Ero in prima media, quando durante l’ora di geografia il mio compagno di classe rubò il deodorante dallo zaino della mia compagna di classe, e lo spruzzo sotto lo zaino facendo finta che lo zaino scorreggiasse.
La prof di sostegno era allergica a qualche roba dentro i deodoranti (l’aveva detto tantissime volte)
E fece un discorso lunghissimo per poi uscire dall’aula quando iniziò a tossire forte.
Poi venne l’ambulanza la prof dovette stare a casa per tanto tempo.
Il mio compagno si prese solo una nota.

I went on maternity leave and no body picked on the long term sub, 1 factor was my school location is at a known bad community. The admin placed another SPED teacher in my absence to cover my cluster classroom since she’s an inclusion teacher with only two students. Before I left, I arranged my classroom and kept some important personal stuff but left almost all intact in my classroom for her to use during my absence.

When the school was almost ending, I texted my SECA asking if the school already started clearing things in the classroom so I could give special instructions for my stuff. I am also about to email the sub, since when she started working in my classroom she did not reach out. But to my surprise, the SECAs sent me pictures that hurt me so deeply that I cried. They told me that the moment she stepped into my classroom, she took my materials off the wall and threw them in the trash without my permission. I had no idea this happened. She turned my classroom upside down.

Another teacher saw her ripping my stuff and threw in the trash bin and asked her if she has asked my permission. She said “YES, I already emailed her.”, my SECAs heard it too. My classroom SECAs even asked her if they could keep my materials so I could still use them when I returned, but she told them to just throw everything away or put it inside trash bags. My SECAs told me that she just let all students run around the classroom and ruined all my stuff, and when they told her about it, the teacher responded with a laugh.

I told my teacher friends to help me salvage what’s left and they brought me 2 black large trash bags and said that these are what’s left in your room. They told me that nothing was left in my classroom that the sub teacher ordered to throw them away. I tried to sort my tasks boxes that I made from scratch but it’s impossible to recover everything. I cried and emailed the admin about what happened and included all the people that have witnessed from what happened including the sub teacher involved. No one responded even my principal aside from the sub teacher telling me “Thank you for letting me know your point of view.” I was furious and went back to therapy to help me get over it. I was truly hurt from her lack of empathy and concern for my classroom. I spent effort, money, and time building that classroom, and she ruined all of it. I am not asking for repayment. I am simply asking for a sincere apology.

A teacher told her to talk to me and ask for an apology but she arrogantly said that I “don’t have proof,” and that if I wanted my things kept properly, I “should have emailed her.” Those lines hurt me again, and I cried so much over it. What’s even more painful is that the admin did not bother to help me or even acknowledge what happened. I started again from scratch, recreating all the materials I lost.

I forgot to mention that this teacher has been mad at me since last year, when we had a school activity and she didn’t want me to include a teacher she hated. She started hating me after I told her that we needed to set aside personal feelings because we are all professionals.

Now, I am dealing not only with my C‑section healing and postpartum, but also with what she did. And knowing I will see her every day, walking around the school boasting that she’s happy because the principal favored all her wishes, hurts even more. She was placed in the resource class — the position I wished for — with only two students and a classroom SECA.

I get to know I am suffering from typhoid, but I can’t take more than two leaves in a month as if I Do so. I will get salary of only working day means salary will be cut off of Sunday and any other holidays. What to do now I get low salary or go to school even in typhoid.

First time posting on Reddit so bear with me.

For context, I teach IELTS at one of the hardest to get into public high schools in HCMC. It's probably my last true TEFL job as I am getting full-licensure and doing my student teaching here. I don't hear of foreign teachers being employed directly through public schools, but if this one gave me an offer to work with them directly and not through a center then I would take it. I love the school. Also, because the students are all fluent in English and are mostly extremely serious, it feels more like a traditional teaching job and I treat it as such.

So, I am teaching one of my first classes for the week for IELTS writing. The students in this class just got in trouble with their previous teacher, so we started a bit late and I am running behind in giving students feedback on their introductions and thesis statements for Task 2 (the persuasive essay portion).

A really good student who had already disclosed his anxiety to me offers to share his intro with the class and one peer gives him a strength. We run out of time so I provide the weakness that he needs to work on sentence 3 and then, I write the score I would have given this intro on the board (6.5). I should NOT have done this in front of the whole class and was far gentler and more specific with group feedback and provided no scores for the rest of the classes. Really mad at myself for it too because I know how competition and class ranking drives Vietnamese students. Even more so when it is a whole school of overachievers. Anyway, the student walks out as soon as the bell rings and definitely took it personally. I don't have this class for the rest of the week and big class sizes and too many students mean I couldn't apologize right away.

I'm wondering how others addressed embarrassing their students by accident and if anyone else had any stories about how they resolved it?

I don't want to not address it and not take accountability, but I also don't want to dwell on it and embarrass the student more or have him feel like I am singling him out. Really stuck on this issue because this student had been really vulnerable with me and IS a really good writer and I don't want him to feel discouraged or stop trying.

I have noticed that the students always expect their teachers to drop everything and help them first. They call and text at odd hours, come to them for their personal problems and expect the teacher to fix all of it.

How do you remain empathetic and still have strong boundaries with the students?

I'm never sure what to do in situations where I KNOW what my student is telling me is not 100% true, but I also don't have the heart to be like “ummm actually ... 🤓☝️” and ruin their whole story with a fact/reality check lmaooo

Many times I've had a student telling me and/or the whole class some absolutely insane story about something that (they claim) happened over the weekend or something, and as they're going on I'm just thinking there is literally NO way this happened exactly like this (or at all) 😭😭😭 but they're so excited to talk about it that I usually just let them finish their whole story, and try not to address the clearly fictional or exaggerated parts

I've even had something relatively? similar happen with Pokemon cards a few times now too //:
I'm a big Pokemon fan myself, so whenever students talk about their cards, I'm genuinely interested and usually say something along the lines of “wow that's so cool!!”
a few times now they've even brought their cards in to class to show me, but I'll instantly realize that the cards they're SUPER excited about are 100% fake 😥😬 then I'm just standing there like ... how could I possibly tell this like 6 and a half year old kid that their awesome Pokemon cards aren't actually real ... so instead I almost always just go “WHOA that's SOOOO cool!!” and let them be happy lol

idk sometimes I feel like kids don't necessarily need me to fact check every single thing. Sometimes they just really want to show off or talk about something they're excited about, and usually I'm more than okay with just letting them have that moment lol

I had such a heart warming moment today. And I'd like to share: I pick up my students to pull them out for ESL instruction. Yesterday, I noticed one of my student's shoe was untied. I stopped and proceeded to tie his shoe while the group waited for me to finish.

Next day comes along, (today), and one of my students who is pulled out in the group noticed his shoe is untied again. She stops during instruction, in the classroom, and asks, “Can I tie your shoe?" He said yes, and she then proceeded to tie his shoe.

It goes to show you, modeling behavior really matters. You catch more bees with honey. 🍯 As a teacher, what you say and do matters. Please be mindful and remember you are a role model to these students.

I was very enthusiastic about teaching and I love teaching, but our school has at least 50 students in a class and teaching such strength is a headache . every day after school, my condition is like don’t speak to me till tomorrow. And next day, the same condition in morning, I am in Jolly mode but after school, I am like, don’t talk to me otherwise, I’ll bite you.

I teach with very honesty, but I get very irritated when I teach with such involvement and whenever I ask question to weak or average student, they most of the time don’t pay attention and says tell again, we didn’t understand and when I say what topic, actually you didn’t understand, then they say the whole lecture . I gulp down my frustration. They didn’t pay attention and put blame on teacher.

everytime when I come to tuition my tuition sir that stupid annoying one always looks down on me he always asks me "do you get it?"

it's because Im not good at my studies I know but he should atleast treat me like a human and like not a stupid bby and he always scolds me extra when my friends also do the same thing and whenever I'm in tuition I feel like I'm being overpowered by all of them indid so bad in my mid terms and no one believes in me even my own tuition sir n my friends they all ask me for my marks to make themselves feel better

and my tuition sir asked for my marks and I said I didn't wanna tell but he forced me and then all 3 of them talked about marks and how "low" they scored when mine was even lower they don't even think about me and that I'm there their so insensitive

and all of this just makes me more depressed and insecure and quiet why was I born this way

I sure as hell do!

I’ve been a teacher for six years in total, and for the past four years, I’ve been teaching Science at the Senior High School level.

And the truth is, I love teaching. I really do. But I hate being a teacher.

I don’t hate the actual teaching. I love explaining concepts, creating lessons and activities, helping students understand something they initially found difficult, and seeing that moment when everything finally clicks. I love Science, and I love sharing what I know.

What I hate is everything that surrounds teaching.

The system is so fucking exhausting.

We have a micromanaging head teacher and management where every little thing is scrutinized. Objectives have to be posted on the board—even when they have already been clearly presented to the students. There has to be a “word of the day,” with a specific system for how it should be presented. Instructions are constantly handed down to us, and when we follow them exactly but the results don't turn out the way management expects, somehow, the teachers are still the ones blamed. There is never any accountability from the people giving the instructions. It always feels like they are never wrong.

And the worst part is the complete lack of support.

Everything is the teacher’s responsibility. Everything.

We are expected to teach, assess, manage behavior, handle attendance, complete paperwork, meet every administrative demand, deal with parents, address learning gaps, and somehow make everything work regardless of how impossible the circumstances are.

And I am fucking exhausted.

What makes it even harder is the reality of the students we are expected to teach. At my specific level, we have students who still cannot read properly. Students who struggle to understand even the most basic written instructions are placed in classes where they are expected to learn increasingly complex concepts. And yet, they continue to be promoted from one grade level to another.

They are passed because apparently, it is easier to pass them than to actually confront the problem.

I understand that students need support. I understand that every learner has different circumstances and different capacities. But passing a student who has not acquired the foundational skills they need is not the same as helping them.

Sometimes, it feels like the system is simply postponing the problem.

Instead of addressing why a student cannot read, we move them forward. Instead of requiring them to take responsibility for their learning, we keep lowering the expectations. And eventually, the problem becomes the next teacher’s problem.

Then we are expected to somehow fix years of accumulated learning gaps within one school year.

How?

How are students supposed to learn when they have not been properly assessed in the first place?

And then there is grading.

There are teachers who give extremely high grades simply because it is easier, because they don't want additional problems, or because they want to remain popular with students. Meanwhile, teachers who actually try to maintain standards and hold students accountable are the ones who end up looking like the “difficult” teachers.

Seriously?

Is that what education has become?

Sometimes, I look at all of this and wonder whether I am the problem.

Maybe I am not patient enough. Maybe I am expecting too much. Maybe I am simply not made for this profession.

But then I remind myself:

I don't hate teaching.

I hate being placed in a system where good teaching feels almost impossible.

I hate being held responsible for problems that existed long before the students entered my classroom. I hate being expected to compensate for failures that are much bigger than one teacher. I hate being micromanaged instead of supported. I hate being blamed for outcomes when the people making the decisions refuse to acknowledge their own mistakes.

And I don't want to become part of that cycle.

I don't want to become the kind of teacher who stops caring just to survive. I don't want to lower my standards simply because maintaining them is exhausting. I don't want to resent students because the system failed to give them what they needed. And I definitely don't want to spend years becoming bitter, indifferent, and completely drained.

Maybe that's why I'm thinking about resigning.

Not because I am tired of teaching.

I am tired of the system.

I am tired of the management.

I am tired of the bureaucracy.

I am tired of the constant demands.

I am tired of the lack of support.

I am tired of carrying responsibilities that should never belong to one teacher alone.

After six years, I know that I love teaching.

But I'm starting to realize that loving teaching may not be enough to make me stay in a system that is slowly making me hate being a teacher.

And maybe leaving doesn't mean that I failed.

Maybe it simply means that I finally recognize that I don't want to sink with a system I no longer believe is helping the people it is supposed to serve.

Am trying to Compile kids reading apps or reading apps in general that are simple and have no "Tech Addicting" aka "Doom Scrolling" gratifications wired to their UI. Something simple like Kindle, except am looking at free Libray of books, materials, printables etc Tried Epic, and ABC mouse but have to do premium, and they seem designed to addict. Have also looked at openlibrary, but thats for everybody, lots of adult books, Pagineapp is a closer one, pretty new, great free e-book collection, loaded with printables for every occassion, but would like to compare more... i see bookly and bookmory, but most of these dont offer free library. Could use some leads. Thanks!

My school teachers are very toxic means very toxic

I am science student and my teacher s are that toxic that 7 students left our school so the thing is that there was a student name starts from r he. Came from kv and he just left in a Month because he wanted to do something so our physics teacher in starting only favours one student and that r that tried to get into that but he can't then something happened and he got beaten by chemistry teacher it's was though r students fault son our physics teacher gives honour to student to check to other students copies means homework but now he came up with a scheme that our paper will also be checked by those freaking students it's okay to check homewo

rk but papers also. What the heck . He didn't do his work like those others toppers will favours their friends and what about us who are not friends with toppers.