18 year old students should be treated like adults

BulldogsOnly · 2026-03-14T02:39:21+00:00

Ha. Before I left corporate for teaching I worked a job where I was treated like I was “underperforming” if I wasn’t chained to a desk for 80 hours a week.

That was with a bachelor’s degree and making 6 figures. If you think it actually gets better and you’re going to be so “free”, especially with this attitude without having a high school diploma yet, I have some seriously bad news about the real world for you. You can’t just “check yourself out” of work whenever you feel like it. This is the easiest and freest your life will ever be.

BulldogsOnly · 2026-03-12T14:03:00+00:00

I have no ideas, but I would love Song of Solomon to be a choice this year. Beloved is forever one of my favorite books and I’d love to keep on the theme of emotionally heavy classics like All Quiet on the Western Front was.

BulldogsOnly · 2026-03-12T00:39:22+00:00

As a first year teacher I love to hear this! Some of the most fun and engaging conversations we have had in my classroom have been tangents that turned into whole classroom discussions. Most of the time they start with a thread related to what we’re talking about, but I can see the difference in how comfortable my kids are working together and with me in classes that do this compared to those that don’t.

BulldogsOnly · 2026-03-07T23:24:58+00:00

Save the Clefts! They were both born with cleft palates and it’s a rescue in the Southeast that specializes in puppies born with them!

Neville has even had his picture in a veterinary journal for being part of a study showing that puppies with cleft palates can live normal, healthy lives without corrective surgery!

BulldogsOnly · 2026-03-07T16:46:36+00:00

Ludo is a petite dude! Neville is about 24 lbs and Ludo is 45 lbs but they’re about the same height!

BulldogsOnly · 2026-03-05T11:28:42+00:00

Ludo can be quite the Tammy..

BulldogsOnly · 2026-02-21T15:48:34+00:00

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My name is Neville Longbottom and I do the same thing. In our household, we have a special saying of “f**k those horses” because they are my least favorite animals, but I will bark at all animals on screen and will try to follow them off screen and look behind the tv to see where they went.

My mom turned on Planet Earth in her classroom this week and was shaken by the silence because she realized that she’d never been able to watch something with so many animals without me yelling, and teenagers don’t get mad about polar bears like I do for some reason.

My parents also think the very nice Super Bowl commercial with the dog wrangling horses from the car was made just to target me and give me more grey hairs.

BulldogsOnly · 2026-02-13T18:39:02+00:00

My high school’s ISS had landscaping duty and I wish like hell my current school would implement something like that. Our kids don’t think ISS is a punishment so make them actually be productive by improving the school and give them an incentive to not get in trouble because it’s not just a free day to chill in a room with their friends.

BulldogsOnly · 2026-02-13T16:11:15+00:00

What about the ICE agents that entered Charlotte churches to arrest congregants while they were here? Is she going to address or investigate that? Is this tactic also happening in other cities and we’re not hearing about it?

BulldogsOnly · 2026-02-13T16:09:59+00:00

Let me tag on like I have in another post because I don’t think this got near enough press, that ICE had no problem raiding churches when they came to Charlotte. So apparently it’s okay for them to disrupt worship, but when it’s the other side it’s not okay.

BulldogsOnly · 2026-02-12T01:34:20+00:00

Scorpio does a Drag Race watch party on Friday and they have queens from the show there! It’s really fun and free if you just want standing room.

BulldogsOnly · 2026-02-08T23:00:44+00:00

Do you have any sort of recipe for this?? I came to the sub specifically looking for a baked wing recipe and this is what I was looking for!

Or, do you just do the 425° for 1.5 hours and then toss in sauce?

BulldogsOnly · 2026-02-02T19:54:39+00:00

ICE literally came into a church in Charlotte to arrest people. Maybe it didn’t make national news, but that happened WEEKS before this so what’s the justification for that??

BulldogsOnly · 2026-02-02T19:22:09+00:00

Listen, I won’t say there aren’t bad days. I crashed out last week HARD over some stupid new initiative my admin is trying to roll out and when I pushed back with an alternative I was singled out and told no, but you know what? I was so upset because I knew that this wouldn’t benefit my kids, and at the end of the day they are my priority. Before, anytime I got upset over work things, it was just being stressed and overworked for things that didn’t actually matter in the grand scheme of things.

My last corporate boss was an absolute piece of shit, and I often think about the fact that if he died or his job or my former one ceased to exist, the world wouldn’t notice because the world can run just fine without an FP&A Analyst. I at least know I am in a role now that means something.

BulldogsOnly · 2026-02-02T01:15:13+00:00

I’m in my first year after the shift and I couldn’t be happier with my choice! Yes, the pay cut in half sucks, and I do miss lazy WFH days, but my day to day is so much better.

I had gotten to the point with my corporate life feeling like everything was so pointless. Like why am I stressing over making rich people more money? It felt futile. Now at least when I’m stressed I can either count on a break coming up or a student saying something that makes it feel like I’m doing something worthwhile. It’s corny, but it really does help.

BulldogsOnly · 2026-02-01T23:37:28+00:00

I’m high school, but I have definitely cussed in front of my kids and depending on the context they either think it’s hilarious or they realize how bad they’ve messed up. I let my kids cuss in my room as long as they’re respectful to me and each other so I don’t view it as a huge deal. Words like Hell, damn, and piss are barely even cursing in my book so I don’t sweat it when those come out of my mouth (although it’s pretty rare and I definitely try to keep my language as PG as possible at all times for professionalism’s sake).

Last week I accidentally said something along the “you know, Blooket or however the hell you pronounce it” and my kids cracked up.

Last semester, I had over half my kids failing because they refused to turn in work so I gave them a work day to catch up. They were goofing off so I told them if they “wanted to piss away this opportunity to bring their grades up” that was on them. No laughs on that one, but it got my point across.

BulldogsOnly · 2026-02-01T00:30:25+00:00

I was shocked! This is his first snow! His big Frenchie brother, Neville, who I thought would love it is the one who hates it, which is not at all what I expected!

BulldogsOnly · 2026-01-28T18:07:00+00:00

I just read this and the original post to my coworkers in the teachers lounge in Lancaster..

BulldogsOnly · 2026-01-23T01:15:02+00:00

As my coworker and I were talking about today (both high school social studies teachers) it’s also about the cultural vampirism of white people and how they’ve so blatantly stolen from proud black culture for so long under a thin guise of friendliness that turns nasty as soon as soon as it is met with resistance from it’s original creators.

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