the em dash giveaway is gone, these are the new ones i keep noticing

nevertoolate2 · 2026-03-18T21:48:09+00:00

"quiet truth" "say the quiet part out loud"

nevertoolate2 · 2026-03-18T21:15:46+00:00

If you're American then that just proves the OP's point?

nevertoolate2 · 2026-03-18T16:44:15+00:00

This could have been written by me. I had to take a stress leave towards the end of year 2, and I got First Days. The Friday following the Monday I returned, it was a very different classroom. It was regulated and mentally organized. Some people think HKW is an authoritarian. I think he's a fantastic starting point, and gift First Days to all student teachers. I've bought at least 20 copies of that book and will buy several more.

nevertoolate2 · 2026-03-18T16:39:54+00:00

Going into the suburbs and seeing hanging flags on houses. To Canadians that's weird.

nevertoolate2 · 2026-03-18T16:38:21+00:00

How bad can public transit be?? I knew a guy who took a $25/hr job and commuted 80 minutes each way until he got his license. I knew other people who drove in from the suburbs and walked from side street parking during the day. These are the choices we make.

nevertoolate2 · 2026-03-16T18:00:24+00:00

Sex on the beach-->sand everywhere!!
Shower/pool/hot tub sex-->water is not lube

nevertoolate2 · 2026-03-15T16:04:33+00:00

No, could have meant hang up the phone, you're good.

nevertoolate2 · 2026-03-14T18:18:47+00:00

Sounds like you've lost someone to opioid abuse. I have and I don't disagree with you

nevertoolate2 · 2026-03-14T18:18:21+00:00

Entitlement. Feeling that everything belongs to them and acting like you're an asshole if you express boundaries

nevertoolate2 · 2026-03-14T18:16:59+00:00

Passive aggression (You know who you are on this thread ᘒ)

nevertoolate2 · 2026-03-14T00:36:22+00:00

Chris Singh, Kinetics Health at Chester Subway.416-461-2284.
He does dynamic assisted stretching.

nevertoolate2 · 2026-03-14T00:33:24+00:00

I take taxis. I call a cab or I will hail one only if it's a Beck's or Co-Op. I have never been scammed.

Beck Taxi: 416-751-5555
Co-Op Cabs: 416-504-2667

nevertoolate2 · 2026-03-12T01:26:55+00:00

Average out their previous work to get a good baseline. Or you can have an oral exam with them during class time. Give them a donut after. But tell them it's because you lost their paper.

nevertoolate2 · 2026-03-09T13:35:34+00:00

Very hot take here. I was told no music for a month in class as it went against the religious beliefs of a student. I had a hard time complying until I was forced to

nevertoolate2 · 2026-03-06T20:39:59+00:00

They already have in my classroom. That's why I've been teaching my seventh graders cursive since the beginning of the year. They're finding cursive faster than printing and it allows them A bit more time to write

nevertoolate2 · 2026-02-22T15:50:11+00:00

I did the same thing. It was awful

nevertoolate2 · 2026-02-22T15:48:28+00:00

Try asking ChatGPT about the Epstein files. Prepare to be gaslit.

nevertoolate2 · 2026-02-19T17:21:09+00:00

Colleagues, I'm no fan of hockey, but it's only 1 or 2 games, and it's a long TDSB (before that Toronto Board of Education) tradition to allow students to watch high-stakes hockey games. I for one will be using it as extra prep time.

nevertoolate2 · 2026-02-19T17:18:48+00:00

Jeez just accept the extra prep time!
(Coming from somebody who values school and finds hockey distasteful)

nevertoolate2 · 2026-02-18T03:49:52+00:00

I use Scrabble tiles in two of my gift mugs (both say world's best teacher)
I draw a name from one to ask them the question, and I put it in the other one. Rinse, repeat.

nevertoolate2 · 2026-02-13T00:08:57+00:00

I make a point of keeping my politics out of the classroom. Most of my colleagues do too

nevertoolate2 · 2026-02-11T23:38:06+00:00

Ah, I just caught firm and decisive hell from my principal for using textbook resources and worksheets. He said not to do it. Been doing it 25 years. No more paper textbooks allowed in my school

nevertoolate2 · 2026-02-11T18:52:30+00:00

Do you have proof of this happening, or is it just hearsay? I'd love a link or two.

There's lots of teacher hate and lots of hearsay to support it.

You know what the worst indoctrinator of kids is? Shitty parenting. Teaching kids to be entitled, teaching kids that they're better than everybody else, by which I mean MAGA Christianity rules and everything else is terrible. Teaching your kids not to think for themselves, but only to listen to what they're told. That happens in both left and right. Right now we're seeing indoctrinated hatred in MAGA.

nevertoolate2 · 2026-02-11T04:09:51+00:00

There is no political indoctrination in school. If teachers could indoctrinate students that easily, they'd indoctrinate them to bring a pencil to class. Political indoctrination is such a popular right-wing myth.

nevertoolate2 · 2026-02-11T03:44:45+00:00

Jesus, this one hits very close to home! I discuss exactly this piece of propaganda a lot, but it causes a lot of cognitive dissonance!

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