Teaching seems like a frustrating job

I'm surprised teachers haven't gone full ISIS post-covid.

Graphic designers do this crap all the time. I've got an aviation textbook with three meshed gears on the cover:

Frustrating it may be, but the alternative like not teaching is far worse.

Bad parenting is expected, unfortunately. That I have read domestic violence has to do with truancy and antisocial behavior.

Call in ICE and say the kid is an illegal Mexican

No joke, our school hired an ex-boxer for the behavioral remidiation class.

He was also a really good teacher, and did a great job engaging with a lot of the kids, but he pretty much had physical violence off the table.

thank you

And one more for Jenny and the whimp!

best way to learn a subject. i couldn't do it more than a few years. imagine gradeschool math for 20 years with screaming kids. no thanks

Friend was offered $80k to head up a new middle school Spanish esl dept, witb 2 other teachers. A month before school was to start, they set a date to finalize the contract. They'd never even interviewed for the 2 other teachers. They wanted her to see all 350+ kids 2x a week. And the salary had dropped to $21.6K, which is the state minimum wage of 15$ for 180 8hr days. This is in a super high COL town- the grocery store starts at $27 an hour, and $2k a month rent is a steal.

She laughed at them an walked. Had a job for 38 an hour in a construction firm's office in 2 days (where Spanish fluency is a marketable skill dental a high esl labor force)

The schools response was the admin in charge of her hiring trying to throw her under the bus. She wrote an OP ED to the paper calling my friend out by name (which was blacked out by the paper per their agreement- it was so bad the paper reached out and asked her permission to print it- she agreed, with her name redacted and a promise theyd print her rebuttal as op Ed the following week) they tried to blame her for backing out last minute leaving them in the lurch, and claiming it was her unwillingness to teach that was to blame for their lack of a proper esl dept despite almost 1/3 of the students being esl.

Boot to the head!

Boot to the head!

Banana of calming, plus 10 to calmness.

The bait and switch is such a thing.

I hated chemistry. My brain wants science that is as much as possible about doing pure math. I don’t want to be memorize exceptions to every little rule and naming conventions that also have exceptions. I wanted to teach physics, I interviewed for physics. I get the job, then I find out I’m teaching chemistry.

They didn’t care that i wasn’t certified for chemistry, and that I scraped through that certification test (because I’m not going to teach anything I’m not certified to teach and took the test before the school year started) with knowing what a hydrogen bond was, much less anything covered in an organic chemistry class….

I also had classes that were 2/3 special education, which mandated a coteacher. I met her in 3 weeks in and saw her once a month, because she needed to serve as a substitute teacher. I was not certified in SPED at the time, and the IEPs they gave me were a literal excel spreadsheet with the accommodations ticked off which is beyond illegal.

The system is so beyond broken. No one seems to give a shit but there are parts of the country which are just failing.

"Calming Banana" actually sounds like a great band name. Seriously!

Is there a community for like these "looks/sounds great until you think about it for two seconds" style art/news/media fails? Because I feel like it would be fun time.

Oh yeah, the parents are almost as feral as the kids these days.

Unless, and hear me out, they beat that child with multiple bananas at home for 6 straight hours. I mean they pelt him non stop with those large, hard, and un-ripe South American bananas that are like 2lbs of concrete. Then they send him to school with one of those things in his backpack to induce trauma to be a better human.

Ahh, child abuse to ensure compliance. I like it.

Don't know. I suggest threemeshedgears for the title though.

https://lemmy.world/c/ThreeMeshedGears

Welp I made it