How about when students blatantly ignore you when you're giving instructions, then five minutes after the activity starts, they come complain that they don't know what to do?
My biggest pet peeve is when you give a worksheet, and they then ask what to do or start to do something incorrectly. You go over and direct them to the instructions or even "oh hey (insert name) did you read the instructions." They go back read them and then begin to erase everything they've done.... So that's a no lol.
I have asked if they read the directions. Then they look down at the paper, because they hadn't read them yet. I make the kid read them out loud. "Order the numbers least to greatest" I stare for a long while, then ask what their question was again.
"Did we do anything yesterday?" ....We had a party to celebrate your absence! Had pizza, a make-your-own sundae bar, and watched RUclips videos of baby pandas playing in the snow.
Parents aren’t teaching kids how to be human beings. When i was in high school i used to watch my little cousin who was 13 years younger. I was the one who taught her to wash her hands, say please and thank you, look at someone when speaking, how you dont talk to strangers but do say hello when you are with your your mom and she says hi to some she knows but how to be safe when mom isn’t around. The list goes on. My aunt taught her nothing. We would be in church and someone would say good morning to her and she wouldnt say hi back. Her mother’s response was to say “what is wrong with you” but never taught her how to interact with others, so I started to teach her myself at the age of 16
Mine is "what can I do to bring up my grade?" I want to respond "turn in anything. All you've done is fail a quiz." I still found a "professional" way to say that
I hadn't taken taken down a library door covering yet from the exhausting book fair last week. Kinder said to me, that's ok, my dad is lazy too. Ummmm, ok. Lol
Oh, the tattling... I drew a turtle on green bulletin board paper, cut it out, taped it to the wall, and told all my students (k-8), "This is Terry the Tattle Turtle. If nobody is bleeding, on fire, or in danger, go whisper to Terry about it." I was shocked--it actually worked.
Mine was how they manage to destroy EVERYTHING I put up around the room to make things not so bleak. Had a student (not even mine) stop at my door and peel the snowflake clings off my door and tuck them in her purse. Didn't even bother to see if I was watching.
Oh man, I'm really sorry about that! I teach 8th grade English at a public school, and I have to keep any seasonal decorations up high or somewhere out of reach, especially if I think they could play with them. However, most of my students don't care enough to take them down. I got a mini pumpkin stolen, but mostly they are left alone. So I'm really hoping that it stays that way with my future classes as well because I hate it when they steal things from me like that. I hope that you have better years and your students can appreciate your efforts!
Retiring in 4 weeks after 34 years teaching high school. "Did we do anything yesterday?" is like nails on a chalkboard. I teach Math. There are no "free days", ever, and the assignments have been written on a continuous list on the bulletin board at the front of the room since Day 1. Side note - I may have the only remaining chalkboard in the school. I requested it for the wall behind my desk. One of my AP seniors asked me to run my nails down it a few days ago, because she had heard the phrase, but never the sound. I politely declined. 😊
I've had students go on a cruise or just leave the country for a few weeks. They can't do any work on a computer because there is no internet access or they are just out and when they come back don't ask for work until the day grades are due.
Number 1 irritating behavior- the entitled kid: during instructions, helping another student, taking roll, it doesn’t matter what I am doing this kiddo wants me to drop everything and do what they need - checking a grade, changing a grade, grading a late assignment, explaining a past assignment, or current assignment, or anything else… sorry felt that one was missed.
I teach elementary French in Ontario, Canada. I'm pretty easygoing but these two really grind my gears: arguing with me about how to say something correctly (I am fluent and have two French First Language university degrees), and the big one, after giving all the instructions for something to write or to be presented orally, there is always the student who asks "in French?". No dear little one, I thought we'd try it in Early Icelandic this time. 😂
Oh I felt so many of these. I've taught everyone from pre-school to highschool. I didn't experience much fashion police, but being only 4'8 it's awesome when 3rd graders size you up and win- like take their hand from the top of their head to the top of your head and they are taller. The lack of response from middle and highschoolers gets worse when you go abroad because of the language barrier, like I have students so checked out they can't even form the full sentence of "what does that mean" "shenme yisi" in chinese, I'll just get a "shay-ah" not even to me but to their friend next to me. Also, having a Chinese co-teacher makes this worse not because your co-cteacher isn't awesome and helpful but because then the kids don't listen to you at all, they just wait for the Chinese teacher to explain it again in Chinese. I can be totally invisible. Being a drama teacher and not a core subject teacher too loses me lots of respect when, say, they know my grade isn't calculated into their GPA, they'll come in asking, "what are we doing today"... well let's see, we're in act 2 of 4 of The Crucible so... "absolutely nothing, we do nothing here in drama, my class has no value" The worst for me though is the obsession little boys have with weapons. Their finger guns and "pew pew" sound effects.
Giving them a new pencil and they break it in half, throw it away, and then complain that they can’t do their work because they no longer have a pencil.
I definitely have developed thicker skin over time, but kids can just say awful things; their conscience and awareness of others just hasn't developed well yet. I teach teens now, but for most students who are reasoning age (excepting middle schoolers -- who knows what they want), I've found that just telling them what's bothering me and why and even ridiculously acting out what they're doing (yes, to teenagers) seems to work well.
Girl .... whatcha talkin' about!!! I HATE to be in the middle of explaining today's plans when I get a question about "What are we gonna do today?" I also hate it when I finish giving instructions for how to complete a task, then get a question on how to do that very task. !!!!!!
I used to always tell my kids, "If I told you guys we were having snickers bars and chocolate milk for lunch, some of you would say, 'But I don't like snickers bars and chocolate milk!' and some little bugger would invariably speak up and say, with complete sincerity, "I *don't like* snicker bars!" or "But I don't like chocolate milk!" Used to slay me.
I don't mind this if they use it efficiently. But the kid who pulls 5 tissues for one blow and then toss...my goodness...or tissues for spills...no no.
Student get a Kleenex, wipes their nose, throws it away, uses a sani wipe and then repeats this five times in a class period. I paid for both because nobody donated anything and the school only supplies one container of sani- wipes and it is the small one.
Miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss... forever. When a student snaps their fingers at me. Asks me at the end of the class period after the bell rang, what work did I miss yesterday? Hoodies, airpods... a student who can spend thirty minutes of the thirty minutes on the computer program finding ways to not log into the program. "What can I do to bring my grade up?" a week after grades have been turned in or for work in the grading period that ended nine weeks ago. Bragging about how much their shoes or cell phone costs and then asking me for a pencil. After borrowing a pencil from me, breaking it and throwing it on the floor before they leave-asking for one the next day.
I'm with young adults. They drive me crazy when the ask me permission to use the toilet!!!! They are 18! First, your are an adult, you should be able to control your bladder. Second you're and adult! You don't have to ask a permission for that, you should have enough judgment to decide if you are going to bother the class more by leaving discretely for a minute of making a mess in the classroom.
The school I go to makes them sign out and go one at a time because they have a tendency to try and spend the rest class on their phones or hanging out with friends in there.
You can’t blame the students when they’re trained from age 5 to ASK to use the bathroom. We’re punished if we don’t. It’s not your students’ fault they ask you if you haven’t told them they don’t need to ask.
@@mariamshah338 I will never blame them for being over polite. It just drives me crazy, but I keep it for myself. I tell them not do do so but they are so well trained that they forget that now they are adults 😉
I had a student who selected as an answer to a test question something we NEVER EVEN DISCUSSED. They need a completed note packet to take the test, this answer literally is nowhere to be seen in the entire note packet. WHY DID YOU CHOOSE THIS???? This student is a senior in high school...... /smh
I understand not wanting to talk early in the morning or if a question it hard but as someone who is shy I can tell you it rude pretending the person is not there
I was quiet in school. Still am today. But I was always nice to my teachers. And always volunteered my time, I just simply would not speak to them. I am a much better listener.
Oh, the complaining about every single assignment, I hate that. This year, I had a second grade class with a couple of boys who would get annoyed everytime they had to close their laptops because it was time for a work book lesson.
High School: Students that ask to use the restroom as they are arriving. You just had 5 minutes to do that on your way here? OMG are they not potty trained?
The complaining thing is so annoying! Literally we had a thing for them to color a picture of idk what but it was related to what they learned. Just had to color! Kid: I don't like to color! Had another time we had a movie playing. Again kinda related to what hlthey learned and another kid: I dont wanna watch a movie!
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How about when students blatantly ignore you when you're giving instructions, then five minutes after the activity starts, they come complain that they don't know what to do?
My biggest pet peeve is when you give a worksheet, and they then ask what to do or start to do something incorrectly. You go over and direct them to the instructions or even "oh hey (insert name) did you read the instructions." They go back read them and then begin to erase everything they've done.... So that's a no lol.
Yaaaasssss!
I have asked if they read the directions. Then they look down at the paper, because they hadn't read them yet. I make the kid read them out loud. "Order the numbers least to greatest" I stare for a long while, then ask what their question was again.
Mine is when I give them work and two weeks later wonder why they have a 0 on it. Then still want to do it for full points.
Then someone tells you have to reread because they deserve to
Know what’s going on 🥴
"Did we do anything yesterday?" ....We had a party to celebrate your absence! Had pizza, a make-your-own sundae bar, and watched RUclips videos of baby pandas playing in the snow.
That would be a great reply-- but you KNOW the kid would go home and tell the parent THEN here comes Admin........
I always reply with, "Everything, you should just quit now because you will never catch up now."
The rude ignoring of a “good morning “ is rampant. And they have the nerve to say your rude! Also the blatant ignoring you during instructions
For me it is, when we practised something over weeks, and in the test they act like it's the first time they see it....
Parents aren’t teaching kids how to be human beings. When i was in high school i used to watch my little cousin who was 13 years younger. I was the one who taught her to wash her hands, say please and thank you, look at someone when speaking, how you dont talk to strangers but do say hello when you are with your your mom and she says hi to some she knows but how to be safe when mom isn’t around. The list goes on. My aunt taught her nothing. We would be in church and someone would say good morning to her and she wouldnt say hi back. Her mother’s response was to say “what is wrong with you” but never taught her how to interact with others, so I started to teach her myself at the age of 16
Mine is "what can I do to bring up my grade?"
I want to respond "turn in anything. All you've done is fail a quiz." I still found a "professional" way to say that
I hadn't taken taken down a library door covering yet from the exhausting book fair last week. Kinder said to me, that's ok, my dad is lazy too. Ummmm, ok. Lol
Oh, the tattling... I drew a turtle on green bulletin board paper, cut it out, taped it to the wall, and told all my students (k-8), "This is Terry the Tattle Turtle. If nobody is bleeding, on fire, or in danger, go whisper to Terry about it." I was shocked--it actually worked.
Mine was how they manage to destroy EVERYTHING I put up around the room to make things not so bleak. Had a student (not even mine) stop at my door and peel the snowflake clings off my door and tuck them in her purse. Didn't even bother to see if I was watching.
Oh man, I'm really sorry about that! I teach 8th grade English at a public school, and I have to keep any seasonal decorations up high or somewhere out of reach, especially if I think they could play with them. However, most of my students don't care enough to take them down. I got a mini pumpkin stolen, but mostly they are left alone. So I'm really hoping that it stays that way with my future classes as well because I hate it when they steal things from me like that. I hope that you have better years and your students can appreciate your efforts!
Ikr? I teach kindergarten and the favourite way to use hot wheel cars is smashing them so that they break.
Retiring in 4 weeks after 34 years teaching high school. "Did we do anything yesterday?" is like nails on a chalkboard. I teach Math. There are no "free days", ever, and the assignments have been written on a continuous list on the bulletin board at the front of the room since Day 1. Side note - I may have the only remaining chalkboard in the school. I requested it for the wall behind my desk. One of my AP seniors asked me to run my nails down it a few days ago, because she had heard the phrase, but never the sound. I politely declined. 😊
I miss having students who can multiply (or add). My “honors” high school math classes are 😵💫
Best wishes
I've had students go on a cruise or just leave the country for a few weeks. They can't do any work on a computer because there is no internet access or they are just out and when they come back don't ask for work until the day grades are due.
I teach in France. We have the same students!!! Plus I teach in junior high and they still do quite a few of these things.
Middle school teachers deserve combat pay.
Number 1 irritating behavior- the entitled kid: during instructions, helping another student, taking roll, it doesn’t matter what I am doing this kiddo wants me to drop everything and do what they need - checking a grade, changing a grade, grading a late assignment, explaining a past assignment, or current assignment, or anything else… sorry felt that one was missed.
I teach elementary French in Ontario, Canada. I'm pretty easygoing but these two really grind my gears: arguing with me about how to say something correctly (I am fluent and have two French First Language university degrees), and the big one, after giving all the instructions for something to write or to be presented orally, there is always the student who asks "in French?". No dear little one, I thought we'd try it in Early Icelandic this time. 😂
I taught for 38 years. I can totally identify with everything!!!
Oh I felt so many of these. I've taught everyone from pre-school to highschool. I didn't experience much fashion police, but being only 4'8 it's awesome when 3rd graders size you up and win- like take their hand from the top of their head to the top of your head and they are taller. The lack of response from middle and highschoolers gets worse when you go abroad because of the language barrier, like I have students so checked out they can't even form the full sentence of "what does that mean" "shenme yisi" in chinese, I'll just get a "shay-ah" not even to me but to their friend next to me. Also, having a Chinese co-teacher makes this worse not because your co-cteacher isn't awesome and helpful but because then the kids don't listen to you at all, they just wait for the Chinese teacher to explain it again in Chinese. I can be totally invisible. Being a drama teacher and not a core subject teacher too loses me lots of respect when, say, they know my grade isn't calculated into their GPA, they'll come in asking, "what are we doing today"... well let's see, we're in act 2 of 4 of The Crucible so... "absolutely nothing, we do nothing here in drama, my class has no value" The worst for me though is the obsession little boys have with weapons. Their finger guns and "pew pew" sound effects.
Yeah I never had to worry about fashion police but me being 5'2" made them thing I was at their level. So annoying
Giving them a new pencil and they break it in half, throw it away, and then complain that they can’t do their work because they no longer have a pencil.
2:27 Patience is a virtue! But hardly any kids or adults have or use it anymore.
When a student turns in an assignment two weeks late and I get an e-mail from a parent wanting to know why I haven't graded it yet.
When you tell them/ask them to stop doing something or not to do something and they do it anyway and then look at you like you’re the crazy one!!
I definitely have developed thicker skin over time, but kids can just say awful things; their conscience and awareness of others just hasn't developed well yet. I teach teens now, but for most students who are reasoning age (excepting middle schoolers -- who knows what they want), I've found that just telling them what's bothering me and why and even ridiculously acting out what they're doing (yes, to teenagers) seems to work well.
I can relate to 0:47 and 2:40. Not a teacher but I do work with populations that has little to no filter.
During 5th grade special, I felt like I was in a Live Action version of the movie Mean Girls.
Girl .... whatcha talkin' about!!! I HATE to be in the middle of explaining today's plans when I get a question about "What are we gonna do today?" I also hate it when I finish giving instructions for how to complete a task, then get a question on how to do that very task. !!!!!!
I used to always tell my kids, "If I told you guys we were having snickers bars and chocolate milk for lunch, some of you would say, 'But I don't like snickers bars and chocolate milk!' and some little bugger would invariably speak up and say, with complete sincerity, "I *don't like* snicker bars!" or "But I don't like chocolate milk!" Used to slay me.
How about the kid that uses upwards of 5 of the tissues per class period that you bought with your money? His mom never donates to the room
I don't mind this if they use it efficiently. But the kid who pulls 5 tissues for one blow and then toss...my goodness...or tissues for spills...no no.
We had to donate tissues, quart bags, gallon bags, baby wipes, sticky notes. They still have cupboards full in May.
@@summerrose4286 Well, thank you for contributing. Most parents don’t.
@@kathyfritz9962 it's on our school supply list.
Student get a Kleenex, wipes their nose, throws it away, uses a sani wipe and then repeats this five times in a class period. I paid for both because nobody donated anything and the school only supplies one container of sani- wipes and it is the small one.
Miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss... forever. When a student snaps their fingers at me. Asks me at the end of the class period after the bell rang, what work did I miss yesterday? Hoodies, airpods... a student who can spend thirty minutes of the thirty minutes on the computer program finding ways to not log into the program. "What can I do to bring my grade up?" a week after grades have been turned in or for work in the grading period that ended nine weeks ago. Bragging about how much their shoes or cell phone costs and then asking me for a pencil. After borrowing a pencil from me, breaking it and throwing it on the floor before they leave-asking for one the next day.
I'm with young adults. They drive me crazy when the ask me permission to use the toilet!!!! They are 18! First, your are an adult, you should be able to control your bladder. Second you're and adult! You don't have to ask a permission for that, you should have enough judgment to decide if you are going to bother the class more by leaving discretely for a minute of making a mess in the classroom.
The school I go to makes them sign out and go one at a time because they have a tendency to try and spend the rest class on their phones or hanging out with friends in there.
You can’t blame the students when they’re trained from age 5 to ASK to use the bathroom. We’re punished if we don’t. It’s not your students’ fault they ask you if you haven’t told them they don’t need to ask.
@@mariamshah338 I will never blame them for being over polite. It just drives me crazy, but I keep it for myself. I tell them not do do so but they are so well trained that they forget that now they are adults 😉
I didn't do anything! My number one new annoyance this decade!
Tattling and flippancy -- always top aggravating behaviors for me.
If I would've made some [all] of those comments to a teacher, I wouldn't be here today. My parents would've likely killed me.
Those kids that wanna act grown to you but then say they're gonna have their mom/auntie come in. I thought you were grown. Stay in your lane
I had a student who selected as an answer to a test question something we NEVER EVEN DISCUSSED. They need a completed note packet to take the test, this answer literally is nowhere to be seen in the entire note packet. WHY DID YOU CHOOSE THIS???? This student is a senior in high school...... /smh
"Why do you have hair on your face?" None of your business!
The turning off of lights for no reason or opening the door five minutes before class ends is annoying to me… just stop.
I understand not wanting to talk early in the morning or if a question it hard but as someone who is shy I can tell you it rude pretending the person is not there
I teach Drivers Ed and I have had a couple of students not come back when they found out they had homework.
Never work with small kids. They are brutally honest lmao 🤣
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I was quiet in school. Still am today. But I was always nice to my teachers. And always volunteered my time, I just simply would not speak to them. I am a much better listener.
You are so hysterical! I want to be your friend! We would have so many stories to share!
Interruptions.
Is it too much to ask that you raise your hand and be recognized?
Sometimes it’s simply breathing.
I find it annoying that kids asks to use the bathroom all the time. I am sitting there having to go myself and not being able to leave the classroom.
Oh, the complaining about every single assignment, I hate that. This year, I had a second grade class with a couple of boys who would get annoyed everytime they had to close their laptops because it was time for a work book lesson.
High School: Students that ask to use the restroom as they are arriving. You just had 5 minutes to do that on your way here? OMG are they not potty trained?
Asking what their table's job is, as I'm explaining the jobs, in color order, and their color is last...
The complaining thing is so annoying! Literally we had a thing for them to color a picture of idk what but it was related to what they learned. Just had to color! Kid: I don't like to color! Had another time we had a movie playing. Again kinda related to what hlthey learned and another kid: I dont wanna watch a movie!
Phew... Thought it was just me 😓
Many times students annoy their teachers this time maybe because of technology...
Horrible children…..honestly. Screaming “I’m going to get you fired!” I quit.
I work mental health and I understand
I get asked why I’m so fat all the time by kids.
Awewwwe. You’re not a potato lol. Kids r so mean lol. Geez
How about a 5 year old?!
Felicidades, es un buen ejemplo. 170 sentadillas son unos QUINZAA.Monster muchas y un buen ejercicio. Se deja ver que hay muy buenos resultados 😍👍 Saludos desde la Cd.. de world 🌹😉💖 los mortalesl abian apreciado tan hermosa mujer.k
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I had two teachers i'd never say hello too my 7th grade science teacher n m hs 10th grade history teacher,
Congratulations?