Damn, I'm at year 28th year teaching as an adult educator part-time all these years and this video helps me now understand where my bladder problems that started about 20 years ago stem from.
My mother left teaching and joined the Army. She legit preferred the prospect of getting shot at to teaching. And there was a time she loved teaching. I don't know what happened.
I was in the army before becoming a teacher. I loved the sense of community and teamwork because you work together as one. It was awesome and I miss it.
I know it's 10 years late but, Congratulations on your retirement!!! You have earned it!!!!!!!!!!!!! Enjoy it and take care of you. I am so looking forward to it to my retirement. 🥰
I have taught 33 years. This is SO accurate! One moment summer stretches out before you, pure and untouched. The next you are going back and reminding yourself that you always get it done.
Yup, I’d always get it done! … because I would spend 3-5 unpaid days in my classroom to get it that way to avoid the stress of inservice where we couldn’t work in our classrooms very much during school hours! 32 times! 😂
This is kinda of a bittersweet wake up call to this profession. Teaching is a passion and even then you still get burnt out teaching something has to change teaching is not adding up to .....
I just graduated and now I’m a freshly minted 9th grade biology teacher. School started for us on Aug 3rd. Everyday after school is like prepping for mid-terms and every night I wake up panicking about not having any lesson plans prepared for the next day. I see zero weekends or evenings in sight for the next 280 days….
“It’s going to be fine. I always get it done”. I’ve spent the past 7 years in school saying this. Now I’m finally a teacher and I’m still panicking and saying this. 100 students, 5 classes + advisory (no, college doesn’t teach us about “advisory”), no lesson plans prepared, and no supplies. 3 new software programs to learn, added, dropped, moved students, weird A, B, and virtual day schedules. Oh, and would I like to co-advise for Eco Club this year (whatever that is). Don’t forget to help the freshmen students begin their high school portfolios (what is this “portfolio”?). Also, must collect and record data (during class) on your IEP and 504 students… while you’re teaching. You don’t have them all memorized yet? It’s just my first year, no worries, it’ll be fine I always get it done.
I'm retired now, but honestly feel your pain! People in other professions think teachers have it made because they have a few weeks off in the summer. They don't have a clue as to how overwhelming the job has become. Hope despite everything you ha e a great year.
College doesn’t prepare people for the reality of teaching. If they did no one will go into the field. It is nothing like what people think it is and other than interning there’s really no way to prepare for the reality.
My first 5 years teaching I got my student roster 1/2 way through day 1, and it was wrong. It also didn't include how they get home. Plus, my principal didn't let us do specials the first week and she wanted us all in the cafeteria during lunch the first week. So how was I supposed to figure out how 23 kindergarten kids go home when noone tells me, I don't have time to go look, and I'm not supposed to call parents with students in the room?!?
Laura, I am a retired grade school teacher after 30 years. I want to reassure you that it DOES get easier! Not always easy, but you will hit your stride and you will thrive in your chosen profession! Just remember to take care of YOU first, then you'll be better prepared to do your best for those young people! (No, they never say that in education classes, do they ? 🙄) Make it a great year! 💖
Lol. As a nurse who has worked 12 hour shifts, I feel you. But, sadly ho!ding in your pee stretches van stretch your bladder and weaken the muscles, which can cause incontinence. I know its hard to always get to pee when we need to though
This video is a total exaggeration! No one, and I mean no one comes home from their first back to school 8 hr day and makes it all the way to the couch! I’m lucky if I make it to my car! 🤣😂🤣 The nightmares are real, and that’s the scariest part! 😱
I work as an educational assistant. We go back the last week of August. I had a few back to school nightmares this week😖 I think it’s all the “Back to School” signs bringing on the nightmares. This is so accurate. I like when you drank a ton of water to train your bladder then said “ I already have to go.”
I've posted on this video numerous times already about being a nurse before I started teaching, and on the nursing side of things, I feel the "I always get it done" part on a visceral level. Making sure all my patients got their meds/treatment on time, completing all of my notes when I had time (which usually meant at the end of the day) so I can give an accurate report to the night nurse after I leave my shift. And then, finally when I'm showered and in bed, keeping myself up half the night worrying that I forgot to chart the last time my patient received their insulin dosage and that I gave them the right amount...
I work in early childhood education where we work year round. But when we have spring break and Christmas break I feel so free and it goes so fast. I love, love this video!
I swear..... This struggle is SO REAL, I literally feel the pain. I'm in panic mode, especially since I'm at a new school this year. 😳 I'm over here questioning myself like I don't have 13 years of experience. 🤦🏽♀️ WTH!????!!!
YES! Teachers are just like students during the summer. My mom is currently a spanish teacher, and she just loves the aspect of having a two month break, and despises back to school commercials.
The accuracy is insane! Those nightmares are real! Except no seating charts to panic over because they add at least 10 more students to my class the DAY school starts. Joy!
Only a true elementary teacher would appreciate this. The only stage you left out was the “Freebie” stage where you go to the school two weeks earlier than required to start you bulletin boards and furniture moving for no salary - you’re giving the county a “freebie” just like they know you will. This way, they can schedule a bunch of inservices and meetings during pre-planning week except from 11:00 - 12:30 when you can have lunch and that “work in classrooms” time!🤪🙄
I just got two added to my roaster today. I was laughing how many desks I had in my room and how it wasn't really needed but now, yeah, I am probably going to need them all.
Oh poor you! ❤️❤️ You’ve got back to school brain mixed with baby brain and I-don’t-want-to-leave-baby brain! What an adorable sweetheart… going back this year is The Hardest. Thinking of you. ❤️❤️
I'm definitely stage 5 I'm starting to stress. By next week for PD (Professional Development) I'll most likely be stage 6 : Panic. I don't like having to put all that stuff back on the walls!! Bulletin boards!!! Nooooo!!!! I want to be back at stage 1 or 2!!😭😭😭😭
I had to do seating charts every Monday for groups of kids, aged 7-12, taking a week long art class. Some came all day, some only mornings, others from lunch til closing. Some wanted to sit together, others wanted solitude. Class size could be from 15-45. There were A LOT of factors. I did this every summer, for 40 years. I got very efficient at seating charts. Dare I say, I could have medaled in the Seating Olympics. Tho there was struggle...
If I had not known I was watching someone else experience these changes, I'd have thought I was looking at MYSELF on the RUclips screen! Bravo, my teaching sister! Hang in there!!
Bless all teachers! Bless those who live with teachers, after surviving 36 years of “oh no school starts next week! Yes I am so behind! Please help me get my room together!” If she ever were to retire, not sure I can stand 12 months of “honey do list”. On day perhaps or Some day I hope to have her all to my self.
I used to live in Virginia and school didn’t get out until mid June. Literally three weeks later, the day after 4th of July, the back to school signs are out in the stores.
Thankkkk you soooo much for these vids....soooo relatable and soooo funny...only a teacher would understand....reassuring to know that I'm not the only one who feels this way😎
Actually there is also teaching summer school; as well as trainings and seminars during the summer because nothing ever stays the same, the teaching profession and curriculum is always being "improved".
Dude, I would go into my classroom a month before the teachers' first day back and get EVERYTHING done in around a week. On the teacher work day, I'd go in and help my friend set up her room. And make my students' name tags. Yeah, I was the annoying college student who turned in all her term papers a week before they were due. LOL.
Don't post pictures of your cute class on Facebook unless you want us lazy teachers laughing at you behind your back. Seriously I always went in early too but this year just couldn't do it.
Yeah, it pays to get stuff done ahead of time (of course, teachers don't get paid to do any of our required outside work year 'round that is). With any luck, your administrators will give you a thumbs up and genuinely mean it without any funny business not too far down the line.
My husband is a high school teacher in Japan and he works total 13 hours a day ( 2 hours at home) 6〜７days a week even in summer vacation. And it's common here. No time for family. Today is our first wedding anniversary but I don't think we can spend enough time because he has to work after dinner.
Bladder training 😂 i have had student witnesses to my puking in the class trash can because I can’t leave my students without yelling down the hallway for an office staff member to replace me temporarily. I’m the last room down the hall. A few occasions, if no one can hear me, I have taken my class to the office so I can pee.
Yes, the stages of summer break. It infuriates me the Back to School sales in July. Just stop it! Leave us alone! The teacher friends group texts start up. Let’s try to enjoy the rest of our break. Thanks for helping us laugh!
Depressing. In the Netherlands young children only go to school a few hours a day, a few days a week, and they have the best education system in the world. Teachers are obviously overworked, and for that matter so are our children. In kindergarten my son only got two recesses, 20 minutes each. 20 minutes for lunch. He was there 6.5 hours. We started homeschooling.
Bladder training. An often overlooked but essential piece of back to school prep.
I'm a veteran teacher whose bladder get worse every year. Sometimes I hold it so long that my hands tingle.
@@languay1 the older i get the harder it is
Damn, I'm at year 28th year teaching as an adult educator part-time all these years and this video helps me now understand where my bladder problems that started about 20 years ago stem from.
I paused the video to laugh at the bladder line for 6 minutes. Long than the total video. The struggle is real!
So true! 😂😂😂
My mother left teaching and joined the Army. She legit preferred the prospect of getting shot at to teaching. And there was a time she loved teaching. I don't know what happened.
Wait what really? You got to be kidding us right? 😅🤣😂
Things changed ALOT less teaching more paper work . I know someone who retrained became a probation officer rather than teacher
I was in the army before becoming a teacher. I loved the sense of community and teamwork because you work together as one. It was awesome and I miss it.
😂
Omg!! So true!!
I’ve been retired for 10 years and I still get back to school nightmares!
Lol! 😆🤣
I know it's 10 years late but, Congratulations on your retirement!!! You have earned it!!!!!!!!!!!!! Enjoy it and take care of you. I am so looking forward to it to my retirement. 🥰
Same
I only taught for 5 years, 20 years ago and still have “back to school nightmares”.
🤣🤣🤣
I have taught 33 years. This is SO accurate! One moment summer stretches out before you, pure and untouched. The next you are going back and reminding yourself that you always get it done.
Yep. Every break!
Anxiety dreams 3 nights in a row? Must be Aug. 1st.
Yup, I’d always get it done! … because I would spend 3-5 unpaid days in my classroom to get it that way to avoid the stress of inservice where we couldn’t work in our classrooms very much during school hours! 32 times! 😂
As a college education major, I literally am going through this on both sides.
This is kinda of a bittersweet wake up call to this profession. Teaching is a passion and even then you still get burnt out teaching something has to change teaching is not adding up to .....
I just graduated and now I’m a freshly minted 9th grade biology teacher. School started for us on Aug 3rd. Everyday after school is like prepping for mid-terms and every night I wake up panicking about not having any lesson plans prepared for the next day. I see zero weekends or evenings in sight for the next 280 days….
Exactly haha
Me too
Same!!!
“It’s going to be fine. I always get it done”. I’ve spent the past 7 years in school saying this. Now I’m finally a teacher and I’m still panicking and saying this. 100 students, 5 classes + advisory (no, college doesn’t teach us about “advisory”), no lesson plans prepared, and no supplies. 3 new software programs to learn, added, dropped, moved students, weird A, B, and virtual day schedules. Oh, and would I like to co-advise for Eco Club this year (whatever that is). Don’t forget to help the freshmen students begin their high school portfolios (what is this “portfolio”?). Also, must collect and record data (during class) on your IEP and 504 students… while you’re teaching. You don’t have them all memorized yet?
It’s just my first year, no worries, it’ll be fine I always get it done.
I'm retired now, but honestly feel your pain! People in other professions think teachers have it made because they have a few weeks off in the summer. They don't have a clue as to how overwhelming the job has become. Hope despite everything you ha e a great year.
College doesn’t prepare people for the reality of teaching. If they did no one will go into the field. It is nothing like what people think it is and other than interning there’s really no way to prepare for the reality.
I am retiring at the end of summer school this year and I am SO looking forward to all the back to school announcements that I can IGNORE!!!
That was 100% accurate. Glad I'm not the only one that goes through those stages EVERY summer lol
I g through those steps every weekend!
The cutest baby ever 🥺
Don’t forget PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT!
Fie on professional development!
So she gets her student roster before the day before the first day of school that must be awesome.
I get my lists pretty early. But not usually accurate ones. The list i see today may be only tangentially related to the kids who actually show up.
Ha ha ha!
My first 5 years teaching I got my student roster 1/2 way through day 1, and it was wrong. It also didn't include how they get home. Plus, my principal didn't let us do specials the first week and she wanted us all in the cafeteria during lunch the first week. So how was I supposed to figure out how 23 kindergarten kids go home when noone tells me, I don't have time to go look, and I'm not supposed to call parents with students in the room?!?
Right...we get ours like literally an hr before meet the teacher.
Facts, I was like wait, you know who you're teaching before you have to teach them 🤯 that's such a great idea💡
Our first day is on August 30th. I walked right into target and saw Back to school supplies in the front, I turned around legit walked the ***+ out
Chicago Public Schools are headed back 8/30! Ugh. I am predicting kids coming in until mid September!!! Ick
Hope the first day went well lmao...
@@mcc8041 my school starts august 6th
@@thegreatwar.13 I was teaching summer school until 8/9! Have a great year!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
When she raised her wine glass with a “good morning”, I about lost it. Then she clarified, yep morning 😂😂😂
I loved that part, lol.
Oh yes bladder training. That would actually be a useful Professional development module
Laura, I am a retired grade school teacher after 30 years. I want to reassure you that it DOES get easier! Not always easy, but you will hit your stride and you will thrive in your chosen profession! Just remember to take care of YOU first, then you'll be better prepared to do your best for those young people! (No, they never say that in education classes, do they
? 🙄) Make it a great year! 💖
Lol. As a nurse who has worked 12 hour shifts, I feel you. But, sadly ho!ding in your pee stretches van stretch your bladder and weaken the muscles, which can cause incontinence. I know its hard to always get to pee when we need to though
My heart rate increased just from watching..because this is Sooo True!!🤣😬
Loved the dog looking thru the half opened door. “What’s wrong with mom? Will she be ok? I’m weirded out!”
This video is a total exaggeration! No one, and I mean no one comes home from their first back to school 8 hr day and makes it all the way to the couch!
I’m lucky if I make it to my car! 🤣😂🤣
The nightmares are real, and that’s the scariest part! 😱
I work as an educational assistant. We go back the last week of August. I had a few back to school nightmares this week😖 I think it’s all the “Back to School” signs bringing on the nightmares. This is so accurate. I like when you drank a ton of water to train your bladder then said “ I already have to go.”
I would like to confirm that this is also the same for students!!
I never thought about that. Thank you for saying it. 🙂
Very much so, as a college education major, I literally am going through this on both sides.
Students and teachers live more parallel lives in and outside of school than most other people may think, imagine, or believe to be true.
RIGHT
@@munimathbypeterfelton6251 Never really thought of this!
I've posted on this video numerous times already about being a nurse before I started teaching, and on the nursing side of things, I feel the "I always get it done" part on a visceral level. Making sure all my patients got their meds/treatment on time, completing all of my notes when I had time (which usually meant at the end of the day) so I can give an accurate report to the night nurse after I leave my shift. And then, finally when I'm showered and in bed, keeping myself up half the night worrying that I forgot to chart the last time my patient received their insulin dosage and that I gave them the right amount...
How universal! I'm from the Caribbean and the stages are real.
I work in early childhood education where we work year round. But when we have spring break and Christmas break I feel so free and it goes so fast. I love, love this video!
I swear..... This struggle is SO REAL, I literally feel the pain. I'm in panic mode, especially since I'm at a new school this year. 😳
I'm over here questioning myself like I don't have 13 years of experience. 🤦🏽♀️
WTH!????!!!
I feel the same stages every weekend. :)
Me: Should I be a cat sitter instead? Maybe start writing books, have a garage sale every Saturday.....ect
YES! Teachers are just like students during the summer. My mom is currently a spanish teacher, and she just loves the aspect of having a two month break, and despises back to school commercials.
The accuracy is insane! Those nightmares are real! Except no seating charts to panic over because they add at least 10 more students to my class the DAY school starts. Joy!
You make the seating charts KNOWING you will have to redo them / improv everyday for the next 3 weeks.
The dog peeking in !!!!!
Imagine knowing ahead of time what classroom you’re going to be assigned to! What a concept!
Only a true elementary teacher would appreciate this. The only stage you left out was the “Freebie” stage where you go to the school two weeks earlier than required to start you bulletin boards and furniture moving for no salary - you’re giving the county a “freebie” just like they know you will. This way, they can schedule a bunch of inservices and meetings during pre-planning week except from 11:00 - 12:30 when you can have lunch and that “work in classrooms” time!🤪🙄
I just got two added to my roaster today. I was laughing how many desks I had in my room and how it wasn't really needed but now, yeah, I am probably going to need them all.
Me watching this after being gross and sweaty and handling the chaos of coming back ten days early due to last year’s “learning loss.”
Did they cut your holidays short due to Covid?
That sounds hard! We just spend 2 and a half week at school to prepare everything. Getting a week cut whould be a nightmare.
@@emperorpatrisia5771 they did! i didnt get an easter break this year:(
Oh poor you! ❤️❤️ You’ve got back to school brain mixed with baby brain and I-don’t-want-to-leave-baby brain! What an adorable sweetheart… going back this year is The Hardest. Thinking of you. ❤️❤️
Scary accurate! I think I’m still in the denial phase, lol. 😂
Currently in stage 4. And I love the "j" seating chart! Hahahaha!
I'm definitely stage 5 I'm starting to stress. By next week for PD (Professional Development) I'll most likely be stage 6 : Panic. I don't like having to put all that stuff back on the walls!! Bulletin boards!!! Nooooo!!!! I want to be back at stage 1 or 2!!😭😭😭😭
I wish I could zone out. I stay on Teacher Standard Time all year long. Your baby and dog are adorable. They look like excellent reasons to be tired.
I had to do seating charts every Monday for groups of kids, aged 7-12, taking a week long art class. Some came all day, some only mornings, others from lunch til closing. Some wanted to sit together, others wanted solitude. Class size could be from 15-45. There were A LOT of factors. I did this every summer, for 40 years. I got very efficient at seating charts. Dare I say, I could have medaled in the Seating Olympics. Tho there was struggle...
If I had not known I was watching someone else experience these changes, I'd have thought I was looking at MYSELF on the RUclips screen! Bravo, my teaching sister! Hang in there!!
Bless all teachers! Bless those who live with teachers, after surviving 36 years of “oh no school starts next week! Yes I am so behind! Please help me get my room together!” If she ever were to retire, not sure I can stand 12 months of “honey do list”. On day perhaps or Some day I hope to have her all to my self.
Been having the back to school nightmares for several weeks. Started back last Thursday so summer officially over for me.
We went back last Tuesday. Lol
Last day of school for the summer here. Always coming back to this video, living happily in phase 1.
I start school in 6 days. I haven’t gotten supplies or anything yet.
I just want to meet this lady - love every video she’s in. You seem like a legit fun person.
I'm still in college and I already know this will be me as a teacher!
As an 11 year vet, run.
Seriously. Get out while you can.
TBH I'm thinking about it
I used to live in Virginia and school didn’t get out until mid June. Literally three weeks later, the day after 4th of July, the back to school signs are out in the stores.
Had a back to school nightmare last night. The time is approaching.
This was great!! Start tomorrow with new student orientation, all students return the following day! Welcome back!
Your baby is so cute and cuddly.
Wearing a blanket and hissing at the sunshine 🤣👍
I am a first year teacher. And I love these vids. Make me feel good. And laugh!!!!
The back to school sales in July always freaked me out too.
I enjoy EVERY minute of my vacations.
I love that pink top and jeans she was wearing in the last few scenes
The end was me this afternoon! Just finished our first week back with students and I came home and literally passed out on the couch! 🤣
That baby is such a sweetheart
This was genuinely funny and exactly how I feel!!
That chonky little baby is so cute!!!!
You are hilarious!
Both my parents are teachers and we go through this Every. Single. Year.
Thankkkk you soooo much for these vids....soooo relatable and soooo funny...only a teacher would understand....reassuring to know that I'm not the only one who feels this way😎
LOL the dog did a health check!!!
You are so funny! Couldn't stop watching 😂
I don't know which is worse, seeing Christmas ads before Halloween or back to school ads 2 weeks into summer vacation.
Fr!
Oh my goodness, this is exactly how it is!!
This is so true! I am retired now but July 4 still signifies the end of summer for me!
July 4th? That's crazy. But I can kinda see your point. It's a mental thing.
Way too accurate! Luv her! So glad I'm not the only one who cries, "Why don't my clothes fit?" After eating 2 bags of pb m&ms daily all summer long 😭😭
lol this so funny and true it’s always seem long summer but as the days go by it’s seem not long enough
Definitely can relate. Especially the nightmares!
Never been a teacher, but I do remember feeling like this when I was a student.
Actually there is also teaching summer school; as well as trainings and seminars during the summer because nothing ever stays the same, the teaching profession and curriculum is always being "improved".
Ok awesome video! But also wow love the colorful dress!
Dude, I would go into my classroom a month before the teachers' first day back and get EVERYTHING done in around a week. On the teacher work day, I'd go in and help my friend set up her room. And make my students' name tags. Yeah, I was the annoying college student who turned in all her term papers a week before they were due. LOL.
Don't post pictures of your cute class on Facebook unless you want us lazy teachers laughing at you behind your back. Seriously I always went in early too but this year just couldn't do it.
Yeah, it pays to get stuff done ahead of time (of course, teachers don't get paid to do any of our required outside work year 'round that is). With any luck, your administrators will give you a thumbs up and genuinely mean it without any funny business not too far down the line.
3:57 Even the dog is scared. 😆
aww your son is adorable!!
1:07 the HISSSS was everything tho 😂
Oh wow...you really nailed it. I thought it was only me!
Yep. This is so me, every single summer!
The back to school nightmares! Ugh!
My husband is a high school teacher in Japan and he works total 13 hours a day ( 2 hours at home) 6〜７days a week even in summer vacation. And it's common here.
No time for family.
Today is our first wedding anniversary but I don't think we can spend enough time because he has to work after dinner.
That's why I don't start planning early.
*sighs sadly as i still get back to school nightmares, even almost a decade of no school *
I love the nightmare part. I had those kind of dreams.
“A group in the shape of a ‘J’!” I love it!! 😂😂😂
The accuracy of this !!😂😂😂😂
Blessings to all!
My life right now!!!🤣🤣🤣
Just 8 hours? It took me months to get to the point I could leave early. Love your vid❤️
Bladder training 😂 i have had student witnesses to my puking in the class trash can because I can’t leave my students without yelling down the hallway for an office staff member to replace me temporarily. I’m the last room down the hall. A few occasions, if no one can hear me, I have taken my class to the office so I can pee.
I find this absolutely hilarious! Great job teachers everyone, we love you!
Yes, the stages of summer break. It infuriates me the Back to School sales in July. Just stop it! Leave us alone! The teacher friends group texts start up. Let’s try to enjoy the rest of our break. Thanks for helping us laugh!
Totally, nailed it and too funny! 🤣🤣🤣
Last year, on our last day of school, I stopped by Target on my way home. They were already advertising "Back to School." I couldn't believe it!
Totally relatable! Love your videos ❤️
I know that feeling of just walking into my house after a long day and falling onto the sofa or bed with all my stuff. 😅
Such a cute baby you have there :)
First back-to-school nightmare!!!! 🤣
Omg. This is absolute reality, including the nightmare. I got anxiety just watching this. Should come with a warning: "Not for the faint of heart."
Awesome job, guys!! Thanx, enjoyed it!!! 😍💥📚😻
Depressing. In the Netherlands young children only go to school a few hours a day, a few days a week, and they have the best education system in the world. Teachers are obviously overworked, and for that matter so are our children. In kindergarten my son only got two recesses, 20 minutes each. 20 minutes for lunch. He was there 6.5 hours. We started homeschooling.