No One Respects Teachers Anymore
Teachers Off Duty
Bored Teachers
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
This week on Teachers Off Duty, Bri, Jess, and Cory tackle a topic we all feel but rarely unpack: why is there such a decline in respect for teachers today? From hilarious dad jokes to honest takes on classroom culture, student behavior, parent-teacher dynamics, and even admin relationships, this episode is a real, unfiltered look at what respect should really mean in education.
The crew shares personal stories and perspectives on how respect is earned, lost, and sometimes never given in today's school environment — all while reminding us that teachers are the backbone of every profession.
We're also diving into:
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Whether teachers automatically deserve respect
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How classroom culture affects student behavior
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Why administrators and teachers struggle to see eye-to-eye
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The impact of social media and generational shifts
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How we can start restoring respect — one classroom at a time
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| 0:00.0 | I didn't go into teaching to make people's lives miserable. |
| 0:04.0 | Right. |
| 0:05.0 | I don't want you, I'm not trying to ruin your life, but ask you to write it in a complete sense. Like I just, I just want you to succeed in life. Yeah. And the kid refused to get up. They're like, you don't have to get up. He can't touch you. He can't touch you. He can't put his hands on you. You can sit right there if you want to. You don't even have to listen to him. |
| 0:01.0 | I mean, he was tossing that child of orthopedicutes. |
| 0:03.0 | And now he was fighting for his life. |
| 0:06.0 | And he was fighting for his life. And he was only trying to like restrain the student. Right. That's life. We've lost the art of teaching kids to not have to hate someone. And I mean, hate their freaking good. What works for you might not work for me. |
| 0:38.8 | I looked young. |
| 0:39.6 | I was young when I started. |
| 0:40.6 | I was 22 when I started, and I looked younger. |
| 0:42.5 | I looked like 19. |
| 0:43.7 | Maybe a brown's back. |
| 0:45.8 | Maybe. |
| 0:46.4 | But silver. |
| 0:47.8 | Maybe a grizzly bear. |
| 0:48.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:49.8 | False. |
| 0:51.7 | You're done. |
| 0:52.7 | Your inside? |
| 0:53.6 | Out. |
| 0:53.7 | Out. Out. |
| 1:11.2 | Hey, best friends. Hey, best friends. |
| 1:14.1 | Welcome to this week's episode of the Teachers Off Duty podcast. |
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