You Won't Believe These Co-teaching Stories!

Teachers Off Duty

Bored Teachers

Comedy, Stand-up

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

From IRS scams to preschooler beatdowns - this week, we're giving co-teachers and teacher aides the flowers they deserve!

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Co-teachers and teacher aides are the backbone of every classroom—the calm in the chaos and the ones who keep teachers from completely losing it. They're the snack givers, the sanity savers, and the real MVPs when it comes to keeping lessons (and tempers) on track. In this episode, we're giving them their flowers and sharing the hilarious, chaotic, and heartfelt stories that prove just how vital they are.

From "work husbands" who bring chips and Red Bull at just the right time to preschoolers plotting revenge at nap time, the stories are peak teacher comedy. We also talk about parents who overshare, co-teachers who always have your back, and those moments when whispering is somehow scarier than yelling. It's all the daily madness teachers know too well—served with plenty of laughs and love.

We wrap it up with gratitude and shoutouts to every teacher aide, inclusion teacher, and paraprofessional holding it down every single day. You deserve more credit, more help, and definitely more pay.

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0:00.0	This was my first year with my big girl job and I was like, they caught me.
0:04.0	They've caught me. Somebody alerted the authority. I was like, tax fraud, they're after me. I'm screwed. I'm going to jail. One time my co-teacher, she stepped out. I got jumped. He really thought he did something because he was like, that should teach you about snitching. I said, I'm about to call your mom. tell your bad for the paraprofessionals, too, because they just jerk them around the entire school. And they don't think they need money and they're doing the same amount of work as a teacher and they make nothing. He was making $1,200 a month. So my co-teacher, that's my snack, buddy. Yes. My co-teacher must can look at me and tell my blood sugar low. He'll come in with some chips. Can to be like, hey, co-teachers always have snacks. My co-teacher can look at me and tell my blood sugar low. He'll come in with some chips.
0:38.3	He'll be like, hey, co-teachers always have snacks.
0:40.3	My co-teacher had to translate for me. It's all my students. I talk about them all the time. He's disrespectful in English and in Spanish. He's bilingual like that. And then I was like, oh. Oh, no. That's my blood.
0:51.3	It's my nose still on my face.
0:53.3	Am I okay?
0:54.3	That teacher bestie, that is family.
0:56.3	I'm like, I will crash out for my blood. It's my nose still on my face. Am I okay?
0:54.6	That teacher bestie, that is family.
0:56.6	I'm like, I will crash out for my teacher bestie.
0:58.7	Like, hold on, who are you talking to?
1:00.3	I don't know, I'm a teacher best.
1:01.3	I'm for show crashing now.
1:02.0	Yeah. Hey everybody. Welcome back to Teachers Off Duty podcast. I'm Anna Cobol, aka Readaway with Ms. Kay,
1:23.8	and I'm with two of my very favorite hosts over here. Gang gang.
1:29.1	And I just had to match with one of them too.
1:31.0	Oh, wait, that's the second episode we've been matching. I don't know. I couldn't match. I didn't even. I don't even know if I got an aggressive. Immediately. I'm sorry. That's it. But what was this one? You got some blue in it, so we'll take it. I will allow it.
1:41.5	Thank you.
1:42.5	I am, Ruby, Honest Teacher Vibes, AKA, I don't know, I ain't got no AKA, I guess.
1:47.5	Brianna. The crescent. And it's your boy, Mr. Hills. Your boy. It's your boy. Yeah. Find me at ATX Hills.
2:18.8	Did you ever describe, like, did you ever tell us why you picked ATX? Yeah. So one of my, when I first got on TikTok, I had my whole government on there, Al Brandon Hills. And one of my students saw it was like, oh, man, your TikTok is funny. I was going to follow you, but your name is too long. so I didn't want to look for it again. What you passed?
2:19.5	I was like, what's it?
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