I used to teach in a school that let teachers create their own afterschool program for extra money. I ran a cursive club. For my pretest, I bought replicas of historical documents from Amazon . ( Ex. Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights, and the Gettysburg Address). All of them are in cursive. I laid them around on the tsbles and in pairs arned with a magnifying glass or sheet, they tried to read them. They couldn't. After weeks of teaching them cursive, I put out the replicas again. They could read it. That was my post test. 3)
I started lesson planning during staff meetings because it gave the appearance you are note taking but I'm still getting something done that they never gave us time to do.
While I am not a teacher, I work in higher education and have a child in elementary school. I appreciate all of your perspectives and your shows help me keep in mind what my son’s teachers are probably going through. Thank you for the laughs and for all you do for your kids ☀️
We had secret staff meeting bingo cards that we would mark as the speakers would say or things would happen like "data", break into small groups, somebody's phone goes off, someone leaves early, etc.
As someone who is struggling with school trying to become an educator, these comedy episodes bring me so much joy and motivate me to power through all of the challenges. Thank you! ❤
As a reading teacher, it is very sad that our kids don't know cursive. I was in a conference that says there is a part of the brain that is not being developed because of omitting cursive.
Omg! I cannot with you 3! 😂 💀 So one staff meeting that I will never forget is when we brought up the fact that due to behavior issues and lack of consequences (aka lack of admin support) our “good families” were leaving and what could we do to prevent anymore from leaving. That man literally said, “That’s why we have private schools. If their children can’t ignore the behavior problems they can send them to private schools.” Guess who was asked to leave a year later! It wasn’t the good families. Unfortunately 80% of the staff and more families left before he did (myself included).
That is another reason to learn cursive, for historical documents. Many primary sources were written in cursive. What if Dr. Henry Louis Gates did a " Finding Our Roots" episode on them and he asked them to read one of the pages about their ancestors, but couldn't? That would be embarrassing. 4)
I exclusively write in cursive for many reasons. When ai sub a class, there's always one student who blurts "I can't read cursive!" I give them a crash course, and if we get on signatures, I show them the difference in print, cursive, and signature.
I live in Australia, and in Primary school (grades prep - six) for our school stationary and books, we had to buy a specific book that teaches us how to write in cursive, and we would write in it almost every day, and it was very helpful when figuring out my signature later on. fyi, 'prep' stands for 'Preparatory' I believe, and so thats ages 5-6. Even when I'm writing now, I still connect some letters coz Im used to it, like whenever there are double 'L's' I connect them.
One welcome back meeting the superintendent had a team building exercise where we were to "look deeply into your partner's eyes and find their inner child ". This year our principal wanted volunteers for an egg throwing contest. . . With dead fish. I hate team building exercises.
In my school, actually a few days ago, we were talking about the Constitution and after talking about the people, like Hamilton, John Adams, ect, once the students heard John Hancock, a few laughed which got the teacher mad.
I had to laugh at the story of the quitting admin. I worked at a private school that had just opened and there were only two classrooms -- mine and the other teacher. One day the other teacher while passing by the office on her way to take the kids to PE breezed through and said, "Just so you know, I quit." Everyone thought she was joking until she didn't come back to work the next day or the day after that. Then the owner of the school approached me and said, "We're going to need you to teach both classrooms." So I did. Thankfully the owner also paid me double the salary. It was a crazy year!
For the cursive debate, I have always thought that cursive is important. I spent nearly the first decade of my career teaching 2nd and 3rd grades, which were traditionally it was taught. I later taught testing grades, there was no room to include it because it wasn't "tested". So there's a whole generation that didn’t learn it( young Millennials and old Zoomers).1)
On the packing up early thing! My bio teacher (10th grade), has us wait until we have 2 minutes left of class and we raise up 2 fingers to let her know. We can't pack up until she says we can. If somebody packs up before she says, then she has them take all their stuff back out and won't let the rest of the class pack up until that's done. Same thing with leaving class. Even if the bell rings, we can't leave until she says "Push your chairs in and have a great day!" If somebody tries to leave or is standing away from their seat, they have to walk back and nobody can leave until they do. Something you might want to implement Mr. Gabe!
When my mom was pregnant with me she workded in an office with quote a few men and there was one and he was always worring that her water broke. She would droo something, there he was in her doir way " did your water break?" And one day when my mom was in her 3rd trimester she poured water kn the carpet and yelled " OH NO MY WATER BROKE!!" And that poor man was panicking so much and she was just laughing so hard. We still talk about it to this day
34:05 my teacher's reason for teaching us the clock was that the digital clocks don't have seconds so if we wanted to be a doctor/nurse, we need to be able to see the seconds hand
You asked for ghost stories--- My school is extremely haunted. Bri, the trick to living with hauntings is to let them know you are not scared of them. I have had several different encounters and the more I call it as "hey that's cool" the less they try me. ;) We are a pre-k-12 school all on the same site. We have video of a kid following one of the janitors (there wasn't a kid there) and lots of prankster types who like to rattle door knobs. I have had things move in my classroom and get excited by it. I should also mention I teach on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation where there is a long history of tragedies. So seeing spirits is part of the norm here. Just ask the East River guy Gabe. ;)
38:20 I would find a super long song, making my slight disruption by being late into a long disruption. I would also be 1 min late on purpose until this rule went away because all meetings would effectively be delayed by like 5-10 min
My nephew, who is 14 didn't have a signature for the same reason. I definitely am trying to teach him at least what his name looks like in cursive so he can do what he wants with it. His name also starts with a G.
My daughters HS has analog clocks and none of them are correct. They aren't even wrong at the same time so you can calculate. So many teachers have gotten a digital because most are easier to find and cheaper
I remember we learned cursive in first grade in like 2010…that was the last time I remember. Now I have no idea how to write in cursive nor have a signature. I’m not a college student.
#PSA: As an American Sign Language interpreter/para I need to tell teachers PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE! Do not make a triangle (or in this case "piramid") with your thumbs and index finger together. WHY? That is a sign for a part of the anatomy. Now technically the way Gabe did it wasn't in the direction it's normaly held, BUT when a person who is fluent in ASL sees hearing people do that, we cringe.
I'm not a good singer, but that doesn't stop me. When I taught 2nd-4th graders, they'd sing with me. When I taught middle school, I'd used it s behavior modification. They took too long in the morning st their lockers and wouldn't get to class on time. So, I'd sing to them until they'd move. They hated it.
When I was HS there was a teacher who never wore padded bras she was a older lady anyway all 4 years of high school she she wore thin or what I have to assume were sports bras so she would literally walk around and you could see her nipples like the shape and they were always there and no one eve bothered to tell her I have now been out of school for 4 years and to this day she still walks around that way and its crazy bc we were not aloud to wear leggings, shorts or tank tops lmaooooo
I always looked at writing notes as writing the information on my brain. I cannot notetake on a computer. I’m too ADD for that. I need my colored pens and highlighters. When I’m tested I sometimes will see the page the answer is on in my notes in my head. I don’t see the answer, just everything around it, which usually gives me the answer.
Culotres are garments that look like a skirt in the front and shorts in the back. It has a kind of flap in the front that looks like a sarong. They were popular in the 1970s and 1980s. Not to be confused by skorts, which are shorts that are so full of fabric that from far away, they look like a skirt. They became popular in the 1990s. Some people use the words interchangeably, but they're not the same thing.
Where I live they are the opposite to what you said, culottes are shorts that are baggy enough (and the drape of them) that they look like a skirt, a skort is a pair of shorts that have an extra layer of material at the front to make them look like a skirt when you are looking from the front (but look like shorts from the back).
I have a cousin who is adopted. His birth father's family found him and reached out to him. They wrote a heartfelt note to him. It was in cursive. He couldn't read it. He was 27( He's 31 now.). So his mom( adopted), my aunt had to read it to him. 😮 2)
Ohhhh man. Yall would trip if you saw me on the daily. My first couple of years, I wore pin striped pants, nice shirt, always. After about 5 years of breaking up fights and sobbing with kids on a dirty floor, I transitioned to Nikes and jeans. I also wear hats a lot, am half tattooed and face pierced times 4. I will admit 100%, I did not get my job walking in as I am currently, with piercings in particular. I've also been in my school 12 years... I'm really bad about the dress end of things. Doesn't seem to bother anyone though. I'm also aware that most schools would not appreciate my appearance.
The funniest thing about our start of year staff meeting this year was that our new-ish principal was explaining his new motto for the year in a lot (!!!) of detail. None of us wanted it and none of us believed he would stick to the “we gotta communicate” spiel as he had never actually listened to most of our concerns before. The fun thing came a week later when he welcomed the new students to the school and gave exactly the same 45-minute talk to a bunch of fifth graders. It was hilarious how he believed they would listen. They did not listen any more than we did however they were not as polite about it. 🫣😂
Miss Richardson is back! I found this podcast through the "condolences to your puppy" clip and I've loved her ever since!
Yes she is!!! We’re so glad she’s back!!! 🥳 The condolences to your puppy joke is a classic! 🐶😂
Same! Lmao I just had to follow her after that
OMGosh yes, I love the condolences to your puppy clip 🤣🤣🤣 Whenever I think of her, I think of that yt short, its so funny
How can we find out who is going to be at which shows?
I used to teach in a school that let teachers create their own afterschool program for extra money. I ran a cursive club. For my pretest, I bought replicas of historical documents from Amazon . ( Ex. Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights, and the Gettysburg Address). All of them are in cursive. I laid them around on the tsbles and in pairs arned with a magnifying glass or sheet, they tried to read them. They couldn't. After weeks of teaching them cursive, I put out the replicas again. They could read it. That was my post test. 3)
I started lesson planning during staff meetings because it gave the appearance you are note taking but I'm still getting something done that they never gave us time to do.
LOL 😂 well played
😂
While I am not a teacher, I work in higher education and have a child in elementary school. I appreciate all of your perspectives and your shows help me keep in mind what my son’s teachers are probably going through. Thank you for the laughs and for all you do for your kids ☀️
We had secret staff meeting bingo cards that we would mark as the speakers would say or things would happen like "data", break into small groups, somebody's phone goes off, someone leaves early, etc.
LOL 😅 OH WOW
10/10 🎉
I need this for PD in the summer!
Yay Bri!! I love the full range of teachers but Bri just hits different.
Miss Richardson really said “guess who’s back, back again, bri is back tell a friend”
LOL😂🎉
So glad Bri is back with that infectious laugh ❤
She does have the best laugh 😂 🤣
Are we going to skate past the fact that Jess sung beautifully 😮
Who knew right?! 😮🙌🏾
You 3 are the GOAT of Bored Teachers!❤😂😂❤
Yes they are!!! The OGs are BACK! 🤩
For me, it all started with Bree! ❤️
I stopped watching the other group. They were a bit too much for me.
Agreed!!!
I am so glad bri is back!! this group plus tyler is the best!!❤
We’re so glad to have her back too!! 🤩
As someone who is struggling with school trying to become an educator, these comedy episodes bring me so much joy and motivate me to power through all of the challenges. Thank you! ❤
As a reading teacher, it is very sad that our kids don't know cursive. I was in a conference that says there is a part of the brain that is not being developed because of omitting cursive.
Plus these kids no longer know how to SIGN THEIR NAMES!!!!
Omg! I cannot with you 3! 😂 💀
So one staff meeting that I will never forget is when we brought up the fact that due to behavior issues and lack of consequences (aka lack of admin support) our “good families” were leaving and what could we do to prevent anymore from leaving. That man literally said, “That’s why we have private schools. If their children can’t ignore the behavior problems they can send them to private schools.” Guess who was asked to leave a year later! It wasn’t the good families. Unfortunately 80% of the staff and more families left before he did (myself included).
That is another reason to learn cursive, for historical documents. Many primary sources were written in cursive. What if Dr. Henry Louis Gates did a " Finding Our Roots" episode on them and he asked them to read one of the pages about their ancestors, but couldn't? That would be embarrassing. 4)
Not a teacher but i do work at a school, and i am obsessed with this podcast!!!
About cursive; on my baking subreddit, someone posted a picture of a recipe and asked for help reading it because it was in cursive. I cried 😢.
Yay!! My bri is back! Actually happy to see you all😂❤
YAY! We’re happy she’s back too!! 🤩
I exclusively write in cursive for many reasons. When ai sub a class, there's always one student who blurts "I can't read cursive!"
I give them a crash course, and if we get on signatures, I show them the difference in print, cursive, and signature.
Was getting use to seeing Tyler! He’s great! Hope he’ll be back! Gabe, Jess and Bri are great too!
He’ll be back! No worries. 🤗 Glad you’re enjoying the podcast!!
I live in Australia, and in Primary school (grades prep - six) for our school stationary and books, we had to buy a specific book that teaches us how to write in cursive, and we would write in it almost every day, and it was very helpful when figuring out my signature later on. fyi, 'prep' stands for 'Preparatory' I believe, and so thats ages 5-6. Even when I'm writing now, I still connect some letters coz Im used to it, like whenever there are double 'L's' I connect them.
Miss Richardson is back in the game!! Love listening ya’ll always amazing comedians ❤
One welcome back meeting the superintendent had a team building exercise where we were to "look deeply into your partner's eyes and find their inner child ". This year our principal wanted volunteers for an egg throwing contest. . . With dead fish. I hate team building exercises.
I had the Superintendent/Principal call the staff meeting to change evaluations. MOST teachers did. I REFUSED!!!
In my school, actually a few days ago, we were talking about the Constitution and after talking about the people, like Hamilton, John Adams, ect, once the students heard John Hancock, a few laughed which got the teacher mad.
I had to laugh at the story of the quitting admin. I worked at a private school that had just opened and there were only two classrooms -- mine and the other teacher. One day the other teacher while passing by the office on her way to take the kids to PE breezed through and said, "Just so you know, I quit." Everyone thought she was joking until she didn't come back to work the next day or the day after that. Then the owner of the school approached me and said, "We're going to need you to teach both classrooms." So I did. Thankfully the owner also paid me double the salary. It was a crazy year!
Love this trio….but what about Tyler???? Please tell me he’s coming back!!
Yes he will be! 🤗
Let’s gooo!!! Was literally waiting for the episode drop😂🎉
YAAASSS!!! 🤩 Thanks for your support!
I would LOVE a staff meeting where we did something FUN like a Kahoot! Instead of those STUPID “ice breakers”!
OH YEAH, WHAT A GREAT TRIO
i needed bri AND gabe BACK TOGETHER SINCE FOREVER, one min in im dying laughing 🤣🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣
@@authenticallyadhdwithcarme2203They’re hilarious together!!! 😂🤣
We love these three together too! 🥳
For the cursive debate, I have always thought that cursive is important. I spent nearly the first decade of my career teaching 2nd and 3rd grades, which were traditionally it was taught. I later taught testing grades, there was no room to include it because it wasn't "tested". So there's a whole generation that didn’t learn it( young Millennials and old Zoomers).1)
On the packing up early thing! My bio teacher (10th grade), has us wait until we have 2 minutes left of class and we raise up 2 fingers to let her know. We can't pack up until she says we can. If somebody packs up before she says, then she has them take all their stuff back out and won't let the rest of the class pack up until that's done. Same thing with leaving class. Even if the bell rings, we can't leave until she says "Push your chairs in and have a great day!" If somebody tries to leave or is standing away from their seat, they have to walk back and nobody can leave until they do. Something you might want to implement Mr. Gabe!
I also grew up in a fundie Baptist school. Skirts and dresses with shorts underneath because we were in elementary school. No pants/jeans for girls.
I'm in my first year of college for education and y'all have taught me so much. I appreciate it
When my mom was pregnant with me she workded in an office with quote a few men and there was one and he was always worring that her water broke. She would droo something, there he was in her doir way " did your water break?" And one day when my mom was in her 3rd trimester she poured water kn the carpet and yelled " OH NO MY WATER BROKE!!" And that poor man was panicking so much and she was just laughing so hard. We still talk about it to this day
34:05 my teacher's reason for teaching us the clock was that the digital clocks don't have seconds so if we wanted to be a doctor/nurse, we need to be able to see the seconds hand
You're coming to CENTRAL California! I'm so excited I don't have to travel to the Bay Area!
So happy to see this combination of hosts again!
Always enjoying a Good Sunday morning-to-noon watch/listening to an episode ;
We appreciate your support! Thank you for watching! 🎙️✨🤗
You asked for ghost stories--- My school is extremely haunted. Bri, the trick to living with hauntings is to let them know you are not scared of them. I have had several different encounters and the more I call it as "hey that's cool" the less they try me. ;) We are a pre-k-12 school all on the same site. We have video of a kid following one of the janitors (there wasn't a kid there) and lots of prankster types who like to rattle door knobs. I have had things move in my classroom and get excited by it. I should also mention I teach on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation where there is a long history of tragedies. So seeing spirits is part of the norm here. Just ask the East River guy Gabe. ;)
38:20 I would find a super long song, making my slight disruption by being late into a long disruption. I would also be 1 min late on purpose until this rule went away because all meetings would effectively be delayed by like 5-10 min
My nephew, who is 14 didn't have a signature for the same reason. I definitely am trying to teach him at least what his name looks like in cursive so he can do what he wants with it. His name also starts with a G.
It’s the Elizabeth Tower … but everyone calls it Big Ben
Ooo fun fact! 😮
i’m so happy bri is back!! i’ve missed herrr
i love you all so much! you are all so funny and relatable
My daughters HS has analog clocks and none of them are correct. They aren't even wrong at the same time so you can calculate. So many teachers have gotten a digital because most are easier to find and cheaper
So good to see u three this Sunday!! 🎉
We’re glad you’re here! 🤩
Here is my lesson plans
(pulls out post it notes) :D
I teach college and some of my students can’t read cursive. It’s become my superpower.
When I was in 5th (in 1987) grade my teacher taught my best friends Mom (age 37) when she was also in 5th grade.
A great way to start a Sunday is by listening to the teachers off duty podcast. I laugh til I cry with these 3 teachers.
So glad to hear that!!! 🤗🎙️✨
Yeah, every Sunday I eagerly wait for their new episode to drop
Me singing Malibu’s Most Wanted wit Bri and nobody else knowing it was diabolical 😑
I remember always looking at the clock above the door in the classroom to see how much time was left. 😂
LOL 😂 Hey we all did 😅
Yesssss Vegas !!
I remember we learned cursive in first grade in like 2010…that was the last time I remember. Now I have no idea how to write in cursive nor have a signature. I’m not a college student.
Goat after goat after goat appearing on this podcast let’s go 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Glad you’re enjoying it! 🤩🎙️✨
An orb is not a ghost. It's the reflection of a light source off a mote of dust.
Poop the potato game is a game with trash cans and throwing potatoes in them to get bad vibes out.
Bro is giving Gabe a taste of what his kids will say about his shirt
I would sing that Rage Against the Machine song that has the line "F*ck you I won't do what you tell me!"
I'm in Virginia and they stopped teaching cursive here and also stopped teaching banking and financial as mandatory
My first year at my current high school the, then, principal would use a whistle to get our attention.
PLEASE COME TO GEORGIA
I wish y’all could appear on Abbot Elementary!
My first graduating class working as a para was 16 years ago. My first graduating class as a teacher, 7 years ago
HONEST!!! I have missed you!❤❤❤
We did too!! 🤗
#PSA: As an American Sign Language interpreter/para I need to tell teachers PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE! Do not make a triangle (or in this case "piramid") with your thumbs and index finger together. WHY? That is a sign for a part of the anatomy.
Now technically the way Gabe did it wasn't in the direction it's normaly held, BUT when a person who is fluent in ASL sees hearing people do that, we cringe.
I LOVE THIS TRIO ❤
OK, but hear me out...
Bored Teachers Comedy Tour 2025 - "Bored of Education".
You're welcome.
I'm in Maryland. Our kids learn cursive in 3rd grade.
You guys make me laugh and I seriously think ABC's Abbott Elementary tv show should interview you guys for a later episode.
I live near effingham il and my jaw dropped when I heard you say that😂
I'm not a good singer, but that doesn't stop me. When I taught 2nd-4th graders, they'd sing with me.
When I taught middle school, I'd used it s behavior modification. They took too long in the morning st their lockers and wouldn't get to class on time. So, I'd sing to them until they'd move. They hated it.
you’re going to Redding?? Jeez I never thought anyone would want to go there if it didn’t have some nostalgia to it like it does for me
You need an analog clock if you learn french and Spanish because it isn't just numbers but 1/4 after...
im so happy miss Richardson is back and, im so early again, i love the podcast
Thanks for being here! We’re glad she’s back too! 🤩
When I was HS there was a teacher who never wore padded bras she was a older lady anyway all 4 years of high school she she wore thin or what I have to assume were sports bras so she would literally walk around and you could see her nipples like the shape and they were always there and no one eve bothered to tell her I have now been out of school for 4 years and to this day she still walks around that way and its crazy bc we were not aloud to wear leggings, shorts or tank tops lmaooooo
Our coaches wear hats all day. I don't think they should when the kids can't.
My first class was in 1995-1996, 2nd grade. They are now 36.
I always looked at writing notes as writing the information on my brain. I cannot notetake on a computer. I’m too ADD for that. I need my colored pens and highlighters. When I’m tested I sometimes will see the page the answer is on in my notes in my head. I don’t see the answer, just everything around it, which usually gives me the answer.
Love them so much I miss Tyler tho!! Add him permanently
He’ll be back 🤗
Culotres are garments that look like a skirt in the front and shorts in the back. It has a kind of flap in the front that looks like a sarong. They were popular in the 1970s and 1980s. Not to be confused by skorts, which are shorts that are so full of fabric that from far away, they look like a skirt. They became popular in the 1990s. Some people use the words interchangeably, but they're not the same thing.
Where I live they are the opposite to what you said, culottes are shorts that are baggy enough (and the drape of them) that they look like a skirt, a skort is a pair of shorts that have an extra layer of material at the front to make them look like a skirt when you are looking from the front (but look like shorts from the back).
Other than each kid learning how to sign their name and be generally familiar with how it looks, there isn’t much actual need for cursive.
I 100% agree about the kahoot I teach post secondary education and we kahoot all the time
Our students are aloud to wear hats everyday. Teachers can wear them on Fridays.
I have a cousin who is adopted. His birth father's family found him and reached out to him. They wrote a heartfelt note to him. It was in cursive. He couldn't read it. He was 27( He's 31 now.). So his mom( adopted), my aunt had to read it to him. 😮 2)
Oh wow I'm 30 and I remember being taught cursive
Ayyyyy I appreciate the shout out lmaooo😂😂😂😂(jkjk)
I taught Cursive 20 years. 😊❤
Blooket sounds like "look-it" with a b in front
My 5th grade was OFFLINE. 😂❤
I am a high school student but my mom has always been in teaching
when i was 16, you could serve alcohol at 18, idk about now. that was 10 years ago 😅
Ohhhh man. Yall would trip if you saw me on the daily. My first couple of years, I wore pin striped pants, nice shirt, always. After about 5 years of breaking up fights and sobbing with kids on a dirty floor, I transitioned to Nikes and jeans. I also wear hats a lot, am half tattooed and face pierced times 4. I will admit 100%, I did not get my job walking in as I am currently, with piercings in particular. I've also been in my school 12 years... I'm really bad about the dress end of things. Doesn't seem to bother anyone though.
I'm also aware that most schools would not appreciate my appearance.
Miss Richardson I miss you
Big ben is the clock, it's in the London tower
Gabe, everybody knows the Statue of Liberty is in France, and that pizza tower is in Rome.
Reminder the idea of students having learning styles is not scientifically accurate
Somebody tell Gabe’s wife that she gotta watch his posts for at least 5 seconds 😂😂
P.S. my go- to song that I used at karaoke is "September" by EWF. Almost everyone knows it. So, I don't have to sing it alone.😊
YESSS I love Earth Wind and Fire. Ma'am, you have an amazing taste in music, i gotta say. My favourite EWF song is Fantasy.
The funniest thing about our start of year staff meeting this year was that our new-ish principal was explaining his new motto for the year in a lot (!!!) of detail. None of us wanted it and none of us believed he would stick to the “we gotta communicate” spiel as he had never actually listened to most of our concerns before. The fun thing came a week later when he welcomed the new students to the school and gave exactly the same 45-minute talk to a bunch of fifth graders. It was hilarious how he believed they would listen. They did not listen any more than we did however they were not as polite about it. 🫣😂
It’s so sad that they can’t read cursive nor an analogue clock.