{"id":290,"date":"2014-01-26T20:07:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T04:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.classcrown.com\/blog\/?p=290"},"modified":"2024-10-09T13:41:59","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T20:41:59","slug":"10-things-teachers-hate-to-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.classcrown.com\/blog\/10-things-teachers-hate-to-hear\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Things Teachers Hate to Hear"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. \u201cMy seat feels wet.\u201d<\/strong>
\nThis phrase strikes terror in the heart of any teacher.\u00a0 It means she must sanitize, figure out if there is a way to get the offender some dry clothes, and keep the other kids from making fun.\u00a0 Okay, confession.\u00a0 While I have heard many phrases with the same implication as this one, I must admit that I\u2019ve never heard this one.\u00a0 I uttered it.\u00a0 In first grade.\u00a0 You can blame my friend Valerie for repeatedly asking me to \u201cwait for her\u201d to finish what she was doing before accompanying me to the bathroom during recess.\u00a0 Why do girls like to go to the bathroom together, anyway?\u00a0 But I digress . . .<\/p>\n

2. \u201cMy mom said you were wrong about ______________.\u201d\u00a0 <\/strong>
\nEither way you slice it, this is a bad phrase to hear as a teacher.\u00a0 If you were right and the mom was wrong, you don\u2019t want to correct the child and offend the mother.\u00a0 If you happened to be wrong about something, you must admit to your student that you were wrong and that\u2019s just downright embarrassing.\u00a0 It\u2019s happened to me both ways.\u00a0 Excuse me for forgetting when polio was eradicated, University Professor Mommy.
\n
\n3. \u201cWhy is Hayden putting his face in the trash can?\u201d\u00a0 <\/strong>
\nThe dreaded stomach bug circulation.\u00a0 You are LUCKY if Hayden makes it to the trash can before he empties the contents of his stomach all over the room.<\/p>\n

4. \u201cMrs. L, Sara is giving herself a haircut.\u201d\u00a0 <\/strong>
\nOkay, in my case, Sara was named Brian.\u00a0 And he was 10.\u00a0 And his Momma was furious that I did not tell my fifth graders not to use their scissors to cut their hair.\u00a0 And she was even more furious that I do not have 32 pairs of eyes around the circumference of my head so that I could see that he was about to cut his hair and stop him.<\/p>\n

5. \u201cMrs. L., are you a virgin?\u201d\u00a0 <\/strong>
\nLong ago, before I was Mrs. L., and went by Ms. T.,\u00a0 I was asked this several times by my seventh graders.\u00a0 Now this is a conundrum.\u00a0 It\u2019s inappropriate for students to ask this, of course.\u00a0 But if you answer the question with, \u201cThat\u2019s inappropriate,\u201d the immediate response is, \u201cSo then you\u2019re not a virgin,\u201d followed by laughter.\u00a0 You can\u2019t win this battle.<\/p>\n

6. \u201cCan I wash off my rope burn?\u201d<\/strong>
\nIt is the WORST thing when one of your students gets hurt during recess.\u00a0 In my day, if you fell off the monkey bars during recess, you\u2019d stand up like a tough guy, brush yourself off and go about your day pretending you didn\u2019t just potentially break your wrist.\u00a0 Nowadays, if a kid gets rope burn from the jump rope accidentally being pulled across his legs by the kid who thinks it\u2019s his turn, he says he\u2019ll have his mom\u2019s lawyer call your mom\u2019s lawyer and somehow it\u2019s all probably the teacher\u2019s fault.\u00a0 And I\u2019m barely <\/i>exaggerating about this one.<\/p>\n

7. \u201cRING, RING, RING!\u201d<\/strong>
\nYou are in your groove.\u00a0 You are teaching solving 2-step equations and it seems like all of your students are engaged.\u00a0 The kid who never <\/i>raises his hand, raises it to answer your last question.\u00a0 You open your mouth to call on him and . . .
\n\u201cRing
\nRING
\nRIIIIIIINGGGGG!!!\u201d
\nYou are interrupted by the unscheduled fire drill.\u00a0 Or if you\u2019re in California, the earthquake drill.\u00a0 Or if you\u2019re in Arkansas, the tornado drill.\u00a0 You get the picture.\u00a0 It\u2019s sad.\u00a0 Oh, so sad.<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0\u201cBut my child always gets straight As.\u201d<\/strong>
\nIn my experience, most parents are reasonable about their child\u2019s grades.\u00a0 Once in a while, however, there comes a mother (or father) who thinks her child is the coming Messiah.\u00a0 There is no possible way that he didn\u2019t complete his Reader\u2019s Workshop assignment on time.\u00a0 There is no possible way that you reminded him 47 times that he needed to get cracking in order to meet his Reader\u2019s Workshop goal.\u00a0 There is no possible way that he deserves anything less than an A plus, plus.\u00a0 And if he didn\u2019t get an A plus plus, but rather a C average average, then you<\/i> must have made a mistake, because this child is special special, NOT average average.\u00a0\u00a0 So while you used to be appreciated and lauded as a great teacher, you clearly aren\u2019t one anymore.\u00a0 And the rest of the year is going to be made very difficult for you, you malevolent, mistaken teacher.<\/p>\n

9. \u201cLet\u2019s have a meeting about teaching the common core through realia and every day experiences.\u201d<\/strong>
\nNo matter how you feel about common core (or any of the other initiatives being pushed in your district), it is never fun to hear that there will be yet another meeting scheduled in which you will hear complaints from disgruntled teachers, and the same tired ideas you heard from administrators during your last meeting on the subject.<\/p>\n

10. \u201cI know we scheduled our parent-teacher conference weeks ago, but I need to reschedule to late afternoon on Friday.\u201d<\/strong>
\nAgain, the great majority of parents appreciate their children\u2019s teachers and are respectful of their time.\u00a0 But this is a post about things teacher hate to hear, and this one is at the top of my list.\u00a0 Some parents think that teachers punch in at 8:15 a.m., get several \u201cbreaks\u201d for recess and then go home at 2:15 p.m.\u00a0 They think that if they want a meeting with the teacher, it\u2019s no big deal, since she must have nothing better to do.\u00a0 These parents do not realize that you were up til 11:30 p.m. perfecting your math lesson or making it more accessible for kinesthetic learners.\u00a0 They do not realize that you arrived at school at 7:15 a.m. in order to set up the afternoon science experiment.\u00a0 They do not realize that you have several students stay after school and hang out in your classroom because they are craving adult attention.\u00a0 They do not realize that by 4:00 on Friday afternoon you are depleted of all energy and will be lucky if you can stay awake long enough to watch the movie you rented on Vudu that evening.<\/p>\n

But you know what?\u00a0 Even though teachers hate hearing these and many other things, the things that teachers love hearing (to come in a later post) make hearing these zingers well worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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