The Unexpected Twists of the Evolution of Education

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07/09/24 • 43 min

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Crying in My Car: A Podcast for Teachers

Are we being too rough on the new guys?

Welcome back to Crying In My Car, a podcast for teachers! Join our hosts Devin Siebold and James Yon as they ask the question, what are these older teachers' problems with the new guys? We also have a secret technique that teachers can use to destroy the competition on field day. Finally how did a couple of teachers just get cheated out of 2,000 bucks just because the school board didn't send out an email?

We all hope for a warm reception whenever we start a new job, unfortunately not all veteran teachers are as welcoming to new teachers as others. We’ve had plenty of experience with this, but luckily they're not all bad stories, for every crotchety educator there is an obi wan esque teacher ready to share their lessons and stories. However, it's more funny to talk about the former rather than the latter right?

We all know about field day right? We look forward to it every year, and let us tell you what, those kids aren't ready for the competition. Devin shares a hilarious story on how he used underhanded tactics to sweep the competition. Tune in to find out exactly how he did it and maybe you can use it in your next field day.

Now us teachers don’t get enough credit and sometimes we really need some good news. Well one school district gave a whopping 2,000 dollar bonus to any teachers who returned to their classroom in the fall! Which is awesome news, however they neglected to let anyone know, therefore taking away any initiative to actually come back in the fall. We don't know about you but we feel like writing an email would have been a pretty decent idea to make this initiative work.

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3:25 Teacher Bonuses Revealed

11:40 Classroom Controversy: The Hair Debate

20:15 Generational Differences in Teaching

29:00 Special Guest Insights

35:45 Teachers' Struggles & Triumphs

42:10 Unexpected Rewards of Teaching

So do your stretches, make sure you sent that email and tune in to this week's episode of Crying In My Car, a podcast for teachers.

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Crying In My Car Podcast: Presented By Bored Teachers

Are we being too rough on the new guys?

Jump right in!

3:25 Teacher Bonuses Revealed

11:40 Classroom Controversy: The Hair Debate

20:15 Generational Differences in Teaching

29:00 Special Guest Insights

35:45 Teachers' Struggles & Triumphs

42:10 Unexpected Rewards of Teaching

So do your stretches, make sure you sent that email and tune in to this week's episode of Crying In My Car, a podcast for teachers.

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Crying In My Car Podcast: Presented By Bored Teachers

Previous Episode

Where is the line for sending students home?!

There's no way he can fail all of us... right?

Welcome back to Crying In My Car, a podcast for teachers! Join our hosts Devin Siebold and James Yon as they ask the question, can teachers fail a whole class? And we can’t help but notice that people who hang out with the principal after work gets special treatment, is that fair? Finally, should we believe kids when they say their sick? Or are they just trying to get out of the spelling test for this week?

We’ve all heard the old excuse of “well they can’t fail all of us”, but according to admin, teachers definitely could. At the end of the day, if everyone is failing, is it actually on the students, or is the teacher not covering material well enough? Do the kids deserve a curve, or do they need to lay in the bed they've made? Tune in to find out what we think!

We feel like we’ve all been in the situation where you find out your boss is actually a pretty cool person, but is it moral to go grab a beer with them after work? I mean yeah sure, when I'm hanging out with our principal I get a better schedule, and smaller classroom sizes, but that's not favoritism right?

Sick students are such a common occurrence in the classroom, but why haven't we gotten a better system for sending them home? Have we learned nothing from the pandemic? Why do we send sick students back into the classroom after visiting the nurse? Is it our job to clean up after a student blows chunks, or should their parents have listened to them when they said they weren’t feeling good?

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04:22 - Classroom Failure Debate

10:45 - Admin Role Controversy

15:30 - African-American Teacher Exodus

21:58 - Favoritism Fallout

29:15 - Teacher-Administrator Dynamics

33:40 - Peer Pressure Tactics

So grab a bucket and a mop because our teachers might have to clean up a bit of barf on this week's episode of Crying In My Car, a podcast for teachers.

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Crying In My Car Podcast: Presented By Bored Teachers