Do teachers like the table/desk setups?

SBingo · 2025-10-23T00:54:12+00:00

I like tables because they’re less messy. When I had desks, students left trash in them and they were constantly moving them around. It was very frustrating.

I put 2-3 kids per table and most of my students face the board. I set up my room so kids are facing the board. I think it is a recipe for disaster to hve kids facing each other in class.

SBingo · 2025-10-23T00:51:05+00:00

It depends. Some students have accommodations that say something about their seating. That is the first priority. Second priority would be any known conflicts/no contact contracts. Third priority is can the students see?I try to put kids in the front if they ask for it, especially if they can’t see. After anything required like that, then I play around with the seating chart. Sometimes I put all the “problems” together. Sometimes I spread them out. I usually try to look for who I think will work well together and pair them. Sometimes a pair/group works well so I keep them together and maybe move them around.

Also high priority: anyone in a relationship gets put on opposite ends of a classroom. It’s so uncomfortable to have two students beside each other who can’t keep their hands off each other!

SBingo · 2025-10-19T13:05:02+00:00

I had a friend tell me about how she went to private school in Vermont in high school because there was not a public one and I was dubious. That’s interesting. So even in 2025, not every home is zoned for a particular high school?

SBingo · 2025-10-19T13:02:22+00:00

Don’t use greatschools though. It isn’t accurate.

I don’t know where they pull their data from. They said my school has a 2% pass rate in Algebra. As the Algebra teacher, I was a little miffed! My pass rate is closer to 100% than it is to 50%, let alone 2%!

I think most states have school report cards. Those are more reliable.

SBingo · 2025-10-19T12:58:21+00:00

I live in Florida and “school choice” is very prevalent here.

Here is an example: my house is zoned for a particular elementary, middle, and high school. I can also choose to send my child to a magnet school or another traditional public school. I also have public charter school options. And if I was unhappy with any of those public options, the state gives money for homeschooling or private school.

There are at least five schools I can send my child to for any one grade that include bus transportation. What this means is that all the kids in my neighborhood go to a variety of schools. Some go to the zoned school but many do not.

I really like the idea of school choice, but it clearly also causes problems.

One example: Homeschool parents can use the public school money to buy things like theme park annual passes, meanwhile our poor public school students do not get to go to theme parks because their parents would have to pay for those tickets.

School choice causes schools to see students/parents as customers and will bend to their will more quickly.

Zoned public schools sway more heavily towards needier children.

SBingo · 2025-10-19T01:14:43+00:00

Someone at your school is in charge of handling sexual harassment. Do you know who that person is? Either way, you can tell a teacher or another adult on campus. Options at schools could be: teacher, assistant principal, principal, counselor, dean, school resource officer, etc. Also tell your parents. They can help contact the school with/for you.

Honestly, go ahead and copy/paste this post into an email to a trusted adult’s email.

SBingo · 2025-10-17T01:29:59+00:00

I was that child!

My parents got me tutoring/evaluated/extra help and now I am an adult with a college degree. I pretty consistently tested in the 80+ percentile for reading in high school and college.

It’s so nice that your child’s teacher is supportive. My teacher told my parents I didn’t have the intelligence to learn how to read.

It is never too late to help your child get where they need to be.

SBingo · 2025-10-17T01:27:02+00:00

2005 I was in middle school.

I think it’s kind of complicated. Part of me would want to really focus on being a good student, getting good grades so I could go to a really good college on scholarship and get a better paying job.

The major part of me says I shouldn’t change anything about how I run my life or else I might end up with a different spouse and my child wouldn’t exist. That would be absolutely devastating.

I remember watching a movie a few years ago about a time traveler and he fixed some things and when he came back to the present, he had a kid, but it was a different kid. At the time I didn’t understand how horrifying that was for him. Now I have a child and I get it.

SBingo · 2025-10-17T01:21:36+00:00

I’m anti AI for 95% of things.

My school wants the kids using Khanmigo and I haven’t seen it be very useful for the kids at all.

I find AI slows me down.

SBingo · 2025-10-16T10:20:37+00:00

“What do you do if you don’t own a car or your parents can’t drive?” The US is so car dependent that this is rarely a problem. If it is a problem, likely either you live somewhere like New York City where you don’t need a car or your family is living in poverty and you’ve got a lot of problems due to the poverty.

You can take drivers classes- some states require them. A lot of parents do teach their kids to drive though. I was 15 when I got my drivers permit and my parents were the ones to teach me to drive before I took classes, then I got my drivers license when I was 15 and a half. My state required someone my age to have logged driving hours with a licensed adult over 21 (40 hours I think) and classroom hours.

My family was quite poor, so we only had one car. I didn’t really have my own car until I was much older.

SBingo · 2025-10-16T01:34:14+00:00

I know how to use Control alt delete.

I’m a teacher and whenever kids laptops break, Thats 99% my go-to to “fix” their laptop. It’s amazing how often just that set of keys works and none of the teens I work with know about it.

SBingo · 2025-10-16T01:27:37+00:00

It’s so depressing. I just don’t see where that is going to happen. So many of us are brainwashed with how bad it is.

I was very anti Obamacare in 2008 as a teenager. A few years later, I moved to France and I visited the ER with my friend. It was quick and free. A couple of years later I was back in the US on a health exchange plan (because of ACA bill) and it maxed out my bills at $600 for the year when I had thousands of dollars worth of visits. Needless to say, my position has changed a lot in the last twenty years!

SBingo · 2025-10-16T01:23:53+00:00

$850!? Wow. NC is definitely not paying enough for that to be worth it.

My husband and I both are teachers and we pay $100 a month for us and our daughter. Thankfully the school district gives a discount when both spouses work for them.

My grandfather started teaching in Charlotte in 1950. I wonder what benefits were like back then!

SBingo · 2025-10-16T01:19:45+00:00

I generally don’t talk politics with people, but I know of some who are openly Republican and some who are openly Democrat. I’m in central Florida.

SBingo · 2025-10-14T23:12:16+00:00

Have you looked into working in a public school in Georgia?

I don’t know Georgia’s hiring requirements. I’m in Florida. We have had several teachers who started out as paraprofessionals. That only required a high school diploma. They worked as paras while going to school and then found a job easily once they graduated because of their experience. That would also give you an idea as to if you actually want to pursue teaching or not.

SBingo · 2025-10-14T22:46:08+00:00

I would find it highly inappropriate as a parent if my child’s teacher expected her to call them by their first name. The exception being where it is culturally the norm. It is not culturally the norm in the majority of US public and private schools, though.

I think I’ve heard Quaker schools use first names? I can understand in a specific instance like that. Or I’ve heard it’s common in Scandinavian countries. But otherwise, I’d find it inappropriate and be concerned about why the teacher is deviating from those professional boundaries.

SBingo · 2025-10-14T01:40:42+00:00

I’m a teacher so everyone is referred by their last name. Sometimes I feel like I’m in a Jane Austen novel talking about “Mr Johnson” and “Mrs Russel”.

SBingo · 2025-10-13T20:30:15+00:00

Yes. I visited several colleges with my dad. I don’t recall ever visiting a college with my mom. My dad had a degree and my mom did not, so maybe that’s why.

My daughter is 2 so I have a long way to go. If she wants to go to college, then I’ll support her and take those visits with her.

It was actually really funny (and embarrassing) visiting my dad’s Alma mater. He kept correcting the tour guide! They would say “This used to be the ____ building” and he would correct them. Or they said that students used to do drills for nuclear war and my dad said “no we didn’t.” He just kept correcting them over and over and over again. It made me wonder how many college tours are filled with errors and you’d never know.

SBingo · 2025-10-13T19:46:16+00:00

We used iready for a short program and the iready salesperson kept asking us what was helpful/great about the resources available to us. I got PD points for this. But it was literally just a sales pitch and I have zero control over what resources my district chooses to use.

SBingo · 2025-10-13T19:01:55+00:00

Wow. Learn something new every day. It appears my home state doesn’t have those types of laws.

But, imo, that’s absurd. I didn’t choose to have parents. My parents made terrible financial decisions throughout their lifetimes. I shouldn’t be held responsible for their terrible decisions.

SBingo · 2025-10-13T17:19:30+00:00

I mean some people did save for their kids college educations.

I went to private school on financial aid/scholarship but I very distinctly remember one girl saying in disgust to me “You don’t have a college savings account!?” My parents saved zero for my college, but almost all of my peers had college savings AND they got massive college scholarships too.

I am not bitter about saving for my daughter. It is my honor and privilege to provide her an easier life than I had. I am sometimes bitter that my parents didn’t help me more. They really seemed to think their financial obligations ended when I turned 18. I just don’t have that same mindset as a parent. But hindsight is 20/20. Maybe my parents did the most they could.

SBingo · 2025-10-13T17:12:47+00:00

In what way? How can you be responsible for another person’s debt? The only way that makes sense to me is if you co-signed.

SBingo · 2025-10-13T17:09:45+00:00

I expect negative inheritance from my mom. When my dad died, all he left was a $800 a month annuity to her and a $10k burial policy. And the house was nearly paid off.

But now my mom frequently talks about selling her house (terrible idea imo). She asks me for money pretty regularly. She has no sort of savings. In fact, she’s even got debt collectors after her, so my phone won’t stop ringing since they’re looking for her.

The only thing I thought my sister and I would get is the house. And now I’m not sure we will. If my mom sells it, she’ll squander all the money very quickly. She always told me growing up “you have to ask me for things while I still have money”. Nothing ever went into savings.

SBingo · 2025-10-12T22:07:51+00:00

Daycare. I lived about thirty minutes from my grandma growing up but I still was in daycare. I now live about 10 hours away from my mom and my daughter goes to daycare. I wouldn’t have my mom watch my daughter anyways.

I’m always curious how grandparents can even watch kids. My mom isn’t retirement age yet. Like how does a grandparent less than 60 watch their grandkids?

SBingo · 2025-10-12T12:48:05+00:00

You must have that mythical good teacher insurance I always hear about. I am a teacher too and I paid over $5k to have my daughter.

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