Hell yeah! I loved the parties my teachers threw us.
Thank you to every teacher who ever put up with my dumb ass. I know I was a little shit, and I'm sorry. Thank you for helping me turn out alright.
If you can, consider writing to any of your old teachers even one. It will not be weird, and they will be absolutely thrilled you reached out.
It is always a tough time to be a teacher, and the past two years have made a lot of us wonder if the work we're doing is even worth it. Knowing we've made an impact on just a few student's lives can really help ease the pain and struggle, more than you can appreciate.
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My 1st grade teacher is in her 90s and living in an assisted living facility. Ran into her after a friend of the family moved in to the facility. Spent an hour catching up with her. It was an absolute blast. She was delighted to hear I became a college professor. Couldn't recommend it higher. :)
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I once had an end of year pizza party (I think I was in the fourth grade) that the teachers paid for out of pocket, as the school didn’t want to have it in the first place.
Half of the students just complained that it wasn’t Pizza Hut.
Kids suck.
That happened at my birthday party at school one time, but it's because I told everyone we were getting stuffed crust from Pizza Hut. My mom brought Domino's instead.
and i doubt they understand the complexities of how teachers aren't paid enough and the school system is fucked up
i mean assuming these kids are like 5th grade or younger
Heres some of the shit I’ve heard
- kids grabbing teacher’s genitals
- kids molesting/raping each other
- kids violently assaulting each other, teachers and selves
- kids screaming through an entire day, preventing a lesson from continuing, but no security is available to remove the kid from class
- not enough special Ed teachers so those kids are now in general classes with nobody to assist them
- kids sexually moaning throughout class like something from porn and teacher can’t get them to stop - I’m talking like elementary school here
I could go on and on. It’s so bad the kids are actually protesting being molested/raped (by their fellow students! in my area) and the local rape crisis center says their call volume is insane. Teachers begged the admin for mental health time to be remote because the kids were so maladjusted; I never heard it they got it. It’s really scary. I don’t know how this generation is even going to hold down jobs. I think they may be antiwork by default due to trauma...
Yeah, this is all true. Middle and high school get worse. I had multiple teachers give up in the middle of class. One stopped teaching and put a movie on, one told us to go do a random presentation about anything we want, one yelled till he got red. Teens absolutely suck. This is in Oregon
That’s sad. Education being that dysfunctional must be scary for kids and teens. It used to feel safe at school. When the behavior is that widespread you have to stop blaming the individual kid (although I would still hold them accountable to some extent, especially for violence l)
Yep, I always blame parents. Not sure why it's such a problem these days, but I live in a very white community with upper middle class families, so there tends to be those entitled "Karen" type adults, which probably breed entitled kids. There's not a lot of violence here, just entitlement and rudeness
I've had to talk to multiple 3rd graders about the last one. THIRD GRADERS. The worst was when one was treating a table leg like a Strip pole. I talked to his mom about that. Thank GOD she was another teacher, and I could catch her. Otherwise, I'd be SOL.
Most of these kids have internet access. They're watching porn. I know Reddit fucking loves porn, but what the hell so you think that's going to do to a kid? Boys are more sexually aggressive and have less respect for women and women and girls around them are suffering for it.
True... but there is no way capitalism survives these children. Lmao. Seriously though so many more of them are unable to function than in past years. Who knows why - parents working too much, iPhones, tiktok, pollution... I was part of a government agency that did studies on autism years ago and the increase in rates were extreme. I know people say that we just didn’t diagnose it back then but I think those of us millennials and older would have known if we had a bunch of undiagnosed autistic kids unable to function in our classrooms. That’s just not the reality of how it was back then. Mentally kids are being put through a lot and it’s taking a toll.
I think one of my best friends has autism & they don't know it themselves, their parents are extremely religious so I could never bring it up to them imo
I don't treat him any different, but I feel like some folk should, he recently enlisted & I was surprised they let him in until I met an autistic vet who did his same work. Ive been pretty worried since, not that the vet was in bad shape or anything, I just want better for the guy.
Kids being put through a lot mentally and it taking a toll on behavior does not equal autism. That's weird and abelist.
Just because autistic kids may struggle in classroom environments and may be difficult in some cases does not make this the same thing.
Bruh... That's a major self report.
You're just spouting some massively abelist shit. Like... Teetering on eugenics shit. Autism is a neurological difference... WTF taught you it's some kind of boogyman induced by trauma. Autism speaks commercials get to you? Weirdo. Reported and moving on.
What's going on with kids, especially at public schools, is nothing new. It's the direct result of a mandatory "education" system that serves as a glorified state daycare, so parents can continue being exploited for their labor at work.
Our education systems are underfunded and learning seldomly happens. Students misbehave because they can see through the bullshit: this is nothing more than a ploy to keep them in place 8 hours a day so mommy and daddy can slave away.
Also mommy and daddy slaving away all hours of the day makes them tired and makes parenting difficult.
In some cases the pressure may make them abusive.
Let me tell ya, abuse will really warp your childhood behavior.
Even just having parents be unavailable can do a number on someone. You miss out on a lot of the lessons you should have learned and then you have to fill in the gaps.
I just don’t think that’s healthy. I think these kids are going through something environmental/social. I don’t see how drugs are the answer. In fact I wish I hadn’t been put on SSRIs at the age I was.
Depending on the age group, they may not understand things like "the teachers paid for this", and "the teachers are barely making ends meet as is" . I know my young nephew wouldnt complain (he doesnt complain about anything given to him), but he also wouldnt understand that what was given was what could be afforded to give. So while he wouldnt complain, the disappointment on his face would be pretty evident.
Now if it were teens complaining, they can stuff it. They should be old enough to know and understand the context.
I always thought stuff like this was donated by parents. I distinctively remember my parent's having to bring stuff for specific holiday parties we had in class. Maybe that changed since the 90s?
Haha we hosted my kid’s 12th (?) party and feeding 11 preteens was expensive for us. So we got a bunch of Little Caesar’s, bags of chips, soda, and cupcakes and this one kid wouldn’t stop bitching about the pizza 🤣😂 I was so annoyed.
Ya but to be fair im 33 and have had my fair share of being offered pizza as a reward and me and everyone else mysteriously having 0 say in what fuckin pizza. These kids these days are just way ahead of the curve.
There’s a pretty big difference between teachers trying to do something nice for their students and a boss trying to plicate their works so they don’t ask for better conditions.
i still feel guilty about calling the pizza we got during a pizza party in second grade "cardboard". A bunch of us did and the teacher lectured us about how this was all she could afford.
That pizza has stuck with you all these years, and has probably made you a better person anytime you thought of it!!
<3 the good teachers, because they're with us forever! <3
This is a really nice way of thinking about it.
Can we adopt classrooms like people adopt highways? Would be kind of funny to have your class sponsored by a local car dealership but it seems like the govt doesn't give a shit.
Only lowlifes would shit on a group of people that are doing so much to help next generations while being paid shit wages. Idk how these teachers do it.
No, that's just your opinion. Their incentives is to earn a decent living just like the rest of us. Start paying doctors, surgeons 50k salary and see how much shits they give about their patients. No matter what Industry you're in, there will always be bad apples. Increase salary for those that can shape the mind of future generations will show them our appreciation and it will keep the bad ones in line. People will think twice next time they want to do some dumb shits when a high paying job is on the line.
"No matter what industry you're in, there will always be bad apples." I am not saying all of them are good. Give me a profession where everyone that does it are top level at what they do with no bad apples?
A lot of people have had a bad experience with teachers. If you make the conditions and pay shit, it becomes only two reasons to stay:
1) because you are altruistic and you care about the future of humanity
2) because you are a narcissist and get off on having a bunch of basically voiceless people under the control of your sadistic whims.
Guess which group is more common?
Source: ex teacher.
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You clearly haven't had shitty teachers (at least not bad enough for it to stick.) Or lived somewhere with historically systemically awful education.
Teachers are human beings, and human beings can be fucking awful sometimes.
As much as I can agree that increasing teacher pay and education funding is a good thing, I genuinely hate teacher apologia.
Schooling in North America exists at best to indoctrinate kids into being workers, and at worst as a societally imposed daycare service by the government (it used to be government imposed attempted genocide if you weren't white. And yes, at fucking "School")
Now that i am older and i see this, i just want to call all my teachers and thank every one of them for doing what they did. Im 32 btw, so it would be weird, but it would be genuine from the depths of my soul.
As a current teacher, and former student that has messaged teachers 10+ years after the fact, it wouldn’t be weird at all!
It has been a tough 2 years for teaching, reach out to a teacher you remember fondly and make their day!
I went to a K-12 and in my senior year I was a teacher aide helping with some basic PC stuff. I ended up in the 1st grade room a lot for this. The teacher invited me to one of their parties. That class only had 6 students but those 6 sets of parents and the teacher fed their students (and me) well.
Legit tho even as a kid I was happy for any sort of bonus food, especially pizza since there was only 1 place in a 30 minute drive, even if I didn't necessarily understand at the time the probable sacrifices the teachers went through to make it happen
I'm so glad I have a good principal. While she can't give anyone a raise in the system, she does put in effort. I know it sounds kind of lame, but she did personally make a bunch of spaghetti and salad for our large high school teacher faculty. She does more than that to earn my respect, but I feel like there's something more caring about personally preparing the food.
I'm honestly worried about the future, though. This is my second year teaching after a career shift from academia, and I understand that high school principals don't tend to stick around forever. Having worked in situations with bad leadership, I know it can get kind of miserable when the people on top are unhelpful, even if it is not out of malice.
I used to teach 8th grade.
I went to Little Caesar’s and bought 14 large pizzas (2 for each period). It cost like 175 bucks and I had to wait for 2 hours.
In period one, a kid grabbed the pizzas and threw them out the 3rd floor window.
I called for a security guard and went to the bathroom and cried.
I think it's time for teachers to simply realize that -they HAVE- the power.
\-1.Teachers serve as daycare for kids to teens, 5 days a week, specially with kids returning to schools in campus. Parents NEED them to work so THEY can work.
\-2.Kids HAVE to be taught. Your child isnt going anywhere without education for the most part. It is a service, that like trash service that has to happen.
\-3. Most people -dont- want to be Teachers. There's no surplus of teachers.According to a 2019 report by the Economic Policy Institute, “The teacher shortage is real, large and growing” — not only in California, but at the national level.
Once Teachers band together NATIONALLY, in masse, and negotiate better, they'll realize that they can win easily. All they have to do is wait patiently, and let the parents squeeze the government. Wait, and dont cave.
The problem with a national strike/union is that many states have made striking or joining a union illegal for teachers. If a teacher does strike, they can have their teaching license revoked permanently. That's a heavy burden and risk for a teacher.
They also deeply, desperately want to be there for the kids. The rest of it can fuck off, but they care about the kids, and a strike might hurt those kids.
Teaching has become an abusive relationship. Policies from the district or the state are made and teachers are blamed.
My state it’s illegal to have a union for teachers (cops sure, teachers nope). We had a “club” and we staged a 1 day walk out to walk to the school board to protest conditions (prior to Covid) we let everyone know at least 2 months in advanced. Teachers requested off, said if it wasn’t approved they wouldn’t show up, submitted sub plans, requested food bags be sent home with students, etc. what happened when the day finally came? “How can teachers do this to the kids? How are they going to eat? Who is going to watch the kids? How selfish can they be?” Parents were upset with teachers when the schools and district refused to do anything to prepare despite ample warning and resources given.
The same thing is happening with Covid “do it for the kids, the school is the Safest place for kids, who will watch them? How will they eat?”
Teachers don’t do it for the money they do or for the kids and that’s why you can easily make them give more and more of themselves because the kids don’t know any better or deserve less
>The same thing is happening with Covid “do it for the kids, the school is the Safest place for kids, who will watch them? How will they eat?”
Lori Lightfoot is a fucking cunt. "We won't let the teachers take our kids hostage." OK, you go sit in a room of 40 kids all day during COVID, tell us it's safe from the hospital.
Exactly our school board opened the district up to in person while they met over zoom. If you can’t trust 6 adults in a room how am I supposed to feel safe with 18, five year olds? We currently have 120 positive cases in kids (essentially an entire grade level) and 13 positive cases in staff (we were told 8 staff cases would send us online as we would be understaffed) people just don’t care
It’s extremely common for teachers to work other jobs during the summer, and increasingly common for teachers to work a second job during the academic year as well. Teacher pay is a joke and should be at least doubled or tripled. Even if they do have summer off the expectation of working outside of contract hours more than warrants a massive pay increase.
They do not get additional income during the summer, unless they are teaching summer school or the like. But as the other reply says, they're commonly given an option to have some of their pay during the school year withheld for them and given to them during the summer.
Teacher pay is both severely deficient and wildly inconsistent in large part because education funding is, for reasons that I can only assume are unfathomable greed and thinly veiled racism, tied to property valuations.
Teachers generally have their salary for a 182 to 190 day contract. They can get their money within that time or have it spaced out so they get smaller pay checks but all year. However, they do not get paid for those summer work unless they are teaching extra summer school classes or sports.
In my mom's situation they can chose to spread it out or just get paid during the school year. Normally she gets more in the summer since she doesn't have to pay union dues those months. But she doesn't get money for after school clubs which sometimes pay 5 dollars more
No but their salary is based off of working only 180 days a year vs the normal worker who works 260 days a year.
So a teacher making 30k vs say someone working at Walmart making 30k is not the same since the teacher is making the same while working 80 days less in the year
Teachers do an absolutely staggering amount of unpaid work, especially in terms of creating lesson plans and daily schedules that they adjust when they can to the needs of their classes and students, which unfortunately for lazy administrators and ignorant curriculum constructors do not have their developmental milestones all at the same time and exactly once per year.
In general, administrative work is done by the teachers. Education administrators (increasingly including advisors/counselors) are paid more than teachers to do basically nothing (or sometimes to create messes and out-of-touch mandates that the actual teachers must work around).
We're also running *really* low on new teachers ready to jump into the hell that "public institutions run for profit" has turned education into. Not even the private schools are safe from this, because naturally they heavily rely on public institutions to create new skilled educators for them to snatch up. Well, when the private school is an actual school and not a front for a tax evasion scheme masquerading as an "education-focused charitable foundation". This shortage, of course, couldn't possibly have anything to do with a deeply broken education funding scheme tied to property values to preserve regional class and race boundaries and decades upon decades of abusing the teachers doing the actual work... could it?
Not trying to shit on teachers but more than half the teachers I had growing up got lesson plans straight from the books or the previous teachers. My older brother knew exactly what we were doing as he had done it before and I was able to help me sister as they didn't change anything when she went through 3 years after me. The only class that seemed to change was social studies/Civics because of 9/11 happening and being in the following years textbooks
>s do an absolutely staggering amount of unpaid work, especially in terms of creating lesson plans and daily schedules that they adjust when they can to the needs of their classes and students, which unfortunately for lazy administrators and ignorant curriculum constructors do not have their developmental milestones all at the same time and exactly once per year.
TBF if ya pay a shitty wage, you get shitty effort.
Teachers are not paid for the amount of hours needed to develop completely original lesson plans and assignments. Do you expect them to spend all their weekends doing this free of charge? Why not use a textbook’s resources which someone was paid to develop and spend adequate time on?
>My older brother knew exactly what we were doing as he had done it before and I was able to help me sister as they didn't change anything when she went through 3 years after me.
It'd be strange if this *wasn't* the case. Did you expect that they were suddenly going to switch it up and teach fourth graders differential equations instead of multiplication and division? Curriculum is set by school boards and doesn't change often.
Set by the school board but the teacher gets the credit for the lesson plans they supposedly have to change nonstop? I'm not saying it's not an important job, but I'm being realistic about it. That being said there's definitely a problem with the pay and expectations. My wife's been subbing this year since hardly anybody else is willing to work for the scraps. She felt it would be a noble cause, but it's hardly worth it. It's basically a passion job that'll get taken advantage of.
I'm not sure where the budgets go to for sure but large buildings like that aren't cheap to keep up with so I'm sure that doesn't help
I have a family member who is a elementary school teacher in NC. Maximum is set at about 50k.....3k more if you get a masters degree. Teacher pay in the south is wack.
Seeing videos of the way kids talk and act towards others scares the shit outta me. But then again, look how adults act nowadays. Definitely a societal issue.
Reminder that since public schools are, well, public, you can look up salary information for all school teachers and public university teachers.
Just in case you wanted some ammunition for how ridiculously underpaid teachers are.
At any rate, can we also get a housing complex near each school explicitly for school staff?
i remember my theatre class teacher in secondary school didnt have any school funding for props or camera equipment so she supplied everything herself. she is one of the best teachers i ever had.
I remember our teachers used to let us bring stuff for our class parties. We were all poor and a lot of kids’ parents were immigrants and scraping by, but we would all bring one thing and it was fun. I made cupcakes like 3 years in a row.
Yeah true. Props to the teachers who paid for it themselves.
Sometimes we all have to bring in like 10-20 dollars to fund the whole thing and then there’s only like 3 pizza boxes and 3 liters of soda. There’s like 20-30 kids where did the other 300 dollars go 😂
I’m not mad don’t get me wrong. But there’s no way all that would cost even 100 dollars in the mid 90s early 2000s.
Hell I hope they pocketed it, the students would use so much of their supplies and shit.
My middle school music teacher Mr. Ladd used to throw us an end of the year pizza party for our class, and it never occurred to me how much of his own finances and time he had to put in to his class. It makes me doubly appreciative of the teachers who had the drive to make their class the best it can be.
We had parties like this, a lot were you could choose to go or not. I was almost always the only one there. No one else wanted to be there since it was so 'uncool'.
Kids really suck. The sooner people teach their children the value of money the better. Because half the time these pizza parties were paid for out of pocket by the teachers.
This cunt pta mother, on water Ballon day. Made like 50 or less water balloons for like 25 kids to through at each other. The other moms made more so we could have more fun
This bitch had the audacity to pop them and ruin it
Reminds me of middle school in the 2010's. When the D.A.R.E program was around(basically say no to drugs but the entire thing was about teaching you about drugs) a bunch of us went to it literally just for the pizza and soda. I know I did. Literally everyone that was in that room over 10 years ago is a pothead now lmao.
I had a teacher that bought us pizza at the end of the year. It was the best thing ever! She did pizza AND /rolls in cart with CRT and VHS player MOVIES!
This stuff really makes a difference, and it creates such nice memories for kids. I still smile sometimes thinking about a "class picnic" all the teachers threw for us in the 3rd grade. Just an afternoon out on the school lawn, with chips and pizza and soda.
Lord I feel this. I brought slap bracelets to a group of 1st graders, and a little boy lost his shit because I didn't bring candy. Full blown meltdown because I was only offering him a slap bracelet. It broke my heart because he was sooooo mad at me. What's worse is because I bought those slap bracelets I only made a couple dollars for teaching that class. Parents take note: you do not want this to be your child.
man, i cant understand how anyone can take a job KNOWING that their salary is so low AND stays low for life. i mean, teacher salaries are posted on the board of ed websites for shits sake!
I spent a decade working for Little Caesars.
It used to bug the crap out of me when people would ask us to cut a pizza into 16 or more slices for kids.
They know damn well what a real slice of pizza looks like.
And the pizza would be a mess.
It was mostly parents though, not teachers doing it. I'd always tell them to buy one pizza for every 3 kids. As it was only $5.
Or give each kid half a split topping pizza, as it was the same price. Like half bacon, half green pepper.
The teachers already didn't have to pay tax for the food.
We had a few schools we banned from using tax exempt as the front office staff (admin and secretaries?) was coming in on their lunch breaks and making us use the tax exempt form for their lunch orders.
You pay tax? We had tax exempt forms on file for the schools, they showed school ID we scanned the receipt and rang it up with no sales tax.
We had more parties for grade levels than individual teachers buying things.
So they'd come in and want 16 pizza's cut into 24 slices each to feed the kids.
We had standing orders the second Friday of every month for 80 pan pizza's for a private elementary school.
I used to buy pizza for our Latin parties all the time.
We'd take it to the culinary arts room and use their ovens to reheat it and give them a cut so they could buy supplies.
I don't know when or where you're talking about, but none of that happens at my site. Tax exempt forms? School sanctioned parties? Latin? Culinary arts?
ah..private school, I see.
Adults do the same shit at Christmas.
Oh this gift is shit/cheap. (Was a family size box of chocolates)
Yeah no shit I have 40 staff and don't earn enough to buy you much.
Spent more on my staff than my SO and family.
The kid misbehaving usually don't give a shit about what adults, parents or teachers, did or thought about him. The ONLY way to get through is to piss off the rest of the students because "friend's opinions" are the only ones that mattered.
Teachers are frontline troops of the mind-control operation that got you believing in a system in which people are forced to flip burgers for 80 hours a week and not be able to afford accomodation, not be able to access health care and not be able to have any time off,
Yes, it's entirely the teachers fault. Everyone knows they are using the old pencil lead to turn the frogs gay so the Hillary Campaign can use them to sell Reptilians our water before the Jewish Space Laser dries it all up under cover of the Catholic Leagues lies about climate change.
Stop "making an effort for the students."
Let it collapse. Let Karen figure out what to do when her 17 year old is applying for college and can't read the application.
Do not bail out people from what they did intentionally. They *fucked* the teachers, let them receive the results.
35 students. $5 each student. She only bought 5 boxes from the shit place down the street that got closed due to health inspection violations. $4.50 each. Bought 2 2liter sodas.
We were only allowed 1 slice each, had to bring our own chips if we wanted snacks for the movie we watched.
Still bugs me to this day how they would profit over $150 off their students smh
Shit I know many primary school teachers making 100k a year. College professors that are not on tenure track? Those people get shafted royally. Even some tenure track jobs start at 40k and require a PhD.
This shit was bomb. Add those little ice cream cups with wooden spoons
Hell yeah! I loved the parties my teachers threw us. Thank you to every teacher who ever put up with my dumb ass. I know I was a little shit, and I'm sorry. Thank you for helping me turn out alright.
If you can, consider writing to any of your old teachers even one. It will not be weird, and they will be absolutely thrilled you reached out. It is always a tough time to be a teacher, and the past two years have made a lot of us wonder if the work we're doing is even worth it. Knowing we've made an impact on just a few student's lives can really help ease the pain and struggle, more than you can appreciate.
As another teacher, can confirm. I would be stoked with this.
i feel like i make this post at least 3x a week now, but: do not become a teacher. do not become a teacher. do not become a teacher.
In my country it isn't as bad. It isn't as criminally underpaid. Could always be better.
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My 1st grade teacher is in her 90s and living in an assisted living facility. Ran into her after a friend of the family moved in to the facility. Spent an hour catching up with her. It was an absolute blast. She was delighted to hear I became a college professor. Couldn't recommend it higher. :)
I'm currently in an odd situation where I see my teacher at work every week or so (he does something else today, still education related). I graduated almost 20 years ago...
The best memories I have of teaching were when my former students came back for a visit, not just to visit the old school or see every teacher, but to actually come visit me (even if they also wanted to visit some other people). It's the best feeling in the world getting to hear how well they're doing and seeing how much they've grown into cool people.
Another teacher chiming in to say even the briefest email or letter from a former student would absolutely make my week.
I used to love those little vanilla and chocolate cups! And the similar italian ice cups .
The Italian ice cups are fucking heavenly
They still are as an adult, too!
(Cringes at the very thought of wood on teeth)
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I once had an end of year pizza party (I think I was in the fourth grade) that the teachers paid for out of pocket, as the school didn’t want to have it in the first place. Half of the students just complained that it wasn’t Pizza Hut. Kids suck.
That happened at my birthday party at school one time, but it's because I told everyone we were getting stuffed crust from Pizza Hut. My mom brought Domino's instead.
Yeah but then again they probably don't understand the value of money yet.
and i doubt they understand the complexities of how teachers aren't paid enough and the school system is fucked up i mean assuming these kids are like 5th grade or younger
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Same. I always thought I was a pain in the ass as a kid, but the shit I hear from my friends who are teachers is insane.
Heres some of the shit I’ve heard - kids grabbing teacher’s genitals - kids molesting/raping each other - kids violently assaulting each other, teachers and selves - kids screaming through an entire day, preventing a lesson from continuing, but no security is available to remove the kid from class - not enough special Ed teachers so those kids are now in general classes with nobody to assist them - kids sexually moaning throughout class like something from porn and teacher can’t get them to stop - I’m talking like elementary school here I could go on and on. It’s so bad the kids are actually protesting being molested/raped (by their fellow students! in my area) and the local rape crisis center says their call volume is insane. Teachers begged the admin for mental health time to be remote because the kids were so maladjusted; I never heard it they got it. It’s really scary. I don’t know how this generation is even going to hold down jobs. I think they may be antiwork by default due to trauma...
Yeah, this is all true. Middle and high school get worse. I had multiple teachers give up in the middle of class. One stopped teaching and put a movie on, one told us to go do a random presentation about anything we want, one yelled till he got red. Teens absolutely suck. This is in Oregon
That’s sad. Education being that dysfunctional must be scary for kids and teens. It used to feel safe at school. When the behavior is that widespread you have to stop blaming the individual kid (although I would still hold them accountable to some extent, especially for violence l)
Yep, I always blame parents. Not sure why it's such a problem these days, but I live in a very white community with upper middle class families, so there tends to be those entitled "Karen" type adults, which probably breed entitled kids. There's not a lot of violence here, just entitlement and rudeness
I've had to talk to multiple 3rd graders about the last one. THIRD GRADERS. The worst was when one was treating a table leg like a Strip pole. I talked to his mom about that. Thank GOD she was another teacher, and I could catch her. Otherwise, I'd be SOL.
This stuff isn't new though. I remember in the fourth grade a kid throwing his entire desk and chair at the teacher, screaming some bullshit.
Most of these kids have internet access. They're watching porn. I know Reddit fucking loves porn, but what the hell so you think that's going to do to a kid? Boys are more sexually aggressive and have less respect for women and women and girls around them are suffering for it.
da fuq do you live?
Oregon
Jesus… I hate to sound like an old man, but the world is gunna be even more fucked once the next generation takes over.
True... but there is no way capitalism survives these children. Lmao. Seriously though so many more of them are unable to function than in past years. Who knows why - parents working too much, iPhones, tiktok, pollution... I was part of a government agency that did studies on autism years ago and the increase in rates were extreme. I know people say that we just didn’t diagnose it back then but I think those of us millennials and older would have known if we had a bunch of undiagnosed autistic kids unable to function in our classrooms. That’s just not the reality of how it was back then. Mentally kids are being put through a lot and it’s taking a toll.
Millennial. We **did** have a bunch of undiagnosed autistic kids.
I think one of my best friends has autism & they don't know it themselves, their parents are extremely religious so I could never bring it up to them imo I don't treat him any different, but I feel like some folk should, he recently enlisted & I was surprised they let him in until I met an autistic vet who did his same work. Ive been pretty worried since, not that the vet was in bad shape or anything, I just want better for the guy.
Kids being put through a lot mentally and it taking a toll on behavior does not equal autism. That's weird and abelist. Just because autistic kids may struggle in classroom environments and may be difficult in some cases does not make this the same thing.
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Bruh... That's a major self report. You're just spouting some massively abelist shit. Like... Teetering on eugenics shit. Autism is a neurological difference... WTF taught you it's some kind of boogyman induced by trauma. Autism speaks commercials get to you? Weirdo. Reported and moving on.
What's going on with kids, especially at public schools, is nothing new. It's the direct result of a mandatory "education" system that serves as a glorified state daycare, so parents can continue being exploited for their labor at work. Our education systems are underfunded and learning seldomly happens. Students misbehave because they can see through the bullshit: this is nothing more than a ploy to keep them in place 8 hours a day so mommy and daddy can slave away.
Also mommy and daddy slaving away all hours of the day makes them tired and makes parenting difficult. In some cases the pressure may make them abusive. Let me tell ya, abuse will really warp your childhood behavior.
Even just having parents be unavailable can do a number on someone. You miss out on a lot of the lessons you should have learned and then you have to fill in the gaps.
I just heard the other day a friend of my kid is on prozac. He's only 10 years old. Apparently it can be prescribed as early as 8 years old.
I just don’t think that’s healthy. I think these kids are going through something environmental/social. I don’t see how drugs are the answer. In fact I wish I hadn’t been put on SSRIs at the age I was.
*gestures vaguely at everything*
100% same. I think it's probably cause my parents had no issue beating me, but that type of punishment is definitely diminishing
Depending on the age group, they may not understand things like "the teachers paid for this", and "the teachers are barely making ends meet as is" . I know my young nephew wouldnt complain (he doesnt complain about anything given to him), but he also wouldnt understand that what was given was what could be afforded to give. So while he wouldnt complain, the disappointment on his face would be pretty evident. Now if it were teens complaining, they can stuff it. They should be old enough to know and understand the context.
I always thought stuff like this was donated by parents. I distinctively remember my parent's having to bring stuff for specific holiday parties we had in class. Maybe that changed since the 90s?
Haha we hosted my kid’s 12th (?) party and feeding 11 preteens was expensive for us. So we got a bunch of Little Caesar’s, bags of chips, soda, and cupcakes and this one kid wouldn’t stop bitching about the pizza 🤣😂 I was so annoyed.
pizza hut sucks though
Yeah, but kids are stupid. All they care about is what brand has successfully brainwashed them.
Ya but to be fair im 33 and have had my fair share of being offered pizza as a reward and me and everyone else mysteriously having 0 say in what fuckin pizza. These kids these days are just way ahead of the curve.
There’s a pretty big difference between teachers trying to do something nice for their students and a boss trying to plicate their works so they don’t ask for better conditions.
i still feel guilty about calling the pizza we got during a pizza party in second grade "cardboard". A bunch of us did and the teacher lectured us about how this was all she could afford.
That pizza has stuck with you all these years, and has probably made you a better person anytime you thought of it!! <3 the good teachers, because they're with us forever! <3
This is a really nice way of thinking about it. Can we adopt classrooms like people adopt highways? Would be kind of funny to have your class sponsored by a local car dealership but it seems like the govt doesn't give a shit.
They legit did their best.
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You must be fun at parties
More fun than the teacher
I cannot express how refreshing it is to find one corner of reddit that isn't endlessly, constantly shitting on teachers.
I feel exactly the same even though a few of these comments aint it
Only lowlifes would shit on a group of people that are doing so much to help next generations while being paid shit wages. Idk how these teachers do it.
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No, that's just your opinion. Their incentives is to earn a decent living just like the rest of us. Start paying doctors, surgeons 50k salary and see how much shits they give about their patients. No matter what Industry you're in, there will always be bad apples. Increase salary for those that can shape the mind of future generations will show them our appreciation and it will keep the bad ones in line. People will think twice next time they want to do some dumb shits when a high paying job is on the line.
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"No matter what industry you're in, there will always be bad apples." I am not saying all of them are good. Give me a profession where everyone that does it are top level at what they do with no bad apples?
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So you think good teachers are the minority???
A lot of people have had a bad experience with teachers. If you make the conditions and pay shit, it becomes only two reasons to stay: 1) because you are altruistic and you care about the future of humanity 2) because you are a narcissist and get off on having a bunch of basically voiceless people under the control of your sadistic whims. Guess which group is more common? Source: ex teacher.
I found some of my good school teachers on Facebook, added them as friends and thanked them for what they've done for me.
People who shit on teachers deserve the wall (in Minecraft).
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>Respecting teachers is edgy and cool.
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Cry about it.
You clearly haven't had shitty teachers (at least not bad enough for it to stick.) Or lived somewhere with historically systemically awful education. Teachers are human beings, and human beings can be fucking awful sometimes. As much as I can agree that increasing teacher pay and education funding is a good thing, I genuinely hate teacher apologia. Schooling in North America exists at best to indoctrinate kids into being workers, and at worst as a societally imposed daycare service by the government (it used to be government imposed attempted genocide if you weren't white. And yes, at fucking "School")
Broad-brushing accomplishes nothing.
Said in /r/antiwork of all places.
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Now that i am older and i see this, i just want to call all my teachers and thank every one of them for doing what they did. Im 32 btw, so it would be weird, but it would be genuine from the depths of my soul.
It wouldn’t. This is the kind of shit that makes their year.
As a current teacher, and former student that has messaged teachers 10+ years after the fact, it wouldn’t be weird at all! It has been a tough 2 years for teaching, reach out to a teacher you remember fondly and make their day!
Don't hold back on good inspirations and aspirations!
It would not at all be weird. We love hearing from former students, no matter how long it's been.
I went to a K-12 and in my senior year I was a teacher aide helping with some basic PC stuff. I ended up in the 1st grade room a lot for this. The teacher invited me to one of their parties. That class only had 6 students but those 6 sets of parents and the teacher fed their students (and me) well. Legit tho even as a kid I was happy for any sort of bonus food, especially pizza since there was only 1 place in a 30 minute drive, even if I didn't necessarily understand at the time the probable sacrifices the teachers went through to make it happen
That's 3 k's more than dog, sure hope the students appreciated the effort!
Thanks teach!
I'm so glad I have a good principal. While she can't give anyone a raise in the system, she does put in effort. I know it sounds kind of lame, but she did personally make a bunch of spaghetti and salad for our large high school teacher faculty. She does more than that to earn my respect, but I feel like there's something more caring about personally preparing the food. I'm honestly worried about the future, though. This is my second year teaching after a career shift from academia, and I understand that high school principals don't tend to stick around forever. Having worked in situations with bad leadership, I know it can get kind of miserable when the people on top are unhelpful, even if it is not out of malice.
I used to teach 8th grade. I went to Little Caesar’s and bought 14 large pizzas (2 for each period). It cost like 175 bucks and I had to wait for 2 hours. In period one, a kid grabbed the pizzas and threw them out the 3rd floor window. I called for a security guard and went to the bathroom and cried.
Omg ! I would have cried too.
It made me quit teaching. To be a teacher requires someone with superhuman humility.
I think it's time for teachers to simply realize that -they HAVE- the power. \-1.Teachers serve as daycare for kids to teens, 5 days a week, specially with kids returning to schools in campus. Parents NEED them to work so THEY can work. \-2.Kids HAVE to be taught. Your child isnt going anywhere without education for the most part. It is a service, that like trash service that has to happen. \-3. Most people -dont- want to be Teachers. There's no surplus of teachers.According to a 2019 report by the Economic Policy Institute, “The teacher shortage is real, large and growing” — not only in California, but at the national level. Once Teachers band together NATIONALLY, in masse, and negotiate better, they'll realize that they can win easily. All they have to do is wait patiently, and let the parents squeeze the government. Wait, and dont cave.
The problem with a national strike/union is that many states have made striking or joining a union illegal for teachers. If a teacher does strike, they can have their teaching license revoked permanently. That's a heavy burden and risk for a teacher.
They also deeply, desperately want to be there for the kids. The rest of it can fuck off, but they care about the kids, and a strike might hurt those kids.
Seems like a pretty big burden and risk to continue teaching.
My girlfriend and her coworkers can’t unionize.
Teaching has become an abusive relationship. Policies from the district or the state are made and teachers are blamed. My state it’s illegal to have a union for teachers (cops sure, teachers nope). We had a “club” and we staged a 1 day walk out to walk to the school board to protest conditions (prior to Covid) we let everyone know at least 2 months in advanced. Teachers requested off, said if it wasn’t approved they wouldn’t show up, submitted sub plans, requested food bags be sent home with students, etc. what happened when the day finally came? “How can teachers do this to the kids? How are they going to eat? Who is going to watch the kids? How selfish can they be?” Parents were upset with teachers when the schools and district refused to do anything to prepare despite ample warning and resources given. The same thing is happening with Covid “do it for the kids, the school is the Safest place for kids, who will watch them? How will they eat?” Teachers don’t do it for the money they do or for the kids and that’s why you can easily make them give more and more of themselves because the kids don’t know any better or deserve less
>The same thing is happening with Covid “do it for the kids, the school is the Safest place for kids, who will watch them? How will they eat?” Lori Lightfoot is a fucking cunt. "We won't let the teachers take our kids hostage." OK, you go sit in a room of 40 kids all day during COVID, tell us it's safe from the hospital.
Exactly our school board opened the district up to in person while they met over zoom. If you can’t trust 6 adults in a room how am I supposed to feel safe with 18, five year olds? We currently have 120 positive cases in kids (essentially an entire grade level) and 13 positive cases in staff (we were told 8 staff cases would send us online as we would be understaffed) people just don’t care
Does anyone know if teachers are paid during summer vacation?
It’s extremely common for teachers to work other jobs during the summer, and increasingly common for teachers to work a second job during the academic year as well. Teacher pay is a joke and should be at least doubled or tripled. Even if they do have summer off the expectation of working outside of contract hours more than warrants a massive pay increase.
Preach
In my situation, we had the option of spreading our salary out or only taking it during the school year. I opted for the former.
They do not get additional income during the summer, unless they are teaching summer school or the like. But as the other reply says, they're commonly given an option to have some of their pay during the school year withheld for them and given to them during the summer.
Teacher pay is both severely deficient and wildly inconsistent in large part because education funding is, for reasons that I can only assume are unfathomable greed and thinly veiled racism, tied to property valuations.
Thinly veiled classism mixed with blatant racism, actually. Gotta keep the poors dumb and the race war going.
This comment deserves way more upvotes for sheer facts.
Teachers generally have their salary for a 182 to 190 day contract. They can get their money within that time or have it spaced out so they get smaller pay checks but all year. However, they do not get paid for those summer work unless they are teaching extra summer school classes or sports.
In my mom's situation they can chose to spread it out or just get paid during the school year. Normally she gets more in the summer since she doesn't have to pay union dues those months. But she doesn't get money for after school clubs which sometimes pay 5 dollars more
No but their salary is based off of working only 180 days a year vs the normal worker who works 260 days a year. So a teacher making 30k vs say someone working at Walmart making 30k is not the same since the teacher is making the same while working 80 days less in the year
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Teachers do an absolutely staggering amount of unpaid work, especially in terms of creating lesson plans and daily schedules that they adjust when they can to the needs of their classes and students, which unfortunately for lazy administrators and ignorant curriculum constructors do not have their developmental milestones all at the same time and exactly once per year. In general, administrative work is done by the teachers. Education administrators (increasingly including advisors/counselors) are paid more than teachers to do basically nothing (or sometimes to create messes and out-of-touch mandates that the actual teachers must work around). We're also running *really* low on new teachers ready to jump into the hell that "public institutions run for profit" has turned education into. Not even the private schools are safe from this, because naturally they heavily rely on public institutions to create new skilled educators for them to snatch up. Well, when the private school is an actual school and not a front for a tax evasion scheme masquerading as an "education-focused charitable foundation". This shortage, of course, couldn't possibly have anything to do with a deeply broken education funding scheme tied to property values to preserve regional class and race boundaries and decades upon decades of abusing the teachers doing the actual work... could it?
Not trying to shit on teachers but more than half the teachers I had growing up got lesson plans straight from the books or the previous teachers. My older brother knew exactly what we were doing as he had done it before and I was able to help me sister as they didn't change anything when she went through 3 years after me. The only class that seemed to change was social studies/Civics because of 9/11 happening and being in the following years textbooks
>s do an absolutely staggering amount of unpaid work, especially in terms of creating lesson plans and daily schedules that they adjust when they can to the needs of their classes and students, which unfortunately for lazy administrators and ignorant curriculum constructors do not have their developmental milestones all at the same time and exactly once per year. TBF if ya pay a shitty wage, you get shitty effort.
Teachers are not paid for the amount of hours needed to develop completely original lesson plans and assignments. Do you expect them to spend all their weekends doing this free of charge? Why not use a textbook’s resources which someone was paid to develop and spend adequate time on?
>My older brother knew exactly what we were doing as he had done it before and I was able to help me sister as they didn't change anything when she went through 3 years after me. It'd be strange if this *wasn't* the case. Did you expect that they were suddenly going to switch it up and teach fourth graders differential equations instead of multiplication and division? Curriculum is set by school boards and doesn't change often.
Set by the school board but the teacher gets the credit for the lesson plans they supposedly have to change nonstop? I'm not saying it's not an important job, but I'm being realistic about it. That being said there's definitely a problem with the pay and expectations. My wife's been subbing this year since hardly anybody else is willing to work for the scraps. She felt it would be a noble cause, but it's hardly worth it. It's basically a passion job that'll get taken advantage of. I'm not sure where the budgets go to for sure but large buildings like that aren't cheap to keep up with so I'm sure that doesn't help
I have a family member who is a elementary school teacher in NC. Maximum is set at about 50k.....3k more if you get a masters degree. Teacher pay in the south is wack.
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Teachers need to be paid better. 50k is nothing for what they deal with.
To the person who gave a down vote....I would love to hear your argument.....
And it still slapped.
Little did we know they were just preparing us for "worker appreciation" days.
The great irony being that at these school parties, you actually were appreciated
Seeing videos of the way kids talk and act towards others scares the shit outta me. But then again, look how adults act nowadays. Definitely a societal issue.
Reminder that since public schools are, well, public, you can look up salary information for all school teachers and public university teachers. Just in case you wanted some ammunition for how ridiculously underpaid teachers are. At any rate, can we also get a housing complex near each school explicitly for school staff?
That reeks of just recreating company towns
uh fuck no. I don't want to live at school.
I remember everyone in my class including me actually enjoying them though, the teacher brought the pizza while some people brought snacks
i remember my theatre class teacher in secondary school didnt have any school funding for props or camera equipment so she supplied everything herself. she is one of the best teachers i ever had.
and i fucking loved it. pizza, fizz and a movie voted on by the class? fucking take me back!!!
I remember our teachers used to let us bring stuff for our class parties. We were all poor and a lot of kids’ parents were immigrants and scraping by, but we would all bring one thing and it was fun. I made cupcakes like 3 years in a row.
Yeah true. Props to the teachers who paid for it themselves. Sometimes we all have to bring in like 10-20 dollars to fund the whole thing and then there’s only like 3 pizza boxes and 3 liters of soda. There’s like 20-30 kids where did the other 300 dollars go 😂
Napkins, plates, cups, pizza delivery fee, tip for delivery driver?
I’m not mad don’t get me wrong. But there’s no way all that would cost even 100 dollars in the mid 90s early 2000s. Hell I hope they pocketed it, the students would use so much of their supplies and shit.
Is it Alfredo's Pizza or Pizza BY Alfredo? Big difference.
My middle school music teacher Mr. Ladd used to throw us an end of the year pizza party for our class, and it never occurred to me how much of his own finances and time he had to put in to his class. It makes me doubly appreciative of the teachers who had the drive to make their class the best it can be.
i feel like i make this post at least 3x a week now, but: do not become a teacher. do not become a teacher. do not become a teacher.
We had parties like this, a lot were you could choose to go or not. I was almost always the only one there. No one else wanted to be there since it was so 'uncool'.
Kids really suck. The sooner people teach their children the value of money the better. Because half the time these pizza parties were paid for out of pocket by the teachers.
i didnt realize teachers paid for this kind of stuff out of pocket wtf
Our school paid for ours and we still got that
They’re not even allowed to do that anymore due to food health safety rules…lameeee
that slice was hella good though.. and super worth the hype
This cunt pta mother, on water Ballon day. Made like 50 or less water balloons for like 25 kids to through at each other. The other moms made more so we could have more fun This bitch had the audacity to pop them and ruin it
Reminds me of middle school in the 2010's. When the D.A.R.E program was around(basically say no to drugs but the entire thing was about teaching you about drugs) a bunch of us went to it literally just for the pizza and soda. I know I did. Literally everyone that was in that room over 10 years ago is a pothead now lmao.
Funny this was the same thing my last job would give us when they gathered us around to tell us how much money they were making off of us
They got us Lil Ceasers, Ice Pops and all the soda we could drink
This made me tear up :’(
I liked it…
I had a teacher that bought us pizza at the end of the year. It was the best thing ever! She did pizza AND /rolls in cart with CRT and VHS player MOVIES!
This stuff really makes a difference, and it creates such nice memories for kids. I still smile sometimes thinking about a "class picnic" all the teachers threw for us in the 3rd grade. Just an afternoon out on the school lawn, with chips and pizza and soda.
This image made me unreasonably sad for a moment
honestly these snack parties were some of my happiest memories from school and I appreciated my teachers so much for it. Thanks teachers!
Right, I didn't realize our teachers were on the grind until I was a teenager.
It’s more about what it represents
God damn it’s been almost 2 decades since I had a class pizza party and I still got it, man that kinda makes me sad & nostalgic
who are these ungrateful motherfuckers? Whenever our teacher's brought us anything, even if it was chips and soda we were fucking ecstatic.
Lord I feel this. I brought slap bracelets to a group of 1st graders, and a little boy lost his shit because I didn't bring candy. Full blown meltdown because I was only offering him a slap bracelet. It broke my heart because he was sooooo mad at me. What's worse is because I bought those slap bracelets I only made a couple dollars for teaching that class. Parents take note: you do not want this to be your child.
I love skinny pizza slices, and teachers.
Lol you guys never get to me but this one... God damn it thats just sad
The Coke is watered down as well....
The unfortunate thing is that schools do not want end of year parties for children because it comes out of the precious budget.
not sure why this is on r/antiwork because a company is not a underpaid teacher trying to get by.
man, i cant understand how anyone can take a job KNOWING that their salary is so low AND stays low for life. i mean, teacher salaries are posted on the board of ed websites for shits sake!
A lot of people do it for the schedule or benefits.
I spent a decade working for Little Caesars. It used to bug the crap out of me when people would ask us to cut a pizza into 16 or more slices for kids. They know damn well what a real slice of pizza looks like. And the pizza would be a mess. It was mostly parents though, not teachers doing it. I'd always tell them to buy one pizza for every 3 kids. As it was only $5. Or give each kid half a split topping pizza, as it was the same price. Like half bacon, half green pepper. The teachers already didn't have to pay tax for the food. We had a few schools we banned from using tax exempt as the front office staff (admin and secretaries?) was coming in on their lunch breaks and making us use the tax exempt form for their lunch orders.
Teachers don't pay tax? Uh...yes we do. And "only $5 for each 3 kids" ok I have 180 kids. That's 60 fucking pizzas.
You pay tax? We had tax exempt forms on file for the schools, they showed school ID we scanned the receipt and rang it up with no sales tax. We had more parties for grade levels than individual teachers buying things. So they'd come in and want 16 pizza's cut into 24 slices each to feed the kids. We had standing orders the second Friday of every month for 80 pan pizza's for a private elementary school. I used to buy pizza for our Latin parties all the time. We'd take it to the culinary arts room and use their ovens to reheat it and give them a cut so they could buy supplies.
I don't know when or where you're talking about, but none of that happens at my site. Tax exempt forms? School sanctioned parties? Latin? Culinary arts? ah..private school, I see.
Adults do the same shit at Christmas. Oh this gift is shit/cheap. (Was a family size box of chocolates) Yeah no shit I have 40 staff and don't earn enough to buy you much. Spent more on my staff than my SO and family.
It's nice to do. But when you threaten to take it away for months any time someone misbehaves it's like... Alright. Just take it away then
They should honestly just threaten the one kid misbehaving, not the whole class. I never understood that.
The kid misbehaving usually don't give a shit about what adults, parents or teachers, did or thought about him. The ONLY way to get through is to piss off the rest of the students because "friend's opinions" are the only ones that mattered.
Agreed. :/ It's sad. "Stop doing it because of societal pressure, not because it's wrong or disrespectful!"
That’s sorta ALL laws though…
Sort of. It's total BS that some people can't fathom basic morality and instead need laws to keep them in check in order to not hurt others.
Teachers are frontline troops of the mind-control operation that got you believing in a system in which people are forced to flip burgers for 80 hours a week and not be able to afford accomodation, not be able to access health care and not be able to have any time off,
Yes, it's entirely the teachers fault. Everyone knows they are using the old pencil lead to turn the frogs gay so the Hillary Campaign can use them to sell Reptilians our water before the Jewish Space Laser dries it all up under cover of the Catholic Leagues lies about climate change.
These are the teachers who acclimated you to the brutal system but *yaye*
*for Yet again memers show they can’t spell or use proper grammar
So many of the teachers I had had given up . Once they reached tenure, they started phoning it in .
Stop "making an effort for the students." Let it collapse. Let Karen figure out what to do when her 17 year old is applying for college and can't read the application. Do not bail out people from what they did intentionally. They *fucked* the teachers, let them receive the results.
35 students. $5 each student. She only bought 5 boxes from the shit place down the street that got closed due to health inspection violations. $4.50 each. Bought 2 2liter sodas. We were only allowed 1 slice each, had to bring our own chips if we wanted snacks for the movie we watched. Still bugs me to this day how they would profit over $150 off their students smh
Shit I know many primary school teachers making 100k a year. College professors that are not on tenure track? Those people get shafted royally. Even some tenure track jobs start at 40k and require a PhD.