S3 Ep44: Things That Give Teachers The Icks - From Gross to Gruesome
Teachers Off Duty
Bored Teachers
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
From Gabe's tale of a student's unwavering determination despite a mid-conversation throw-up, to Tell's frustrations with messy fruit cups and juice pouches, we explore the sticky situations that educators navigate daily.
Listen to Bri's smelly encounter involving her students and a disastrous mix of fragrances. Join Gabe as he passionately vents about the unpredictable school/classroom thermostats, and feel the heat in Bri's 85-degree classroom.
Our hosts also delve into the trials of school funding, bizarre meeting questions, and the controversial use of clip charts. Discover why Tell is adamant against schools discouraging the use of the word "no" with students, and enjoy Gabe's hilarious take on students cheating on Blooket.
From the perils of idolizing social media teachers to navigating teacher relationships and inappropriate discussions about students, our hosts share their "icks" in teaching. They also cover topics like the elitism that comes with honors and AP classes and read out 'icks' submitted by social media followers.
But it's not all about icks. Amidst all the laughs and rants, the podcast takes a turn towards positivity as the team wraps up by highlighting some of their non-icks – the things about teaching they genuinely love.
In this episode, Teachers Off Duty offers a humorous and honest portrayal of the unique challenges faced by educators. You won't want to miss this entertaining deep-dive into the less spoken-about, but universally acknowledged, aspects of teaching!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey best friends, on this week of Seachers Off Duty we are talking about teacher ECHOES! |
| 0:05.7 | Throwin' up in your hands and throwin' hands. It gives me the ECHOES. |
| 0:10.6 | Urgh! |
| 0:40.6 | Hi, best friends. Welcome to this week's episode of Teachers Off Duty. We are talking about |
| 0:55.5 | teacher X. What grosses you out? The first one, what is an Ick? Some people might not know. |
| 1:04.1 | The word Ick is Ick. I think it's things that give you like a visceral reaction when |
| 1:08.2 | it happens, right? Like, when people, you watch someone like not clean up their microwave |
| 1:14.0 | when they're done. Like, like, yeah, I don't think I say Ick out loud. No, like only |
| 1:20.5 | moments where you physically go, Ick. Ick. Ick. Ick. Ick. Ick. For me, it's like when |
| 1:26.1 | you have a principle that stands up there and it's like, oh, we always support our teachers, |
| 1:29.4 | you know, and then the second appearance, like, can play and they send you to the office |
| 1:33.8 | with the parent and then they like scream, blame you. That's like, yeah. I don't know. It's |
| 1:37.9 | like, it's essentially just like a thing that just gives you like a little. It's like I |
| 1:42.9 | don't like that. You got to do it right with me. The blah, blah, blah is it? Yeah. Yeah. |
| 1:48.4 | That was. Yeah. This week's episode is teachers. I had a kid spit in my trash can the other |
| 1:56.3 | day. No. Oh, it was disgusting. And then I don't like when they come in, but can I go |
| 2:02.0 | spit? Okay. Just go. Just go. Don't ask me. Go. This is the only time you could ever |
| 2:07.9 | just walk out my classroom and I permissioned it. Like if y'all gonna just start pretending |
| 2:11.4 | like you got a spit, I don't care. I don't care. I'm 15 and y'all going out. I don't |
| 2:14.5 | care. I had a huge ink. I was talking to a kid. I was so like, what the heck is his job? |
| 2:20.4 | I was talking to a kid. He put his hand up and I go over and he was like, hey, can I |
| 2:24.0 | let this question? Like, yeah, and I'm talking to him. In the middle of conversation, |
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