Hilarious Teacher FAILS... That's Right, We're Only Human! 

My ss teacher when we were learning about the Declaration of Independence she said she found a letter in her room and read it to the whole class and it was this really juicy thing like “your to controlling and never let me talk to my friends” then at the end she said it had a name signed and it said “the 13 colonies” hahaha favorite teacher ever!!!!

I loved Ms. Richardson's comment on "unseasoned chicken vibes" in the last episode

The year I lost my brother, I would cry all night so that I could be strong for my parents during the day. So, I would be so sleep deprived during the day. I’m grateful for my teachers that year because they knew I was going through a lot and let me sleep in class when I was done with notes and class work. I can’t imagine how I would have graduated without their support and the support of my classmates.

I went from a straight A student with perfect attendance to B or C’s while sleeping through half my classes. I’m not proud of it but I couldn’t help it. My mom was dating a very young man and he was throwing drug parties at my house daily ands when I wasn’t there my father was assaulting me. The only place I felt safe was at school. The only place I could safely sleep was at school. I legitimately did everything I could to stay awake. My world history teacher had me in tears. He didn’t teach. He turned off the lights, and read from notes he would project on the board. And I could not physically stay awake. He wouldn’t even let me sit and try to take notes. I had to stand in his class everyday and even then would fall asleep standing. And told me I was trash and didn’t deserve to pass.

I had a teacher who used to say the exact same thing, “Excuses are tools of incompetence used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness” I never forgot that quote 😄

I let my kids sleep if they fall asleep in class. Some of my kids are living on their own, working nights, sick, etc. In fairness, I have no kids who sleep all the time in my class. So I doubt I'd have the "just keep sleeping" policy if it was a daily problem.

When Ms. Woolly said that a school built in 1965 was "so old" i literally chuckled. In Poland we have sooo many schools built in either the 1910s and 1920s or the late 1940.

With the sleep conversation, I understand both sides. It's such a fine line sometimes, because it can be very context specific. If a child is being avoidant about participating as a way to disrespect you versus a child was taken to a homeless shelter the night before and literally can't keep their eyes open, in my opinion and practice, the response should be different. It's never easy as a teacher because you're always having to make quick judgement calls, because you have about thirty other sets of eyes watching you as a model. I also came from a very chaotic and abusive home environment. I remember we had nap time from preschool through first grade when I was a kid. I was always hypervigilent and kept myself awake so that I wouldn't be perceived as lazy. One time in 1st grade, I instantly passed out. I woke up when the final school bell was about to ring... three hours later. I was so embarassed. I kept apologizing and even cried. My teacher just patted me on the back and said it was okay. With that said, I am thankful for the strict teachers, but I am also thankful for the ones who saw my needs when I wasn't able to.

“If you mad you should put on a cape so you can be Super-Mad” bruh that had me dying 😂 I’m gonna use that one from now on! Bri and Tell have me crackin up every episode

“That’s some unseasoned chicken energy fr”had me dieing fr

You should talk about student fights and what to do. One of our favorite long term subs was fired due to not breaking up a fight fast enough according to the school. Keep in mind he is 75 and is recovering from cancer.

I would love that censorship simulation!!! I feel like it's a really great way to get kids thinking about the full effects of censorship. Also just a great way to mess with them a lil bit. 😂

I'm reading the comments right now and am seeing some about the sleeping conversation and I would just like to add my own experience. A few years ago I was falling asleep in class and the teacher would call me out in front of everybody, people would stare and judge, it was just an awful experience. But only after it got really bad did the teacher bother to ask me why I was falling asleep and couldn't concentrate, and the reason was that at the time, I was living in a very unstable, and at times abusive home, and sometimes it caused me to stay up at night. I told the teacher that my home wasn't exactly stable and she told me to keep my home life and school life separate. I continued having the teacher for the rest of the year, and things at home were just getting worse, but I had no one to turn to because my parents weren't available for this and I didn't feel supported by my teacher, so I kept things bottled up to the point where I had a mental breakdown at school. I developed unhealthy coping mechanisms such as self-harm and began to feel suicidal, these things affect me to this day, and I think that if I just felt like there was someone there for me, then perhaps things could've happened differently.

I slept in school everyday. I wish a teacher had contacted my guardians. (shelters/ youth homes/ foster homes from 9-18) I didn't think much of how tired I was as a teen but as an adult I was diagnosed with narcolepsy and several other sleep disorders.

I hate the fact that this podcast made me cry. I grew up in a tough situation and school was my only escape so seeing teachers talk about caring about their kids takes me back to when teachers who really didn't know stuck their neck out for me and now I'm in University and working on becoming an engineer and it really is because of them

I love listening to this podcast it definitely brings some relief knowing and hearing there are good teachers out there. I was abused and bullied by multiple teachers throughout my school years. It's daily work to not project my PTSD of school onto my kids and their teachers.

"Closest to uniforms without saying uniforms because then they'd have to provide them" Flashback to my middle to high school years where we had to wear uniforms, they were called uniforms, and yet we did not get even one set provided lmao. We had to buy them all ourselves and they were stupid expensive lol.

Ohio did have trailers in Dublin, some of my classes were out there and it was terrible in bad weather or if you had crutches. While it took longer to get there, we still only had 3 minutes between classes. Ours were a little different in that each class had its own small trailer verses a bigger one with 8 rooms.

I wish my social studies teacher was like mrs. rogers! Honestly all of you are fantastic. I love the passion you have for teaching.

We need more of mr willams. My daughter is in prek and I can’t get enough 😂

Can I have a tshirt saying "if you're mad, put on a cape to be SUPER mad" and at the back, a cape being simulated on the t-shirt. Thank you LOVE you guys!

As a mom of five.. I loved when teachers held my kids accountable for their actions.

One school year I had two class periods with 38 students, but only had 35 desks. On days that all of them showed up, I had them sit at my desk and a beanbag I brought from home. Then, was told it was a fire hazard to have so many desks in a class that was only to hold 30 max. 🤷🏼‍♀️

21:51 me totally not playing the sims while I'm listening... My one teacher would let us put our heads down because none of us really did it and she knew I would get really bad headaches to the point where the light would bother my eyes. So she would just let me put my head down for a little while because she knew I still got my work done.

On the sleeping thing, for me personally, I hardly ever sleep in class but I have insomnia so when I get less sleep then I normally do (it's been so long that I can function normally on 5-6hrs but less than that and I'll be tired) I will doze off in my classes. My teachers understand their I have insomnia and so they won't bug me too much about it, unless we're doing something important

Oh my gosh Bri's super mad joke had me CACKLING 😂

The one thing I would like to mention about the excuses comment from Bri is that some students may be going through a tricky family scenario. That means that even if asked about home life they will not say anything out of fear and so therefore appear to be fine. Going to the parent is not always the answer especially in middle school or high school years. In that case, calling the parent may even cause fear for the child but the teacher will never know. The student may have learned very well how to act and be going through severe anxiety. I don’t know, I just hope students out there are getting the help they need.

In basically all of high school I'd have certain classes where I just couldn't stay awake, but it wasn't for a lack of trying. My bus came at 6:45am and the first bell rang at 7:30am, and no matter how early I went to bed, I just could not wake up with enough time to gather myself and get ready properly. I developed depression and (more severe) anxiety because of the stress of trying to stay on top of everything; I already had issues eating enough before high school, and my body started reacting to the change in sleep. I got nauseous if I woke up before 7, and if I was nauseous I wouldn't eat breakfast, and if I didn't eat breakfast, I'd be a hangry wreck. If for some reason my mom let me sleep in and drove me to school, I'd get a late pass (despite having documentation from my various medical providers confirming that I had legitimate struggles with food and sleep). One year I eventually accrued so many late passes that I got a detention. Through middle & high school I also ended up spending most of my time in the nurse office to wait out my panic attacks, because teachers would get suspicious if kids were in the bathroom too long (a few times I was accused of skipping class, when I'd been shaking uncontrollably & kneeling next to the toilet for an hour). Point is, I was (am) an anxious kid. I eventually got an IEP in 10th grade but until then, a lot of my teachers thought I was being difficult on purpose for attention. My 8th grade math teacher would staple my late notes to his podium; my 9th grade French teacher said that I was lazy and disruptive in my report card ("she would get a better grade if she showed up to class instead of hiding in the bathroom all day"); my 9th grade math teacher sent me crying into a hallway of kids after I failed my midterm; my 11th grade math teacher made my best friend cry, and after she left his class, he said to me "you're next." Now I cannot stress to you enough that I had a variety of very understanding and helpful teachers in middle and high school. That being said, however, I'm not sure if they made up for the shitty ones. Too many of them simply ignored my IEP or did the bare minimum accommodations while rolling their eyes because I didn't "look" like I needed special help. I have ADHD that severely affects my executive functioning (focus, organization, motivation, etc) and it can be really damn difficult to do things that seem easy to other people. I tried hard because I wanted to be seen as a hardworking student, but some teachers only see the grades and not the effort, and it becomes draining to try to keep up the act. I know that Briana says teachers just want to see you try, but way too many teachers at my high school were exclusively concerned about grades. Like, they'd make it easier for or give classroom privileges to students with better grades, and used academic performance as a measurement of character. My school was diverse, but very few of the "good" students were black (and I know for a fact that a lot of the black kids were smarter than the white kids who just sat pretty and sucked up to the teacher). You could tell that most of the classroom (kids & teachers) didn't want to be there. The worst part is that I REALLY love learning and high school ruined it for me. I am in college now but it took me some time to realize that academia had a place for me. My college is much more vigilant about abiding by the ADA and I finally feel happy in a school environment. I'm around other people who want to be here, especially other people who have learning difficulties. I'm not exactly sure why I decided to type out this mammoth rant, but it feels good to get it out, so thanks I guess. Y'all give me good vibes and I love listening to the pod.

My choir teacher used to throw shoes at sleeping kids. 🤣

One of my teachers did a simulation like this where she came in and she she acted like she was in a really bad mood and then slowly some of us started realizing that it was an act but we didn't say anything and then she came up to us and she pulled some of us out of the room and told us it was an act and told us not to tell anybody and then told us to all walk back in the classroom like we were angry like she had just like told us we were all failing or something and it was just absolutely hilarious when she told everybody it was fake

Ms. Richardson is just like my 8th grade math teacher (Ms.English) we need more teachers like them 🖤🖤🖤

I appreciate what was said about having discernment when children fall asleep, My freshman year of high school I fell asleep in my English class in the afternoon constantly instantly and instead of berating me my English teacher reached out to reached out to me and that's when I discovered I was struggling with depression and she's the one who discovered it. I never would've started taking care of my mental health had it not been for her

I lost it when Tell pulled out the kiddo voice and just "ninja tohtohs??" 🤣🤣

At my job we make a joke about any of us getting "angy" not angry, angy. Then we tell each other, go find your cape so you can fly off and be super angy somewhere else😂😂😂

After watching several episodes I've really come to notice that Rebecca does not like to be interrupted during the middle of her story and she'll laugh as though she's enjoying the input but then she'll very loudly try to continue her story as many times as it takes to get them to stop talking so she can finish her story hahaha it cracks me up she's hilarious I love her stories

Omg! Not falling asleep during nap time is literally SO hard!!! I was the Secretary at my Head Start on my Rez, so there would be times where I would have to go cover for the Teachers or their TA’s for their breaks. One of their breaks would fall during nap time. These are 3 & 4 year olds. Most of the time the 4 year olds would be fine on their own during nap times but the 3 year olds would ask us to pat their backs for a few min. They would turn all the lights off & play this really soft soothing music for nap time…. I won’t lie I nodded off a few times during nap time in there 😂. I honestly don’t know anyone who actually hadn’t nodded off at some point during nap time bc it was just so relaxing 😆

I used to sleep in class all the time. Some of my teachers were nice about it and some were not. Turns out that I have narcolepsy. I told all of my previous teachers and some of them felt bad for how they treated me. Lesson learned: never judge cause you do not know what is actually going on.

I LOVE THE POLAR EXPRESS!!!!!

I love the way ms Richardson switches between the ways that she talkd

Mr. Sprek it’s ok I laughed so hard and still laugh with the “I need to take a dookie” story

I had a teacher who was a therapist (it was a proctored online remediation class for juniors and seniors) and she was the only teacher I knew who let kids sleep. I think it was because we would genuinely tell her about our sports and jobs and lives. In like March/April of my senior year I got kicked out and she was one of the only teachers I told, she was so awesome❤

My social studies teacher in 7th and 8th grade was also a professor at Stanford. We did all kinds of immersive learning. History is my favorite subject to this day because of him.

She said this is some unseasoned chicken energy 🤣🤣🤣

They were called portables where I was from. They are usually built there. It’s moveable but it’s built on the property. 💜

5:24 Hold up... uniforms are PROVIDED!?! Bro, my high school makes me buy the uniform and the material is so cheap and they always fall apart. But everytime I got and get new uniform clothes its like $300.

19:48 there is a space between the panel ahhh. "There is doo doo in the sewer"

Ooooh! I have successes, not fails. My 5th grade teacher let us have a whole entire court congress about people apart of the Boston Tea Party. That taught me to never be a lawyer cause I lost the case :’D. It was so fun! My 7th grade teacher was a HUGE Harry Potter fan (like moi) and her whole room was decorated with Harry Potter stuff. She even had the House Cup, and would sort us into our houses. The house with the most points would win and amount of tickets for a prize, and you earn the points by answering a question correctly or being helpful. Also super fun. I was a Slytherin in her class :’). But that’s okay because I’m a Gryfferin and a Gryffindor by choice 😎

Before I was a teacher I worked for a school district maintenance department, and sometimes helped set up those pods. They are dropped off in pieces from a semi truck onto cinder blocks, and we go under them and bolt them together. They are extremely cheap and often times a strong storm would blow in the doors and cause the roof to leak where they are joined.

Our Trailors were called portables - even tho they couldn't move 😂

having been the product of a private military school in the mid-late 2000s, man I feel for teachers that cant get away with the stuff my teachers could do

I was just rewatching this video, and Lauran’s comment about her “old” school that was built in 1965. The first elementary school I attended was built in 1950, and the second was built between 1959 and 1960, and opened in September of 1960. I was a student in the second grade the day the school opened. The high school I attended was down the street from the elementary school. It was constructed between 1964 and 1966, and the first class of 9th graders on September of 1966. I entered as a 9th grader in September of 1967. However, when I first started teaching 1st grade in February of 1990, the school I began my career opened in September of 1901. The school opened with over 1500 students , mostly German,Italian and Jewish immigrants and over the years the school has remained a haven for children of immigrant families, only now they are mostly Hispanic and South Asian. The “new” wing opened in 1904-05, increasing the available classroom space. I was the school’s “historian” until I retired almost 7 years ago. I was able to digitize the 1905 photo album, as well as create a timeline of all of the school’s principals from 1901-2017. It was an interesting experience.

In the area in Australia where I live portable buildings as classrooms are really common. They are brought in or taken away according to how many kids are enrolled at a school.

“Unseasoned chicken energy” 😂😂😂

Make more! Love the podcast!

I had a teacher let me sleep in class once, I woke up and asked to go the nurse and she let me. I was out for the next week. She was known as a strict teacher too. I was thankful for her. Haha but other than that don’t let them sleep, unless your gut tells you something is wrong.

Love y’all so much!!! I would recommend not letting your kids sleep in class unless they are like little cause nap time but do brain breaks. Brain breaks are where at the beginning or end of class or if everyone is having trouble concentrating or smth, give them like 1-2 minutes to put their head on their desks or take a few deep breaths or smth. It really does help… my seventh grade teacher did this with fidget toys and you pick them from the box and relax for just a bit and then go back to learning. It can be literally 30 seconds just a moment for kids to get back to reality ig

I love how people are surprised that schools had pods and people aren't just allowed to go to the bathroom. Meanwhile my schools growing up had pods that didn't have AC(there were only two classes there at a time), we couldn't go to the restroom during class, and our bathrooms pretty much were entirely outside. Surprisingly the only thing people complained about was that we were forced to be outside for recess when it's over 100 degrees outside (we couldn't afford shade)

I just started watching these tonight and I’m addicted thank you for giving me and many others entertainment

One time I had a new teacher and he spoke with an accent. After an hour, he told us the accent was fake. Fast forward to the end of the school year and we were not trusting the teacher about something. He said, "You should believe me. I have never lied to you." When I brought up the first day of classes and the fake accent, he rethought ever doing that again.

Please tell me the table book will come to fruition ❤️😂 I need it in my life! Mrs. Richardson is hilarious!

This is the funniest episode I’ve tuned in on, I look forward to more episodes

Best podcast 🎙 ever! ☕️🖤

Future teacher here! Going to school during the pandemic 😷 and feel like I’m teaching myself any suggestions would be amazing! Love the pod btw!

When I was a student and I would fall asleep in class, I was taking meds that were anti-psychotics that knocked you out and put you in a mini-coma. I also get the irritating bs of students in class sleeping.

I can listen to yall all day i love this podcast

I love this podcast so much

In Freshman year of High School (that's 9th grade, 14-15 year olds), my social studies/general history/world history teacher taught us a lesson about Martin Luther, the Luthern church and the sale of indulgences. I'll never forget the lesson because she tricked us in an experiment. The experiment was telling all of us (honor/scholars/arista students) that we can get easy As for the rest of the school year if we paid in cash for the grade. Everyone was READY to pay for these grades (even though we all got As and 100s in our tests/homeworks/class works; we still were ready for easy As). She reveals it was all an experiment to teach us about how easily the masses can be manipulated by these sale of indulgences.

My schools all had trailers but we changed them portables. The reason the new teachers get them is because all the indoors are already being used by the older teachers who aren’t going to unnecessarily move.

This is quickly becoming my favorite show

I worked at the same school my kids attend. My daughter (4th grade) said that one of the little boys was making of me. He told my daughter "your mama is fat!" My daughter came home and told me, I looked at her and said, "I don't care what so&so said. If he tries to come at me, I can sit on him til the principal gets there. He does not scare me. He's a toothpick." My daughter was rolling on the floor!

I'm from Indiana too!! It gets freezing here specially in the winter. So I can definitely agree!

I used to sleep in my first period class as a senior for no other reason than I was tired from not getting enough sleep. I had to have a job to pay for my gas and car insurance (my requirements for being allowed to drive). I worked at AMC as a projectionist and would regularly not get out of the theater till between 12-1 am. Then a 30ish minute drive home resulted in me not being asleep till between 2-2:30 almost every night. School started at 7, so I just slept that first period and was awake till I got out at 2:30pm. Then was back at work generally between 4-5pm. It was a college elective class (precal) so I just didn't care. I should have just dropped the class, but kids don't really learn about the ability to drop classes till you get to college where the information is a lot more common.

I had a teacher that threw markers at kids sleeping it was hilarious every time cause she would say like “where’s my Marker at”

i just pulled some kinda muscle in my chin/jaw laughing at this 🤣🤣🤣

Southern California school are chock full of those trailers. I’d say it works reasonably well here. We have no cold winters and so long as the AC is working...

I live in Canada and we had those! But, they were called portables :) love you guys !

I'm glad to know other schools have pods, I went to a middle school that was made entirely of pods. Got to love Florida!

Our private school never turned the heat on and they made a rule that we couldn’t wear “outside jackets” because it was unprofessional (college prep private Highschool and all) so the entire student body started bringing blankets to class until they turned the heat on.

I like Ms. Woolly saying her building built in 1965 is so old but my mom was born that year and she's only 57 and my highschool was built over 100 years ago. We've had an addition put on but the main building hasn't changed like at all.

My hs basketball coach made us write it like 100 times and we definitely repeatedly said it while running on the track or through the school up and down stairs. I've never heard anyone say it again. But thank you for reminding me of this quote: "Excuses are tools of incompetence which build monuments of nothing and those who specialize them seldom accomplish anything" Coach J Thank you so much for the reminder. I love this podcast. Y'all are hilarious.

I’d buy that table book! 🤣🤣🤣

I love y’all!! Y’all are AMAZING!! I wish I had y’all as my teachers when I was growing up!!

I love how 1965 is an old building 😂 they just closed the elementary buildings here (3 of them) from the 20s. Yes I went to school in there in the early 00s and yes the building was falling apart but I have the best memories there.

Super-mad is going on my list of phrases for my elementary after school program. We also have, "don't sit in the cupboard, you're not Harry Potter"

I will say as a good but VERY tired student, I try so hard to stay up in class but sometimes it just takes over, especially in certain classes, I think it’s fair to not allow sleeping in class but I don’t think it’s fair to not take excuses, because some people really do be going through it or just mentally cannot withstand a long class.

I used to shake students’ desks lightly if they were sleeping and say “Earthquake!”. However, if we were doing a class work assignment and they finished early, I would allow them to nap if they were tired. Some of these kids were on the bus at 6:30 to get to school so I know they’d be tired.

We had pods in my elementary school, we called them modulars tho. It was the third grade classrooms and the only part of the school with ac. It's been renovated since and expanded with new ac throughout.

I enjoyed the ease dropping ❤️❤️❤️

We had those and called the portables. The temp was awful, it's loud, and especially scary now that safety in schools is becoming becoming issue.. the rain makes it sound like your in a tin can.

Ms. Richardson needs to replace those Xpo markers with a yard stick. My 6th grade teacher would walk the aisles (we had long table desks) whenever he was giving a lecture, and if someone was sleeping, he would randomly smack the table with the stick. Everyone awake knew what was going to happen (because he would walk with the stick) so we weren't surprised, but it scared to he bejeesus out of the kid who was sleeping. My best friend was the sleeping kid once, and full on fell out of his chair when the stick hit the table. 😂 No injuries and still gets the point across.

Please do a whole video on district fails... that's gonna be some content to watch

I would for real buy that coffee table book!

My school had pods too. Before they redid all the schools (elementary, middle, and high) they had several of the eight grade classes in the pods. But our district was super small. I had a class of 67 students and almost all of us went 1-12 together.

21:58 my chemistry teacher in highschool did the same!! he was the kind of wacky and semi unhinged but still very careful and considerate that i aspire to be, lol.

This is the greatest!

Omgggg my choir director throws Expo markers at us toooooo 😲😲😆

Talking about the trailers for certain classes and I'm like did she teach at my old HS 😂🤣

Had an awesome history teacher in high school. Only did 3 years of public school (homeschooling/homeschool extension previous) so it was totally new. Senior year I zoned out/fell asleep with my eyes open for a good 10 minutes or more. He didn't get mad or even draw attention to it. I immediately apologized for it and he told me that I was merely 'exploring the existential part of my being's. Lol he was a great teacher

When she said the school was old and was built in 1965 I was nodding my head then realized, "Hey, that school is as old as ME!"

My History teacher used to throw candy, pencils, markers, etc at us if someone fell asleep or wouldn't stfu. 😂😂😂 Everyone I went to school with still to this day love that man. Lmfao