Pearl - November 27, 2025Teachers Acting Like They're Veterans of Iraq - GET BACK TO DRAWING WITH CRAYONS
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Summary
In this episode, we re reacting to women talking about how bad teaching is right now and how it s going to be in the future. We re talking about No Child Left Behind, the inclusion classes, general parenting, and non-parenting.
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the state has made it impossible to fail children why yeah again when you take away consequences
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people don't do work i mean it's so simple what up guys welcome to my reaction series as i've said
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before women have a tendency to take easy jobs where men have a tendency to take hard jobs men
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will take the hard jobs they won't complain women will take the easy jobs and they will complain
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um so today we're reacting to women talking about how bad teaching is now they say teaching is awful
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now. So let's see what the women have to say. This comes off of a video where someone's talking
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about how kids are not able to read. And you state between no child left behind, the inclusion
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classes, general parenting and non-parenting, it is made teaching impossible. Please tell me how
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you ought to reach every child in a class when you have five different reading levels. I'm a retired
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middle school teacher, eighth grade. And let me tell you something, this is so true. I could have
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kids who are on a third grade fourth grade fifth grade reading level yet the curriculum i have is
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at an eighth grade level so it's my job as a teacher to try to differentiate that instruction
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for them why a lot of kids need to be held back in school i don't even think it should be by age
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i think it should be by how fast you can learn the material while at the same time having the
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expectation when they take the state test that they can still take the test which is at an
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eighth grade level to pass that test all of these things are very true very true the system needs
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an overall overall you need smaller class sizes you need I think we just need to switch out women
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and put in men I think it would solve a lot of problems forces you need to have a lot more than
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one teacher in a classroom teaching these kids but those things aren't going to happen because
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those things require money what are the average class sides because um average my average when
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i was in pre-k to eighth i had 30 kids in my class i think up to 32 and it was fine in america um
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pre-k through eight and high school let's see and in high school i think the class sizes might have
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even been smaller for me like 20 um pre-k 15 to 7. okay i don't think 30 kids is that bad
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i mean that's that's like what i grew up with and that was fine i mean i can read my multiplication
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tables are kind of shaky to be maybe maybe i should have had a bigger class i don't know oh wait
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whoops what the system is doing and trying to have teachers do is unrealistic and that's i think it's
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probably realistic i think they she's just not good get good you know one reason why some of
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these kids can't read this comes off of a video where someone's talking about yeah um i don't
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know 27 seems fine all right let's see 25 at any grade level has to be damn near impossible teachers
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how are you teaching here in 2025 whether that's elementary school middle school or even yes high
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school in the ai era in the parents not willing to be parents at home era in the era where kids
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are suffering say in fourth grade even with spelling with writing with daily life essential
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skills how are you teachers doing it honestly y'all have the toughest job in the world right now
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i don't know how these teachers how y'all are getting up every day to do this when you are the
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ones that care yet the kids do not seem to care yeah the problem is again all these mother it's
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kind of cooked because all these moms are raising the kids there's no discipline at home so like
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how do you have a kid like when you have a bad kid there's just not much you can do
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as a teacher i mean you see them during the day but they go home at night
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they're in daycare they have like all these different caretakers i mean it's a lot for a kid
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they are lacking basic skills of life across the board reading writing math
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i i just don't know i have a son who is in fourth grade he is 10 years old our biggest struggle with
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him has been spelling and his handwriting i don't know what to say i don't know what the answer is
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but teaching in 2025 is no joke it is not for the week and all teachers out there elementary middle
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and high school i want to hear from you how are you doing it and can you keep doing it yeah i mean
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this is kind of simpy our school went along 90 analog and phones are only between classes that
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has made all the difference yeah i mean middle school in illinois i have an amazing kids in a
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district and supportive parents i just hope i get my tenure and can make a career in my district
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i'm wanting to quit it's horrible dying over you know it's like there's men actually dying
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at work and we still will say we're dying with the kids and then we say we're nurturing it's like
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even the people that work with the kids hate kids we need to start leaving children behind
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people don't understand what it used to feel like he actually makes a good point but sadly
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it's hard to fail children when you can't give nothing less than a 50. the new zero is now 50.
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And if I try to fail you, do you know the loads and loads of paperwork
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come in here do like three homework assignments make a 70 on the test and like you will pass
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it's almost impossible the state has made it impossible to fail children why yeah again when
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you take away consequences people don't do work i mean it's so simple why it's so simple i don't
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know it's like ridiculous at this point so we want to fail them but it's you literally can't
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it's impossible we need to start leaving children yeah i i do think some kids i mean you redo a year
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it's embarrassing but at least you learn the material all right let's sorry happy tuesday
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I was going to do a buzzword vocabulary there is a more pressing issue we need to talk about here
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in the education world give me one second okay I'm back here's the issue at the beginning of
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the school year I put I had seven caddies and I have seven tables in my classroom in the caddies
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I put six highlighters four pencils um I put in a stick a pack of sticky notes the reason I only
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four pencils is because a lot of the kids already had their own pencils so the pencil was just there
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if they didn't have a pencil they have access to pencils because again a lot of the kids brought
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their own pencils and they prefer to use their own pencils that's fine with me so for the first few
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weeks of school everything was going great they checked the caddies we had six highlights we have
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four pencils in the last few weeks of the school year maybe the last month i have been checking
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these caddies i have kids that are taking the pencils taking the highlighters these are the
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highlighters that are they have different colors right taking these highlighters they becoming all
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probably in a black area 75 percent of black women are single moms so i mean they're gonna
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have no discipline at home like even my dog listens better to my dad my brother or my boyfriend
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my freaking dog can you like with a kid i mean it's the same reason why panels are very difficult
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for me to like control because i just i do not have the voice amanda's even though my voice is
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kind of deep to be honest i've gotten that i think also talking for two years straight has lowered
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it by like an octave but yeah different colors and they're taking this piece of the highlighter
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they're twisting it off and throwing it across the room why i have kids that are taking my pencils
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these are the pencils that they have mechanical pencils because i get it i like mechanical
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pencils right over regular pencils these are the pencils that are in their caddies they're taking
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the erasers out and using them for other things and then putting my pencils back into the caddy
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without the erasers and taking all the lead out they're breaking my pencil you see this pencil
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it doesn't work i'm exhausted it is october i'm exhausted i'm genuinely ready to stop teaching
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because why are y'all not teaching y'all children how to take care of things that are not theirs
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i don't understand i told my students yesterday i said let me tell you something i'm not giving
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you anything else i said i gave y'all sticky notes for writing notes and taking notes in your
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novels i gave y'all pencils i gave y'all high letters and what have y'all done with my stuff
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destroyed it i'm not giving you anything else i'm exhausted all the things i gave them were
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things either i bought or was donated by my family and y'all are going to sit here and
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destroy the things that i'm giving you for your class for work i teach english you need highlighters
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you need highlighters to highlight in your novels but i'm not giving you any more highlighters
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the level of apathy the level of i don't care from these kids is ridiculous gen z kids are
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different um it'll be interesting to see what the next two generations are like growing up in like
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a very social media world you know it's interesting i'm actually i swear i've been impressed with
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every pretty much every gen z guy i've met they seem to have way more going for them than the
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girls the girls are pretty unimpressive but they're still you know young people are so willing
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to learn that i do think they'll figure it out i just think their canon events will be later in
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life this is my fifth year teaching and every year you know i have certain kids but this year
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has been the year that has really absolutely solidified my decision to quit teaching.
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I said after this year, I'm done. I'm going to find something else. It is ridiculous.
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Hey, y'all, happy one. All right. Yeah, so even the teachers are saying that these kids aren't
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being raised right. And the challenge is the mothers, they just have no discipline at home.
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So on one hand, I could see the teachers being accurate in describing the rambunctiousness of the children.
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