I had lunch duty and was throwing up in the trash can. There were no other adults so I could not leave. Afterward I went to admin and asked to go home for the rest of the day, but they said no one could cover for me. So I taught my four afternoon classes sitting in the front with a smaller trashcan in my lap and trying not to move. Fyi, I was a rotation teacher for elementary and middle schoolers. What a day that was.
I was late to opening my door in the morning because I was having morning sickness in the trashcan in my room. Admin told me I "should go on bedrest if pregnancy was that hard."
My Private school makes us call parents "clients". We are there to serve them. We just worked 1 to 11 pm for a Christmas performance, then cleaned up after them..... I put in my resignation for July 2025.
When we consider the parents and kids “clients” it lets them know that we have to do whatever it takes to make them happy. They own us after that point. It’s over.
In our district, all high schools take a day to proctor the ACT for juniors. The rules are really strict about NO food/drink in the room. That goes for kids and for teachers. It is possible to apply for a medical exception. As our school was preparing for this a couple of years ago, I reminded our testing coordinator that I am diabetic and would need to have a juice box/water bottle in the room with me. (In an emergency, waiting for a teacher to relieve me so I can walk back to my office is not an option.) He simply put me on hall duty instead of proctoring. So simple! I am grateful for the support of my colleagues and our union.
I've never wished so hard for something to be scripted and not real. This is a hilarious treatment of something unfathomably dark and sinister. It's inhumane abuses against our most important professionals - those who educate our children. I'm so glad you all do this, because sometimes the only way to defeat the darkness is to make light of it.
My principal sent me and the art teacher out to the PE field to watch for a tornado while the rest of the school were observing tornado protocol (away from windows, down on the floor, protecting their heads, etc). We did not even have a walkie talkie to report if we actually saw a tornado!
When I was about 9 weeks pregnant, I thought I could hold it for the 20 minutes I had left until my class was in PE. I'd never been pregnant before and thought the uncontrollable bladder came later in pregnancy. Ended up peeing in my pants a little and running to the bathroom right outside my classroom door. There was a whole investigation for "abandoning" my class for less than 2 minutes. It got dropped, but I was so over teaching after that. I left on maternity leave and never went back. It took them until my baby was nearly 9 months old and I'd already taken my retirement early before they finally decided to drop it, too.
Replying to Teacher #1, what kind of narcissistic admin forces a teacher to buy a trampoline for her own classroom with her own money without reimbursement!? People ought to sue the daylights out of these deluded admins so they never see another day in a school office!
Once I woke up sick, and I asked the principal if I could miss work. He said no. I went to my first class and could barely stand, and none of my students wanted to come near me. They begged me to go home. I went and asked the school secretary, and she said to go home. I went home and my fever was 104!! The principal was so mad that I went home. Mind you, another teacher missed a lot when she was sick, and he didn't care that she missed. 😒
Was a teacher assistant I floated between classrooms once got written up because they told me I came up missing for 20 minutes going between classrooms I worked with a severely autistic and I had stomach issues. They said that was no excuse to have to be in the bathroom doing my business
No wonder there are so many teacher shortages! Not being able to being able to take care of basic necessities should be against the rules and their contracts. The teachers as a whole should start suing the schools and the district. This is one of the contributing factors why people don't want to teach, eating, drinking water and going to the bathroom should be done when it is needed.
I was called within hours of return to my room after open hernia surgery. They need my lesson plans for the WEEK before 6:30 AM. My sub plans were unsatisfactory because I should know the young subs didn’t read or write cursive. Re-write then (entire week) legibly. On the third post-op day, a mother called me at 10:30 PM, asked questions that were between and my doctor, then insisted upon putting her 7 year old on the phone. He wanted to talk to me. “H-e-l-l-o? It was obvious them child did not want to talk to me.
How is supervising an exam incompatible with drinking water? As a student there were restrictions on bringing water bottles to exams (because some people hid notes on the label) but what is the teacher going to do with a water bottle that would interfere with their ability to watch students take a test?
@@nataliecarrington2550 I honestly don't remember how they resolved that. I haven't been inside a highschool in a couple of decades so I don't see exams (I teach primary so any tests are not that high stakes). I have a feeling no label probably was one of the solutions.
Aren’t all “emergency” sub plans “busy work” ? Isn’t that kinda the point? You don’t know when you’ll have an emergency and when it will fit into your planned curriculum…..
I had pneumonia. My doctor said to stay home for five days. The first day, I was inundated with parents and children emailing and my principal calling me to come in and fix what the subs had messed up. I had to go in on the second day. Then I was chastised because I had left my desk messy. 🙄
Ah yes a few of my own admin requests. I was in the hospital for emergency surgery. While there, in the we, I was asked to submit sub plans. After I was cleared to return to work on light duty I was asked to be a sub for PE. I work in a good school but if admins are desperate they just don’t seem to hear how ridiculous their requests actually are.
I had to buy my own mousetraps and dispose of the mice. I put tape strips on the floor to catch the cockroaches. I taught thru power outages, gas leaks, no water, also a strange man walking around the building claiming to be Jesus. At least these were a "Jesus take the wheel," moments.
I wish admin would make me put a trampoline in our room. My district won't let us, even if it would benefit my sensory seeking ASD kids. Occupation therapist had us remove any all sensory equipment over the last few years. 😤
Post up Geneva convention for prisoners rights in the office demand at least that, work your way up to United Nations human rights, then hit them with La Bohr code. Then the union can come in.
Snake handling is not in my job description. 😂
I had lunch duty and was throwing up in the trash can. There were no other adults so I could not leave. Afterward I went to admin and asked to go home for the rest of the day, but they said no one could cover for me. So I taught my four afternoon classes sitting in the front with a smaller trashcan in my lap and trying not to move. Fyi, I was a rotation teacher for elementary and middle schoolers. What a day that was.
That's when I walk out
I was late to opening my door in the morning because I was having morning sickness in the trashcan in my room. Admin told me I "should go on bedrest if pregnancy was that hard."
My Private school makes us call parents "clients". We are there to serve them. We just worked 1 to 11 pm for a Christmas performance, then cleaned up after them..... I put in my resignation for July 2025.
When we consider the parents and kids “clients” it lets them know that we have to do whatever it takes to make them happy. They own us after that point. It’s over.
Thank you ❤❤❤ The abuse that I suffered from and known abuse towards other teachers by admin, would not be believed by most!
In our district, all high schools take a day to proctor the ACT for juniors. The rules are really strict about NO food/drink in the room. That goes for kids and for teachers. It is possible to apply for a medical exception. As our school was preparing for this a couple of years ago, I reminded our testing coordinator that I am diabetic and would need to have a juice box/water bottle in the room with me. (In an emergency, waiting for a teacher to relieve me so I can walk back to my office is not an option.) He simply put me on hall duty instead of proctoring. So simple! I am grateful for the support of my colleagues and our union.
I've never wished so hard for something to be scripted and not real. This is a hilarious treatment of something unfathomably dark and sinister. It's inhumane abuses against our most important professionals - those who educate our children. I'm so glad you all do this, because sometimes the only way to defeat the darkness is to make light of it.
@SmartMoufShirts I agree. Your comment is well said!
My principal sent me and the art teacher out to the PE field to watch for a tornado while the rest of the school were observing tornado protocol (away from windows, down on the floor, protecting their heads, etc). We did not even have a walkie talkie to report if we actually saw a tornado!
Why did you and the art teacher do as you were told and not tell that homicidal principle to f o ?
😱
The doctor’s note and so many others are so crazy…
The concussion one is crazy. I would’ve been cursing them out
😳 So crazy
When I was about 9 weeks pregnant, I thought I could hold it for the 20 minutes I had left until my class was in PE. I'd never been pregnant before and thought the uncontrollable bladder came later in pregnancy. Ended up peeing in my pants a little and running to the bathroom right outside my classroom door. There was a whole investigation for "abandoning" my class for less than 2 minutes. It got dropped, but I was so over teaching after that. I left on maternity leave and never went back. It took them until my baby was nearly 9 months old and I'd already taken my retirement early before they finally decided to drop it, too.
Replying to Teacher #1, what kind of narcissistic admin forces a teacher to buy a trampoline for her own classroom with her own money without reimbursement!? People ought to sue the daylights out of these deluded admins so they never see another day in a school office!
Seth Langston
That’s real life in some school districts… sue? Who has the time n the $$$ for that??
@claudiamcnal187 But something as non-essential as a trampoline? A line has to be drawn somewhere...
Once I woke up sick, and I asked the principal if I could miss work. He said no. I went to my first class and could barely stand, and none of my students wanted to come near me. They begged me to go home. I went and asked the school secretary, and she said to go home. I went home and my fever was 104!! The principal was so mad that I went home. Mind you, another teacher missed a lot when she was sick, and he didn't care that she missed. 😒
I'm an EBD teacher and needed an admin to come to my room because a student had an "episode". They sent the media specialist. 😑
Yea you can't force me to buy school supplies like a trampoline, with my money unless I CHOOSE to. That's ridiculous.
Was a teacher assistant I floated between classrooms once got written up because they told me I came up missing for 20 minutes going between classrooms I worked with a severely autistic and I had stomach issues. They said that was no excuse to have to be in the bathroom doing my business
No wonder there are so many teacher shortages! Not being able to being able to take care of basic necessities should be against the rules and their contracts. The teachers as a whole should start suing the schools and the district. This is one of the contributing factors why people don't want to teach, eating, drinking water and going to the bathroom should be done when it is needed.
Wow I'm glad I'm in the UK 😱
I was called within hours of return to my room after open hernia surgery. They need my lesson plans for the WEEK before 6:30 AM. My sub plans were unsatisfactory because I should know the young subs didn’t read or write cursive. Re-write then (entire week) legibly. On the third post-op day, a mother called me at 10:30 PM, asked questions that were between and my doctor, then insisted upon putting her 7 year old on the phone. He wanted to talk to me. “H-e-l-l-o? It was obvious them child did not want to talk to me.
How is supervising an exam incompatible with drinking water? As a student there were restrictions on bringing water bottles to exams (because some people hid notes on the label) but what is the teacher going to do with a water bottle that would interfere with their ability to watch students take a test?
If the water bottle doesn't *have* a label, there's no problem, right? Right?
@@nataliecarrington2550 I honestly don't remember how they resolved that. I haven't been inside a highschool in a couple of decades so I don't see exams (I teach primary so any tests are not that high stakes). I have a feeling no label probably was one of the solutions.
Aren’t all “emergency” sub plans “busy work” ?
Isn’t that kinda the point?
You don’t know when you’ll have an emergency and when it will fit into your planned curriculum…..
I had pneumonia. My doctor said to stay home for five days. The first day, I was inundated with parents and children emailing and my principal calling me to come in and fix what the subs had messed up. I had to go in on the second day. Then I was chastised because I had left my desk messy. 🙄
I saw y’all last night (December 8th) at the Count Basie…..GREAT SHOW!😂😂😂😂
Ah yes a few of my own admin requests. I was in the hospital for emergency surgery. While there, in the we, I was asked to submit sub plans. After I was cleared to return to work on light duty I was asked to be a sub for PE. I work in a good school but if admins are desperate they just don’t seem to hear how ridiculous their requests actually are.
I had to buy my own mousetraps and dispose of the mice. I put tape strips on the floor to catch the cockroaches. I taught thru power outages, gas leaks, no water, also a strange man walking around the building claiming to be Jesus. At least these were a "Jesus take the wheel," moments.
I was hoping to see you at Tysons!
I wish admin would make me put a trampoline in our room. My district won't let us, even if it would benefit my sensory seeking ASD kids. Occupation therapist had us remove any all sensory equipment over the last few years. 😤
@@amyclarkson2789 That's not the problem. The problem is that the admins forced her to buy one at her own expense, and they refused to reimburse her.
Parents are awful. Their kids are worse. Admin is beyond dumb and shortsighted. Everyone is against us.
What teacher doesn't keep a change of clothes and baby wipes at work? Students throw up on teachers and accidents do happen.
These are more sad than funny. 😢
Post up Geneva convention for prisoners rights in the office demand at least that, work your way up to United Nations human rights, then hit them with La Bohr code. Then the union can come in.
You TEACH people how to treat you!
I’m glad I didn’t become a teacher. Oh wadi I did. And I drank my water and peed when I needed.