Teachers Are Revealing The Ways Students Have Become Completely "Entitled," And They Genuinely Need To Make $200K A Year
Recently, I came across a post from user Horror_Worry_404 (or Horror Worry, for short) on the popular "Teachers" subreddit that made me simultaneously laugh out loud and weep for our future. The post was titled "Middle School Students are Entitled Psychos."
Horror Worry began their post by writing, "Actual conversation with a seventh-grade student today:"
Student: Hey, you need to find the pen I left in here or I'm telling my mom
Me (unbelievably confused): It's…your pen. What does that have to do with me?
Student: Yeah but it's YOUR classroom.
Me (still confused but now also irritated): Yes, but it's YOUR pen. You need to take responsibility for your own items so that you don't lose them.
Student: Yeah, but it's YOUR classroom, so find it!
I still have no idea what she even planned on telling her mom.
Get me the F— out of middle school, dude.
Plenty of other middle and high school teachers chimed in with their responses, and it was pretty entertaining. Here are some of the best:
1. "I've also encountered this in the past couple of years. Usually comes from kids who also have a hilariously exaggerated sense of their own talents."
2. "My reaction would be to dial up her mom on a conference call right then."
3. "I'm pretty sure my kids can't stand me because whenever they come at me like this, I just answer them in questions and they get ********** because they realize they're wrong mid-questioning."
4. The correct answer would have been: 'Sure, let's call your mom and explain to her why it's my fault that you lost your pen.' They usually back down very quickly then. Middle school is wild, but you don't argue with them in situations like that. You tell them how it is, and if they don't accept it, there are consequences."
5. "Seventh graders are basically just big toddlers. They want independence, but they also need boundaries and a firm hand. A day in the life of a seventh grader goes something like this: 'Love me. Love me. Love me. F— you! Love me. Love me.' The hormones aren't helping them either."
6. "Eh, not middle schoolers, just entitled students in general. I have plenty of middle school students who wouldn't dare talk to me like that without risking getting written up for insubordination and admin actually doing something about it, thank god."
7. "If it makes you feel any better, my 14-year-old came home today and told me...'I'm surrounded by idiots on a daily basis Mom! I can literally be ANYTHING I want to be because every job will be available since no one will be smart enough to even screw in a light bulb by the time they graduate, I swear by everything holy, and I'm not even exaggerating, they are totally that dumb! How can eighth graders, EIGHTH GRADERS, not know their address, or what state we live in?' And he put his headphones on and kept mumbling to himself in disbelief as he went upstairs."
8. "I had a freshman come to my room today and ask if I had his jacket. I said no. He then got upset because I didn't have the jacket he was sure he had left in my room three days ago (he was absent one day, and we had testing the next day). I asked, 'The jacket you have on?' 'Oh. Yeah.' Wow. Just...wow."
9. "I had a ninth-grade boy tell me it was my 'job' to control the handful of boys that were constantly disrupting and whatnot. I responded, 'No, it's my job to teach, and it is your job to take responsibility for your own behavior that gets in the way of your learning.' It was wild. Absolutely entitled punks."
10. "Sometimes I look at them and just want to yell, 'Should I wipe your butt for you, too?'"
—u/Shamrock7500
11. "Oh man. I used to sub for a middle school years ago. I hated it. I remember I had this one kid in class who just kept farting. I didn't know what to do. I was like, do I tell him to stop? Should I ask if he needs to use the restroom? Should I send him to the office? I think I just ended up ignoring him and repeating the substitute teacher mantra: 'This isn't group work, you shouldn't be talking.'"
12. "A seventh grader told me it's my job to provide pencils and Chromebooks in order to complete their assignments. When I provide golf pencils and loaner computers, they still complain. You can't win with these entitled students."
13. "I work at a Title I middle school. Unfortunately, this is all too common. I started making my students clean up the classroom after each class because they would basically trash it. I also went through 100 pencils in a week, either from them being broken (how do you even do that in the first place without trying to?) or leaving them in various places in the classroom."
14. "They'll swear up and down they left their computer in the classroom the day before, and now it's gone. I promise you nobody is breaking in overnight to steal a Chromebook. It's your assigned device, you look for it. No, I will not put in a ticket for another computer. I swear, so many kids have had people bulldoze every little inconvenience for them for so long, they believe adults should automatically take on their problems."
—u/Aly_Anon
15. "Kids left wrappers and orange peels and whatever else they get into in my classroom, and I told them, 'I know you don't leave your house looking like this,' and proceeded to have a classroom full of seventh graders tell me their parents don't make them do chores. Very few said their parents said chores are nonnegotiable. To the ones who told me they don't do chores, I told them that it showed, lol."
16. "Honestly, I would have laughed at his face and said, 'That's a you problem.'"
17. "Seriously, I don't know why people become teachers and deal with this. Like, god bless you for all you do. The way kids act and think, they are overly entitled and self-righteous."
18. "Yes, this is absolutely true. But they're also some of the coolest, funniest people on the planet. I used to say I would never touch middle school. Being a middle school admin has been my favorite job so far. I'm currently in a high school, but I could see myself going back to middle school before I retire in about 15 years."
What do you think about this? Have you noticed any similarities at all? If you work with kids and have a story or anecdote of your own, feel free to share it in the comments. Or, you can use the anonymous form below.
Note: Responses have been edited for length/clarity.
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