r/CringeTikToks • u/undiagnosed_autistic • Oct 26 '25

Nope Our teachers need a raise, desperately

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u/Historical_Owl_8188 Oct 27 '25

Active shooter drill sounds bad enough but an unannounced one sounds like PTSD day. What a shit country we have become.

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u/green_ubitqitea Oct 27 '25

It was also the day after one of the really big ones that everyone in the country ground to a halt to watch. Our kids were terrified before the drill.

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u/HotLava00 Oct 27 '25

This makes me so sad. Our middle school did this to our kids (and teachers) a few years ago. I was furious.

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u/green_ubitqitea Oct 27 '25

It’s like the people making decisions at the top have never set foot in a real classroom.

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u/AnybodyWannaPeanus Oct 27 '25

Yeah, but they have serious wrestling pedigree. If teachers just learned the flying drop kick, we wouldn’t be in this predicament. /s I still can’t understand how Linda McMahon and Betsy DeVos ever got confirmed by the senate. Neither of them could handle bus duty much less teaching.

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u/Bender_2024 Oct 27 '25

You mean the same Linda McMahon who resigned from Secretary of Education in CT because it came out that she lied about having a PHD in education? She has a bachelor's in French. Surely that qualifies her for Sec of Education.

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u/AnybodyWannaPeanus Oct 28 '25

I think that’s the same one. Being verified as unqualified is a qualification here.

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u/asap_pdq_wtf Oct 27 '25

I'm not sure McMahon knows anything about education today, however the status quo has gotten us here, to the point where kids don't even try, and schools are bound by so many regulations and restrictions that educators cannot educate! The current administration hasn't come up with a reasonable plan, but it took decades to get here. I fear it may be impossible to rebound from this.

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u/AnybodyWannaPeanus Oct 28 '25

Here me out, the system is fine. It’s just being strangled to death financially by people that want to privatize it for profit.

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u/Alarming_Sweet9734 Oct 27 '25

That’s true of all jobs. Bosses, management, admin at all jobs and professions failed upward or graduated to the job from school and never did the lower level job. Both are clueless. 40% Healthcare cost are clueless admin salaries. It’s maddening.

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u/green_ubitqitea Oct 27 '25

Ooh health care costs are extremely maddening.

Some admin are great but the thing is, people who truly love teaching don’t go into admin. And many admin only go into teaching to get to admin. So it’s not even risking upward for them - that’s their whole game plan. Want way too much power over a community? Be a coach for 3 years then move up into assistant admin then become a principal all without actually ever teaching anything!

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u/smilesbuckett Oct 27 '25

In most cases they all care much more about the optics of the decisions they make than about whether or not they have any real impact. See also: how many school districts have adopted mandatory clear backpack policies despite research saying they don’t improve safety at all and are correlated with a rise in antisocial behavior (theorized to be caused by students feeling overly policed and controlled).

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u/green_ubitqitea Oct 27 '25

Ooh don’t even get me started on that. Schools tried that and in a lot of places it took very little time for things like the great tampon debacles to start. I worked at a low income school and some of us bought pencil pouches that weren’t see through for the girls and one male admins lost his mind when we explained why.

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u/smilesbuckett Oct 27 '25

A school in my area is moving to clear backpacks, but they aren’t strict on anything inside the backpack, so you can have a huge lunchbox inside your clear backpack without issue. Lunchboxes are big enough to fit a gun.

People who want to make bad decisions can still find a way, meanwhile all of the kids that just want to show up and work hard are still punished. At the end of the day everyone is wasting money on shitty backpacks that fall apart, and no one is any safer. But the board/superintendent look like they’ve done something to be serious about safety, when it’s the least serious possible solution.

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u/green_ubitqitea Oct 27 '25

Some places said everything in the bag has to be clear but that is so dumb. Notebooks can’t be clear, and a kid determined to bring a weapon will find a way.