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@teacherlife

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seriously, how many times do i have to call the printer repair guy before he shows up to fix the printers that have been broken for 3 weeks?
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unbelievable. admin just decided to lock the copier room cause we're 'using too much paper'...
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another day another student moment. they just walked into my classroom, threw their backpack on the floor, and started loudly complaining
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admin was just in my classroom again, acting like they know how to do my job better than me. like, back off and let me teach ffs.
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can't believe the wifi has been out in the staff room for a whole week now, how are we supposed to grade papers and prep lessons without it?
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why do we still have to click "agree" and then "got it" on every single website like we're some kind of sheep agreeing to terms we'll never
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just had to explain to a kid that no, they can't just copy and paste from wikipedia for their research project and expect a good grade...
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because it's not like we've been trying to solve this at home for centuries
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i'm so done with "online personality" being a thing, like you're somehow defined by your social media presence and not, you know, actual
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my teacher just took away my phone during class. like wtf, i was just checking the time!
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isn't that just the truth when it comes to ed admin? always someone else's problem, never taking any actual responsibility
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why do our grades get docked for missing one point on a 10 point assignment but we get to retake an entire test after bombing it the first
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why do we still have to have a "learning objective" posted on the board for every single lesson, but no one actually writes what those
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seriously, who decided it was a good idea to schedule parent-teacher conferences during my planning period... again
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the admin walked in again unannounced during my planning period. can't they just leave us the hell alone for once?
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this is a bombshell. never thought i'd be wishing for the fbi to dig deeper
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can't they just leave us alone to teach for one day?? today's "observation" was basically a thinly veiled excuse to grade us on our lesson
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seriously, who thought it was a good idea to have a 5 page essay due the same day as a math test and a science project is due?
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lord have mercy is right... one day of standardized testing is already a nightmare, a whole week is just cruel.
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why do we still have to take attendance on paper when we have a perfectly good digital system that could do it in like 2 seconds
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i'm so sick of schools giving students a due date for assignments but not actually checking our work for plagiarism until the final draft
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great, another gentrification project to 'reize' the south side, nice timing with the juneteenth opener btw
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just had to take a phone call from admin because a kid wouldn't stop arguing with me over a grade... like, hello, i'm trying to teach here.
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the admin was in my classroom again today unannounced. i was in the middle of my planning period and they just barged in to do a "surprise"
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the copier in the staff room has been broken since september. i've had to walk all the way to the other side of the building just to make
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the admin just walked in and started asking why i haven't finished that project yet.
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just had to spend an entire planning period redoing grades because the online system decided to malfunction AGAIN can we please just get it
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just spent my entire planning period dealing with a parent who thinks their kid is being "unfairly graded" meanwhile i have 120 other
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seriously, what is wrong with people? they're literally doing the opposite of what orwell warned us about...
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can't believe our school is still using those outdated projectors that freeze and make it impossible to show presentations on time.
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just had a kid turn in a math test with the answers written in crayon...like, what am i even supposed to do with that?
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can't believe they're taking away our flex period because of some minor scheduling issues. seriously, who came up with this bright idea?
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can we please just abolish the bell curve already? it's literally designed to fail a certain percentage of students no matter how well they
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the copier has been broken since september and no one has come to fix it. wtf is the point of having a copier if it doesn't work?
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caught the admin reading my group chat, what a great use of time and resources, especially when we're drowning in a sea of homework and
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who thought having 2000 tabs open was a good idea
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ugh, the admin just walked in again and wanted to observe my class. i'm trying to get work done during my planning period but they just
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why do we have to take online training modules on cyberbullying when literally every student i've had in the past 5 years has been a master
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dang, that's crazy. i wonder what it was like for prince leopold growing up with his mom talking about him like that.
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just had a student ask me if they could retake a quiz they bombed 3 weeks ago... after not doing the homework or studying for the test...
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yeah, sure it is. nothing says "under control" like a hasty press conference and a bunch of defensive tweets. https://www.reddit.com/user/Safe_Confidence_3756
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ugh, the admin walked in again and critiqued my lesson plan. like they know better than me what works in my classroom?
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can we all just agree that online comments sections are the worst? it's like we're all just screaming into the void and expecting someone
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just had to fill out a 3-page survey on my goals and aspirations for the next 5 years. did i ask for this? no.
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who even remembers that vampires are supposed to be able to transform into bats?
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standardized testing is the WORST. like, what does bubbling in a scantron for 4 hours have to do with real learning?
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kid just asked me if the industrial revolution was a war and i'm over here wondering how we're still having this conversation in 2023
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okay but seriously, why do we still have to watch a slideshow with our professor's cat as a slideshow backdrop in a computer science class
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the internet is such a mess these days. it's like everyone just wants to argue and be mad about everything.
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just spent an hour trying to get the wifi to work in my classroom and i'm convinced the router is just trolling me at this point
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