I teach ESOL and gather my students from the classroom (pullout model) for 30 minutes of instruction each day.

In actuality it is 20 minutes of instruction because I have to walk to the classroom, get the students, and walk them to my classroom. I try to streamline of course but it really takes 5 minutes each way -- at LEAST.

With virtual learning, I lose very little time. Essentially I have 50% more instructional time now with my students!

I also do not miss doing lunch duty and bus duty.

Seems like there's a lot less of the idiotic testing we needed to do every few weeks. I think parents would have revolted with all the SLO testing we had to do for each teacher and so they eliminated them this year -- I will be sad to have to give those completely useless assessments again whenever we go back.

Active shooter drills
Bullying
Behavioral issues parents ignore

Body odor

— Secondary teacher

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All of the discipline issues that eat away at instructional time. The kids with behavioral issues don't show up to class (or rarely). Their parents don't want to deal with them so they don't make them do anything they don't want to do. We still have meetings about them but it usually boils down to poor parenting or lack of parenting and the parents tell us they don't want to deal with them.

I no longer have to wait with students whose parents don't pick them up after school. That was an almost daily occurrence.

I really wonder why some people are teachers.

I really wonder why some people are parents.

Anonymous wrote:All of the discipline issues that eat away at instructional time. The kids with behavioral issues don't show up to class (or rarely). Their parents don't want to deal with them so they don't make them do anything they don't want to do. We still have meetings about them but it usually boils down to poor parenting or lack of parenting and the parents tell us they don't want to deal with them.

I no longer have to wait with students whose parents don't pick them up after school. That was an almost daily occurrence.

+1

The parents problem now.

Anonymous wrote:I'll start with the things that no longer disrupt learning time.

- No breaks to pull kids and write them up for foul language
- No physical bullying in the halls
- No more need to monitor physical interactions in-between classes or while another teacher is on break
- No disruptive behavior that isn't immediately identified

+1

No parents who refuse to admit their kid has bigger issues than the parents admit.

Anonymous wrote:All of the discipline issues that eat away at instructional time. The kids with behavioral issues don't show up to class (or rarely). Their parents don't want to deal with them so they don't make them do anything they don't want to do. We still have meetings about them but it usually boils down to poor parenting or lack of parenting and the parents tell us they don't want to deal with them.

I no longer have to wait with students whose parents don't pick them up after school. That was an almost daily occurrence.

I really wonder why some people are teachers.

Supplying classrooms out of my budget with:

A) Pencils
B) Coloring Paper
C) Glue
D) Markers
E) Erasers
F) Dry-erase markers
G) Decorations
H) Special occasion snacks
I) Organizational bins
J) Lined Paper
K) Reading time books
L) Dictionaries
G) Fun games

Oh, I forgot the mass shooter drills!

Try getting 15 kindergartners to successfully hide in a closet every time while you block the classroom door with whatever is big enough.

Constant interruptions. I just hit "mute all" and am no longer interrupted by kids who call out. I'm also not interrupted by constant announcements. No drills- fire/active shooter/severe weather/500 ft drills/lockdown drills, etc.

All of the discipline issues that eat away at instructional time. The kids with behavioral issues don't show up to class (or rarely). Their parents don't want to deal with them so they don't make them do anything they don't want to do. We still have meetings about them but it usually boils down to poor parenting or lack of parenting and the parents tell us they don't want to deal with them.

I no longer have to wait with students whose parents don't pick them up after school. That was an almost daily occurrence.

Fire drills
Shooter drills
Tornado drills
Phone calls from the office to release so and so
Counselor coming to get kids
Kids roughhousing in the back of class
Kids stealing from me or each other
Phones going off all the time

Most of those thing still disrupt learning time, it's just no longer your job to deal with them.

A distant, fond memory - 'accidents' or pee problems

I'll start with the things that no longer disrupt learning time.

- No breaks to pull kids and write them up for foul language
- No physical bullying in the halls
- No more need to monitor physical interactions in-between classes or while another teacher is on break
- No disruptive behavior that isn't immediately identified