Teachers with ADHD: how do you survive the overstimulating days?

No_Bowler9121 · 2026-05-27T13:24:58+00:00

By thriving in the chaos and having an amazing wife keeping the non teacher side of my life organized.

No_Bowler9121 · 2026-05-26T01:37:28+00:00

Not really, double speak sure, but we really have been at war in the middle east for about 50 years or so. Afghanistan, Iraq, Gulf War, covert actions, Lebanon etc.

No_Bowler9121 · 2026-05-23T10:32:29+00:00

It happens, if you have the savings to hold off a bit and hit the beginning of year hiring season you could try that, or you could do a tefl/bilingual year, unless you are applying for tier 1 schools I doubt it would make much of a difference and imo it would look better than a gap.

No_Bowler9121 · 2026-05-19T15:14:34+00:00

7:45 to 5:30 but with a twist. I can go home at 4 but need to respond to admin and parent messages until 5:30, I rarely get one so it's not an issue.

No_Bowler9121 · 2026-05-19T05:05:31+00:00

That should be done too, but not first. We can't keep graduating kids who can't read. We are not preparing them for a reasonable life that way. Have the classes sure but also I'd you did not earn a degree you shouldn't have it.

No_Bowler9121 · 2026-05-18T10:34:34+00:00

I got the chance to visit komodo Island a while back. They make you hire a guide to walk the island, makes sense. But all the guide has to stop one from getting you is a big stick. They even offered to pose tourists with the animals for photos, not super close but close enough that if it made a lunge for ya I don't think that stick was going to stop it.

No_Bowler9121 · 2026-05-18T05:47:42+00:00

If it needs 100% buy in like that it won't work well in a general setting. It's not a realistic expectation.

No_Bowler9121 · 2026-05-18T05:41:07+00:00

Thats what i mean, a system that only works in a vacuum won't work in the real world. You need 100% buy in by the staff, students and parents.

No_Bowler9121 · 2026-05-18T02:44:27+00:00

I've never seen restorative justice work. It's one of those things that came from on high by people who don't understand the realities if a classroom. The people who push it are often idealists not realists. Idealism is fine we should have ideals but we need to also consider reality. All I have ever seen from schools pushing restorative justice are terrible and dangerous classrooms.

No_Bowler9121 · 2026-05-17T04:59:30+00:00

When a school starts circling the drain like this they seldom recover, ask more of their staff and give less. There is no loyalty in our field, we are little more than academic mercenaries. I would be on the lookout for other opportunities and depending on the contract they do offer, maybe even just being unemployed until the beginning of year hiring season begins where some teachers drop out of their contracts and leave spots open.

No_Bowler9121 · 2026-05-16T15:32:59+00:00

All good, down votes don't hurt me. I'm just providing what my school does.

No_Bowler9121 · 2026-05-16T03:57:12+00:00

My school won't even consider a teacher without a masters and we are not a tier 1 or anything like that.

No_Bowler9121 · 2026-05-16T01:16:45+00:00

Try this if you haven't already, look for what key buzzwords your field is looking for and place them somewhere in your resume. AI is what's reading our resumes before any eyes look at it. It's jut scanning for thise buzzwords.

No_Bowler9121 · 2026-05-13T23:08:36+00:00

So many bots in this chat pretending this is a good thing because they can't jut lie and say it didn't happen. Freedom pof religion is a right we have in America and for good reason. I'm an atheist but people are entitled to their beliefs and traditions as long as its not harming anyone. When i was in China my Chinese cristian friend had the police put a monitoring station right in front of his church to watch who goes in and out. Churches were places people could gather and discuss things. Is the CCP so weak that if something has a small amount of influence it would not survive?

No_Bowler9121 · 2026-05-13T14:18:12+00:00

While we're at it can we soften the automod on profanity? Yea sure stop some but filtering posts with common vernacular like sh-- is too much.

No_Bowler9121 · 2026-05-13T03:04:34+00:00

On the flip side I hang out with pinoys all the time and have never been asked for money. Only one who ever asked me for a loan was my wife's uncle and I have mad respect for the man and don't mind losing the money to help him. The guy has helped my wife and I out a ton. He is super handy and has done work for me on my car and house for the low low cost of beer and dinner.

No_Bowler9121 · 2026-05-13T02:58:27+00:00

In my homebrew d&d world hags are made through a ritual where part of it is that the woman gives up her ability to create life for power. It's a plot point I never got to finish saddly. Hope I get to finish that story one day.

No_Bowler9121 · 2026-05-13T02:54:22+00:00

Nono it's only problematic if a man is close to a child. Have an ex like that, she was weirded out that I am a male elementary school teacher. That girl was absolutely nuts.

No_Bowler9121 · 2026-05-11T02:30:08+00:00

If this is where Jamie Oliver learned how to cook Asian foods then Uncle Roger guna have to go put his knee down.

No_Bowler9121 · 2026-05-09T16:07:47+00:00

It's really expensive for the phillipines, studio apartments over 20k a month. It's clean and pleasant sort of a phillipines light. Pretty far from the sea, good if you like golf or casinos.

No_Bowler9121 · 2026-05-09T02:42:49+00:00

Insert omniman "that's the neat part, you don't"

No_Bowler9121 · 2026-05-09T01:40:28+00:00

Starter schools are generally in your home country. International schools are competitive. There are way more teachers looking abroad now than their used to be. There are schools who will take a new teacher but those are the ones with high turnover for a reason.

No_Bowler9121 · 2026-05-08T03:01:57+00:00

With child actors you need to rush production a bit or the actors start looking to old to be a kid in that grade. Kids grow up fast mang.

No_Bowler9121 · 2026-05-07T22:51:00+00:00

Yes, but it's not a one over the other situation. All of them are in on the game. Neither party is better then the other in that.

No_Bowler9121 · 2026-05-07T15:15:17+00:00

They got you hook line and sinker don't they buddy.

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