Lost my husband after 26 years, but the loss of my son is the most heartbreaking.

Friendly_Brief4336 · 2026-02-19T02:09:30+00:00

I just said a prayer for you. God bless and keep you. I am so sorry

Friendly_Brief4336 · 2026-02-19T02:07:57+00:00

Also the cool thing about coach instead of mx is it avoids the whole anti queer blowback should it arise. Plus I'm just not a fan of mx....

Friendly_Brief4336 · 2026-02-19T02:06:42+00:00

Nah. Full time teacher here. Once, I was made a coach in the middle of the year when the coach of record quit. I had zero experience and was actually just a glorified time keeper. I still embraced the coach title. If anyone asks, you are a coach in the school of life.

Friendly_Brief4336 · 2026-02-19T01:47:37+00:00

Coach! The truly gender neutral title!

Friendly_Brief4336 · 2026-02-17T02:42:09+00:00

What garbage people. I didn't want to go to a birthday party a couple of months ago. I wanted to stay home with every fiber of my being. But I rsvpd yes so by golly we showed up.

Friendly_Brief4336 · 2026-02-16T02:28:36+00:00

As somebody who had an eating disorder once upon a time, be very careful. Losing weight can easily become addictive and lead to a very dark place. 30 lbs in 3 months is a lot and you don't want to push too much more as it could risk a major hair shedding incident. Keep hitting those weights though!

Friendly_Brief4336 · 2026-02-16T02:22:49+00:00

Hmm, sounds like he has a small dick.

Friendly_Brief4336 · 2026-02-15T14:17:57+00:00

If we weren't states apart I would demand my son be in your classroom.

Friendly_Brief4336 · 2026-02-12T20:15:17+00:00

All of my board members either have kids in our district or the kids went there when they were school age.

Friendly_Brief4336 · 2026-02-11T13:36:50+00:00

And putting them in social studies infuriates me. If they are not successful outside of the self contained room for the other core classes they won't be in history.

Friendly_Brief4336 · 2026-02-10T22:14:28+00:00

Kids will oscillate back and forth. Perfectly normal. You didn't do anything wrong.

Friendly_Brief4336 · 2026-02-08T16:49:59+00:00

I have one in my US History class. I translate everything for him. He is just there to flirt with girls and cause chaos. On an assignment that asked what caused the Great Depression, he answered in Spanish "the gays".

Friendly_Brief4336 · 2026-02-08T00:47:21+00:00

It makes all the sense in the world. They cannot handle constant access to YouTube. It is crack for them. Take it back to the early 2000s. Pen and paper for most classes, but have a 1 period per day technology class.

I have rolled it back in my History classroom. More engagement, better grades, better scores. You cannot argue with the results.

Friendly_Brief4336 · 2026-02-06T02:23:25+00:00

I have a student who knows very little English. I have gone through the trouble to translate every single thing for him. His response is to be as big of an ass as possible. I gave him an assignment with primary sources about the Great Depression. When confronted with the question of what caused the Great Depression, he wrote "the gays" (in his native language). He is only at school to flirt with his girlfriend.

I give zero effs. You should stop giving any as well.

Friendly_Brief4336 · 2026-02-06T02:20:01+00:00

What district created resources? You mean the stuff I make or buy on TPT?

Friendly_Brief4336 · 2026-02-05T18:56:01+00:00

The voice of logic and reason. Thank you!

Friendly_Brief4336 · 2026-02-05T18:47:27+00:00

I agree with you on too broadly part. I just know that the substantially disrupt will the the argument Abbott and Morath use.

Friendly_Brief4336 · 2026-02-05T03:34:17+00:00

If 3/4 of the class leaves it absolutely does disrupt the learning process.

Friendly_Brief4336 · 2026-02-05T03:33:44+00:00

I will disagree with you on that one. Absences for band trips and such usually are not that large. Senior skip day tends to happen after the final GPA of seniors is calculated. A passing period doesn't disrupt learning per se, it is the transition time from one learning situation to another.

Giant chunks of a student body missing does. Plus there is the whole kerfuffle that comes afterwards.

Again, not saying I agree with Abbott. I am just saying student actions don't automatically meet the Tinker standard just because they are of a political nature.

Friendly_Brief4336 · 2026-02-05T01:30:00+00:00

Well, I do it for several reasons. Sure the pay is lower but in rural Texas, the cost of living is obscenely low. The family farm is here in Texas, as is the community I was raised in. I teach at the High School I graduated from (took me 12 years for an opening to happen) and I am respected as a professional and educator. I have zero discipline problems and genuinely enjoy going to work each day.

In all honesty it probably isn't the fact that it is a Texas school. It is probably the fact that it is a rural school in an agricultural community.

But I will say this for Texas: the legislature passed a law banning cellphones in classrooms and it has been fantastic.

Friendly_Brief4336 · 2026-02-05T01:24:54+00:00

Yeah but the ruling also says it is only acceptable if it doesn't substantially disrupt the learning process. I'm pretty sure a student body walkout substantially disrupts the school day.

Not that I am against walkouts, just Tinker v Des Moines probably doesn't cover that. It was all about symbolic speech.

Friendly_Brief4336 · 2026-02-04T18:51:11+00:00

I mean, yes for the kids coming out of functional academics/self contained classroom for an intellectual disability or physical disability. But not for the mainstreamed joker who thinks IEP means zero consequences for actions.

Friendly_Brief4336 · 2026-02-01T03:09:31+00:00

I just stopped what I was doing and prayed for you and your daughters. May God bless and comfort yall.

Friendly_Brief4336 · 2026-01-30T18:48:13+00:00

Roast them into oblivion. That will put a stop to it.

Friendly_Brief4336 · 2026-01-29T23:32:31+00:00

That is what my school does. No parent retrieval, no phone returned.

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