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This was sad yet fascinating. I'm sorry. I laughed a little bit at the title 😭. I know it's hard to deal with children but how are you making children your enemies?! Especially at such a young age.
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🧒i’ve seen a massive uptick of posts where teachers are talking about how awful and cruel their students are and it turns out they teach at a middle school. like yeah. of course theyre evil. theyre 13. being evil is kind of a requirement for that age. there seems to be a cultural amnesia as to what it was like to be young and trying to figure stuff out. if anything, i feel like kids these days are more understanding of diversity and any generation before them. a current middle schooler wouldn’t call me a queer, they’d make a much more cutting and hurtful remark about my appearance #progress also if your first reaction to your students misbehaving is to kvetch about it on reddit, maybe find a different line of work
Apr 10, 2024
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🪡I've been teaching a sewing camp. Today, for the first time, I had a girl sew through her finger with the machine. Not the end of the world, but a little gory. One of the admin I had to report it to was so bitchy about this little girl. Being young and clumsy once, it hurt to listen to an adult talk so meanly behind a child's back. Let alone one who is earnestly putting the work into her passions. She's not giving up either, I'll see her back at the machine tomorrow. Kids learn so differently and at such different paces. Some adults will just never understand that. What I don't understand is why those adults are working in our schools.
Jul 17, 2025
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All the kids have IEP’s (Individualized Education Program) …. And THANK GOD. Context: On the side I babysit quite a lot. One of these amazing kiddos just graduated Kindergarten! His dad was explaining to me they have a meeting every month to re evaluate his needs and how he's doing and such with his IEP. Curious I asked how hard it was to get him one when he is so young AND in public school. As I remember how hard it was to get one when I was in school. Anyway His dad explained to me that almost everyone in his class has one or at least a 504 plan. In fact he told me (Jokingly) “I mean if you don't have one , that means something wrong”, and honestly…yeah. I always thought it was crazy to ask kids to sit still inside a classroom for the whole day. Obviously I know there is definitely more nuance to this topic that I have no idea about as Im not a parent or a educator. Although bottom line I am glad these accomadations are more accessible to family's and there kids!
All the kids have IEP’s (Individualized Education Program) …. And THANK GOD. Context: On the side I babysit quite a lot. One of these amazing kiddos just graduated Kindergarten! His dad was explaining to me they have a meeting every month to re evaluate his needs and how he's doing and such with his IEP. Curious I asked how hard it was to get him one when he is so young AND in public school. As I remember how hard it was to get one when I was in school. Anyway His dad explained to me that almost everyone in his class has one or at least a 504 plan. In fact he told me (Jokingly) “I mean if you don't have one , that means something wrong”, and honestly…yeah. I always thought it was crazy to ask kids to sit still inside a classroom for the whole day. Obviously I know there is definitely more nuance to this topic that I have no idea about as Im not a parent or a educator. Although bottom line I am glad these accomadations are more accessible to family's and there kids!
Jun 12, 2025
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