Random conversations

[Mizmazzle]

Oh man!! Now I’m going to keep a fire extinguisher handy just so I can blast some of these kids when the opportunity arises!! I might even provoke Sergio so I can get a clean shot off on that fucker. That kid drives me up the GD wall!!

[popvulture]

Make me, Sergio!

[Mizmazzle]

Set scene:

Mr. Mizz approaches Sergio with fire extinguisher in hand.
Mr. Mizz: Hey Sergio, I heard Brenden called you short!
Sergio: What!? Brenden I’m gonna beat you up!!!

Mr. Mizz pulls the pin and the room fills with white powder!!

[Oaktavia]

@Mizmazzle YER DONE SON!

[Mizmazzle]

@Oaktavia best new catch phrase, ever!!! Like Clint Eastwood meets 50 Cent…and just a touch of Mr. Rodgers, because after all, we do care…a little.

[Oaktavia]

@Mizmazzle haha fantastic tripling of personalities, I dig it. FWIW I just found out I am only teaching 6th grade next year so no more 8th grade fights for the foreseeable future (in my classroom at least).

[Mizmazzle]

@Oaktavia I see…how do you feel about that? Besides the fighting part, of course.

I’m looking to change schools next year. Not sure which grade I’ll land in. 4th or 5th is my preference. I wouldn’t mind moving up to middle school. My license is K-6 though. So not sure it’s in the cards unless I add the endorsement to my current license.

[Oaktavia]

@Mizmazzle I am stoked, I prefer 6th grade to 7th or 8th, especially when the 6th graders are new. They are still pretty much 5th graders with an elementary mindset until they start to get comfortable. 8th grade has given me the most grief so far, although 7th was pretty close. knocks on wood.

What would you need to do to extend your cert to K-12?

[Mizmazzle]

@Oaktavia id need to take the Praxxis test to get the added endorsement. I love social studies. Think I may go that way if moving schools next year doesn’t alleviate the burnout I’m feeling in elementary.

[Luijim78]

@Oaktavia in Italy today a 17 year old boy sent a professor to hospital with a 10 day prognosis... things have changed a lot, and not just in America

[Oaktavia]

@Luijim78 wow that is terrible to hear that. Admittedly, I am in my own little bubble here.

[Matt]

Fuck that. I’d whoop a 10 year old’s ass. Knee to the chin MMA style.

[Matt]

Oh wait, I read that wrong. 17? He’d have to be real skinny.

[Tago Mago]

@Matt and not too tall

[Matt]

Right

[MisterEclectic]

Fellow teacher here. High school at an inner city school. This will likely be my last year in education - at least anything below college. Been in the thick of it for nearly nine years now, and it's pretty damn ludicrous. Recently watched a vid on Instagram by a teacher, and she suggested something brilliant: all adults in the U.S. should have to substitute teach to see what it's like. I feel your pain @Oaktavia and @Mizmazzle. Kudos to you for soldiering on. I think I'm done.

[goosehd]

@MisterEclectic You mean adults/parents take responsibility for their kids and their actions…that’s cra cra. /sarcasm intended!

[MisterEclectic]

@goosehd Wild, right?!? lol

[goosehd]

@MisterEclectic I know that’s it’s unacceptable to spank children now, but how about beating some of the parents asses.

In my school’s principals office growing up hung a wooden paddle behind his desk. I knew of no one who ever had it used on them. Every kid in that school feared it though…

[popvulture]

I taught motion graphics in community college for six years and it was the mildest experience, yet it still managed to drive me insane, so I have nothing but respect and admiration for y'all fighting it out in the high / middle school trenches haha.