Folks, if you can’t spot that this answer was intended humorously, uses wild generalizations, and has very little basis in reality, I don’t know what to tell you. The obvious answer is actually “I don’t dislike any kid – I struggle to raise them all up,” but since […]
Interrupt my class with an unscheduled fire drill Send out a last-minute email explaining why half my kids will miss the test because of a field trip to go see a movie Cut off the last two hours of the day for an “emergency class meeting” where you […]
I’ve eaten at hundreds of restaurants in my life, but I’ve never worked at one. My wife was a waitress in college, so when we go out to eat and I complain about something, she’s usually able to offer me an explanation. The table next to ours received […]
How much they complain. I’d say about 25% of students have a knee-jerk response to complain about everything these days. It’s annoying. Anything I say short of “let’s just have free time” is going to be met with sighs, groans, and complaints. How short their attention spans are. […]
School rules vary from school to school and district to district, so these might not be true for all schools. Just all of the ones I’ve worked at: We cannot leave students unsupervised for even a minute. That’s why we’re on our phones sometimes… we’re chatting with our […]
Here’s how some students think: Two rest days a week is already enough to relax, do homework, or spend time with family. If we had a three-day weekend, we would get into more of a “holiday” frame of mind and struggle to focus or be productive. Yes, the […]
Talk of teacher shortages has been popping up on a state-to-state basis, so I thought I’d engage in a rare act of actual data collection. I’m working from two basic sources here: 1) a report from USED that actually goes back to 1991, but we’ll just focus on […]
