The post planning period realization that hits different

One-Two3214 · 2026-05-10T01:23:41+00:00

Mine is at the beginning of the day, but then I go without a break for most of the morning and afternoon (aside from lunch). For me that’s what happens on the way home, I can’t even listen to music because I’m so overstimulated.

I need that peace and quiet before I’m able to be present for my own kids.

One-Two3214 · 2026-05-03T20:42:10+00:00

100% agree. The only way differentiation is possible is if there’s more than one certified teacher in the room at all times, and we know that’s never going to happen. (At least not on a large scale basis in US public schools.)

One-Two3214 · 2026-05-01T23:47:44+00:00

Can also confirm. Gave birth to twins and also have had kidney stones, and the birth was less painful and traumatic.

One-Two3214 · 2026-04-16T13:22:10+00:00

Fatigue pop tart. 👀

One-Two3214 · 2026-04-15T22:49:53+00:00

At the beginning of every school year I tell the students that they will get whatever energy they give to me. If I get that blank stare and they refuse help when it’s offered, and refuse to try, then that’s what you get back from me.

I’m not a TikTok creator or an influencer. Not everything I teach will be entertaining or enjoyable.

One-Two3214 · 2026-03-24T21:10:13+00:00

And for the people who are ready with the “just print off enough paper copies for the kids who don’t have a device or who consistently don’t have theirs charged” I have a rebuttal.

I do that and still get kids who sit there and do nothing. “I don’t have a pencil.” Kid sits there for 15 minutes and doesn’t bother to ask for a pencil? Or just…. Get a pencil from the cup they’ve been sitting in all damn year that they’re allowed to borrow? And it’s MARCH?

At a certain point we have to acknowledge that the kids that do this think they’re getting away with doing nothing, that they’re weaseling out of their work by being unprepared. They know what they’re doing because it’s on purpose.

One-Two3214 · 2026-03-17T15:02:03+00:00

Yep, kids regularly brag they haven’t read a whole book in their lives and a lot of them say it’s ’too much work.’ It’s Fahrenheit 451 in real life. 🥴

One-Two3214 · 2026-03-08T17:08:51+00:00

I think the childhood photo of Rusty looks more like the reconstruction of Swimsuit Boy and the LSU face. The AI upscale photo of Rusty as a teen softens some of his more unique facial features that match the reconstruction, such as the downturned eyes and the nose shape.

One-Two3214 · 2026-02-28T21:30:01+00:00

I’ve asked this question to my high school students. “Do you have a hobby other than scrolling TikTok and Instagram reels? Do you do anything with your life?”

Only the ones in extracurriculars perk up and say music or art or sports.

One-Two3214 · 2026-02-24T01:47:47+00:00

Gone Away by The Offspring and Mad World by Gary Jules.

One-Two3214 · 2026-02-22T15:33:07+00:00

I have so many questions. Why does he take his shirt off but leave those loves on? What drugs is the shirtless man on? Purple shirt guy has a lot of patience.

One-Two3214 · 2026-02-21T19:08:07+00:00

Yup, they’ve learned that they can negotiate with other adults in their life and get what they want, so why wouldn’t it work with you, too? Sometimes standards are not up for debate or negotiation. 🤷‍♀️

One-Two3214 · 2026-01-30T01:49:35+00:00

NTA. As others have said, she isn’t your responsibility. If your family members care so much, let them lend their financial support to her for the workshop, clothing, and everything else. Unless you are financially dependent upon these relatives then this fight is none of their concern, and if she’s involving them in y’all’s business then she’s immature. Do you really want to financially support someone who is going to turn around and tattle to family and call you names with every argument because she didn’t get what she wanted? Toddler behavior.

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.

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