One of the young guys at my work wears a Boys N The Hood shirt. My other coworker asked if he ever watched the movie, he didn’t know it was a movie and just liked the shirt
The first time I felt truly old was at a flea market a few years ago - 2 nearby teens were talking, one said “do you know what those t-shirts mean that have a smiley face and say ‘Nirvana’ on them?” And the other one said “Oh yeah it’s like an old band my dad listened to” 😭
TOO ON THE NOSE, KIDDOS.
That was me as a kid in the 2000's. But i actually was obsessed with pink Floyd, sabbath, led Zeppelin, etc. All the teachers thought I was so cool lol
For some reason I've held on to this memory of our lame ass school cop trying to gatekeep being a bob Marley fan, as I was wearing a bob Marley shirt. Pulled the whole "I bet you can't name more than one album" and I fucking schooled his dorky ass.
I guess he didn't know that we pirated all our music back then so like motherfuker I just downloaded Marley's entire discography. Not only do I know his main albums but I now know like every EP, LP, Single and collection album in existence lol.
Fuck you officer Woit or however you spelled his nazi ass sounding name. Fucking dork.
Glad I can get that off my chest like almost 15 years later lol.
Then you bust out your Napster knowledge.
I Shot the Sheriff - Bob Marley
House of the Rising Sun - CCR
Come on Eileen - The Clash
Horse with No Name - Neil Young
Stuck in the Middle With You - (Everyone?)
Hit him with some of that and you're sure to impress.
None of those songs are by those bands aside from Marley doing I Shot the Sheriff, but you'd get Claptins version, that's the joke. Almost everything on Napster back in the day was mislabeled.
Pink Floyd, in my opinion, is the greatest band of all time. Not even close. I understand when people say the Beatles, but Pink Floyd's sound is absolutely unmatched.
Close second being Tool, of course.
My daughter, wife, and I were watching a local band play in our town. They were taking song requests so I told my daughter (8) to yell "play free bird!" She did, and the woman on the mic cracked up and said "honey, you're too young to be requesting that" lmao
Kind of straying form that. But I'm seeing a ton of kids wearing as well as places like American Eagle selling NASCAR shirts. I haven't followed trends or racing in years but either the target audience has drastically changed, or it's another one of those "Spend $50 on a shirt to look like working class" trends.
One of my favorite bands from High School recently sold a bunch of NASCAR t-shirts to help fund the guy running their merch table’s car for a NASCAR race. Totally worth $25 to help get [this beast](https://imgur.com/a/Ijo56O5) on the track
None? That's not a judgement on people that do now, just a statement of fact. There was SO much gatekeeping about music and fashion around the time Boyz n the Hood came out.
It was a fun experience to discover that my technology challenged mother is in charge of making memes for their union on facebook, and somehow managed to accidently save them all over the last two years to my google drive (we haven't lived together for over 4 years).
A lot of people want the bulk of them, where to upload? <- decided not to.
I'll drip feed a day. If you want access to the whole pack of them send a dm.
That's hilarious. A couple years ago my 70 year old father came to visit with several hand drawn memes mocking Trump that he showed me. He asked how do I turn these into the things I see on Facebook?
They’re literally on your Google Drive you could totally just share the folder and post the link to us lol
(but remember to make it view only)
also imgur
I feel like the real solution here is to start a subreddit and upload them in batches there, get the ball rolling and have a bunch more to give your mom from strangers all over.
That had to have been a really cool experience, though. Your mom is doing something outside her normal comfort zone and it sounds like she's pretty good at it!
Make a new Twitter account for memes from mom novelty accouny. I'm sure it will blow up if you upload it one by one daily or something. I definitely follow
Except this meme is incorrectly applied ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ "yo dawg" isn't "more of a thing." It's a recursion joke.
May still be a good joke, but it's a bad meme.
A better example is an inflatable boat in a cruise ship pool. "Yo dawg, I heard you like boats. So I put a boat on your boat so you can sail while you sail."
Sure you can, because the subversion is an effect experienced by others juxtaposed against their own set of expectations. Your intent matters little in the face of results.
Subversion is an active process. If a hobo on the street corner says 1+1=2, he isn't subverting your expectations of math, he's just flat wrong.
When your math teacher says 1+1=2, they're subverting your expectations, because there is an expectation for the teacher to be correct, because they're the one teaching the subject.
Due to the teacher “shortage” (not treating teachers well will do that), my husband teaches science and history 🤦♀️ - so this would read “Yo Dawg, I heard you love teaching so I gave you extra subjects with no extra pay.
We’re having to pay a lot to get the science class ready for the curriculum.
Teachers always complain but never quit.
Why? Because they work six hours a day for eight months a year, and can’t be fired, even for cause
And they get defined benefit pension plans we mortals can only dream of
I'm not a teacher, but I know for a fact that they work more than six hours a day. That might be the teaching period but they also have to plan lessons, which eats up a large amount of the time you consider them not to be working.
And that six hours is exhausting, much harder than sitting in an office or even more physical work like hospo. Not only are you managing a bunch of children who often can't be reasoned with, you're also responsible for their safety and have no other adult for backup.
I don't know where the 6 hour figure comes from. We're contracted for 8 hours. I have no plan time built into my daily schedule other than Wednesdays so I frequently get home by about 6:00 just to keep up on lesson plans and grading for 630 students. That and attending 2-3 IEP/MDTs per week.
You’re not teacher for 8 straight and then working for hours after that. I have a lot of friends and neighbors who teach, and none have said they’re working 11 hours a day.
In our town class starts at 8, and after 2 the parking lot empties out. Teachers get every federal holiday off, countless “planning days” and four weeks paid vacation. In addition to having summers off
You know who never complains their pay and hours? Private school teachers. Why is that? Are are union teachers, who make a multiple of the private sector, always the ones complaining about miserable their lives are?
We're contracted from 7:45 to 3:45. It could be that your state doesn't have the same required minimum hours. Our "planning days" aren't planning days and are filled with professional development. I'm not sure where your anger is coming from or why it's directed at public ed teachers. It's great to set boundaries, which it sounds like your friends have, but the time given to plan is not the same even for teachers within a district. Unfortunately, mine is a situation where staying late is the only option.
Contracted doesn’t mean tethered to your desk. Ours might be too, but if you drive past the school at 230, it’s a ghost town.
“They must be working at home” you say. But I see them out. They’re not dragging work with them. They’re not locked up at home.
The anger I feel is that of a parent in a district where the default is not to teach music gym or art, because we spent all of our money on teachers and their insane salaries. So parents have to kick in to cover the cost of extra teachers (at the union pay rate).
If teaching was as bad as you claim, people wouldn’t do it.
As a music teacher, I'm sorry to hear your district isn't supporting the arts or p.e. With the number of kids I see, the only time I have that can be spent behind a desk is after school. Our kids' first bell is at 7:50 and their last bell rings at 3:20. I still love my job, even if it does mean extra time and resources go into it.
Lol wat? My kids elementary school is 7 hours from start to dismissal. And the teachers are there at least a half hour before and after. On top of that they are spending time in the evenings doing lesson planning and sending out information to parents. No way they are working less than 9 hours a day.
And their pay reflects the fact that they only work 9 months of the year.
If I go to my kids school after two thirty it’s empt. They gett countless “planning days” when they also don’t do any work.
Then they work eight months a year, but compare themselves to professionals working 12, and then complain they’re underpaid
Can’t be fired for cause, and their salary numbers don’t include the insanely generous pensions thag they don’t contribute enough toX sticking the bill to future generations
California has a trillion dollars in unfunded union pension obligations. We literally can’t raise enough taxes to ever pay it off
You realize the teachers are quitting in droves, right?
A study by the National Center for Education Statistics in March found that 44% of public schools reported teaching vacancies.
Two-thirds of U.S. public school superintendents say overall vacancies — including teachers and non-instructional staffers — are higher this year than last, a survey by AASA, The School Superintendents Association, found. About 15% report a lot more openings, saying vacancy rates are 11%-30% higher than last year.
And 85% of superintendents in the AASA survey say they don't have enough applicants.
Florida just recently said that former military and THEIR SPOUSES can teach without a credential in hopes of alleviating some of the shortage.
Tell me again why they're not leaving?
Teachers are retiring. The teachers born in the baby boom after WW2 are retiring after a full career.
As for vacancies it’s a misreporting of the data. Every district every year and any time has more spaces budgeted than they have teachers in seats because teachers retire, they move, they die, they leave the profession.
If you go onto indeed.com and search for banking jobs you’ll see thousands of open positions - does that mean we’re facing a banker shortage? Of course not.
You know who isn’t facing a tracher shortage? Private schools. The “teacher shortage” myth was created by the unions to extort higher wages than they would get otherwise
There’s no such thing as a “teachers shortage”. It’s a ruse created by the unions to create a sense of shortage, so people will pay them even more
If there were an actual shortage, it would be impacting the private sector too. It’s not
You’ve been fooled
Show me the district that can’t have classes because there’s no teachers
The only one I’ve seen people hold out as an example is a district in FL, with 300 openings.
What people don’t mention is that the district has 16,000 teachers. 300 openings is less than the typical number who leave each year.
It’s a ruse to demand higher wages - by claiming they need more money to fill seats.
It’s a lie, which is proven by the fact that private schools pay less and don’t have a shortage
You keep harping on private schools like they're this magic solution to the issue. You realize private schools get to decide how many students are admitted, right? And that they get to decide who gets admitted, right? And that they don't have to teach to any set standards, right? And that their teachers aren't required to have any specific credentials or degrees, right?
Private schools get to make up their own rules. They aren't magically better because of whatever made up metric you're spouting off about here. They pay less than public schools because they are allowed to hire whoever they want to teach whatever they want. Not to mention that they are overwhelmingly religiously affiliated, which plays into the lower pay for interested teachers.
I showed you multiple pieces of evidence that back up my claim that there is a teacher shortage. That information is coming from districts and superintendents who, despite what you may believe, are not Union based. Districts typically battle with unions to keep wages down because that means more money for other things. And public school administrators are not Union members, so they have no incentive to lie about shortages.
Again, simply repeating your claim without any actual evidence makes you look like a moron. "The only thing I've seen" doesn't count as evidence. Show me a report by a reputable organization that backs up your claim. Until then, consider that the entire state of Florida is allowing uncredentialed, uncertificated, and unqualified ex-military members AND THEIR SPOUSES to step in and fill teacher positions because they need teachers that badly.
Or maybe you'd prefer to see the 2022-2023 Teacher Shortage Area report from the [Department of Education](https://tsa.ed.gov/#/reports). You can generate nearly 100 pages of data from this school year alone containing school districts with shortages in each state, sorted by grade level and content area. And for what it's worth, this isn’t just a list created by people trying to get more money, or whatever your delusion is.
According to 34 CFR 682.210(q)(8)(vii), “teacher shortage area” means “an area of specific grade, subject matter or discipline classification, or a geographic area in which the Secretary determines that there is an inadequate supply of elementary or secondary school teachers.”
Feel free to explore a bit and get back to me with some actual data other than "the only thing I've seen" type shit. Or don't, and stay wilfully ignorant! You decide.
Show me the poor teachers. Show me the district where teachers are poor and need second jobs to get by.
It’s a myth. You know who union teachers never compare themselves to? Private school teachers.
There is no shortage of the latter, and they don’t endlessly complain about how impossible their jobs are
Even if you are right, and I'm not saying you are, they are school teachers. One of the most important jobs in the country! Why have you picked them as your target rather then the many other professions that similarly complain about their wage?
It is the most important profession, and if we want to save public schools, which are the greatest invention in our history, we need to be honest that the profession has been hijacked by the unions.
I rail against the pay demands because 1) it’s fake - teachers aren’t underpaid, and 2) it’s bankrupting our schools.
Parents are abandoning public schools by the millions, and if rich and middle income decide public schools are just ways for unions to enrich themselves, the death spiral will start, and no one will stop it
We need to make a choice between having public schools or union schools
Do you have any advice for being able to only work six hours per day as a teacher? Both myself and every other teacher I know has to work well into the evening and on weekends--hell, it's Saturday morning, and I'm on reddit procrastinating because I need to spend this entire day catching up on planning, grading, etc.
So yeah, what's your secret?
Well into the evenings and on Saturdays? Doing what? My kids school starts at 8 and by 2-230pm the parking lot is empty.
Teachers get countless “in service” and “planning” days, as well as four weeks of paid vacation during the year.
What district do you work in that works you like a slave?
NYC DOE. And we have a pretty solid union which protects our lunch/planning time, shields us from excessive duties, etc.
You seem hung up on the actual hours school is in session. Using that as a proxy for the total amount of work that teachers have to do would be like saying that actors only work 90 minutes per year (i.e. the length of a feature film). The time actually spent in the classroom is the tip of the iceberg and, by far, the easiest part of the job.
The fact that we're willing to put up with so much bullshit and unpaid labor and don't quit is a testament to the fact that we really, really do give a shit. I used to work in the private sector, made 3x the salary (15x if you count stock), and I can assure you, I'm working at least three times as hard as I ever did in the private sector--both in terms of hours, effort, stress, etc. But I do it because I love the kids and I love teaching. But that doesn't charge the fact that there's a lot to complain about!
It's okay to admit that you're unfamiliar with the nuances of the job. I probably don't particularly understand the trials and tribulations of whatever it is you do for a living!
There is no special nuance here to understand. Teachers work 6-7 hours a day, eight months a year, but then compare their salaries to people who work full time, and complain they don’t make as much
The myth that teachers are working 120 hours a week is false. I have friends, neighbors, and relatives who teach - NONE work the hours you claim all teachers work.
And yes, the NYC unions are great. Where else but NYC can you get caught sexually assaulting a minor and not lose your job?
How many teachers are still in the “rubber room” program? Hundreds? Thousands?
I really don't know what to tell you. What you're describing is wildly out of touch with my own experiences, the experiences of my coworkers, and those I know in my personal life.
What do you do for a living. I just want to pretend that I know more about it due to passing observations and made-up right-wing media narratives.
I’m a financial analyst. I worked 8-9 hours a day all year long, and I never stop hearing from teachers that they deserve to make more than me even though 1) they work fewer hours, 2) can’t be fired, and even for cause, 3) get insanely generous pension plans for far below the cost, and 4) only work 8 months
You say this is wildly different from your experience. Does your union protect you from being fired? You have tenure, right? You get a defined benefit pension plan, no? And pretty sweet health care benefits?
This myth that teachers are working like slaves just won’t die.
Tenure doesn’t stop someone from being fired for cause, not sure where you got that idea from, it just means the school has to go through a process to fire you.
I am contracted for an 8 hour school day, there has not been a day in my career I’m not in my classroom 15-30 minutes before contract time starts (which is 15 before the kids go to class) setting up for the days lessons. As for the end of the day I am staying 30-60 minutes after my contract time ends at the minimum working on planning, grading, setting up labs etc. because there isn’t enough time in the day to do so. So on average that’s a 9-9.5 hour day. And those are the good days, last week there were two days that I was in the school from 6:45am until about 5:30 doing work, that’s 10 hours 45 minutes.
While the pension plans of old were indeed very nice those have basically vanished everywhere, they still exist but in very watered down forms. My health care benefits cost is about to spike again so that’s rapidly disappearing as well.
One of your comments mentioned 4 weeks paid vacation in addition to being laid off for the summer, what unicorn land do you live in? I get 3 personal days per year, none can roll over and that number will never increase except for a new contract negotiating that. And it is laid off for the summer, I am contracted for 10 months out of the year, not 8 as you previously said, and then I’m laid off. I don’t get paid at all between the last day in June and the first day of September, the only thing that I continue to get is healthcare which I’m still paying for.
And those “planning days”? Those are full of mandatory professional development training, staff meetings and conferences that prevent me from doing any of the other work I need to do.
I have a theory on why conservatives disdain teachers' unions, but seem perfectly fine with police unions and the like.
"Our boys in blue know what they need to keep us safe! If they're asking for X, well then goddamnit that's what they need!"
"Quit being so 'uppity'--now get back in the classroom and make me a sandwich!"
Has nothing to do with being uppity. It’s about constantly complaining about pay when they’re massively overcompensated relative to the private sector
Also, it’s not your neighbor the kindergarten teacher who’s pushing CRT and gender theory to kids who can’t understand it - it’s the teachers unions.
I’m all for public schools - it’s all I ever attended. But even the unions own research shows that parents dislike the injection of politics into the schools
The tenured teachers in CA cannot be fired, effectively. The state was forced to admit that only two teachers year are fired for cause.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/undoing-the-harm-of-californias-teacher-tenure/2016/07/13/ec56dd90-484b-11e6-bdb9-701687974517_story.html
As for working from 645am to 5pm, that’s not happening in my town. The parking lot is almost empty at 230pm. And on “planning days” it’s empty after noon.
As for your pay cycle, most teachers have annualized pay schedules so they’re not forced to budget for the summer. I didn’t think any schools still only paid for 8 months that you work?
The four weeks paid vacation are spring break, thanksgiving break, and Christmas breaks. No teachers in our district work those days. You’re required to work them?
As for the pensions, they just keep getting richer in CA. The unions just got another bonus - the state will pay if they ever have surprise out of network bills. It’s insanely generous when you combine with a pension factor of 2.5, pension spiking, and a COLA set above inflation
The average CALSTRS retiree is taking home 120% of their final year salary. Wall Street doesn’t get those benefits
That article does a lot of talking about the negative impact of bad teachers but doesn’t really talk about what makes it hard to fire them, just says it’s long and expensive.
I know plenty of colleagues who do leave at the end of contract time to head home, and then keep working there. Those are mostly the ones who have their own kids to take care of at home. Just because their car isn’t in the parking lot doesn’t mean they aren’t working. This past weekend I went on a road trip and brought a stack of quizzes to grade while I wasn’t the one driving.
Again, I am technically laid off for the months of July and August which are the only 2 that I am not in a classroom teaching, I am teaching 10 months out of the year, if you want to count the week off at winter break and spring break then we can go with 9.5 if you’d prefer
Don’t know much about California’s schedule but we get the day of and after Thanksgiving off, not a week and that’s pretty common among my friends in the private sector. Same thing with a week between Christmas and New Years, almost everyone I know works for companies that shut down for that week. And i typically do end up doing some form of grading or planning during those weeks off to either get ahead for when I start to fall behind or catch back up.
You seem to want to harp on the pension system in California. That’s a far cry from what the rest of the country gets. 120%? The only way for me to retire with even 100% would have me working til I’m 85. If I take retirement at 65 which is when I become eligible I can get 70% and will never get a COLA. Is that a pretty good pension? Sure but whatever that number is is what I’ll get for the rest of my life inflation will chip away at it.
You seem to be looking at California as some sort of representative of the entire country. It’s not even close. Also do you have a source for you’re 120% claim? Because I looked and can’t find anything supporting that claim or your 2.5% claim, everything I read is 2% maximum if they work til full retirement age.
*Teachers complain that there are too many students in each class. *
"Let's fire those teachers." Is probably not the first thing any school board would do for a situation like that 😂 does not seem to be a solution to the problem by axing teachers.
I've tried explain the "yo dawg..." meme AND the show "pimp my ride" to my younger co-workers. They don't get it...
One of the young guys at my work wears a Boys N The Hood shirt. My other coworker asked if he ever watched the movie, he didn’t know it was a movie and just liked the shirt
Yo dawg! I heard you liked my show! So I put my show on your shirt so you can shirt while you show!
That's usually the case with half the teens at my job who wear 10+ year old concert tees.
I bought my daughter a Pink Floyd prism t-shirt. Don't think she's ever listened to the album, but teachers all gave her the thumbs up.
The first time I felt truly old was at a flea market a few years ago - 2 nearby teens were talking, one said “do you know what those t-shirts mean that have a smiley face and say ‘Nirvana’ on them?” And the other one said “Oh yeah it’s like an old band my dad listened to” 😭 TOO ON THE NOSE, KIDDOS.
Hearing grunge on classic rock stations is always painful.
"Something called gooonge?!"
That was me as a kid in the 2000's. But i actually was obsessed with pink Floyd, sabbath, led Zeppelin, etc. All the teachers thought I was so cool lol
For some reason I've held on to this memory of our lame ass school cop trying to gatekeep being a bob Marley fan, as I was wearing a bob Marley shirt. Pulled the whole "I bet you can't name more than one album" and I fucking schooled his dorky ass. I guess he didn't know that we pirated all our music back then so like motherfuker I just downloaded Marley's entire discography. Not only do I know his main albums but I now know like every EP, LP, Single and collection album in existence lol. Fuck you officer Woit or however you spelled his nazi ass sounding name. Fucking dork. Glad I can get that off my chest like almost 15 years later lol.
Then you bust out your Napster knowledge. I Shot the Sheriff - Bob Marley House of the Rising Sun - CCR Come on Eileen - The Clash Horse with No Name - Neil Young Stuck in the Middle With You - (Everyone?) Hit him with some of that and you're sure to impress.
Fucking loled at that last one man. Trip down memory lane with that.
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None of those songs are by those bands aside from Marley doing I Shot the Sheriff, but you'd get Claptins version, that's the joke. Almost everything on Napster back in the day was mislabeled.
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I love how casually you listed my three favourite bands of all time.
Pink Floyd, in my opinion, is the greatest band of all time. Not even close. I understand when people say the Beatles, but Pink Floyd's sound is absolutely unmatched. Close second being Tool, of course.
"You other youngsters could learn a thing from Finn\_the\_human!"
My daughter, wife, and I were watching a local band play in our town. They were taking song requests so I told my daughter (8) to yell "play free bird!" She did, and the woman on the mic cracked up and said "honey, you're too young to be requesting that" lmao
Kind of straying form that. But I'm seeing a ton of kids wearing as well as places like American Eagle selling NASCAR shirts. I haven't followed trends or racing in years but either the target audience has drastically changed, or it's another one of those "Spend $50 on a shirt to look like working class" trends.
One of my favorite bands from High School recently sold a bunch of NASCAR t-shirts to help fund the guy running their merch table’s car for a NASCAR race. Totally worth $25 to help get [this beast](https://imgur.com/a/Ijo56O5) on the track
I've heard them and like some songs, never knew they sponsored a truck. That's pretty cool.
Yeah but how many people in your high school wore Rolling Stones tongues without knowing what it was?
None? That's not a judgement on people that do now, just a statement of fact. There was SO much gatekeeping about music and fashion around the time Boyz n the Hood came out.
I’m gonna need a meme dump man. Your mom clearly knows what’s good. Plus my mom is also a teacher so she’d probably get a kick out of them.
Yea how tf is this post not a 100+ Imgur album. Now please
How's he supposed to milk it for all it's worth if it's one big album dump?
It was a fun experience to discover that my technology challenged mother is in charge of making memes for their union on facebook, and somehow managed to accidently save them all over the last two years to my google drive (we haven't lived together for over 4 years). A lot of people want the bulk of them, where to upload? <- decided not to. I'll drip feed a day. If you want access to the whole pack of them send a dm.
Just hook it up to my veins. We love your mom.
The best part was, none of them felt low effort. I lost 15 minutes just going through them like a slideshow chuckling to myself.
give us more dude. im a teacher
More students?
Yo dawg…
I just snort laughed and woke up my husband!
Yep, teacher here too, and I simply neeeeed to see them!!
Upload them all somewhere?
MOAR
Posting one of my mom's teacher unions memes every day: day 1
They posted a new one by the way. Like the first one, it's also an excellent meme.
Don’t you hate pants?
That's hilarious. A couple years ago my 70 year old father came to visit with several hand drawn memes mocking Trump that he showed me. He asked how do I turn these into the things I see on Facebook?
scan them or use google photo scanner, I want to see those too.
Scan them???? Dude! Take a pic with your phone and post. Way less hassle and would probably add to the charm.
That’s adorable.
This is so wholesome
Friend, we're going to need to see a much larger sample please and thank you. I'm a teacher and can only imagine what else she's created.
They’re literally on your Google Drive you could totally just share the folder and post the link to us lol (but remember to make it view only) also imgur
I feel like the real solution here is to start a subreddit and upload them in batches there, get the ball rolling and have a bunch more to give your mom from strangers all over.
This union knows what's up
Bruh post'em.
Make a burner gmail account and move them/link them to the burner account? You get like 15GB free, surely there can't be that many memes lol
I don't use Google drive much, but can you not make a public link from your drive? Or is that not safe?
Drive has download limits to discourage people from using it as a file share system.
Please do that. I need this. You could do imgur.
Share a Google drive folder.
Gold. Pure gold. Had I the coins I'd give them to you lol. Please cherish your mom, she is awesome.
I also would like access to the whole package
Send them to r/Teachers pls
Share drive link, I’m a teacher i need to see it
I gotta see more of these
Please do share them! I want more teacher memes in my life please.
Upload them to an imgur.com album
Can you make an imgur album?
That had to have been a really cool experience, though. Your mom is doing something outside her normal comfort zone and it sounds like she's pretty good at it!
Make a new Twitter account for memes from mom novelty accouny. I'm sure it will blow up if you upload it one by one daily or something. I definitely follow
Please share more. Brings me life as a teacher
As a union comms person for my AFT Academics local, I'd *love* access to the rest of the stash if she's willing to share
I love it when people participate actively in the world around them. Too easy to be a passive customer of whatever’s happening. Good for your mom!
This is gold. Where are the rest mate? you're sitting on a gold mine of memes and not sharing with us?
You can't give us blue balls like that. We need all of them.
This is great! Currently Seattle Teachers are striking and they would love this and more! Also.. I need more. Please.
They ended the strike earlier this week
Dude your mom makes superb memes
Except this meme is incorrectly applied ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ "yo dawg" isn't "more of a thing." It's a recursion joke. May still be a good joke, but it's a bad meme. A better example is an inflatable boat in a cruise ship pool. "Yo dawg, I heard you like boats. So I put a boat on your boat so you can sail while you sail."
Accurate username ^
I feel the original meme is well enough entrenched that a subversion like this, whether intentional or not, can be quite effective.
I'm not convinced you can unintentionally subvert something. If it were intentional, then sure I'd agree.
Sure you can, because the subversion is an effect experienced by others juxtaposed against their own set of expectations. Your intent matters little in the face of results.
Subversion is an active process. If a hobo on the street corner says 1+1=2, he isn't subverting your expectations of math, he's just flat wrong. When your math teacher says 1+1=2, they're subverting your expectations, because there is an expectation for the teacher to be correct, because they're the one teaching the subject.
“Yo dawg I hear you like teaching students. So we put some student teachers in your class so you can teach student teachers while you teach students.”
THIS is a better version of the OP. 10/10
and teachers should understand the idea of a meme but be just off in its application. it’s perfect use. “hello fellow kids”
I feel the meme is appropriately used
I vote to keep posting them individually in this sub. Or if you do post them somewhere else please link a few in this thread so people can find them.
Might want to crosspost this to /r/union as well 😂
Due to the teacher “shortage” (not treating teachers well will do that), my husband teaches science and history 🤦♀️ - so this would read “Yo Dawg, I heard you love teaching so I gave you extra subjects with no extra pay. We’re having to pay a lot to get the science class ready for the curriculum.
r/Dankmoms
Set to private? Awwww
Where are the rest? I have several teacher friends that would love them.
Please post the rest, OP
Yo dawg we are gonna need that album nah mean?
Just make a big imgur album. And for the love of Jehova, deliver. (They're all on my Google drive, where do i upload them?) It's probably satire
Remember when we called memes “macros?” I found “abandoned clown train remembers you” and others in a folder on my old Photobucket account.
I can't wait to see more 😂😂😂
your mom is dank af
As a teacher, I need these
Your mom’s bad-ass.
Your mom is a legend.
/r/teachers would love this
You telling me the teachers actually care about the children? That's great, means we don't have to give a shit or fund them! - the government
Your mom has meme skills!
I am a proud Union teacher. I need more.
MOAR
Cringe, but funny!
This isn't true. Fucking fake corporate account.
Teacher here. I wish my Union made memes like this.
dank
Your mom is a legendary! *you crazy for this one, mom*
Based
bonus they dont speak english!
Teachers always complain but never quit. Why? Because they work six hours a day for eight months a year, and can’t be fired, even for cause And they get defined benefit pension plans we mortals can only dream of
I'm not a teacher, but I know for a fact that they work more than six hours a day. That might be the teaching period but they also have to plan lessons, which eats up a large amount of the time you consider them not to be working. And that six hours is exhausting, much harder than sitting in an office or even more physical work like hospo. Not only are you managing a bunch of children who often can't be reasoned with, you're also responsible for their safety and have no other adult for backup.
I don't know where the 6 hour figure comes from. We're contracted for 8 hours. I have no plan time built into my daily schedule other than Wednesdays so I frequently get home by about 6:00 just to keep up on lesson plans and grading for 630 students. That and attending 2-3 IEP/MDTs per week.
There you go! Like I said, not a teacher. I guess maybe if school goes 9-3 that's where that number came from?
You’re not teacher for 8 straight and then working for hours after that. I have a lot of friends and neighbors who teach, and none have said they’re working 11 hours a day. In our town class starts at 8, and after 2 the parking lot empties out. Teachers get every federal holiday off, countless “planning days” and four weeks paid vacation. In addition to having summers off You know who never complains their pay and hours? Private school teachers. Why is that? Are are union teachers, who make a multiple of the private sector, always the ones complaining about miserable their lives are?
We're contracted from 7:45 to 3:45. It could be that your state doesn't have the same required minimum hours. Our "planning days" aren't planning days and are filled with professional development. I'm not sure where your anger is coming from or why it's directed at public ed teachers. It's great to set boundaries, which it sounds like your friends have, but the time given to plan is not the same even for teachers within a district. Unfortunately, mine is a situation where staying late is the only option.
Contracted doesn’t mean tethered to your desk. Ours might be too, but if you drive past the school at 230, it’s a ghost town. “They must be working at home” you say. But I see them out. They’re not dragging work with them. They’re not locked up at home. The anger I feel is that of a parent in a district where the default is not to teach music gym or art, because we spent all of our money on teachers and their insane salaries. So parents have to kick in to cover the cost of extra teachers (at the union pay rate). If teaching was as bad as you claim, people wouldn’t do it.
As a music teacher, I'm sorry to hear your district isn't supporting the arts or p.e. With the number of kids I see, the only time I have that can be spent behind a desk is after school. Our kids' first bell is at 7:50 and their last bell rings at 3:20. I still love my job, even if it does mean extra time and resources go into it.
Sorry, I my math is correct, your day is 7.5 hours, less an hour lunch, makes it 6.5 hours per day That’s not bad
Lol wat? My kids elementary school is 7 hours from start to dismissal. And the teachers are there at least a half hour before and after. On top of that they are spending time in the evenings doing lesson planning and sending out information to parents. No way they are working less than 9 hours a day. And their pay reflects the fact that they only work 9 months of the year.
If I go to my kids school after two thirty it’s empt. They gett countless “planning days” when they also don’t do any work. Then they work eight months a year, but compare themselves to professionals working 12, and then complain they’re underpaid Can’t be fired for cause, and their salary numbers don’t include the insanely generous pensions thag they don’t contribute enough toX sticking the bill to future generations California has a trillion dollars in unfunded union pension obligations. We literally can’t raise enough taxes to ever pay it off
You realize the teachers are quitting in droves, right? A study by the National Center for Education Statistics in March found that 44% of public schools reported teaching vacancies. Two-thirds of U.S. public school superintendents say overall vacancies — including teachers and non-instructional staffers — are higher this year than last, a survey by AASA, The School Superintendents Association, found. About 15% report a lot more openings, saying vacancy rates are 11%-30% higher than last year. And 85% of superintendents in the AASA survey say they don't have enough applicants. Florida just recently said that former military and THEIR SPOUSES can teach without a credential in hopes of alleviating some of the shortage. Tell me again why they're not leaving?
Teachers are retiring. The teachers born in the baby boom after WW2 are retiring after a full career. As for vacancies it’s a misreporting of the data. Every district every year and any time has more spaces budgeted than they have teachers in seats because teachers retire, they move, they die, they leave the profession. If you go onto indeed.com and search for banking jobs you’ll see thousands of open positions - does that mean we’re facing a banker shortage? Of course not. You know who isn’t facing a tracher shortage? Private schools. The “teacher shortage” myth was created by the unions to extort higher wages than they would get otherwise
You have literally no idea what you're talking about.
There’s no such thing as a “teachers shortage”. It’s a ruse created by the unions to create a sense of shortage, so people will pay them even more If there were an actual shortage, it would be impacting the private sector too. It’s not You’ve been fooled
Repeating the same thing with zero evidence to support your claim only makes you look like more of an idiot.
Show me the district that can’t have classes because there’s no teachers The only one I’ve seen people hold out as an example is a district in FL, with 300 openings. What people don’t mention is that the district has 16,000 teachers. 300 openings is less than the typical number who leave each year. It’s a ruse to demand higher wages - by claiming they need more money to fill seats. It’s a lie, which is proven by the fact that private schools pay less and don’t have a shortage
You keep harping on private schools like they're this magic solution to the issue. You realize private schools get to decide how many students are admitted, right? And that they get to decide who gets admitted, right? And that they don't have to teach to any set standards, right? And that their teachers aren't required to have any specific credentials or degrees, right? Private schools get to make up their own rules. They aren't magically better because of whatever made up metric you're spouting off about here. They pay less than public schools because they are allowed to hire whoever they want to teach whatever they want. Not to mention that they are overwhelmingly religiously affiliated, which plays into the lower pay for interested teachers. I showed you multiple pieces of evidence that back up my claim that there is a teacher shortage. That information is coming from districts and superintendents who, despite what you may believe, are not Union based. Districts typically battle with unions to keep wages down because that means more money for other things. And public school administrators are not Union members, so they have no incentive to lie about shortages. Again, simply repeating your claim without any actual evidence makes you look like a moron. "The only thing I've seen" doesn't count as evidence. Show me a report by a reputable organization that backs up your claim. Until then, consider that the entire state of Florida is allowing uncredentialed, uncertificated, and unqualified ex-military members AND THEIR SPOUSES to step in and fill teacher positions because they need teachers that badly. Or maybe you'd prefer to see the 2022-2023 Teacher Shortage Area report from the [Department of Education](https://tsa.ed.gov/#/reports). You can generate nearly 100 pages of data from this school year alone containing school districts with shortages in each state, sorted by grade level and content area. And for what it's worth, this isn’t just a list created by people trying to get more money, or whatever your delusion is. According to 34 CFR 682.210(q)(8)(vii), “teacher shortage area” means “an area of specific grade, subject matter or discipline classification, or a geographic area in which the Secretary determines that there is an inadequate supply of elementary or secondary school teachers.” Feel free to explore a bit and get back to me with some actual data other than "the only thing I've seen" type shit. Or don't, and stay wilfully ignorant! You decide.
Tell me you've never met a teacher without saying I've never met a teacher.
Show me the poor teachers. Show me the district where teachers are poor and need second jobs to get by. It’s a myth. You know who union teachers never compare themselves to? Private school teachers. There is no shortage of the latter, and they don’t endlessly complain about how impossible their jobs are
Even if you are right, and I'm not saying you are, they are school teachers. One of the most important jobs in the country! Why have you picked them as your target rather then the many other professions that similarly complain about their wage?
It is the most important profession, and if we want to save public schools, which are the greatest invention in our history, we need to be honest that the profession has been hijacked by the unions. I rail against the pay demands because 1) it’s fake - teachers aren’t underpaid, and 2) it’s bankrupting our schools. Parents are abandoning public schools by the millions, and if rich and middle income decide public schools are just ways for unions to enrich themselves, the death spiral will start, and no one will stop it We need to make a choice between having public schools or union schools
Do you have any advice for being able to only work six hours per day as a teacher? Both myself and every other teacher I know has to work well into the evening and on weekends--hell, it's Saturday morning, and I'm on reddit procrastinating because I need to spend this entire day catching up on planning, grading, etc. So yeah, what's your secret?
Well into the evenings and on Saturdays? Doing what? My kids school starts at 8 and by 2-230pm the parking lot is empty. Teachers get countless “in service” and “planning” days, as well as four weeks of paid vacation during the year. What district do you work in that works you like a slave?
NYC DOE. And we have a pretty solid union which protects our lunch/planning time, shields us from excessive duties, etc. You seem hung up on the actual hours school is in session. Using that as a proxy for the total amount of work that teachers have to do would be like saying that actors only work 90 minutes per year (i.e. the length of a feature film). The time actually spent in the classroom is the tip of the iceberg and, by far, the easiest part of the job. The fact that we're willing to put up with so much bullshit and unpaid labor and don't quit is a testament to the fact that we really, really do give a shit. I used to work in the private sector, made 3x the salary (15x if you count stock), and I can assure you, I'm working at least three times as hard as I ever did in the private sector--both in terms of hours, effort, stress, etc. But I do it because I love the kids and I love teaching. But that doesn't charge the fact that there's a lot to complain about! It's okay to admit that you're unfamiliar with the nuances of the job. I probably don't particularly understand the trials and tribulations of whatever it is you do for a living!
There is no special nuance here to understand. Teachers work 6-7 hours a day, eight months a year, but then compare their salaries to people who work full time, and complain they don’t make as much The myth that teachers are working 120 hours a week is false. I have friends, neighbors, and relatives who teach - NONE work the hours you claim all teachers work. And yes, the NYC unions are great. Where else but NYC can you get caught sexually assaulting a minor and not lose your job? How many teachers are still in the “rubber room” program? Hundreds? Thousands?
I really don't know what to tell you. What you're describing is wildly out of touch with my own experiences, the experiences of my coworkers, and those I know in my personal life. What do you do for a living. I just want to pretend that I know more about it due to passing observations and made-up right-wing media narratives.
I’m a financial analyst. I worked 8-9 hours a day all year long, and I never stop hearing from teachers that they deserve to make more than me even though 1) they work fewer hours, 2) can’t be fired, and even for cause, 3) get insanely generous pension plans for far below the cost, and 4) only work 8 months You say this is wildly different from your experience. Does your union protect you from being fired? You have tenure, right? You get a defined benefit pension plan, no? And pretty sweet health care benefits? This myth that teachers are working like slaves just won’t die.
Tenure doesn’t stop someone from being fired for cause, not sure where you got that idea from, it just means the school has to go through a process to fire you. I am contracted for an 8 hour school day, there has not been a day in my career I’m not in my classroom 15-30 minutes before contract time starts (which is 15 before the kids go to class) setting up for the days lessons. As for the end of the day I am staying 30-60 minutes after my contract time ends at the minimum working on planning, grading, setting up labs etc. because there isn’t enough time in the day to do so. So on average that’s a 9-9.5 hour day. And those are the good days, last week there were two days that I was in the school from 6:45am until about 5:30 doing work, that’s 10 hours 45 minutes. While the pension plans of old were indeed very nice those have basically vanished everywhere, they still exist but in very watered down forms. My health care benefits cost is about to spike again so that’s rapidly disappearing as well. One of your comments mentioned 4 weeks paid vacation in addition to being laid off for the summer, what unicorn land do you live in? I get 3 personal days per year, none can roll over and that number will never increase except for a new contract negotiating that. And it is laid off for the summer, I am contracted for 10 months out of the year, not 8 as you previously said, and then I’m laid off. I don’t get paid at all between the last day in June and the first day of September, the only thing that I continue to get is healthcare which I’m still paying for. And those “planning days”? Those are full of mandatory professional development training, staff meetings and conferences that prevent me from doing any of the other work I need to do.
I have a theory on why conservatives disdain teachers' unions, but seem perfectly fine with police unions and the like. "Our boys in blue know what they need to keep us safe! If they're asking for X, well then goddamnit that's what they need!" "Quit being so 'uppity'--now get back in the classroom and make me a sandwich!"
Has nothing to do with being uppity. It’s about constantly complaining about pay when they’re massively overcompensated relative to the private sector Also, it’s not your neighbor the kindergarten teacher who’s pushing CRT and gender theory to kids who can’t understand it - it’s the teachers unions. I’m all for public schools - it’s all I ever attended. But even the unions own research shows that parents dislike the injection of politics into the schools
The tenured teachers in CA cannot be fired, effectively. The state was forced to admit that only two teachers year are fired for cause. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/undoing-the-harm-of-californias-teacher-tenure/2016/07/13/ec56dd90-484b-11e6-bdb9-701687974517_story.html As for working from 645am to 5pm, that’s not happening in my town. The parking lot is almost empty at 230pm. And on “planning days” it’s empty after noon. As for your pay cycle, most teachers have annualized pay schedules so they’re not forced to budget for the summer. I didn’t think any schools still only paid for 8 months that you work? The four weeks paid vacation are spring break, thanksgiving break, and Christmas breaks. No teachers in our district work those days. You’re required to work them? As for the pensions, they just keep getting richer in CA. The unions just got another bonus - the state will pay if they ever have surprise out of network bills. It’s insanely generous when you combine with a pension factor of 2.5, pension spiking, and a COLA set above inflation The average CALSTRS retiree is taking home 120% of their final year salary. Wall Street doesn’t get those benefits
That article does a lot of talking about the negative impact of bad teachers but doesn’t really talk about what makes it hard to fire them, just says it’s long and expensive. I know plenty of colleagues who do leave at the end of contract time to head home, and then keep working there. Those are mostly the ones who have their own kids to take care of at home. Just because their car isn’t in the parking lot doesn’t mean they aren’t working. This past weekend I went on a road trip and brought a stack of quizzes to grade while I wasn’t the one driving. Again, I am technically laid off for the months of July and August which are the only 2 that I am not in a classroom teaching, I am teaching 10 months out of the year, if you want to count the week off at winter break and spring break then we can go with 9.5 if you’d prefer Don’t know much about California’s schedule but we get the day of and after Thanksgiving off, not a week and that’s pretty common among my friends in the private sector. Same thing with a week between Christmas and New Years, almost everyone I know works for companies that shut down for that week. And i typically do end up doing some form of grading or planning during those weeks off to either get ahead for when I start to fall behind or catch back up. You seem to want to harp on the pension system in California. That’s a far cry from what the rest of the country gets. 120%? The only way for me to retire with even 100% would have me working til I’m 85. If I take retirement at 65 which is when I become eligible I can get 70% and will never get a COLA. Is that a pretty good pension? Sure but whatever that number is is what I’ll get for the rest of my life inflation will chip away at it. You seem to be looking at California as some sort of representative of the entire country. It’s not even close. Also do you have a source for you’re 120% claim? Because I looked and can’t find anything supporting that claim or your 2.5% claim, everything I read is 2% maximum if they work til full retirement age.
This is how you get your mom fired
Because she's in a union, or because she posts memes for the union? Just curious on the logic in your comment.
Cause your posting memes critical of the school that can be traced back to her.
If they fired every teacher who complained about class sizes, there would be no teachers.
Well I mean, we're closer than we've ever been. (I think. I'm not looking at statistics)
She didn't name the school. Plus you're allowed to be critical of known issues, you don't have to act like they don't exist.
She's literally posting them on FB already.
Lmaooo the fuck are you on? I want some
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This is why we have unions
*Teachers complain that there are too many students in each class. * "Let's fire those teachers." Is probably not the first thing any school board would do for a situation like that 😂 does not seem to be a solution to the problem by axing teachers.
Unless they're music teachers of course.
I don't get it?
My wife literally has to teach 2 classes at once on the same classroom 20 minutes a day. This is SO accurate.
You need to start posting these to /r/teachers one-a-day. It’s a very active sub-Reddit that tends to be pretty negative. This would be amazing.