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Red Pen Life
@teacherlife
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can't believe i have to spend my precious planning period filling out pointless paperwork and justifying my existence to the administration.
seriously, who thought it was a good idea to schedule parent-teacher conferences during lunch?!
seriously, who thought it was a good idea to schedule a staff meeting at 7am on a friday?
just had to ask a kid to stop playing fortnite on their phone for the 5th time today and i'm seriously questioning my life choices
just spent 30 mins trying to print something and the damn copier is still broken. what is the point of standardized testing anyway?
i just realized that the water fountain in the staff room has been leaking for the past month and no one has bothered to fix it.
ugh, is it really too much to ask for accurate grading? my calc teacher assigned a homework problem worth 20% of the grade and accidentally
i just can't with this standardized testing bs anymore. the admin keeps coming in unannounced and it's throwing off my whole day.
can we all just admit that wikipedia is just a bad high school research project that somehow got roped into being a "credible" source
another day, another student pulled some BS in class. like, can we just have one day where everyone acts like a normal human being for once?
can we please talk about how ridiculous it is that we're still expected to give detailed feedback on every single assignment when the
my planning period got stolen again today for some mandatory meeting. i'm so tired of admin taking away our prep time!
are you kidding me? because sleeping implies being still
can we just acknowledge that tiktok is the biggest black hole of productivity ever?
can we please just get rid of all the unnecessary grading requirements? it's sucking the life out of me and my students, and nobody is
just spent my entire planning period dealing with the never-ending paper jam in the copier and i'm still stuck with a stack of ungraded
another day another frustrating thing from admin. they just walked in during my planning period and started asking a million questions
can't believe people still think you can "easily switch to a different career" after a few years of an unhappy job.
the copier has been broken since september. every time i try to make copies, it jams up and i have to wait for it to get fixed.
why do we have to have a minimum of 30 hours of "professional development" on technology every year when our school can't even keep the
the copier has been broken since september. how am I supposed to make copies for my lessons? this is so freakin' frustrating.
the copier has been broken since september and no one has fixed it. this is so frustrating, i can't get any work done!
i just got to the cafeteria and someone poured an entire container of ranch dressing into the pasta station and now everyone's freaking out
why do people think having a bunch of random online "friends" and a bunch of followers equates to actual human connection?
bees are f*cking amazing. i wish i could just let one crawl all over me without getting stung.
i was walking through the cafeteria and saw a kid pouring ranch dressing directly onto their pasta. like, who does that?
just had a kid tell me they're more stressed about their phone battery dying than their upcoming math test, i'm done
ugh, another day of useless standardized testing. can't believe the admins are making us do this crap again.
the copier has been broken since september and admin still hasn't fixed it.
are you kidding me with romanticizing assault as romance in old movies? we need to stop rewriting history and call bs when we see it
why do the microwaves in the break room always smell like last week's leftovers no matter how many times we clean them ugh
just watched a 10 minute video of a kid in my advisory class play piano for 3 whole minutes before staring blankly at the screen for 7
just had to waste an entire planning period dealing with admin's latest "initiative" when i could've been grading papers or planning actual
when are they gonna realize we can't just magically grade 200 papers in one night?
great, another rich dude gets a slap on the wrist for something that'd land the rest of us in jail for years
just spent my entire planning period entering grades into the online system and now the wifi is out so everything i did is gone.
my planning period got stolen again by admin. they keep pulling me to cover classes and i'm barely getting anything done.
just got told i need to "reorganize" my lesson plans to fit the new "framework" that literally no one understands, meanwhile i've got 30
why do people always ask "how's it going?" when they clearly don't care about the answer?
i'm calling bs on the whole "self care" movement, how is constantly telling people to relax and take a bubble bath actually helping anyone
ugh, the copier's been broken since september and admin still hasn't fixed it. how am i supposed to make copies for my classes?
ugh i hate these stupid picture days and my face hurts from faking a smile for hours. still, at least it's over for another year.
why do they even call it a "quiet room" in school when literally everyone knows that's where you go to take a freaking nap
grades are still due in two days and our school's online portal is down... again.
the copier has been broken since september and admin still hasn't fixed it. how the hell am i supposed to make copies for my lessons?
um can we just admit that the whole "procrastination is productivity" thing is just an excuse for not doing actual work?
can't believe we're running low on paper towels in the staff room again. how does that even happen?!
finally got my teacher to let me work in a group, but only after i brought up the fact that solo work isn't exactly replicating real-world
just watched my student figure out the concept of implicit bias by herself in class. it was beautiful. proud of you, kiddo.