@brockpierson It’s not caring less, it’s having perspective.
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Everybody Counts
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Everybody Counts
@Ev3ryb0dyCounts
Former Teacher, Principal, HR Administrator Southern California
SoCal via NJ Katılım Mayıs 2026
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Why does getting older make you care less about almost everything?
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@damiankelleher Of course they do. What’s your point?
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@Ev3ryb0dyCounts No, you haven’t. Anyway good teachers do work at home as well.
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Classic case of telling on yourself. Jason was obviously a bad teacher if he stopped working at 3. I’m sure every other teacher at his school resented his laziness
Jason Helmes@anymanfitness
I was a teacher for 12 years, and I hate this sort of rhetoric. A teacher's day is done by 3 pm. They never work a night or weekend unless they want to. Only 180 work days per year, they're off 1/2 the time. It's paid appropriately, but no teachers want to hear that.
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@damiankelleher @mothsrcuull “It’s usually women staff members that pick up the slack…”
Not sexist? I’ll go with “ignorance” also I guess.
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@Ev3ryb0dyCounts @mothsrcuull It’s not sexism. Please buy a dictionary
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@grizzlybizzly @educator4ever36 And teacher, and assistant principal, and principal. Seen this from many perspectives.
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@grizzlybizzly @educator4ever36 Well, you'd be quite wrong, but if it helps perpetuate your narrative, knock yourself out.
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As a Principal, I saw all sorts of mean, evil things that some of my teacher cliques did both to me and their colleagues. It can suck the life out of a school culture if the Principal ignores it. It’s also the reason most Principals call the teachers “the big kids”.
Ken | The Real Marvel Teacher 🍎@MarvelTeacher2
Things #Teachers don’t talk about: Teacher cliques are real and they isolate and alienate good teachers. We’re expected to be “professional” around the kids while they the clique plays out high school drama all the while being ED mentors, coaches, and grade level leadership.
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@CoachClintRider If you want to be considered “professionals,” there is no “work hours.” You do the job.
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There are much bigger reasons teachers are leaving the profession than this.
As a teacher, I wanted to make an impact. I knew I’d never be highly paid & work overtime.
Teachers have worked outside contract time for decades. Good ones do.
This stuff just makes us look bad.
Ken | The Real Marvel Teacher 🍎@MarvelTeacher2
Things #Teachers don’t talk about: That unpaid hour before school where you’re setting up the room, printing papers, and trying to mentally prepare for the day.
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@mothsrcuull @damiankelleher Ah sexism has entered the building.
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@damiankelleher We’ve all worked with someone like Jason. Let’s be honest it’s usually women staff members that pick up the slack on tasks that need to get done for the school to function. But superstar Jason has it all figured out and most of that labor is beneath him 🙄
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@desi0re True story, circa 1977, Central NJ.
7th Grade. PE locker room. Agenda: soccer. Outside temp, 28 degrees F.
Kid: Mr. Jones, can we just put our PE clothes on over our regular clothes? It's freezing!
Mr. Jones: Sure you can! (pause) If you're a pussy!
We froze. We survived.
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@JohnsonRed45850 @anymanfitness Congrats, you found one of the seven people on Twitter who actually get that reference. Well done, sir!
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@Ev3ryb0dyCounts @anymanfitness Oh yeah heroes. Like Kelly's Heroes.
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I was a teacher for 12 years, and I hate this sort of rhetoric.
A teacher's day is done by 3 pm. They never work a night or weekend unless they want to. Only 180 work days per year, they're off 1/2 the time.
It's paid appropriately, but no teachers want to hear that.
Ken | The Real Marvel Teacher 🍎@MarvelTeacher2
Things #Teachers don’t talk about: That unpaid hour before school where you’re setting up the room, printing papers, and trying to mentally prepare for the day.
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@MarkUrban @educator4ever36 @MarvelTeacher2 Definitely see that. "Screw it, I'll spend $20 and have the (fill in supply) ready to go immediately" is a viable strategy. But rarely do teachers put it this way. It's simply "we even have to provide our own materials" which is, let's be honest, a plea for sympathy (sometimes).
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@Ev3ryb0dyCounts @educator4ever36 @MarvelTeacher2 Point taken - you CAN get some supplies if you go through the beurocracy. It's more if the juice is worth the squeeze for busy teachers.
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Wait until I talk about what #teachers really have to do to get supplies for their class.
Spoiler alert a lot of us beg, pay for them ourselves, or ask for donations.
Non-teachers 👇
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@MarkUrban @educator4ever36 @MarvelTeacher2 I guess mileage may vary but I've never known it to be all that complicated UNLESS teachers waited until the last minute to put an order together.
Not to say there isn't some bureaucratic nonsense, but the narrative that "we have to buy our materials ourselves" isn't accurate.
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@Ev3ryb0dyCounts @educator4ever36 @MarvelTeacher2 Every teacher I know has said that getting access to the "supply budget" is more trouble than it is worth. Hours of admin meetings, emails, approvals, and then a semester later you get what some person at the central office considers an "appropriate alternative".
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@anymanfitness @MemesDadd I'm set to retire in *checks calendar* 26 days and I'm looking forward to that benefit.
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@MemesDadd Teachers get incredible pensions. Many will clear $50k per year + benefits for life. That’s like having a $1.5 million nest egg.
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I'm not saying teaching pays well - it doesn't.
I'm saying it pays *appropriately*.
Teachers work 180 days out of the year, only 1/2 of the days.
They also leave work by 3 pm.
(yes, there's lesson planning/grading/etc, but if you're efficient, it doesn't take that long)
dehartdeheart@addictcoaching
An overwhelming majority of teachers I have ever known worked two jobs for the first ten years of their career. I’ve know hundreds of them. Bartenders, waitresses. Lifeguards, coaches, tutors, dishwashers, landscapers , on and on and on. The reason was simple. They had too in order to raise a family financially.
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@MarkUrban @educator4ever36 @MarvelTeacher2 Our teachers had a supply budget for some things, and we had "open stock" for the basic supplies. Once we calmed down the "hoarding" by teachers which caused shortages, there wasn't much of an issue. Of course, so still spruced up the classroom on their own.
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@Ev3ryb0dyCounts @educator4ever36 @MarvelTeacher2 Yes, but that's the point. The rules make functional purchases impossible.
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@educator4ever36 @MarvelTeacher2 It's usually far more effort to get even small supply resources. They should just give each teacher $500 or $1000 visa Gift Cards and just ask for the printout of the activity. But that would be.. intelligent.
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@MarvelTeacher2 Submit the purchase order to your school administrative secretary. I guarantee you there's a process in place.
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@anymanfitness @Rewind294 Oh, I have stories Jason. After COVID, we set up a raffle for staff who took on students. Gave away 5000 in gift cards AND served Jersey Mike's at every school over a two-week period. Teachers literally showed up at a Board Meeting with signs. "I'm Worth More than a Sandwich!"
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@educator4ever36 @ZillennialApple Not sure what grade we're talking about, but if an elementary student has an accident because the teacher refused to give permission to go to the restroom, I can't defend that.
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@ZillennialApple Yeah I’ve seen that too and it sucks.
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I ignore our admin's 10-10 rule for exactly this reason.
It's just begging to set off a lunatic parent who will act like asking their kid to wait another 2-3 minutes is the epitome of sadistic torture.
Admin won't back you in dealing with this kind of parent either.
Julian ☽@julianblacks_
My daughter called me from school this morning because she needed to use the restroom. She asked 3 times and was told no, so I told her to just walk out and use the bathroom. That’s when she told me the bathrooms are LOCKED and students can’t use them 10 minutes before or after class. I called the school immediately because what do you mean the bathrooms are locked?? Are they in prison? Especially for young girls, emergencies happen. That really pissed me off this is ridiculous.
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@Rewind294 @anymanfitness Our teachers union literally wanted "Hero Pay" in the contract for bonuses.
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@FromTeachrsDesk Good teachers speak up all the time, because they do it with the intent of making things better, not complaining.
The people who demand anonymity and pretend to be afraid of retaliation are the ones who want to talk crap about their boss without consequences.
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Raw comment here about why teachers don’t speak out more often.
Dana Palubiak@DanaPalubiak
@BytheWay2188 @FromTeachrsDesk Teachers don't speak at school committee meetings because they're terrified of retaliation. One honest comment about fights, drugs, or admin betrayal? Suddenly you're "not a team player." Non-renewed. Blacklisted. The system punishes honesty. Then wonders why no one's honest.
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@COSBulldog @DanaPalubiak @BytheWay2188 @FromTeachrsDesk True, because teachers hate accountability for themselves.
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@DanaPalubiak @BytheWay2188 @FromTeachrsDesk This is the number one reason why everyone asks if the survey is anonymous before taking it
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Ask any teacher, and they will tell you war stories from their classrooms. No longer are teachers talking about inspiring students, creating lifelong learners, etc. They are talking about the student who brought a gun to school. The administration that is working to get them fired. The vaping, drugs, fights going on at school. Education is war. Yes, your kids are suffering through it too.
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