One time in 7th grade I spilled my entire purse's worth of pads in the hall full of 7th and 8th graders during class change and I ran to the bathroom and stayed in there for most of the next class period. 😂 Thankfully the (male) teacher saw the entire thing and didn't mark me as absent...
I love Ms. Chang! You should have her on the podcast. 😊 My worst wardrobe malfunction as an elementary school para was when I bled through my pants. Luckily my para bestie was the one who told me. I had to go all the the way home, and come back for the last hour of my day, which was recess duty. 😮
I compared something to the old lady who swallowed a fly. My students didn’t know wtf I was talking about. I summed it. In doing so I said “she swallowed bigger and bigger things.” Class erupted in laughter and I had to turn away from them for a minute to stop myself from laughing.
While in college my professor organized by piles. Our final exams were all in a copy paper box on the floor. The new janitor “helped him out” over night by throwing away all the boxes on the floor, including our finals. There may have been tears.
I remember seeing a TikTok where a social studies teacher was teaching about sectional tensions between the North and the South in history but accidentally said sexual tensions instead... in front of middle school kids.
My biggest teacher fail: I was pregnant my third year of teaching and had terrible pregnancy brain. I made copies after school and realized there was no one in the copy room, so I decided to get ahead and copy more. 45 minutes later, everyone comes out of the cafeteria from our weekly staff meeting 🤦🏽♀️. I COMPLETELY forgot! My teacher bestie figured I was at a doctor’s appt 😂
Going off of Gabe's good or garbage. Once in fifth grade I was at the end stage of a cold where your nose is running constantly, so I was using a lot of tissues. The tissues tore my nose up so bad I had to go to the nurse's office and get Vaseline for my nose because it hurts so bad. From then on I always made sure to bring my own tissues.
My 8th grade science teacher had a more minor wardrobe malfunction. She wore two clearly non-matching pairs of high heels to school. She knew she had screwed up by the time I had my class with her, but didn't have any spare footwear at school so the first thing she said to the class was "yes I know I grabbed shoes that don't match, I had 9 pairs and was in a hurry this morning".
Loved the episode! A great future episode would be interactions that teachers have with social workers and their duties to report abuse/neglect when they see it. As a kid I had to have several interactions with these teachers and social workers and I have always wanted to hear what it is like from the teachers perspective, it must be difficult. Thanks again for the episode!
My least favorite teacher fail: As I'm about to give our freshman students their first midterm exam, my Program Coordinator, the President of the college, all Deans, and many colleagues invaded my classroom to award me the Outstanding Faculty of the Year award. Cake, gift bag, framed award and all were captured in photos with the awarding committee member and myself. After the exam ended, I took my opportunity to stop by the restroom before the next round only to discover I was wearing my jeans backwards! Yes, I see what I wrote...jeans...backwards...in all the photos! I mean...how?! We are all humans who make mistakes (though I still don't know HOW this one happened)
We were mixing something in the burners and across the room one person's burner caught on fire up to the ceiling and the teacher yelled "WHAT THE F***" at the top of her lungs and threw in out the door into the snow and then another teacher came in and said "what happened" and when we told him he could not stop laughing it was great
I work an elementary school 2nd graders and when we came back after the pandemic everyone had to wear masks. I never thought I would be witness to a child picking their nose with their mask and eating the boogers off of it!!!! I thought I was going to throw up.
My 5th grade teacher got fired for showing us a video about George Washington (we weren’t learning about him, the teacher was just obsessed with history) that cussed, and after he realized his mistake he told us to grow up, and that we had all heard worse things at home 😂
Oh my the things I can relate to. I slipped out of a rolling chair, in a class of kindergarteners. The worst school supplied product. The brown paper towels and school soap. Paper towels just smear whatever your trying to clean up. The soap will eat the skin off your hands. Love your RU-vid’s
When I was in high school I had an accident because the teacher didn’t let me use the bathroom and I cried because I havent had an accident at school since I was in the second grade
My freshman year of highschool, w we got to talking about organisms. One kid accidentally said orgasm and another kid said it while laughing. The teacher looked at the class and was like “You have 30 seconds. Get it all out”. Half the class was laughing and some others just said orgasm over and over. He said after that now there weren’t to be any more jokes. I appreciated him making a joke of it🤣
Lmao, Tell, I had a rule when I worked in EMS, "Yellow pants, no chance" (I wouldn't date/ hookup with fireman") fast-forward a couple years, I marry my husband, guess what he's now doing??? Lol NO ONE let's me live it down!!!
No joke....worked with a girl that split her pants, during the school day, and did not have underwear on. I found her standing next to the wall trying to keep the hole covered.
My biggest fail was giving prek students glitter and paint to make fall drawings of some sort... We had 22 4yo and only 2 teachers... it did not end well...
I'm not a teacher, but I am one of the leaders in my section in choir. (We are split in three sections depending on what part we sing. Soprano 1 being the highest, soprano 2 being in the middle, and alto being the lowest part in our group.) I lead the altos. So when our teacher is gone or he wants us to work in our section s, the leaders for each group are to help make sure we learn or practice our part of the song(s). The other week we were in our sections so we could learn the ending for our German song. So I'm leading the group through the pitches and rhythm that's written on the bottom of the page with the help of the piano. We worked on it and we thought we were done with plenty of time to just sing it over and over. Then right before the period ends I flip the page and I realize we have a whole other page we were supposed to learn. So that is my teacher fail.
Guys, laundry bags are cheap. Humiliation is forever. Put socks and underwear in the laundry bags and small items don't stick to the rest of your clothes. It also prevents loosing socks and underwear in the washing machine or dryer.
I love Ms. Chananl whould have her on the podcast. 😊 My worst wardrobe malfunction as an elementary school para was when I bled through my pants. Luckily my para bestie was the one who told me. I had to go all the the way home, and come back for the last hour of my day, which was recess duty. 😮
One time I was in fourth grade and fifth grade and fourth grade share the same teachers so my writing teacher gave the whole class the fifth grade test and she only noticed when the whole class failed😂😂
I work In a high school Library and we buy our own tissues because none are provided. I have students who will come up just for one of our fancy tissues.
I wore two different shoes to class one morning...I was in a rush and reached into a dark closet and grabbed a brown shoe and a black one. The struggle is real. We used to have a joke in our work pod that the toilet paper won't tear, and the paper towels tear into fragments if you look at them hard.
As a substitute para I have had to make sure to communicate with the teacher right away. Words that end in "it" even nonsense words. Here is the problem they put "ch" infront of "it" I had to explain to this 2nd grade girl that it was NOT a swear word. That would be SH not CH....however let's just skip that one.....sure enough she told her mom. Good thing I told the teacher.
I have to buy tissues, they are not supplied by the district. I teach art and we used to get the brown, rough, non-absorbent paper towels; the district stopped supplying them recently.
One time a boy in my class (seventh grade) found a bra cup in his pants. He then decided it was a good idea to pass it around the room. Safe to say it was confiscated and probably never seen again.
I went to a job interview with my beautiful sweater with covered buttons, I later thanked them for not laughing at me, And reminded them that I was applying for a specialized job and I had sensory issues, lol
Didn’t tear my pants but my car got skunked and and my ac was on the smell got on all inside the car and all on me. Had to go to Walmart and get a change of clothes I live to far to go home to sprayed a bunch of body spray and put the clean clothes on lol
