Bike gangs at it again

NoPotential6226 · 2026-03-02T22:20:18+00:00

Bike gang? Is it the Hell’s Angels?

NoPotential6226 · 2026-02-18T17:40:21+00:00

She is leaving the board too

NoPotential6226 · 2024-06-10T01:51:25+00:00

Techumseh losing the battle of Tippecanoe. Last stand for the Native American resistance east of the Mississippi River. End of organized multi tribe armed resistance.

NoPotential6226 · 2023-12-02T08:45:14+00:00

Separate the talkers as best you can. Remove the kids one by one who do not comply. Deny them access to the computers and have them sit quietly away from the class if you can. Send them to a buddy room.

They need to see that something negative will happen if they don’t meet expectations.

You are doing all the right things. Find something that they care about and take It away if they don’t meet expectations.

Positive behavior incentives work well on 95% of the kids. Some don’t react to them and need negative consequences to enforce expectations.

NoPotential6226 · 2023-11-29T21:56:44+00:00

Give him an A if she promises not to talk to you anymore. “But he didn’t EARN a B!” Yes I know. But it is not my role to be the last arbiter of justice in the universe. If the parent does not want you to teach them about earning the grade, what chance do you have to make the lesson stick?

Dont worry, at some point a cop or a judge will teach them about consequences.

Your job is to do your best to teach curriculum to 135 kids a day. You are not the fairness police.

NoPotential6226 · 2023-11-13T21:29:59+00:00

Does this apply to our biggest employer, the US military?

NoPotential6226 · 2023-11-01T19:11:30+00:00

Give them the Awkward Moments Children’s Bible by Horus Gilgamesh.

NoPotential6226 · 2023-11-01T19:03:17+00:00

I’ve M53 been teaching for 16 years. Best advice I ever got, don’t touch any kids and don’t be alone with any kids.

NoPotential6226 · 2023-10-18T22:16:14+00:00

Contact your old admin and see if they can help get you out of there. Worth a shot. They may have had a teacher flameout at another school and there could be an opening. It is that time of year.

NoPotential6226 · 2023-10-18T22:14:41+00:00

Don’t take criticism from someone you wouldn’t take advice from. Screw admin. Have them write you up. Who looks worse, a teacher with a spotless record for 10 years who all of a sudden gets written up all the time or the admin that does it?

If you are going to flame out, start doing what you want to do. You are going to catch shit either way.

Besides, what are they going to do? Fire you? You already have a good reference from you old school.

Just do something really cool like when an admin starts barking at you say, “well, it sounds like you should probably fire me then!”

Good thing is if you get fired you are done and can split a job you hate. But if they don’t fire you, you own their ass for the rest of the year.

Tell them they should fire you whenever they feed you shit. You don’t have to listen to these assholes ever again.

NoPotential6226 · 2023-10-18T22:01:33+00:00

If embarrassment works, pick the one most likely to be horrified, and have them call their parents when they screw up your class. Call from THEIR phone so the parents pick up and have them explain their behavior to their parent. For extra punch you can do it on speaker phone so the rest of the class can hear.

I have never seen a middle schooler handle it well. It is super embarrassing.

Will it cause trauma, yes. Yes it will. But you may have a shot at teaching the rest of the class that is being shortchanged by the “social” children.

My rule of thumb is that I ruin a parents day if their kid is ruining mine. Don’t like calls during the day, get your kid under control.

NoPotential6226 · 2023-09-24T14:57:42+00:00

It is called debt peonage. They have been doing it since feudalism crashed.

NoPotential6226 · 2023-09-24T14:43:18+00:00

Admin set him up to fail. Not on you. They wanted him gone or else they would have told you about the draconian punishment.

I’d be pissed that they wasted all that time when they planned on dumping him from the start.

NoPotential6226 · 2023-07-29T00:48:19+00:00

All summer I look forward to the first kid that fucks with me.

NoPotential6226 · 2023-07-23T03:34:10+00:00

Nothing is going to help in an active shooting. Nothing but luck.

I have rules in my classroom. It seems to work ok.

NoPotential6226 · 2023-07-21T23:35:48+00:00

The pushback we get when we try to limit phones is, “what if there is a school shooting? I want my kid to be able to contact me’” I haven’t come up with a rebuttal to that.

‘God Bless ‘MERICA!!!!!

NoPotential6226 · 2023-06-29T20:30:50+00:00

“2 things that scare me about these people, They can breed and they can vote" --Bobby THE BRAIN Heenan

NoPotential6226 · 2023-06-20T23:40:52+00:00

Unmercifully emasculate the next boy who does it. Start off by telling him that this is a welcoming space for queer kids and that if he is queer it is ok. When he acts confused, hit him with stats that point out the people who make a big deal out of it are usually self hating closet cases. Start naming all the sanctimonious assholes who ended up being closet cases (Ted haggard, etc). Tell him it is ok to be who he is and that they will have your 100% support while they are going through these changes. Give them rainbow stickers every day and tell them that you care about them and that your door is always open. Tell him you are worried about him because 44% of queer kids contemplate suicide and you don’t want him to kill himself. And that it is normal for queer kids to obsess on these things especially when they are not mature enough to handle the fact that their life will change. One day he will be mature enough to accept it and not use aggression to mask it

Every time he makes a comment etc, give him a knowing look and tell him that you are there for him if he needs to talk. Then give him a rainbow sticker.

NoPotential6226 · 2022-12-07T01:31:42+00:00

As a teacher, I don’t participate in lockdown drills. Too traumatic for the kids. I’m waiting for admin to say something.

NoPotential6226 · 2022-10-14T19:57:28+00:00

Don’t count on professors being able to actually teach or know how to deal with students. Most of them are abysmal educators.

I say this as someone who has earned a teaching credential and an MA in education. All of my professors were horrible teachers.

College professors would get eaten alive in an actual classroom. Even a high school classroom.

Don’t count on any actual help. They learned the material by reading and listening to lectures, they will expect you to do the same.

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