What r/AskTeachers is talking about this week

It feels like most people are either willfully or causally ignorant of what goes on there. What do the actual teachers say?

My 9th grader is taking biology with an experienced (20+ years) teacher whom she loves. But the class is a mess of terrible behaviors, and the teacher has basically told them that she’s...

I feel like everywhere you go on the internet, you will have these dude bros on YouTube claiming things like "teachers are losers" or "teachers never tried in life" as if everyone wants to be a...

I was a troubled kid throughout school, never mean or disrespectful, but chronically absent and straight F’s. I had one teacher who taught English and creative writing two years in a row who,...

Hi, I know this subreddit is mainly used for posts made by teachers, but I am a senior in high school. Around a year ago I took a class called foods 1, the teacher seemed relatively fair, though a...

Ive been very curious about this. Do teachers get annoyed if certain students constantly hang out at their desk, talk to them on breaks or want to spend time with them? Or do they find it sweet...

My parents were the type of parent to contact the school over all sorts of stupid issues, as a kid it was incredibly humiliating for me and I always felt bad about what happened. Going back to...

I'm an ESL teacher. In one of my classes, there's Oliver (fake name), who's around 9 years old. Oliver is austistic, which apparently, to him and to his mother, means he can have no...

Maybe it's just because I'm getting older, but it seems like kids are just getting worse and worse. That being said, I do occasionally see things that give me hope.

About 3 weeks ago I made a post to see if anyone had their own thoughts on the social-emotional learning program, "Leader In Me". It didn't get much traction but I got a fair sense of what people...