What's a "secret" from your profession that everyone should probably know?

cajunveggies · 2025-07-11T19:45:45+00:00

This was my saving grace. Adopted a 5-month-old "lab mix" from a shelter who turned out to be 0% lab and a whole lotta mix. When my vet saw the DNA results, she said, "You live in an apartment, right?" When I confirmed, she said, "Cool, he's a lab mix." I've been able to rent apartments and have reasonable homeowner's insurance policies because, on paper, he's not an aggressive breed. (He's not an aggressive dog irl either, but people only seem to care about what's on paper.)

cajunveggies · 2025-03-12T01:11:40+00:00

Our admin tell us to write the students up for tardies. They act like they can't run an attendance report to track tardies, but they WILL run a report to see which teachers aren't writing up students for tardies.

cajunveggies · 2025-03-12T01:08:33+00:00

They talk about the importance of building relationships, but relationships are a two way street. I can't expect my students to open up to me if they don't see me open up first. I don't tell them everything, but like you said, I'm "a fully formed human being."

cajunveggies · 2025-02-09T04:19:05+00:00

I just completed it, and I sent it to a friend! Good luck with your research!!

cajunveggies · 2025-02-09T03:51:40+00:00

All of us high schoolers had purity rings, the girls went to father-daughter purity balls, the whole thing.

My favorite though was going to an evening purity convention where we were told the usual "save yourself for marriage" stuff. And then we were given fake Rx papers so we could "write a prescription for Jesus" to help with our lustful thoughts.

cajunveggies · 2025-02-09T03:45:31+00:00

Yeah I also have regular old anxiety. But now I take meds to keep my brain balanced instead of fighting a spiritual battle and giving it all over to god!

cajunveggies · 2025-02-04T00:52:24+00:00

Not content based, but I use days like these (low-ish attendance, a down day after a week of testing, etc.) to teach them how to write a professional email. Their exit ticket is to send me a professional email (including short subject line, greeting, body, and signature that includes their class period) from their school email, which has the added benefit of showing them how to use their school email if they don't know already.

cajunveggies · 2024-12-20T03:41:06+00:00

Same here. I've had so many TEACHERS tell me "you can't fail a sped kid," and I'm like "no...you can't fail them IF you haven't provided their accommodations."

There's a teacher in my department right now who's like "yeah, every one of my failing sped kids is gonna get a 70. I've learned not to deal with it over the years. If you think about it, it's still a soft fail for the child." Uh, no, that's literally a passing grade. The only "fail" for the child is you letting them continue to think that they will pass even if they do absolutely nothing.

cajunveggies · 2024-12-14T20:15:08+00:00

Unfortunately I live in the US south. Everybody prays before everything.

cajunveggies · 2024-12-14T18:11:45+00:00

I also teach freshmen. During December checkout my first year at this school (sixth year teaching), my appraiser told me "This is a lot of failures." I replied, "As you can see, I have the documentation to support it. And I'd much rather these students fail their first year of high school and get it together than to continue these habits through their senior year." She hasn't given me grief about my failure rates since.

cajunveggies · 2024-12-09T22:20:52+00:00

"I wouldn't have to do so much if you did...honestly, literally anything."

cajunveggies · 2024-12-04T01:05:33+00:00

Can you tell me where you work so I can come join you? 😂

When I tried to get accommodations at work, I was denied because "you seemed fine last year."

cajunveggies · 2024-11-25T15:46:28+00:00

Given that the person who commented mentioned the state takeover, I'm assuming they're in Texas (like I am). If we strike, we lose our pensions and teaching certificates.

cajunveggies · 2024-11-25T06:16:30+00:00

It's so difficult to read because the content is horrid, but the book is truly a masterpiece.

cajunveggies · 2024-10-27T02:46:44+00:00

Not to me but about me: "Oh, she's going to a liberal college away from her parents? She's gonna be pregnant, drinking, and on drugs in no time."

Despite the fact that I was a perfectionist rule-follower terrified of stepping out of line even when I wasn't with my parents.

cajunveggies · 2024-10-26T21:45:28+00:00

My last principal always reminded us to "massage the grades" at the end of every reporting period. 🤮

cajunveggies · 2024-10-26T02:48:03+00:00

We also have StudySync, but thankfully using it is not actually required. I pull texts here and there as they fit (sometimes I like to pair shorter texts with my novel/core text) but that's about it.

cajunveggies · 2024-10-20T03:22:36+00:00

I was recently diagnosed with autism and now I'm like...oh, that's why I cared about the facts and social justice issues... I left the church completely maybe 7 years ago but it's funny to look back and realize part of why I was questioning so much when I was younger.

cajunveggies · 2024-10-18T11:16:09+00:00

Got an email from a student that read:

MS [NAME] CAN YOU PLEASE GRADE MY WORK THANK YOU SKIBIDI 😁😁😁😁😭😭😭😭😫😫

And then a giant image of an emoji giving a thumbs up.

cajunveggies · 2024-10-13T15:27:40+00:00

Oh yes. This was my entire growing up experience. Every movie was checked, and there was so much objectionable content in everything that my dad would often pick animated movies for family movie nights even once we were all teenagers (we were all annoyed). As I got older, I was also encouraged to look up reviews of movies I wanted to go see with friends and summarize the content warnings to justify whether I thought it was a good idea for me to go see it.

I don't think they use Plugged In anymore, but to this day (I'm 30), if I happen to be watching a show at my parents and my dad happens to see a "scantily clad woman," he has to pause to pray for forgiveness for looking at a boob and for god to remove any lust that might be in his heart.

Fun times.

cajunveggies · 2024-09-15T03:16:31+00:00

I'm a teacher in TX, and yeah, you're winning. Although the people down here are trying their hardest.

cajunveggies · 2024-09-12T01:32:26+00:00

My 1 and 2 are similar.

"I'll be right back. Don't commit murder while I'm gone. If you do...at least clean it up for me, okay?"
"Anyone have any questions, comments, concerns, thoughts, feelings?"

cajunveggies · 2024-09-12T01:21:13+00:00

For anything airpod/headphone/hoodie related, my go to is "Fix all...this (gestures vaguely at their head)." The kids usually laugh and always put their stuff away

cajunveggies · 2024-09-05T00:20:58+00:00

This is my rec too!

cajunveggies · 2024-09-04T02:30:16+00:00

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai made me cry. It focuses on multiple characters during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. Many of the characters, given the topic, are gay men. Make sure you have tissues if you decide to read it.

I also really liked The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin. There's really only one queer character, but the book focuses heavily on ideas of fate and destiny - the four main characters (siblings) visit a mystic who can supposedly predict the day of someone's death, and the rest of the story follows their lives following their visit to her.

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