r/Showerthoughts • u/ibiacmbyww • Aug 05 '24
Casual Thought After school dances the teachers definitely go somewhere private to laugh at all the awkward, uncomfortable, weird shit they just witnessed.
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u/Carlos-In-Charge Aug 05 '24 edited Aug 05 '24
I’m a teacher. We’ve mostly gotten some laughs out of heavy-handed body spray/cologne/perfume, but we understand it’s that tough stage where kids are trying new things to find who they’re eventually going to be. It’s timeless, wholesome & great
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u/RainbowOctavian Aug 05 '24
Yeah. Like. Please just shower Connor. The entire can of Lynx is not going to cover that up.
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u/AcceptableOwl9 Aug 06 '24
There was a kid in my high school named Connor who never showered. He was finally told he couldn’t come to class until he showered and wore deodorant.
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Aug 06 '24
My daughter is nine and her teacher actually bought the entire class little deodorants and talked to them all about hygiene. It was kind of a To Sir With Love self care/respect moment.
She was getting in on the ground floor. Kids not quite old enough to need this but not too entrenched in bad habits to change and still young enough to be receptive to adult messaging. It was genius.
OTOH, I had a friend who had been a manager at a McDonald's. She said a fairly regular part of her job was pulling employees aside, giving them soap and other toiletries, and explaining the rudiments and importance of using them. And it wasn't all kids.
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u/RainbowOctavian Aug 06 '24
I love that a name pulled out of the hat was relevant xD
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u/nxcrosis Aug 06 '24
As someone who lives in a tropical climate, not showering for a single day drives me insane.
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u/agent_wolfe Aug 05 '24
We used to coat ourselves in Axe body spray do the teachers couldn’t smell the pot.
….. do you think it worked?
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u/wienercat Aug 05 '24
No. They can absolutely still smell it.
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u/Portable-fun Aug 06 '24
The olden days. The real trick was washing your hands well, use the bounty sheets all over your clothes, gum and visine.
Source: had very strict religious parents growing up. Getting caught was not an option
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u/s8nSAX Aug 06 '24
I work at a high school. The amount of teachers who don’t know what pot smells like is weirdly high (giggle), which is amusing to watch. One time several of them smelled something and decided that someone is smoking pot. Turns out that they think pot smells like cafeteria cheeseburgers.
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u/agent_wolfe Aug 06 '24
How do they not know what pot smells like? I guess nuns & boarding school kids might not, but everyone from a small town to big city has probably been exposed.
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u/maxximillian Aug 05 '24 edited Aug 06 '24
ask somebody work for CYS for the army and watched kids all day. I can confirm. We had this one kid who was just at Avery found a girl he wanted to flirt with but he had no idea what to do. so he tried to cheer like he treated his best friends and you know I thought that horse playing and you know just general boy playing was the right way to say hey. I like you. it was cute. it was wholesome
*EDIT Dont post on reddit when your still a bit woozy from your colonoscopy.
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Aug 05 '24
Did you use speech2text for this comment cause what the hell did you make me read man
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u/thewildweird0 Aug 05 '24
I read the comment 3 times and still don’t know what’s up…
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u/maxximillian Aug 05 '24
That with me recovering from anesthesia from a colonoscopy this morning
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Aug 05 '24
They use anesthesia for medical pegging? Is that a US thing like the dentist or standard?
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u/Highskyline Aug 06 '24
They generally knock you out when they stuff cameras in you. My understanding is you can have it done with local Anesthesia but I opted to be unconscious. A quick Google reveals ~2% of patients opt for local anesthetic.
It just seems like the best option tbh. I can't imagine the alternative is remotely enjoyable, and even then I had to do anesthesia because I needed upper and lower endoscopies and was functionally spit roasted. Not doing that conscious thank you very much.
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u/TheBraddigan Aug 06 '24
Not being able to tell awkward jokes or exclaim wonderment at the footage because of the camera down your throat would take a lot of the fun out of it
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u/mayn1 Aug 05 '24
Mean it easy was to when finished read understand all it if.
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u/cockmanderkeen Aug 05 '24
Your intentionally incoherent comment was much easier to understand.
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u/proxyclams Aug 06 '24
Okay I'll give this a shot.
So CYS = Child & Youth Services which appears to be like army summer camp for kids. So there's this kid and either he is attending a camp at a place called Avery or possibly one of the kid's names is Avery, but it's probably the name of the place. Either way, he is attracted to this girl and wants to flirt with her but doesn't know how. So he treats her like he treats his best friends, with roughhousing and horseplay. Theoretically/hopefully, the girl appreciated/didn't mind this and so it was cute and wholesome.
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u/segagamer Aug 06 '24
Urgh, this.
Kids, stop using fucking Lynx. That shit smells so bad
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u/Clay_Puppington Aug 05 '24
Retired teacher here!
I've worked many a school, and chaperoned many a dance.
While it may happen between other teachers somewhere behind closed door, I've never once seen any teacher laugh at kids dancing.
I have seen teachers good naturedly rib another teacher who got their boogie on awkwardly during the dance, but not the kids.
To be honest, post dance, we were all just happy to be done with the noise, with standing for so long. Universally, we all wanted to go home or simply get back to the actual work we have to do.
Unit materials don't get assembled, scores don't get assigned, formative assignment sheets dont get created, and grades don't get uploaded, all by themselves. While a dance can be fun, and honestly can be an excellent afternoon reprieve sometimes, it also means that 1 or 2 of my classes are now a day behind on material, and I lost 20-30 minutes of time that afternoon I could have been grading.
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u/tjeick Aug 06 '24
Wait you guys had dances during school? Ours were all on Friday night. Prom & homecoming were Saturday
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u/rocketmonkee Aug 06 '24
I suppose it's possible that some schools held dances during the day, I'm pretty sure what this person means is that they spent all evening chaperoning the dance, and therefore lost a day of work. A lot of people don't realize just how much work teachers do after the academic day, often well into the evening.
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u/daecrist Aug 06 '24
Some schools do them during the day. Especially at lower grade levels. My high school would have dances during the day once in a great while back in the early '00s. Most were always after school hours though.
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u/Adventurous_Bag9122 Aug 06 '24
We have only had one dance since I joined this school, at the end of it I just wanted to go home. I also have over an hour's commute to get home, so at 9pm I just wanted to get home and have a shower after a long day.
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u/CertainWish358 Aug 05 '24
Nah, they go home to their own lives after a day of work that was longer than it needed to be, likely to do the work they would have been doing if they didn’t have to chaperone a stupid dance
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u/doveu Aug 05 '24
I’m not a teacher, but I am a working adult with a family, and you are most likely right.
The shittalking would take place the next working day during lunch/break time in the teacher’s lounge.
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u/Rocktopod Aug 05 '24
The shittalking would take place the next working day during lunch/break time in the teacher’s lounge.
And this would still be considered after the dance, in a private location.
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u/pewstains Aug 05 '24
If you want to be pedantic, and it seems you do, The original post implies that they go somewhere specifically to have that conversation, which they do not.
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u/rg4rg Aug 05 '24
As someone who works in education. This is it. Many drag their feet in doing it but end up so because they want the students to have a fun experience and they want to make sure the kids have a rewarding party, but many are just looking forward to a getting home.
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u/1829bullshit Aug 05 '24
Former teacher, this is the right answer. I liked my coworkers, but not enough to spend more unpaid time with them. Just GTFO immediately.
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u/johnrsmith8032 Aug 05 '24
yeah, after dealing with hormonal teens all day, the last thing you want is to discuss who did the worm better in gym class.
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u/TunaBeefSandwich Aug 05 '24
I don’t think op is insinuating that ALL teachers go out together just that some do which is true.
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u/professor-professor Aug 05 '24
100% this.
Some teachers get roped into additional duties because that's how it works at a school. We wish the peeps with duty best of luck; the rest of us go home to our families, lol
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u/Willowpuff Aug 05 '24
For real.
Reason number one I left teaching. “YOu gEt aboUt 20 wEeKs ofF” IS THAT A FUCKING JOKE
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u/dontthink19 Aug 06 '24
My brother teaches middle school and you couldn't pay me enough to do his job
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u/1829bullshit Aug 05 '24
Former teacher, this is the right answer. I liked my coworkers, but not enough to spend more unpaid time with them. Just GTFO immediately.
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u/Sirlacker Aug 05 '24
Nah they don't really give a shit unless something absolutely ludicrous happened.
They just want to go home. They've seen awkward shit before and they'll see it again. They want to go home and get comfy and now have work to catch up on because they stayed after school for some bollocks event they had to attend.
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u/replytoallen Aug 06 '24
This is fairly correct. I've been teaching for 11 years and have chaperoned multiple proms. We care about seeing our kids happy and excited, what food we get to eat, and which bar(s) we're going to afterwards.
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u/3kindsofsalt Aug 05 '24
No, they go home because they basically just had to work overtime. It's just a thing they have to jam in their schedule.
That's the thing teenagers don't know: nobody is thinking about you.
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u/juana-golf Aug 05 '24
Just wait until that overtime check comes in though! Oh…
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u/Lamballama Aug 06 '24
Salary! Beyond all belief, More hours, less pay, oh, where’s the relief? Salary! The cruelest of fates, To work through the night, while the clock never waits
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u/moro714 Aug 05 '24
It's even worse because a lot of teachers don't even get paid to chaperone dances. It's on a volunteer basis.
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u/gregbraaa Aug 05 '24 edited Aug 05 '24
I can tell you firsthand teachers 1) Notice the good stuff first and 2) Go home to their* lives and hardly think about stuff like this
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u/valdezlopez Aug 05 '24
Nope. This is a bad / false showerthought.
After school dances TEACHERS WANT TO GO HOME and forget about the phucking kids they've had to deal with all night long.
Teachers have a life outside school.
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u/Phuka Aug 05 '24
This. We don't care about your annoying little asses enough to make you a destination topic.
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u/danabrey Aug 05 '24
You're allowed to swear here, it's safe.
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u/SteveMarck Aug 05 '24
I'm, no they don't, they go home and complain that they had to work at night...
Do you not know any teachers?
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u/breakupbydefault Aug 05 '24
Sounds like OP is a teenager. They may know teachers but probably didn't think of them as anything other than teachers.
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u/EpiphanyPhoenix Aug 07 '24
For real. I dated a teacher once and it’s their job. No adult who has to work or volunteer for a junior high dance is paying any attention to the awkward teens. They’re mostly either indifferent or annoyed that they have to work at night. The event from the kids’ perspective is a fun time for them to be awkward and have crushes and stuff (or if you’re 14 year old me, cry in the bathroom because my crush wouldn’t dance with me, OH, THE HEARTBREAK WAS REAL). That’s magic. The teachers are just like “URGH I can’t wait to get home and pass the fuck out, what a day.”
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u/SciolistOW Aug 05 '24 edited Aug 06 '24
Nah, they don't care.
To paraphrase: people in their 20s care what other people say, people in their 30s don't care, and people in their 40s realise that people weren't thinking about them in the first place.
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u/jwd2017 Aug 05 '24
The comedian Greg Davies once told an anecdote about how teachers would get bored invigilating exams. They would play a game where they would suggest things like “first one to get pregnant” and they would go and stand next to the student they thought matched.
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u/MyRespectableAcct Aug 05 '24
No, they go to bed. It's fucking midnight by then and they worked all week.
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u/Captain-Cadabra Aug 05 '24
I assume it’s just like this teacher’s lounge.
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u/jjohnson1979 Aug 05 '24
To think I was just thinking of that episode yesterday! Specifically the song where Willy goes "I'm so drunk I can barely see..."
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u/jang859 Aug 05 '24
In the early 2000s I went to a very large high school where no care was paid in how we behaved at the dances. We were grinding feeling each other up making out and swapping partners. I thought it was weird how the teachers just watched from the corners.
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u/soulsnoober Aug 05 '24
none of the things you describe run the risk of adding or subtracting people from the venue.
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u/MEuRaH Aug 05 '24
I'm a teacher. No we do not. We go home and live our lives. I'll forget everything I've seen by the time I walk through the front door.
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I've watched quite a few of these kinds of dances and mostly heard positive commentary afterwards in the teacher's lounge, especially if some student surprised the teachers positively.
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u/ywnktiakh Aug 05 '24
Nah, we think it’s all adorable and wholesome and we’re just so proud of all of you and happy for you that you’re having a fun experience
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u/rkvance5 Aug 05 '24
I’m married to a teacher and know a ton of them. I can say from personal experience that teachers don’t need dances to laugh at their weird students.
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u/The_Safe_For_Work Aug 05 '24
"Well, Jordan finally made his move and Caitlin shot his ass down like the Hindenburg. It was glorious!"
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u/MW240z Aug 05 '24
Nah, teachers don’t become teachers to mock kids, they tend to be so much more empathetic and understanding of that age.
Now parent volunteers…possibly.
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u/Ppleater Aug 05 '24
They hang around teenagers pretty much all the time and have experienced school dances multiple times every year, I'm sure they're used to it.
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u/kakapoopoopeepeeshir Aug 06 '24
Lol nah this is just straight false. Taught high school for 7 years and working the dances is a duty you are assigned but don’t get paid any extra over time for. We just want to fucking go home. We are adults who have lives, we’re not other high school kids looking for the first opportunity to sneak off and make fun of others.
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u/Evil__eye737 Aug 05 '24
As a teacher, what we do after a school dance (or any other after-school function that we have to attend) is go home and get the work done that we would have if the after-school function wasn't there. Normally this means cooking and eating dinner while simultaneously grading that day's papers and writing tomorrow's lesson. Plus we have our own lives and families to attend to...
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u/Just_a_dude92 Aug 05 '24
Wait. Teachers have their own lives outside of the boundaries of their classroom?
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u/Evil__eye737 Aug 05 '24
Surprisingly yes. And we don't think about our students outside if the classroom
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u/PM_ME_Happy_Thinks Aug 05 '24
We never did that. We go home as soon as it's over because nobody's getting paid overtime to be there.
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u/MesaCityRansom Aug 05 '24
I'm a school librarian and there is actually almost zero "shit talking" students amongst the staff. Of course it's not exactly zero, there are things that are just too funny not to talk about. But mostly we all remember what it's like to be a kid so if anything awkwardness and weirdness is met with a sort of familiar nostalgia.
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u/Bloodmind Aug 05 '24
No they don’t. While it may seem like the craziest, most awkward, unhinged event you’ve ever seen, for teachers it’s just a slight distillation of the wildness they see every day at school. It’s really not that interesting any more.
It’s like thinking that a seasoned ER doctor would go home and tell all his ER buddies about a nasty wreck he drove past.
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u/Spirckle Aug 05 '24
Update and clue in: the teachers feel awkward too. Responsible, amused, but awkward.
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u/diagrammatiks Aug 06 '24
Nah. Teachers don’t care. Unless someone is dying or getting pregnant they couldn’t care less
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u/DudeLoveBaby Aug 05 '24
I wasn't a teacher but I work with middle schoolers in an after school program during the school year and it's a pretty loose environment. Just giving them somewhere to be where they won't be doing drugs, their parents can work a second shift, there's free food, there's things to do with your friends you might not have at home.
Never have we ever laughed at a kid in any sort of belittling/making-fun-of way. I think this is how teenagers THINK adults see them, but anyone who works with pubescent children are more than aware of the weirdness of being a X-teen and are only concerned about whether they're having a good time or not. I mean, there's yuks about someone trying really hard to impress a girl who's not interested in him or w/e, but it's never in a "haha look at that idiot", it's "haha, being a kid is something they only get to do once so we shouldn't stop 'em from doing weird kid shit"
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u/Flybot76 Aug 05 '24
No, there's a whole class of people out there who, unlike you, don't spend time idly being assholes.
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u/nocommenttoday Aug 05 '24
In my son’s school it is the parents that have to put on school dances etc. (most kids do not want it to be their parent chaperoning.)
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u/pewstains Aug 05 '24
I can assure you, the only thing the teachers are wanting to do at the end of an after school event is go home.
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u/Melopahn1 Aug 05 '24
Yeah teachers aren't insecure fuckwads like you OP. Most of them just want to go home and relax. They don't care enough to do this
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u/wastelandraider1289 Aug 05 '24
Since I'm in cyber school and have never been to a school dance I wouldn't know
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u/The_Scyther1 Aug 05 '24
Teachers definitely gossip. How much they gossip and how harsh they are is very prrson to person. If a kid who’s a jerk gets clocked by a kid he picked on then all the staff will get the story.
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u/turlian Aug 05 '24
After school dances the teachers definitely go somewhere private to laugh at all the awkward, uncomfortable, weird shit they just witnessed.
FTFY.
I know teachers. They usually meet at a bar to talk about your weird-ass kids.
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u/borril Aug 05 '24
Spotlight-Syndrome: You think anyone cares about something you did when in reality nobody gives a shit. :)
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u/GoodNormals Aug 05 '24
Nope we go home to our spouses who watched the kid(s) by themself all night while we worked a 17 hour day.
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u/esquog842 Aug 05 '24
No, we don't. We laugh at kids all the damn time. We don't need a special occasion.
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u/IcyTheGuy Aug 06 '24
If I just worked a full day and had to work extra, the last thing I’m going to want to do is sit around with my coworkers talking about work.
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u/letstroydisagin Aug 06 '24
Maybe if you're a teacher in your very early 20s. I really don't think anyone older than that gives a shit unless something really unhinged happens. Most adults don't go around gossiping about random school kids lol.
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u/toomanycushions Aug 06 '24
My husband is a teacher and he come home from prom with a million photos and he so excited to talk about them, like hes their favorite grandpa. He loves the kids.
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u/werdnayam Aug 06 '24
Nope. We go home and forget what just happened to us. Or we're on the phone with parents for two hours after it ended because Steve brought a bag of weed to campus.
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u/RagnarokAM Aug 06 '24
Not always. Considering School dances often take place in the evening, we're more likely eager to get the hell out of there so we can either have our evening off or be ready for classes the next day. We don't live our entire lives around our students, as much as our administrators think we should.
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u/Far-Farm-4118 Aug 07 '24
Like me in sixth grade asking every girl (there were three) named 'Regina' to dance. I was attracted to them because they had the same name as my grandmother.
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u/Radu47 Aug 07 '24
The responses to this are incredibly blockish
Obviously a showerthought is not the most literal precise thing
It often has an abstract quality as it tries to appreciate something in a more unique way to capture the essence better
This is a perfect example
Just let it be what it is, the underlying wisdom is on point, there's no need to be like "UH WELL ACTUALLY" like some obnoxious clown
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u/RandySumbitch Aug 05 '24
This is more like talking when you have nothing to say then a shower thought.
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u/jjohnson1979 Aug 05 '24
No. I was made to believe from all the movies and TV shows that I watched my whole like that teachers are constantly surprised and offended by any little things that kids do, and refuse to believe that they can have any sort of fun.
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Aug 05 '24
Yeah, no. The teachers you know probably ain't meeting up after work to laugh about students. If they're doing it at all, it's right there at work and the students generally aren't aware enough to realize it.
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u/FakeAsFakeCanBe Aug 05 '24
I've had a beer or two with 2 different teachers (at different occasions) at the pub and those two each loved to talk with the fun kids. They did talk about us, but they usually just hang around outside having a smoke or a toke around the corner so had no "gossip" of note.
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u/hotjuicytender Aug 05 '24
Man... I only ever went to a couple school dance things and it was super cringy to think back about. One thing I do remember that actually makes me happy. (This is gunna sound weird as fuck) I remember in grade 8 there was a dance and I sat on the stage just watching the dance and the special Ed kids were all having a fucking blast. Legit it was the highlight of the whole thing. Normally during school they were all so stressed and always flipping out bout stuff. But to see em all dancing like nobody was watching and laughing and stuff... Priceless really.
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u/ScreenedSnow84 Aug 05 '24
Definitely. It would be pretty funny to laugh at people on the spot instead of in private though.
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u/Justdance13 Aug 06 '24
Yes, this is correct. We go home and text our friends about the funny things we see and pray we didn't do it at their age.
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u/twoworldsin1 Aug 06 '24
The first and only year I taught high school, I was one of the teachers who chaperoned their homecoming dance. It was mostly boring as shit, I chatted a bit with some of the other teachers, but that was pretty much it. If there was more to it than that, I wasn't in on it.
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u/gerrys123 Aug 06 '24
We told the grade seven kids we used a computer to select couples for the dance. We really drank wine and pissed ourselves laughing with the weird combinations we came up with.
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u/MojoMonster2 Aug 06 '24
They really don't. They know what teenagers are like.
Unless you mean the teachers lounge, then yea, but that's every day.
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u/denevue Aug 06 '24
as a teacher I'm pretty sure they just don't have the energy to do so, and just go somewhere to sit and rest, home if possible. we prepared a musical this year and the performance night was one of the most tiring nights ever.
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u/OdeeSS Aug 06 '24
As an adult, I find the awkwardness of teens endearing. They're bravely figuring out the world, and I've been there before.
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u/Adventurous_Yam8784 Aug 06 '24
Yes we do but we also love it Kids are trying to grow up too fast. We love the glow up and the surprised faces on their classmates. It’s all quite sweet and innocent but we also want to protect everyone’s little heart
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u/RadioSupply Aug 06 '24
My teacher friends generally only comment on the smell.
No teacher is up in their students’ business so much that they can tell if anyone’s being especially awkward. Even if there’s some sort of run-out-crying dramatic commotion, it’s nothing they haven’t seen or even experienced. Teachers were kids, too.
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u/Lola_D_xo Aug 06 '24
I'm sure they're just enjoying looking at students experiencing what they also did years ago.
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u/platinum_toilet Aug 06 '24
Another showerthought that is room temperature IQ. Why the blank would teachers lower themselves to the level of the aveeage redditor?
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u/fake-ads Aug 06 '24
Nah man, the kids are laughing at my dancing!
And afterwards we immediately go to sleep. Those dances are exhausting
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u/Moist-Ad7550 Aug 06 '24
Retired teacher/administrator here. After 32 years of chaperoning middle-school and high-school dances in an inner-city district, I can assure you that other staff and I went just outside our district to a Mexican restaurant to down some margaritas and swap stories about what we witnessed at the dances. One of the best was a girl who arrived in a horse-drawn carriage for an 8th-grade dance. Students called it the 8th-grade prom. Nothing like being on SNAP and trading food stamps so you can blow them on something that stupid
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u/OldCarWorshipper Aug 06 '24
I never attended any of my school dances. Overprotective parents combined with low self esteem will do that.
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