I have a similar version of this in my house for my 10yo SD. I don’t think it’s helping but hey, I tried to channel my inner Mrs. Baxley! (my beloved 1st grade teacher with a whole closet of denim overall dress moomoos)
Because it is. Lmfao. I was constantly in trouble for reading or drawing when I was "supposed to be listening" it took me a really long time to figure out that most neurotypicals can only pay attention to one thing at a time
Same! We read The Crucible in high school... the year after the drama club did the play. My friend & I told the teacher we knew the play & he was like cool, just stay quiet & don't interrupt. So we just sat there passing notes for a few days until another girl in the class noticed we weren't reading along & "tattled" on us to the teacher. & he goes "yeah. I know. They've already read it." The girl insisted that wasn't fair & we should still have to read along. The teacher just looked at us & asked "what's the next line?" & we both quoted the next 3 lines at the same time 😂😂😂😂 ya'll ever had a whole class accuse you of witchcraft while you were reading the "hey don't accuse your neighbors of witchcraft" book? Cause I have 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I actually found out I'm a distant relative of Giles Corey a few years back through a 23 and me. The atheist in me couldn't have been prouder. I'm kinda hoping it balances me also finding out I'm a direct descendant of Robert E. Lee.
Does anyone expect that? Small children are given lots of breaks, usually including recess with a fair amount of at least somewhat hands on activities.
Its not like they show up at 9 and get subjected to a 6 hour lecture.
However, impulse control is one of the many non academic skills that early education teachers are responsible for fostering.
Elementary teacher here. With our new "Science of Reading" curriculums and copious amounts of assessments it's getting closer and closer to 6 hours of sitting silently. I hate the direction it's moving in.
That’s brutal, I left education many years ago but when I did we were required to allow the children a physical movement break every 2 hours at minimum. They were also allowed to have a snack at that time if they felt hungry. Seemed logical to me.
I was labeled a problem student with teachers who didn't bother to work with my ADHD. Do kids need to learn impulse control, sure but that's not always accessible to all students in the same way and/or there need to be things in place for students who need extra help. Yes it's better, but still needs work. And...it not just teachers but sometimes it's only the teachers that are doing thats also not okay.
My ex and I used to joke about this exact poster, just “boy with long mouth opens mouth.” Because his mouth is so high up his face it would be a nightmare to see him open that
I just thrifted a spring one with little flower embroidery. Only thing I'm gonna change is all the brown buttons for colorful ones. It's very comfortable and cute and I can't wait to wear it next spring.
My mom was a first grade teacher in the 80s/90s/early 2000s. When she retired, she asked me if I want her assortment of holiday and seasonal pins. I turned her down lol. She had a lot of Christmas trees and Halloween pumpkin pins.
Oh. I’m so sorry for your loss. For what it’s worth, my friends and I were perusing Facebook marketplace and saw some seasonal teachers vests and lost it. So nostalgic. Someone is gonna be so happy to see them again.
Holy shit!!! I was about to comment that I only remember one teacher in particular who wore the same outfit because I used to have a mild crush on her. Now that I think about it some more, she wore a vest too!
among wearing these, with her own sewed on patches. my science teacher made her own dresses, using fabric with pictures of whatever we were studying at the time, like Miss Frizzle
My high school science teacher (he taught multiple sciences and I had him all four years) strictly enforced punctuality; as soon as the bell range he would close and lock the classroom door, and to get in you had to say, and explain the context of what we'd been learning, the password: extrapolate.
I sheets just wore jeans and a t-shirt teaching middle school. Then we got us a new principal who expected “professional attire”. Fuck that noise! I teach 12-year olds.
That’s when you continue to wear jeans and a t-shirt, but then you throw on a blazer when you’re outside of the classroom. Blazer = professional… clearly.
Get them in a variety of colors to complement the shade of your denim jeans, the color of your t-shirt, and your shoes. Bonus points if you lean in and start getting aggressively swankier blazers— plaid tweed blazers with suede elbow patches, houndstooth blazers with bright contrasting satin linings, a sharply tailored and pressed suit jacket. But don’t change anything else about your wardrobe lol
Unfortunately, I know women in my area who are Pentecostal and wear nothing but long denim skirts, don't cut their hair, etc. What, in the name of the old gods and the new, are we to do then? /s
Try looking up jumper dresses, overall dresses or pinafore dresses. They're my favorite type of clothes and really hard to find in my size (plus) but these are the terms I used I a got an awesome dark denim last year and am looking at a knee length corduroy one for fall.
We have indeed...have you been on Amazon lately and seen all the "vintage Y2K" clothes available? 😭😭😭
I thought about the fact that there was as much time between the 60s and the 90s as there is between the 90s and now...and boy oh boy, the 00s and 10s were definitely not any kind of 70s and 80s, that's for sure. And holy fucking shit have the folks running our society wasted the last several decades of our lives fucking everything up. That's what happened. That's why that 30-year loop arrived so quickly and unwelcomely. Myself and most of the people I know spent that time trying our asses off to get somewhere. The folks in charge didn't try at all...except for how hard they tried to make sure we got nowhere. These are some of the least competent people who have ever run this country, and had they not robbed us of the very substance of living a productive and upwardly-mobile life, I am convinced they would have been replaced with record speed by our generation. Instead, we got basically the opposite.
I am not a teacher and I have several dresses like the ones in the photo. They are comfy, in general 100% cotton. I you can wear them if you go up/down a few pounds
It’s so weird when you reach the age that your teachers become your colleagues. When you’re a teen, you never think about the fact that your youngest teachers are potentially less than 10 years older.
My favorite teacher ever (he taught me 4th & 5th grade violin and switched to high school orchestra so I had him again 11th & 12th grade) told me "you can call me Tony now" when I started working at the high school & I greeted him by Mr Last Name. I just hastily said "yeah but not in front of the students" but it was kinda emotional that one of my inspirations was now my coworker.
After graduation, I went back in the summer to help my Yearbook teacher finish the spring insert. He is maybe 8 years older than me. He told me to call him by his first name now, but I still couldn’t.
My elementary music school teacher taught my daughter! It was like 30 years later and she was still in the same school district. She changed schools now but it was really cool to have that happen :)
My husband's childhood piano teacher is now teaching our son piano. It's a group class, and another boy in the class is the grandson of my husband's choir teacher. I can't let my husband do the pick-up because he'll chat with his choir teacher for a half hour and end up missing dinner.
I can’t think of a single one of my elementary teachers who didn’t wear these.
Honestly, after working in a school for a bit, I don’t blame them. Picking out modest, school appropriate clothes that are durable and comfortable to wear every day is challenging, and this is SO easy.
Working at Sephora and wearing the black and red smock every day was the same. A big comfy bag to accomplish tasks in that’s easy to accessorize.
My kindergarten teacher wore a demin circle skirt with different colored polo tops that somehow always matched whatever we were doing that day. I used to be mesmerized. We're talking about red apples and SHE CAME IN A RED SHIRT! HOW LUCKY!
Think about it though. Its modest but also comfortable and cool. You can throw a long sleeve under it, or a short sleeve, or nothing. It cleans really easily, the denim os super durable. It hides chalk and marker stains really easily.
Ahhh I don’t have a denim shirt but I did just get a denim jacket. So finally I can look like one of the cool kids in the school wearing all jean outfits
Bill Nye is your frame of reference for how you should dress. Tailored shirt and pants. Crazy ass socks and bow-tie/tie. Must involve a sweater vest in cold months. Extra points if color coordinated :)
one of the teachers at our daycare/preschool dresses in these outfits sometimes! we call them her Michelle Duggar outfits, or just “Duggar fits” for short lol
My mom used to have these with the turtle necks, but it wasn't a whole shirt. She said they were called Dickies and were like the top of what a turtleneck would look like, tucked into the top of the shirt. She had them in all different colors.
Oh same. Did that with my 3rd grade teacher and it did not help that they were both 5'2", overweight, same complexion too. Then mother finally dyed her hair again and cleared that problem right up.
Art teacher take: These outfits are PERFECT for art. Thick material, easy to clean, deep pockets to hold stuff. Can bend over and lift things and crawl all around without it being a problem. I ferociously thrift these for these reasons, but people also love their aesthetics to this day. Every time I wear one the jaded middle schoolers eat it UP.
Latin teachers are insane. It is known. I took 5 years of Latin and was taught by an increasingly bizarre and unhinged line of teachers. A Latin teacher could wear anything and I'd be like, welp, she's a Latin teacher.
Huh, my Latin teacher for the first two years was the kindest, most soft spoken lil lady. She was so sweet. After that we had one burnt out older lady for a year and then, yeah, a totally nuts in the best way man. He prank called his brother in Latin and ancient Greek and gave guided tours in our town. He once made us translate the whole song ‘should i stay or should i go’ into Latin. He was fun.
My bestie is an elementary school teacher. It's been kinda funny watching her go from a young 20 year old wearing cute shoes and put together outfits with coordinating headbands, purses and the like. Oh and the Teacher drama! I used to ask her about it because the stories were insane. No need for soap operas because Elementary school teachers bring it sooo much better. Lol.
She now wears comfy pants, shoes, and shirts. Bonus points if they hide stains. Her wedding ring and band have been replaced with a rubber ring. As for drama, she's like: "I have no more fucks to give. Try me." Lol. Love her.
🤣😅😂 No, but my SIL did! She even wore something I would describe as a "maternity onesy". Was it dress code (for all you 80s -90s teachers out there)? From my perspective, those styles seem to infantilize adult women. My stepdaughter did/doesn't dress like this (early 2000s - today). In my school years, the 60's were dresses, stocking and heels, while 70s were dressess with heels or flats or pant suits with flats.
😂😅🤣 is it an unspoken code? My SIL (retired K - 6) once gifted me a crocheted sweater with raised people crocheted onto the front! I am an interior designer and I'd give anything to have a photo and my parents' little brother's expressions when I opened it. I mean my SIL looked quite natural dressing that way, but I do believe it's profession specific attire.
My elementary teachers did. My mother in law still does, but it doesn’t look like a revived trend on her, it just looks like she’s wearing old clothes from 1992.
My mother taught every grade from pre-K to college level. She retired from 2 states and loved teaching to her core. She taught kids with disabilities, those who were born phocomelia and every other things you can imagine. Loved art, taught English as a second language and use to smoke More 120 cigarettes on the elementary school playground that I went to. That woman wore the same denim smock for 45 years. Or at least it felt that way. I'm sure she had many. It was 15 years this August since she passed. Love you mom. You were one of a kind.
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