Monday Night with a Teacher

agcy68

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My wife is an elementary teacher. During our evening conversations, I get to hear about her day which usually centers around kids in school. Most nights it varies, but lately Monday nights have been a lot of examples of deprogramming kids from their weekend excesses, especially negotiating.

I don't know exactly what happens at home with these kids, and it isn't every kid, but there must be a lot of negotiating at home. I can only imagine that maybe parents say its bedtime and the kids negotiate to stay up later, or maybe push back on what is for supper, or maybe don't want to do chores, or when to get up in the morning, or want a snack before dinner, or... but - holy cow - Mondays for her end up being a lot of retraining kids on the expectations of being in a class room with a few 'because I said so' sprinkled in just to keep the classroom on track.
 
I'm in education--the word 'no' gets some sideways looks sometimes.

I work in one spot in which I get a lot of comments like 'Oh those are good kids' and I won't get into what that's based on, but they're the worst behaved by far. They're told they're good and everything's great all the time so ignoring adults and talking back gets a pass.

It's a societal issue imo which trickles down to kids. We've trained ourselves that we have to do and see everything, and everyone needs to be really impressed by it and if they're not, it's a really bad day.
 
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Me reading this thread after reading the title:

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Would have hated to have been a teacher at Ames Middle School yesterday. Seems a student brought a crowbar with them and started busting windows. The school went on lockdown for like 90 minutes.
 
The crowbar thing sounds like the devious licks tiktok trend. Kids at my daughter's school stained the girls bathroom with red koolaid cause they wanted to make it look like a girl apparently exploded with her period. Several were suspended
 
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My wife was a teacher associate for a few years at a middle school. The kids she would work with would improve throughout the week, but the weekend was like a reset button. All of their bad habits would return on Monday.
 
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My niece taught for a year after college. She said she enjoyed teaching but hated the discipline issues so she then went back and got her masters.
 
I don't teach but I've coached a handful of my kids' teams. It's not a good feeling when you realize a kid legitimately just does not give a **** what you say. There's nothing quite like telling little Tommy to hustle over and having him look at you with that "the **** did you just say to me, old man?" look.

At risk of sounding all "back in the good ol' days", I can't imagine a young Clonefan32, or really anyone I knew for that matter, being so brazenly defiant. But at some point things shifted with kids defiance increasing and parents desire to do anything more than defend their child decreasing.
 
The crowbar thing sounds like the devious licks tiktok trend. Kids at my daughter's school stained the girls bathroom with red koolaid cause they wanted to make it look like a girl apparently exploded with her period. Several were suspended
Devious licks is a serious thing and one of the ******* stupidest trends I’ve ever seen.
 
I'm in education--the word 'no' gets some sideways looks sometimes.

I work in one spot in which I get a lot of comments like 'Oh those are good kids' and I won't get into what that's based on, but they're the worst behaved by far. They're told they're good and everything's great all the time so ignoring adults and talking back gets a pass.

It's a societal issue imo which trickles down to kids. We've trained ourselves that we have to do and see everything, and everyone needs to be really impressed by it and if they're not, it's a really bad day.

This is a big piece of the problem. You can't just throw everything out the window because it's the weekend, especially when you kids are in elementary or younger. Devices are a big problem too. I know way too many little kids who have 100% complete access to electronics. These kids are allowed to take their ipad or kindle with them to bed and the parents have no clue if or when they actually go to sleep. I just have to laugh because my sister is an educator and her kids have no consistency in their daily lives. Her of all people should know that this is a disaster but her FOMO is more important...
 

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