You do use it. You just did.

Jesus christ you dick. Way to show what a piece of shit you are by using the word “retard” as an insult.

Jesus, thank you. The venting is often what makes it possible to act properly with the students.

Eh. I’m a teacher and I’m sure I’ve called a kid a fucking idiot in private before. I’ve never said I’d hit them, but yeah, sometimes you’re exasperated because teaching is really fucking hard. Still, I can do that AND also be very respectful at my job and dedicate some time to every student to find out wtf is going…

Then I guess you're not most teachers. But in all seriousness, what age group do you teach? For me, imo, children act like children because they're children. I don't feel the same way for teens. At that age, you should have some inkling of an idea that what you do affects others around you. They can't be 'acting like…

You’re absolutely right. At the same time, I don’t think you can really call yourself a teacher if you’ve never thought “what an asshole” about a student.

It’s more important to learn how to learn - how to find solutions to new problems, not memorize solutions to old ones. If the system has failed to teach a student how to find information they need without having it spoon-fed to them, then that’s an indictment of the entire educational system they have been raised…

Guess, what. They don’t. They’re blowing off steam because it’s a stressful job. Jesus Christ.

It is not a high school teacher’s fault that a student does not know anything about proofreading or spelling.

how do you know these weren’t ‘genuine’ wishes?

How do you know these were ‘genuine’ wishes and not just stress-venting? (Yes, I’m a teacher. I’ve never said anything like wishing physical harm or failure on a student, but I have said things like, X is driving me crazy! when really I was just some combination of exasperated/frustrated.)

Oh, boy. Popcorn gifs about how the comments are about to get all crazy aside, let’s actually talk about the problem here.

Right, and I thought “commence the flogging” was actually kind of funny. Clearly they are just stressed and venting. And this doesn’t seem like a school in a poor struggling area. It seems like the teachers would already get a lot of shit from little Hudson and McKayla and Breckton’s probably rich parents. Rhode…

I was building confidence, slowly and surely, but now they’ve wrecked that with a few messages.

I hate this mythology that teachers are these self-sacrificing saints who teach only for the love of it. It’s an often thankless and underpaid job that is discussed in the public narrative as some sort of a problem profession who should probably be paid even less, so, yeah, teachers need to blow off some steam…

We tried intelligent conversation. It was called a “filibuster” and the Republicans wiped their asses with it.

Sit-ins were an essential reason why the civil rights movement of the 1960s succeeded, and John Lewis was one of the men who made it happen. So you can stop talking now.

You are a terrifying person.

This is one horror trope that I actually find really scary, and have an irrational fear that some day there could be a secret person in my house.

I’ve lost two jobs solely based on the reporting of my case.