this is off topic, but have y'all done an episode on dressing for work as a teacher? I feel like expectations for what teachers 'should' wear is so mixed and sometimes I struggle to find clothes that comfortable, practical, and considered 'appropriate.' I know y'all also talked about the style box some episodes back so I was just wondering if y'all would be willing to talk more about work attire
@@desslou if that person binds their breasts then it would be difficult to find women's clothing with no breast shaping in the shirt. It's also hard for queer people to find gender-neutral style clothing in general. There is a men's section and a women's section. There is no both section and there's also no neither section. So if you're queer or gender-neutral I bet it's very difficult to find clothes that fit you correctly or that you like or both
the cursing stories reminded me of this one kid in foreign languages class, we were learning the pronunciation of a word and the teacher was explaining how the letter would sound like a th to us and then this kid says “suckers” with a lisp, so the teacher saw him say “thuckers” and the class looked at him and gasped and the teacher had to save him and tell us what he said
@@shanenanigans27 yup, we were learning the word for the body’s heart and he said that and she had to save him from the rest of the class telling him he wasn’t allowed to say that
@@Emilia-wv1kj in spanish class we all thought we heard him say something else when learning the word for the heart which is not pronounced how it’s spelled and has “th” sound and it sounded like he cursed when he didn’t
Accidental snitches are the worst. They don't even know they suck. I didn't have a lot of friends, so I couldn't do that. I was like a semi teachers pet. Always behaved, but I wasn't the best academically. I know this sounds weird, but sometimes teachers wanted to be with me more than certain smart kids. You know the ones.
i think one important aspect to discuss about teacher’s pets is that some of them are abused and a) don’t understand boundaries bc of it or b) are searching for any sort of positive adult influence as a sort of cry for help. obviously this isn’t every teacher’s pet, but it does happen. and from personal experience, being a teacher’s pet in high school caused me to get groomed by a teacher that i trusted and looked up to. it’s a very nuanced discussion bc there’s so many different definitions and connotations concerning teacher’s pets, and there’s also a million different reasons for why someone would be a teacher’s pet, and how teachers should act with a student like that.
The obsessive questions and seeking perfection could've also been undiagnosed ADHD and/or ASD. I totally obsessed like that, still do at times, and didn't get diagnosed until 33 after spending almost a year explicitly seeking a specialist because my 20s and 30s thus far have been a mess.
I love how you guys made a teachers platform, a Safe place . I feel like you guys are those teachers you forever remember even after graduating. I love this! I’m only 20 and I’ve worked with preschool students since I was 15 and all these videos are very much relatable 😭❤️
My mom is a retired Chemistry/Biology teacher and actually did have cockroaches as classroom pets- like had a terrarium set up and everything for them. One of her students had two Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches as pets that she volunteered to take care of over a school break- and well, they turned into more than two.
As a middle child I feel the pain. As much as I hated it, as a child, as a parent my middle child flies under the radar all the time. I swore I'd never make my middle child feel left out, but as a parent you have to be really intentional with the time you spend with your middle child. I think my middle child goes missed a lot is because he's so easy-going and really well behaved. My oldest and youngest are constantly in my face for attention or doing something they shouldn't be doing so they always have my attention.
This was hilarious! My science teacher in High School had a Red-eared Slider Turtle Tank, a large saltwater fish tank, a Corn Snake (Scooter), and this adorable little aquatic creature called an Axolotle. I was his TA for most of High School so I would help clean the tanks and take care/feed Scooter. Helping him with the animals helped me decide to get my degree in Zoology and ultimately be able to work for a zoo as an Anomal Keeper. He was the best teacher and I didn't care if i was considered the "Teachers Pet" because he helped me get into what I wanted to do. 😊 And Lauren, the animal you are looking for is Coati. I got the chance to work with them during my Zookeeper career. ❤😄
Great episode, I’m a first year elementary music teacher and I listen to the podcast every day on the way to school! I was wondering, have you guys done an episode where you’ve brought on some enrichment teachers (art, music, P.E., etc.)? I think it would be a great way to compare and contrast the responsibilities and daily lives of enrichment teachers vs. classroom teachers because there are some important differences and similarities!
I was a teacher's pet because I needed maternal attention so I stuck to those motherly teachers. I also had a fear of other kids after some bullying incidents. I was a teacher's pet in high school because I loved running errands and not being in class, I still got good grades
Fyi- The reason the lepeord Gekko died is because they are not communal for a reason, they need separate tanks unless it's breeding time, Dexter was bullied to death. love the episode tho
Had an elementary teacher with rabbits, hedgehogs, fish, turtles, lizards, hamsters,and more that I can't remember. Her classroom was unattached so it was not disturbing to any other classes. And it was pretty cool to have a bunny or hedgehog come sit in your lap while you're doing classwork.
My 3rd grade teacher used a stuffed animal as a class pet and every weekend she would pick one kid hid them the stuff animal and a journal and you spent the weekend with him and you write you adventures in it then you bring it back to school and read what they did I loved it.
I was always called the teachers pet but I just respected my teachers and most of my teachers had both of my siblings so they already knew me and my family
My son just started school for the first time last week and it was so hard for me. All up in my feels. But I have been watching your podcasts like a religion and knowing there are teachers like u guys is amazing and helps as a parent to understand what you guys go through. Thank you for what you do and being who you are!
I had two or three HS teachers that I got on really well with. I still talk to one of them. The one I still talk to, we used to talk about language and how it developed and things like that. She had a master's in philosophy and linguistics. Even tho she is a Spanish teacher, she's really interested and well versed in other cultures. I really loved having those conversations and hanging out with her
Hey, y’all are my favorite podcast and I just thank y’all for helping me get through a few tough times without you knowing. I also want y’all to know that one of my teachers (life science) has a bunch of class pets that she just lets us hang out with during lunch and there are always a bunch of people in her class during lunch days.
I have a wide variety of plushies in my classroom. My high schoolers get a kick out of it! They name them, give them backstories, move them around the room
My first year teaching was at a youth residential facility so I was lucky when kids actually cared about school at all. One of the new students mid-year became my teacher's pet. She was really friendly and intelligent. Unfortunately I once had to witness her getting jumped by 2 other students in my class. I still have some of her artwork. I hope she's doing well now.
I am new to this channel, but I’ve seen most of the shorts. I am a school psychologist in FL and was wondering what your experience has been with school psychologists? Our roles change by state/by district/by school so my hearts really go out to y’all when I’ve heard the trauma you’ve experienced working in a classroom.
I have considered the concept of class pets with one of my co-teachers. We ruled out anything that requires high maintenance because we're tired and broke; we ruled out anything that has a short lifespan so that we don't traumatize our kids; we ruled out anything that could bite because that seemed like a legal issue. In the end, we've decided to attempt an ant farm. Another teacher found a queen ant at his house, so we had a free starter!
The students who stole the chickens and killed them should have been charged with a crime. I really wasn't a teacher's pet. I will say that I was close to two teachers. My bio teacher and my chem teacher. Whenever there was an assembly or some kind of award ceremony I would hang out in one of their rooms and either get extra help or do homework.
Yeah it sounds like animal cruelty. They weren't meant to be killed; they were unnecessarily killed for some "prank". They valued the lives of those chickens less than a "funny prank" which is the real problem
I remember I had the awesome privilege of taking the class pet home for spring break. I went on vacation and my dad had to feed him while I was away. Well I returned to a super fat Guinea pig and my dad told me he filled the bowl twice a day. My teacher was pleased I didn’t kill him but safe to say he had to on a diet lol.
Memorable class pets: 4th grade: We had a kitten named lucky. We got him as a new born, hadn't even opened his eyes yet. When he got bigger we built him an enclosure with classroom supplies. Highschool: Science teacher had a giant tarantula named Larry. I sat by the cage so the "mean girls" would leave me alone. 😂
I was a teacher's pet in the sense that I would talk to them, and actually go out of my way to talk to them. I have autisim, and also the youngest in my family. It was a combination of these things I believe is why I gravatated twards older/people around my older sisters ages. In High School I had many that were close to their ages, and would always just come and talk to them. I also had a teacher that was probably around my Mom's age (Violin teacher) and She became like a second mom to me. I'm friends with all my teachers that I had in high school, and middle school. I have one or two that I hade in elementury school, but most of the ones I had in elementury school aren't on social media or might not be alive anymore idk. The one's I had were older, and that was in the late 90s for Elementury school.
My first grade teacher always has a hamster every year but she always lost it like it would escaped I’m thinking whenever the hamster died she pretended it escaped until she got another one
I’m a sophomore in high school still a teachers pet I was always close to the teachers at recess and asked to help with anything that they needed I was a tattletale during the start of first grade and was converted during the middle of the year and was a good little secret keeper by the end of the year I often cover for other students who are talking in the reading corner and stuff as long as they are not obviously talking of . Or if a substitute teacher asks someone if they’re doing more talking than working when they’re out of sight and if I’m “in”( near or at the table) the group I will tell the sub that I can see them working and that we are working together
Also I am autistic diagnosed in 2023 I know that was last year but I think I see why I was the teachers pet because I was very nervous about the other kids but still social PE and Music class where hard for me. and now that I moved into high school my middle school algebra teacher is my favorite of the teachers I no longer have. I like our choir teacher and she is also our high school algebra one and beginners algebra. Some teachers I vibe with well I’m afraid of my biology teacher though.
At my high school a “Teacher’s pet” was a kiss-up, brown-noser type deal. Students trying to ingratiate themselves with the teachers. For some I think it was about finding that parental validation, but for others it was trying to appear better or more mature or more friendly with the teachers so they get more leeway or freedom.
When I moved into our school when it was new there was still construction workers in the building and they ate lunch in a room across from mine. They also left their garbage around which attracted mice. I was teaching and my grade fours were all whispering and one all of a sudden one shouted-a mouse! So most of us jumped onto chairs. One of my students named it and wanted to adopt it but that wasn’t happening. She then write a whole creative story about the mouse and now she’s in her 20s and has her own greeting card company! Her creative writing got her somewhere! 🐁
We had an iguana in the elementary school playground tree. Friend was just chilling on a branch up high and a kid saw the friend and others kids began to gather around the base of the tree, looking up at this huge green lizard. Friend was rumored to have been taken home by the teacher on campus who has pets in her classroom and knew how to take care of them. This happened in Cailfornia, not Florida It can happen anywhere. As pets can and will excape and them will clime up into your tree. You better watch out now or you might just have one fall on your head.
I think teachers pets are the kids who go out of their way to please the teacher. Like for example, in ELA me and some other kids were talking and the teacher told us to stop so we did. But then the teachers let looked at us and shook his head then looked at the teacher saying “kids these days…” bestie u that desperate????? Another time some kid at the beginning of class walked up to the teacher saying “Hey Susan! How was your daughters basketball game at blah blah? It feels like just yesterday she got onto the team!” The teacher looked shocked, pissed, and petrified
34:16 When I was in 5th grade, one of my friends found a garder snake outside on a chilly day after a heatwave. She didn't want it to die, so she picked it up and put it in her jacket pocket. When my teacher found out, he found a plastic tupperware and said we were all going to go on a scavenger hunt for leaves, sticks, and rocks to decorate it's 'home'. We gave it a Petrie dish full of water and some lettuce from the school cafeteria. Our plan was to release it at the end of the school year, when it was nice and warm. But COVID hit a week later, so we had to let him go. I remember I suggested we name him Jeremy.
Back in the 60's, one of our 4th grade teachers had a pet boa constrictor in his classroom and he kept the food (live gerbils) in cages in the school library. Kids would volunteer to keep the snake and gerbils over the summer months to take care with their parents' permission.
You all might have spoken about this topic before. Yet, would you speak about the "smart/gifted" versus those who truly struggle? Or like the tattoo artist student Devin had, how to handle those who truly struggle and may learn completely different than the traditional classroom setting?
My science teacher took in a hamster that was abandoned at our school. Really well taken care of cause our teacher has a bunch of pets, cats and snakes and stuff. During the summer, he brought it home and overnight his cat knocked the cage over. The next morning his cat plopped the dead hamster in front of my teacher during his morning coffee. I feel awful got the hamster, but I laugh thinking about my teacher going "oh shit, how do I explain this to all these kids"
If the definition of a teacher's pet is "knowing your teachers on a personal level," then most of the students at my high school are teacher's pets because nearly every teacher at the school is chill enough to be considered an older friend.
I had a couple tiny pet crabs like the ones your talking about when I was a kid. They’d always escape their cage 🤦♂️ I never learned how they where doing it but I remember a many times I’d wake up to my mom yelling at me to get my crabs from her room 😂😂
I keep several leopard geckos, and I swear the girls are little food goblins! I keep mine separated unless I’m trying for eggs, but when I leave the pairs together the girls eat everything! Poor little derpy boy geckos.
In highschool a few of our twcaher had teachers pets but they weren't like what was talked about here they were the kids from hard home lives poverty, abuse ect the teacher was always taking care of them at the time I didn't understand but now I'm greatful I'm sure those kids didn't have many in there corners supporting, loving and fighting for them to succeed
I wish teachers would stop getting class pets if they're not going to care for them properly. The vast majority of class pets I've seen are not receiving even the bare minimum care that they need. Edit: I know Lauren did not just say snakes eat roaches 🤣
My uncle had a pet carrot in his classroom one time and it apparently got pregnant and had babies and turned white because of vampire roaches once. He taught 3rd grade. He also tells stories about strawberries running around at dawn. XD
I think, for the student definition, a teacher’s pet is all of the above. Has good grades and likes the teacher, snitches and etc. but all to a level of annoyance, like the goody two shoes of education.
I'd LOVE to know what these teachers think of "School / District / State / Region / National Teacher of the Year" awards and recognition... I mean, if incentives matter then where do awards and recognition fall in terms of desirability??
I liked school, the only part I hated about it was getting up early and the risk of throwing up in elementary school, in elementary school you would have lunch then recess or recess then lunch, but lunch then recess could make you throw up because all you are doing in mixing the food up when you're running. I was also afraid to get bad grades in school. I had very decent grades but I was always afraid that when I went to middle school or high school my grades would drop. I still got pretty decent grades but I was still a savage. I would be those kids that have good grades but act like kids that get bad grades. Also the intro is iconic 💅
Our class this year has four Aishas, two Aaliyahs, two Nuhas, two Zahraas. Our teacher was like sorry, I wasn't checking for the repetitive names when I put this class together.
The fish stealing story sounds like oceans eleven for kids. Pun intended 🤣 And I feel that middle child bit. My mom will say all my siblings, and sometimes my aunts, names before landing on mine
i taught at one school for 8 years & just changed districts, but i had a bearded dragon named mortimer as a class pet. he was my bestest bud but he died over covid 😭 my 7th grade science kids loved him!!!
when I was in kindergarten my teacher had two rabbits (maybe three) but one of them died like two years after kindergarten. And I just remember the one rabbit sitting there until she retired so it was really a good thing that she took care of that rabbit until she retired
my favorite teachers in high school were open.. like one of the english teachers and the only drama teacher was open with us but only to a point. it made him feel like a better teacher. We didn't have classroom pets when i was in elementary school but one of my classmates families had a farm so they brought llamas and pigs and who knows what to show the class
Homeschool my three since oldest two was coming out of elementary. My oldest kept a found lizard alive for crazy amount of time even when camping so we got a Leppard gecko for him as a reward for amazing job yeah turned out he was albino so my kids got to see him get lighter with every shed that was supposed to become more colorful. As preschooler their dad also thought hamsters were a great idea that would be a big nope one ate the other. And oh so many more stories thank God we lived on a farm and not much shocked them momma didn't handle near as well.
I was the one to get tasked in elementary school and it very negatively impacted me. I was always the good student that got good grades but I was no longer the pet by 5th grade.
I'm a high school science teacher in NC and I teach Earth and Environmental. I have a male ball python named Jormungandr but we call him Yorgun for short (the kids can't pronounce his full name lol). He is the sweetest gentlest noodle you ever did see. My students love him and he's so docile and good around them. I originally got him as a class pet but now he's just become the resident ESA lol. He's my buddy❤️
My only favorite teachers from HS were elective teachers and I had them for multiple years. I never had a relationship with any other teacher 6-12th grade. I was just a number to them. I know of a couple that kids my age recognize, but I never had that. Funny that that favorite teacher and I have had an adult relationship through choir.
Friend got her classroom a gecko. She retired years ago but this gecko is still alive. We are rural and she is always asking around who is driving to a town big enough for a pet store to pick up crickets for this gecko who is around 15 years old.
We had a snake in hide behind the teacher in her bookshelf last year and me and another student had to go and take it outside and *make it asleep* last year cause it had a gash half way in it's body so it hid away in the bookshelf
My HS guidance counselor was my favorite adult at school. I'd have lunch with him a lot and sometimes I'd try and call him by his first name... Like every now and then I'd throw out a "Eeeyyyyyy Petey!" and he'd tell me when i graduated I'd be allowed to call him Pete. I'll see him occasionally almost 20 yrs later now and shout Eyyyyyyy Petey! Lol ❤️
At my high school the students always take the pets home to babysit over the summer. My cousin's daughter brought home a 5' king snake for the summer and the mom was not happy about it!!! Especially when it got loose 😂
I wasn’t a teachers pet but it seemed like all the teachers genuinely loved me. If there was something going on in the class they’d pull me aside and be like yo what’s this they ain’t telling me and if it concerned them I’d tell them. For the most part I was just quiet and did as I was told and asked questions when it was appropriate to. I don’t think I was really the teachers pet but I definitely got called that.
Maybe the girl that would come up a clarify an assignment had really bad anxiety. I use to have to do that because I would not understand something and have a panic attack. I was also in special Ed classes so I felt like I was really dumb so.
My 5th grade teacher had two stuffed animals that she had, and she let us take them home on random weekends and we had to tell them what we did with them during the weekend. And everyone’s was so cool. But me in the 5th grade was like “he almost got ran over with my vacuum”.
My high school literally banned muck up day (year 12 prank day, Australia) because some of the boys stole a cow to bring up stairs… the school had to get a crane and brake down a wall to strap the cow to it.
I was definitely a teacher’s pet in some classes. My 11th grade English teacher wrote in my yearbook, “It was nice to have someone in class who was paying attention.”. Really, I just felt bad that no one answered her questions because they weren’t doing the work. Did they honestly think I liked Steinbeck? 🤮However, they were the assignments, so I read the books, depressing as they were, and answered the questions because no one else would. My second French teacher and my Spanish teacher also liked me. I actually disliked French class with my first teacher, but I loved it when we got our second teacher. Spanish was just a filler class my senior year. I think the Spanish teacher liked me because I was a senior. I didn’t have to take any languages at that point, but I took her class anyway, even though I was still taking French as well.
I had a hamster, he was my first real pet. He was so cute, so sweet, and a master at escape. But, we never got him checked out because we didn't know what was wrong, and I was nine. But his genitals were huge. Like, I'm talking huge, and it was strange. He died in the corner of his cage months after we'd noticed the issue with his genitals. It was defiently traumatic I think to pick up my dead hamster and have no idea why he was alive when I went to sleep but dead when I woke up. But we assumed he'd actually had a tumor in his genitals, and that's why he passed away. He was a good pet and I hope he rests in peace. 💕 💕
I was called a teacher's pet for the reason woolley was called one 😂 I was quiet and good and never made a disruption and the teachers liked me, so in elementary school I was called a teacher's pet
Fellow senior “teachers pet” superlative winner, not just for my school, but my dance studio too. Two different groups of my peers voted me teachers per in two separate contexts in my senior year. You have to realize that just because you don’t make teacher’s days worse, and you actually aim to have a relationship with them doesn’t mean other students don’t like you. At least that’s what I have told myself 😅 it’s funny because I was never really the student to get them gifts, I just really valued them for who they were in my life.
One prank I heard of was students let out 3 pigs on the scool grounds. They numbered them 1,2 and 4! I was painfully shy at school and had a couple of elementary school teachers I adored. I was often chosen to run errands for/help the teacher as I was quiet and followed the rules. I worked hard and was often called teacher ‘s pet, but didn’t think I was. I never reminded the teacher that they hadn’t given us our homework/returned our notebooks to do the assignment. We definitely had people with the same name in the class, and they would go by first name and surname initial. If the initial for the surname was the same, then it was full surname, One teacher used short and tall to differentiate between two students with the same name.
My friend’s class had gerbils. At the end of the year, the teacher asked if anyone could take the mom gerbil and her new babies home. No one wanted them, so my friend asked me if I could take them. I said no but she begged me because the teacher said that if no one took them, they were going in the furnace! I reluctantly agreed and took them home. A couple days later my Aunt visited. While in another room, I heard a shriek and found my Aunt in the kitchen with a broom standing over the body of gerbil mom. My Aunt’s dog smelled the gerbil in the house, ran upstairs and knocked the lid off the cage and brought it downstairs to show my Aunt, who promptly smashed it, thinking it was a mouse.
My 7th grade science teacher had a cottonmouth,2 green snakes, ball python (he was at least 7 feet long and named Clark),iguana, parakeet, rabbit and a guinea pig. We were allowed to take any pet home except the cottonmouth. Then one day couple of kids got Clark out of his cage without asking my teacher come to find out he was shedding his skin which makes snake's tender. So, what did he do he bit the kid but luckily the kid had like 4 layers of clothing on so he only got a couple of scratches because of that she had take them all home. Then our school was not allowed to have classroom pets anymore.
I hope they had an elevator :( because cows CAN walk down stairs if forced , they just aren’t built for it so it’s very scary for them as that sort of incline is found nowhere in nature and the way they’re built it’s a very rational fear !
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this is off topic, but have y'all done an episode on dressing for work as a teacher? I feel like expectations for what teachers 'should' wear is so mixed and sometimes I struggle to find clothes that comfortable, practical, and considered 'appropriate.' I know y'all also talked about the style box some episodes back so I was just wondering if y'all would be willing to talk more about work attire
I agree
I would love to see an episode on this 😊
As a queer teacher, lord yes.
@@sotpunkkatt158 how does sexuality impact appropriate dress?
@@desslou if that person binds their breasts then it would be difficult to find women's clothing with no breast shaping in the shirt. It's also hard for queer people to find gender-neutral style clothing in general. There is a men's section and a women's section. There is no both section and there's also no neither section. So if you're queer or gender-neutral I bet it's very difficult to find clothes that fit you correctly or that you like or both
the cursing stories reminded me of this one kid in foreign languages class, we were learning the pronunciation of a word and the teacher was explaining how the letter would sound like a th to us and then this kid says “suckers” with a lisp, so the teacher saw him say “thuckers” and the class looked at him and gasped and the teacher had to save him and tell us what he said
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Is this in Spanish? I know in Spain they use a lisp for the soft c.
@@shanenanigans27 yup, we were learning the word for the body’s heart and he said that and she had to save him from the rest of the class telling him he wasn’t allowed to say that
Yeah I don't get it
@@Emilia-wv1kj in spanish class we all thought we heard him say something else when learning the word for the heart which is not pronounced how it’s spelled and has “th” sound and it sounded like he cursed when he didn’t
Lauren 100% comes off as the teachers pet. I totally see it. I bet she was an accidental snitch cause she was too close to her teachers.
Accidental snitches are the worst. They don't even know they suck. I didn't have a lot of friends, so I couldn't do that. I was like a semi teachers pet. Always behaved, but I wasn't the best academically. I know this sounds weird, but sometimes teachers wanted to be with me more than certain smart kids. You know the ones.
You guys should get a favorite teacher on to tell how you REALLY were in school.
i think one important aspect to discuss about teacher’s pets is that some of them are abused and a) don’t understand boundaries bc of it or b) are searching for any sort of positive adult influence as a sort of cry for help. obviously this isn’t every teacher’s pet, but it does happen. and from personal experience, being a teacher’s pet in high school caused me to get groomed by a teacher that i trusted and looked up to. it’s a very nuanced discussion bc there’s so many different definitions and connotations concerning teacher’s pets, and there’s also a million different reasons for why someone would be a teacher’s pet, and how teachers should act with a student like that.
The obsessive questions and seeking perfection could've also been undiagnosed ADHD and/or ASD. I totally obsessed like that, still do at times, and didn't get diagnosed until 33 after spending almost a year explicitly seeking a specialist because my 20s and 30s thus far have been a mess.
I was thinking this too. ADHD and ASD people struggle with instructions that are vague, subjective, or too open ended.
Lauran being more surprised about a teacher having a printer than there being a rat inside it is peak teacher mentality 😅😂
I love how you guys made a teachers platform, a Safe place . I feel like you guys are those teachers you forever remember even after graduating. I love this! I’m only 20 and I’ve worked with preschool students since I was 15 and all these videos are very much relatable 😭❤️
My mom is a retired Chemistry/Biology teacher and actually did have cockroaches as classroom pets- like had a terrarium set up and everything for them. One of her students had two Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches as pets that she volunteered to take care of over a school break- and well, they turned into more than two.
In my 8th grade social studies class, there was a dead roach in the light, and a girl in my class named him Lafayette.
As a middle child I feel the pain. As much as I hated it, as a child, as a parent my middle child flies under the radar all the time.
I swore I'd never make my middle child feel left out, but as a parent you have to be really intentional with the time you spend with your middle child.
I think my middle child goes missed a lot is because he's so easy-going and really well behaved. My oldest and youngest are constantly in my face for attention or doing something they shouldn't be doing so they always have my attention.
This was hilarious! My science teacher in High School had a Red-eared Slider Turtle Tank, a large saltwater fish tank, a Corn Snake (Scooter), and this adorable little aquatic creature called an Axolotle. I was his TA for most of High School so I would help clean the tanks and take care/feed Scooter. Helping him with the animals helped me decide to get my degree in Zoology and ultimately be able to work for a zoo as an Anomal Keeper. He was the best teacher and I didn't care if i was considered the "Teachers Pet" because he helped me get into what I wanted to do. 😊 And Lauren, the animal you are looking for is Coati. I got the chance to work with them during my Zookeeper career. ❤😄
Great episode, I’m a first year elementary music teacher and I listen to the podcast every day on the way to school! I was wondering, have you guys done an episode where you’ve brought on some enrichment teachers (art, music, P.E., etc.)? I think it would be a great way to compare and contrast the responsibilities and daily lives of enrichment teachers vs. classroom teachers because there are some important differences and similarities!
How is it so far?
@@tindee3052 Amazing, I love it so much! I’m fresh out of college so I’m definitely still learning lol.
@@actionbreeplay8256 that’s great. I’m studying to be an elementary school teacher and will graduate in 2 years.
I was a teacher's pet because I needed maternal attention so I stuck to those motherly teachers. I also had a fear of other kids after some bullying incidents. I was a teacher's pet in high school because I loved running errands and not being in class, I still got good grades
Fyi- The reason the lepeord Gekko died is because they are not communal for a reason, they need separate tanks unless it's breeding time, Dexter was bullied to death. love the episode tho
My daughter in her 3rd grade class had 8 Ethans and the an Aliyah, Naliah, and Eliah. That poor teacher I felt so sorry for her.
i laughed way too hard with "classroom dolphin 🐬" --lauren, glad you are back!
Had an elementary teacher with rabbits, hedgehogs, fish, turtles, lizards, hamsters,and more that I can't remember. Her classroom was unattached so it was not disturbing to any other classes. And it was pretty cool to have a bunny or hedgehog come sit in your lap while you're doing classwork.
My 3rd grade teacher used a stuffed animal as a class pet and every weekend she would pick one kid hid them the stuff animal and a journal and you spent the weekend with him and you write you adventures in it then you bring it back to school and read what they did I loved it.
That is really trusting of the teacher to give a 3rd grader something and expect them to bring it back to class the following monday lol
I was always called the teachers pet but I just respected my teachers and most of my teachers had both of my siblings so they already knew me and my family
My son just started school for the first time last week and it was so hard for me. All up in my feels. But I have been watching your podcasts like a religion and knowing there are teachers like u guys is amazing and helps as a parent to understand what you guys go through. Thank you for what you do and being who you are!
Love you guys so much. I like to watch on the weekends after school all week.
I had two or three HS teachers that I got on really well with. I still talk to one of them. The one I still talk to, we used to talk about language and how it developed and things like that. She had a master's in philosophy and linguistics. Even tho she is a Spanish teacher, she's really interested and well versed in other cultures. I really loved having those conversations and hanging out with her
Hey, y’all are my favorite podcast and I just thank y’all for helping me get through a few tough times without you knowing. I also want y’all to know that one of my teachers (life science) has a bunch of class pets that she just lets us hang out with during lunch and there are always a bunch of people in her class during lunch days.
I have a wide variety of plushies in my classroom. My high schoolers get a kick out of it!
They name them, give them backstories, move them around the room
that's so cute!
My first year teaching was at a youth residential facility so I was lucky when kids actually cared about school at all. One of the new students mid-year became my teacher's pet. She was really friendly and intelligent. Unfortunately I once had to witness her getting jumped by 2 other students in my class. I still have some of her artwork. I hope she's doing well now.
I am new to this channel, but I’ve seen most of the shorts. I am a school psychologist in FL and was wondering what your experience has been with school psychologists? Our roles change by state/by district/by school so my hearts really go out to y’all when I’ve heard the trauma you’ve experienced working in a classroom.
I always love to watch these videos, they really open up another perspective ❤
I have considered the concept of class pets with one of my co-teachers. We ruled out anything that requires high maintenance because we're tired and broke; we ruled out anything that has a short lifespan so that we don't traumatize our kids; we ruled out anything that could bite because that seemed like a legal issue. In the end, we've decided to attempt an ant farm. Another teacher found a queen ant at his house, so we had a free starter!
The students who stole the chickens and killed them should have been charged with a crime. I really wasn't a teacher's pet. I will say that I was close to two teachers. My bio teacher and my chem teacher. Whenever there was an assembly or some kind of award ceremony I would hang out in one of their rooms and either get extra help or do homework.
I was so horrified to hear that too. Like that’s the same as killing someone’s dog like wtf
Yeah it sounds like animal cruelty. They weren't meant to be killed; they were unnecessarily killed for some "prank". They valued the lives of those chickens less than a "funny prank" which is the real problem
When I was board I would organize my science teachers classroom. I was the definition of a teachers pet/ approval seeker.
Not a teacher, not a student anymore but I really love this podcast thank you :,)
I remember I had the awesome privilege of taking the class pet home for spring break. I went on vacation and my dad had to feed him while I was away. Well I returned to a super fat Guinea pig and my dad told me he filled the bowl twice a day. My teacher was pleased I didn’t kill him but safe to say he had to on a diet lol.
XD at least he didn't kill it although im just imagining that chonky guinea pig lol
I never knew how much I needed this channel until I stumbled across it in RUclips shorts. I've been stuck ever since.
I have literal twins in my class and they are identical. We’re a month in and I still can’t tell them apart. Thank goodness for a seating chart.
I was a teachers pet all the way through school, I was that kid that was always seeking adult validation too.
Memorable class pets:
4th grade: We had a kitten named lucky. We got him as a new born, hadn't even opened his eyes yet. When he got bigger we built him an enclosure with classroom supplies.
Highschool: Science teacher had a giant tarantula named Larry. I sat by the cage so the "mean girls" would leave me alone. 😂
Your intro is almost as iconic as Dude Perfects' for me, ngl
Love all of you guys ❤😜
I was a teacher's pet in the sense that I would talk to them, and actually go out of my way to talk to them. I have autisim, and also the youngest in my family. It was a combination of these things I believe is why I gravatated twards older/people around my older sisters ages. In High School I had many that were close to their ages, and would always just come and talk to them. I also had a teacher that was probably around my Mom's age (Violin teacher) and She became like a second mom to me. I'm friends with all my teachers that I had in high school, and middle school. I have one or two that I hade in elementury school, but most of the ones I had in elementury school aren't on social media or might not be alive anymore idk. The one's I had were older, and that was in the late 90s for Elementury school.
Love having Devin on the podcast!
My first grade teacher always has a hamster every year but she always lost it like it would escaped I’m thinking whenever the hamster died she pretended it escaped until she got another one
I’m a sophomore in high school still a teachers pet I was always close to the teachers at recess and asked to help with anything that they needed I was a tattletale during the start of first grade and was converted during the middle of the year and was a good little secret keeper by the end of the year I often cover for other students who are talking in the reading corner and stuff as long as they are not obviously talking of . Or if a substitute teacher asks someone if they’re doing more talking than working when they’re out of sight and if I’m “in”( near or at the table) the group I will tell the sub that I can see them working and that we are working together
Also I am autistic diagnosed in 2023 I know that was last year but I think I see why I was the teachers pet because I was very nervous about the other kids but still social PE and Music class where hard for me. and now that I moved into high school my middle school algebra teacher is my favorite of the teachers I no longer have. I like our choir teacher and she is also our high school algebra one and beginners algebra. Some teachers I vibe with well I’m afraid of my biology teacher though.
At my high school a “Teacher’s pet” was a kiss-up, brown-noser type deal. Students trying to ingratiate themselves with the teachers. For some I think it was about finding that parental validation, but for others it was trying to appear better or more mature or more friendly with the teachers so they get more leeway or freedom.
When I moved into our school when it was new there was still construction workers in the building and they ate lunch in a room across from mine. They also left their garbage around which attracted mice. I was teaching and my grade fours were all whispering and one all of a sudden one shouted-a mouse! So most of us jumped onto chairs. One of my students named it and wanted to adopt it but that wasn’t happening. She then write a whole creative story about the mouse and now she’s in her 20s and has her own greeting card company! Her creative writing got her somewhere! 🐁
"I've seen this movie before"
I needed that laugh. Thank you for all being amazing😊
We had an iguana in the elementary school playground tree.
Friend was just chilling on a branch up high and a kid saw the friend and others kids began to gather around the base of the tree, looking up at this huge green lizard.
Friend was rumored to have been taken home by the teacher on campus who has pets in her classroom and knew how to take care of them.
This happened in Cailfornia, not Florida
It can happen anywhere.
As pets can and will excape and them will clime up into your tree.
You better watch out now or you might just have one fall on your head.
I think teachers pets are the kids who go out of their way to please the teacher. Like for example, in ELA me and some other kids were talking and the teacher told us to stop so we did. But then the teachers let looked at us and shook his head then looked at the teacher saying “kids these days…” bestie u that desperate????? Another time some kid at the beginning of class walked up to the teacher saying “Hey Susan! How was your daughters basketball game at blah blah? It feels like just yesterday she got onto the team!” The teacher looked shocked, pissed, and petrified
34:16 When I was in 5th grade, one of my friends found a garder snake outside on a chilly day after a heatwave. She didn't want it to die, so she picked it up and put it in her jacket pocket. When my teacher found out, he found a plastic tupperware and said we were all going to go on a scavenger hunt for leaves, sticks, and rocks to decorate it's 'home'. We gave it a Petrie dish full of water and some lettuce from the school cafeteria. Our plan was to release it at the end of the school year, when it was nice and warm. But COVID hit a week later, so we had to let him go. I remember I suggested we name him Jeremy.
Back in the 60's, one of our 4th grade teachers had a pet boa constrictor in his classroom and he kept the food (live gerbils) in cages in the school library. Kids would volunteer to keep the snake and gerbils over the summer months to take care with their parents' permission.
You all might have spoken about this topic before. Yet, would you speak about the "smart/gifted" versus those who truly struggle? Or like the tattoo artist student Devin had, how to handle those who truly struggle and may learn completely different than the traditional classroom setting?
My science teacher took in a hamster that was abandoned at our school. Really well taken care of cause our teacher has a bunch of pets, cats and snakes and stuff. During the summer, he brought it home and overnight his cat knocked the cage over. The next morning his cat plopped the dead hamster in front of my teacher during his morning coffee. I feel awful got the hamster, but I laugh thinking about my teacher going "oh shit, how do I explain this to all these kids"
If the definition of a teacher's pet is "knowing your teachers on a personal level," then most of the students at my high school are teacher's pets because nearly every teacher at the school is chill enough to be considered an older friend.
I had a couple tiny pet crabs like the ones your talking about when I was a kid. They’d always escape their cage 🤦♂️ I never learned how they where doing it but I remember a many times I’d wake up to my mom yelling at me to get my crabs from her room 😂😂
I keep several leopard geckos, and I swear the girls are little food goblins! I keep mine separated unless I’m trying for eggs, but when I leave the pairs together the girls eat everything! Poor little derpy boy geckos.
In highschool a few of our twcaher had teachers pets but they weren't like what was talked about here they were the kids from hard home lives poverty, abuse ect the teacher was always taking care of them at the time I didn't understand but now I'm greatful I'm sure those kids didn't have many in there corners supporting, loving and fighting for them to succeed
I wish teachers would stop getting class pets if they're not going to care for them properly. The vast majority of class pets I've seen are not receiving even the bare minimum care that they need. Edit: I know Lauren did not just say snakes eat roaches 🤣
My uncle had a pet carrot in his classroom one time and it apparently got pregnant and had babies and turned white because of vampire roaches once. He taught 3rd grade. He also tells stories about strawberries running around at dawn. XD
I think, for the student definition, a teacher’s pet is all of the above. Has good grades and likes the teacher, snitches and etc. but all to a level of annoyance, like the goody two shoes of education.
I'd LOVE to know what these teachers think of "School / District / State / Region / National Teacher of the Year" awards and recognition... I mean, if incentives matter then where do awards and recognition fall in terms of desirability??
I liked school, the only part I hated about it was getting up early and the risk of throwing up in elementary school, in elementary school you would have lunch then recess or recess then lunch, but lunch then recess could make you throw up because all you are doing in mixing the food up when you're running.
I was also afraid to get bad grades in school. I had very decent grades but I was always afraid that when I went to middle school or high school my grades would drop. I still got pretty decent grades but I was still a savage. I would be those kids that have good grades but act like kids that get bad grades.
Also the intro is iconic 💅
Devin needs to be a part of the crew MORE! 🤣🤣🤣
When I had to explain that Ms. Guinea was actual a Mr. Guinea. Dude, I just believed the pet store guy. My sister, a veterinarian, laughed so hard.
I read this as vegetarian instead of veterinarian and was so confused.
I used to think my name was Katie J Johnson because there were 7 Katie’s in my home room class in elementary school. 😂
Our class this year has four Aishas, two Aaliyahs, two Nuhas, two Zahraas. Our teacher was like sorry, I wasn't checking for the repetitive names when I put this class together.
The fish stealing story sounds like oceans eleven for kids. Pun intended 🤣
And I feel that middle child bit. My mom will say all my siblings, and sometimes my aunts, names before landing on mine
i taught at one school for 8 years & just changed districts, but i had a bearded dragon named mortimer as a class pet. he was my bestest bud but he died over covid 😭 my 7th grade science kids loved him!!!
I had a Beta fish for like 4 or 5 years, like it felt like it would never die. Now I've had a bearded dragon for almost 12! Best pet ever!
I am obsessed with the intro 🤣🤣😂😂😂😂
when I was in kindergarten my teacher had two rabbits (maybe three) but one of them died like two years after kindergarten. And I just remember the one rabbit sitting there until she retired so it was really a good thing that she took care of that rabbit until she retired
my favorite teachers in high school were open.. like one of the english teachers and the only drama teacher was open with us but only to a point. it made him feel like a better teacher. We didn't have classroom pets when i was in elementary school but one of my classmates families had a farm so they brought llamas and pigs and who knows what to show the class
Homeschool my three since oldest two was coming out of elementary. My oldest kept a found lizard alive for crazy amount of time even when camping so we got a Leppard gecko for him as a reward for amazing job yeah turned out he was albino so my kids got to see him get lighter with every shed that was supposed to become more colorful. As preschooler their dad also thought hamsters were a great idea that would be a big nope one ate the other. And oh so many more stories thank God we lived on a farm and not much shocked them momma didn't handle near as well.
Hey guys i just want to say that because of you i want to become a teacher. I want to thank all of you! Keep up the great work!
HE LIVED IN THE PRINTER! I love it 🤣
I was the one to get tasked in elementary school and it very negatively impacted me. I was always the good student that got good grades but I was no longer the pet by 5th grade.
I'm a high school science teacher in NC and I teach Earth and Environmental. I have a male ball python named Jormungandr but we call him Yorgun for short (the kids can't pronounce his full name lol). He is the sweetest gentlest noodle you ever did see. My students love him and he's so docile and good around them. I originally got him as a class pet but now he's just become the resident ESA lol. He's my buddy❤️
My only favorite teachers from HS were elective teachers and I had them for multiple years. I never had a relationship with any other teacher 6-12th grade. I was just a number to them. I know of a couple that kids my age recognize, but I never had that. Funny that that favorite teacher and I have had an adult relationship through choir.
Friend got her classroom a gecko. She retired years ago but this gecko is still alive. We are rural and she is always asking around who is driving to a town big enough for a pet store to pick up crickets for this gecko who is around 15 years old.
Y'all have me laughing so hard! I could literally listen to y'all all day!
We had a snake in hide behind the teacher in her bookshelf last year and me and another student had to go and take it outside and *make it asleep* last year cause it had a gash half way in it's body so it hid away in the bookshelf
We still have zero clue on how it got into a completely locked up facility 😅
So I don't
CaRe... 🤣🤣🤣
My HS guidance counselor was my favorite adult at school. I'd have lunch with him a lot and sometimes I'd try and call him by his first name... Like every now and then I'd throw out a "Eeeyyyyyy Petey!" and he'd tell me when i graduated I'd be allowed to call him Pete. I'll see him occasionally almost 20 yrs later now and shout Eyyyyyyy Petey! Lol ❤️
37:08 i can confirm that, my dad went to Mexico and tried to turn on the bath tub and a lizard came out of it🤣
I think the crabs Becca was talking about are called pea crabs. They are usually less than 1cm wide.
At my high school the students always take the pets home to babysit over the summer. My cousin's daughter brought home a 5' king snake for the summer and the mom was not happy about it!!! Especially when it got loose 😂
To me, a "teachers pet" is a teachers favorite student.
Lmfao 🤣🤣 hamsters are canaries of the classroom. I'm dying laughing 😂
I wasn’t a teachers pet but it seemed like all the teachers genuinely loved me. If there was something going on in the class they’d pull me aside and be like yo what’s this they ain’t telling me and if it concerned them I’d tell them. For the most part I was just quiet and did as I was told and asked questions when it was appropriate to. I don’t think I was really the teachers pet but I definitely got called that.
When i was in first or second grade there was this teacher that had like 20 or 30 baby chicks in the classroom
Maybe the girl that would come up a clarify an assignment had really bad anxiety. I use to have to do that because I would not understand something and have a panic attack. I was also in special Ed classes so I felt like I was really dumb so.
My 5th grade teacher had two stuffed animals that she had, and she let us take them home on random weekends and we had to tell them what we did with them during the weekend. And everyone’s was so cool. But me in the 5th grade was like “he almost got ran over with my vacuum”.
My high school literally banned muck up day (year 12 prank day, Australia) because some of the boys stole a cow to bring up stairs… the school had to get a crane and brake down a wall to strap the cow to it.
I was definitely a teacher’s pet in some classes. My 11th grade English teacher wrote in my yearbook, “It was nice to have someone in class who was paying attention.”. Really, I just felt bad that no one answered her questions because they weren’t doing the work. Did they honestly think I liked Steinbeck? 🤮However, they were the assignments, so I read the books, depressing as they were, and answered the questions because no one else would. My second French teacher and my Spanish teacher also liked me. I actually disliked French class with my first teacher, but I loved it when we got our second teacher. Spanish was just a filler class my senior year. I think the Spanish teacher liked me because I was a senior. I didn’t have to take any languages at that point, but I took her class anyway, even though I was still taking French as well.
the mention of australia (around 22 minutes in) cracked me up
I had a hamster, he was my first real pet. He was so cute, so sweet, and a master at escape. But, we never got him checked out because we didn't know what was wrong, and I was nine. But his genitals were huge. Like, I'm talking huge, and it was strange. He died in the corner of his cage months after we'd noticed the issue with his genitals. It was defiently traumatic I think to pick up my dead hamster and have no idea why he was alive when I went to sleep but dead when I woke up. But we assumed he'd actually had a tumor in his genitals, and that's why he passed away. He was a good pet and I hope he rests in peace. 💕 💕
I was called a teacher's pet for the reason woolley was called one 😂 I was quiet and good and never made a disruption and the teachers liked me, so in elementary school I was called a teacher's pet
Fellow senior “teachers pet” superlative winner, not just for my school, but my dance studio too. Two different groups of my peers voted me teachers per in two separate contexts in my senior year. You have to realize that just because you don’t make teacher’s days worse, and you actually aim to have a relationship with them doesn’t mean other students don’t like you. At least that’s what I have told myself 😅 it’s funny because I was never really the student to get them gifts, I just really valued them for who they were in my life.
One prank I heard of was students let out 3 pigs on the scool grounds. They numbered them 1,2 and 4! I was painfully shy at school and had a couple of elementary school teachers I adored. I was often chosen to run errands for/help the teacher as I was quiet and followed the rules. I worked hard and was often called teacher ‘s pet, but didn’t think I was. I never reminded the teacher that they hadn’t given us our homework/returned our notebooks to do the assignment. We definitely had people with the same name in the class, and they would go by first name and surname initial. If the initial for the surname was the same, then it was full surname, One teacher used short and tall to differentiate between two students with the same name.
My friend’s class had gerbils. At the end of the year, the teacher asked if anyone could take the mom gerbil and her new babies home. No one wanted them, so my friend asked me if I could take them. I said no but she begged me because the teacher said that if no one took them, they were going in the furnace! I reluctantly agreed and took them home. A couple days later my Aunt visited. While in another room, I heard a shriek and found my Aunt in the kitchen with a broom standing over the body of gerbil mom. My Aunt’s dog smelled the gerbil in the house, ran upstairs and knocked the lid off the cage and brought it downstairs to show my Aunt, who promptly smashed it, thinking it was a mouse.
My 7th grade science teacher had a cottonmouth,2 green snakes, ball python (he was at least 7 feet long and named Clark),iguana, parakeet, rabbit and a guinea pig. We were allowed to take any pet home except the cottonmouth. Then one day couple of kids got Clark out of his cage without asking my teacher come to find out he was shedding his skin which makes snake's tender. So, what did he do he bit the kid but luckily the kid had like 4 layers of clothing on so he only got a couple of scratches because of that she had take them all home. Then our school was not allowed to have classroom pets anymore.
I hope they had an elevator :( because cows CAN walk down stairs if forced , they just aren’t built for it so it’s very scary for them as that sort of incline is found nowhere in nature and the way they’re built it’s a very rational fear !