@@rhondahuggins9542ROTFL! You JUST clear up the buffoonery and we are ON TASK BABY! And, then, insert one of the following: -anthem and announcements, but the anthem doesn’t play so it’s dead silence -fire alarm -office phones…multiple times -long-winded “please stop and listen” announcement about not throwing snow at recess -health and safety inspection -desk randomly just gives out -nosebleed…like those epic ones with an insta-handful of blood -neighbour teacher’s class needs more computers to borrow This is the shortlist.
This was my middle school teaching experience. My first day ever as a teacher at my underperforming school, out-of-control 6th graders who had had a different substitute teacher every day for 2 months. It was like something you see in a movie- books flying around the room, two girls who looked like bouncers banging fists on desks, hooting and hollering; etc. It was a three-ring circus on steroids. I was told my job for the next couple of weeks was just to civilize them. After that I could try to actually teach them. One of the scary-eyed bouncer girls laughed hysterically, telling me I'd be gone by the next day, just like everybody else who couldn't handle it. I made sure she knew I needed the money so I couldn't afford to quit, so I'd be back- day after day, after day. I laughed back and told her I'd been through so much in my life that I was now "unscareable", so they'd all better understand that I was not going anywhere. I was relentless (like the Terminator). I would not give up. Ever. That girl and her co- bouncer were both expelled a week later, lol. I cried in my car after school many days, but the kids did learn that year. I worked in that crazy school for 7 years. I learned a LOT! Elementary school was a piece of cake after that! It also helped that the admin had control over the students.
Amen, I feel like I can deal with anything with a good admin. Without it I can't even handle one misbehaving student; you write them a detention and suddenly it's magically gone by the end of the day. Kids know they can get away with anything in an environment like that so it goes bad fast.
@@solitarelee6200 it is so true. In the crazy middle school I worked in, when the bell rang the adults would literally flatten themselves against the wall, to prevent being trampled. Later I taught in an elementary school. It was like another planet. Before school began on my first day I watched as the students assembled in the gym. When the bell rang the principal clapped and gave a "peace and quiet" sign, and the students returned it. The entire student body was instantly silent, then at the principal's request, they walked in an orderly fashion to their assigned lineup areas, and followed their teachers to their rooms. Every time students walked in the halls it was quiet and orderly. It was like witnessing a miracle to me, lol. This school was a fun place to be, yet routines and rituals were important. Mutual respect was important, and that made it possible for us all to teach and learn and thrive in a happy environment. It just goes to show you what a difference a good administration makes, as well as the entire staff teaching and reinforcing basic expectations to students from day one and from Pre-K on. I loved working at that school! I left only when I retired
I’ve had to start keeping my door closed to keep the wandering students out. One of mine even became a wondering student. When he came back to get his stuff, I asked “where the hell have you been?” He’s the noisiest kid in that period and he straight up told me, “I was here! I was just being quiet!” I just looked at him and said “you haven’t been quiet a single day this year. What makes you think I wouldn’t notice?”
Once they start getting marked truant that seems to stop. We have what’s called a smart pass. It gives them a certain amount of time to get from point a to point b. After that elapsed time it alerts the teacher to mark them as out of compliance or present in class. It has cut down the wandering so much.
@@PsychGirlRaven if only my school had the stones to disciple the kids for being tardy or leaving class. And that’s the problem, if there is no consequences from Admin, there won’t be any fear in the kids.
I retired with 20+ of my years in elementary and took a long term sub assignment in high school and loved it enough to apply to return fulltime at secondary level.
I went to an Ultra Orthodox school. I never saw this kind of behavior. Ever. That is being disrespectful to our elders. The teachers are here to teach us how to be better people for the future so they deserve respect.
I had all of these students except the teachers pet. And the kid who comes in late or interrupts class NEVER apologizes. They saunter in like they own the place. And the kid using the cell phone totally blows you off if you tell them to put it away.
😂Nailed it! Teaching middle and high schoolers, l have had all of these! (Still do;) Love the accuracy of the “teacher’s pet”, “wanderer”, and the “disappearing student”. For the love of god people, why do you let these students out of your classroom? You know they’re up to no good.🤦♀️😂
You don’t really have a choice if they say they have to use the restroom. If you refuse, they complain to parents and admin that you’re mistreating them.
@@loriar1027 Yeppp at the school I taught in right before we quit, we had to use this obnoxious system and those kids had like FIVE toilet breaks a day. FIVE. THERE WERE ONLY SEVEN PERIODS COUNTING PE... HOW MUCH DO THEY NEED TO PEE. And I'm supposed to track them down if they take "too long," like, bro, I have 34 students and you expect me to leave that classroom and wander the halls looking for Trevor? If you want Trevor in class when I'm forced to let him OUT of class, hire some UNARMED security for once to just exist in the hallway.
In my county subs are not allowed to teach. The best schools to sub for would have a reward system the subs could use, but subs are not allowed to disciplined. A subs job is to play movies, passout worksheets and call admin. In half of the schools the students are answering the phone, so if a student attacks you with a chair, no one is coming to help
My son was a class clown. He was smart enough to get the teachers involved. Something I'm proud of and scared by all at the same time. Luckily, we made it through
I was the wandering student 😅 as soon as I learned what "press pass" for anything from news paper or yearbook or aide, I was about it. I was also stem/gate/exchange for such across borders kid so I was bored ASF in most classes...... Now I'm just a homemaker, momma 🤣 it doesn't matter in the end
Bathroom time is done. No one is leaving this classroom unless you are bleeding to death. Now sit down and read. Every day and in my sleep. Everybody and their brother have to go do something when it's silent reading time. 😂
OMG- every single administrator needs to see this. Been there, and during the whole class period, not a d*** thing gets taught because kids act this way. Admin blames the teachers, but it's the zero consequences admin hands out that allows kids to do this.
Beautiful! But ya did miss one. When I was in jr. high (late 60's) I was the Invisible Student. Wherever the teacher's desk was, I sat diagonally opposite, but over one or two rows from the wall and up one or two rows from the back. If you're against the wall, or at the back, you're visible. Just move a little in and you disappear. I had it down to an exact science, and I NEVER got called on. Until I got into Mrs. H's English class my last year. She was a Stone Fox. I sat in front of her desk in the front row, so I could ogle her. Like a truly pathetic little snotrag.
A Philosopher 's point (or screed depending on your point of view) I put this on Facebook on my news feed. It is funny but so depressing. I'm 64 years old and there is no way in God's green earth I would have acted this way in school. Our entire Country could use a paddling right on the ass. Think of this: If things went 180° different today, and parents were magically responsible and not entitled, we would have at least another 25 YEARS TO GO with this generational BS before we would see societal change. This BLATANT DISRESPECT of our Educators is why we're last or approaching last in everything in the world. It's time we get off the pot and take responsibility for ourselves and our Country. And instead of making platitudes of Make America Great, we need to take PERSONAL responsibility for our lives to change this country and turn it back around. I have seen it with my own eyes, Teachers do not have enough respect in our classrooms. P. S. The scariest thing now is that Open AI is going to make it IMPOSSIBLE for teachers to tell if a person wrote a paper or not, or did their homework. Maybe making kids defend their intelligence at the end of the semester in front of a group of teachers is the way that we're going to turn things around along with forcing people in the eighth grade to have aptitude tests and maybe we'll actually get a trained labor force again, just like Germany has with their Gymnasium System.
I agree with saying our country's education system is in crisis, but ultimately the students are not the problem, and advocating for things like 13yos prove themselves to a board of teachers ignores disability needs, social emotional development needs, and potential trauma histories in students. Speaking as someone who has worked in both and elementary and a middle school, I can tell you exactly where the problems lay: Parents don't care. And I'm sure it's because many of them have other adult things to worry about like bills, but the fact is many parents simply aren't as invested in their child's education or behavior at school as they should be. Many kids go home with assignments that are 100% their responsiblity to complete, and parents aren't checking that that's actually happening, so unless you have a self driven kid, it doesn't get done. Phone calls home don't work because parents won't address it, so the child has no incentive to do better. Teachers can't afford to stay, so we're losing the good ones. Nearly every teacher I know has some kind of second source of income just to pay the bills. When teaching as a profession can't support basic living costs, teachers are forced to either sacrifice themselves for their students or change careers. Impossible standards. With as many standardized tests and state or district mandated tests and projects, sometimes it's impossible to find time to do anything but throw the material on the board and hope it sticks, which is not how true teaching is supposed to happen. But classes are short, and so are days, and any student who doesn't pick up fast enough is left in the dust to fall further and further behind because teachers literally don't have time to reteach it if they want to stay on track for testing (and by extension not have admin reprimanding them for being behind) Lack of ability to truly teach. There are so many restrictions on what can be taught and how it can be taught, even when in direct contradiction to science and educational best practices for childhood development. Teachers are given specific ways they can teach the material, and if a kid doesn't understand it that way then there's little room to adapt for them. Social issues. Kids aren't stupid, they're aware of what's going on in the world, and in the US many kids in schools right now are concerned about things like they or their friend getting beat when they get home because their teacher is legally required to out them to their parents if the teacher thinks they're gay, even if that parent is violently homophobic. Kids are also facing poverty, food insecurity, homelessness, abuse, neglect, trauma, parentification, and so much else, that school is their last priority. For many, leaving school means walking to the elementary school to get a younger sibling, getting the two of them home, and figuring out how to make dinner from a nearly empty pantry before a combative parent comes home and they have to hide in their room. Homework is not a priority when you're hungry, and not getting hit is dependent on you being quiet and unnoticed. The US education system has a lot of problems, but the vast majority of them are not the fault of students. It's parents, the education system, and the overall social situation that are to blame, and that's also where the solution lies.
@@Izzy-cp8yt An excellent response! When I wrote this yesterday, I wasn't thinking about generational trauma. I was just madder than a hornet because it hits so close to home... As far as what I have seen in schools when I went into schools in Iowa, teaching classes on drug, alcohol and tobacco prevention. That, too, is a terrible problem at home for these kids. There are parents getting kids high with them when the child is in their elementary school years. How can you have lunch with the student and talk about their drug prevention when they're getting high with their major family members every night? As far as brain development goes,this is the worst thing for kids. And social media too, does not help. If you teach, I give you all the credit in the world. You addressed salaries? Yeah how come we can pay sports people millions of dollars but we can't even start teachers at $100,000 a year. Our priorities are really wrong in this country. It's going to take a massive overhaul to make things right and it makes me so sad that our children are suffering In the meantime. Have a blessed New Year.
Are they in college? They look far too old to be high school. I can't believe this is even tolerated. I graduated high school in 1958 and nurses training in 1961. I never saw any students disrespect the teachers or any school fights or bullying .
I usually like your videos. They’re very funny, by this one, not so much. As a teacher I know that all these student types exist. What I find most disturbing though is that the most poorly behaved students in this skit were the black students. I’m also surprised that the only two black people in the video would be okay with accepting those roles. I’m very disappointed in Bored Teachers for this depiction. I’m going to reevaluate whether or not to remain a subscriber.
