Things That Give Teachers The Icks - From Gross to Gruesome

[@mkeegan3205]

I just finished watching the podcast. One of my favorite things was on the first day of kindergarten when one of the dads who came to pick up his son recognized me as his kindergarten teacher! He ran into the room shouting “I knew it was you! I knew it was you!” He came over and gave me a big hug , and said to the other parents that I had been his kindergarten teacher. His son was a sweet boy, who looked just like his dad.

[@authenticallyadhdwithcarme2203]

As a PREK teacher, Tell knows that the ICK is REAL. My least favorite ICK is teachers acting like they are in highschool and cliquing up; spreading rumors/personal business/favoritism, ESPECIALLY in front of the kids.

[@EveFields]

Bus drivers do this it drives me nuts

[@ashleewilson1714]

Me too !!!! I strongly dislike when they do that. Then get mad when you don’t want to be apart of the foolishness

[@nephewater418]

No bc literally I had this US Govt teacher who I had for freshmen year and who didnt like me for some reason and he's always looking at me disgusted like i did something. and ive heard he always talks abt me. and then a few days ago, i was literally walking down the hall minding my own business and he was talking to the other teachers and then he saw me and he was like "look its the weirdo" like do u have anything better to do?

[@Thu_Gringatoriana_593]

The fear of vomit, vomiting yourself or seeing others vomit is Emetophobia

[@lauraplunk6533]

My biggest ick is when admin sends an email getting on to the entire staff instead of addressing the issue with the one or two people that are the actual offenders.

[@lisamendes6778]

I agree 100%! That is one of my biggest pet peeves.

[@kellytaylor1282]

Just causes rumors too because now everyone is talking about who it could be.

[@robbiesanford4279]

Or they make us go to a hour long meeting that could have been a email

[@Atos0520]

FACTS. Those emails suck cause you know you didn't do it, but now you know someone did...

[@danielleadamski9842]

When I was teaching music, I was in a classroom and told a kid to move to purple (move their clip up) and the poor kid was so used to moving their clip down that they almost put it on yellow. Luckily, I was watching and ready to go a group “whoop-whoop!” and helped him move it to purple. I got rid of my clip chart in my 1st grade classroom last year and was excited to throw it in the garbage where it belonged.

[@francinesnyder7285]

My ick is teachers who seldom give subs a compliment. I grade papers during plan time, always try hard to get the work done, and carry plans in my bag for teachers who don't leave lesson plans. Kudos to teachers who leave good ,clear plans.

[@joseluisherreralepron9987]

When I worked in our school's Freshmen Academy we used to joke about how cheap the TP and paper towels were..."the TP won't tear, and the paper towels tear too easily." Those brown towels are like unprocessed wood pulp, splinters and all.

[@katiehanson6253]

Did you work in Jenks America...sounds too familiar?!!!

[@thebrotato642]

The reaction of the other cast at the missed fist bump moment was both super sweet but hilarious seeing Gabe be super petty afterwards 🤣

[@vicentemorua4517]

I would like to give an ick and a yas (what I call a non-ick): 1. Ick - Teachers not supporting other teachers. Most of the things you described would be more bearable if your colleagues were supportive, but if they aren’t, it makes life in the classroom impossible. 2. Yas - when the students do something unexpected that brightens your day. I was dealing with a death in the family and unbearably sick last year at the same time. When I got back, my students came together and bought me a care package with treats, and Harry Potter mug, and gel pens! They also wrote a note that was so encouraging. They did it without any prompting from anyone else.

[@ryangriffith4873]

My biggest ick as a student is the fact that my school is implementing an electronic hall pass where no more than three boys and three girls can go to the bathroom at one time... for the entire school.

[@bryankia]

You fine folks are great to listen to. I remember back when I taught and it is good to know the more things change the more they stay the same. As an admin at the the HS level I appreciate your take and honesty. I hope you all work with teams you can be this honest with. Best wishes from the dark side. PS. Control of you rooms temp is no joke!!!

[@saraschlichenmayer5505]

Head Start teacher here: When your supervisor jumps to conclusions over an issue that never existed in the first place. Non-ick: When every single one of your students run up to you first thing when they get to school and have to give you a hug first thing!

[@HalesBee92]

On the ICK as a student, my brother was in the gifted program and they tested me almost every year from kindergarten to like third grade to see if I was gifted too. It made me feel stupid compared to him.

[@cassiewood5653]

Same boat, I was well below grade level too 😢

[@TiffanyFahy]

I teach young preschool (3 year olds). A physical ICK for me is when kids pick their nose then eat their boogers, or lick their snot instead of getting a tissue 🤢 A mental/emotional ICK would have to be spending a ton of time on sub plans and then nothing getting done. Like, why did I even bother prepping all of these materials??

[@emilyboller7588]

The head janitor at my husband's school decided he was going to do his part in helping the district save money by having the building's AC turn off at noon. School dismissed at 2:40 and it was miserably hot by the time school got out. By the time my husband's afterschool clubs finished, it was so hot it was hard to breathe. I should probably mention that he's a Network Security and Information Technology instructor and has 30 computers in his room that run all day long. He begged them for two years to keep the AC on because his room would be over 90 degrees by the end of the day. It wasn't until he reminded the district that the building's computer servers were housed in a closet in the back of his room, they must be kept cool, and would cost tens of thousands of dollars to replace should they overheat that they finally decided it wasn't worth the savings to keep shutting the AC off at noon. His building is the newest building in the district (built almost 20 years ago) and was built without windows that open in the classrooms because it's fully air conditioned (unlike the other buildings in the district), so opening a window wasn't an option.

[@janetmcalmond4479]

I had an ick when I was in middle school. One of the aids on staff thought that it was ok to share my personal information with another STUDENT! I was mortified and honestly kind of hurt. I really liked and respected the aid before that and ended up having to defend myself from a verbal attack from a classmate because an aid opened her mouth and was talking about my mental diagnosis with this other student.

[@feedthewolvesmusic]

“..you talkin bout the sour punch straws?” TOOK ME OUT 💀😂

[@Idontwant1]

I had to laugh at the handkerchief part. My Dad carried a handkerchief from as early back as I can remember. He had a job that his hands got dirty. And finally after ruining the nice white handkerchiefs, my Mom started getting him dark colored handkerchiefs . And I remember laughing about it. Thinking how gross it was he snotted in it and then stuck it back in his pocket. And plus with the dark color of the square of fabric the snot showed up well. But also dirty finger prints didn’t show up either.

[@katiejenkins8767]

I DEFINITELY didnt want to experience the supressed memory of the chocolate body spray scent around the lockers room…. I just forgot all about it lol.

[@calebl6586]

To be fair I think AP classes are super needed although the elitism is fucked up. I genuinely think educational standards are much lower than what students of high school ages can handle (but that’s a different convo). I would have been so terribly bored in regular classes. Like I had a friend who was having mental health issues and failed honors English 2 and had to do regular English 3 and she was venting to me about how they’d spent over a month writing a one page essay about patriotism. On the other hand I had an AP history teacher that told our class that we were all going to college and the kids across the hall (regular history) would be doing manual labor and I did think that was incredibly fucked up to say

[@reeselipe6553]

At recital last year, a group of girls decided that spraying their Bath and Bodyworks spray in the small dressing room with a girl that’s extremely asthmatic was a good idea and even after asking them multiple times not to apply spray on deodorant or to use Bath and Bodyworks they continue to do it, causing the girl to have a major asthma attack when all of them had a stick deodorant in their bag also because it’s a requirement.

[@AylinRise]

31:37 My social studies teacher once was talking about another teacher (Who happens to be my advisory teacher) and was saying that she was apparently yelling the f word at student in the halls because they were running.

[@7200sunshine]

Lunch in the classroom, you gotta put that trash can in the hall! Don't leave that in the room for the rest of the day!!! 😂😂😂

[@DW-lv1zr]

On BUSSES! when kids puts their MOUTHS on top of the BUS seats in front of them ICK ICK ICK ICK it makes me physically gag

[@christinelempin6240]

Teaching pre k for 27 years I had soo many iks but especially the nap time farts and poop accidents . 🥴 Tell would agree 🤮. But also I was asked to coodle the parents - 😮 HUGE ik for me . Appreciate the content this week . You guys ROCK.❤❤

[@yikesgina]

Coddling parents is so hard but they’ll learn down the road

[@kristicollett7887]

Tell, I couldn't read in second grade, but could spell any word in the dictionary... I get it man. I truly do. Until I gave birth to my son I read at a 9th grade level... after I had him, I placed out of all college English classes. Suddenly, it just. made. sense.

[@charmedforlife165]

I'm a science student, You can make biodegradable plastic out of starch.

[@froggybovgy2879]

So I'm a student in middle school, and the biggest ick that I had was about like gun violence. Because a treat went trough on snap for the highschool and my school was a part of it. So we went on a semi lockdolockdown and the internet was down too. Then at the end of the day we found out it was a fake threat... That was such an ick

[@MsAmandalynn]

My 6th grade history teacher first day said if you have to throw up. Get up, grab the trash by the door and just leave.. that was back in 2002.. I hope mr Thomas is enjoying his retirement

[@blugreen123]

When I was a Sped Para, I hated dealing with vomit or snot/drool/spit. I could handle blood and change the gnarliest diaper blow outs, but vomit was 🤢. The last classroom I worked in was next to the door to the outside, and would get so humid that the floor would become slippery, which is a falling hazard. 😬

[@melanyxace]

ick: Student snot pro: student draws you a picture

[@normajeanhofius1545]

OMG when i was in 7th grade two girls brought FART SPRAY in class and sprayed it in class, the windows wouldnt open. we had three girl puke and we had to be EVACUATED!!!!!!!!!!!

[@eanoworro1028]

Anybody seen the Mood THC ad with Lauran in it?

[@CatherineHoellrich]

10:25 one of my teachers actually got a migraine from the smell in her classroom she could not teach

[@Kenzi24]

I have emetophobia which is the fear of puking or seeing/hearing someone else do it. I also had a high school English teacher who would tell everyone on the first day that she had emetophobia and to just run out if you feel sick and don't even ask lol. It sucks though. It's gotten desensitized the older I get and the more I experience it

[@Swe231]

My school district made national news during the last major cold front because the units were not working properly and people called the local news station. The temperature was in the 30's in some of the schools.

[@LL-yl6jk]

As a student my biggest ick is when a teacher writes up a student for something unreasonable. Ie they asked a student a question (about what they were doing) during a time that they are supposed to be quite. We’re always told at my school to try to get help from a student before asking a teacher yet some teachers will write kids up for it

[@girlsquad2528]

Im still a student but in my 5th grade year, the teachers only sent out one student at a time and then a new rule came out saying that after the fifth grade lunch everyday the bathrooms got closed down so nobody could go. I HATED it. Cause our lunch was like, 1-2 hours away from the end of the day. We had to go but the teacher said we couldmt unless we wanted to walk all the way down to the nurse's office (whicj was at the front, we were at the back) and go to the bathroom.

[@i_luv_BMX_162]

As a middle school my icks are when my classmates won't stop talking and the teacher gets so annoyed the get overwhelmed. And a non ick is having a goofy relationship with a teacher

[@corylee88]

I had a friend still in HS after I graduated and I was trying to be badass by bringing him fast food. They made him eat that food in the office so the other students didn't see it 😅

[@journieslegoworld5693]

My social science teacher used to publicly shame us if we were on sites we weren’t supposed to and lots of the kids had to go to the dean about it

[@thomasbrown7821]

Student Ick!!! When a teacher says,” Here is a quick assignment.” And then continues to hand me a 15 page assignment

[@katier997]

When admins send mass emails or have an entire meeting for all staff for one person mistake.

[@trollgirllol3271]

ngl i was watting for this to come out for the past 25 mins

[@MrsMoore1]

The Walmart/ Target reference when discussing Kahoot/ Blooket….😭😭😭😭😭

[@angiesewtherapy6628]

Not giving a pen back is terrible edicate. I'm in a choir, and some never bring a pencil (required because we mark things that may need to be later erased). Someone borrowers my pencil because I always bring two and they don't give it back. I'm like hum.... same with pens. During VBS, someone borrowed a pen and walked off. Bless her heart, she returned it 2 hours later. I love that! It was a good pen, too.

[@mmmmsashimi]

gabe needs to put on a pair of goodr glasses when he does the goodr garbage segment. lol

[@tori95721]

When the Non-icks outweigh the icks, that's when you know your in the right profession. 😊

[@MarisaPresley]

The fact that Lauran and bri didn’t know what a caprisun was is just so funny. Totally understand the ick for them tho.

[@amivineyard5390]

As a kinder teacher one major ick for me is when a student puts their shoe strings in their mouth while they sit on the carpet in whole group and then at the end they ask me to tie their shoes for them…ick!

[@samanthashenk9240]

Ick - When other adults interrupt your class to borrow students for a project when they haven’t asked you if that’s ok first.

[@skatersurfersnowboarder3545]

It was really gross but absolutely hilarious and arguably creative; me and my friends had a snorting contest in school. We stuck the straw in our nose and would suck our drink up in a game of chicken and you see it rise up and let it fall in the clear straw before it goes in. And hype eachother up to actually sniff it up. Worst one was the lemonade up the nose lmfao

[@DW-lv1zr]

disruptive students returning from the principals office, the PRINCIPAL, loudly and sloppily eating a bag of DORITOS, dropped off with HIGH FIVE, kid comes in, now the whole class wants to be sent to the principals office!!

[@Bentley_Simpson]

Yet after all these ick’s teachers are still here giving it their all. We need to appreciate them more.

[@rejoice37]

Y’all brought me back to elementary with the nasty concoctions and then I started dry heaving ugh y do kids have to be so nasty

[@yikesgina]

Because they’re learning and growing. They’ll get there.

[@Atos0520]

I was a prek teacher for 4 months and it was the most rewarding experience. However, many of the teachers believed since the kids were so young that they wouldn't remember what was said around them. Some of the things the teachers said about a kid *infront* of that kid... I totally understand needed to talk about them, but it should always be to try and help the kids, not just vent. I swear that place was one of the most toxic places I worked with teacher cliques and the trash teachers would say behind eachothers back.... Teaching college ain't that much better, but at least the standards aren't what they are in the public education, K-12 system

[@VGenvLove]

for my school we have 2 bathroom breaks a day keep in mind we have 7 classes, so if we have to use the bathroom outside of those bathroom breaks we have to use a emergency bathroom pass that we only have 4 of those emergency passes a semester and if we fill up those passes we get a tracking signature.

[@Natalie-pr4ud]

My mom is a former jr high and high schoole teacher and she loved the kids. She said she had to get out because of the parents. The kids were great but the parents would ask questions that the kids should be asking. And the parents would always complained about the littlest things that she as a teacher could not control.

[@Buddy0627]

I love Gabe 🤣🤣

[@rachaelcorkrean9308]

So for a special-needs classroom, we have a dog there, Labrador retriever and so I am dyslexic so when I was leaving my special ed class, what happened was the lady who owns the dog a special-needs dogs dog walks out and then comes back in after the dog went to the bathroom, and the dog digs a hard pot. Pause stares at the boys, bathroom and barks. A boy came out, and it smelled like ax body spray in the hallway.

[@LifeOfCandice]

Or I’m sweating through my . . . Me: “balls” Him: pants Me: well I’m nature 🙊🙊😂😂

[@RemusHinata]

Hey y'all, factory workers regularly also have the no-ac issue. Their union leaders (if they even have one) can't/ won't get with the head honchos to update or install something better than a fan. People I know have to work in swampass conditions from May to Nov. and I don't know if it's bc OSHA looks the other way or what. :(

[@iKatieUndead]

I didnt put gum under the desk but when a teacher yelled at me infront of everyone (idk I think she called on me and realized I zoned out for a minute) I did chew a bunch of gum and leave it on a teachers seat right before lunch knowing she would be eating the food in her room. I hope she found some empathy after ranting at me infront of 20+ other kids i was in tears bc i felt so embarrassed. I was generally a good student, I think they were adjusting my medication and that's just how ADHD is. Former student, teachers without empathy are my ICK. Don't bully your students.

[@cassiewood5653]

At my school we call the opposite of "trigger" a "sparkle" Some of the best (primary) teacher sparkles: Silly dress up days Sitting and coloring with kids Getting letters in the mail from past students When the kids get in to a read aloud Closing the book at the end and having the kids at such rapt attention that they just sit there for a second like 😮 Accidental phallic artwork Accidental naughty spelling Getting to brag to parents about their kids, especially if their kids are "tough" Getting to learn all about their niche intrests, dinosaurs, eagles, greek mythology So many more

[@MrGoodieGrammar]

I love this podcast. I want to be on it so much! 😊

[@rebeccaernette1749]

As a AP student, those classes are hard and I respect anyone who takes them

[@diZZybomb6789]

In first grade we had a chart with our names and a pocket with 4 colored cards: green, yellow, red and blue. Green means good and blue meant the worst. Most bad kids would only get to yellow, rarely red. But this one kid Bobby went to blue one day and we were all like ooooooomg. RIP Bobby

[@SkarlettLetter]

My senior year government teacher could care less about teaching. I couldn’t tell you anything I learned cause I didn’t. Our tests and quizzes we were having our study guides with us. And the study guides we just filled in blanks by following it on the board. And we were always done like 30-45 minutes early. And we just did nothing the whole time. Like… while it was made an easy class to pass. But it would had been nice to be able to remember material we were taught. And I don’t. Cause we weren’t.

[@BillyAndMandy]

gabe and i being the same age is crazy bc axe chocolate came out when i was in middle school 😭😭

[@katcalico9142]

Yes with the girl being hot one and the man being cold - lol my guy is also a car guy. Love you guys - I feel the getting sweaty! Between my dog and my man, I am always waking up too warm and half off the bed! Life is good when the thermostat is a major point of conflict!!!

[@chase2101]

I felt 34:58 because I heard a teacher talk about me but I found out because of my friends and it wasn’t even true😭

[@AndiSchneider]

When I was in school they would make you take a tardy to go to the bathroom. It wasn’t right because our school was huge, we had five minutes to get from one class to another, and to make things even more difficult they would lock all the girl’s bathrooms that weren’t the commons area because of smoking. If you already had two tardies to that class you would have to either hold it or take a two hour detention to go to the bathroom. It wasn’t fair at all!

[@sis32188]

I can assure you, not all businesses care. Our building at the store I work in has been between 80-90 all summer. No AC.

[@Lilsnotsoreal]

I was in 2nd grade (7th grade now) but my teacher got mad bc my table did sm dumb I don’t remember but if you got on red or orange you had to walk laps but I got on yellow and my 2nd grade Brain thought on had to walk laps and then my teacher came over and told me I did not have to walk laps and I cried for the rest of recess

[@jputman123]

Never allow a veteran teacher or administrator talk down to you in front of your kids. If an admin has questions, redirect and tell them your planning period and state it is educational time. Veteran teachers stop them immediatley and redirect.

[@palomareyes1650]

I honestly thought the teachers off duty logo was painted on the foam panels until I saw tell raise his hand 😅

[@lizzymae6401]

Not me over here like, my apartment is always 85°+ cus of no A.C and I have to sleep in that 😅😂😂😂💀 and at work, I be sweating so much it stings my eyes and it looks like I just stepped out the shower...I work for a big chain grocery store, they don't give a crap about if we're "comfortable"

[@mst675]

Ngl, ticky-tack, Play-Doh, and Wikki-Stix have always been MAJOR icks for me! And it's sad because I'm a PreK teacher 😁😅

[@michelecouncell9840]

My biggest ick was when the teachers gave my child a pass that thry could only go to the bathroom 6 times for a quarter and if you ran out of passes you couldn't go.

[@tori95721]

Was anyone else playing the "Teacher said, Kid said" game? Lol

[@britneydiamond8896]

I completely bombed an interview because my mind blanked when the principal asked me how I would discipline a child in my classroom. This is my first year teaching and I did not go to school for education. When my mind blanked and I didn't have an answer I told a story about how I was disciplined in elementary school because I had a bad attitude. They made me wear a hat that had the word stinky on it because my attitude was stinky 😂. I knew that I didn't get that position before I even walked out of her office. I was so bummed. You better bet that I made sure that I could answer properly the next time that question was asked 😅

[@DW-lv1zr]

ICKS SECOND GRADE! little bits of soggy brown paper towels stuck in random places in the sink! I gagged every time I wiped it out bc I couldnt Stand the thought of it being there all day. Eventually ‘clean sink’ was as important as clean(ish) floor, desks etc before leaving the classroom for lunch or dismissal etc. 🤢

[@lilyonyx9353]

My mom has been a culinary teacher for 6 years her sick is chewing loudly like omgggggg it really grosses her out

[@lauren4092]

I think this video is amazing 😊

[@saundrawimberley2777]

My biggest ick made my colleague throw up. A little girl found a used tampon on the floor in the bathroom and walked out into the hall to me and handed it to me. Yes. I put my hand out and took it before realizing what it was. 🤢

[@crypticghost21]

17:17 I love he British accent ❤

[@kgarcia1194]

My son just started 5th grade and I told his home room teacher that he’s a sped student so he will get pulled and she flat out told me no I won’t allow it bc we have stat testing for science so she won’t allow him to get pulled for his sped program

[@svnnahtafireyi]

omg handkerchiefing with a tissue is literally a crime and they have the audacity to look at it 🤮🤮🤮

[@ceyceyyumi9535]

Taught toddler to fifth grade for 10 yrs, being puked on/pooped on are daily icks. But a really big ick is kids bringing in slime and playing with it; the sound and the smell make me 🤢

[@MrMarohlsclassroom]

Ick: teachers who call their kids best friends. That’s just so creepy to hear someone say that to the kids. Build relationships but not BF status. Non-ick: teaching a subject I really love, and getting to show that passion to the kids. Clip charts are fine to use, competition between kids is good, embarrassment is good for kids. Just be there to teach the lesson afterwards

[@kellisuemontague8698]

No that's not very trauma informed. Adding more trauma via embarrassment to a child is horrible and counter productive to changing their behavior.

[@lindamoulton1560]

I just can't get over the sound of kids (well or anyone) chewing on hard plastic or metal (like pencils, forks, pens)- I started bringing mints and lollipops to my class specifically to prevent this!!!, it was just sooooo freaking cringe-worthy (and I get that some folks have an oral fixation but you shouldn't risk chipping a tooth! Dental visits are PRICEY). Also not necessarily applicable to Middle or High School, but the weird food combinations my elementary kiddos would eat always made me gag.

[@Shannonbarnesdr1]

look up chewy necklaces, they are designed for people ho crave oral stimulation, they are non-toxic, many are designed to even be cool, chic, fad, age-appropriate looking, id say give em out to all of the people in your classes, they are a huge help for folks who suck or chew / mouth to relieve stress, regulate sensory needs, to help focus and concentrate and so on.

[@lindamoulton1560]

@@Shannonbarnesdr1 They look pretty affordable (if we're thinking of the same ones)- I'll keep that in mind!

[@britneydiamond8896]

The paper straw is actually bad for your health because of the glue that holds them together.

[@ace_of_garlic_breads]

(student here) an ick I have is how lax schools (spesifically Canadian schools) have gotten, i'm hearing people throw slurs and just hate speech around in the hallways and in the classroom, I, and others have tried to bring up this issue to staff but nothing has been properly done to stop it, we've had talks about it but that doesn't stop anything. we need to hold students acountable for their speech in the classroom, you don't know who it could affect. (like theres ALOT of homophobia, and as a (openly) queer student I try to educate people on why that's wrong but it always goes in one ear and out the other)

[@Ari_love-li]

There was a rotting frog in my classroom so a kid in my class sprayed cologne to masks the smell but our teacher was allergic to cologne so she literally had to go to the hospital like we felt so bad but we didn’t know she had a allergy to cologne

[@GinnyBarganier]

My very first day of school when i was little i went to school one day and i was just not having it that day and i just didn’t want to do my school work and my teacher was so shocked cause i just came in class got my clip and pulled it all the way down to red

[@annetoekneee]

16:33 do you mean the arts school ??

[@JASBLAY12345]

I live in Mississippi and I’m my school it is freezing cold even in the winter

[@KenleyMeadows]

I just laughed so hard I shat myself😂

[@MrsMoore1]

Tell was right on why many teachers are leaving the classroom in droves…..the pay is the LEAST amount of our concern!!! #SelfRespect

[@brve_he4rt29]

Too much cotton candy is TOO MUCH COTTON CANDY and...Japanese cherry blossom HAS CHANGED.