Instead of a baby monitor, I tie a string to my kids’ legs and run it down the stairs where it’s attached to a bell. If the bell rings, I know that my kids are up. I can normally just yank really hard on the string and it “trips” them back down into the bed where they’ll fall back asleep. Sometimes they get tangled…

A good teacher meets their students where they are at. If your high school students do not know how to proofread, ideally you would teach them. If they are poor spellers, there are ways to remediate that. At any rate, it is very unprofessional to speak that way about students.

Yes! It’s so important. It effects prosody and intonation so much, not to mention semantics.

People who work with teenagers should not think that they’re the worst. I’m a middle school teacher, and I understand that many of them are having a terrible time, but I’d rather be with them than two-year-olds, who are the actual worst. Teenagers are HILARIOUS and a fun challenge.

This is the kind of unprofessional shit you get when you have only young, inexperienced, sometimes virtually untrained people working in charters. I love young teachers, but you need some olds around to teach them the ropes (and how to not be a complete dick to frustrating kids).

At times, teachers do need to vent about students. It can be frustrating and wearing at times. The difference is we don’t wish them to fail or mock them for not knowing things. The things they were saying move past the line of venting to being mean. Frankly, they were dumb as hell to write it down.

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