brilliant
Now that’s funny!!!
My principal reminds me of the warden from shawshank redemption
The lunch analogy is PERFECT! I’m totally stealing this. 👍🏼
As a SpEd teacher, I can relate to LITERALLY EVERYTHING in this video. I’m laugh-crying right now.
“Oh my Ron Clark!” 😂😂😂😂
That “student” has perfect attendance! And your heart sinks when they say good morning Mrs C.
One thing I remember clearly about studying to be a teacher was the amount of teachers I shadowed who specifically warned me that the profession was crumbling. The amount of teachers I seemed to meet who said DON’T DO IT. And that was 8 years ago! But I do love teaching, I love it. I’m not surprised so many are leaving. I will be here a while but I’m rooting for positive changes ♥️
A tarot card reader told me not to go into teaching...that it wasn't what I thought it was...she was a former teacher she knew. I should've thought about that more...that she was now reading cards at the Renaissance fair!!😆
lol this is the best story !!
HAHAHA!!! You should have listened!! Poor former teacher!!
Hey that sounds like a great job!
The disruptive student... he's always there - Oh too true. :(
Ha ha...without fail.
"And that was just my first day!" this is so accurate it hurts. Mentally and physically. Not a single lie or exaggeration was told.
Im an RN, my stories are really, really sad.... we literally get PTSD from the crap we see and what we go through. We need to learn from Sweden where there is no standardized testing, kids start school at a later age, teachers are respected and admired and treated like top members of the community and recognized for their work. And their students score higher than anywhere in the world
I retired four years ago and still have "school" nightmares. Waking myself up yelling. My poor cats.
I was told by my local Mental Health team that PTSD does not happen from long-term exposure to defensively aggressive teaching management..... I still cannot see paper post on my doormat without feeling suicidal, but what do I know?
'that was only as my first day as a substitute' Holy cow I'm laughing out loud here!!! So relatable!!
I wish I saw this when I started college. I might have made better choices in life. Like not getting a teaching degree!
Also, my second job is working at Ace Hardware. I was much prouder of that job.
The thing is...I didn't believe it. Maybe you would have been less naive.
Ha ha...you can't tell those bright-eyed bushy-tailed newbies not to go into teaching. There is no getting through to them. It's okay. I was just the same when veterans tried to talk me out of it.
I don’t understand this. I’m a sub and I am so passionate about the education system. I find the job rewarding in many ways. However, there’s no way in HELL I’d become a full time teacher because of the way teachers are treated. You really need to have your blinders up to substitute/shadow and still decide to be a teacher.
@@sylenaharper3975 I think it attracts a certain personality...a masochist maybe? People pleaser? Martyr? Ha ha...can you think of more?
Who else went back to college and got a second bachelors degree to switch careers because you didn't believe it could be that bad when you decided to get into teaching.
Third bachelor's.
Currently working on IT certifications. This will more than likely be my last year teaching HS social studies.
This video is a public service announcement. Thank you from one current teacher to a former.
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I needed this laugh! This year, in addition to being a teacher (teaching 1 in-person section and and 5 virtual sections) AND an instructional coach, I was volun-told to be one of the school test coordinators. We had to achieve 95% tested. We were constantly calling home … no answer. We discovered that for many of the kids we hadn’t tested, the school had already filed truancy paperwork with the courts.
So … the courts can’t get them to come to school to learn, but WE better get them up there for the state testing!! Make it make sense!!
This has got to be one of his best yet. 😂
2:40 Or, the substitute shows up, completely ignores the teacher's lesson plan, and plays a movie for the students.
I'm a TA and had a plan written for my reading group (3kids) and the sub for me said she didnt understand it and didnt do anything. She came back the following year to be one of our students one-to-one. She was supposed to check his bookbag every morning for weapons. She refused...
@@priscillajimenez27 I keep things very simple for subs because I know it can be difficult to understand something you're not familiar with.
@@priscillajimenez27 I keep things very simple for subs because I know it can be difficult to understand something you're not familiar with.
@@priscillajimenez27 However...this sub sounds like she's not even trying to do what is asked for. But wait...check for weapons? 😵
@@lisadiconti that's the thing. I wrote a note to her just explaining what page we left off in the book, who were next to read and order (3 kids) and the page on the packet of questions.
“You ready to lead a field trip on four hours of sleep?” Lmao 😂
Very nice video. My favorite part was how you explained how we get paid in the summer. That is the best analogy ever, which explains why your class at the time had scored 70% higher than the rest, because you do relate well and how you explain things. Also the ending rhyme of roll and bowl was on point. Good job Mr. teacher!
Please someone give this guy the Golden Apple Award or Knight him tomorrow! You need a standing ovation. This is beyond true 👍. Or as the lingo today goes, "facts."
Yes. He really gets it, doesn't he? So much insight into the realities.
Well, when the public education system completely collapses, teachers can charge $100 an hour to tutor the students whose parents want them to succeed, and can pay for it.
I would just like to see people see the seriousness of the education issues and start making some laws that hold people accountable. I don't know what the answer is, but here in the US we are seriously hurting. Devaluing education is all the rage...and will never help any of these children. Teachers need to be respected if they are going to be successful in the classroom.
$300 per hour
@@EE-hi4reWith a minimum two hour block in group sessions.
High Key this channel is making me reconsider being a teacher. I just got my Bachelors and im not sure I want to commit to getting a credential 😅
Run!!!! Education is like an abusive relationship right now!!!
Run for the hills! Lol...I'm serious!
@@badmama1962 Yes...abusive.
Doing the lords work
I still love teaching ... 19 year veteran at it.
AGREE!! DON"T DO IT!! RUN AWAY!!! RUN AWAY!!!!
By far the funniest one yet. The no-show parent followed by the no-show sub. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. Only to be followed by “that kid” who never misses 😂💀😂💀
This makes me appreciate my school so much more. I am curious how many issues there are in my local public schools although I've heard and observed classes with average size of between 28-34 and one of those was a class providing a paraprofessional for the EBD students... so they threw 20 EBD and 15 ESL students in there. That and there's a former school building full of administrators that get paid more and see students, parents, and most tough situations a lot less.
"Are you ready to live in a van down by the river?" Then you are ready to be a teacher.
"Simulation over! I never showed up!" 🤣
Once again, dead center bulls-eye..... Been there, done that.
I wanted to teach physics in high school. Then came the assignment to shadow a teacher. After watching the class, listening to him, learning more about school politicking, I was out. Switched to computer science.
Thank you for the good laugh! Sums up teaching perfectly! Although I only teach music, I've had my fair share of drama, too. Happy holidays!! 🎄🌨️🎄🌨️🎄🌨️🎄
Excellent- so funny!!!! and so TRUE!!
I started teaching (straight out of one of my state's best prep programs) in January. I've already turned in my resignation and am not even sure if I'll be finishing the semester. I have a full lab, class sizes in the low 20's, and a decent ratio of interested students, but even that isn't enough. I don't care how much they pay me at this point, it isn't sustainable. To operate and teach technology classes, you need time to prep the lab, design and modify lessons, create online resources, perform required accommodations, etc. There aren't enough hours in the day to do that for 3 classes after dealing with the students for 8 hours. It just isn't possible unless you give up everything else, have a spouse that can handle daily tasks, or have been teaching the same thing for years (which just isn't an option in a good technology class). I'm sad to say it, but the spark is gone and I'm looking elsewhere. Hopefully I'll find a place in a community college or library Makerspace where you don't teach curriculums, but instead assist in the learning process directly.
Sorry for your situation! Teaching is not sustainable. My parents were teachers back in the day when it could all get done, and you would still have a life. I have two more months to go and then I'll retire. I have been teaching 26 years and it gets worse every year. Good luck to you.
@@lisadiconti Thanks! I had some level of expectation going in (at least after I learned more in my final year of college) but I didn't think it would be this bad in even some of the best situations. I really hope that schools start considering doubling up teachers more often. One of my old schools had 2 teachers teach 4 periods (each teacher was officially in charge of 2 and planned/assisted in the other 2, so neither had full workloads). It's the only way I see this working for more involved subjects like technology.
Still sad though. It's going to be hard for a few of the students. Even if I'm barely surviving I still make an OK teacher from there perspective it seems, and I definitely know my stuff. I don't know what it'll take to change this, but I hope it happens soon.
@@syber-space Yes. I felt a lot more supported when I at least had a teacher assistant to help with the workload. The expectations are unreasonable. I am sure you are doing great under the circumstances...which are out of our control.
It's all kinds of classes not just tech. I teach language & have 5 preps a day. If I'm not teaching I'm planning. I never leave my room not even at lunch. I go in early & stay late. Did I mention I'm finishing my 25th year... It doesn't get easier 😕
Never been a teacher but hung out with the ones at my school during free time (on campus). One of them worked at least another job and used his money to buy stuff they needed for his science classes including experiments. On top of being the sponsor for the GSA. I’ve always respected teachers but he made me realize who much of a godsend teachers can be.
My daughter quit the teacher academy (accelerated track for students who want to be teachers) after 1 term as a teaching assistant half day 5 days a week helping slow readers in 1st grade. She’d wanted to be a teacher for most of her life. Now she does inside sales for a big tech company getting paid more than her friends who became teachers.
Fascinatingly accurate!
Journey at a karaoke bar, you can’t get away from it 🤣
You speak the truth, my comrade. I love the snap flourish at the end!
Why isn't this a real thing!? Dang, I wish someone had scared me straight 😂
Most newbies won't listen.
The one student you wouldn’t mind being absent is NEVER absent!
🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'M LAUGHING SO HARD, I'M CRYING!!!! SOOOOO ACCURATE
Like Journey at a karaoke bar! 🤣As a Journey fan, that stung
Lol “Oh my Ron Clark!”
Seriously had a parent tell me today that she feels her daughter’s grade should be raised because she’s so smart. SMH
Had a student who never turned his work in on time. Called and talked to his dad who asked me why I wasn't doing something about it. I said, "I am calling you for help." He told me that I am the teacher, and I am being paid to handle it. Then he called the graduation coach so he could say what a horrible bitch I am. Yah, called to try to get him to work with me so we could get his kid on the right track. I guarantee you I will not call him again. But, lest anyone think this is just one student, think again and multiply it by 10 or so every single year.
I’m at the end of my 30th year of high school special education!
Wow, God Bless You...
1:34 and 2:02 I like how’s he’s not holding a phone, it’s just the box
"Oh my Ron Clark!" ROTFL
This is so good. I'm glad I've found it. Looking forward to regular laughs
I just left the profession and I wish I’d see this before hahahah!
I could watch you talk for days
😂😂😂😂 stop scaring me!!!
OMG!!! I love you!!! I have mascara running down my face!!! Spot on in every word!! 1 more year until retirement & my part time job!! Keep them coming!! 😂🤣😂
Damn, is it the same everywhere? My favorite is the orange jump suit. I knew if I didn't get out, I'd end up in one of those.
Two years away from teaching and my blood pressure is finally returning to normal! No regrets leaving! My advice to the bright eyed and bushy tailed…run.
Yep. 100% the same here in the UK.
“Oh my Ron Clark, you did not say that!” 😆
And that's just scratching the surface. No lie.
Brilliant!
Oh my gosh. All of that is so true.
Hilarious!
this is my 10th year as a sub, my LAST YEAR. I'm going into programming and will make tons more money and less stress
And if there is anybody in here, that doesn’t want to be out there…
As someone who used to want to be a teacher, but couldn't due to certain circumstances, I wonder is it REALLY this bad
Yes, it really is.
"There's no Netflix in Prison"
"Freaking attendance" I was bothered so much about it. OMFG Facts!
Do a part 2 with aggressive and violent students and parents and admin not caring. And kids lying on you.
Oh yes...teachers end up being the victims and scapegoats in this scenario, don't they?
got to love the little demons that make the classroom a nightmare THEN lie to the principal and they are the ones believed
I had a head principal that didn't discipline students who got into a fight. They were at school the next day like they had done nothing wrong. Yet, he allegedly wrote up 28 teachers (over half of the teachers) during his first year on the job. He also wrote up a teacher because her son got sick while at school and had to go pick him up from the elementary school, but instead of informing him about it, she informed an Assistant Principal. Apparently that was not good enough. He also prohibited the assistant principals from doing discipline. A seemingly power hungry individual.
@@willp.8120 i would get the rest of the teachers together and go to the school board they either fire the principal or the teachers walk and go to the press about the principal
Or kids setting up teachers and lying like mad so the teachers get fired.
Shared this with my grade level. We laughed and then we cried. 😂
Yea I’m starting to wonder why I thought I wanted to be preschool teacher lol
ahahaha my mom would have loved this! she taught for what seemed like a million years
Anyone who really enjoys teaching (especially teaching students who are interested in learning,) if you can move far away, look into private schools in other countries. Don't blindly accept a job at one, do your research because some private schools are just as bad, but there are many AMAZING teaching opportunities in countries that are not the US of A (and for the most part, stay away from public schools in other countries as well.)
"It’s like Journey at a karaoke bar"
Tried teaching part time nearly 30 years ago- unprapared students and absent parents were a problem even then. But, as far as summer vacation goes, could always work in the summer and be paid additional income. Always short on staff in the summer. Same was true when my mom & her husband worked for the school district. 3 months off is a long vacation, alternately you can work it & still get at least a month. Plus Easter, Christmas, Thanksgiving,etc. You get the point.
Why is this so accurate?
Best ever!
You look great in orange.
You are hilarious.
Great one!
“I served my nickel! Come and take me!” J. Mulaney
Hey, I am not saying I am happy but the most disruptive student that I have got arrested for the 7th time since school started and hasn’t shown up for a week. His stint in the local juvenile detention has fixed a lot of behaviors in the classroom
Oh my Ron Clark had me 💀💀
As a student I hated all 12 years. I wonder if they ever called my parents. I ditched a lot.
I’m in Australia and yet everything in this is true here too. So sad
lmao... "do you have your second job yet??" "...and that was only one my first day!" "that one kid will ALWAYS. SHOW. UP." omg this is a good one. be ready, ya'll... lol #beentheredonethat
I'm so dead lmao
2:34 Called it.
Another good upload by will forte
100k here a year and retiring after 32 years. Best profession ever, but not so much anymore!
You forgot to mention that the sub not showing up is also the teachers fault
Hillarious but sad!!!
Thankfully, in Canada teachers are paid very well. Plus, we have a union. I can’t believe there is such a huge wage disparity between US and Canadian teachers. Parents complain that we get paid too much!
I have a couple of friends that went into teaching. One for math and the other for English. I wonder how they're doing right now
very funny 😁
I homeschool my kids now, but my kids did try kindergarten and 1st grade up until the pandemic. I do appreciate the teachers and how nice they are I just dislike the office ladies and school district…👎🏼 I don’t like yelling at teachers because I know they have so much to do and they are trying their best. But just like hospitals the system is broken even if we change the people in it maybe we need actually parents and grandparents on the board who actually care. Haha
School Boards -are- parents and community members. School boards don't have teachers on them.
I want to hear if you havr any stories of really bad teachers. I remember my history teacher in middle school would just play assassin's creed for an hour and that was our history lesson
🤣dammmmnnnn
@@thecandyman9308 the funniest part is that he was awful. The class would make fun of him for dying in the game and he would fly off the handle and scream at us
Same with vet tech....all of it...
Student teaching was enough to drive me away never to return. Youthful bad decision. Thankfully, I didn't go into too much debt for it.
I hated "professional development". It was such a waste of time. It was rare that any of them were worthwhile.