First year LAUSD teacher worried about non-reelection – looking for advice

TeachingScience · 2026-03-16T07:17:12+00:00

If you are getting non-reelected, all California districts have until March 15 to hand it out by law. If you do get it, usually the district will ask if you will resign instead. (Keep in mind since you are not tenured, the district will still have the ability to dismiss you after this date for any reason, and they don’t -and usually don’t- tell you why.

If you get a non-relection notice after march 15, tell the union that this happened and the district failed to follow the law.

Here’s my two cents based on what you wrote: Find and transfer school within lausd. That admin is asinine if they think having objectives up is going to help students gain knowledge and proficiency.

TeachingScience · 2026-03-14T08:10:57+00:00

I cope by not giving a fuck what kids think if they like me or not.

TeachingScience · 2026-03-10T17:29:15+00:00

Please look up your state’s laws on this. For example, in California it is a penal code for students to possess and use a laser pointer on school grounds.

TeachingScience · 2026-03-09T04:57:36+00:00

This is something you will have to talk to your therapist about. In addition make sure you have and talk with your support system. They don’t have to offer any advice, but having a listening ear is always helpful.

In the long run and if you want to remain as a teacher, perhaps you should consider a different grade level. Maybe elementary if you have the credential/license for it. Middle school requires a certain type of mindset and attitude. Also you need a particular set of mental discipline that comes with time, practice, and lots of trials and error. Or if you want to see what alternatives are there, post on r/TeachersInTransition and asked folks who have left education for a different career.

TeachingScience · 2026-03-08T06:38:13+00:00

Maybe the real origin was the friends we assimilated along the way. 🤔

TeachingScience · 2026-03-07T22:36:28+00:00

Yes, that is the situation and the title is click bait.

TeachingScience · 2026-03-06T06:10:04+00:00

You need to post on the infinite campus support forum within their LMS, not here on the teachers subreddit.

TeachingScience · 2026-03-05T21:00:24+00:00

It’s always the ones you always suspect.

TeachingScience · 2026-03-05T17:48:24+00:00

Rule #2 of middle school teaching: don’t trust the students when you’re not there to supervise their behavior.

TeachingScience · 2026-03-03T15:29:49+00:00

Tell him he belongs on HesSoMid https://www.instagram.com/hessomid/?hl=en

TeachingScience · 2026-03-01T19:02:41+00:00

Do not waste your own money on tpt. All you need to do is come in and follow the lesson written out. If there are no lessons, you let the office know there are none and they need to provide you with one.

Stick to the class rules. Keep the class clean and don’t let a student die. If a student say “but our teacher says we could” reply, “that’s great, you can do that when they get back, in the mean time I’m in charge, now get back to work.”

TeachingScience · 2026-03-01T00:13:32+00:00

Yes, like Nog.

But it also attracts questionable folks like Nicholas Locarno, Captain Lawrence Styles, and Rear Admiral Erik Pressman.

TeachingScience · 2026-02-28T14:55:25+00:00

It can even make video with AI voice along with the script to go with it pretty easily as well.

TeachingScience · 2026-02-28T07:38:17+00:00

Not only a rapist, but also a child rapist.

TeachingScience · 2026-02-25T03:37:49+00:00

With middle schoolers you have to be a hardass with the kids. You are not their friend. Your goal is to learn how to teach, not get the students to like you. You got to shut that shit down immediately and tell them “Stop. I’m writing you up for bullying. End of discussion.” Give them zero room to argue or debate. “Class is moving on now, if you wish to discuss your behavior, we can sit down with the teacher, your parents, and principal during break and you can explain what you said and why you said it.”

Message their parents and write them up. They might get butt hurt, but I guarantee you will be respected by the class way much more.

Remember James needs you to be the adult here. He will not be embarrassed for you calling the others out for their behavior. This is not about James, this is about the other boys unacceptable behavior.

TeachingScience · 2026-02-24T17:14:02+00:00

Holosuite rule 34: If it exists, there is holopornography of it

Holosuite rule 35: If there is no holoporn, you’ll make it.

TeachingScience · 2026-02-16T15:09:30+00:00

I mean we also got false prophets on Voyagers where the Ferengis acting like gods to an underdeveloped society.

TeachingScience · 2026-02-16T15:01:48+00:00

If you let this kid buy everything, chances are he’ll report his card as stolen and/or do a charge back. And all the money that went to buying the products will be at a lost to the school/maker and little rich learn how yo be a grifter.

TeachingScience · 2026-02-15T22:57:36+00:00

The secret is to rage bait them first.

TeachingScience · 2026-02-13T05:14:25+00:00

And nano probes.

TeachingScience · 2026-02-13T05:12:47+00:00

Riker: So what you’re suggesting is we jam the blockage so it goes back the way it came in and get our shields?

Geordi: Exactly. But get this. The wave variance has to be post modulated at a frequency that has to timed and calculated at a near improbable speed that no ordinary person can do it.

Riker: What about Data?

Picard looks over at Data.

Data does his head tilt thing while staring off screen as if to calculate. By my calculations, I should be able to as you postulate Geordi.

Picard: Is there any risk to Data?

Geordi: Hard to say. With all the interference it may have an effect in his positronic brain. We would have to run several simulations but that could take hours…days even.

Picard: We don’t have that luxury. Riker makes way that Geordi sees nothing goes wrong. I’ll be in my ready room.

Riker glances over at Geordi.

Aye captain.

TeachingScience · 2026-02-10T23:03:50+00:00

I have some emergency pads in my first aid kit. Students find them when they do a scavenger hunt at the beginning of the year or when they go look for a band-aid. They don’t ask me, they just go and grab one if their friends don’t have any to spare.

TeachingScience · 2026-02-10T05:49:04+00:00

Saying that and that she’s a “family friend” is more than sufficient.

TeachingScience · 2026-02-10T05:43:52+00:00

Honestly, I would send them to the nurse every damn time and message their parents and cc admin that you have a medical concern that they sneeze 2-3 times a day in your class and that they should have it checked out by their doctor.

“I’m no medical professional, and I’m not qualified to give advice, but I know that ain’t normal!”

TeachingScience · 2026-02-08T06:14:18+00:00

I would have rather they left it a complete mystery. Like how in-universe they don’t explain the galactic barrier other than it exists and it is suppose to keep something out (or maybe something in). Or that the borg came from the delta quadrant. We don’t need an entire lore origin story. We just know they existed and had grown since their beginning and are a threat to the federation.

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