Teacher Misery, a new blog, has come to save the sanity of teachers everywhere! The moderator describes it as "A safe place for teachers to anonymously vent about other teachers, administration, low pay, snowflake students, helicopter parents, no respect, no time to pee and anything else that we must endure."
No time to pee, huh? I guess that puts my lack of an office window in perspective.
ReplyDeletewell, with no office window finding time (and a place) to pee does become easier....
DeletePansexual furries? My god. I thought I had seen everything.
ReplyDeleteLet's call pansexual furries what they are: weirdos. Seriously. And if the PC police starts getting antsy and insisting that being a furry is an orientation, like being gay, and we start seeing "furry pride" parades, I'm going to start voting Republican.
Hmmm. My six-year-old daughter shows every indication of being a furry, if not a pansexual. The other night, I caught her crouched on the floor in front of her full-length mirror applying face paint whiskers and a cat nose.
ReplyDeleteWhere did I go wrong?
It's okay for kids to dress up like animals, it's when they don't grow out of it that you have to worry. Furry implies yiffing, not just cosplay.
DeleteShould they have outgrown it by 17 years of age? (That's almost legally an adult!)
DeleteYes.
DeleteUh, I was joking.
DeleteI was going to ask the inner circle if they were running Teacher Blizzardry as well, but then I saw there were no annoying ads.
ReplyDeleteAdblock; it's free, and there's no excuse not to use it.
DeleteTrue story: I read the entry about Silver Fox Boy right before getting on the subway for my evening commute home. The subway car got stuck behind a disabled train, so we were sitting there in the tunnel for a while.
ReplyDeleteTo pass the time, I gave some serious thought to what I would've said to this student if he'd come to me for counseling. [I work in financial aid, but daydream about becoming an academic advisor/life skills counselor.]
I got as far as deciding that I'd ask him how his partner answered the hobbies question, or how other students in the class answered it. That was where I stopped, because I'm pretty sure the answer would have been that he had no idea what any of the other students said about themselves. Kids like Silver Fox Boy have trouble hearing their classmates over the sound of their own self-importance.
Jess, I think you're right on with your assessment. Most of these kids take on these roles to get as much attention as possible. They have no idea what's going on around them.
DeleteHaving now read your entry about Silver Fox's girlfriend, I'm inclined to be a little more sympathetic, actually, towards both of them. There's no question that she's enjoying the effect her behavior is having on you and the rest of the class, but there's also no question that she needs some serious help.
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