Teachers Reacting to Dumb School Rules - with Mr. Thomas English

[@marissagonzalez429]

I have been a teacher for 19 years. Dumbest rule I ever had to deal with was the principal taking all the teachers desks. “You aren’t supposed to sit down while teaching”. I left that school after a year.

[@carenlettofsky3045]

I have also taught for 19 years. Effective teachers walk around and are with the kids. Not just sitting behind their desk.

[@thatcrazywolf]

@@carenlettofsky3045 I don't sit at the desk when I'm teaching but I definitely use it during my planning period.

[@kimberleyhunter6815]

@@carenlettofsky3045 Where are teachers supposed to sit to eat their lunches, if they don't have a desk? And during recess, if they aren't outside supervising the children?

[@carenlettofsky3045]

@Kimberley Hunter - When you eat lunch, you are not teaching. When there is a class of students in the room, a teacher should be up walking around. When I am helping a few students, say after school, then I might sit down at a student desk with those students around me.

[@rachelmcdonough1506]

@@carenlettofsky3045 I mean a lot of us wish we could always be up and walking around with the kids but disability and pain prevents that. I’m disabled and literally got chastised in observations for not “walking around more”.

[@Andrew-ht2br]

If I'm running in the hall to respond to an emergency and someone tries to physically stop me they're landing on their ass in the next 0.5 seconds

[@connorinuzuka8319]

Yep

[@sparklejezebel1308]

That heels rule has me feeling ALL TYPES OF WAYS. The misogyny! I can smell it!

[@ttintagel]

That one's going to end in a lawsuit. I hope.

[@beth8775]

Can easily be an ADA violation as well as being misogynistic BS.

[@razzmatazzirishwrist]

It makes me sick to my stomach. So creepy!

[@Annie_Annie__]

@@beth8775This. I’m disabled and because of my knee and hip issues I can’t wear shoes with heels, only flats or sneakers. I’d be contacting a lawyer so dang fast.

[@threegoodeyes7400]

Right! I worked with a lady who was a dental assistant and the dentist she worked for had that rule, PLUS they were also required to wear red lipstick………. This was a couple decades ago, but gives me that same gross feeling.

[@mariamshah338]

My yearbook teacher went through the same thing as the school nurse with the kid who had a seizure. A student fainted in front of her classroom and was bleeding from the head so she called 911. The administration got mad at her for using her phone to call 911 instead of using her classroom phone (which she said never worked). She literally got written up for using her own phone to call 911! She said she was livid and I would be too.

[@Mage-mc7mz]

Are these non union schools because that would not fly in my district.

[@addie-eileenpaige6460]

What if something happened to the kid? Then she'd be in even BIGGER trouble!

[@mariamshah338]

@@Mage-mc7mz no this is was a union school…

[@mariamshah338]

@@addie-eileenpaige6460 LITERALLY

[@Mage-mc7mz]

@@mariamshah338 Time for a grievance filing with the union.

[@hallykat6402]

In regards to school medical emergencies & rules: when I was in grade 1 I had slipped on one of the playground equipments & cracked my forehead open. I was left outside one of the exit doors, my head bent slightly foreword to keep the streaming blood off my clothes, while my older sister (in a panic) went inside to the office with my teacher. They were gone for a lot longer then I thought they would be, so I started getting anxious. After I got home from the hospital I found out that the reason I was left alone outside for so long was because the principal saw how panicky my sister was & made her first calm down, then recite the rules to report an accident (one of them being to inform an adult in a calm manner 🙄), & then the principal finally let me sister tell him about my injury & call my mom 😢. I was 6yo, bleeding excessively, in pain, & scared. But who cares about that when the 11 year old sister is panicking 🤦‍♀️? We joke about it now but back then my mom was quite infuriated at the principal’s actions. I don’t blame here 😂

[@LoudLilDucky]

Omg that is horrid

[@HidanoKyoku]

PLEASE tell me your mom berated the principle! 🤣

[@beth8775]

I would probably be forcibly removed from the premises because I rip that principal a new one.

[@addie-eileenpaige6460]

What happened if something did happen to you while you were outside?

[@christiehalsteadjoo7531]

My birthday is in early August. I never had to go to school on my birthday until my senior year when they changed the school calendar. I had feelings about that and my brother, even though he could be a turd at times, tried to do something really sweet. At my lunch hour, he simply tried to bring me a sandwich (maybe cake and a balloon too, I don't remember) because I was pretty bummed. Having never been at school on my birthday, nobody knew it was my birthday. Anyway, my brother had an excellent reputation at the school. He often volunteed to help the teachers after school and he was pretty much loved by all the teachers. But they had a rule that recent graduates weren't allowed to enter school property because they might cause a ruckus. My brother didn't care about anyone but me (except his favorite teachers) and most definitely wouldn't have done anything but try to make me feel happy. But they forbade him from entering. I was envious of the other kids growing up who got birthday parties or presents at school. The one and only chance I ever had was taken from me. I still remember this 23 years later.

[@amberyoung4425]

High heels and getting reprimanded for running in the hall, and the parents always right??!! Geez! These stories are outrageous! Much love to all y'all teachers out there still hanging in there! 💜🥰

[@c.b.barlow]

Stand in my way for a medical emergency, and I'm the responding person in charge...I'll bulldoze you out of the way. Your bruised ego is nothing compared to a minor in need of medical attention. #repremandmelater

[@amberyoung4425]

@@c.b.barlow ABSOLUTELY!! 💜

[@hsbvt]

I definitely want to see more of this Mr. Thomas! If I was made to wear heels in my school, the only thing I would wear them for was if I could use them as a weapon for self-defense...

[@highlord24]

Experienced it! Must wear heels and makeup. Got reprimanded for wearing trousers!

[@hsbvt]

@@highlord24 Wow! That's nuts!

[@js1js135]

1. I love your accent !❤ 2. All of these rules are indeed DUMB, but as a teacher myself, I absolutely believe each one is true!!!!!😂

[@OhSkyeLanta]

Best part is Mr Thomas’ reactions 🤣

[@rachelmcdonough1506]

At my last school, we couldn’t have a cane or other mobility aid without a doctors note. I came in with a cane for my chronic condition and admin screamed “you can’t have that” in my face. Had to limp around for a week before I got the doctors note and was passive aggressively shamed about it at the next admin meeting.

[@susanwright7682]

What possible reason did they have for this rule?

[@LoudLilDucky]

I would have quit then, and that is discrimination, and it is against the law

[@donnadrane4977]

I would have called out sick.

[@rachelmcdonough1506]

@@susanwright7682 I was told it was a “liability thing”. None of the other teachers got why I was upset.

[@susanwright7682]

@@rachelmcdonough1506 that’s just crappy. I hope the admin have been replaced or you’ve found a job that appreciates you. Teaching is so hard, we can’t do it without support

[@Izzy-cp8yt]

The school I was a para at tried to tell our Life Skills (special ed) class that we couldn't make color copies. We're tried to address emotional needs, as well as academic and independent living ones. Color coding is essential to not only making engaging visuals and wworksheets, but making understandable ones.

[@emilyreads5207]

And, those visuals rely on color cues- so many students doesn’t read, but can understand red and green for stop and go or no and yes. (Life skills sped teacher myself). I would have just said we need color copies for our students in order to be in compliance with their IEPs which is a legal document. They can’t argue with that.

[@Izzy-cp8yt]

@@emilyreads5207 oh we still made color copies whenever we needed to, though our classroom teacher also often would just print one copy instead of six (one for each student) and/or have me color a black and white copy. It was a rough year having to get around not printing much in color

[@stephaniewelte5413]

This actually happens. Point out that your paras or you get paid to color.

[@gustav24-7-52]

I was at a school and the school board "discouraged" the teachers from grocery shopping at Piggly Wiggly because it looked bad that college educated and trained teachers were shopping at the "super low-budget" food stamp, poor people's grocery store.

[@bethica-anncontreras]

Piggly Wiggly has good meat!

[@charlenedalrymple7739]

What??? Piggly Wiggly is the best!

[@beth8775]

It looks bad that they don't pay college educated and trained teachers enough to be able afford their groceries!

[@happycook6737]

😔🤯

[@eowyn8340]

Hearing these rules make my school seem like Heaven. Yes, we have some crazy security rules now but at least we’re treated like professionals and my principal is more concerned about the well being of her faculty than being a micromanager.

[@mage3827]

The copies thing happens at my school, teachers borrow copies from each other until they are renewed the next month

[@janmillerstopmotion]

I wear New Balance sneakers in my classroom every day.

[@texasabbott]

Go with New Balance Fresh Foam shoes with wide soles and you will be walking on marshmallow clouds all day long

[@visasmom]

Walking on concrete floors because we were not to sit down is why I had two knee replacements.

[@sshaw4429]

These are true rules for teachers, not kidding. Our principal was so paranoid we were talking about her, she made us start hosting students during our lunch time, instead of having lunch with our team. Which was truly our 15 minutes a day to ourselves. And that included bathroom break. I left after a year.

[@Trinket2022]

👠 heels? I would take that to the Supreme Court!! Lol

[@texasabbott]

Administrators running these schools are wearing a giant sign with these two words: Poor Judgement

[@gigibythesea1133]

I think the two words are 'Power Trip'!

[@maskedmallard537]

Going by the theme here, could also be Petty Tyrant or Pathetic Loser.

[@lynnetrathen4587]

The teachers need to eat together to VENT or they may not make it through their arvo classes 😂😂😂😂

[@cobrag0318]

The copy limit is true. I've heard it from several teachers. And my mother being a paraprofessional also was often tasked with running copies for the teacher(s) she worked with. Had a swiper card and everything for it. And if it wasn't that, they were limited by a copy paper allowance, so many bought their own paper. Let me tell you, so many lessons in kindergarten often necessitated making copies of worksheets. And for every student, that burns through your allotment very quickly.

[@Annie_Annie__]

Yup. My kid’s elementary school had this rule. For all my kid’s teachers we bought them a few reams of copy paper at the beginning of the 2nd semester (along with pencils and Clorox wipes). I hated that they had to buy these things out of their own pocket so we tried to cover what we could. Now that my kid is in middle school and has 8 teachers instead of 2 or 3 it’s a lot harder to help out.

[@Tracey-hg9sj]

Do they think teachers are making copies for their health? It is bad enough they expect teachers to pay for supplies. They also want teachers to pay for extra copies? Ridiculous. I can't believe we have any teachers left.

[@jessemt3]

I'm not a teacher but I do know for a fact the copy rule is a thing! When the Oklahoma teachers walked out a few years ago there was a teacher from my town. I never considered my town to be 'poor' or anything, especially compared to the big city school districts. There was a teacher from my town at the rally be interviewed by the news. She was talking about how she taught I think 11th Grade English. They were given 1 box of paper per semester! So if she got it in January she was completly out in the start of March. She said teahcers would go out and buy paper but the principles had to tell them they couldn't use the copiers. This is because the school leased the printers, the company is who provided each teacher with their box of paper. They DIDN'T want other paper not supplied to be used on the printers. This teacher talked about how she has a class of 35 with 20 books. If she has 5 classes in a day with an average of even 1 student gone in each class she would have to send books home for 5 students. The only option she had was to make copies. This was the most abusrd thing I ever heard and made me glad I didn't end up becoming a teacher! 🙄

[@susanwright7682]

I print almost everything from home. It’s just easier 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@susanjeffay3851]

My school doled out one ream of paper per month per teacher including SpEd teachers who had 20 page IEP reports to print. There was under the table bargaining going on.

[@seithrderash]

I’m a freelance language teacher. I work for a company that places me in a school. For my company i get nothing : no teaching materials, no budget for stuff. From the school i get a (small) budget to by school materials (paper, glue, markers ect - i get the kids with no materials at all) and copies. I need to spend this budget end of school year for the next. I never now how many kids I’ll have (i teach 4 different grades). So half of the budget goes into copies, half into useables and most stuff in my classroom is payed by my salary. I must share this classroom with religion teachers, who also try to use my stuff, convinced it belongs to the classroom. So now it’s all going in boxes with locks. I work parttime and after paying fuel for my car (Europe), i earn less than for unemployment. But I ❤ my job 😊

[@catzenhouse]

We were allowed "x" number of clicks per year. I taught the entire school(s) population so that didn't get me far. I finally started printing my stuff from home. As we only had two printers for the teachers to use, it was easier and less hassle for me. Office Depot and I had a close relationship - I'm sure they are wondering where I am since I rarely go there any more. Retired.

[@krawlb4walking802]

@@susanwright7682 That’s very nice of you. However, it is sad you spend your personal money to do this when special interest groups, lobbyists, and politicians have their wallets filled with the money that could be applied to the education of the children.

[@RealMKproductions]

Being forced to wear heels would literally be a health hazard for me. I’d be protesting so fast!

[@thevalkyrie1477]

We have a rule: Staff cannot make or accept texts or call during class hours. Sorry to my own kids, mommy can't be reached for 8 hours a day.

[@angelahernandez68]

Oh no 😮, when I can’t find my cell phone I ask my students to look for it. We have to have our phone with us at all times. I make calls if I have to and except them as well.

[@gemaster14]

I once worked as an aide at a school where it was against the rules to send a kid home unless they had a fever. One of the kids from my classroom kept vomiting, but aside from sitting in the nurse’s office and sipping water, nothing could be done for them because they didn’t have a fever.

[@addie-eileenpaige6460]

I knew of a school that had that same rule! It's stupid. Not every sickness comes in the form of a fever.

[@marciadarby3]

Heels? That rule is sexist to say the least. Wouldn’t hold up in a court of law.

[@lynnhawkins952]

When I was in college, they were required in clinic. That was in 2010.

[@beth8775]

I would 100% hire a lawyer to challenge it. Can be an ADA violation too.

[@reachandler3655]

Only way I can see that being enforceable is if ALL staff, regardless of gender, haveto wear heels. Of course, even then it might come a foul of disability rights...

[@saraking9002]

I worked at a school where, as the team leader, I was supposed to count out sheets of copy paper to my teachers. Really? Consider it for what it is: a power play.

[@sarahmoviereviewer4109]

2 & more parts please thanks love this

[@NikkiNicole1618]

A rule at my first school was that we could not say the word “fun” during meetings. If we described a student activity or worksheet as fun. The principal would stop us in our tracks. Needless to say, I am no longer teaching there and would NEVER return.

[@reachandler3655]

Because it was not fu... enjoyable?

[@archizona]

Clicked on this as a teacher, and so happy to see your University of Arizona jumper!!!

[@connorinuzuka8319]

At my first schools where I was a student roughly 9-10 years back, these were some of the dumbest rules: Couldn't run to the nurse, no matter what the emergency was. That was real a real fun rule to try and follow when I had just clocked my head on one of those playground structures and probably had a f******g concussion You were only allowed to run on either the grass or the playground. You weren't allowed to run on the mulch You weren't allowed to yell during recess This one was specifically my first grade class: If you were by some miracle allowed by the POS teacher to go to the bathroom, you weren't allowed to take more than five minutes, was sucked, because the nearest bathroom was around 2 minutes away This is probably the absolute dumbest: You weren't allowed to take your art projects home until about a week after you had finished it Whoever set this one has a brain the size of a walnut: You weren't allowed to sharpen your pencil

[@jopalm5756]

We are rarely allowed to eat out on Teacher work days because parents had a hissy that we were not teaching that day. So now, we have to bring lunch or all do one order for our grade and have 1 person go get it and bring it back. Fun! I do love my job and my kids:) The kiddos are the best part of my job. This is my 32nd year and I plan on at least 4 more:)

[@LindaRay-t1q]

Love the University of Arizona shirt! Can't wait for you to get to Tucson.

[@nas10iris]

I've worked at a school with the copy issue. We literally bartered - copies for pencils, etc. I also work at a school where jeans aren't allowed. I just don't get it. Jeans are allowed for kids, shouldn't we be an example of how to wear them??!! Plus, who cares, we're there!

[@keithlightminder3005]

Teach pottery then run a volleyball practice in heels.

[@shuki3488]

I think the rule about staff not eating together is to prevent teachers from venting to one another about the kids. A lot of these rules I am hearing are really stupid but there is a bit of short sighted logic to them. It's like these rules were made up without consideration for what might happen when it gets enforced in the long run.

[@mechengr1731]

Ok, but sometimes you need to vent to coworkers to keep it together. Im not a teach, but I swear, some of the salesman I deal with are worse than children. Their handwriting and math are like children too sometimes You need to talk to coworkers so you can put your professional mask back on sometimes

[@shuki3488]

@@mechengr1731 So true, I took a guess that these rules were designed to prevent teachers from venting based on my experience as an assistant teacher. I used to work for a school that would cater to the parents at every turn. It was a very "customer is always right" type of atmosphere. So, the higher ups would always tell us to watch what we say to one another about the students. They were afraid that a student might walk in and overhear us talking about them. And since we did not have a breakroom at the time and the majority of the staff took their lunch breaks inside their classrooms while the students were away, there was always the occasional student who would walk in on a teacher eating. So, if a student heard we were talking about them negatively then they could go back and tell the parents and we would have a problem on our hands. So, that particular rule just drew up some past negative memories. But OMG I just vented to you 😂 😂. People really do need to vent.

[@ttintagel]

I think it's likely they don't want teachers venting to each other about the administration. It's a classic move management used to keep labor ignorant and compliant.

[@shuki3488]

@@ttintagel oh, like not wanting employees to discuss their pay checks with one another so they don't know how much they are really supposed to be paid. Makes sense.

[@dynamicworlds1]

So...don't talk to each other about students? Sounds like that would cause patterns and problems that would otherwise be noticed to go unnoticed and unaddressed...

[@beerwenchofmaryland6930]

When I was teaching in a Catholic elementary school, I was required to wear long sleeves every day because I had a quote from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland tattooed on my inner forearm. Had I been teaching in an air conditioned classroom, this would have been fine. But to give an example, back to school night was at the end of a day when it had reached 102 degrees Fahrenheit during the day, and by the time the parents filed into my classroom, the temperature inside my room was still at 98 degrees Fahrenheit. I came close to passing out so many times that year, had severe allergic reactions to the cover-up makeup, and had heat rashes for months. The biggest issue-a male teacher was not held to the same standard. He had multiple forearm tattoos and could roll up his sleeves any time.

[@happycook6737]

The UV protective sleeves golfers wear might help. You get a breeze in your armpits vs long sleeves.

[@BiologyBabe]

My school has a strict, “must wear underwear policy,” for teachers because several teachers (including me) have ripped the backs out of their pants playing sports with the kids. And FYI, I was diving to catch a pop fly while playing coed softball with one of my PE classes (I’m at a charter, so we are all expected to be able to teach everything) when mine happened and the back ripped out a FULL FOOT from my pants, breezy day that was. It’s not a dumb rule, but the reason behind it is HILARIOUS 😂

[@sabrinaberry0828]

My MIL is a teacher and yes the copies per year limit is enforced at her elementary and teachers tattle on each other for going over and not paying - it’s so sad

[@ZmsArt]

I’m 6’ tall and a HS ceramics teacher. Firstly I don’t even own heels because I’m so tall and secondly, do you know how slippery ceramics studio floors are?! I would sue that school for unsafe work environment and sexism if I was forced to wear heels

[@addie-eileenpaige6460]

It would be on their hands if a teacher got injured on the job.

[@bethgork7332]

Yep. We have copy limits…in elementary no less!

[@highlord24]

At mine, the only beverage allowed on campus is water. Plain water (no flavouring). No tea, no coffee, no juice. And there are no kettles, coffee machines, vending machines, microwaves, ect anywhere. And the principal will check your bottle at the gate.

[@LoudLilDucky]

Ummm how are you supposed to be awake or handle some of these kids without something other than water? I mean of course no alcohol but I know most teachers need that coffee to get through the day.

[@highlord24]

@@LoudLilDucky You feel my pain! And noone knows why this rule exists! There wasn't an incident or a parent complaint? But nope been in place for as long as my boss has been here (5+ years).

[@LoudLilDucky]

@@highlord24 I am so sorry he he goes away. Soon somebody else comes in another district wants his loveliness.

[@SuperMissblueeyes]

Checking teachers' bottles like their incompetent children is psychological abuse. I wouldn't have it. It's a wonder the principle has any staff left with that sort of behaviour. What else is he/she trying to control?! No, just no.

[@highlord24]

@@LoudLilDucky He's retiring next year! 🤩

[@siamsasean]

I wonder if that last principal has ever seen a nurse wear high heels on duty. (hint; he hasn't)

[@reachandler3655]

Well, not a medical nurse. There may be some 'nurses' in high heels in the sites the principle visits...

[@doveymariedesigns8156]

I want to say as a parent. I want to be contacted no matter what. If my child is acting a fool in the class room, I want to know. I can not help correct behaviors I do not know are happening.

[@happycook6737]

You are as rare as a unicorn. Bless you! ❤️

[@davevanfunk8917]

We had a principal who wanted us to cover the the front of each shelf with little curtains. They weren’t supplied. We had to make them. I made a couple and they looked terrible. She left us alone.

[@TipeneThorner]

Here in Australia they have a "positivity sandwich" rule. If you have to tell a parent something negative, you have to say something positive before and after

[@takkycat]

Positive: Little Timmy is so gifted in how matches work! Negative: Timmy burned down the art studio and band hall. Positive: Timmy is so considerate to making sure there is plenty of natural light to work with! Did I do it right?

[@samwyz69]

I wasn’t allowed to turn my back on the kids to write on the board….

[@angelahernandez68]

Who made that dumb rule???

[@samwyz69]

@@angelahernandez68 - the principal

[@angelahernandez68]

@@samwyz69 What in the French toast kind of rule is that????

[@samwyz69]

@@angelahernandez68 I don’t know. It baffled me too when the principal told me that! I don’t know if she realized how stupid she sounded when she said that. How else was I to write in the board? Of course I ignored her stupidity.

[@addie-eileenpaige6460]

Takes having "eyes in the back of your head" to a new level.

[@dynamicworlds1]

If you see a nurse running and you stop them, you need your head examined.

[@tinabranch321]

In all the Jacksonville Florida schools they had to copy limit also. I mean paper gets jammed ink smears really that’s the way they cut their budget. I was like here ms. Smith I bought you some paper just for you guard it with your life. She did lol

[@addie-eileenpaige6460]

The lunch one reminded me of a rule my elementary school had. We had 20 minutes for lunch & weren't allowed to talk for ten minutes. We had five minutes to talk to each other & another five to clean up after ourselves.

[@alexandrademartini7496]

Eating in separate rooms was a rule we had to contain the spread of Covid. It was recently lifted.

[@carolynshepherd8344]

We were told one year that teachers weren't allowed to have refrigerators or microwaves in the classroom because then the classroom would be teacher-centered and not student-centered.

[@thetrainhopper8992]

My school seems to have a rule about always contacting the parent about anything to do with their students. I’m having an IT problem with a student in our electronic roll book and admin told me to email the parents. What are they going to be able to do? The parents have less access than I do.

[@mikmik9034]

Deary, @2:20 THAT is not a Teacher talking, that is the schools FIRST RESPONDER. Teachers in my schools only Run to get AWAY!

[@johninsalisbury2010]

id tell the principal when the kid dies, he or she will be the one in the news

[@oggiekrstic7171]

3:04 There is a struggle of authority when there shouldn't be. Self defense is not punishable unless it goes too far. You can contradict parents. Everyone is like, "The parents have too much authority. That's why teachers leave after a few years." If a student has some kind of issue, it should be addressed. The parents need to listen.

[@beth_m]

Free copies if you cover my class 🤣

[@susanwright7682]

😂

[@Spiritofeowyn]

A district I worked in it was illegal to block an attack. If a student physically attacked you you couldn’t put your hands up to so much as block your face. Let me tell you these were very rough dangerous places to begin with. I saw that and went NOPE.

[@nachobidness2553]

Our district tried this for a while, until the employee lawsuits piled up.

[@dynamicworlds1]

Illegal to BLOCK?!? That's a whole other level of stupid!

[@ronnas4592]

You ate literally my favorite I love watching you so much you are absolutely hilarious

[@sazfretz1945]

I loved this. This man sounded soooo much like Alan Carr.

[@jennyhammond9261]

Where do I even start? Just, no wonder why everyone is quitting!!

[@GaryLiseo]

The seizure one got me because I used to have seizures. We once got security footage of me having a seizure in the hall and our vice principal running over when he noticed it. We used that to prove to my doctors I was having seizures (first doc didn’t believe I was genuinely having them)

[@katecraig2974]

My first year teaching we had a copy limit. I am a SPED teacher and I kept going over the limit copying IEP drafts for meetings. Teachers that didn't make a lot of copies would "sell" their copy cards to us that did.

[@poo66151]

I don't know if anybody has asked but there needs to be a part two and Mr. Thomas English needs to be the one to do the part two.

[@QE22008]

That face at the end tho lol 🤣

[@michellebloch8970]

The number of times that he just dropped/tossed his phone and rolled his eyes and palm-faced is hilarious! All of these rules are ridiculous. They are only out in place to control people and don’t actually benefit anyone whatsoever 🤦‍♀️

[@HidanoKyoku]

I know they're all dumb, but like, that last one legit made me gasp. That's so awful and dangerous! Do they realize how bad the back problems would be after years of that????

[@leslieyancey5084]

Mandating female teachers to wear heels is such a sexist and also ableist rule! Whoever came up with that rule needs to be forced to wear heels all day one day, so they they can FEEL how stupid and cruel it is!!

[@jadapinkett1656]

It's also illegal.

[@WC-gt6ud]

Teachers are leaving in droves, and administrations/school boards (US and abroad) are coming up with these stupid rules. No wonder no one want to enter the profession.

[@idamoody1554]

Oh my goodness you are so adorable! Lmao

[@SmartMoufShirts]

We had a couple of teachers who chose to wear heels when we were in high school. They didn't do it all the time, but some special days brought them in with proper dress, stockings . All the guys in all of their classes were - let's just say distracted... So teachers in heels will prevent running in the halls, but it's still not a great idea for multiple reasons.and heels

[@florianbooneiam]

3:36 our “xerox allowance” is 500 pages per semester 😂

[@SammyD89]

I remember one of the English teachers I worked with always wore heels. I don't know how she did it. I wore comfy shoes and I don't want to stand up in them all day. I hope she had a second pair of flats to change into. But every time I saw her she had on heels. Unless it was snowing or ice she had the heels.

[@ttintagel]

I've known women who wore heels so long that they were uncomfortable in flats because their tendons got used to being in that position. I knew one lady who wore high-heeled slippers around the house.

[@factsmatter8449]

You are wonderfully Funny❤❤❤❤❤😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Primalxbeast]

Women have to wear heels while standing on their feet all day? Is that a rule from the 50s? Heels destroy feet. I don't even get why other women wear them when dressing up for stuff.

[@byohazrd13]

Bear Down Arizona! Nice jacket! Those are some stupid rules.

[@HeronCoyote1234]

The one about female teachers only allowed to wear heels made me so angry! What next? Mini skirts and no bras??!

[@nancyroberts8749]

I entered school in 1960. I never once saw anyone wearing hi heels at school!!!

[@zouhair2388]

You absolutely right,the ones who makes rules, themselves need to go back to school,it runs by crooks

[@Lugh314]

"GOOD NEWS! ... you are going to save SO much money on college tuition! Oh no, he didn't get a scholarship; he's just too dumb to get in!"

[@SavannahSedai]

Where on earth is number one from? So I gotta keep a kid with a 102 fever? Lol

[@missyeli6449]

4:01 All teachers in Peru.

[@shelteredsparrow2736]

Wow! No surprise my daughter is home schooling

[@bcb7443]

Precious children…they never do anything wrong and can do whatever’s they want. Teachers teach subjects not babysit children!

[@Sam-nx5ch]

I have taught at several schools with the same copy limits and policies. I am a trans man and have taught at several schools where the admin tried real hard to get me to wear long hair and dresses.

[@jadapinkett1656]

I can agree to that rule...

[@n.n.7668]

😂 I'm sorry, but my head just went long, blond wig and tacky dress with exposed hairy legs. I know a couple of colleagues (cis-male, really tall) who would come to school like that the minute someone would expect anything the like.

[@EveryLilPiece]

A thread… I’ve unfortunately worked in a few different districts with awful admin that have made ridiculous rules. There is a reason why these districts had high turnover and so many teachers left each year. 1 high school: I was not allowed to mark students tardy no matter how late they showed up to my class because, according to my admin, I was a female and the students respect the rules like they did with male teachers (even though the rules were the same). I had to pass all of the seniors in an environmental science class because it was for kids that couldn’t pass any other science even if they refused to complete any work or participate at all because the school did not want them to repeat the year or go to summer school. I once got in trouble because during a fire drill I didn’t report a student absent that they had purposefully kept in the office and when I pointed out that student wasn’t in my class during the drill but was actually in a male teacher’s class they opted to not speak with him.

[@EveryLilPiece]

2 middle school: About 10 years ago… let me start by saying all of the teachers were scared of her and were all actively looking for jobs even outside of teaching to be away from her to the point they would ask anywhere they applied to not to contact her unless they were offered a job for fear of retaliation if she found out they were trying to leave. A group of students knew I liked Harry Potter and asked if we could have an after school reading program. I told them to create a presentation to show to admin and I would do it if she approved. She did approve and we started getting volunteers. It was a low income school and a good portion of students went home alone because they lived with single parents. So, one of the rules to participate was they had to have all their schoolwork complete or they could use this after school time to get help. We had a lot of parents volunteer to either help with homework or donate supplies so we could do some crafts that tie in with the books. Everything was organized and we had just a couple of meetings. Then one morning, literally seconds before our staff pictures my admin told me the after school reading club was canceled because someone complained that the three books promoted witchcraft. So, my face was red and you could tell I had been crying in the picture. I later found out that was a lie and she canceled it because she only approved it thinking it would be a flop and was jealous it was successful. After she canceled the club came rest of the nightmare. She once wrote me up because I was wearing tennis shoes that had some white on them so she deemed them unprofessional and said we needed to wear black or brown shoes. Everyone wore “casual” shoes we lived in an area with a lot of snow. Her godson was a teacher there and he wore a tshirt, baseball hat, shorts or sweatpants, and red tennis shoes but it was okay because he needed to be comfortable. She made us use our preps for team meetings that were a joke. One teacher just brought papers to grade. One (our team lead) brought a laptop to watch ESPN. The other teacher and I were the only ones that completed the agenda. She made me host lunch detention every day and give up my contracted lunch time for my team because the others just didn’t want to do it. I taught 7th grade and when I was hired was told they did not have any prior science experience because it wasn’t taught at elementary and the 6th grade science teacher did nothing (actually he was arrested the year I was teaching because of pictures he had on his home computer). Their first state test for science is 7th grade and the school normally scores incredibly low and I was written up because my students also scored low (even though the percent was significantly higher than it had ever been) and they are tested on all areas of science and not just life science which is what I taught. The year before our state did a 1-time pay for performance money that was given to teachers and admin that meet certain criteria. This school magically received the money. The teachers had to decide how to portion it out the year prior and had to make teams… the teams were each grade level and the admin (she was on all the teams so if they all got it she literally got 3 times as much). At a staff meeting she told us that she rigged it so they would receive the money. On one test from the school, she manually went in and changed student answers so they scored higher. For the state test, she proctored all tests. Apparently she told the students if they didn’t know the answer to raise their hand and when they moved the mouse over the correct answer she would pat their shoulder. Not only did she commit fraud against the state because they didn’t really earn the pfp money, but the students did so well on the test (the school is normally bottom 5% of the state) that the year I was there the state sent out officials to see how we were proctoring tests (we did it the right way that year and scores went back down) and they wanted to interview teachers but she said they could only interview teachers during their prep and conveniently took them out to lunch during our team’s prep when several of us were willing to talk to them. She also threatened that if any of us spoke she would do everything in her power to make sure we never worked in this field again. I quit after that year and several years later found out she was under investigation by the school because there were several reports of students attacking other students among other things and she did nothing about them. She was given the option (which was too kind in my opinion) to either retire early or be fired and have all of this left in her file. She retired.

[@EveryLilPiece]

3 elementary school: I got hired as a 4th/5th grade combo teacher just after the school year had started because their numbers were so high. It was in yet another low income district and there wasn’t really any common curriculum. Teachers just used whatever they could find. We had another admin that was just power hungry and did the most ridiculous things. We were not allowed to teach spelling because kids could just use spellcheck when they got older (we didn’t even have enough chromebooks for a class set but had about 1 for every 3 students so most of our work was on paper. We weren’t allowed to apply for grants because she think we needed the money. Again, low income school and the levies failed year after year. If a teacher went behind her back and actually won one, she would yell at them at the next staff meeting in front of everyone for disobeying her orders. After telling her that I would be applying for grants and teaching my students spelling, she made me (and only me) turn in weekly lesson plans to see that I didn’t have spelling listed in them. (Because teachers follow their lesson plans exactly as written…) I also was the only one not allowed to cover the window on my door like all other teachers were instructed to do for safety because she wanted to be able to look in any time to see if I was teaching spelling. I covered it anyway… I was not allowed to talk to another 4th grade teacher because she didn’t actually want to hire that teacher and the school board forced her to (at this time the admin liked me). We were all suppose to ignore her. I spoke to her anyway. I was not allowed to teach math using Fosnot like the other teachers because she wanted me to try Engage NY to see if it was better (we had no math curriculum and the state came in and gave us Fosnot and the state’s regional math specialist to help with it). This district is also bottom 5% of the state for testing… We had just a small blacktop playground and whole teams had duty each week. We were not allowed to stand by another teacher on duty because we might talk bad about the admin. At an evening concert, a group of little kids 5 and under were playing in the hallway where they wouldn’t disturb anyone. She left the concert area and locked those little kids out because she thought they were laughing too much. So after the concert, several parents went out to find their children crying because she wouldn’t let them go inside to their parents. We had metal chairs that were brought out for things like assemblies and whatnot. They were stacked upside on these hooks -4 stacks on each side and we had 3 or 4 off these to stack chairs on. It was simple to do and the kids always helped to put them away. Well, after she found out they weren’t renewing her contract, she got even crazier. After one play during the school day, our classes were helping put away the chairs. She started yelling at the students (in front of parents) saying they were doing it wrong. A 5th grade teacher was at one of the stacks and students were handing her chairs to put on. Admin ran over there and pushed the teacher in front of kids and parents. Admin then yelled at her and said she was doing it wrong (again, it was easy and she wasn’t). Admin then grabbed a chair out of an elderly woman’s hands and she almost fell over (she was using the chair as her cane to help bring it over and had her real cane hanging on her arm). She threw a telephone at a student. She typically started yelling at kids in the morning so there were easily 5 or more crying at the start of school (this school was grades K-8). In my evaluation at the end of the year, she claimed that she never saw certain domains so she could mark them down. In my rebuttal, I pointed out that she marked seeing it 8 times in one 40 minute observation (so an average of once every 5 minutes) that was documented by her and sent to me after the observation ended. Teachers were actively looking for jobs throughout the year. This district was (back then and even more) in turmoil. They had school board members actively campaign against the school levy. Negotiations never finished and we literally did not sign our contracts for that school year until after the year was over because they couldn’t meet long enough with our negotiations teachers to settle on a contract. They would frequently walk out of meetings within the first 5 minutes or just put a hat over their eyes, lean back in a chair, and pretend to sleep. After that school year, there were enough complaints from the parents about what admin was doing to their kids (the district office and school board didn’t care how she treated teachers) that she was originally not issued another contract. However, she threatened to sue so they gave a new do-nothing job sitting at the district office and she was not allowed to have any contact with parents, students, or teachers. She was called the reading liaison and was paid over $100k for sitting in a room and doing nothing if she agreed to retire after that.

[@EveryLilPiece]

My mom had a vastly different experience. While there were some rough times, she taught in a really good district. She retired after teaching for 40 years with the same school and for the most part the same grade level. They were a high achieving district and their schools were National Blue Ribbon schools. They had lots of parent and community support and involvement. They tried the “limit your copies” thing once. They gave each teacher a code to use so they could monitor usage, but they never actually prevented them from making copies. However, one copier was in the front office and the office lady had posted all the codes next to the teachers’ names so kids could make copies for teachers (it was a preK-6th grade school). She also included the office code on this list. So, once the teachers noticed they all started using the office code so the copies wouldn’t count for them. They did this for about 2 years before just doing away with the whole code thing saying it was just inconvenient. My mom would tell me stories of things that happened back in the day. Before FMLA, she had me and I had to have an eye surgery when I was 6 months old. We lived in a rural town and this surgery was going to happen over 3 hours away. My mom asked for the time off and her admin told her no because they didn’t want to get a sub. My mom told him she was going to be gone whether they got a sub or not (this was the 80s) because she was taking her 6 month to have surgery. She also told them that if they could find a sub for a male teacher to take a 2-week honeymoon to Hawaii that same year then they were going to find her a sub for 2 days for this. They found her a sub. Every year (even when I was little), the kids in grades K-4 would go a big play production put on by a university 2 hours away. It was tradition and something everyone looked forward to. In the early 90s, one of the 3rd grade teachers told admin that K-2 didn’t need to go and they could save money on it because those kids don’t really remember anything anyway. So, admin said that was a good idea and K-2 were told they wouldn’t get to go that year. My mom went to the admin and asked why. He explained what the other teacher said and that he agreed with him. My mom then said why am I here then? Why are the kids here then? Admin looked confused. She said well if these kids don’t remember anything until 3rd grade then why are any of them here before then? He took a moment and then changed his mind. They were all allowed to attend the play.

[@invisibleninja86]

Heels being required in any workplace is ridiculous and a health/safety issue. Also, as a Traci, I feel really called out by this video. Are Tracys the Karens of England or something? Haha

[@mariekatherine5238]

I would make them fire me for wearing flats, or sue after I was injured from wearing heels.

[@Aluapay]

I know some of those rules.

[@chrisoulalakkas8968]

Dating someone that believes in you is so important.

[@anniewarbucks9697]

Teachers were not allowed to converse in rooms with the door shut. FCPS 2008/2009 RVES

[@hamilahali7216]

Stop the Cap 😲-OMG! As a teacher in SoCal public schools for 20 years who became an AP/VP two years ago, I cannot believe these rules exist (though I've heard of them). Trust, neither the principal or I have any such rules and I cannot see either of us using brain space to think, say, or enforce such.

[@angelinbenita5045]

Now imagine a school having ALL the dumbest rules in this video (except the rule to wear heels, because in my school you have to make yourself look ugly...a female run school) plus you have to give resources material for a chapter specifically and strictly in 1 A4 sheet or less . How am I supposed to cover a science chapter in 1 A4 sheet!???? How can be science taught in 1 or half a sheet of paper???? Also you cannot talk to male teachers. Aaand if you live near by the school ( within 20km radius acc. to them 20 km is near) you have to stay 1hr longer in school after the kids and teachers coming from Far away places go home!.

[@angelinbenita5045]

Also I forgot to mention that we have to "SUBMIT" our phones in the reception once entering and you can only get it back when you're going home . If you need to use the phone inbetween for anything..you have to get permission from the principal and get her signature in the "Mobile Permission Register". Without the signature in the register they won't give your phone!

[@lrowe272]

😆 LOL, hilarious

[@yourimaginaryfriend9075]

Those rules sound invented by my retired supertendent Robin Spears wouLd enforce.

[@thaintriguing1]

How about enabling rules for students but never enforcing them; well that’s what’s going on at my workplace 🙄🤦🏾‍♂️

[@ljohnson9714]

We were expected to wear pantyhose if we wore shorts - a matching top and long shorts - during the hottest days of the school year. I don't think the school was air conditioned and it was Virginia. I think I was also seven months pregnant. I had to explain to the male principal about yeast infections. I think the pantyhose policy changed pretty quickly after that.

[@canadagirl408]

How are you supposed be on the same page with your grade level teams if you can't talk curriculum and units for more than 5 minutes?

[@serinachilders74]

Worked in a public school for 6 years, the higher you go the dumber they get. Head of food and nutrition got the job because she was good at the Head part.

[@angelstuff7608]

i know that this isnt really the theme of the video, but this one time in my sisters teacher parents conference a girls mom said "the questions in the History workbook are so hard that even I couldn't solve them". Imagine being a grown up woman and not being able to answer a fifth grade History question..

[@ttintagel]

Also, if my own education had let me down to the point where I couldn't answer the questions in my ten-year-old child's textbook, I would WANT my child to have a better education than I had!

[@revhyra9328]

The stupid rule is not allowing to go to the bathroom, need to give a reason, and if you need to go again, you won't be allowed to. You're supposed to go during recess.