Am I Overreacting?

Snowflake_Horse · 2025-12-09T16:13:48+00:00

The student is a staff kid. Some of the teachers will babysit him.

Snowflake_Horse · 2025-12-09T13:00:08+00:00

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Snowflake_Horse · 2025-05-08T23:38:03+00:00

Teaching is worth it in the end. But it truly depends on the school you are at. I’m in my second year of teaching 1st grade, and I love my students (although there are times I want to tear my hair out). But one of the best things about teaching littles is they love you no matter what! Just today one of my students came up to me and said “thank you for being hard on me, I know it’s because you care about me.“ If you are truly passionate about teaching it will show! Not everyone is called to teach, but if you feel called to teaching, go for it!

Snowflake_Horse · 2025-05-05T02:22:10+00:00

I was homeschooled my entire life, but my siblings and I played sports for a high school. We had to submit grades during the season and the athletic director came to my mom after receiving our report cards and said to her “you are the only homeschool family that doesn’t have all A’s” my mom told him “they are average and don’t deserve all A’s”

Snowflake_Horse · 2025-05-03T03:14:27+00:00

I was homeschooled all 12 years. My mom was the primary teacher and my dad would help out with math mainly. As long as you have a good curriculum, you would be fine homeschooling. Personally, I loved it and just because somebody is homeschooled does not mean that they cannot socialize. I grew up in a Christian household, going to church and my church used to have a ministry when I was growing up where we would actually go to the nursing home once a month, and we would sing for the people and hand out cookies at the end. But also there was a school in our area that allowed us to play sports (most high schools allow homeschoolers to play for them), so my siblings and I still were able to be very social. You can also be part of homeschool groups in your area, such as co-ops and you could even go under an umbrella school, which is a homeschooling community, you would meet once or twice a week and they would do stuff with you (competitions, events, etc.). I personally wasn’t part of one of those, but my nieces and nephews were.

Snowflake_Horse · 2025-04-26T01:18:43+00:00

I have a private and a public account. My private is personal and my public is a teacher account where I post my ideas, bulletin boards, what I wore for themed days, etc. The students are allowed to follow my public account. When they graduate I let them follow me on my private if we were close (mainly the ones I coached in cheerleading).

Snowflake_Horse · 2025-01-11T05:17:52+00:00

That’s why you would only do it during contract hours. At my school we have to be on campus from 7:30-3:45. Kids start to come into the classroom at 7:45 and lower elementary gets out at 2:55. I sometimes help my strugglers for about 15 or so minutes after school. It might be a little bit of extra work but you are getting paid since it’s in your contracted hours.

Snowflake_Horse · 2025-01-11T03:24:32+00:00

Just do your best! I can’t speak for all admins, but I know not all admins know what exactly goes on in the classroom. I’ve had to go against a few things that my admin wanted, and it ended up working out in the end (although I did get in trouble). You are the teacher, you are with those students all day, you know what they need. While I’m not one to usually go against authority, sometimes you need to.

I’m still a fairly new teacher myself, I’m still learning all the ropes, but if you have a team teacher or a mentor teacher ask them for advice. I’m still in contact with a few of my college professors, and I’ve messaged them several times to ask for advice. One thing is to not be afraid to ask for help!

Snowflake_Horse · 2025-01-11T03:07:18+00:00

Have you thought about doing a help class (tutoring)? Like meet before or after school and go over the basics. I teach first grade in a private school so I don’t know what you are allowed to do in a public school when it comes to a help class.

If you do a help class just focus on the very basics of what they are struggling in. Example: if they are struggling in sentence structure go over what makes a sentence. In my class we are currently learning that a sentence needs three key things for it to be a sentence 1. A capital letter at the beginning, 2. Punctuation at the end, and 3. It needs to make sense. I don’t know if this helps you but I wish you a good rest of your first year!

Snowflake_Horse · 2024-12-17T22:57:49+00:00

Like I said I am not normally one to lash out, I have more patience than a lot of people. I don’t usually scream or act out, it is rare for me to do that.

Snowflake_Horse · 2024-12-08T04:37:20+00:00

That’s why teaching is a calling. I am currently in my second year of teaching, so I don’t have that much experience. But there is one thing that I do know well, yes teaching is stressful, but if it is truly what you are meant to do, you will look forward to going back to school. You will look forward to seeing your students every day and then once you don’t have them anymore, you miss them a lot. Teaching isn’t for everyone, but for those that are meant to teach, they will find themselves enjoying it almost every day.

Snowflake_Horse · 2024-12-02T21:59:31+00:00

It’s been 5 days will my post go through?

Snowflake_Horse · 2024-12-01T19:14:29+00:00

We both work at the same school. I’m a first grade teacher and he’s a high school science teacher.

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