US high school teacher here. Ask me anything

US high school teacher here. Ask me anything.

I've never fucked a student, don't bother asking

How many students suck you off for passing grades?

hows it feel knowing if u fuck around at your job your whole class will be unemployed

What are you doing so wrong?

>mfw no face

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OP here.
I've never felt that way, since I work at an incredibly rich school where most of the kids are trust fund babies

are you one of those guys that get a PhD, can't find a real job and then go teach morons what GDP is?

No. As an undergraduate I majored in math and picked up a teaching certification. Teaching high school had been my goal since I was 15 or so.

So basically, if you fuck around at your job, you'll be unemployed...

None, although 2 have subtly hinted at something along those lines. I pretended to not get the hint. I'd rather not go to jail.

Well, isn't that how most non-shit-tier jobs work?

How does it feel to be the grindstone of fascism, you fucking faggot?

How many of your students have you had sexual fantasies about?

I'm a secondary school teacher myself, and have had sexual fantasies about all my female students - even the ugly ones, unfortunately - many times over. Basically that's what my mind defaults to, whenever I don't actively teach: I ogle young ladies and think dirty thoughts about them.

How about you, OP?

I get paid really well compared to others in the field of education, and I get summers off. It feels great.

eat a bee, teacher scum

cops get a lot of super cool benefits, too. you sound really rad.

I need to learn a subject in three weeks in order to pass and I am way behind, if I do not pass I will get dropped and have to pay for studies.

How do I pass if all I have is the internet, a bunch of pdf slides from the lectures that served as the whiteboard and the study materials from the other teacher are much more eligable[!] and have worked examples?

I have tried twice already.

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Why be a teacher? After high school i can't imagine ever going back to a shit-hole like that out of choice.
Just why?

Yeah, my students are definitely on my fap rotation. For the most part, there's really no physical difference between a 16 year old and a 20 year old. One of my guilty pleasures is hate fapping to a student if she's being particularly annoying. I've also taken a small handful of creepshots while my students are busy taking tests etc.

it's like how most child molesters were molested themselves as kids. same exact thing.

tell me stories of the worst parents who are the reason why the children grow up so fucked up. thanks

What's the most advanced thing you teach to a, say, math major or whatever you call it? In my somewhat math-heavy high school in Eastern Europe we did some real analysis and complex numbers and I have the impression that the American system goes easier than that.

Personally, I had an amazing high school experience. My teachers were great and inspiring, and really taught me the value of learning simply for the sake of learning.

How do you feel about the gubment managing public schools?

I assume you like private better because of better pay, but is there anything else that they do better?

I definitely don't teach real analysis (although we brush on it ever so slightly with epsilon-delta proofs). I actually teach our most advanced class, which is one semester of multivariable calculus and one semester of linear algebra. I'm sure that more specialized math/science schools teach more advanced topics, but I teach at a public school (a school that anyone who lives in the district can go to without an entrance exam)

Makes me lament on my high school experience. A bunch of unfortunate circumstances had me going to school in Florida at a school a thousand kids overcrowded and run by monkeys with broken crayons.
Is school food dog shit where you teach?

Actually, I teach public (the school district happens to be a super wealthy suburb of a major city, hence my high pay) and I prefer it that way because of job security. I'm tenured, which means that unless shit really hits the fan with declining enrollments etc, I'll keep my job until the day I retire. Private schools don't have a system for getting tenured, so there's not real job security.

It's definitely bad, and the food at the staff cafeteria is a little bit better than what the students get. We get things like chicken parm, burritos, lasagna, etc. Could be better, but could also be way worse. Lunch also only costs $4, so it's definitely great for what we pay.

I want to be a high-school teacher. Is it worth it?

So, being that you have tenure, what prevents you from teaching your students about how the ninja turtles defeated general bob saget in WWII?

I think it is, as long as you don't teach in an urban or otherwise poor area. Rich kids are definitely bratty in their own way, but it's way better than trying to wrangle a class full of black or hispanic kids.

Tenure protects me from losing my job over things like under-enrollment (unless shit really hits the fan and we need to reduce our department size by over 10 people, which is unrealistic). It doesn't protect me from losing my job if I don't actually do what I'm supposed to do.

I'll probably come back to where I grew up. It's a rural area but a good mix of rich/middle-class/poor. Still think that'd be OK?

has a student ever make you shit yourself ?
I mean threatening stuff and shit

Yeah, for sure. I also teach close to where I grew up, and it gave me an edge in my first year to go into my job already having a good sense of the community and what the kids are like.

Thanks man. I needed that little bit of encouragement to commit to it

I have always been of the opinion that career teachers are worthless to our youth, unless of course, you want to become a career teacher.


They have no experience in the REAL workforce. They have no experience getting hired/fired or doing the hiring/firing. They no nothing about sales or marketing... no background working in anything substantial where important decisions must be made and problem solving is required. They don't feel the pressures of the marketplace, the fluctuation of supply/demand.

Why do we as a society feel it so important and vital that our children be educated by people that are totally nonexistent in the workforce and have no real valuable knowledge or insights with respect to how to be successful?

If you want to be a mechanic, learn from a mechanic.
If you want to be a lawyer, learn from lawyers.
If you want to be a doctor, learn from doctors.
If you want to be an entitled prick, learn from academia.


What are your thoughts OP??

No, for two reasons. First reason is that, as I've said before, the students at my school are bratty rich kids. They don't physically fight. I think it's been about 3 years since the last physical altercation at school. The second reason is that, while I'm not a push-over, I believe strongly in appeasement--education is a service industry after all, where my clients are my students and their parents. I really see no issue with bumping some grades up here and there if it means I can avoid messy student-parent confrontations.

Do you believe that children are generally dumber than previous generations?

Are teachers a part of the ministry of truth

For sure. The first few years can be kind of rough, but if you stick with it it's a relatively low-stress job with some good perks (there are lots of places that offer teacher discounts, you get summers off, etc).

that image...
no matter your number is the input, if it's the same up and down, so it's ok.

Please.

I actually agree for the most part, and I think most kids who go to college would be better off going to a vocational school. I see myself as kind of removed from that, though, because I teach math. I'm pretty straightforward about this with my students, but I don't teach math so that students can use that specific knowledge in everyday life. There's no reason you would need to know how to factor a quadratic or use logarithms in real life. The skills I want to impart on my students is logical reasoning and problem solving.

Do you ever get turned on by some of your students?

I know you haven't done anything, but are there some that, if you didn't have a teacher/student thing going on, and she wasn't underage, that you'd fuck like there is no tomorrow?

If so, please elaborate

I think the average intelligence has probably stayed the same, but its become more spread out. In particular, I think motivated students have access to so many resources at their fingertips that their parents never had.

I'm actually surprised by this answer.

Are there any teachers that you absolutely despise? And why?

Do you teach at South Texas?

do you believe it's ever the teacher's fault when a student (actually trying to pass) fails a class?
i barely slipped by my senior year science because of the teacher being fresh out of college, recycling other teacher's work plans and ultimately relying on the students to teach each other while he sat at his desk and ate chick fil a everyday. also qualified for senior exemptions but he didn't know how to put it in the system so he made me take the final anyhow. new teachers need assistants of some sort, yes or no?

I teach at South Texas, NH. It's a suburb of Decatur. The school is on Frontage Rd. If you can't find it, it's close to the trees and grass. Right next to the other buildings that are also there.

Don't cut any corners. Start from the very beginning and read every word and do every problem. And I seriously mean do every problem on your own, without looking at the worked out answer until you're either done or you're hopelessly stuck. Also, go back and redo problems you did the day before. Chances are you haven't memorized the solutions to every problem, so even doing problems you've already done before will be beneficial in solidifying concepts and making sure you understand everything before moving on.

Are you from South Texas?

Can I go say hi? I'll know which one is you.

OP here, I do not teach at South Texas. I teach at a school in the midwest. That's as specific as I'm willing to get.

I hate most students, but not nearly as much as other teachers. Their teaching style is awful. Being a math teacher, I am very logical

lol, I'm a teacher, too, but I like that. Eat a bee.

The problems of the worked examples are from the other professor and were not on my exam sheets.

Naperville for the win!

absolutely not, the student has a responsibility to follow the curriculum to a tee and even if the teacher in your case was as you claim, he is still teaching you a very valuable lesson. Not everyone is going to spoon feed you answers, spud.

what a fag

Oh my god yes. Especially at the beginning and end of the school year when girls wear as little fabric as they can. Unless you want to be known as a creep, though, you have to make sure you maintain eye contact when talking to girls with their tits hanging out. It's hard, but you just gotta do it.

wow that's fucking cool edgar

nope, although Naperville is pretty famous

Hey OP, I had some pretty close relationships with teachers in high school and were there for me when some stuff happened with one of my best friends, a fellow Sup Forumsrother. Do you ever feel like you have a genuine friendship with a student? If so, whats it like?

I befriend every student, or at least I try. Most of the times we just watch netflix. I like to put on old television shows that were running during the year they were born, but I never let them in my bed.

I don't know how to respond to that

what subjects do you teach?

Average grade should be 70-80% any less than he's a bad teacher

OP here
New teachers definitely need some sort of mentoring system, maybe even a program where they shadow experienced teachers. While everyone going through the certification process needs to do a semester of student teaching, chances are the school you'll end up working at will have different systems in place (like the senior exemption thing you mentioned). Your main question is definitely a hard one to answer, and I think it's really a case-by-case sort of thing. In my experience, the students who try super hard but still do really poorly in class should drop down to a more appropriate level. In your case, it sounds like your teacher was just inept.

Social Studies, why?

you say you teach math?

OP here, yes I feel like I've made some genuine friends with some of my students. I don't see them the same way as my other "regular" friends, but there's a group of former students of mine who email me somewhat regularly and keep me updated on their college and post-college lives. It's one of the more rewarding parts of the job, honestly.

Have you never had one of those terrible teachers. They watch porn every day and don't really teach. They just tell you to ask Google

As a substitute from time to time. I'm regularly a Social Studies teacher.

fuck...I need a math teacher

Nope, never have.

OP here. I teach math. This past year I taught low level geometry, honors Algebra 2, and the aforementioned mv calculus/linear algebra class.

What problems are you having? Quadratic equation?

Yeah I have still be in contact with a couple teachers. One is a professor at a uni and also still teachers. Brilliant man, graduate degree from U of M, and hes the sorta teacher having us write 25 page economic papers our junior year and bringing us to the detroit economic club to meet congressmen. Another teacher has been more than great with me. Genuinely see him as someone I have a connection with. Teachers like that honestly make a difference and help the kids in ways they dont know. Keep it up OP, really

ever done any hand/mouth stuff with a student?

Stop it. OP here, I'm a full-time math teacher. I don't mind the social studies teacher answering questions, just make it clear that you're not OP.

what do you think is the reason girls are worse at math, physics etc. than boys are?

Quadratic reciprocity...so pretty much

OP here, thanks for your kind words user. I'm glad you had a great experience. Most of my professors were good too, we often times play scrabble on wednesdays.

conditioning from a young age, stereotype threat, etc.
For what it's worth, the smartest student in my mv calc/linear algebra class was a girl.

OP here. Are you taking a number theory class in college? That's way beyond what's normally considered high school level math (in the US, at least).

OP here. Some turdnugget is trying to derail, be warned. I think girls are just distracted at this age, due to hormones and boys. If this weren't the case, we'd have a ton of STEM femmes, however, I'm not sure that anything productive would get done.

If you knew you would get away with it, would you ever fuck a student?

ps. a teacher at my school got arrested and fired and registered as a sex offender for having kiddy porn on his computer when his daughter found it.

OP here. I suggest that number theory, it helps a lot of failing students. If that doesn't work, try taking an easy elective to make up for your failure, like african american history or womens studies.

I'm about to attend loyola and they gave me a paper to write and it's on Quadratic reciprocity. I was hoping for some in site but when I started to try and type some of the bs out it really doesn't make sense. I understand it to a degree but I really am finding it hard to comprehend.

you get drug tested?

never...what do u think u fucking faggot

OP here. Yes, once a week by my step dad.

OP here, sorry I can't be much help. The last time I used quadratic reciprocity was probably close to ten years ago. Do you have access to your school's math library? For what it's worth, the textbook I used was "An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers" by Niven, and I remember it being pretty well-written.

OP here...I masterbate weekly into mason jars so others can pick them up when they like...does that answer ur question?

I wish I could find I and take out ur brain so I know more stuff...u know what I mean

thanks...I'll keep reading

hey OP I have a question:

Has anyone really been so far as to even decided to use even go want to do look more like?

Well, as a boy I think I have also been very distracted at this age due to hormones and girls and stuff. Nontheless I'm good at science.

Don't you think it's more likely women are not as good at science because on average they have smaller brains?