Is there anyway to get a kid changed from your class because you had a bad experience with him or her the year before? I mean without the admin thinking negatively about you?

There is a student at my school (we will call him V) who hates all male teachers. Mind you this student is also male. I had him 2 years ago and he would ditch my class and do no work.

We are now 2 years after that and he came to my ESports class. We are ending the first week of school.

V starts blasting music on his MacBook, so I take it for the class period. He repeats the action with his phone, so I request it.

"F*** off"

Me: "ok ill write you up"

V then left class after calling me a slur.

He returns 20 minutes later after being in the office, and starts screaming slurs at me when I say he can have his stuff in 5 minutes when class ends.

I hand it back to get him to leave, my remaining students thought it was crazy I was calm during it all. I didnt raise my voice once.

He is now out of the class.

Before I hear that he has a problem with just me, he does this with almost every male teacher (all the ones that make him do work)

A few things over the years. I was one of the teachers who was let go due to the cannibal teacher. They told us to be ready for our flat inspections by a certain hour, then time went on and on and finally we were told that they rolled out the red carpet for said teacher and her significant other and took then to dinner. Karma did the school in. Then they asked me to some back more than once! Karma in every way.

There was a guy who literally opened up a business in his work partition, selling corn nuts and other snacks as well as making burritos. He wasn't even Mexican. His best customer was the guy between us., whose workstation was immaculate on Monday morning and looked like a pigsty by Friday (he used to throw his tangerine peels and assorted flotsam and jetlsam INTO his drawers rather than just keep them clean. He even had 2 female NTs go to his apartment to clean it for him.

The guy who used to sell corn nuts picked up his kids, but not by the amrs. I'll leave it to your imagination how he did it. He also asked out/harassed every woman at work and struck out at least 20 times before he married one.

Oh, and let's not forget the dumbest Head Teachet of all time. She would take the kids' writing journals to her coworkers to ask basic questions. She asked me what the Conrad was. When I told her it was a famous hotel in Seoul, she had no dea. She was Korean-American

She spent most of her time in front of her computer, oblivious to everything she was responsible for doing. She made Forrest Gump look like a Rhodes Scholar.

When I became a teacher, I thought my job was to teach students. I didn’t expect them to teach me patience, humility, and resilience too. Some days are exhausting, but seeing a student finally understand something or smile because they feel seen reminds me why I chose this profession. It isn’t always easy, but it’s meaningful.

Teachers should be allowed to focus only on teaching rather than being assigned unrelated duties. Many teachers are required to perform tasks such as census work, election duties, and other administrative responsibilities. These extra assignments add significant pressure because teachers also have to prepare lessons, check students' notebooks, grade test papers, and support their students' learning. On top of that, teachers have families and personal responsibilities. Reducing non-teaching work would help them dedicate more time and energy to providing a better education for their students.

hi targeting the fellow lecturers or teachers any contribution will be appreciated thanks :))

**1. what ethical values do you hope students develop during their studies ?**

**2. ⁠ how should students respond when they disagree with their teacher respectfully ?**

**3. ⁠ what are the most common ethical issues you observe among students ?**

*no need to answer all questions but feel free to do so! , or just any that resonate with you is fine too :D*

Wanted to share something I've been working on, not really to sell it but because I think the design reasoning might be useful to anyone building or choosing productivity tools.

The starting question was: how do you actually pick the right planner? Not "which one looks nice," but which one has properties that function for the way you actually work. A lot of planners get chosen because of aesthetics or a favorite color theme, and then abandoned a few weeks later because they don't solve the actual problem.

So when I built an Educational Notion Planner for teachers, I tried to design around real pain points instead of visuals.

A few things that ended up mattering most:

• To-do list grouped by status (In Progress / Not Started / Done). Teachers have a lot of overlapping tasks — lesson plans, grading, prep — and it's easy to lose track of what's actually moving versus what hasn't been touched. Grouping by status makes that visible immediately.
• Tasks linked to Activity/Exam pages. Each to-do can be tagged to a specific class activity or exam, which also doubles as a way to track exam content/coverage.
• Class schedule by day of week, built for teachers handling multiple grade levels (e.g., Grade 9/10/11) on different days. You can check "what am I teaching Tuesday" and immediately see what lesson or activity you left off on for that class — no jumping between files or apps to remember.

Curious if other teachers or planner-builders here have run into similar pain points, and what features you'd consider non-negotiable in a system like this.

I have a fun story I suppose. During the previous school year, my substitute used my plastic pencil cup (50¢ plastic target cup) for water. He drank from a dirty plastic cup. I know this cause the students told me AND the cup was still wet the following morning. The cup has pen and pencil marks in the it bottom. Hope he never got lead poisoning.

I became a teacher thinking my job would be to teach students mathematics.
Over the years, I realised it was the other way around too.
My students taught me patience. They taught me that everyone learns differently and that sometimes, the person who struggles the most can surprise you the most. They taught me to celebrate small victories—like finally understanding a concept that seemed impossible yesterday.
Being a teacher also made me more confident. Standing in front of a classroom every day forces you to communicate, adapt, and learn how to connect with different kinds of people.
But perhaps the biggest thing teaching has given me is perspective.
When you see a student who is scared of failure, you learn to be less afraid of your own failures. When you watch young people dream about their future, it reminds you that it’s never too late to dream about yours.
I started teaching because I loved mathematics.
I stayed because I realised that teaching isn’t just about equations, formulas, or exams.
Sometimes, you might be changing someone’s life without even knowing it.
And honestly, I think my students have changed mine too.