#tired teacher

[melusine0811]

Angry teacher rant ahead. And this is a doozy.

I woke this morning to an email to find that one of my most sensitive kids, who trusted me, had been suspended, along with her friend, for something that should not have ended in a suspension. In my class, both are stellar students, they chat a lot, but they are ELEVEN. One has a severe mental illness for which the behavior they displayed is a manifestation (severe panic disorder). And no one but someone who deals with any sort of mental illness would be able to pick this out, but of course I cannot out myself. And their parents can't pick it out either because they only took the kid to the psychiatrist ONCE to get a diagnosis and that was it.

I am so tired of watching adults AND kids I care about get hurt by people who don't have any fucking perception or any room for it- even those on an antidepressant (aka my brother)---they are almost worse because they're boxed in thinking "well if I can handle it, so and so shouldn't act like that." Adults are no better than my 11 year old students. And for my kids it's even harder to watch when it comes from people they trust. Sometimes it’s the 11 year olds that are most ready for empathy, as sad as it is. They forgive easily and love the most readily after it's all said and done. But they're the ones that get trampled on fastest all over again.

Hear me out:

All people, in all positions, especially teachers and those working closely with the wellbeing of other human beings (medical, social work, psychology, childcare, etc), should have to go through rigorous and comprehensive sensitivity training for mental illnesses just like they do for CPR, sexual harassment training, and diversity training. In fact, mental illness should be a MUCH LARGER part of diversity training. Anyone working in a clinical or medical field should have to spend a week (5 days) visiting each day the same psychiatric hospital, and actually TALK to the human beings in there. But of course the stigma still dictates that it's not important enough, and that we're invisible.

CHRONIC MENTAL ILLNESS IS A LEGITIMATE DISABILITY- I.E. severe depression, anxiety, OCD, ADHD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and many less common disorders. These disorders produce a massive array of behavioral consequences that constantly overlap. And demanding the same things from these students is just like demanding the same behavior of ALL students, no matter whether they have an IEP or 504.

***Every teacher and student in my school knows how to fight off a fucking gunman but not how to sensitively handle a twelve year old having a panic attack. In fact, other kids and even teachers would just laugh and blame the kid for not trying hard enough. ***

Every. Single. Action someone does, regardless of age, that you perceive as poor behavior, annoying, borderline irritating, negative, defiant, backtalking, rude, or even mean, or lashing out---and most especially if it's out of character for them---? It comes from a place of deep pain. It comes from a place of TRAUMA. Always. It's an even surer sign based on how they act afterwards. Do they not care? Do they go right on to the next dumbass thing? Or do they feel horrible about it, perhaps as if---hmmm--- they've been rejected before?

People do things and behave certain ways for a REASON. Throwing them into a suspension or separating them from others just isolates them and makes it worse. For kids and people who don't handle rejection, this causes ACTUAL PHYSICAL PAIN. I'm not saying you should put up with people's poor behavior. I am saying say your piece, tell them it's not okay, and then LET IT FUCKING GO afterwards. Because I guarantee you they will be having nightmares about it long after you will. People, especially kids, only act out around people they TRUST and can be vulnerable with, and the chances of something similar ever happening again are slim to none. If you are a parent, you know this to be true because your child is fine at school and can be a little shit sometimes at home.

Try, as hard as if may be for you, to see past it. Be bigger, you're not the one falling apart in that moment. Intervene. Because if this is something that is not a regular occurrence, that kid is careening towards a mental or behavioral breakdown. It costs you nothing but maybe your "pride" to back down and open yourselves to them. Maybe offer a hug instead sharp words. You would be shocked.

Years ago, I went on maternity leave. I had a 15 year old student named Dustin who I was very fond of. Dustin was autistic, he was gentle, and the other kids tormented him because of the way he talked and the fact that he was always filthy. He was bipolar. His father abused him and neglected him. He would come to my classroom just to sit and talk to me about Pokemon. I had no idea what he was talking about but I listened anyway. The person who replaced me during my maternity leave was, without exaggeration, an absolute bitch. She was a bitch when I was in high school and as far as I know she still is. She unsurprisingly triggered Dustin one day with her absolute insensitivity. A bunch of the other boys ganged up on him and told him they were going to beat him up the next day. The sub did NOTHING. Dustin brought a knife to school the next day to protect himself and he got expelled. There was nothing I could do when I got back. Dustin was killed five years later, hardly anyone ever showed that boy kindness.

Try to remember that the next time you push them aside, dismiss them, ignore their need for your reassurance especially in their time of deepest vulnerability. Because if that’s the case? You are not as special as you think you are— and you are faaar from the first that has dismissed their hurt, and you are only creating a hardened, more traumatized person much more quickly.

Adults especially should know better. Take care of our babies, people better fucking take care of mine. Adults should know better when it comes to each other, as well- fucking take care of each other, and open yourselves in others' time of need. I have seen so, so many forgotten people in the hospital.

#lauren rants #kids #teaching #students #also applicable for adults #tired teacher #tired of watching heartbreak #Mrs B bitches #to the shitty system #that doesn't support mental health in any way #also tired of people's attitude towards mental illness #because nobody really cares that much #and you just get used to it

[thetiredteacher]

No work to do this weekend? Yay!

Too tired to hold open my eyes at 6 pm on Friday? Boo!

#tiredteacher #tired teacher #tired teacher is tired #end of semester

[underpantsandoverbites]

#art teacher #tired teacher

[blondeweasel]

Generational Misunderstandings:

I was texting with my mom and we got into it a bit when I was explaining that I’m not trying to be unsocial or single my whole life I’m just literally exhausted and trying to find balance between work and life in my adulthood.

To her, I’m a hermit who holes up in my apartment and hisses at the sun but in reality I’m a burnt out mid 30s woman trying to stay above water.

By the time she was my age she was married with 2 kids already and when she married my dad she wasn’t teaching yet. Things were so different too. There wasn’t the crazy struggle of just working to survive until you find something you’re passionate about. Not to mention the economy is horrible and student debt and high prices and all the pressures from every which way to be “successful” and all that crap.

Being a young adult in this day and age is exhausting and draining and like fighting an uphill battle while thinking you’re doing it wrong because your parents did it just fine why can’t you.

But you don’t take into consideration that it really was different and easier for them in certain ways.

Like I don’t like the term boomer or degrading them for being born when they were but there really is a major generation gap that is happening and affecting us 20-30 somethings.

Being an adult right now is tough and yeah, I don’t get out much. But it’s not on purpose. I would love to be balanced and spend time with friends and have time to devote to a relationship but I’m so damn tired and it’s so damn hard.

I’m just trying to survive ya’ll. I’m not depressed or anything. I’m not hiding and afraid of commitment. I’m just tired.

But I’m trying my best gosh darn it!

#millennials #boomers #generation gap #young adults #adulthood #30somethings #just doing my best #even when I’m exhausted #teaching #tired teacher

[writcrwithin]

--Still feeling so sick.

Feverish really and then I have so much work to do. Sometimes I wonder if I should prioritize my health over my work, but then if I call out of work too much, they will start writing me up or my team will just say that they're always there for the kids even though they're sick and it will make me feel incompetent.

It's embarrassing truly that i'm being put on this "instructional plan" which is just a fancy way of micromanaging my teachings and my actions, but it is stressing me out so much. I truly do want to get out of being a teacher simply because of how complicated they're making it for me.

I have to journal DAILY. I barely have enough time to commit to blogging personally on here so how do I keep up with journaling?

I am literally working outside of my work hours and I barely have time for my son.

I'm going to stop here. I have complained and I have whined about my life so far. If you come across this post, just pray for me. While working i've just been listening to Surah Ar-Rahman so that helps because the person who is reciting it, his voice is so smooth and comforting.

I think that's what I just need to do, listen to Surahs even during work somehow, someway.

For now, if you come across this post, pray for me. I still have 3 more months until summer break. Also 3 more months before I graduate. Please pray for me. I don't want to lose my mind before the three months are over.

Any self-care tips for overwhelming work and school schedule? Any specific duas to help me overcome this sense of being overburdened with so much work and the people i'm currently working around?

Advice or anything will be appreicated. Thank you.

#Personal #Islam #Islamic advice #work #tired teacher

[depressed-teacher]

Why don’t you ask the teachers instead of the districts? You’ll find the truth there…

#teacher #tired teacher #depressed #depressed teacher #education #mass resignation

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

#selfie bee #hello friends!! how are you doing!! ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ #I'm very very tired today #I woke up very early today because I took a driving lesson! #I have had my licence for many many years now but I haven't driven in so long #and when I tried I just turned on the windshield wipers again and again #so I'm taking some refreshment lessons! I was really afraid of driving again but my new driving teacher is very nice (❁´‿`❁) #my last one scared me a little because he talked a lot about bathroom renovation #I just drove for an hour or so but I was so concentrated that I'm very tired now #I have another lesson tomorrow because I deleted every information in my brain about how to park a car #all those synapses are currently used to remember Godzilla facts #another big news!! #I saw a PHEASANT last week #we almost hit it with the car but luckly it remembered in time that it was a bird and flew away #I've NEVER seen a pheasant before!! ( ´ ▽ ` ) #I knew that pheasants were real because my favourite cartoon as a child was animals of farthing wood #and there's pheasants in it and then they get murdered and all the other animals are like 'oh well' #but I had never seen one! #I feel like a stronger person now #one that can drive a car #maybe even park one ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ #have a wonderful evening friends #<3

[thelien-art]

“Farewell, Aragorn! Go to Minas Tirith and save my people! I have failed.” “No!” said Aragorn, taking his hand and kissing his brow. “You have conquered. Few have gained such a victory. Be at peace! Minas Tirith shall not fall!” Boromir smiled. “Which way did they go? Was Frodo there?” said Aragorn. But Boromir did not speak again.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers.

#no that didnt not make me cry what do you mean #how could you guys even know i was rereading lotr #theyre already in gondor this just stayed with me okay #like last time #... #tolkien #jrr tolkien #lotr #lord of the rings #boromir #gondor #lotr art #tolkien art #digital art #my art #also my com broke so i was drawing in the lecture #my teacher even looked at me but i guess i looked tired enough so he didnt bother

[layraket]

late but yeah.... it is still 14 i swear....

gay rabits yes sirr

#Creatures Gang #linked universe #linked universe au #lu legend #lu ravio #cg legend #cg ravio #first time drawing him wohoh #lu sheerow #sheerow #he deserves his own tags #zelda au #i wanted to post this earlier. but. tired. #yeah just gonna say something that one of my teachers told us #every day can be valentine's day #you can show love in any ways you want #layraket art #ravioli ship #ravioli #FORGOT THE TAGS. #UHM. YEA #IM EEPY SORYR

[melusine0811]

You know, it's a pathetic fucking shame that I can't show a video tour or pictures of works inside the Louvre and the Musée D'Orsay to my students because there might be a female-presenting BOOB. This country is so fucked up when it comes to the female body it makes me sick.

#vent #tired teacher #hide it so that we can fetishize it #pathetic

[thetiredteacher]

Left something I need today at school. Today, I work from home, so I’m desperately trying to find a coworker on campus who can mule my stuff back from campus and save me the hour-plus commute to grab something off my desk. Wish me luck.🤞

#tiredteacher #tired teacher #getting that grading done

[suzyblue0292]

I know a lot of people hc Jason as an English teacher. I like it, I do. But let me be real with you 9 days out of 10 this is the conversation he comes home to:

“How was work?”

“I fucking miss being a crime lord. That’s how.”

#batman #dc comics #jason todd #red hood #Robin #this English teacher is tired y’all

[critter-covenant]

Class is in session!

Idea inspired from this that I've been meaning to draw for the past few days

#He'd be a half decent teacher except every other time someone tries to ask him a question outside of lectures he's asleep #Part time math teacher full time sleeper 👊👊 #ever so slightly lazier quality because I was tired when making this #Nearly fell asleep at my desk thrice oops #No sleep only catnap #Less lazy work when exam prep stops kicking my ass after late May yahoo #Still don't know how to draw critters from a behind and over the shoulder angle I'll figure that out someday #Going to bed first tho night chat👋 #poppy playtime fanart #poppy playtime chapter 3 #poppy playtime #smiling critters fanart #smiling critters #catnap #dogday #bobby bearhug #hoppy hopscotch #kickinchicken #Minor piggy and bubba not enough to tag me thinks #The critters playing school together and each one takes on the role of a different teacher for a while #he just has the patience for math

[assmaster-8000]

no because what if gojo satoru had found another special grade child. a child whom the jujutsu higher-ups wanted satoru to mentor because they'd be a useful trump card to the jujutsu society so naturally they'd want this child's talent to be honed till they potentially surpass satoru and be used. but satoru had seen too much of what this world had done to the person he'd love the most and he wouldn't ever be the one to subject another person to it like a tool. like a weapon. like a machine. so of course he takes them under his wing and gives them the guidance he never had, suguru never had. a 20 year old prodigy fresh with wounds of loss and grief taking in a child with greatness sitting on their head like a heavy crown cutting into their skin underneath his cape of power and blood stains. satoru is an enigma and even he himself doesn't know if it's because he wants to mold more strong jujutsu sorcerers who will change this world (because what greater irony than the child you wanted to utilize like a cold knife being the one to bring reform right to your door?), or if he wants to give them everything everyone else didn't have (please, he can't have someone follow in suguru's footsteps.), or if being number 1 was too tiring for him (but he doesn't know if it's selfish bringing them up to this blinding spotlight.)

years pass and he vehemently denies the higher ups control over his protégé, his student, his brat. he'll give them control and the means to break out of the shackles of this damned hierarchy. and even if satoru cannot outwardly say it, they're his child. as though he was there at their birth and has been ever since. his child and his best friend and he's their father and their best friend. it's either he sees too much of himself in them or too much of suguru because they're rising to the top fast and he's proud of them and so full of dangerous hope their wings aren't made of wax. (but he'll be there to catch them if they'll ever fall, of course!) they're so strong now. if he was blessed by the heavens and the earth then perhaps they were born of it because look at them go! giving the great gojo satoru a run for his money! not everyone can do that, you know? they're such a great student and person! isn't he such a great mentor?!

so he decides to have faith in them. bring them along with him to shibuya to deal with those reports of special grade curses he was being told about. this is how your teacher deals with these curses! better watch closely because you'll probably have to do it too! he has them positioned on the sidelines to ensure the civilians aren't hurt and if anything, to aid him because they're gonna be the strongest some day too so they can't be lazing a round on their ass all the time.

and they're doing so well until kenjaku comes along. satoru's breath stops and his heart rattles against the prison bars of his ribcage but it isn't the stupor of seeing his lost love that doomed him to the box. his special grade student lurches to -- what, attack kenjaku? pull satoru away? run? it didn't matter what. it was all a blur -- wards him and his body moves on an instinct that's even stronger that the compass needle pointing to suguru's body.

no, no.. that isn't suguru. it's his body and that's not him. somethings not right. but his student is right infront of him and that's them and he can't let anything bad happen to them now. flexing infront of his student can be saved for another day. but it's this mistake that ends up setting him right into kenjaku's trap and the box. the moment his gaze snaps to them and his body is torn between suguru infront of him and them kenjaku sees an opportunity and snaps it up like it's golden.

satoru doesn't even get the mere moment of chained freedom before he's fully trapped in the box. with the special grade student there, kenjaku needs to make it quick. make it count. he does. satoru is pulled into the box and satoru can't even say anything to his student. and he worries in his infinitesimal prison. satoru never usually worries unless if it's his leftovers have gone bad in the fridge.

they'll be alright.

they'll be alright.

they'll be alright, won't they?

they're strong.

they're capable.

they're smart.

he's raised them well they'll be okay they've got friends.

they'll do the right thing.

...

and when satoru finally exits the box he's sees faces changed. they tell him a lot about what they've been through, about what has changed since he's been gone, what changed about them.

he sees yuuji has been weathered with pain and a unique sense of hope.

he sees megumi has been puppeted with the strings of despair by sukuna.

he sees maki has faced the fiery trials and tribulations of this cruel world and bears it like her trophy.

he sees...

he sees nothing of his student. his special student. where are they? injured? somewhere off in the game? will they be back soon? time's a-running out, you know.

he sees the looks his students exchange and his heart drops. he knows. he knows. he knows what must've happened.

they're dead, aren't they?

and he's brought back to the time he carried riko's dead body in his arms and he was met with the disappearing suguru in the crowd and suguru slumped against the wall.

it's happened again.

they tell him they were a hero. that in satoru's absence, they did the heavy lifting and protected shibuya from the full-on destruction it would've suffered if not for them. that if not for them, the jujutsu world would've been left in even deeper disrepair. they saved some of their fellow sorcerers from certain death and suffering! they were the one to grapple with sukuna when he let all havoc ravage the city.

they paid with their life.

all because they were too worried about getting these normal civilians back home safe. about keeping their friends and mentors safe. and satoru wonders if there was someone else worrying about keeping them safe.

... atleast he didn't have to worry about them following in suguru's footsteps and the hatred of regular civilians. they were good of heart and soul. they were strong.

they did the right thing.

and satoru has a hard time wrapping his head around the fact that the person he's raised for, what, 10 years? is dead. gone. deceased. that's just preposterous! he was there when they were a snobby little kid and he was there when they were going through that awkward phase and he was there when they were learning more and more as a teenager and where are they now?

sukuna asks him that. "where's that miniature personification of yours? hah, don't tell me they died the last i saw them. have the special grades of this era started to slack off?"

satoru has all the more reason to kill sukuna now. he has to show his students who are watching that he can do it.

even if they will no longer watch him do anything.

#sorry this is really niche and short but like IMAGINE #im sick and tired of teacher satoru and student reader smuts #found family. #teacher satoru who sees so much in this child this prodigy this person who was born to walk the painful path he tred #and he knows he has to give them a better life and a deeper hope #the parentification of gojo satoru #and his deep despair he hides away and his emotional constipation and his jovial front and #he's far from the best parent but god. he's got to try. he needs to try. #the imperfect character of satoru and the grueling nature of parenthood is perfect #why isn't there more familial stories of him and reader #or an oc who has him as a father figure #FOOD FOR THOUGHT. WHY DONT MORE PEOPLE MAKE OCS LIKE THIS #gojou satoru x reader #gojo satoru #jjk spoilers #jjk #jjk gojo #jjk oc #satoru x reader #gojo x reader #gojo x reader platonic #gojo x reader familial #teacher!gojo x student!reader #idk id love to see an oc with a premise like this. they don't have to die they just have to be fucked up beyond repair #that it's almost like a death of their self to satoru. his golden student. his beloved. #jjk oc x character #jujutsu kaisen #oc ideas #sorry if this is ooc im chronically insane #im so sorry this is so badly written in my defense it was 5 am and i could not sleep unless i exterminated this thought

[queruloustea]

even with all its explosive jellyfish and charged lumaflies, i still find fog canyon and the teacher's archives to hold a rather relaxing atmosphere; nice to sketch :)

#hollow knight #quirrel #teacher's archives #this storyline makes me feel things could you tell #sketchy because im feeling very tired #queruloustea

[catboy-bride]

jerma update

he has a friend now :3

#jerma #jerma985 #jermaposting #miku #hatsune miku #JERMA AND MIKU #my advisory teacher is so tired #he thought it was funny tho