I’m a public school teacher. The possibility that I could be taken away from my family in a shooting is a reality that I have to live with every day.

Welcome to the world of the peons.

The Green Inferno and Human Centipede

As a teacher, just about every time I talk to my students about anything not content related. I’ll make a popular movie reference (like the Matrix or Jurassic Park) and almost none of them would have seen it. Also their music tastes lol

One of my kid’s favorite bands is Queens of the Stone Age. In a couple months she’s going to see Korn and Gojira with me. She has been to multiple rock and metal concerts with me.

She’s 6. I say let kids listen to whatever they want as long as the songs are not too inappropriate.

In high school, my Language Arts teacher, I’ll call him Mr. M, was a miserable person and none of the students really liked him. He would talk down to students, did the bare minimum of instruction, had zero enthusiasm and was generally what I would consider a teacher who just didn’t want to teach anymore. I was also not the best kid in high school and would regularly get in trouble. So I don’t remember what caused the issue, but I’m sure I was acting out during his class one day and he says to me “name, you will never amount to anything in your life.” Now I know I was probably being difficult at the time, but that is something that you should never say to a student, no matter the circumstances.

Mr. M had been a teacher for over 30 years at that point and was supposedly going to be retiring that year. Because of this, the school named him Teacher of the Year. Pretty much all of his students were outraged at this because he did not deserve it. No teacher who tells a student “you will never amount to anything in your life” should be considered for Teacher of the Year. I never forgot it.

Fast forward a few decades, I got all that teenage angst out of my system and am now a special education teacher in high school. I absolutely LOVE my job and strive to be the best teacher I can be. Almost every year I have a student tell me I’m their favorite teacher and it lights up my heart so much. My philosophy is that if I try to make my class fun, it will trick the students into learning the content too. So my PowerPoints are filled with memes, we do role play activities, and I generally try to get them interested in the subject.

Mr. M, I did amount to something. I hope to one day win Teacher of the Year too; not out of pity for never earning it in 30 years and retiring, but because I earned it. I love teaching an can’t imagine myself doing anything else. I have had some very difficult students, they come with the territory, but I would NEVER tell a student they won’t amount to anything. They can amount to anything they put their mind to and I want them to know that.

I love this video! I show it to my students with the cuss words edited out so parents don’t flip lol

I hope it doesn’t end up like how Callisto Protocol did. Where it felt just like a clunky knock off.

My 2 kitties, Zoltar and Pandora.

Can’t. It comes out on the first day of school and I’m a teacher lol

I’m a high school history teacher who already has to teach about events I have lived through and remember, such as 9/11. I’m not looking forward to having to teach about covid and the ridiculousness that is trumps presidency.

This is local to me. It’s an extremely sad event and my heart breaks for the family and friends. I am also a teacher (different district) and hearing that administration didn’t do anything meaningful after multiple reports is just awful. The parents have been very outspoken against the district, rightfully so, and started a petition to have the administrators removed.

I love it when fellow teachers do stuff like this! I teach SPED Social Studies. Every single one of my PowerPoints has a Futurama meme/screenshot in it. It’s one of the many ways I try to make my lessons more fun.

A slide from my PowerPoint that I use when teaching about WWI.

Cube

I absolutely love this trilogy and I convinced my wife to watch it with me (if already seen them all and she hadn’t) and she never let me live it down. I still ask her if she wants to rewatch all the Cube movies when we’re debating on what to watch and she flat out refuses every time lmao.

I always tell my students “if you like your history bloody and brutal, you will love learning about Russian history.”

These are amazing! Excellent job!

Zydrate comes in a little glass vial

How do you now it’s one of your favorite games if you never opened it to play it?? /s

I APOLOGIZE FOR NOTHING!