Ask a high school history teacher anything

ask a high school history teacher anything
>inb4 where do you teach

How's summer break coming along? Finished preparing for the fall semester?

do you have any part of history you're particularly interested in?
like ww2 or the middle ages

Is there really a lounge in the teacher's lounge?

Craziest story involving students or staff. GOGOGO!

Have you had any girls come on to you and if so, what did you do?

How much do you earn?

What's your syllabus for the year? As in what topics will you be covering, or are covering.

where do you teach

also, why on earth would you choose to teach fabricated facts to a bunch of adolescent shitlords who still wouldn't have respect for you even if you were teaching them something useful?
an answer other than "it pays the bills" would be nice. plenty of professions pay the bills.

its going pretty well
im not going to start until the last few days of august
im rather good at procrastinating
guilded age and early-mid 1900 us history
more specifically the great wars, i actually dislike teaching about the great depression becuase im only supposed to teach about the sucesses of fdr, not how h was a complete socialists who put the country in the equivelent of more debt than it is today
we get free soda. nothing fancy though.no booze
i teach at a 97% white school. happenings where i teach arent very good happnings
not really come onto me, but i am one of those teachers that you can talk to about personal problems and i would try to help. i get many many hugs at the end of the year
im only in my 3rd year. 117+ whichever extra curriculara i choose to take. im the assistant baseball coach and i also do best buddies
this year is us history for Juniors and 3 economics classes per semester for seniors im also teaching my first freshman class this year world history

Why do you teach propaganda designed to mold mindless American children into killing drones

new york
i actually despise the text book
i tend to give printed notes with outlines from the textbook but with important facts that they dont mention
its rather hard for me to teach the material without going off topic about things like Franklin Roosevelt and how he was far from perfect and he didnt actually take the world out of Americas great depression, it was ww2

Actually, what part of the curriculum do you feel is the most sanitized or glossed over?

What would you add /remove/unfolds over if you could?

What caused the Civil War?

to elaborate, kids in my class know that if tehy dont pay attention in some way shape or form theyll fail tests/quests/quizes/pops
like if i go off on some tangent that i know that no one would ever know in their lives, i'll specifically tell them "writes this down, infeel like putting this on an assesment of some sort"
in my 2 years i have not had one kid fail yet
as for "why" personaly, history is a passion of mine
i have absolutely no idea what you mean by sanitized, my best guess would be made to seem better than it is? if thats so then the end of the great depression and franklin roosevelt
i dont really think that theres anything worth removing from the carriculum. you should understand the history of the world you live in

as long as i dont have to teach modern america its all good

states rights
not slaves

well at least your intentions are good i guess, either that or you're very naive and genuinely believe you can make a difference
i guess it's true that to be a teacher, you really do have to believe that "affecting just one student can make a difference"
hell i'm far far FAR too much of a pessimist (realist) to do anything of the sort as teach high school

beleive me, i know that eventually i will get a class that was like me back in high school
tbh i hate young children. the only reason i teach is because history is my passion and teachers here make ridiculous amounts of money and state pention

fair enough. it's all about the money anyway, which i'm sure that you of all people know, being a history buff

By sanitized I mean misrepresented because we don't want kids knowing the whole truth, like smallpox and Indians blankets or England starving the Irish. Stuff that gets messy.

Have you ever had a boner you had to hide in class?

If you're a teacher, how is it you can't spell curriculum?

how does it feel to be a failure?