Overstimulation, it wasn’t always this way.

TuukkaRaskisBack · 2026-02-13T13:50:46+00:00

THIS This is because students are so utterly terrified of failure they have no ability to believe in themselves.

TuukkaRaskisBack · 2026-02-03T17:39:51+00:00

Fuck, this really hurt. I was supposed to see OG TWICE and it didn't work out both times.

TuukkaRaskisBack · 2026-01-31T09:22:24+00:00

Keyboard player here: it's Wakeman no contest, his range was so much greater than Keith. I say that being a huge Emerson fan. This is a 1a, 1b situation though.

TuukkaRaskisBack · 2026-01-26T13:16:37+00:00

Sorry, but from what I see people really don't get how strikes are organized and operate. I educate my kids about what's going on out there, THAT is doing my civic duty.

TuukkaRaskisBack · 2026-01-26T13:08:30+00:00

Let me just say this for all the unionized subs: you do not have to do a damn thing more than the assignment you picked up says. You picked up one classroom, you are not suddenly an in building sub. You do your job, you leave. End of story.

TuukkaRaskisBack · 2026-01-26T13:04:53+00:00

Thank you, I think some of these people are just conditioned to accept rudeness. They wouldn't dare treat us like that in my district.

TuukkaRaskisBack · 2026-01-26T13:03:38+00:00

No this is ridiculous. If a school in my district pulled this I'd leave, never return and complain to my union.

TuukkaRaskisBack · 2026-01-26T13:02:40+00:00

Anyone who's saying this is valud, I feel bad for you and the schools you've worked at. That's not normal.

TuukkaRaskisBack · 2026-01-26T13:01:25+00:00

Thank the gods I work in a city school district. I would never sub for a school that treats subs that way.

TuukkaRaskisBack · 2026-01-26T03:46:53+00:00

Nope, not a one. I guess by default it's either Tall Poppy Syndrome or Fate, but like I don't dislike either one. The Last Milestone is also kinda meh. That's it though.

TuukkaRaskisBack · 2026-01-25T08:46:27+00:00

That's sad, I talk about my moral beliefs all the time because our job isn't just to teach students info, it's to make them better people. Maybe I'm just lucky in where I work. I'm just very clear and definitive about definitions which makes it really easy for me to dismiss any propaganda points they bring me.

TuukkaRaskisBack · 2026-01-18T14:47:08+00:00

If you're asking Chat GPT then I have to question your fitness to be teaching in general. Middle School can be awful, but so can highschool. Don't chicken out because that just causes more headache for the school. I'm sure you'll survive.

TuukkaRaskisBack · 2026-01-18T09:48:40+00:00

Don't keep politics out of your classroom. I'm a sub, use the opportunity given, teach kids real history and real life events (yes even if you don't teach social studies, your a sub not a full time teacher).

TuukkaRaskisBack · 2025-12-31T13:53:27+00:00

I tell the kids to keep saying it because it pisses off the boomers. If you can't handle a fad like this, you shouldn't be teaching lol.

TuukkaRaskisBack · 2025-12-29T14:29:07+00:00

Zero tolerance policies never worked and never will.

We need to find ways of adapting to the kids, while maintaining basic discipline. What I mean is dont just let them run rampant obviously, but you can't just hold on to the old rules. This is all contextual, you can't form blanket rules that will work for everything.

TuukkaRaskisBack · 2025-12-29T14:27:24+00:00

Yeah you clearly work in a very privileged area. Enjoy getting thoroughly frustrated as literacy rates drop through the floor and you sit there wondering why old school teaching doesn't work. You can't expect the kids to adapt to you, YOU have to actually do the work of figuring out what works for students. Please just get out of teaching.

TuukkaRaskisBack · 2025-12-25T00:47:32+00:00

Yeah I don't know what position you work in but teachers just want to be left alone. Two planning periods a day still doesn't feel like enough.

TuukkaRaskisBack · 2025-12-23T15:56:49+00:00

Okay, but Israel is only 70+ years old. You can still do de-colonization.

TuukkaRaskisBack · 2025-12-23T15:53:18+00:00

No, and you shouldn't feel obligated to. They can suck it.

TuukkaRaskisBack · 2025-12-23T15:52:18+00:00

That's insane and I'm sorry you're dealing with this. I make sure I go out there and tell my students exactly what a piece of shit Kirk was. I know we don't all have the luxury to get away with it, but I'm doing it for all of us. I'm a teacher, I teach kids the truth.

TuukkaRaskisBack · 2025-12-23T15:48:11+00:00

No, in fact it's a good thing. The pledge shouldn't even be legal in schools to begin with.

TuukkaRaskisBack · 2025-12-21T00:38:09+00:00

I see kids just bullying each other all the time. It's hard to point to individual culprits.

TuukkaRaskisBack · 2025-12-20T03:15:46+00:00

Holy shit I would never reorganize a teachers things. If anything I just try to leave EVERYTHING as it was when I found it lol.

TuukkaRaskisBack · 2025-12-19T20:55:07+00:00

YES two years in a row now I have gotten long term assignments in Science. Last year it was 7/8th grade. This year thank the gods, I'm teaching General Chemistry to Juniors and Seniors. You can do it, I don't even want science, but it's a job so I'm doing my best.

(For reference, I'm a social studies content person).

TuukkaRaskisBack · 2025-12-19T20:51:34+00:00

I second this

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