Speaker 1: It's time for the Bobby Bones Post Show.
Speaker 2: Here's your host, Bobby the Bone.
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Speaker 3: We just do it out of love for you.
Speaker 1: The listener. That's all streight love, that's all. We could
Speaker 1: go home right now. We could. Oh, I didn't know
Speaker 1: that was an option.
Speaker 2: That's a lot better option.
Speaker 3: I mean cool, I hold them hostage to do this podcast.
Speaker 3: For you that's watching this, either on Facebook or if
Speaker 3: you're listening to the podcast, we really appreciate that.
Speaker 1: We're going to bring in the women, the ladies, the teachers,
Speaker 1: the teachers.
Speaker 2: Why is that so weird? Can we call them the
Speaker 2: boss girl?
Speaker 3: I was like, these girls fluent and I felt nothing
Speaker 3: weird about it. But then Amy's like, you can't call
Speaker 3: them girl woman.
Speaker 4: I did not.
Speaker 3: I did not say that, like you kin, but you
Speaker 3: acted like saying girls was kind of an insult.
Speaker 5: I didn't.
Speaker 1: Your tone was like.
Speaker 5: No, I never said anything.
Speaker 1: Guys, I agree that you agree.
Speaker 5: No, I just feel.
Speaker 2: Should we call them the Boston Babes.
Speaker 5: I just.
Speaker 1: I'm not back feel it from your tu I'm coming
Speaker 1: up with a nickname here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, No.
Speaker 3: They'll just be in a minute and they're gonna come
Speaker 3: hang out. This morning a little rough at the house
Speaker 3: if you haven't been out from behind this desk much today.
Speaker 3: But I have on like, well, my grandma will call
Speaker 3: house shoes slippers that only stay at the house. I
Speaker 3: was walking through my wife's obviously a sleep I stepped
Speaker 3: on a squeaky toy that Ella had my dog get
Speaker 3: brought in there, and so I'm like, oh god, so
Speaker 3: I'll just try to grab whatever the shoe and they
Speaker 3: were so did that I know it woke her up
Speaker 3: for a second, and then I threw on whatever shoes
Speaker 3: were there. They were house shoes, slipper shoes. I want
Speaker 3: to go back in and wake her up again. So
Speaker 3: you know what, That's what I showed up into work today.
Speaker 3: It was that kind of morning. I was out late
Speaker 3: last night. I did the opry late for me, performed
Speaker 3: last night. I guess I didn't go on to almost nine,
Speaker 3: so I didn't get home until most of ten late
Speaker 3: and then worked on the show and so yeah, it
Speaker 3: was a late one.
Speaker 1: Tuesdays are tough. The Tuesday operating nights are tough.
Speaker 3: I'm happy to do them, and they're usually the better shows, honestly,
Speaker 3: the Tuesday night ones are because not always, but Friday
Speaker 3: and Saturday most of the more prominent current artists are
Speaker 3: on the road so on touring. So Tuesday nights are
Speaker 3: like massive because last night Craig Morgan was there, Breelan
Speaker 3: was there. I kind of forget, but Hailey Witters talked
Speaker 3: out for a long time. Yeah, I talked to her
Speaker 3: side said she performed right after me. Thank goodness, wasn't
Speaker 3: before me. I wouldn't have liked that.
Speaker 1: Because she's really good. She's really good, So yeah, it was.
Speaker 3: It was a pretty cool night, but it was a
Speaker 3: kind of a rough morning this morning because of that.
Speaker 3: Let's see, I said something inappropriate on Instagram to somebody
Speaker 3: I didn't mean to, and it's kind of it's not
Speaker 3: but it's the joke was not the cleanest.
Speaker 1: Well, this is what happened. It was in a d M.
Speaker 3: One of my friends had posted this Instagram story of
Speaker 3: one of his buddies, like up near this wall, and
Speaker 3: he was like, why is he what's he doing? And
Speaker 3: I was like, it's probably the glory hole there on
Speaker 3: that wall. Now, a glory hole is not it's hilarious,
Speaker 3: but it's like an old school thing from like the
Speaker 3: eighties or something.
Speaker 1: I don't even know. I've never even seen one. Oh no, no,
Speaker 1: I've never seen one. I just heard about him. Do
Speaker 1: you know what? Yeah, I never saw it.
Speaker 5: Okay, what it is? You taught me?
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, you taught her.
Speaker 2: I guess a cool lesson.
Speaker 1: I think it came up and I had to explain
Speaker 1: to her what it was. So what is it?
Speaker 3: You put your thing through the hole and then but
Speaker 3: you don't know what's on the other side. So it's
Speaker 3: kind of like when at like church camp, when you
Speaker 3: reach in and fill the worms and you don't know
Speaker 3: what it is in there.
Speaker 1: You know, no, you.
Speaker 5: Know what it is the glory.
Speaker 3: I'm talking about when you put your hand in and
Speaker 3: they're like in their city and it's like, oh, does
Speaker 3: it like brains or whatever.
Speaker 5: And you're like, but no, I just feel like it's
Speaker 5: it's a mystery anyway.
Speaker 3: But the point was I didn't realize his social media
Speaker 3: person was running that account, not him. Oh no, oh no,
Speaker 3: so that joke probably offensive. Hmm, yeah, but I'm supposed
Speaker 3: to know his social media person run the account, not him.
Speaker 3: That's like one, I don't have a social media person.
Speaker 1: You know, so I run my stuff.
Speaker 3: So just assume that people are running their own stuff
Speaker 3: if I don't know any better.
Speaker 6: That's what yesterday I posted that I was in the
Speaker 6: school pickup line and someone sent me a message, are
Speaker 6: you picking up your kids?
Speaker 7: Or Kaitlin.
Speaker 1: Daughter Kaitlyn. It's like, ray, We're you gonna say Ray, no,
Speaker 1: the Squares game.
Speaker 2: No no, no. I was gonna say.
Speaker 8: One time somebody needed our password for something, or your
Speaker 8: password and it was someone from a company and I said, yeah,
Speaker 8: hold on, let me ask Bobby, and you gave me
Speaker 8: the dirtiest I don't think I cursed, no, no, no, but
Speaker 8: it was dirty. But I was like, nah, I don't
Speaker 8: say what it was.
Speaker 1: It was something like Eddie licks but say see nine
Speaker 1: or something.
Speaker 2: I'm dirtier but I don't remember.
Speaker 1: But Eddie just says it. It goes Eddie looks but
Speaker 1: six to night And I'm laughing.
Speaker 3: It's so hard that Eddie even said that to whomever
Speaker 3: it was on the other line.
Speaker 8: And then they said I put that in it didn't work.
Speaker 8: And then he's like, no, you idiot, that's not it.
Speaker 3: That was all that was all for comm It was.
Speaker 3: That was such joy, like I remember having pure delight
Speaker 3: when he said. I couldn't believe he said it. I
Speaker 3: was just passing on the because I was just like,
Speaker 3: you know, Eddie eats poop thirty two and he's like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's Eddie's poop thirty two.
Speaker 1: I laughed so hard.
Speaker 3: Yes, when Ray Mundo we had the squares game with
Speaker 3: our buddy Mike Signs and.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, it was a bad one, right.
Speaker 3: Right, thought it was just like all the boys and
Speaker 3: whenever the boys are just the boys.
Speaker 1: The boys get to be the boys.
Speaker 3: We don't worry about really offending because it's like how
Speaker 3: stupid and more on it can you be. It's the
Speaker 3: funnier you get the boys of the boys. And so
Speaker 3: you make your team name and mine's like Bobby's team.
Speaker 3: It's just a square game, super Bowl whatever, and right,
Speaker 3: what would your name but just using uh yeah, the
Speaker 3: Popcorn Slayers.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, that's good. It's not popcorn the kiddy cat. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: his name was the kit Kitty gads Layers.
Speaker 3: Why why so what happened was Mike si is like
Speaker 3: Grandma was in it is.
Speaker 1: It was it was a family pool.
Speaker 3: It was a family and all these people are like,
Speaker 3: why are the kiddy cats slayers right about?
Speaker 2: Like all these squares? Oh, we'll have so hard.
Speaker 5: Did he change his name?
Speaker 2: I don't care. You can't get there was in there
Speaker 2: was like why are they slamming the cat?
Speaker 1: That so it's and it's so fun for like us
Speaker 1: got it's so funny.
Speaker 8: That's like when I had my eighth grade though, man,
Speaker 8: my fantasy football team of the San Francisco sixty nine Ers,
Speaker 8: and my and my mother in law is like, let
Speaker 8: me see your fantasy team. And I had it up there,
Speaker 8: like the sixty nine ers, and I'm like, dang it,
Speaker 8: I didn't realize that.
Speaker 2: I had that up there.
Speaker 1: She was like, I thought it's a forty nine ers.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But we're never not idiots.
Speaker 3: You may think we've matured because we act less idiotic
Speaker 3: in public and around people that aren't our.
Speaker 1: Core group, We're never not idiot. You know who the
Speaker 1: biggest idiot is in the world? No, these nuts, right,
Speaker 1: so that's never gone there.
Speaker 3: That's and once it starts to going together, it exists
Speaker 3: the whole time, and you're like you're both like you're
Speaker 3: like that, I hate this because now I go to
Speaker 3: watch to say who.
Speaker 1: But then when somebody gets it, you're just like.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's crazy. It's like the most these nuts is
Speaker 3: the most fun game I've ever played.
Speaker 2: Remember when he got you?
Speaker 1: It was awesome because he.
Speaker 5: I'm not falling for it again. That was the That's
Speaker 5: just I slipped. Should have known better, That's right.
Speaker 3: Okay, So I was a guest on tomorrow's show, which
Speaker 3: you booked, which is cool, which I thought was really good.
Speaker 1: So I'm glad you were bringing them in.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you're trying to get me to say, what are
Speaker 6: you targeting about?
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Did he really good? Arrested?
Speaker 1: He did?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah he did. He did.
Speaker 4: I can't believe it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, we got them. I knew I'm playing.
Speaker 2: No, you can't get Bobby.
Speaker 1: I'm playing the game. I'm like old Bet, I'm like
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. I'm thinking about going in retirement. But so
Speaker 1: I got left in the tank. Yeah, you're impossible. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's bring in our Massachusetts. Three teachers that.
Speaker 3: Flew all the way in and just talk with them
Speaker 3: for a little bit before we and I didn't want
Speaker 3: to bring them here for that conversation.
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear raise kitty cats.
Speaker 5: And but they are around kids all day long, so they.
Speaker 1: See a lot of in the grade and fourth grade.
Speaker 3: And yeah that's and so that was it, and that's
Speaker 3: how I felt about the Constitution and the year seventeen
Speaker 3: thirty two.
Speaker 2: There they are, there are teachers. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So we were just talking about American history and uh,
Speaker 3: founding four fathers? So what did you guys do in
Speaker 3: the break from the show to right now? Our monks
Speaker 3: are not hold on, go ahead now.
Speaker 9: Sorry, we just want to get some coffee and some breakfast.
Speaker 1: Where'd you go? Honeywhere good?
Speaker 7: What was it called? Well? And we met someone that
Speaker 7: was just listening to us on the radio. We were like,
Speaker 7: oh my god, really famous?
Speaker 1: How did you? How did how did that come up?
Speaker 6: Though?
Speaker 7: We talked to a stranger sometimes, so you just.
Speaker 1: Went up to somebody and said, were you listening to
Speaker 1: us on the radio?
Speaker 7: Well, we're like we were on the Bobby Bone Show.
Speaker 3: We tell everyone, okay, And then but did they really
Speaker 3: have no idea and they were just playing along.
Speaker 7: No, they knew. We were like, oh, your dog's really cute.
Speaker 7: And then Nicholl's like, we were just on the Bobby
Speaker 7: Bone Show.
Speaker 1: I don't know where you just cared just hit him
Speaker 1: with it. I like that.
Speaker 4: He asked where we were from.
Speaker 10: We said, oh, you were from Massachusetts, and he asked
Speaker 10: what we were doing up here.
Speaker 4: So we just threw it on him.
Speaker 7: And then he asked if the story was true. We
Speaker 7: were like, yeah, we wouldn't lie, of course not.
Speaker 1: You're not paid actors we brought in here.
Speaker 2: No, they could lie.
Speaker 1: Ye know, Oh they could lie for sure. They could
Speaker 1: be from Memphis.
Speaker 3: And they're like, we're flying in and trick is off.
Speaker 3: So you're here until Friday, Friday, Friday morning. What are
Speaker 3: the so Amy asked you guys this, but what are
Speaker 3: the You have to have a couple like core staple
Speaker 3: things you're going to do.
Speaker 1: You've planned you want to ride a bull a fake one.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so you're going when there's a bar.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what is it called underground?
Speaker 9: Underground?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Underground? Okay, so you're gonna ride the ball.
Speaker 7: You're thinking about getting tattoos.
Speaker 5: Oh, Wow, what after a couple of.
Speaker 1: Drinks to sign your arm? That's tough. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5: This is a memorable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they want to get our signatures.
Speaker 1: No, don't do that. What would you get that?
Speaker 7: I don't know you got any ideas for us?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Do you guys have like what was your old school?
Speaker 3: Though you didn't go the same school.
Speaker 9: If I were to get a tattoo, would be with
Speaker 9: like my sister or something.
Speaker 7: Okay, whatever, yeah.
Speaker 1: Get tattoos. That was the alcohol talking.
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely was.
Speaker 7: I already have one.
Speaker 1: I regret What is it?
Speaker 7: It's a lotus flower, but it looks like like a
Speaker 7: substance that's illegal. You can say marijuana.
Speaker 1: It looks like a weed plant.
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, I know.
Speaker 1: Wait did it not look like that when they made it?
Speaker 7: Well? He was like do you want this on your
Speaker 7: body forever? And I was like yeah, I was like eighteen,
Speaker 7: So I have my students.
Speaker 4: Very geometric looking.
Speaker 8: Can you get your money back if like you happy
Speaker 8: with the tattoo?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think I've only ever paid afterward. Okay, because I
Speaker 1: have one.
Speaker 7: I did too, I just was like too scared to
Speaker 7: speak up.
Speaker 1: Yeah now I've learned, But would you black it out
Speaker 1: and go over it?
Speaker 7: I mean, at least you can't really see it a lot,
Speaker 7: so it's fine.
Speaker 3: Are there rules about being teachers and tattoos or are there,
Speaker 3: I don't know, suggestions about if you have tattoos on
Speaker 3: your arms to cover them up anything like that.
Speaker 4: Not really.
Speaker 10: I feel like it's more accepting nowadays. We have teachers
Speaker 10: that have tattoos that are visible all the time.
Speaker 11: Any neck tattoos on teachers, I feel like they're like
Speaker 11: kind of like more like not appropriate, but just like
Speaker 11: I can't think of the right word, but teachers, I
Speaker 11: feel like it's more accepting now for them to have tattoos.
Speaker 1: So why be a teacher?
Speaker 7: Question?
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's the best part about being a teacher? Let's
Speaker 1: do that. The best part can you teach young? You
Speaker 1: teach first grade?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 12: I teach the little is my little first yiees. I
Speaker 12: love them. I think the best part is watching them
Speaker 12: get something like click and just them feeling so proud
Speaker 12: of themselves and like knowing you how to part in that,
Speaker 12: and seeing them grow throughout the year and just see
Speaker 12: how far they have come and their confidence and just
Speaker 12: make like we have fun and we just make special
Speaker 12: memories together. And I just hope, like I remember my school.
Speaker 12: I remember going through elementary school and loving my teachers
Speaker 12: and having like I can just talk all day about
Speaker 12: my experience in school and it was so positive. So
Speaker 12: I hope like I can do that for my first grader.
Speaker 12: So just making memories and things like that.
Speaker 1: What about fourth grade?
Speaker 10: So I'm in a district where our kids come from
Speaker 10: a variety of different backgrounds, but for a lot of them,
Speaker 10: coming to school every day is like the best part
Speaker 10: of their day. It's so exciting. That's where they feel
Speaker 10: safe and super loved. So that's like one of the
Speaker 10: things that things that spend most rewarding for me, I
Speaker 10: would say, is just like being able to be that
Speaker 10: person for them, that's what they're excited to see.
Speaker 1: To like not jump in and try to fix stuff.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it can be kind of heartbreaking, but just knowing
Speaker 10: that you're like a part of that every day and
Speaker 10: making a difference in their lives, Yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Feel like I would struggle with that part. I would
Speaker 3: be like, oh, let me just help you. That's good
Speaker 3: for you. And then what about teaching high school? What's
Speaker 3: the best part.
Speaker 7: Hey, you guys are so cute. You're saying all the
Speaker 7: good stuff. No, No, it is really rewarding. Like I
Speaker 7: love history. So when the kids actually get into a
Speaker 7: lesson and like get off their phones and take their air.
Speaker 1: Can they have their phones in class?
Speaker 7: Yeah, because we don't have great technology at our school,
Speaker 7: so sometimes we use them for lessons and then it's
Speaker 7: hard to like monitor whether they're on snapchat or not.
Speaker 7: But most of my kids are pretty good, and when
Speaker 7: they actually get excited about it and interested, I love that.
Speaker 3: Are there any rules that you just can't if you're
Speaker 3: not using your phone? Like can they have their phones
Speaker 3: out if you're not using it for a lesson?
Speaker 7: It's just so hard to monitor these days, like air
Speaker 7: pods constantly like them hiding them and stuff, and like
Speaker 7: Apple watches, And it's just different than even when we
Speaker 7: were in school not that long ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's hard to do on this show
Speaker 3: with them. Yeah, I mean they're lunchboxes on Facebook.
Speaker 2: Facebook has been a thing of the past. I've done
Speaker 2: so good without not chatting on Facebook this year. I've
Speaker 2: set a new.
Speaker 1: Goal at all And what were you guys looking at computer?
Speaker 1: We looking over the shoulder.
Speaker 7: What was he looking, Yeah, I don't know. It looked
Speaker 7: like it was for work though I saw a little
Speaker 7: ESPN but oh.
Speaker 1: He's always on that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I was fantasy baseball, just because I came
Speaker 3: theater on the show to be like, how's your fantasy
Speaker 3: team doing?
Speaker 2: Like I just want to make sure you knew.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what's the hardest thing about being a teacher? Well,
Speaker 3: go back to first grade.
Speaker 9: I would say being their pants.
Speaker 12: No, they're what happened at the beginning of the year.
Speaker 12: That's not the hardest thing.
Speaker 5: Though.
Speaker 12: The hardest thing I think is at the end of
Speaker 12: the year, like when they like I'm gonna I miss them,
Speaker 12: Like I don't know. I try to make personal connections
Speaker 12: as you with each of them and like sending them off,
Speaker 12: like I'm happy that they're moving on, but it's like
Speaker 12: it is sad, like you only have these like kids
Speaker 12: for a year, and like you grow to love them
Speaker 12: and they mean so much to you, so I hope
Speaker 12: to come back and visit.
Speaker 9: But I think that's the hardest part.
Speaker 12: And I think with COVID to like some behaviors like
Speaker 12: social emotional aspects can be challenging, but you have I
Speaker 12: don't know.
Speaker 1: Do you have students that you still keep track of, Like,
Speaker 1: how long have you've been a teacher?
Speaker 12: So I toot pre k for two years, and then
Speaker 12: I've been teaching first grade for two years.
Speaker 1: Okay, so they haven't really been out long.
Speaker 9: Really, yeah, I hope they come back and visit.
Speaker 12: I like see my sex like now second graders from
Speaker 12: last year in the hallway, and they always like come in.
Speaker 12: They asked to read a book to my first grader,
Speaker 12: So it's cute.
Speaker 1: Oh that's cool. What about your fourth grade?
Speaker 10: Kind of along those lines, like being able to meet
Speaker 10: all of their needs. I don't have a lot of
Speaker 10: help in the classroom all the time, so like, I
Speaker 10: have kids at all different levels, and so the struggle
Speaker 10: just to like be able to make sure that I'm
Speaker 10: doing the best job that I can for all of
Speaker 10: my students, not just the ones that are like working
Speaker 10: on grade level material, making sure that it's challenging enough,
Speaker 10: and but also helping bring up those kids that are
Speaker 10: working a little bit below.
Speaker 4: There can be a lot of pressures.
Speaker 7: And your kids speak all different languages, so yeah, trying
Speaker 7: to learn Portuguese.
Speaker 3: Really yes, and you probably don't have to probably just
Speaker 3: doing that to create a better bonds.
Speaker 1: Good for you.
Speaker 5: These are good teachers right here.
Speaker 7: What about you?
Speaker 1: What's the hardest?
Speaker 3: I think phones would be so hard, just making so
Speaker 3: hard like distractions.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there's the aspect of like them not caring as
Speaker 7: much about the material because it's like a vocational school,
Speaker 7: so they're all going on to work in different professions.
Speaker 7: They're not super fired up about us history like I am.
Speaker 7: And then like the social emotional like Christina was saying,
Speaker 7: I think a lot of kids are struggling since the
Speaker 7: pandemic coming back into school.
Speaker 1: So that's a real thing.
Speaker 9: Lot offers you can tell.
Speaker 3: Yeah, in my opinion, and if all three of you
Speaker 3: say that, you're just at three different levels.
Speaker 1: So I believe it.
Speaker 3: But what is the struggle with kids who are coming back?
Speaker 3: Is it because they just been not around other kids?
Speaker 3: Is that like social skills?
Speaker 4: Is that our strategy?
Speaker 9: Definitely hoping strategies, Yeah, across the board.
Speaker 12: Also if like they haven't interacted with a lot of
Speaker 12: kids their age, so just like navigating even like sharing
Speaker 12: like simple things like that, navigating how to talk to kids,
Speaker 12: how to problem solve at their age, they just that
Speaker 12: they're just they haven't had exposure to that.
Speaker 3: So do you feel like bullying is lesser than it
Speaker 3: used to be because or that's still the same. I
Speaker 3: just go through ages because bullying was pretty prevalent where
Speaker 3: I was. But we keep we read these stories with
Speaker 3: kids are like, yeah, we made a bench to hang
Speaker 3: out with somebody if they're also bullying. So these are
Speaker 3: new things that you're we're finally hearing about because we
Speaker 3: have social media now. But do you feel like in
Speaker 3: even the last few years or since you were in school,
Speaker 3: that bullying has changed at all for first graders?
Speaker 12: I think first graders, I wouldn't say there's like a
Speaker 12: lot of bullying. I think there's just like a lot
Speaker 12: of trouble navi gaining social like their social situations, and
Speaker 12: some feelings get hurt. But I wouldn't say it's like
Speaker 12: necessarily on purpose. I try to incorporate a lot of
Speaker 12: like stories and we'll like turn and talk and share
Speaker 12: about there's like just social skills to give them skills
Speaker 12: they need, and we talk about kindness a lot, Like
Speaker 12: they know my huge word is empathy, Like they know
Speaker 12: what empathy means.
Speaker 9: So just I don't know, I wouldn't say like bullying.
Speaker 12: There's a lot of disagreements in first grade and yeah,
Speaker 12: tattling like little things like that on the.
Speaker 3: Show too, it's a lot of tattling. What about fourth
Speaker 3: grade you start to see bullying there.
Speaker 4: There is a little bit.
Speaker 10: I think the word bullying gets thrown around a lot
Speaker 10: more than what it actually is. But like she said,
Speaker 10: we focus a lot on the social emotional aspect just
Speaker 10: because they're they've missed out on a couple of years
Speaker 10: and they don't have all the strategies that they need.
Speaker 10: So like we do a morning meeting every day when
Speaker 10: we focus on all of that stuff and like practice
Speaker 10: using those strategies so that hopefully when they go out
Speaker 10: to like lunch and recess, they can use those.
Speaker 4: I don't know that.
Speaker 10: There's more or less bullying than like when we grow
Speaker 10: were growing up, but I mean there's always teasing.
Speaker 1: I agree with you too. I think bullying is thrown
Speaker 1: around way too much.
Speaker 3: It's just a word use for when any kid has
Speaker 3: any sort of resistance anywhere by anybody, you're.
Speaker 1: Like, well, that's bullying.
Speaker 3: Well, in life, sometimes things don't go your way, and
Speaker 3: if you don't have those at a smaller level, then
Speaker 3: when they become a medium level and then.
Speaker 1: A big level. Then you're like, what do I do?
Speaker 3: Right, Like, that's part of the adjustment to just life
Speaker 3: in general. Not that there should be a lot of
Speaker 3: it in first or fourth grade, but what about when
Speaker 3: they get to because I think online would be a
Speaker 3: big part of it now, like where the people are
Speaker 3: like angry or mean or harassing each other on whatever
Speaker 3: the social media platform. Is that happening more with high schoolers, right?
Speaker 7: I don't really see it in the classroom, I'm sure
Speaker 7: from your experience, Like, no one's going to be mean
Speaker 7: in front of the teacher. Really, we say it in
Speaker 7: like the hallways and stuff a little bit, and I
Speaker 7: think it is more online. But I will say like
Speaker 7: this generation of students gen Z seems more inclusive in
Speaker 7: some aspects then maybe generations previously, whereas things like we
Speaker 7: would have been bullied for in high school or like
Speaker 7: cool now. So that's one good thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And then you guys, as social media, is there
Speaker 3: a standard that you have to keep?
Speaker 1: Obviously?
Speaker 3: You know you do a keg stand on your social
Speaker 3: media right? Are they are your accounts private or what's
Speaker 3: the deal?
Speaker 7: Yeah, we learned that in college. They told us to
Speaker 7: block everything, so there's no aspect. Sometimes kids will go
Speaker 7: on a search. I get a lot of message requests.
Speaker 7: They try to find me, but it's all blocked. They
Speaker 7: can't find it, so they can't find it well, like
Speaker 7: they can find my name, and then they try to
Speaker 7: follow me and I deny it, and I say.
Speaker 3: All private, by private, Yah, you still though, go I
Speaker 3: know it's private, but I still get to everything could
Speaker 3: get out.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 10: I try to make sure that what I'm posting is
Speaker 10: appropriate for the most part. Definitely, I don't have as
Speaker 10: many people trying to find me as the high school level,
Speaker 10: but once in a while, and once in a while
Speaker 10: parents will try to friend request.
Speaker 4: Oh I don't really cross that.
Speaker 6: I just have to ask about parents, Like, what is
Speaker 6: it like for y'all with parents?
Speaker 2: No high school dudes, I bet are hitting on her?
Speaker 1: I mean, was she said that that their ages were close?
Speaker 2: Yea, that's what I'm saying, So I bet you those
Speaker 2: seniors are like.
Speaker 1: Hitting on Hold, I'll talk about parents. Are dealing with parents.
Speaker 3: I bet there are some that you guys are on
Speaker 3: the same path with and you they understand that you
Speaker 3: understand that they There are some probably it's like their
Speaker 3: kid can do no wrong, but their kid has done it, doing.
Speaker 7: A lot wrong, fulldose. Their parents call them really instead
Speaker 7: of helicopter.
Speaker 3: How do you handle them? Are you just like you
Speaker 3: know what, you're right? But really they're not.
Speaker 7: I don't get too many math teachers get a lot
Speaker 7: of those. Our parents, unfortunately, don't care as much about education.
Speaker 7: I would say as some different districts.
Speaker 3: Do you ever hear, Yeah, he says you hate him.
Speaker 3: You must hate our kid because he says that my
Speaker 3: teacher hates him. So that's why he gets bad grades because.
Speaker 1: That was the thing. Teacher hates me. That's why you
Speaker 1: guys ever do that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, my fourth grade teacher hated me, absolutely hated me.
Speaker 2: I went home every single day and told my mom,
Speaker 2: miss Kangus hates me. You need to get me out
Speaker 2: of her class.
Speaker 4: She didn't hate you, she frustrating, No, no, no.
Speaker 1: She wanted more for you, and that she hated me.
Speaker 2: And my mom volunteered for Valentine's Day and we were
Speaker 2: doing work sheets, weren't even on a party. And my
Speaker 2: mom will tell you to this day she should have
Speaker 2: taken me out of that class.
Speaker 1: To this day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, year and a half later, Miss Kangous quit teaching
Speaker 2: because she was not good at it.
Speaker 7: What about then you would have graduated college, she did say.
Speaker 2: My mom did say after fourth grade. That's when school
Speaker 2: was not a priority for me.
Speaker 1: So that really shook you up.
Speaker 2: Fourth grade?
Speaker 1: What about dads? Are they ever flirtatious?
Speaker 10: I mean, most of for us, most of my communication
Speaker 10: with parents is over this messaging app. So we meet
Speaker 10: them usually like the first day of school when they
Speaker 10: dropped their kids off, and then like from there, unless
Speaker 10: they want to meet to talk about something. I usually
Speaker 10: don't have a lot of face to face contacts with parents.
Speaker 10: It's mostly just messages.
Speaker 1: What about you, guys? Dad's ever like? What's u?
Speaker 7: Mine's mostly the students and then I create boundaries. But
Speaker 7: someone's dad. One of my girls dads did bought me
Speaker 7: a coffee after school on Friday, so that was nice
Speaker 7: because I saw my dunkin Donuts.
Speaker 1: But he bought your coffee? Or did you buy your coffee?
Speaker 1: There's a difference. There's a difference.
Speaker 3: Hey, I like to buy you coffee or a grade teacher,
Speaker 3: you really influence my kid's life, I'd like to buy
Speaker 3: your coffee.
Speaker 7: She was there, so I think It.
Speaker 3: Was final question about teaching, like what do you think
Speaker 3: is missing? What could you guys use that you don't get?
Speaker 3: It would make your job a lot easier. That seems
Speaker 3: like a fundamental thing you probably should get. What are
Speaker 3: you missing? First grade?
Speaker 7: What are we missing?
Speaker 9: I think like overall, like across the board for teaching,
Speaker 9: just more.
Speaker 1: Support, like teachers aids.
Speaker 9: Like, yeah, teachers aids.
Speaker 12: I'm all by myself in verse grade, which is it's fine,
Speaker 12: like I do the best that I can. But I
Speaker 12: think like even the younger grades, like you could benefit
Speaker 12: from extra support just to make sure you're accommodying all
Speaker 12: the needs of your students. Classroom budgets are tricky.
Speaker 1: You spend a lot of your own money on stuff.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I feel you on that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what money do you spend a years on?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 2: On stuff here? What like bits and stuff like I
Speaker 2: gotta put money in the stock market.
Speaker 1: No, you ask us for money, businesses we put our.
Speaker 5: No, don't hijack what they're talking about.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, do you guys, what about what could
Speaker 1: you use? Fourth grade?
Speaker 10: Same definitely support Like my next door neighbor teacher, she
Speaker 10: has half of our class are special education students this
Speaker 10: year and she just doesn't have the support that she needs.
Speaker 10: There's just not enough people that want.
Speaker 7: To Well, they don't get paid enough.
Speaker 4: For that job.
Speaker 10: And definitely money to use for our classrooms. And we
Speaker 10: make like lot of projects online that people can fund
Speaker 10: if they want to support us, but we otherwise spend
Speaker 10: a lot of our own money sometimes.
Speaker 3: What was that thing? There's a place you can go
Speaker 3: to help you get to fund things that you said?
Speaker 3: So is it like your classroom specifically?
Speaker 10: You can like make a profile and make your sort
Speaker 10: of like wishless and then if people want to I
Speaker 10: support you that.
Speaker 1: Yeah? Is that like fill the list or whatever?
Speaker 10: Amazon wish lists or A lot of teachers use donors,
Speaker 10: not donors choos.
Speaker 1: It's donor's juice, and you guys all have one of those.
Speaker 9: I have an Amazon wish list. I don't use what
Speaker 9: you guys just said.
Speaker 1: I have a jo you Do you have a donor
Speaker 1: schoice or do you have one?
Speaker 7: I don't, fortunately, because my school does have good funding.
Speaker 7: Where I am I'm rating.
Speaker 1: Do you guys get paid enough?
Speaker 7: Well? She was talking about paraprofessionals and like teachers age
Speaker 7: and teacher supports and substitute teachers. They don't get paid enough.
Speaker 7: Maybe nor do we, but so there's not enough of them,
Speaker 7: So we're spending our time substituting for other teachers when
Speaker 7: they're out.
Speaker 1: Wow, really and stuff like that. Yeah, dang, let's box.
Speaker 1: You get paid enough?
Speaker 2: No, No, everybody says they don't get paid enough. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's the thing. And it's no disrespect to teachers, but.
Speaker 3: Well anything anytime you say no disrespect, disrespect is coming.
Speaker 2: We want to open that can of worms, but there's
Speaker 2: nowhere to.
Speaker 7: Go, lunchbox. Would you want us to teach our kids?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 1: You don't care that much?
Speaker 12: That sure?
Speaker 1: Is like? Yeah, why not?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 2: I mean what what what what's the difference between them
Speaker 2: and the next teachers that come in here? They're all
Speaker 2: teachers and.
Speaker 3: Another person on a radio show. They're not as good, okay,
Speaker 3: and so.
Speaker 2: But that's what I'm saying the teachers. Here's the problem
Speaker 2: with paying teachers more. Who are you going to Which
Speaker 2: teachers are you going to pay more? All of them?
Speaker 2: Because not all of them are good.
Speaker 3: First of all, I would say, if you pay them more,
Speaker 3: you will have the better teachers thriving. Secondly, you have
Speaker 3: people to go, you know what I should teach, I
Speaker 3: can actually make a better living wage and get out
Speaker 3: of this career where I could give back. You have
Speaker 3: people moving over to the teaching profession that think, Okay,
Speaker 3: well I need that money to survive. I can now
Speaker 3: do that job. So yes, you would have other folks
Speaker 3: coming into the profession that could be great teachers that
Speaker 3: aren't there now because the pay is so low, And
Speaker 3: so then.
Speaker 2: What are you gonna do with the crabbit? Teachers are
Speaker 2: gonna unemployed?
Speaker 1: Then they'll go find a job somewhere else.
Speaker 5: Am I product that'll get filtered out? Eventually? You can't.
Speaker 1: They could do your job, no doubt it. Yeah.
Speaker 7: Unfortunately, though, there is a teaching shortage, Like teachers are
Speaker 7: leaving the profession left and right.
Speaker 12: There's been like I feel like nowadays here there's like
Speaker 12: a lot of higher expectations for teachers and it's.
Speaker 6: Well, that's what I was singing a minute ago, was
Speaker 6: how y'all were talking about meeting the needs of each
Speaker 6: kid And it's almost like you have the curriculum that
Speaker 6: you have to teach, But at the same time, I
Speaker 6: know this is a parent Like there's times where you
Speaker 6: have to step in and you're almost like a therapist.
Speaker 12: Or you or somebody juggle with so many things.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just think about that part.
Speaker 6: But I love that I heard from each of you
Speaker 6: that you are concerned about their their well being in
Speaker 6: that way, because I'm sure that's not the case for
Speaker 6: every teacher.
Speaker 3: You probably just get I mean, not you guys, but
Speaker 3: teachers should probably go all right, this has been a
Speaker 3: poor situation for a long time.
Speaker 1: Why do I care so much? I'll just keep teaching
Speaker 1: and just we'll just keep going. Why do I care?
Speaker 1: Why I'm gonna put an extra effort.
Speaker 3: Theyn't put an extra effort time, money, support, And you're like,
Speaker 3: I'm in this career. They don't care that much about
Speaker 3: me obviously, so I'll just do minimum and just keep going.
Speaker 1: I think that's probably.
Speaker 3: Something that happens and a lot of professions, but I
Speaker 3: can see it especially happening in yours, where you constantly
Speaker 3: have to give away more than you're getting, regardless of
Speaker 3: how much you're getting because it's just not enough from
Speaker 3: the directions you need it from. And also, lunchbox, you
Speaker 3: want to do public speaking, right, you should take that
Speaker 3: on the road.
Speaker 1: That theory and that thought about Yeah, I think that's
Speaker 1: really not well with money. Yeah, like, what's the difference
Speaker 1: another one comes in, it just takes their place.
Speaker 7: That's the truth speaking.
Speaker 3: He keeps looking for a topic to really go on
Speaker 3: the road with. I think he's finally found it.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's a lot of things you can say
Speaker 2: about teachers.
Speaker 4: Go ahead.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, they're great people, but they're easily replaceable.
Speaker 1: Easily replaceable.
Speaker 3: Teachers are easily replaceable by how their ability to teach,
Speaker 3: to bond to help.
Speaker 1: I think generally that's what it is. But what if you.
Speaker 3: Raise the salary and all the teachers that weren't good
Speaker 3: were like, well, we can't keep up with what we're
Speaker 3: supposed to do. Now we have all the support our
Speaker 3: students need to hit a certain level. What if they
Speaker 3: can't keep up? So then other people go, well, you're
Speaker 3: not getting paid let's say a million dollars a year,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna leave my job here everybody.
Speaker 2: Then everybody would become a teacher for a million dollars.
Speaker 3: I was just putting a number out there, but it
Speaker 3: would only be the best of the best, because the
Speaker 3: more money you give them, the better the teachers are.
Speaker 1: And Thank god.
Speaker 3: You have teachers that are still like it don't matter
Speaker 3: about just the money. But there are a lot they
Speaker 3: just probably give up and go, oh, keep teaching, make
Speaker 3: the check. But I'm not going to really put in
Speaker 3: the effort.
Speaker 2: I just think that teachers go to teach, and you know,
Speaker 2: they get paid what they get paid because there's a
Speaker 2: million of them.
Speaker 7: They both have their masters. I don't know if they're
Speaker 7: easily replaceable. It's a lot of school.
Speaker 1: So you have two yeah masters.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're teaching fourth grade, right.
Speaker 1: And that's also is that who you want teaching your kids.
Speaker 2: They knew what they were getting into when they signed
Speaker 2: up to teach for than first grade.
Speaker 1: But that's right.
Speaker 7: Of course they panic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're not complaining at all.
Speaker 2: They said they want to get paid more.
Speaker 3: But don't you want people who know what they're getting into,
Speaker 3: and what they're getting into is a more stable teaching
Speaker 3: job where they have support and more money. And you
Speaker 3: have more people getting into it who know what they're
Speaker 3: getting into, who are better, who have master's degrees, who
Speaker 3: have lived life in different careers. They can bring that
Speaker 3: to it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you signed up for this. We knew that. We
Speaker 4: weren't going to be making a million dollars a year.
Speaker 4: So you love me too. We can dream.
Speaker 7: Yeah, don't you want more money?
Speaker 2: Yeah, the lottery. Everybody wants more money. Any job you
Speaker 2: go to, they're going to say they're underpaid.
Speaker 7: Every job dreams came true today when I got to
Speaker 7: be here.
Speaker 2: That's what we do, get me through and that's why
Speaker 2: we get paid the big bucks.
Speaker 6: But you say you're underpaid and you had nothing to
Speaker 6: do with it.
Speaker 1: Okay, look, we spent a lot of huh oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: we brought the energy.
Speaker 3: No, that was we just generally have questions about teaching.
Speaker 3: I think you gave us a nice little gift here,
Speaker 3: and our listeners too. I just had a lot of questions.
Speaker 3: And so don't we appreciate you guys coming in. I
Speaker 3: hope this was fun for you guys. I hope you
Speaker 3: had fun at the operation.
Speaker 9: It was amazing.
Speaker 3: I hope your Nashville trip is good for the next
Speaker 3: couple of days. And thank you for like gutting through
Speaker 3: the cancelations and the weather. What's the weather in Massachusetts?
Speaker 12: It was so fog God, it was like we had
Speaker 12: two cancelations and a so we went to reports to
Speaker 12: get here.
Speaker 1: What we went.
Speaker 12: We would like traveled all over mass We started in Wooster,
Speaker 12: we went to Boston.
Speaker 9: Then we went from Boston too Good Airport.
Speaker 1: Really yeah, the fog was that bad.
Speaker 12: Well really, this was across the span of twenty four hours.
Speaker 12: We were just trying to get the fastest flight and
Speaker 12: cheapest light here that we could and because we.
Speaker 2: Didn't, we going, Yeah, definitely cheap. Is because you guys
Speaker 2: don't get paid in our groups.
Speaker 3: Don't fall for his trap, because he's like a fly trap.
Speaker 3: Once in you're stuck to it and you're like, ah,
Speaker 3: now I'm here for a while, so don't don't don't
Speaker 3: bite into it. Well, look, thank you guys for coming.
Speaker 3: Appreciate what you do. This is a dream outside of
Speaker 3: this place. We really appreciate what you guys do as
Speaker 3: teachers at different levels too. I like that you guys
Speaker 3: all could lend your perspective from young, middle and older
Speaker 3: kids when it comes to school. And that's what's up
Speaker 3: amy thing you want to say before we go.
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, thank you all for what you do. I
Speaker 6: hope you don't take lunchboxes. Comment periously, he's just trying to.
Speaker 1: Say they also, by the way, we don't tell him
Speaker 1: to say this stuff. You guys are in the room.
Speaker 2: You saw the whole thing worse. But it's like, bring
Speaker 2: that up. He's like, I'm not going to say it.
Speaker 3: Well, we know eventually it's going to come out because
Speaker 3: you're going to find a way to cram it in there.
Speaker 2: Look, I'm not saying teachers are bad. People like thanks
Speaker 2: for what you do. We need teachers, But don't you
Speaker 2: know what you're getting into when you go into it?
Speaker 2: That's what I that's what I.
Speaker 3: Find What if people knew what they were getting into
Speaker 3: and it was a better situation they were getting into it,
Speaker 3: So if they raised the top, you would have people going,
Speaker 3: I know what I'm getting into.
Speaker 2: Because you're going to pay them more, and then your
Speaker 2: taxes are going to be more, and people don't want
Speaker 2: to pay more taxes.
Speaker 5: So there's a whole thing on how.
Speaker 2: I mean, I give shout out my teachers. I had
Speaker 2: some great teachers. Miss Butler, what up?
Speaker 3: Miss Anderson was winning this argument because he's louder so
Speaker 3: Miss Curry.
Speaker 2: Miss Curry kindergarten.
Speaker 6: Second grade tams just say it could be more boiled
Speaker 6: down to it. Maybe your taxes don't have to go up.
Speaker 6: It could be distribution of funds and that we are
Speaker 6: the case priority, yes, which is sad because teachers should
Speaker 6: be a priority, especially knowing Yeah now, I'm yeah, I'm
Speaker 6: thankful as a parent to hear each of your perspectives
Speaker 6: and just to think of what y'all are pouring into
Speaker 6: them besides just the curriculum.
Speaker 8: Absolutely, they spent half their lives with you guys, like
Speaker 8: that's that's a big deal.
Speaker 1: Thank you. So yeah, thank you.
Speaker 5: Let's say it collectively, thank you.
Speaker 1: They do. All right, that's it. That's it for today.
Speaker 7: We are in therapy.
Speaker 6: Amy.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I did you have to you have to
Speaker 5: be like home.
Speaker 1: Like right, that's it. Thank you guys for you.
Speaker 3: Guys are hold on like we're gona take pictures and stuff.
Speaker 3: You don't have to like all right, sayah bout it tomorrow.
Speaker 2: By a Buddy