Rec | TEACHING MIDDLE SCHOOLERS

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listen, middle school sucks. i agree. BUT! hear me out!! teaching middle schoolers is a genuinely entertaining career. i think they get such a bad rap because no one really has fond memories of being 13, which makes sense!! going from child to teen and not even really being a teen yet is difficult and confusing. not fun! but they still have the most random childlike shenanigans that i love to be apart of. they are little humans who shock me with an f bomb every now and then but also make me origami and paper crowns, and it gives me a reason to wake up in the morning.

@nirac

Mar 5, 2025

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@knitzsche

i feel super fortunate that i get to honestly say that i am really fond of my middle school experience. i went to a hippie granola school with a weird curriculum. my 7th grade English teacher was my Robin Williams in Dead Poet Society. (she’s also played that movie for us in class one time lol). if i had gone to a different/regular middle school I don’t even know who I’d be now tbh

Mar 5, 2025

@nirac

knitzsche my seventh grade english teacher told my honors class that we were the worst kids she’s ever met and made her want to quit her job to be a garbage truck driver .. perhaps there is a correlation!?! at least i know it’s possible to be seen by a middle schooler. i do truly try to be the best role model i can while also being early in my career and don’t know what i don’t know fully yet

Mar 6, 2025

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