Random conversations
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Make me, Sergio!
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@Mizmazzle YER DONE SON!
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@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).
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@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.
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@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?
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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.
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@MisterEclectic You mean adults/parents take responsibility for their kids and their actions…that’s cra cra. /sarcasm intended!
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@goosehd Wild, right?!? lol
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@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…
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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.
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@goosehd That made me laugh hard!
Yeah, my wife and I don't utilize that method of correction for our kids, though that is what I grew up with. My grandma used to tell me about the Catholic nuns at her elementary school in San Francisco - they'd use a ruler on kids' hands, paddles, and all varieties of corporal punishment. I'd say we've come a long way. Sadly, we appear to have gone too far in some regards. I have a coworker who broke up a fight in his classroom, and one of the students threatened to shoot him. Kid got suspended for a few days and was back in his class. Blows my mind.
