10 Teacher Fails...

[JerseyBart]

Are any of these you??? Two were me.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/weareteachers/19-teacher-fails-that-will-happen-to-you-too-h0xt

 

[JerseyBart]

5 & 7
I don't consider the bulletin board "fail" a fail at all. Bulletin boards are stupid, time consuming and no one ever looks at them. Put one up that applies to your class and works from September to June and be done with it.

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

Yes, but when I was in school you were far too terrified of your teachers to even think about pointing some of these out to the teacher- or whisper about them to a friend. Maybe by high school but even then no one would have the gall to point out a teacher wore the same pants 2 days in a row. So weird! We also didn't have the dressed up bulletin boards, just whatever announcements were current, maybe a mitten someone dropped on the playground- stayed there until May.

 

[ole]

Yes, but when I was in school you were far too terrified of your teachers to even think about pointing some of these out to the teacher- or whisper about them to a friend. Maybe by high school but even then no one would have the gall to point out a teacher wore the same pants 2 days in a row. So weird! We also didn't have the dressed up bulletin boards, just whatever announcements were current, maybe a mitten someone dropped on the playground- stayed there until May.

High school was a long time ago. The Principal was Dirty Gus or Blubber Gut and the Superintendent was a joke. However, they had power -- they could tell your Dad. The rule, in most cases, was absolute.

It was a small school (a bit larger than Nate's -- we played 11-man football), and all the teachers knew all the parents. It was a different time when all the parents wanted was to teach the kids to read and write and cipher some. More than a few were looking for preparing them for higher learning.

Well, yes. There were a few kids sent to school because the law required it. Their parents were generally ignored as part of the society. It was a different time. Anyone advocating gender-neutral names other than boys and girls would have been hooted out.

 

[unionblue]

My entire objective during every school year was to NOT be noticed by ANYONE, teachers, students, parents, ANYONE!

Unionblue
PS I also stuck to this objective the entire time I was in Basic Training.
PPS I am also trying to keep this objective here at the Post Office.

 

[pamc153PA]

I've done most of them, but then again, I've been around for a long time!

When I complete the list, do I get to retire?

 

[JerseyBart]

I've done most of them, but then again, I've been around for a long time!

When I complete the list, do I get to retire?

Retire...we don't get to retire anymore.

 

[pamc153PA]

Retire...we don't get to retire anymore.

I do. My husband will be teaching until he's fossilized, but I'm a 30 and out . . . when I get there, that is!

 

[JerseyBart]

I do. My husband will be teaching until he's fossilized, but I'm a 30 and out . . . when I get there, that is!

I agree. As soon as I hit my number, I'm retiring.

 

[Northern Light]

I admire anyone who has the guts to teach in today's school environment. Hats off to you all!

 

[Dave Hull]

I thought about teaching, but getting the grandkids reminds me why I do not teach. Maybe in an all boys military school or university...

 

[huskerblitz]

This reminds me of one those "What I think I do, What my friends think I do, and What I really do" posters. I know of a couple that describe me but I'm sure my students will peg several. Funny to read.

 

[diane]

There's worse fails! For some bizarre reason they once tried to stick me into a German language class. I wasn't there very long, granted, but the first day the teacher stalked up and demanded to know what I was doing there. I said I guessed they wanted me to learn German. He started off with speeches by Hitler and sang the Nazi era national anthem of Germany instead of their real one. Dude was a **** ****! You're right....I'm in the wrong class all right...

 

[unionblue]

I was a military instructor teaching others how to instruct in a Basic Instructors Training Class at Ft. Devens, MA.

I was a Master Instructor, with over 1,000 hours of 'platform time' instructing military and civilians alike. I had the full power of the military behind me if any student gave me lip or threatened me with bodily harm. All I had to do was call the MPs and they would cart the offender off to the still-operating post stockade.

This is why teachers in the civilian world have my utmost respect and admiration.

They only have themselves when facing all of the problems of the classroom of today.

I wouldn't teach in most public or private schools today without a platoon of MPs to back me up.

Hats off to all school teachers.

Sincerely,
Unionblue

 

[matthew mckeon]

I've done the shoe thing.

 

[Malingerer]

5 & 7
I don't consider the bulletin board "fail" a fail at all. Bulletin boards are stupid, time consuming and no one ever looks at them. Put one up that applies to your class and works from September to June and be done with it.

I think the bulletin board thing is more for visitors - parents, etc... - than anyone else. Maybe when the Asst. Principal comes in to do your in class evaluation she thinks "hmmm decorated bulletin board? Yep. Check.

 

[28thNewYork]

Having taught at all levels from elementary through graduate school, I'll have to say I've been guilty of all of them. Add to the list assigning making a bulletin board to a group of grad students and a 1000 word essay to high school freshman... I could go on but won't...

 

[Nathanb1]

Are any of these you??? Two were me.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/weareteachers/19-teacher-fails-that-will-happen-to-you-too-h0xt

Ahem. Several. I could add to the shoe thing by pointing out mismatching earrings (last week), forgetting to remove nail polish after its prime...

Just call me guilty. As I told a neighbor who expressed surprise when she learned Neal was married--and that we'd lived across the street 10 years--"Well, I leave before daylight and come home after dark, so you probably haven't seen me." And I might add, I'm grading after school. Vampire.

 

[Malingerer]

Ahem. Several. I could add to the shoe thing by pointing out mismatching earrings (last week), forgetting to remove nail polish after its prime...

Just call me guilty. As I told a neighbor who expressed surprise when she learned Neal was married--and that we'd lived across the street 10 years--"Well, I leave before daylight and come home after dark, so you probably haven't seen me." And I might add, I'm grading after school. Vampire.

Vampires indeed. That's why the kids freak out when they run into you at the grocery store.

 

[Stony]

5 at least once a semester every year. 9 every now and then.