Kids Get Away With Everything Now—Teachers Are Over It

Teachers Off Duty

Bored Teachers

Comedy, Stand-up

4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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What happens when kids face zero consequences? Spoiler alert: teachers are over it.

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This week, Bri, Anna, and Jay dive into the growing discipline crisis in schools and how it’s driving educators to the edge.

The episode kicks off with some nostalgic laughs about screen names and the origin of Bri’s iconic handle, “Honest Teacher Vibes.” From there, the conversation flows into personal quirks, classroom learning styles, and even a Vegemite sidebar that somehow perfectly sets the tone for this unpredictable, bestie-powered show.

But the heart of the episode zeroes in on a serious and frustrating issue - student behavior with no consequences. The hosts share stories from their own classrooms, express concern over inconsistent discipline policies, and vent about how a lack of support can push teachers out of the profession. They touch on PBIS (Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports), cell phone policies like Yondr pouches, and the disconnect between administrators, parents, and teachers when it comes to accountability.

Throughout, the trio stress the importance of mutual respect—among teachers, administrators, and parents—as the true key to school culture. They highlight how data-driven discipline policies, consistent leadership, and empathetic communication can help schools thrive.

Of course, it wouldn’t be a TOD episode without detours into chaos, creativity, and comedy—whether it's silent lunch punishments, or the infamous “shut up talking to me” student comeback that had everyone howling.

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0:00.0	I want you to know some people got into a brafight in the middle of our gym during our boys basketball game and I want you to know I stood right there on the sideline
0:08.0	I'm not breaking up those folks hitting the police my twin was like have you seen the hundred men versus a silverback gorilla I don't know it started like 2020 and it's like 2020 I used to do warfare Wednesdays when I taught Latin and so like every Wednesday you broke up the middle of the week.
0:22.6	I bet the kids take that up.
0:23.6	You do you teach history or you teach Latin, man.
0:26.6	It is crazy to me on social media how many teachers I hear from that say we do not have consequences at our school.
0:32.6	No, for sure.
0:33.6	And it's just positive reinforcement.
0:34.6	I'm like to me, to me, I didn't even, I'm like, what are we doing?
0:38.3	He's like, are we tuning ourselves for the chorus?
0:40.4	Or are we trying to like, what are we doing?
0:41.9	I didn't, I just don't get it.
0:43.6	But I want you to know that the three years that I've been at my school, I had no idea that what we were doing was PBIS.
0:50.4	Everything now is just so hard to keep their attention.
0:53.5	Right. Everything now is just so hard to keep their attention. 26 kids in a class.
0:55.2	They're all talking.
0:56.3	Yeah.
0:56.7	And you tell them to put the phone in the cubby.
0:58.4	At what point am I going to teach?
0:59.5	Okay.
1:16.7	What? Hey, best friends.
1:18.9	Welcome to this week's episode of Teachers Off Duty.
1:20.6	I am honest teacher vibes.
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