My mum was the same as Mrs. Wooley's. She would say, "nothing's broken, bleeding and your fever is below 102°, you're going to school." To my mum's defense, I was a hypochondriac as a child BUT one morning I had a 101° fever and felt horrible. My grandmother (who took me to school) said I shouldn't go, but my mum insisted. I threw up in the nurse's office and she made my mum come get me. I had chicken pox. In 6th grade. (Yes, had them twice as a child, and vaccine didn't exist when I was born, but still got 'em a third time).
When I was a kid my mom wouldn’t let me stay home unless I had a temperature so I used to take the thermometer and hold it against the lightbulb on my lamp or a run really hot water it got me busted though because it’s not possible to have an 105 temperature and not die
@@French_Wench Definitely possible. I've had one and my parents didn't even know until they took it because I was acting normal for the most part. I just wasn't hungry and a little more tired. 105-108 is life threatening. 108 amd above is basically immediately fatal.
Had a 1st grade student who could *only* have access to crayons because he'd try to stab people with anything sharp. Also caught him choking another student. When I asked him why, he clearly and directly said "I told them I was going to kill them, so I tried to kill them" as if it was the most obvious, normal thing in the world. Kids are wild man.
Ahhhh as a preschool teacher I feeeeelll Mr. Williams on a whole level!! These kids don’t understand our social norms and their fights are intense. Scratching and biting are the most typical reasons for my indecent reports.
My mom was the same way about being sick. I had a severe migraine and my mom didn’t believe me. I ended up passing out in the bathroom during government class. I told the teacher I was going to pass out and since I didn’t want to do it in class said I needed to go to the bathroom. He let me go instead of saying not a good idea. A few minutes later he sent some other students to check on me and they found me on the bathroom floor. My mom yelled at me for having to come get me since she had to turn around in 2 hours and pick up my siblings.
@@potatokink3318 sadly this was one of many. Finally at 43 I’m realizing some things and have cut off contact as of 6 weeks ago. Sadly she hasn’t noticed or bothered reaching out to my hubby as to why she can’t reach me.
I’m seeing so many parallels between working in healthcare and working in education. Especially regarding the mistreatment of teachers and keeping the kids in the classroom
Story time: when I was in high school, my father was the intern nurse for a week during his clinicals. Him and my mom never believed our school was as bad as we always told them about. He joined me at lunch one of the days and told me how he got called to a fight that broke out between two girls and it was so bad, like the two would not stop trying to go at each other that they actually broke the gym teacher’s arm and the safety officer was forced to pepper spray them. My dad had to flush their eyes with milk from the cafeteria while they waited on the police to come get them and he said he couldn’t be a school nurse after that.
Worst part about that story is the gym teacher could have probably protected him/herself but would have been fired and arrested for assaulting minors which is kinda bullshit since some "Minors" are 6'3" 200+ lbs.
@sewer~rat shouldn't matter. Minor or not they know what they are doing and hide behind the fact that adults can't defend themselves against them. If a minor comes at you like an adult you should be allowed to put them down like an adult. I'll be damned if I let some snot nosed kid put me in a cast of 6 months.
I discovered this podcast this week and had already gone through the four episodes. Y’all are hilarious and make me laugh. As a future teacher and student teacher, I find your honesty to be so helpful and also was exited that that I found a podcast relating to teachers.
@@pizzapartytime1826 I completely understand there are some situations where kids have a disability that can cause issues and usually they have an IEP and a safety plan to help address that
Some of these "wild children" would benefit from trauma informed educators. As a foster mom I see many of these behaviors and know that addressing them through a trauma lense would dramatically change outcomes.
Im so glad the second on the left, moved to 5th grade, 2nd grade requires less teaching and more naturing. She seems like a really good english teacher but would agree 💯
Right???? I teach the type of children you foster. It’s not pretty. It’s pretty ugly. But the moments of their successes, or a goal even if soooo tiny is met… and on the journey of achieving a goal…. Makes it WORTH the 90% tough stuff we encompass in my room. And my aides which to me are equals or even above me as the teacher are huge in the dedication. I’m currently w the 2 most incredible supports and when we celebrate for the kids…. That feeling is undesirable and we often have no words. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Most kids are doing the best with what they have. Idk why people think shame, fear and guilt is a better motivator than respect, stability and firm but kind encouragement.
Speaking of bathroom problems, I remember being in 2nd or 3rd grade and my principal had a school-wide meeting about how you shouldn’t POKE YOUR HEAD UNDER THE STALL DOOR TO SEE IF ITS YOUR FRIEND
Also, DID patients are almost never violent, DID arises from severe severe trauma and most suffers are severely withdrawn and afraid. The portrayal of violence in them in social media and movies is grossly wrong most of the time. Typically for someone w DID to be violent there is a co existing diagnosis causing it. that kid also portrayed more anti social personality disorder. Aka a sociopath. Or at least one of his personalities being anti social if he did really have DID.
Loved the stories about fights. I went to a HS in MS...they had a 'no tolerance policy and would call the cops and you were arrested. Also, even if you didn't throw a punch you would be suspended...therefore, there were like 3 fights a year. This was a suburban school, IDK why they were so insane about it.
I had this same thing at my school. It was such a small town and district that elementary, middle and high school were all in the same building of course elementary was sectioned off but their only exception was those who had disabilities/mental health issues. They had their own classrooms and teachers, it was mostly to help them develop social skills and coping strategies, but they would sometimes be intertwined with all of the other kids and they would have their own teachers to help guide them. And Mrs.r mentioned the a kid who you can’t tell them what to do walking in the hall and she had no idea. These teachers were always around to accompany these children everywhere they went so things like this wouldn’t happen. And that’s another reason our policies were so affective. Except we had big drug issues but that’s a different story
@@alexshaw8167 It really didn’t work. But that’s also because they did not want students a.k.a. human beings to have any sort of emotion that wasn’t pleasant and perfect 24 seven. People would often have a fight in a bathroom instead of the commons area. And that meant that the fights were more vicious. I personally saw a girl grabbed by the back of the head and her head rammed into a hand dryer. People are going to fight especially when they are minors why are you going to have them arrested and have a permanent record established?
@@rachelingrisano9055 I mean I’m never been in a fight because it’s not worth it. Just because I’m upset and mad doesn’t give me the right to punch someone which is illegal…
As teachers we all have stories. I am an online only history teacher for K-12 and then I am also an adjunct history professor. I don't have a lot of issues with my k-12 kids. But I actually had college students rage and throw things and threaten me when I wouldn't extend a dead line for an obvious lie or I had already extended it 5 times. But still we teach because no matter what we love these kids
I am from Germany, and I always thought that the "take your baby/pack of flour/egg" project was a made up thing from kids shows like Kim possible. It's so weird to me that that's really part of school for Americans...
I had to do it for 2nd year of high school. For my class it was a 10-pound flour bag and if you had twins they were 5 pounds. I had twins (one was named Kermit) and I had to make a sling from a curtain to carry them around campus. That's my experience and it was fine, but the knot on the makeshift sling did dig into my shoulder XD
y’all with the bags are lucky, i had one of the robot ones and that thing is a fucking demon. tip to any kids that have to do this. if you can set a quiet time, set it in the middle of the night. if your a heavy sleeper the cry might not wake you up unless the thing is like right next to you in bed. at least in my school it’s basically a psa to not get pregnant in high school.
20:25 just an FYI, it is EXTREMELY rare for some with DID to have an alter that wants to hurt another person. Persecuters, the "evil" or "mean" alters, 9.5 times out of 10 want to harm themselves or other alters, not other people
Just found out one of my best friends is Mr Williams cousin!!! I was watching some of your teaching shorts & this is the first time seeing the podcast. She got me watching his videos recently,& i LLLOOVVE him!!!
My family called my younger sibling "honey badger" cause they would bite me or my parents whenever they got mad. They would be the complete opposite at school, just the kindest 3 year old ever.
I remember in second grade there was this girl who went on a full on rampage flipped all the desks over spitting on our teacher throwing chairs. I remember we came back and the whole class was completely turned upside down. I’m 33 and still remember that.
I can't be the only one that absolutely loves the "Absolutely Not" of it all. It should be their merch. I'd buy a hoodie that said Absolutely Not with yalls logo on the back. I hear it from you guys all the time, and it's definitely a teacher thing, and I love it. Example: 34:30
It concerns me that in middle school I don’t always feel safe. I want to feel safe in a learning environment. I honestly think that school districts could try to find a way to make us feel safer and less stressed. If the environment had less stress and tension would help with the anxiety and there might be less fighting.
I used to be a Pre-K teacher and I am in the middle of choosing between going to school for teaching or nursing. Love love love this podcast and appreciate you all ❤️!
I'd say go for teaching although we could use more nurses. There is definitely a burnout factor in both jobs. Depends what type of nurse you wanted to be. I was an EMT for a year and got burnt out myself. I have major respect for RN's working in the ER or Trauma Units.
That’s why special needs teachers are a different breed. My son has autism, and when he first started school at five he was just diagnosed because we had to sit in a waiting list for almost two years for the specialist. He was super aggressive, but also super cuddly. He just didn’t understand tolerating waiting and because he is nonverbal he just didn’t understand things, or how to communicate that. His teacher was amazing. This woman, who is a super close friend now, is barely five foot and she handles kids k-5 with autism and other neurological issues that can be very aggressive, and she never loses her temper or gives up on a kid. She deserves a freaking medal. I have so much respect for what she does.
I think you should do questions that people have about teachers and like what to do if so and so happens for people who want to become teachers. That would be awesome
I love this podcast. It brings back so many memories from being a student myself and is good to have inside knowledge for my son who is about to start school.
I have kind of this same thing happening at my school as when Mrs. Rogers said that the one kid would hit teachers and wouldn't get in trouble or anything. There is this kid in my grade (7th grade) and he keeps on threatening to r*pe my friend and other girls in our grade and when my friend and this other girl went and told the principal (also a girl) about what was happening she didn't do anything about it and all the punishment he got was ISS and it wasn't even for that. Then there was another girl who went to the principal about the same thing because he said "I am going to r*pe you after school and then beat you up afterwards and there is nothing you can do about it". The principal didn't do anything. This is the same kid who also threatened to shoot up our school dance and does drugs all the time. They said they can't do anything about it because all these texts where over Snapchat so there isn't anything they can do. Tell me how that makes sense. Then one of the other girls who he also did this to was scared to show the principal the screenshots she had of what he was saying because she was defending herself and swearing at him and she thought that because of what she was saying to him the principal was going to turn it on her and she was going to get in trouble. This is the reality of the world now. Girls and boys with r*pe being threatened apon them and no one doing anything about it. The principal literally told those three girls that came forward that if it was bothering them then they should just get a restraing order. This is the same person who if you were to wear a spaghetti strap you would get detention.
I knew a guy that would manipulate vulnerable girls into being his friend or girlfriend and then horribly abuse them. I was one of his victims, he almost r*ped me. He targeted my own sister who was 14 at the time. He targeted tons of other girls in the school, no matter their age. When a group of the victims got tired of him getting away with it (cuz almost every time he was reported) the school gave him a slap on the wrist, forced the victims to sit in a meeting with him and his parents without warning and without the change for the victims parents to be there and of the victim said no, she was shamed and bullied by the school for "being a coward". After all this happened, he got suspended one day and his mom got him a puppy. Mind you, I looked her in the eyes and told her that her son tried to r*pe me in her living room.
I have twin 6yr girls and they are constantly fighting and clobbering the crap out of each other. This started at like one, I had one that was a biter to get her way.
Can you guys talk about Florida’s “Don’t say Gay” bill amendment? It would require schools in Florida to out students. I believe this would be a terrible bill to pass, and I want to hear your opinions. Also, this podcast is great!
Obviously you didn’t read the bill. Number one it’s not called they don’t say gay Bill. Number two nowhere in the Bill doesn’t say anything about teachers having to out students. It essentially blocks teachers from talking about sexual orientation up until the fourth grade. Maybe try learning to think for yourself and go in and read these bills instead of listening to CNN.
They were talking about how you can’t talk about sexualities and stuff AND they are trying or maybe did pass a genital inspection bill because of trans people in sports
The bill isn't even called "Don't Say Gay." The word "gay" isn't mentioned in the bill at all. I would recomed you read the entire thing before bashing it. The bill is to prohibit conversations related to sexual topics for children up until the third grade. The bill isn't coming after anyone, it is giving the parents control over when the discussion of sex is raised to their child. No child needs to have the conversation about sexuality until they are at least in fifth grade. Also, it is helping ensure there is a separtion of church and state. Many parents don't feel comfortable with ther child having sex related consersations in elementary school. In fact, such discussions are not supposed to be in schools in the first place. Schools are for children to learn their basic subjects-- math, science, social studies, and english-- and the rest is up to parents to educate their child.
The story that mrs.wooly told about a kid throwing desks and chairs sounds exactly what happened to me in my second grade class the ptsd that I get from hearing that story is immaculate. 💀✋
I work in childcare and have had some crazy kids for sure. Thankfully this summer hasn't been too bad, but I've had kids who could flip full length tables when they were mad 😩
My wild childs were always the kids of gentle parenters. If they're in my classroom, they will learn to act in school and in public according to me whether you like it or not lol
So as a senior in high school, who is about to go to college to be a teacher, I adore these stories. They give me idea of what is to come when I'm a teacher and I'm honestly nervous but excited for it
One time our repair man at school left his mini chain saw unattended very stupid on his parent. Well a student stole it and they had to such all the backpacks until they found it in a kids backpack. Like what.
Lauren's story was my entire school (literally). I worked in a behavioral school for 3 years. Mind you I've worked in residential treatment and psych hospitals with kids and teens for many years before this school. This school made me quit education, it was so bad. It went from K-12. I worked with the 8th graders then I moved to 3rd grade. The 3rd graders were HORRIBLE. It was especially bad because the administration refused to move the worst kids (so they weren't all in one class). Nope. We had to have like 6 kids who would fight every single day and trigger everyone else in the class. It was a full shit show every day. The classroom would get torn up and book shelves went flying. And administration wouldn't suspend the students either and the parents were zero help. We kept saying this is causing our students trauma coming to school every day waiting for a blow out fight and is not helping our anxious kids. We got no support (except from the Psychiatrist and a hand full of the therapists). Believe me the day I resigned was the happiest of my life (even though as an educator we do really love our kids so that was bittersweet).
As a sub I have had to put myself between a student going off and the other students. It’s sad but as a sub you have to learn the schools that won’t come and support and help so you never have to go back.
27 years ago they had no problem breaking up fight. I was a teen who didn’t start the fight but defended my self. We got pulled off and escorted to the office. They did make sure that they could control the situation. I was not a small teen 5”8 170 so a male teacher grabbed me and had four teachers escort us to the office. We both suspended principal knew the other was the aggressive one but had no choice.
Accidents that happened at my school throughout the years: -A kid stapled another kids hand -two girls in pe we’re running and bumped into eachother knocking one girls tooth and in lodging it into the other girls forehead -had half my class out for the day bc they puked in class (literally in 2 hours half of my kinder class had each taken their turn puking) -had a kid in middle school fight another kid and slam his head into an open file cabinet causing him to bleed everywhere -someone fall from the stairs -someone jump 3 story flight of stairs -someone stand up on a table, yell, and then chug a can of cold beans on the second day of school -had fbi called on the school when the drill team had a lock in for the night -had a kid in hs get stabbed in the neck with a pencil over drugs and couldn’t speak for months -had my history teacher in hs get fired for saying racist comments -had a lockdown bc something in wood shop class exploded and everyone thought they were gonna die -a staff kid decided to microwave mac n cheese in class, forgot to add water, then had it catch on fire and made the whole class sit out watch fire trucks pull up to the school -someone brought a bullet to school and made weird off hand comments about harming people and didn’t think it was “that big of a deal” -one of our hs teachers accidentally sent a pic of her bruised butt to her class remind and later apologized saying she meant to send it to her doctor. -had a teacher shave her legs in class -a girl in 3rd grade fell off the monkey bars and broke her arm (bone sticking out) and all the students watched as my teacher had to carry both parts of her arm to get help. Yeah those are all the ones I remember, but there’s plenty more lol
I took it in sophomore year. I had the baby that only woke me up at 2am. But I was about to trip over my dog so I let the baby fall because I'm not sacrificing my real dog for a robot
I am not a teacher but I love listening to you guys!! I would love to see an episode that can help parent talk to teacher. I am always having trouble talking to the teacher.
In elementary my classes were split classes meaning you had two grades in one class, like kinder and 1st in a class, 2 and 3, 4 and 5. So in in 2nd grade, this third grade kid told the teacher he was going to the bathroom and ran away from school. The rest of the day there were police officers asking kids from my class about him, and we just played on the playground the rest of the day. It turned out he had walked back to his house because “he was bored and wanted to watch tv” can’t explain how fun that afternoon was, besides the part where we had to talk to police officers and the fact that he ran away
Wait are you serious??? That's ridiculous! The project sucked in general honestly. My teacher pretty much told us that the project was the "only kind of birth control we will ever need" and the boys only had to do the project like three nights while the girls had to for two weeks. Turns out she wasn't supposed to do that and is never allowed to do that project again. Like she wasn't supposed to have us do it at all.
I teach in a sped SEL 4 & 5th grd contained class and these kids are usually the kids with behavior issues. I’m so used to being a class where desks get thrown shelves get cleared and where we have to clear the room. I’ve been bitten a few times and one time, this year actually, a student ran at me and I didn’t have enough time to brace myself and she knocked me into a lg file cabinet and I went down hard. I was fine but it definitely shook me.
Why I don't miss teaching AT ALL. I was a specialist and had all the kids in the elementary schools, sometimes including PreK. Student violence and disrespect was a constant at any grade level.
Some teachers are truly amazing. Shout out to my 3rd grade teacher who dealt with me learning I had ADHD and starting to take medicine that made me super impulsive and violent. Any teacher who recognizes that a students behavior is because of new medicine and takes them to get help rather than just punish them is a miracle. Even if it was because I threw a book at her head, which is completely deserving of being suspended
Someone stole the mirror from the boys bathroom because of some trend where you take the belongings of teachers and no one knows knows who took it. Also this was during school hours.
Related to Mrs. Rogers’ story about not being able to tell a student what to do… I was a building sub in a school where the music teacher got a severe concussion (not at work) 2 weeks after I started. As the music teacher, you get EVERY student in school, and the ones who are supposed to be “accompanied” actually will be about 50% of the time. A student came in 15 minutes late one day, stomping all over the room and ignoring my verbal redirection, so I approached him & gently touched his shoulder to get his attention. He blew up on me as a para finally came over to intervene. A couple of hours later, his case manager stormed in while I was teaching to confront me that his IEP said things that would have his mom up in arms, potentially trying to sue someone. HONESTLY??? I should have been shown IEPs & BIPs!!! Fortunately, she realized her mistake & apologized to me, but this was ridiculous. And we wonder why there’s such a shortage of subs…
There needs to be consequences for behavior. When I was young (long, long ago), this kind of stuff wasn't allowed. You hit a teacher, if you're LUCKY, you got suspended for weeks. If you're unlucky, you got straight up expelled and sent off to the alternative schools. Behavior plan? Forget that. This behavior just wasn't allowed. Period. Special needs kids were placed in special classes, separate from the other students and supervised constantly. The in-school suspension kids were supervised like a prison chain gang. Even in rural Kansas, this kind of behavior would have gotten you in BIG trouble. You weren't allowed to attack teachers, and if you had mental health issues then you didn't go to a normal school and endanger others. (Granted, in high school, one of classmates did take a poop in the top drawer of a teacher's desk over lunch hour because he had an argument with the teacher about being allowed to go to the bathroom and spend the whole class hour hanging out in the boys restroom - he hated English class... who doesn't? I grew up to be a writer, and I hated English class. I'm pretty sure every kid did. It was mindless and boring and they were always trying to make you read horrible "Newbury Honors" books everyone hated. - But Admin couldn't prove who did it so they couldn't assign consequences... Everyone totally knew who did it, though. XD But punch a teacher? Naw, no way anyone would've have gotten away with that!) It seems like we need to balance out the desire to help kids improve their behavioral issues with the needs of other students and teachers to be safe at school. Those kids who can't control themselves need a course correction. Allowing them to become adults who think they can get away with hitting people because of their "Behavioral Plan" is going to land them in JAIL for assault, where they do NOT care what your "Behavioral Plan" might be. That's not doing them any favors in the long run, if you ask me.
I had a similar experience with the whole escaping the classroom thing due to another student when I was in second grade. I remember that it never went to the extent of us leaving the classroom because they didn't want it to "disrupt our learning" but it was pretty hard to learn when we were watching our classmate hit and scream at our old nun teacher. I even remember almost about 6 teachers and our principal being in charge of getting him to calm down from his rage. Us little second graders used to call them "the teacher squad" 😭😭
As teachers, we have to be careful breaking up fights because if you break up a fight and the student is trying to get you, they can report you that you hurt them. It sucks because you don't want anyone getting hurt, but you can get into legal trouble if the child gets hurt from you trying to break up a fight. So unless you're an expert at breaking up fights and the school has your back, try not to break up fights and call admin to help. Hearing these wild child stories makes me think of the one I had where a 2nd grade girl was jabbing at her eraser. Her finger was next to the eraser and I guess after jabbing a few times, she missed the eraser and jabbed at her finger on accident. I was somewhere in the room helping kids with their math problems, so when I got 2-3 kids come up to me to tell me that the girl was bleeding from her finger. My first thought was "oh it's probably a papercut." I went to go check and she was gushing blood from her finger with lots of tears in her face. Everyone in the class were good students, so I ordered a student to go to another teacher to get a bandaid, and I had another one help wipe the blood and sanitize. Like I mentioned, I had good students, so I told them to wash their hands right after. Otherwise, I would do it myself because you don't want kids messing with blood. I was calm throughout the whole thing because you want students to know they can also stay calm in scary situations. She ended up being ok and after she stopped crying, she explained to me what happened. It was kind of bizarre because you don't imagine that kind of stuff happening in a classroom your 1st year of teaching.
As a DID system, we dislike how and when you mentioned the one student is suspected of having DID since not a lot of people know it's caused by severe repeated trauma and it's more stigmatized that way but to those who are getting to see our comment, most systems are not dangerous and tend to go back into the abused/victim role in situations so it scares us to wonder how much trauma that kid/system must have gone through for that to be their reaction. And we mean the first half of our comment in a very respectful way, this is nothing against you guys we love y'all a lot!
As a preschool teacher I’m lucky at my current school that my students are just mean with words and nit hands but I taught older toddlers and had a couple wild childs that almost made me quit from constant stress and being hurt everyday. Including bites, scratches, hitting, and being kicked so hard in the sternum I got a cracked rib
Them talking about some of their students hitting teachers when I would have NEVER hit any of my teachers from kindergarten to college, it baffles me the different struggles that teachers (and maybe students) are struggling with in current times….
I've seen so many things as a volunteer in special needs programs. One kid was a teen, he had special needs and he had this talent of perfect pitch. He'd get very aggravated if anyone sang out of tune. The story we were told was he got aggravated but his one to one got him calm. Then out of nowhere he grabbed his aids thumb and tugged HARD. He pulled so hard he severed all the tendons and ligaments in the aids thumb. It ended up the man needing major surgery and couldn't come back for almost a year because of physical therapy with relearning to use his hand/arm. Obviously you can't blame the kid because he was confused after and remorseful for losing his aid. But it is a danger you can have regardless depending on the student.
I am a retired RN an have been hurt by patients but heard this week that violent and physical patients have come out more this past year and nurses can’t not do anything to them.
One time in like 5th grade recess this girl threw a ball at this boy and he was kinda a fighter like he would fight anyone but anyways he literally grabbed her by her ponytail and started swinging her around. It was crazy.
It is good to have a reset room for students who can advocate for themselves to process cognitive techniques so they can get back to class with a fresh view. A corrective action plan/ community service/ goal tracking could help children who need to reconcile their misbehavior with punitive measures that have positive outcomes.
Yes! All this. My kids wouldnt be in any type of school setting where there wasn’t a reset or resource room they could go to rebalance their sensory overload and emotions.
I teach 3 year old preschool and Tell is absolutely right; it’s about that time where we start seeing behaviors pop up because these kiddos don’t understand social cues and can’t self-regulate. I had a class about 5 years ago with 2 kids who would just start tearing apart my room, throwing blocks at each other, knocking shelves over, jumping off furniture. I would have to get on the walkie to call for help, wait for my boss or someone else to come to my room, all while trying to keep the other kids in my class safe, and somehow sound completely calm on the walkie talkie. I’ve had runners, hitters, biters, kickers, kids who turn the chairs over and start running over them. My class this year were all born in 2020 and I’ve been working with them on their social emotional skills, but they are on the struggle bus! And then you have my state’s wonderful governor who’s trying to defund our AEA’s which would take away so many of our resources for these kids who need IEPs and behavior plans.
There was a really bad fight in our school, and our math teacher LITERALLY JUMPED OVER DESKS YELLING "GET OUT OF THE WAY! MOVE OIT OF THE WAY!" just to stop the fight. Also the kids are like 7th and 8th grade boys so they're pretty big.
Yes. As a daycare teacher, I get hurt by kids all the time, especially kids with behavior issues. We can't tell parents we think their kids needs certain kinds of help though. We can notify nad update about behavior in like the 2s and 3s rooms but that's it.
One of my favorite teacher of all time was kind of like Bree. She was my 5th grade teacher and had come out of retirement to help out. She was probably 70+ years old at the time. We watched her catch a fly in mid-air and let it go out the window, but we also knew she was a practicing black belt. So when she would say in the calmest tone, "kid x and kid y, of you want to go home with all your ligaments attached I suggest you stop talking." We believed she could do it. But at the same time she was this nice, little old lady.
I have two kids, seven and four, and never knew that about restaurant high chairs. And I did work in a restaurant at one point... Always just sat the car seat on the floor next to my seat.
Also i was the calm child who when i was not having a good day. Me and my teachers were close enough that they knew just by looking at my face so they made sure i was left alone and let me just be to myself in my space. One day i came into my advisory period and was not in a great mood and just wanted to be left alone and this girl who sat in front of me wouldn’t leave me alone and kept messing with me and even after the teacher warned her to leave me alone and i warned her; she kept going. So my switch flipped and i flipped my entire desk over onto the student in front of me .
the baby robot thing is so funny to me because at my school they had the baby thing in senior year and in my class there was a girl who had a baby in 9th grade and asked the teacher "can i bring my 3 year old daughter instead?"
