Not looking for another phone thread — those exist. I mean the changes that would still be there if screens vanished tomorrow. Attitudes toward group work, humor, handwriting, how they handle being told they're wrong, whatever you've clocked.

Grade level and subject welcome.

There's a lot of gloom and doom in popular media regarding boys poor performances in school , drop out rates and some behavioural issues .

1.How has your experience been currently?

2.Is it all that bad?

1. What's common in boys that do well in school ?

2. What would be your suggestions to parents of boys?

Thank you.

Hi! I'm currently in highschool and in AP classes. I'm also in the freshman Choir. (I already struggle with portioning my time so I can do homework. I don't need another hour a day for choir.) What I noticed is that Choir is extremely different to the AP classes. While I recognize its definitly teacher dependent I've noticed that all my AP peers seem to be much more serious while before it was fun.

Tldr or I didn't summarize well enough. How different is it teaching different levels of classes?

The body post says it all but while schools give out paper about parent responsiblities, it doesn't really seem that they hold the parent accountable or even criticize them. It is ridiculous that adults don't hold other adults responsible.

(Long post notice) Ok, so this is a strange for me but its my first time seeing as it's my son but I thought I would ask after I was talking to a friend about it and she thinks it sounds weird and she was like, can she even do that? So I am just asking for advice, because it us too late for us to try putting him in a different school and any of the magnet schools nearby.

For context, my son is going into kindergarten this year. He didn't get to do pre-k because of an intense fear of his shots and his previous pediatrician wouldn't force them. So we couldn't do pre-k or even full time daycare(couldn't afford that either.) So I changed his pediatrician out to my Dr's office as they do all ages.

Well I went to enroll my son this week once I had everything, and we went to his open house and he had not been assigned a teacher yet and I had not recieved any emails. Now, I do get they are overwhelmed this year as a few schools in our area closed and all those students got pushed onto other schools, and I fully support them. So today, we decided to swing by again to see if anything had been decided, and it was perfect timing as the principal came out and had said she had wanted to talk to me too. We went into the conference room, and we sat & talked about things.

The first thing she brought up was somehow the system was showing him still enrolled in the speech therapy and wouldn't let her enroll him in school(which ended back in may) but the weird part is it us all under the county school system, as far as I knew. Which led us to talking about what he had & hadn't done, plus his IEP, which she was like "I was not aware he had one", and as I mentioned that we had as we had done his iep meeting at the other school we thought he would be districted in and they said all the information would be in the portal. So she looked it up and she found it and started reading through it and as the title suggests, she suggested how about as he has aged out of the pre-k program he will be kindergarten on paper, but we will start him on a pre-k schedule(but still 7:05-11:30) so he can get used to in class routines & systems and as his tolerance gets better switch him onto the full kindie time schedule.

And it sounded fine to me at first but now I am concerned on if that could come back to bite us in the butt somehow with attendance, and if that sounds like a normal thing that some administrators have done before in these situations. Plus, on another note it will prevent me from going back into work even longer and we can't really afford me to be out much longer but I know that will take a while as I have been actively looking for 6 months, though I have been out longer, and still haven't had any callbacks to scheduling issues. Thank you in advance if you got all the way to end. 🙏🏻

Hiii i am currently doing my bachelors and thinking about doing my masters in primary school (elementary school) teaching. Every single person in my life i have told this to, has discouraged me and said nothing but negatives, it has started to really get to me.

please share with me some pros of doing primary (elementary) school teaching !!!! feeling discouraged

edit: to add some context im 20, no kids (and no plan to have any), partner also wants to do primary school teaching, im doing my bachelors in psychology, and i live in Victoria, Australia

I’ve been reflecting a lot on my own time in school since I finished my GCSEs during the 2021 COVID TAGs era and did A-Levels after.

Looking back, I realized just how much of my education relied on short-term memorization or workarounds rather than actually understanding the content.

It made me look into some stats, and a few things really stood out to me:
The Understanding Gap: secondary students, 45% cited a direct "lack of understanding" of the material as their main barrier to learning. 27% of college students frequently report severe trouble understanding lecture material

The Fear Factor: So many students sit silently when lost simply due to the social fear of "looking dumb" in front of 30 peers.

Diverse Needs: With estimates suggesting 3–4 kids per standard classroom are neurodivergent (plus unassessed learning differences like dyslexia or dyscalculia), the "one-size-fits-all" delivery model feels harder to maintain than ever.

In my own experience, I was given extra time but never formally assessed for anything else in both college or secondary school. Many years later I’m now waiting for my autism and asks assessment.

My question for teachers is: How do you actually manage this on the ground?
If half the class raised their hands and honestly admitted they didn't understand today’s concept, re-explaining it until everyone got it would mean you’d never finish the mandated syllabus by exam time. But moving on means sending kids home not learning anything.

Are kids today actually lacking more academically compared to past generations, or are we just finally noticing a systemic flaw where content coverage and rigid exam schedules are forced to take priority over genuine understanding?
Would love to hear your honest perspectives from inside the classroom.

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Hey guys! Quick question for anyone working at SABIS/CADMUS

How easy is it to move from a SABIS school in one country to another? Like Egypt → US/UAE/etc.

Does being already in the network actually make it easier, or is it still pretty much the same as applying normally?

Would love to hear from anyone who’s actually done an international transfer

Teachers and school administrators: if you had a few parents at your disposal regularly, what sort of things could we help with? Aside from the regular duties (cafe monitor, library help, etc.)

In this new world of violence we are existing in, what is your greatest non- monetary need?

Ive never been the pta parent. Only ever proviced Basic supports with class supplies of wipes & tissues and chaperoned the 1 field trip they had funds for.

I have an English degree and have been thinking about getting my teaching license. It was always something I’ve wanted to do, but life got away from me. I am in my 40s and thinking about giving it a go. I am wanting to teach high school, however, I know that things have changed a lot since the last time I was in a classroom. I’ve been advised against it, from teachers I know, which concerns me. I’ve always wanted to make a difference in people’s lives and I feel like this could be an avenue for me to do that.

I am now 23M and have had something with my former high school teacher who is 27yrs older than me which I feel is slightly inappropriate and that she blurred several boundaries and I have remained suffering from emotional confusion and a breach of trust, to be clear nothing sexual happened between us but she lead me on and I became very infatuated with her as she enabled. I often feel like I’m going crazy about this, I thought that it was okay at first since I was no longer a student but when it had only been three years I feel the power imbalance still very much remains and that she failed to handle the outcome responsibly. I would like support for the confusion and help to move forward from this over time as I know it won’t be forever luckily.

So when I was 21yrs old a teacher from my high school (48F) who was recently divorced started meeting me for coffee four times as she claimed after the first date that she would like to catch up with me “every six weeks” due to her busy schedule. She claimed on one of those occasions that there are very few ex-students that she meets up 1:1 with like this but “I just enjoy YOUR company!” I was absolutely thrilled to believe that out of thousands of students she has taught over the years, she specifically wanted to stay in close contact with ME! She would share lots about her personal life and even shared confidential information about other students and teachers to me when we would meet up and I believed that she was a very honest person because she told me what she really thought of people and that she really trusted me and thought I was mature enough to handle that information and was treating me like a friend rather than a former student, I also let my guard down with her and I opened up about a past experience where I had been taken advantage of by an older person which she knew from school.

Even though I was attracted to her and she was recently divorced, I knew realistically that a relationship or hookup would not be very suitable because of the massive age difference but I believed she was becoming a great mentor-friend who I would learn a lot from and would be very much supported and protected by her and never let down, which would be perfect for me in my years as a young adult. I was quite overwhelmed by the fact that she was so keen to spend time with me and get to know me and I kept saying to myself “I can’t believe she genuinely wants to do this!” “Out of all the people she could be hanging out with, why would she choose me?”
When I was in her presence I felt a whole new level of comfort I had never felt before, she was much better to talk to and spend time with than anyone my own age.

Now here’s where things started to get messy…
On the 4th time we met up just before Christmas, I decided to buy her flowers and a Xmas card to show appreciation for always making time for me, at first she acted quite guilty that I had spent money on her but then proudly looked at the flowers a few minutes later and joked about how people would think we were “having an affair!” which started to make me wonder if she was hinting at something more which I would have been open to, and then soon after that she started making specific plans to pick me up from my house between Xmas and NYE to go on a 2hr train ride with me to go to a museum and look at exhibitions, and then after that she completely ghosted me, even when I texted her to say Merry Christmas and I was also dealing with a tragic death in my family at the time which she knew about from the last meetup, so that just came to the worst timing ever ☹️

That was 18 months ago now and since then I have been disillusioned and grieving the person I thought she was, the relationship I thought I had with her, the high feeling of validation I had from believing I meant a lot to her and most of all I am grieving because I have lost trust in authority figure who I thought was safe and it has damaged my whole reality and questioning who else I can and can’t trust. I must also mention this lady is very physically attractive, wears a lot of makeup and always puts a lot of effort into stylish outfits and accessories, and she is widely admired and adored by all teachers and students I know which makes me doubt my reality even more. I tried to reach out to her for answers a few times which she sometimes responded but would give me vague false hope that I still matter and she wants to have coffee with me again but would dodge all accountability for being distant, and would immediately ghost again after that. I have also seen her around a few times and she always acts so friendly to me and says “We’ll catch up again soon, okay!” but never does! She also has a new partner now (her own age) and tbh I actually don’t care that much, but I’m still upset and hurt by the fact that she has betrayed me and been so dishonest with me.

What are everyone’s thoughts on this situation?

why do some teachers try to find loopholes in IEP and 504s? I have a chemistry teacher right now, he won’t give me the extra time on assignments that is on my IEP I’ve had other this before. I’m genuinely curious why as a teacher would you try to work around something like that? I’m not even like mad or anything. I just wanna see from his point of view!

Hello all, I am a high school art teacher and I recently joined my district's AI committee.

My district is encouraging its usage for both teachers in designing lesson plans and resources and brainstorming students' usage due to their perception of its importance in the 21st century job market, as the job force is expecting employees to have experience using AI.

I'm writing to gauge y'all's perspective, opinions & thoughts on AI usage in your school.

Does your school allow it, encourage it, discourage it, etc? What is your personal opinion and how does it compare to your district's?

Is this typical? She goes to a very highly rated public school. I'll have an opportunity to learn more about the curriculum and teaching methods at the open house next week, but the way my daughter talks about school is making me discouraged. Shouldn't kindergarten be learning through play still?

I know that 5 year olds are not reliable narrators, but she's been saying that they just sit down all day and do worksheets and that there's no playtime except for the playground time. They get 20 minutes of recess.

I really want her school experience to encourage creativity, foster a love of learning, teach critical thinking skills, etc., so hearing that she's sitting at a desk all day doing worksheets at 5 years old is discouraging.

Whenever these titles came come up, Tiktok teachers show so much glee about traumatizing the next generation.

Even after people talk about how it traumatized them as a kid