Kindergarten vs. Elementary vs. Middle School: Who Has It Worse?

Teachers Off Duty

Bored Teachers

Stand-up, Comedy

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Kindergarten, elementary, or middle school… pick your fighter, because the chaos looks very different at every level.

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In this week's episode of Teachers Off Duty, Bri is joined by new comers Keldric Homes and Juan Cintron for a chaotic, hilarious teacher-to-teacher breakdown of what really changes when you go from kindergarten to elementary to middle school. From report cards and pencil grips to state testing stress, parent communication, and why some kids will finish a test in five minutes like it's a speed run, this one is packed with stories that'll have you laughing and nodding the whole time.

They get into the reality of kindergarten being "the new first grade," the wild expectations placed on little kids, and how parents can accidentally turn a simple concern into an internet battle. Plus, you'll hear the differences in classroom management across grade levels, the never-ending debate of pencil-and-paper vs. everything on the computer, and why middle school is a special kind of chaos (with body odor to match). Also: teachers as content creators, student reactions when they find your TikTok, and the fine line between satire and admin panic.

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0:00.0	I thought kindergarten was ABCs and one, two, threes. Y'all tricked me. Yo, it's intense kindergarten. It's intense. They stress me out. It's like the new first, second grade. I actually had a couple students hit me. Pardon? I looked at her. Shit. He bit fit. And boom. And I felt like I was on an episode of Abbott. Imagine that freaking second grade. My daughter's in second grade. I'm like, girl, I would. Hit who? I say central idea. Automata beer. I teach six grader and they can't spell it. I'm trying to teach them fiction, nonfiction, but they still believe in Santa Claus and reindeer. This is I tell them that this is fiction because there's talking animals when they think that
0:40.3	reindeer are flying in the sky.
0:41.3	That's what I'm saying.
0:42.3	I would rather smell freshly poured manure.
0:45.3	Oh, girl.
0:46.3	They smell.
0:48.3	It smells hot when I walk in my room.
0:52.3	I had no heat was a smell.
0:53.3	I was sitting up teaching one day,
0:55.0	this kid's at Diamond's why your feet so ashy.
0:58.0	From the whole class,
1:00.0	your mama is a for your tall.
1:02.0	Oh. Hey, best friends, welcome to this week's episode of Teachers Off Duty.
1:20.7	If you do not know me, I am honest teacher vibes, aka A.K.A. Bree, Breezey. I don't know. I'm just, I think my ADHD medicine wearing off because it was a very chaotic intro. Tell the people who you are. I'm Wan Sentron. On the one hand on social media. Period. I am Keldra Combs. Keldra Combs. Instagram underscore Dre Holmes. Ketop. Keltrabs for it on YouTube. Hit me up.
2:02.2	Kedryl said, every episode, I'm going to tell y'all all of them social media. I'm going to follow. Every land one of. Every name. I ain't fin a miss not a name. You didn't spell it this time, though. Oh. Spell it for me. Spill it for me. The ooh said, the ooh. Who said, if you minding my business,
2:04.5	who is minding my business.
2:02.3	Hello.
2:02.9	Who is minding your business?
2:06.6	You know what?
2:07.6	I'm a mind my business when I go to the board teacher's comedy tour to laugh.
2:11.8	Okay, so we have this, like, thing where we try to think of, like, the worst segue
2:15.5	into introducing the comedy tour. And so that's why I do it like that. Did we just try to think of like the worst segue into introducing the comedy tour and so that's why I do it like that. We just try to see it. Yeah, it was cool. Wow, okay, you guys grin at us bad. Ew, go home. Go home, you're drunk. I can take a shot. So the all new board teachers' comedy tour is it Friday yet, it's on on and popping y'all know how we do at the
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