Teachers.......what is the the craziest thing that you had to deal with today?

Question

I need a little laugh today. We're only two weeks into the school year......I've always loved my job, but this year is more difficult than other recent years.

The craziest thing that happened to me today is......one of my students stepped on my foot, turned around, and accused me of tripping HIM! I couldn't believe it! Needless to say, he ended up getting a check mark (for disrespectful behavior) on our discipline plan sheet.

What about you?

Answer 1

My afternoon duty is in the hall that all the school bus riders pass through at the end of the day to get to gym (where they divide into bus routes). My job is to keep the kids moving. There's this one kid, I don't know his name, that asks me everyday, "can I go home now?"

I am an inclusion teacher, so I travel around the school and spend a lot of time in other teachers' classrooms, so I got a laptop computer last year. There's this one girl who asks me if she can have my computer everytime she sees me. I thought she would get over it over the summer, but no. She's asked me the same question about 100 times these past two weeks. I try to ignore her, but it just continues.

I called another school not in my district the other day to request a specific record that was not sent over with the rest of the file when a student transferred to my school (I do the school's ESL program, and I keep track of the paperwork for that program). When I told the receptionist the student's name, she insisted that the student was not an ESL student because the last name was not Hispanic. I insisted that the student was ESL, just not a Spanish-speaker. She did not believe me and looked the child up in her computer and insisted that the child's 1st language was English. I taught the child's brother two years ago, so I know the family's history, which I continued to explain to the lady as well as the fact that I had ESL files on the student from the school that this lady worked for, if she would just stop being stupid and put me through to someone who was actually willing to help me rather than argue with me it would be much appreciated.

Answer 2

Well I will have to use an example from earlier in the week because its one for the "Teacher's Book of Laughs".

I am a first grade teacher. We are all at lunch and an older student comes to tell me that one of my students broke the toilet because he was standing on it. I am thinking that the seat feel off or something fairly simple.

No. The ENTIRE urinal has come out of the wall and is only attached by pipes. The little one is balling his poor little eyes out (I felt terrible for him) holding the thing up. So, I hold the urinal up (which still has PEE in it because he didn't flush). I decided that it really wasn't that heavy (10 15 lbs tops) because most of the weight is being put on the pipes, but if we were to leave it, it would fall out of the wall and probably cause a pipe to burst and have a lovely shower in the bathroom.

So I have the student (who really is big for his age) hold it again and tell him I will go get help from the custodian....which took a good 5 minutes to find him.

Finally the boy gets to let go of the thing. I walk him down to the office and set him outside while I let the principal know what happened and that he held it and all. We decide that holding the stupid thing is punishment enough, but we need to call his parents to let them know about it. They were needlessly to say a bit upset, but did find the humor in it as well.

EDIT-Wow Big Blue, it sounds like there are a lot of problems in your school system. Why do you stay?

Answer 3

This is the end of my first week. I had to deal with hateful parents, argumentative coworkers, and administrators/department heads with authoritative behaviors. I'm not going to talk about the children this week.

Answer 4

One of the kids in my class told the gym teacher that someone called him the "E word." She had him whisper the e word in her ear. Apparently the e word is "eediot."

He he.