Our Craziest Stories From Our First Year as Teachers
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- čas přidán 6. 08. 2022
- Our friend, Lashay Greenwood (@lashatgreenwood) joins us for this super fun episode as we all (minus Lauran) share the craziest stories from our first year in the profession!
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I remember we had a first year teacher in my freshman year first period. He wanted to make a bold entrance so he walked into class and jumped onto his desk. Problem was the guy was incredibly tall so when he fully stood up his head went through the ceiling tile and broke it. I can tell you that he did get our intention and I remember 15 years later
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@@girardfarms I do maitnence and can’t imagine wasting my energy being mad at something like that lmao that’s the job. Unless he was trying to break the tiles …. Which he wasn’t… it’s hilarious.
Hahahahahahaha
Honestly, I get it if a teacher doesn’t get involved with a fight, even when physically capable. Can you imagine the parent complaints and accusations and liability?
I remember when I was a senior in HS the freshman girls were getting in brawls almost every day and I remember a male teacher saying unless it was very serious/dangerous he was hesitant to get involved because of the disaster that could come from it. Like you said, complaints/accusations, etc. it would put them in a very bad situation and that’s what he explained when someone said they thought that was messed up.
It's honestly a no win situation.
And like Bri said, we aren't normally trained. And there's different laws in different states. I work in IL and we can temporarily restrain a kid to keep them out of traffic or something like that, but otherwise we're not supposed to do it could cost us our jobs too if something happens on the legal side of things. And if you wanted to be trained it's not offered directly as it should unless you're in the Special Ed department that I've seen. I've been the primary recess supervisor at the elementary school I work at for 6 yrs now and I'm still not trained. But I will put a kid in a "bear hug" hold to keep them from hurting themselves or others if I need to. I'm not supposed to but I will if need be until admin arrives. Not the big kids tho.
I love watching Bar Rescue cause they'll teach them to break up fights. All you gotta do in most bar fights is drop a wet washcloth on the back of someone's neck and out of instinct they'll likely tense their shoulders and stop fighting.
I would’ve just got on the phone with admin immediately and let them handle it. Cause I know schools where teachers get fired for just touching kids.
How do you guys manage to maintain a straight face with parents who bring these unrealistic requests to you?! 🤣🤣
brie’s facial expression when hearing about this wasp catching attempt is an absolute mood
When that teacher didn't get involved with that 50 kid brawl, he was just chilling and thinking, "I don't get paid enough to break this up." 😂
And I don’t blame him. Especially in many states where teachers don’t get good health insurance.
Yeah like i could see one or two kids,but 50, id be calling the army or something.
This is about to be so hyped! I love Bri, Lauren, and Rebecca. I’m excited for Lashay. Sad that Lauren won’t be here! For game day at my school we don’t wear our uniforms we have to “dress up”. HOLD UP…… y’all practice during the school day?!?!?!? We always have practice before or after school.
At our school , the only time people had to “dress up” was away games . Home games it was uniforms
Ohhhh we don’t ever wear our uniforms.
@bucko993 we don’t our games usually start at 5:30 and the B team starts at 4:00. We get out of school at 2:40.
@@bsheaff1540 in my high school every football player wore jerseys and the cheerleaders wore their uniforms on game days! Lots of schools do it just for team spirit! Get everything looking forward to the game later that night!!
at my old high school im graduated now but alot of the kids were poor and the school didn’t have enough money to transport kids like that. so they would practice during the day! also we wore uniforms every game day! especially during home games
As someone who has been to public, I have zero doubt in any of these stories. I watched two boys throw desks at each other.
HOLD UP!! The teacher who could not get employment based upon a former employer's testimony about her can set that employer up for some big time legal trouble. In most states, employers can legally provide any truthful information about their past work performance but most employers won't do it because there is a huge risk that the former employee may bring a defamation lawsuit against them that would cost a lot to defend. She needs to hire an attorney and sue them for defamation and damages.
after HS, my dumbass didn't know exactly what a "two week notice" was exactly, I had a manager tell me, while pregnant, that if I signed a two week notice she wrote up, I could get out of work early and "have a spot" waiting for me after I had my baby. Mind you I was probably one of the most active employees, always had good customer reviews and worked until I was about 9 months, I didn't know what was going on and ended up signing because from what she explained I'd be able to come back, well apparently she didn't tell our lead and when I was showing up weeks later they put that I basically abandoned the team and my job and I was so pissed 😂
lmaoo i don’t know why i find this channel so addicting because i’m genuinely shocked at my interest in a teacher show knowing i hated school so much
Same
When I was in high school there was a girl who tried to poison the math teacher by putting germ x in her drink. That girl got in so much trouble, and was removed from that classroom for the rest of semester.
The exact same thing happened at my middle school lmao. The kid got sent to alternative school and had to go to court for an attempted murder charge.
Same but my music teacher wen I was in 6th grade
Just an piece of advice, if you’re looking for a mentor try looking for an experienced teacher working part-time, or possibly someone you know is retiring.
My mom is retiring this year after teaching 45 years spanning 3 generations; 11 and 15 years before my brother and I were even born…
I am not a teacher but quick tip; retiring teachers tend to give away all their stuff at the end of the year. It’s a great place to score teaching resources, classroom decor, books and other materials for students, and even furniture.
This makes me want to be a teacher both more and less 🤣
This one had me cracking up!
Suggestion: I am currently going back to get my Masters & certification. I can not stop hearing about how BAD the teacher shortage is and how districts are taking anyone they can find. It makes me feel like my teacher training efforts aren’t worth it. I would LOVE for y’all to do a video on the current teacher shortage, why you think it’s this bad, & what could be done to fix it. It’s crazy!
Keep giving us good content! Y’all are awesome!
Don't worry, you'll get paid more for your efforts in education..and hopefully a better school.
I saw y’all on CZcams shorts and couldn’t stop watching!! I had to come see the full podcast 🥰
Before I watch I just wanna say I need some Lewis stories from Ms. Greenwood
man y’all, I wish I could come be apart of your podcast! I got stories for DAYS being an infant and toddler teacher 🤣
Y'all never fail to make me laugh 😂
Watching this video has made me want to go back to school and become a teacher %100
I hope it works out well for you💗
In 2nd grade, my teacher’s classroom had a big bug problem. We would walk in to the classroom sometimes and find a spider or some flying bugs. Since our school was pretty open, bugs were a normal occurrence in the hallways. Most of the classrooms were in their own little pods. My teacher’s room however was right by the doors that led to the recess area. One day we walk into the classroom to find a wasps nest. It had formed over spring break and my teacher hadn’t gone into her classroom yet since she had gotten to school a bit late. The wasps were EVERYWHERE. It was horrifying. We had to evacuate the school since the wasps started to go everywhere.
BRI.. BEST FRIEND... DO NOT go to New Orleans! The roaches there give ZERO effs. Those bad boys will pick you up on their backs and take you down an alley! LoL
*scratches out going to new Orleans on bucket list*
as someone who grew up/still live in Louisiana i can confirm lmfao
@@starrycharacter it’s a cool place but wow, there is some crazy shit there lol
@@Ilovecrystals922 still cockroaches are creepy to me I hate them
@@starrycharacter They didn’t mean it literally LOL at least I don’t think so
The best part of this show is Bri’s facial expressions lol 😂
9:23 tbf, a lot of us epileptics will laugh about a "not too serious" seizure after regaining consciousness. It's not so much a "these kids," thing as it is a, "these epileptics," lol. When you have them enough, they're kind of just a fact of life, but they still terrify pretty much everyone else. Being able to laugh about it helps deescalate everybody else. Granted, some are a doozy, and there's just pure exhaustion, but I've had my fair share of coming to and just laughing about it with the panic-stricken onlookers afterwards.
this! as someone with both epilepsy and vasovagal syncope (meaning i’ve passed out in a fair share of classrooms and other unfortunate places in my lifetime) all I can really do is laugh, even though the experience is probably even more jarring for everyone else that witnessed it 💀
@@plasticjesus444 yes! I have frequent fainting spells due to POTS and it's totally chill for me, like I'm fine, but everyone else freaks out. I end up having to comfort /them/ after I wake up. It’s also super annoying when people call an ambulance though and I have to be like "sorry, it's chill"
Oh god yes haha throwing up and passing out are just a way life for me, just don’t let me hit my head TOO hard and I’ll be fine haha please don’t stare just give me a few minutes haha
@@kaitlinannwright24 This is the worst! I had a seizure at my grandmother's house when my aunt and uncle were visiting, and felt terrible (more so than the seizure) as I was desperately trying to recover and tell them not to call an ambulance because it wasn't necessary. I tried to warn them in advance because mine almost always have a pretty distinct aura that gives me a grace period, but my uncle was still trying to convince my grandmother to call 911 while I was resting in post-ictal. Trying to just reset to some semblance of "normal" and feeling guilty that I made them feel so helpless. Epilepsy, syncope, and similar conditions are just lose lose. You have to laugh, or you'll have a nervous breakdown.
I found this podcast the DAY before I am gonna start my first year teaching. I adore you all and this indeed made me feel better!!
The sanitizer in the drink is exactly the same thing that happened in one of the schools I worked for. The teacher got really sick and couldn’t figure out why until what the kid was doing came out.
Thanks a lot, Rebecca! Instead of having the normal back to school nightmare about me forgetting my lesson plans, I'll be running from flying roaches.
She makes up bs stories and adds unrealistic details. This was years ago in a school being torn down, yet she somehow knows that the teacher still isn’t back in the room years later and it’s infested with wasps too now. Bs.
@@ashruz_3095 Girl... why are you so mad.. this exact story happened to my best friend literally two years ago. The school is NOT torn down yet and yes the year after the same room has a wasp problem. This school is SCHEDULED to be torn down next year because it is so old and has so many flooding/pest issues aka the roaches and wasps but it 100% happened to the girl whose wedding I just stood in this past weekend. Why don't you mind your business until you actually know what you are talking about :D
@@ashruz_3095 if you think she’s lying and exaggerating everything why TF are you on her channel commenting every video?? Get a life!! And most importantly stay out of hers!
The more I watch of these videos the more I realize that my sons school is amazing. (I went there too) we had a student try to push a teacher over a railing on the second floor (the library was 2 stories and open) and the kid was charged with attempted murder
I'm about to start my first semester of student teaching and I am SO excited. This podcast has both thrilled and terrified me and I can't be more grateful for you guys. So much love from Tennessee!
So how’s it going? I just changed my major to education 🥰
@@ItsNicoleAnderson I loved my first semester! I was with an awesome group of eighth graders; interacting with them made me so much more secure in my decision to teach. I’ve got another 50 more observation hours to do this semester at a high school, which will be really cool as well. I’m more nervous for that purely because I’m 5ft2 and look like a sophomore in high school BUT I am determined to push through it. Good luck with your teaching journey!
“ I’m goin on a Adventure “ “ I’m bout to bust a mission “ lol def the thing I said while walk-in out the class room 😂 crazy to think I only graduated 3 yrs ago n kids still sayin that 😂😭
You guys are my new favorite podcast for work!!
My first year of teaching lasted 4 weeks before the pandemic shut down school.
My first week of school was normal
My second week of school we had a brawl in the cafeteria that caused a lock down. Later that day, two of the kids in the fight started fighting in my classroom.
My third week of school we had a power outage that caused us to evacuate to the middle school building gymnasium for the rest of the day.
My forth week of school we shut down for covid :)))
I’m in my first year and first semester at Uni studying a Bachelors of Primary Education. I’ve been listening non stop trying to get a better understanding from those with experience even if it is from another place in the world (I’m in Australia)
Love watching these videos for a good laugh ❤️❤️❤️
I wish u guys would do a longer podcast!!! I absolutely love u guy’s
I start my first year of high school biology Thursday with students. I officially start tomorrow with school staff meetingsz prep time, signing up for adjunct duty and back to school night. Thank you for your advice to first year. I'm so excited but also terrifyingly nervous.
You’ll be great! Just remember to show no fear, and to have a good balanced discipline plan. I’m being so sarcastic with the first one! I’m sure you’re going to be a wonderful teacher because you seem to care. Good luck and happy thoughts for you! 💜
I love y’all’s stories💕
As a 7th grade student, a friend of mine put hand Santizer in a long term subs drink. The whole class before had talked about it. I said, "I nominate Raven" like to put hand sanitizer in the teachers drink. She got suspended and I had to write out an apology letter to the teacher. But they definitely did something about it. That's awful they ignored her
When I was in 7th grade the same thing happened to one of our English teachers, she quit that day and the kids that did it got sent to alternative for 6 months
In second grade, my teacher was trying to put something on the board, and someone accidentally unplugged a wire that it needed. As a joke, the fact said “dang we must have a ghost in here or something” And one kid stood up, screamed at the top of his lungs, and started running around the room likes crazy person, and even ran out of the classroom for a few seconds, and thus got everyone Stirred up,
Running everywhere, and when he comes back in, the teacher was getting people settled down, and she just said “Connor, that was very uncalled for”
This was so wonderful to listen to
I loved this one and please do more. Or do something along the lines about being a first time parent and bringing your kid to school for the first time ever. Because my one and only son Jensen who is 5 just started Kindergarten and never went to daycare or anything...and we have a first year teacher who seems amazing by the way and my son loves her!!!
For my first year of teaching as a sub I legitimately thought there was some cruel deity playing with me. First long term sub job and the day I get into the classroom, there’s no lesson plans or anything from the teacher I was subbing for. I thought odd but I’ll work with it. Some other teacher comes in and gives me a crash course on what I’ll be “teaching” and whatever miscellaneous programs I’m supposed to use. And she casually drops on me that my whole class is just RSP/SpEd kids but assured me they will be fine to work with.
Again, I play along like a dutiful sub and try to use every trick I learned from credential classes to convince these five kids to work with me. One kid, who I’ll call Ricky, refuses to do ANYTHING besides listen to his music and watch TikTok/CZcams on his phone. I tried everything in the book I could think of short of bribing the kid to go along with me. Eventually, I settle at a compromise with the whole class. If they do work for HALF of the 3 hours or so they have with me, they can relax the last half of class. This plan, although not great or ideal, is the best of the worst decisions I have.
However, after a day or two of peace, Ricky decides enough is enough and refuses to listen to me at all and actually starts distracting the other students who are still working. I try to get him to stop and eventually resort to sending him to the VP every day. Then Ricky decides to start calling me a pedophile to his friends at school. I immediately inform the VP of the situation as he is also the head of discipline at this school. Y’all wanna know what he said he’ll do? “Oh I’ll talk to him.” In my naivety, I thought ok sounds good to me maybe you’ll get through to him where I can’t.
Yeah no that didn’t happen. The next day during lunch, the kid calls me a rapist. Obviously, I bring this up to the VP again and he talks to Ricky… again. Y’all wanna guess what the super useful VP did this time? He got the kid to write an apology letter to me. Although he and the whole administration at the school neglected to tell me in any sort of manner that he had a 1st grade reading and writing level meaning his handwriting on the letter was almost completely illegible.
Ultimately I had to tough it out for one more week, and I thought I made it out but the kid had one final surprise in store for me. He reported me to the principal for abuse. Apparently me tapping him on the shoulder to wake him up in class amounted to physical abuse. I’m talking tapping his shoulder with the same force you would to wake up a pet. You bet your ass I celebrated after getting out of that shithole of a school.
Oh. My. Word. What even. That is horrifying
I swear theses episodes go by so fast.
I’m so excited I got here early this time. I love y’all!!
I know that most of the time you guys think its only like teachers or adults that watch you guys, i am a freshman in an amazing school i am very happy but you guys dont realize that this is a lot of amazing entertainment for me.
Though most of my generation is not into nor to they even like most teachers but i have loved to socialize and make friends with my teachers.
I'm a a fellow teacher You are all so funny and never fail to crack me up. I just have to say I so relate to you Bri on the cockroaches thing. I too am deathly afraid of bugs (like yes I too would run into the street and almost get killed). So, that story was literally my worst nightmare too. I get super freaked out over just one bug so yeah a swarm of them I just can't even. I mean I love the kids and do everything for them but I totally would have left them alone too and made the administration or literally anyone else deal with it. So, I totally feel you.
I would love to hear about how each of you chose your grade levels and such when looking at teaching as a career ❤️
I am so estatic Lashay on the podcast. I love her channel!
Craving longer episodes!!!
Omg I love you guys lol seeing from y'all's point of view y'all blows my mind with the storys, haha I was a bad bad kid an seeing this makes me be like well dang Ms.cambell really was out here buying majority of our school supplies i use turn erasers into slang shots ,I'm coming from Texas. Y'all are the best ⭐
I am in middle school myself and my class was the last 6th grade class to ever go to the elementary school- we went into middle school as 7th graders, and you are SO RIGHT! The 6th graders are always petrified for the first week then do a full 180! Our entire 6th grade year was kind of centered around the next year *because* we were the last 6th grade class, so we knew everything before we even entered the building for the first time lol. I'm so glad I didn't have to go through that feeling lmao.
Not a teacher, but I remember when I was sixth grade, there was this huge hole in the fence that surrounded the track and field of the middle school. The part that there was a whole in led to a ravine and a river. It didn't get fixed until the next year. Despite the fact that the hole was big enough for people to get through and imo, seemed rather dangerous.
I love this channel. I’m not a teacher but I went to 3 different high schools that made state news for crazy events that happened. 1 Highschool made national news and had FBI cybercrimes show up.
Omg the same thing happened at my school with the hand sanitizer and the drink, She ended up having to go to the hospital, AND only suspended the kid who did it for 3 DAYS
The teacher is okay now
The stapler story reminded me of the time when I was a freshman a friend of mine got hit in the eye with a thumb tack, because the kid that did it was throwing them at the teacher. Luckily the pointie end didn't hit her eye, but still.
Imagine getting an ad that says say no on prop 27 and then directly after one that says yes on prop 27
I feel like I'm "a lot" as a parent but I try and give good teacher gifts and show appreciation
I teach NC pre-k. I’m so excited to start this year.
I start my second year of teaching tomorrow (orientation) and then the first day is Tuesday. I am excited, stressed, and not at all ready.
Same. I'm not getting in between grown sized teenagers while they tussle. That is not my job 🙃
Oh the wasp story! I had a nest in my car in the door gap too! Stung me on the ear...
I love yall's story's. 💘 😻 💜
Ohhhh I never heard of this podcast but I’m all the way interested
Talking about students getting stung by bees…. I remember in like 4th or 5th grade girls in my class at recess would take off there shoes and go around purposely stepping on bees so they would get stung and have to go see the nurse. 🤦♀️😂
Purposely inflict pain on themselves to miss recess? That makes no sense.
I don't know when summer vacations start in the US but in Spain having started them around the 20th of June still have until the second week of September
I'm from Portugal and here is the same, but the 9th grade vacations start earlier, like around 7th June because they have exams
Then the exames are around 21st June
To fix the bathroom problem at our school *middle school* we now have to sign out in an app and it shows whos in the bathroom and how many times you have gone in there
I grew up as a teachers kid. And the stories just remind me of listening to all my teacher friends and my family. 😅 people really don’t believe how chaotic it gets.
Even though they themselves were in school too and should remember!!!! 😤😂
I even had teacher while I was in middle school and High school talk to me one on one for fun about it 😅 only because I stayed and helped afterwards when they needed it. I adored most of my teachers so listening to them vent was really interesting. They are people too 💖 most of my teachers also let the kids vent.
OMGG YESSSSS I LOVE EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YALL
great show
OMG I WANTED HER ON THIS PODCAST FOR EVER
12:59 I CANT STOP CACKLING AT BECCAS FACIAL EXPRESSION
I’m going into fifth grade and you guys are my favorite teachers
Love yalls vidoes
Rebecca’s voice sounds like Anna Kendrick
My first day teaching, I got written up by another teaching for being on my phone because she thought I was student
I LOVE BRI!!! "Baby try Jesus not me cuz I'm not the 1,2,or 3" "Girl make haste outta my face" imma start using those. Hahaha
I’m still a junior in high school. I am a 16 year old man bro. WHY DO I LOVE THIS PODCAST😍😭
I’m going into my first year so I don’t know if I should watch this but I love you all
4th grade english teacher wouldnt let me pee when my blood sugar was high that i ended up peeing in the seat.
Around here, it’s ticks that everyone is worried about since the ticks that carry Lyme Disease thrive here (and about 4 other tick species)
Most jurisdictions in my area have a requirement to keep grass under 3 inches to help prevent ticks. Most schools are pretty good about keeping the grass short because no one wants a student getting a tick from outdoor gym or recess and end up with Lyme Disease.
I believe y'all. My husband drives a school bus. And it gets 🤪 crazy.
My first day of teaching I had a student who passed out (heat exhaustion) when we were lining up. We had to call an ambulance. Within my first week another student fell from the monkey bars and broke his arm. He lied and said someone pushed him, his mom threw a fit that we let him get bullied. We watched the cameras, nobody pushed him. So yeah pretty much sums up how the rest of my teaching career has gone!
At the time I was working with toddlers however one of them got bitten on the face by another child. The parent was so angry and said "My
child is not a cheeseburger."
While I understand the anger, we had been working with this particular family with the biter but the comment was the most hilarious thing I had heard.
@honestteachervibes I completely understand your fear of bugs! I was watering plants and there was a couple yellow jackets and I ran inside and hurt my ankle. But anything to get away from bugs! I hate them
12:57 becca’s face is everything 💀🤣🤣🤣 IM DYING
In regards to the kid that had the seizure after being denied access to the restroom... How does that even work? I'm not following how going to the bathroom would have prevented his seizure. Also, wouldn't you prefer it to happen in class, where there are other people around him, than in the bathroom, where he'd have been alone?
My favorite thing is that the kids showed the teacher the video of the fight LMAO that’s exactly what it was like at my school. Too many fights for the teachers to care until it gets really bad
You guys should invite Lauren Louder / burtoutteachers she’s so funny!
One of my old co-workers had a high school student EAT an owl pellet when they were dissecting them!
That teacher that was being bad-mouthed by the principal of the school she resigned from, she should report that to the labor board for the state she lives in. If she only had them listed as previous employment, and not a character reference they're not allowed to disclose any of that information. It's illegal in most States.
I love you guys and your podcast you should do a video on teacher shortage omg 😱 I've been a teaching assistant for the past 14 years and it has been a nightmare lately I'm starting off the new school year with no teacher because my teacher decided to retire !!!!!
I love Bri’s accent ❤️
the school I go to starts later than most, I have around a month until school begins
My first year of full-time teaching was certainly one hell of an experience. Not only was it the 2019-2020 school year, but I worked in a juvenile psychiatric facility that was so bad and poorly run that the state shut them down and I lost my job (not mad about it bc those poor kids). But yeah, our school was basically 2 hallways with flimsy "walls" that students would destroy on a daily basis. Anyway, needless to say, I got a lot of stories from working there. I was accidentally punched in the face while I was trying to move through the classroom and 2 students were play-fighting. The class was so loud and chaotic that the 2 didn't even notice or hear me reprimand them.
One school year I was in a class of a teacher who has never taught before. We were doing a project that included a lot of cutting with our scissors and a boy cut his finger. With the blood already going on his desk, he shook his hand making the blood fly everywhere. We had to go into another class to be entertained while they cleaned it up
I LOVE MISSGRRENWOOOD😭♥️
In 6th grade a student in my pe class asked our sub for water when it was EXTREMELY hot outside and we where doing a pacer (which we did weekly to almost daily) and 10 minutes later he passed out
i believe y’all because my school is crazy and stuff like that happens😭😭
What I pictured when mrs rogers said when her kids were running around that room was worrying about if they would have bumped into the tesk she was standing on
I would go to the bathroom at least once per class in high school. And sometimes I would run to the convenience store, and come back to class with a bag full of snacks. I was never more than 5 minutes lol.
That color is beautiful on Rebecca!
It’s not my crazy story but my former brother-in-law’s but it’s so crazy it belongs here. On his first day of teaching highschool typing (it was the late 80’s!) one of the electric typewriters didn’t work. He called one of the maintenance staff, who came into the classroom to try to fix it, but something went wrong and he hit an electric connection and his PACEMAKER SHORTED OUT - and he died. I wish I were kidding. We were all shocked that he continued being a teacher cause that seemed like a bad omen. Happened in Edmonton Alberta Canada.