Confessions of a teacher

[PenguinBear]

Saw this thread on a teaching forum and thought it might be good for the MN staffroom!!

Anyone want to start? :)

[ssd]

I don't know how you all do it without committing murder on a daily basis (confessions of a mum....)

but I'm glad you do

[Ohshitnamechange]

I already have a couple of favourites!

[PenguinBear]

Me too!

One of my TAs has a very negative opinion of some of the children as she moved up from the nursery with them and they would not behave for her. rolling around on the floor at carpet time was normal when with her. They have been lovely for me and very well behaved!

[2kidsintow]

I'm enjoying the fact that 2 particular pupils are no longer mine now they've moved up a year - although I do miss the class as a whole.

It's gratifying to hear that they are still up to the same old tricks with their new teacher and that it wasn't just me they acted up for.

[HeyMicky]

Colleagues in nearby rooms (so we could see each other's reactions) would send notes to each other talking about the kid delivering the note. So you'd open up the (sealed) note and it would say "looks like a frog, right?" and then you'd politely thank the student while trying not to snort with laughter at his goggly eyes

[AndThatsWhatIThinkOfYou]

heymicky - that's quite mean

[TigerSwallowTail]

That is horrid heymicky.

[EvilTwins]

I have two favourites. I've taught them for 3 yrs (they're now yr 10 - I've taught them since yr 7) and I am going to be GUTTED when they leave. And they know it.

[uneedme]

Heymicky thats just plain nasty. You don't deserve to be a teacher!

[SilverApples]

HeyMicky, that's vile.
WTF is a 'Social Media Manager' anyway?

[LuvMyBoyz]

You made me laugh, heymicky! When my partner and I worked in the same school we would send each other ridiculous notes with kids and once he rushed into my class, gave me a kiss and ran out again. Kids were shocked...they never realised we were married.

[LoopaDaLoopa]

oh good Lord this really isn't a good look. As a teacher, I think it prudent we don't spout this shit. Please. Casual racism and belittling of children simply isn't OK. Especially from a teacher.

[BsshBossh]

This is turning out to be a horrid thread...

[nomorecrumbs]

How is that post casual racism? The poster said it was a school with a high % of immigrants from a culture that intermarries frequently. That's not discrimination, that's an observation.

[missmapp]

I LOVE my current class and am thinking of ways of ensuring they never leave ( yr6) . Can I lose their secondary school applications- what do you reckon!! Looking at the current Yr5 , I am sorely tempted.

[TwllBach]

I secretly love it when a small child slips their hand in mine - I love that, in that second, they trust/like me enough to want to.

It makes me that, in my school, it is frowned upon.

[BitchyHen]

I am a TA in a PRU and secretly I worry about my students when I'm not at work. It's been raining all evening and I've been worrying about a couple of students who are likely to be outside. There are a few I would like provide a hot meal, a bath and clean clothes for.

[Morgause]

One of my mums was a wonderful dressmaker and made the most beautiful clothes for her daughter. The child was a little beauty as well and I couldn't resist sometimes sending her with a note to another teacher just so she could see how lovely the child looked before she wrecked the look at playtime.

Saw her recently and she's still a real beauty and still a scruff.