Teachers and anyone else working in education have a lot more influence than you might think. A good educator can shape their students’ lives to be better for decades to come. Meanwhile, someone who does it just for the (arguably, meager) paycheck and lashes out at kids can push them down a bad path. All in all, a teacher’s job is darn tough. And those who go the extra mile seriously deserve a round of applause.
Some educators, however, are masters of wit, not just experts in their chosen subjects. To show you just how great a sense of humor they have, our team at Bored Panda has collected the most hilarious teacher tweets that show the bizarre ups, hilarious downs, and facepalm-worthy twists and turns of their daily work lives.
Check out their best tweets below, and as you’re scrolling down, remember to upvote the ones that made you laugh and giggle. Do we have any Education Pandas in the house tonight? We’d absolutely love to hear what you love about the job the most, and what keeps you going when things get tough. There’s an invitation to visit the comment section and share the funniest classroom experiences with your name on it.
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I would LOVE to be in this classroom, to see this in action.... I love this whole attitude of Action and Reaction 😂😁😁😂😂😂
Mine would be for preppies to keep their hands to themselves: I wore a sequinned top to a prep class ... BIG mistake!
I read the lesson plan out loud. I ask the students if it makes sense to them. I ask them if they understand what they should be doing now. I write it down in the board. No one does the work. Their regular teacher gets mad at me. The life of the building substitute in a high school.
Yep, have been called 'mum' numerous times, usually by teenage boys after I asked them to do something, they really didn't want to do.
Me: Two minutes after getting home from work. Also: When I say, “Sorry. I have plans after work.” These are my plans!
His big brother was the one chewing crayons when he was younger.
Every single Monday morning in prep and year one we had to write a journal about what we did over the weekend. There was quite a while there where I had seen my Gran write in cursive, so I decided that I could write in cursive to. So every Monday morning Ms Belle had to listen to me 'reading' her my journal entries, that were literally just random squiggly lines with spaces in between. She never pulled me up on it, even though she was my teacher for two years in a row. I saw her randomly at a shopping centre food court 15 years later, she somehow still recognised me, knew exactly who I was, and genuinely was happy to see me and we had a brief catch up on the past 15 years. She is still one of my two favourite teachers. Just to clarify, she knew that outside of the journal entries I was perfectly capable of reading and writing.
ugh, those reading logs were awful. as an avid reader, it absolutely killed my love of reading. having to record exactly how many minutes & how many pages i read felt like someone was breathing down my neck the entire time & ruined the relaxation that reading used to bring me.
The sounds like the best way to deal with that sort of thing tbh. Tons better than getting made
Every day my teacher would just show us pics of her cats so she didn’t have to do anything
"Do NOT shove the wasp into the pencil sharpener!" - one of the odder things I've had to tell students, at least recently
Through and opaque straw.. in an opaque stainless steel yeti cup... perfecto
That's why I always answer "old enough" bonus points of you know who said it on what tv show!
Not an educator but a caregiver, I remember my first real bite. First week in. It doesn't get better but you get used to it...
I was talking with teacher few days ago. She's teaching first grade, and she told me that she's gonnaneed psychiatrist very soon, because kids are absolute brats.
I was a teacher, twice. I needed a psychologist both times.
Load More Replies...We're talking about kids here. It's unfortunate that kid's can't even be kids and be happy and play anymore. 3 years out the womb and they are forced to go to school pay attention and work for 8 hours a day. When the only thing they should be doing is playing and worrying about what snacks they can eat and just being a kid. But I guess putting them to work and the minute they act like the kids they are, we think somethings wrong with them. When in reality something is wrong with the system we've created around our kids. Just sad that from an early age we are expected to earn our existence and fall in line with the cruel system and ways of society. If you even question it at all you're looked at as odd or radical. It's so messed up and become normal, that's what's really stressful.
I- here so you live that kids work at 3?? Here you go to nursery at the which is essentially playing all day and occasionally baking. You only start school at 5
Load More Replies...I was talking with teacher few days ago. She's teaching first grade, and she told me that she's gonnaneed psychiatrist very soon, because kids are absolute brats.
I was a teacher, twice. I needed a psychologist both times.
Load More Replies...We're talking about kids here. It's unfortunate that kid's can't even be kids and be happy and play anymore. 3 years out the womb and they are forced to go to school pay attention and work for 8 hours a day. When the only thing they should be doing is playing and worrying about what snacks they can eat and just being a kid. But I guess putting them to work and the minute they act like the kids they are, we think somethings wrong with them. When in reality something is wrong with the system we've created around our kids. Just sad that from an early age we are expected to earn our existence and fall in line with the cruel system and ways of society. If you even question it at all you're looked at as odd or radical. It's so messed up and become normal, that's what's really stressful.
I- here so you live that kids work at 3?? Here you go to nursery at the which is essentially playing all day and occasionally baking. You only start school at 5
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