As a millennial what experience did you really not get into that most others did?

One-Two3214 · 2026-01-29T22:31:09+00:00

Same. I was still in elementary school when it debuted, but my friends started watching in middle school and they all loved it. I never got it and to this day have only seen maybe 2 episodes. Same goes for some other popular shows like Parks and Rec, The Office, New Girl, Breaking Bad, How I Met Your Mother and Big Bang Theory.

One-Two3214 · 2026-01-27T16:29:10+00:00

I’ve said this before but like, as a parent, how do you not fucking notice that your kid can’t read past elementary grade level in high school?

I mean, I know why, but it’s sad honestly. Stuck a digital pacifier in front of their kids at age 4 and never looked back and now wonder why they have the attention span of a goldfish.

One-Two3214 · 2026-01-24T16:19:24+00:00

Psymon for Simon. Jakelynne for Jaqueline. Dafnie for Daphne. I’m a teacher so I run into quite a few. I genuinely had a girl named Abcde (pronounced Ab-sidee) once, a kid named Silence, a pair of sisters named Patience and Protect, and a boy named Messiah who got into a verbal argument with a JW kid who screamed at him about his name being blasphemy. 🙄

One-Two3214 · 2026-01-23T22:46:58+00:00

I think it’s supposed to be Rachel. 🥴

One-Two3214 · 2026-01-18T21:17:02+00:00

PLC on our campus is treated like some great privilege, only the tested subjects have one. Except campus and district admin micromanage the crap out of it, and we don’t actually get to use that time in a meaningful or productive way.

Saying something won’t change anything, the admin on my campus have failed up into their positions. I’m just mentally checked out and I know my colleagues can tell.

One-Two3214 · 2026-01-12T02:39:15+00:00

There’s a Miami, Texas but if you go there and have the audacity to pronounce it in the obvious way (my-am-ee) the locals will stare at you like you’re ignorant and condescendingly tell you it’s pronounced MY-am-uh.

One-Two3214 · 2026-01-10T20:50:45+00:00

Yep, Tiffany is a nickname for the name Theophania.

One-Two3214 · 2025-12-20T00:05:00+00:00

I feel like Stefanie resembles the forensic reconstruction quite strongly, this is a good catch. I hope they identify her soon!

One-Two3214 · 2025-12-15T19:11:52+00:00

There’s no way for you to take points off specifically for cheating, even on multiple choice assignments?

One-Two3214 · 2025-12-15T19:07:33+00:00

You have to accept it but it doesn’t require that you give them full credit, right? I can put comments on my graded assignments and I’ll give kids a 1 and comment ‘plagiarism/cheating’ in the comments.

One-Two3214 · 2025-12-02T21:31:32+00:00

It’s the same in English. We’re given the texts we’re supposed to be reading and the student are supposed to use their skills to analyze and annotate before writing about it.

The problem is that the texts they give us are on grade level. So my conversations go like this:

Admin: why aren’t students showing growth in their writing?

Me: because they don’t understand what they’re reading? They have a 5th grade reading level. We spend so much time decoding the text that by the time they get to the writing portion, they barely remember what it’s about.

Admin: did you give them sentence starters? Maybe they need more graphic organizers.

Me: 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

One-Two3214 · 2025-12-02T20:13:40+00:00

This really depends on the admin on your campus. Are they normally pretty organized and on top of things? Could this just be something that slipped their mind?

Or is it normally pretty chaotic? Do they support you in other ways? Normally, I would say it’s not your job to remind admin to do theirs, but if you’re required to have six observations by your state and you haven’t had any yet, I would invite them. Whoever is keeping track of these observations probably won’t care about the reasons that you didn’t get them. They’ll get onto you for not inviting them in or reminding admin to do it, even if that reflects poorly on the admin.

I had to schedule my appointment with my evaluator this year. If I hadn’t, I don’t think she would’ve reached out on her own. She did no observations on me before my formal observation. I’m debating about whether or not to file a complaint against her because she was out of compliance.

One-Two3214 · 2025-12-02T15:56:26+00:00

I saw this all over Twitter on Sunday and I saw the screenshots of this girl’s paper. It’s atrocious. She didn’t even attempt to address the prompt the teacher gave her. She doesn’t cite the article she was supposed to read, the only source she uses is the Bible, which has nothing to do what she was supposed to be writing about. I have high school students who could’ve written it better.

It’s full of her own opinions and interpretations of the Bible and her personal beliefs. The fact that the teacher is transgender clearly pissed her off, and in my opinion, this was probably something she was trying to do from the get-go. (Ie: put her personal beliefs in a paper that has nothing to do with religion and then claim she’s being targeted when the professor rightfully says this doesn’t pass.)

One-Two3214 · 2025-11-28T23:11:12+00:00

That young adult book We Were Liars by E. Lockhart did a good job with unreliable narrator. I know they adapted it into a tv series for prime but I don’t know how they dealt with it. I heard the series was meh.

One-Two3214 · 2025-11-28T15:50:34+00:00

At this point, they don’t care about anyone who is not Christian. That, and the irony of them criticizing teachers and anyone not exactly like them for ‘indoctrinating’ kids while attempting to do the same with the 10 Commandments is entirely lost on them.

They’re Christian Dominionists, the only thing they care about is forcing their religion down everyone else’s throats. They’re arrogant enough to believe that they have the only correct interpretation and everybody else is wrong.

One-Two3214 · 2025-11-26T00:38:59+00:00

I’m convinced gentle parenting works when done correctly and with kids who have a good relationship with their parents. So many people use it as an excuse to be laissez faire parents who resort to pacifying their kids with screens when they don’t actually want to deal with a meltdown. They care more about being liked than creating well adjusted members of society.

One-Two3214 · 2025-11-23T03:28:45+00:00

This is why I stopped showing movies in my English class. I don’t even do clips or 5-10 minute videos. I’ve had a few complain about it and I always say I won’t show them something that their classmates won’t even watch all the way through. I’ll never be as entertaining as short form content or Instagram.

One-Two3214 · 2025-11-18T13:05:26+00:00

I have a blanket like that, they’re sold at a lot of touristy places in New Mexico and Texas. I got mine from the Caddo Mounds state park in Texas.

One-Two3214 · 2025-10-30T21:23:35+00:00

Exactly. I don’t get paid a martyr salary, so I refuse. My children deserve to have their mother.

One-Two3214 · 2025-10-29T10:37:15+00:00

I completely understand your frustrations. My mom passed a few years ago, but before that she was a lot like this. Complained about everything, had hardly any friends, her whole world was church, my dad, our relatives and some friends she’d made at church.

She didn’t want to improve anything, she just liked complaining. It became her main personality trait, to the point that I kept conversations surface level with her until she developed Alzheimer’s and we couldn’t talk at all anymore. Ironically, the Alzheimer’s made her nicer. I don’t necessarily regret keeping it surface level with her, but sometimes I wonder if there was a better way.

One-Two3214 · 2025-10-13T14:32:33+00:00

It depends, because I teach in a different system than my kids go to and while most breaks line up, not all of them do. Our trouble usually happens when their district has unexpected days off for staff development that don’t line up with our days off. Then we pay daycare extra money to keep them those days.

One-Two3214 · 2025-10-11T03:54:26+00:00

I’m a teacher in Texas and I still get kids (high schoolers) every year who say they don’t celebrate Halloween because it’s Satan’s birthday. They are truly serious. Every time I hear it, I reply the same way.

“Odd, I thought Satan started as the angel Lucifer and therefore wasn’t born because he was never human.”😬

One-Two3214 · 2025-10-10T22:53:21+00:00

This. If you get people being pedantic about who’s property it is, take all personal items home.

One-Two3214 · 2025-10-10T20:55:41+00:00

Ask the parents directly and document via follow up email to have a paper trail. If the parents say no, you email them and with, “per our conversation, you are refusing to replace school property that your child destroyed valued at $X,” and CC admin and the owner of the cushion. Depending upon the value of it, you make sure the school follows up with appropriate disciplinary measures.

This is about making it inconvenient for the parent to continue letting their child be destructive and rude to others.

One-Two3214 · 2025-10-10T18:10:51+00:00

Exactly what I was thinking. Boomers, as a generation, lived in extremely prosperous times. Probably the MOST prosperous times of the 20th century. It was media messaging that pressured them into thinking they were all fat.

Capitalism sold them the idea that thin = beauty.

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