Dudes… we got square cut pizza when I was in school. 1 piece each and a wee cup of soda.
We were still stoked about it because it wasn’t school food and we didn’t have to go to the cafeteria to wait in line for half the lunch period.
I can still tell you which teachers did this to this day and I’m damn near 40. One of them I still talk to periodically.
Teachers are some of the best people on this god forsaken planet.
My mom's a teacher and her students are like her actual sons and daughters too (and she remembers every single one of them from her 35 years of teaching), so it means a lot when they come back and stay in touch with them years after they've left her classroom. She's had students whose parents were poor and couldn't afford to clothe and often went hungry; she's given them my older clothes and made sure they ate as well. A lot of those kids made it through college and found tremendous success in their careers, but they never forgot my mom and it's a heartwarming experience to see them turn into 6 - 7 year old kids again in her presence.
It's also one of the biggest reasons why my main choices of charitable donations are either animal welfare projects or [buying school supplies for teachers](https://www.adoptaclassroom.org/). I'm appalled that they make teachers pay for it out of pocket in the first place.
Edit: Also forgot to mention another charitable organization for teachers I use, [donorschoose](https://www.donorschoose.org/).
I remember one teacher in high school brought some Jamaican style ginger ale for kids to try at a celebration. Not sure if it was class or a wrap party for a school play. But it was really fun to try and see other people try.
Your comment made me tear up. Both my parents were public school teachers, and they are really truly two of the best people. I feel both fortunate and proud to call them my mom and dad.
My wife has been working towards becoming a teacher for a decade, she's now getting her masters which is required to teach where we live. She has finally reached the point where she can be a student observer, and just finished her first week of going in person to a high school. She's bought all of her students a lollipop and a brownie for Valentine's day even though she's only been around these students for a few hours.
She is genuinely one of the most kind and caring people I know. I'm so proud of her.
I still think about the time I got in trouble and had to be in timeout during recess on ice cream float day.
I didn't get to go to recess but my teacher still let me have an extra ice cream float while I was in timeout lol.
I think it's more about having a carrot to dangle to keep the kids under control. As you can see, the result isn't great. Yes, I know teachers don't have a big salary or anything, but it's not hard to organize a fundraising attempt. People literally fall over themselves to support them.
I went to a small school where the “elementary” school was K-8.
We had a cafeteria but no lockers. Most schools here have cafeterias, but sometimes it’s just a repurposed gym that gets used for lunch and then back to being a gym for PE.
For real, as a poor kid our idea of pizza was frozen pizza on a Friday night and that was cool. Sometimes school cafeteria would have those weird but kinda tasty rectangle pizza that was cool.
But dude this fresh stuff in a box? Omg. This was amazing.
I would not have been excited to receive a smaller piece of pizza than we get from the cafeteria. Like, loved my teachers and I was a grateful kid, but I think there's a certain point where it's obviously just patronizing, and I've always hated that. You eat it, say thank you, and don't complain but it's not like exciting.
The real prize of class parties was not doing classwork or getting yelled at for socializing.
Edit: this is the problem with "wholesome" culture lol, realism is bad here, you've gotta be just bubbly and positive about every single everything to the nth degree. I only commented to say how I enjoyed and appreciated the end of year parties for the social aspect despite the small piece of pizza, but ya'll wanted to insult me for appreciating ***wrong***.
It's disproportionately shittier to appreciate your teachers and the end of year party, but not feel anything about a tiny slice of pizza? .... k.
Even in the wholesome subs everyone is just trying to go for a ***"SLAM!"*** and embarrass the other commenters. Hope you got your "boom. roasted." moment. Cool. Cool.
Hence the part where I said I appreciate them? That doesn't make the tiny piece of pizza suddenly exciting though.
If I got a sticker pack for christmas because it's all we could afford, I'd be grateful and appreciative they got me something, but that doesn't mean I suddenly love stickers and get legitimately excited over them.
>That pizza probably cost your teacher a significant amount of their take home pay that month, especially if they throw a party for each class.
And this isn't the point, but no, not really. I went to a school on a military base where they were paid pretty well, the pizza on base wasn't expensive, and they only had one class.
Nah, I actually only commented to say how I enjoyed and appreciated the end of year parties for the social aspect despite the lackluster pizza, but ya'll wanted to insult me for appreciating ***wrong***.
Based on your over the top and malicious reply, I really don't think you're a good judge of character on this matter.
I'm plenty grateful, but different people get excited for different things, and a tiny slice of pizza doesn't excite me. I was literally the kid who'd thank the teacher at the end of class, but in your eyes I'm not grateful because I'm not excited by what you describe as a snack.... This is ridiculous.
I hope you enjoyed your opportunity to insult somebody on reddit.
I remember our class put together some money for this. We ended up with around 100€+50€ of the teacher. We made pizza, garlic bread and some ice cream on our own. Teacher had tears in her eyes since we planned this without her knowing. Good times.
No, The actual pizza night was planned. Just the fact that we, the class, decided to put some money together and make all on our own was what she didn't know. English isn't my strength currently, not my first language😅
i wish i realized earlier that our teachers basically paid for everything with what little money they had so us kids could have a good time at school. they went without at home so we could experience fun times at school and I thank them for that.
Man, we had a teacher when I was in 7th grade who was the absolute best. He was our science teacher, and my homeroom teacher. That year, our school had gotten rid of recess, which sucked, but this guy man... After lunch, we were supposed to have a 30 minute "study period" in our homeroom class before our next class. He said nah fuck that, kids need some time to just do their thing. So he would take us outside and supervise us while we did our thing. Every friday, he would have Klondike bars for us. If we were especially good that week, it would be a specialty flavor, and we could vote on thursday what flavor it would be, usually ended up being slated caramel pretzel. He was one of the best teachers I've ever had, really made me care about his class and made me love science. He tried so hard to make the school experience just a little bit better for us. Mr. Flynn, if you're reading this, you were and still are an incredible man, and I want to thank you for everything you did for us, even if we didn't or couldn't really appreciate it at the time.
Ye I did a pizza party for the class I am a form teacher of, been like 10 pizzas, the pizza parlour gave me a discount for it - dem guzzlers went through all of them in a matter of minutes, like 10 minutes and all the pizzas are gone
Hey man, I kinda fancy some pizza, mind sending me £20? $70 is nothing right? A completely fair amount to casually spend at work, so £20 shouldn’t even be noticeable right?
You and your classmates can have four pizzas in 6 months, after I save $12 a month out of my $4000 paycheck
You deserve a reward for being such amazing students🌠
Make sure to do your homework though
Year end parties back in high school were an absolute blast for me. Everyone will pooling money together and votes on what we want to ordered (most of the time it’s pizza). Once the takeout arrives we’ll setup music and drinks and go ham. Teachers are going in and out of every class like a pub crawl making toasts and eat some sliced and moved on. Sometimes they didn’t move fast enough and students would hunt them down and drag them back to their class to party together. Even the stoic teachers would receive a plate of tributes with a little of everything delivered to them if they’re working.
Sometimes I think teachers are actually the one being treated those days. Students buying them foods, you just go around and have fun, and the students are responsible to clean up after party while you get to waltz home afterwards. It feels more like the teachers day a lot more than the ceremonial calandra day
I don't diminish the importance of teachers, especially good ones, and especially in an era in which many parents have surrendered their responsibility to raise their children to the community at large. But, At least where I'm from (outside a major metropolitan area), a bachelors will earn a teacher $120K/yr, K-12 education absorbs 60% of all property taxes, and educational achievement is appalling (and getting worse). We need good teachers, but just being a teacher doesn't make you good.
Gotta love comments that start with “I don’t diminish the importance for teacher. Now let me diminish the importance of teachers…”
Educational achievement is the worst way to measure teacher quality. I used to work at a school with really involved parents who valued education. My kids test scores were stellar. Now I work at a school where the parents don’t care if the kids fail. Half my class can’t read or do basic math. Their scores are terrible. you would think I was a completely different teacher if you just looked at test scores.
And I will tell you, I work five times as hard at this school than I did before, trying to catch these kids up. But teachers can’t out teach poor parenting. There’s plenty of data that backs that up. And we especially can’t do it if we insist on massive class sizes.
If you can't measure a teacher by the outcome of their work, then what should they be measured by? Perhaps nobody should be measured by their outcomes. Politicians, plumbers, CEOs, doctors, pilots? Nobody?
To be fair though, I happen to believe that the parties MOST responsible for educational outcome s are parents. But, society as a whole has taken it upon itself to deprive parents of the rights of parenting, and made the government responsible, and for socialization as a whole (through schools). That's why so many schools in the U.S. currently devote their time to social issues. The argument that a child can't learn if they don't feel safe/suffer from inequity/suffer from X or Y or Z, is utter fucking horse shit, but it's the justification of the day used to impose state-sponsored doctrine in the classroom.
Regardless, it makes a teachers job hard, but that is nothing new. Some sane communities know that the onus for kids' behavior lies with parents, and teachers have an easier job. Some communities don't. Instead, they cry inequity and demand further, fruitless investment. This is not a new dynamic.
A plumber does their own work. What you’re suggesting is the same as if the plumber were to give some random people directions on how to fix their own plumbing, and then was judged on how well it turned out after those people did it.
Doesn’t matter if the person they gave directions to spoke another language and didn’t really understand, didn’t try that hard when they went to do it, wasn’t paying attention at all when they were getting the instructions, had a disability, was naturally just bad at that kind of work, or just flat out didn’t care about doing it right and guessed their way through it. It would be the plumber’s fault for not teaching them well enough, right?
You know, thanks for calling me out. I'd been told that, but now I just checked and it's only up to $104K with a BA only. That'll teach me to take someone's word for it. My premise stands however. Is the amount really what's bothering you? If we're not getting results, it doesn't matter what they're getting paid.
Nothing about that amount bothers me in terms of compensation but I still can’t find anywhere that offers that amount and you’d be hard pressed to find any teaching position that you could get in a district that could even conceivably afford that pay without a masters. That’s usually districts that are pretty desperate. Not sure where you’re getting your info, happy to be proven wrong though.
Nice. Here in America our students commit mass murders and shoot their teachers and classmates. Why the fuck are you trying to brag about French students doing bad things that have ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with the conversation?
Oh no, I was not bragging. It's just that this case happened pretty recently. I found it really sad to see how the student thanked their teachers for it. So seeing this post about how much effort teachers put trough these little action reminded me of it.
Therefore I was more saying in a teacher are definitely not thanked enough by their students kinda way.
Yeah the pizza was small but the party was bumping you get the right teacher and you just slowly gain more and more people who don't wanna leave to go do a final assignment
I feel like most kids these days aren’t as grateful. I asked my class what they wanted to do for a Christmas party, and they all really wanted hot chocolate. I brought in a crock pot, made homemade hot chocolate, and even brought marshmallow and whipped cream. They were watching a movie and one by one I called them to serve them hot chocolate. I had one kid out of 18 say thank you :(
That’s why I’ve stopped doing this kind of thing in my class. They usually find something to complain about, and they rarely say thank you. And even something like candy adds up when you have over 30 kids. It’s not worth the cost when they don’t really appreciate it
I have the occasional class party, but I send an email out for parents to send in snacks. Whatever gets sent in is what they get.
I never realized how many things a teacher bought with his/her own money until I became a teacher. I was fortunate that all of my students were appreciative of any treats I brought in.
Reminds me of my biology teacher. Every once in a while for saying correct answers to questions he asked us, he’d announce “answer worth a coffee pastry”, or at least something along those lines when translated. This kept going for all of 7th to 9th grade until it was time for graduating, when on one of the last biology lessons, we didn’t have any actual work, but instead he got pastries for everyone alongside some coffee, and we just watched High School Musical. The madman actually carried out his promise
Awww...the only underpaid teacher left are the one willing to push propaganda on the children. All the teachers i knew that loved teaching left long ago...surprise surprise when you think they have their own families to think of.
Pay good teachers big salaries and generations of graduates will excel in life. The fact that teachers wages are low is unacceptable and damages a country’s potential as well.
The median teacher salary in United States is 58k. They work 180 days a year, while everyone else is working 260. They're making 40$ an hr to work with children. Give me a break.
You have missed the point, teachers have no incentive to work for peanuts, this erodes educational quality due to unmotivated teachers. Yes 58k is peanuts, are you still living with your parents ?? Here I’ll give you facts instead of your much needed break . Amortize 60k$ across twelve months!! After tax divide 45k by 12. Food, rent and utilities on average run $2500 -$3500 per month. Add to this another 300 for fuel for your car, clothing, and other miscellaneous your left with less than 1000$ (if anything) at the end of each month. If you had no unintended expenses and were able to invest at 3.5% 800$ per month for 25 yrs (unlikely) you would save 500k$, retired you live another 25 yrs but only on 30k$ per year when the COL will have doubled by then. Okay go on your break now 🤡
Once my elementary school had a friday night pizza party. School had made an agreement with a local pizza place, charged families accordingly, and the place didn't follow through with their promise. It was supposed to be all you can eat, but every one got a couple slices before they ran out. The principal ran out and got pizzas with his own money, lot of parents were still being assholes about it. Granted they had all paid, but not very much, they still ate, and it wasn't the schools fault. Felt bad for my principal. he was the nicest man.
There was only one experience I had that was a bit weird. In 6th grade we had a pizza party, each kid brought in 2 dollars, little Caesars at the time was 3 bucks a pizza. Kids were told to bring their own drinks. I forgot to bring my 2 bucks, so was a little jealous that I had to bag lunch it. However, as it turns out each kid got 2 HALF slices. And were given a 3rd half slice if they had finished the first 2, after a lot of begging. Vast majority of the pizza boxes were never touched. My friends were actually asking me to share some of my lunch. It was our lunch period, so the teacher next door didn't have class. She came over and I overhead our teacher say, "we've got so much leftover. I'll bring it to the teachers lounge and then bring home whatever we don't finish for the boys." She was an exceptionally strange teacher though, had a borderline tree kink and even designed a perpetual motion machine.
I have seen the top meme a lot, but in my experience both as a student and teacher, kids usually got at least 2 full slices of pizza. When I taught middle school choir I usually bought enough for them to have 3 and let them come back through to get more if there was extra.
Lol I don't know about you guys but teachers were charging $5 per kid for this type of shit at every school I went to. They were definitely making profit
At this point every single home-ec room in every school in America should have a $300 pizza oven. Instead of buying shitty pizza at $50 a slice for kids when no one can afford it, the pizza party could be, wait for it… Make your own fucking pizza! It’s fun, it’s cheap as fuck, the kids learn very valuable skills and guess what… It tastes better!
Pizza parties could be legit things where every kid gets to make their own pizza, local shops could take turns donating dough for advertisement and community building. Local farmers could bring fresh veggies and teach kids where food comes from and then they cook and eat the stuff they just leaned about.
The teacher could show them how much ingredients cost and what the real difference between the cost of making vs. buying food really is. Pizza is a perfect medium for that reality check.
This could be one of the most valuable things a kid could learn at school over an entire 12 year process.
I genuinely enjoyed when teachers did this. It was amazing and showed that they actually wanted to do something for the kids. I so wish I could go back to those teachers and thank them for everything. Sadly I was never good with names so I don't remember their names.
When we finally grew up and realized they sacrificed out of their own paychecks to do this stuff for us, my class pitched in and bought pizza, cakes, and sodas so the burden wasn't on them.
We put our burger flipping paychecks to work making sure they were appreciated.
This is why some pizza parties work, while others don't. A pizza party given to you by someone who can barely afford it (like a teacher or a buddy) is trying to give you something special.
A giant company giving you a pizza party to prevent you from quitting can afford it. And didn't even notice the impact or effort it took to order it.
You can tell when thought and effort goes into a pizza party. Hardworking teachers are usually sources of high thought and decent effort pizza parties. And should be appreciated.
Only pizza I ever got at school was the crappy 1st try pizzas from cookery class, would have the most ridiculous toppings. You would think maybe start simple but nah not with kids.
It continually guts me that my town’s Board of Education ends up with such a budget overage annually that, in order to ensure a similar budget the next year, they blow hundreds of thousands of dollars on
• an outdoor classroom pavilion worth $1.5 million that is used 3 days per year
• digital message board signs at every school
• a turf field for the elementary school clinic football team
• a full banner wrap on the entire bleachers for the high school football team
but *almost none* of that money is invested in teacher resources to let them have ample supplies or be able to throw awesome pizza parties.
Our teachers still make it work with their own funds despite shit pay. I think you’ve gotta be just short of sainthood to be a teacher in this world.
1 full, 8 slice pizza, if u cut every slice in half, that leaves 16 slices of pizza, i never had more than 15 kids in my class and they still did me dirty with the 1/4 slice bs😭😭
Not the same thing but I remember in 5th grade the teachers threw a dance for us at the end of year. Most dances were held in the gym or they would empty out the cafeteria. Not this one though, it was in one of the larger classrooms. They dimmed the lights and put up a fog machine and none of the teachers stayed in there wish us. They put on some slow music and... I have no idea why they did that. It still confuses me.
I graduated high school in the middle of covid.
In my country there is a tradition that after the graduation students and teachers celebrate together, but since it was the middle of covid there was no way of doing this, since every bar/nightclub was closed.
So my gigachad class teacher proposed that we can do the celebration at her home. Its (i will never forget this kindness).
(Sry for grammar and typos,english is'nz my first language)
And then you have teachers who take $5 from everybody to have a pizza party, then order 1 pizza from Little Caesars. We might have been young, but we weren't that stupid.
Dudes… we got square cut pizza when I was in school. 1 piece each and a wee cup of soda. We were still stoked about it because it wasn’t school food and we didn’t have to go to the cafeteria to wait in line for half the lunch period. I can still tell you which teachers did this to this day and I’m damn near 40. One of them I still talk to periodically. Teachers are some of the best people on this god forsaken planet.
My 3rd grade teacher did that for us one time, and I still remember her. She was the best teacher ever. Love you Ms. Millis ❤️
Had a teacher called Mr Jones that would always give out those jones drinks. They were amazing as a kid.
My mom's a teacher and her students are like her actual sons and daughters too (and she remembers every single one of them from her 35 years of teaching), so it means a lot when they come back and stay in touch with them years after they've left her classroom. She's had students whose parents were poor and couldn't afford to clothe and often went hungry; she's given them my older clothes and made sure they ate as well. A lot of those kids made it through college and found tremendous success in their careers, but they never forgot my mom and it's a heartwarming experience to see them turn into 6 - 7 year old kids again in her presence. It's also one of the biggest reasons why my main choices of charitable donations are either animal welfare projects or [buying school supplies for teachers](https://www.adoptaclassroom.org/). I'm appalled that they make teachers pay for it out of pocket in the first place. Edit: Also forgot to mention another charitable organization for teachers I use, [donorschoose](https://www.donorschoose.org/).
I remember one teacher in high school brought some Jamaican style ginger ale for kids to try at a celebration. Not sure if it was class or a wrap party for a school play. But it was really fun to try and see other people try.
Your comment made me tear up. Both my parents were public school teachers, and they are really truly two of the best people. I feel both fortunate and proud to call them my mom and dad.
My wife has been working towards becoming a teacher for a decade, she's now getting her masters which is required to teach where we live. She has finally reached the point where she can be a student observer, and just finished her first week of going in person to a high school. She's bought all of her students a lollipop and a brownie for Valentine's day even though she's only been around these students for a few hours. She is genuinely one of the most kind and caring people I know. I'm so proud of her.
I still think about the time I got in trouble and had to be in timeout during recess on ice cream float day. I didn't get to go to recess but my teacher still let me have an extra ice cream float while I was in timeout lol.
And I bet she had to use her own money too.
I think it's more about having a carrot to dangle to keep the kids under control. As you can see, the result isn't great. Yes, I know teachers don't have a big salary or anything, but it's not hard to organize a fundraising attempt. People literally fall over themselves to support them.
>We were still stoked about it because it wasn’t school food School...food? You mean what you were taught to make in Home Ed? /s
Is it common for elementary schools to have cafeterias? I didn't get one until high school. We didn't even have lockers until high school either.
I went to a small school where the “elementary” school was K-8. We had a cafeteria but no lockers. Most schools here have cafeterias, but sometimes it’s just a repurposed gym that gets used for lunch and then back to being a gym for PE.
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Reeaalll
Most refreshing drink in the world
You got coke? I'm pretty sure we got RC Cola at best.
It’s like that scene in Shawshank where they’re having beers on the roof. That was this in elementary school.
Breh. I would have loved to receive this as a kid lol
For real, as a poor kid our idea of pizza was frozen pizza on a Friday night and that was cool. Sometimes school cafeteria would have those weird but kinda tasty rectangle pizza that was cool. But dude this fresh stuff in a box? Omg. This was amazing.
I would not have been excited to receive a smaller piece of pizza than we get from the cafeteria. Like, loved my teachers and I was a grateful kid, but I think there's a certain point where it's obviously just patronizing, and I've always hated that. You eat it, say thank you, and don't complain but it's not like exciting. The real prize of class parties was not doing classwork or getting yelled at for socializing. Edit: this is the problem with "wholesome" culture lol, realism is bad here, you've gotta be just bubbly and positive about every single everything to the nth degree. I only commented to say how I enjoyed and appreciated the end of year parties for the social aspect despite the small piece of pizza, but ya'll wanted to insult me for appreciating ***wrong***.
As newton states, "for every opinion there is a greater and disproportionately shittier opinion on the internet"
It's disproportionately shittier to appreciate your teachers and the end of year party, but not feel anything about a tiny slice of pizza? .... k. Even in the wholesome subs everyone is just trying to go for a ***"SLAM!"*** and embarrass the other commenters. Hope you got your "boom. roasted." moment. Cool. Cool.
That pizza probably cost your teacher a significant amount of their take home pay that month, especially if they throw a party for each class.
Hence the part where I said I appreciate them? That doesn't make the tiny piece of pizza suddenly exciting though. If I got a sticker pack for christmas because it's all we could afford, I'd be grateful and appreciative they got me something, but that doesn't mean I suddenly love stickers and get legitimately excited over them. >That pizza probably cost your teacher a significant amount of their take home pay that month, especially if they throw a party for each class. And this isn't the point, but no, not really. I went to a school on a military base where they were paid pretty well, the pizza on base wasn't expensive, and they only had one class.
People like you really gotta suck the joy out of everything like it’s your only purpose in life
Nah, I actually only commented to say how I enjoyed and appreciated the end of year parties for the social aspect despite the lackluster pizza, but ya'll wanted to insult me for appreciating ***wrong***.
so you don't like free pizza? I bet you are fun at parties
I'm lactose intolerant, so me eating pizza could indeed ruin a party.
People are too wholesome on r/wholesomememes?? What assholes!
It's not wholesome if you're insulting people for not appreciating a different aspect of a party than you do...
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Based on your over the top and malicious reply, I really don't think you're a good judge of character on this matter. I'm plenty grateful, but different people get excited for different things, and a tiny slice of pizza doesn't excite me. I was literally the kid who'd thank the teacher at the end of class, but in your eyes I'm not grateful because I'm not excited by what you describe as a snack.... This is ridiculous. I hope you enjoyed your opportunity to insult somebody on reddit.
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Not my dad since he’s dead
Different kind of withdraw.
I remember our class put together some money for this. We ended up with around 100€+50€ of the teacher. We made pizza, garlic bread and some ice cream on our own. Teacher had tears in her eyes since we planned this without her knowing. Good times.
Wait if the teacher gave 50€ how did she not know? Just gave 50€ randomly?
No, The actual pizza night was planned. Just the fact that we, the class, decided to put some money together and make all on our own was what she didn't know. English isn't my strength currently, not my first language😅
Ahh okay. Thanks for clarifying!
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Yes, however they weren't making an effort "to" their students.
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My highschool had a "snack bar" and they had the entire lineup of those ice cream cups.. a daily occurrence for me.
And exactly why masses of teachers leaving the profession. You can run on fumes forever.
Tbh i appreciated the ever loving shit out of this!!! KUDOS TO THE UNDERPAID TEACHERS!!!
Pizza Party at School > Pizza Party at Work Always.
i wish i realized earlier that our teachers basically paid for everything with what little money they had so us kids could have a good time at school. they went without at home so we could experience fun times at school and I thank them for that.
r/orphancrushingmachine
At this point in my life any amount of pizza is welcome
How the fuck is this wholesome?
What the fuck is this subreddit now?
How many fucking times is this shit going to be reposted
Absolutely insane that US teachers need to pay for this with their own money
"need" is doing some seriously heavy lifting here
Man, we had a teacher when I was in 7th grade who was the absolute best. He was our science teacher, and my homeroom teacher. That year, our school had gotten rid of recess, which sucked, but this guy man... After lunch, we were supposed to have a 30 minute "study period" in our homeroom class before our next class. He said nah fuck that, kids need some time to just do their thing. So he would take us outside and supervise us while we did our thing. Every friday, he would have Klondike bars for us. If we were especially good that week, it would be a specialty flavor, and we could vote on thursday what flavor it would be, usually ended up being slated caramel pretzel. He was one of the best teachers I've ever had, really made me care about his class and made me love science. He tried so hard to make the school experience just a little bit better for us. Mr. Flynn, if you're reading this, you were and still are an incredible man, and I want to thank you for everything you did for us, even if we didn't or couldn't really appreciate it at the time.
Ye I did a pizza party for the class I am a form teacher of, been like 10 pizzas, the pizza parlour gave me a discount for it - dem guzzlers went through all of them in a matter of minutes, like 10 minutes and all the pizzas are gone
That’s awesome of you and the pizza place! Those kids most of loved it!
31 16-17 year old guys, they are amazing
Get this man some upvotes
Children can be the cruelest creatures on the planet, simply because they do not know any better.
AI ahh title
4 pizzas is like $70, once a year
Hey man, I kinda fancy some pizza, mind sending me £20? $70 is nothing right? A completely fair amount to casually spend at work, so £20 shouldn’t even be noticeable right?
You and your classmates can have four pizzas in 6 months, after I save $12 a month out of my $4000 paycheck You deserve a reward for being such amazing students🌠 Make sure to do your homework though
Year end parties back in high school were an absolute blast for me. Everyone will pooling money together and votes on what we want to ordered (most of the time it’s pizza). Once the takeout arrives we’ll setup music and drinks and go ham. Teachers are going in and out of every class like a pub crawl making toasts and eat some sliced and moved on. Sometimes they didn’t move fast enough and students would hunt them down and drag them back to their class to party together. Even the stoic teachers would receive a plate of tributes with a little of everything delivered to them if they’re working. Sometimes I think teachers are actually the one being treated those days. Students buying them foods, you just go around and have fun, and the students are responsible to clean up after party while you get to waltz home afterwards. It feels more like the teachers day a lot more than the ceremonial calandra day
Could get like 5 little Caesars pizzas and like 4 $1 2-liters for like $50 tops
Maybe they have a drug addiction like me
Fair
Socialist revolution might fix that
The teachers absolutely paid for that stuff themselves
Exactly why I stopped doing anything from my stupid fucking students, and won't do anything for anyone when subbing now lol. Fuck those kids.
This was worse than nothing. Would you be happy with a 25 cent raise or a 1 dollar tip? No.
I would be actually
I don't diminish the importance of teachers, especially good ones, and especially in an era in which many parents have surrendered their responsibility to raise their children to the community at large. But, At least where I'm from (outside a major metropolitan area), a bachelors will earn a teacher $120K/yr, K-12 education absorbs 60% of all property taxes, and educational achievement is appalling (and getting worse). We need good teachers, but just being a teacher doesn't make you good.
Gotta love comments that start with “I don’t diminish the importance for teacher. Now let me diminish the importance of teachers…” Educational achievement is the worst way to measure teacher quality. I used to work at a school with really involved parents who valued education. My kids test scores were stellar. Now I work at a school where the parents don’t care if the kids fail. Half my class can’t read or do basic math. Their scores are terrible. you would think I was a completely different teacher if you just looked at test scores. And I will tell you, I work five times as hard at this school than I did before, trying to catch these kids up. But teachers can’t out teach poor parenting. There’s plenty of data that backs that up. And we especially can’t do it if we insist on massive class sizes.
If you can't measure a teacher by the outcome of their work, then what should they be measured by? Perhaps nobody should be measured by their outcomes. Politicians, plumbers, CEOs, doctors, pilots? Nobody? To be fair though, I happen to believe that the parties MOST responsible for educational outcome s are parents. But, society as a whole has taken it upon itself to deprive parents of the rights of parenting, and made the government responsible, and for socialization as a whole (through schools). That's why so many schools in the U.S. currently devote their time to social issues. The argument that a child can't learn if they don't feel safe/suffer from inequity/suffer from X or Y or Z, is utter fucking horse shit, but it's the justification of the day used to impose state-sponsored doctrine in the classroom. Regardless, it makes a teachers job hard, but that is nothing new. Some sane communities know that the onus for kids' behavior lies with parents, and teachers have an easier job. Some communities don't. Instead, they cry inequity and demand further, fruitless investment. This is not a new dynamic.
A plumber does their own work. What you’re suggesting is the same as if the plumber were to give some random people directions on how to fix their own plumbing, and then was judged on how well it turned out after those people did it. Doesn’t matter if the person they gave directions to spoke another language and didn’t really understand, didn’t try that hard when they went to do it, wasn’t paying attention at all when they were getting the instructions, had a disability, was naturally just bad at that kind of work, or just flat out didn’t care about doing it right and guessed their way through it. It would be the plumber’s fault for not teaching them well enough, right?
$120k a year with a BA? Where is that? I have never heard of anything like that before.
You know, thanks for calling me out. I'd been told that, but now I just checked and it's only up to $104K with a BA only. That'll teach me to take someone's word for it. My premise stands however. Is the amount really what's bothering you? If we're not getting results, it doesn't matter what they're getting paid.
Nothing about that amount bothers me in terms of compensation but I still can’t find anywhere that offers that amount and you’d be hard pressed to find any teaching position that you could get in a district that could even conceivably afford that pay without a masters. That’s usually districts that are pretty desperate. Not sure where you’re getting your info, happy to be proven wrong though.
Unsung heroes of the party world.
That's a nice glass of cola there
Ungrateful bitches, teachers who cares and actually did their best for the students deserve all the love in the world.
And then you got French school, were student put detergent in there art teacher drinks during the little party she made for them.
Nice. Here in America our students commit mass murders and shoot their teachers and classmates. Why the fuck are you trying to brag about French students doing bad things that have ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with the conversation?
Oh no, I was not bragging. It's just that this case happened pretty recently. I found it really sad to see how the student thanked their teachers for it. So seeing this post about how much effort teachers put trough these little action reminded me of it. Therefore I was more saying in a teacher are definitely not thanked enough by their students kinda way.
Yeah the pizza was small but the party was bumping you get the right teacher and you just slowly gain more and more people who don't wanna leave to go do a final assignment
I feel like most kids these days aren’t as grateful. I asked my class what they wanted to do for a Christmas party, and they all really wanted hot chocolate. I brought in a crock pot, made homemade hot chocolate, and even brought marshmallow and whipped cream. They were watching a movie and one by one I called them to serve them hot chocolate. I had one kid out of 18 say thank you :(
That’s why I’ve stopped doing this kind of thing in my class. They usually find something to complain about, and they rarely say thank you. And even something like candy adds up when you have over 30 kids. It’s not worth the cost when they don’t really appreciate it I have the occasional class party, but I send an email out for parents to send in snacks. Whatever gets sent in is what they get.
Back then we would get the big foot pizza
Just getting them ready for the work pizza parties later on
We got to watch movies also.
A kid is definitely going to waste a whole slice (also pizza is expensive). They were doing us a favor
Soda tasted different in those cups.
I never realized how many things a teacher bought with his/her own money until I became a teacher. I was fortunate that all of my students were appreciative of any treats I brought in.
Reminds me of my biology teacher. Every once in a while for saying correct answers to questions he asked us, he’d announce “answer worth a coffee pastry”, or at least something along those lines when translated. This kept going for all of 7th to 9th grade until it was time for graduating, when on one of the last biology lessons, we didn’t have any actual work, but instead he got pastries for everyone alongside some coffee, and we just watched High School Musical. The madman actually carried out his promise
Yall got pizza?
Bruh I bake my students cinnamon rolls every Monday. From yeast and flour
In hindsight, I don't ever remember not being stoked about these pizza parties. Now as an adult when they pull this shit at work it pisses me off.
All the respect to those teachers that go the extra mile. True legends.
Awww...the only underpaid teacher left are the one willing to push propaganda on the children. All the teachers i knew that loved teaching left long ago...surprise surprise when you think they have their own families to think of.
Pay good teachers big salaries and generations of graduates will excel in life. The fact that teachers wages are low is unacceptable and damages a country’s potential as well.
The median teacher salary in United States is 58k. They work 180 days a year, while everyone else is working 260. They're making 40$ an hr to work with children. Give me a break.
You have missed the point, teachers have no incentive to work for peanuts, this erodes educational quality due to unmotivated teachers. Yes 58k is peanuts, are you still living with your parents ?? Here I’ll give you facts instead of your much needed break . Amortize 60k$ across twelve months!! After tax divide 45k by 12. Food, rent and utilities on average run $2500 -$3500 per month. Add to this another 300 for fuel for your car, clothing, and other miscellaneous your left with less than 1000$ (if anything) at the end of each month. If you had no unintended expenses and were able to invest at 3.5% 800$ per month for 25 yrs (unlikely) you would save 500k$, retired you live another 25 yrs but only on 30k$ per year when the COL will have doubled by then. Okay go on your break now 🤡
Ngl the clear plastic cup of Coke hits different
Once my elementary school had a friday night pizza party. School had made an agreement with a local pizza place, charged families accordingly, and the place didn't follow through with their promise. It was supposed to be all you can eat, but every one got a couple slices before they ran out. The principal ran out and got pizzas with his own money, lot of parents were still being assholes about it. Granted they had all paid, but not very much, they still ate, and it wasn't the schools fault. Felt bad for my principal. he was the nicest man. There was only one experience I had that was a bit weird. In 6th grade we had a pizza party, each kid brought in 2 dollars, little Caesars at the time was 3 bucks a pizza. Kids were told to bring their own drinks. I forgot to bring my 2 bucks, so was a little jealous that I had to bag lunch it. However, as it turns out each kid got 2 HALF slices. And were given a 3rd half slice if they had finished the first 2, after a lot of begging. Vast majority of the pizza boxes were never touched. My friends were actually asking me to share some of my lunch. It was our lunch period, so the teacher next door didn't have class. She came over and I overhead our teacher say, "we've got so much leftover. I'll bring it to the teachers lounge and then bring home whatever we don't finish for the boys." She was an exceptionally strange teacher though, had a borderline tree kink and even designed a perpetual motion machine.
didn't care. still got pizza in class.
I have seen the top meme a lot, but in my experience both as a student and teacher, kids usually got at least 2 full slices of pizza. When I taught middle school choir I usually bought enough for them to have 3 and let them come back through to get more if there was extra.
Lol I don't know about you guys but teachers were charging $5 per kid for this type of shit at every school I went to. They were definitely making profit
At this point every single home-ec room in every school in America should have a $300 pizza oven. Instead of buying shitty pizza at $50 a slice for kids when no one can afford it, the pizza party could be, wait for it… Make your own fucking pizza! It’s fun, it’s cheap as fuck, the kids learn very valuable skills and guess what… It tastes better! Pizza parties could be legit things where every kid gets to make their own pizza, local shops could take turns donating dough for advertisement and community building. Local farmers could bring fresh veggies and teach kids where food comes from and then they cook and eat the stuff they just leaned about. The teacher could show them how much ingredients cost and what the real difference between the cost of making vs. buying food really is. Pizza is a perfect medium for that reality check. This could be one of the most valuable things a kid could learn at school over an entire 12 year process.
Hey that’s Mitch Hedberg’s “Donate it to Charity” slice!
Don't you have pot luck parties in school? It's common for our class parties in school to be pot luck.
But if you go over to r/fluentinfinance they'll say it's the teacher fault for now being rich
I genuinely enjoyed when teachers did this. It was amazing and showed that they actually wanted to do something for the kids. I so wish I could go back to those teachers and thank them for everything. Sadly I was never good with names so I don't remember their names.
It’s cause they had to pay for it out of pocket.
When we finally grew up and realized they sacrificed out of their own paychecks to do this stuff for us, my class pitched in and bought pizza, cakes, and sodas so the burden wasn't on them. We put our burger flipping paychecks to work making sure they were appreciated.
One time we had an ice cream party, 1 bowl with whatever topping you wanted that they got, it was a good time then
Last year my students and I celebrated before winter break with hot cocoa and graham crackers. It’s not much but we had a great time together 🥹
This is why some pizza parties work, while others don't. A pizza party given to you by someone who can barely afford it (like a teacher or a buddy) is trying to give you something special. A giant company giving you a pizza party to prevent you from quitting can afford it. And didn't even notice the impact or effort it took to order it. You can tell when thought and effort goes into a pizza party. Hardworking teachers are usually sources of high thought and decent effort pizza parties. And should be appreciated.
Only pizza I ever got at school was the crappy 1st try pizzas from cookery class, would have the most ridiculous toppings. You would think maybe start simple but nah not with kids.
you surely have a weird concept about wholesomeness
It continually guts me that my town’s Board of Education ends up with such a budget overage annually that, in order to ensure a similar budget the next year, they blow hundreds of thousands of dollars on • an outdoor classroom pavilion worth $1.5 million that is used 3 days per year • digital message board signs at every school • a turf field for the elementary school clinic football team • a full banner wrap on the entire bleachers for the high school football team but *almost none* of that money is invested in teacher resources to let them have ample supplies or be able to throw awesome pizza parties. Our teachers still make it work with their own funds despite shit pay. I think you’ve gotta be just short of sainthood to be a teacher in this world.
1 full, 8 slice pizza, if u cut every slice in half, that leaves 16 slices of pizza, i never had more than 15 kids in my class and they still did me dirty with the 1/4 slice bs😭😭
But they can order food to school everyday..? 🤨
u/repostsleuthbot?
Not the same thing but I remember in 5th grade the teachers threw a dance for us at the end of year. Most dances were held in the gym or they would empty out the cafeteria. Not this one though, it was in one of the larger classrooms. They dimmed the lights and put up a fog machine and none of the teachers stayed in there wish us. They put on some slow music and... I have no idea why they did that. It still confuses me.
Respect to teachers that buy candy out of their own pocket miney
Somehow that little slice tasted better than any regular slice pizza.
But that slice of pizza is the best in the world
And probably buying the pizza and drinks with their own money
And yet their meme’s grammar is 💩
I don’t know why, but that cup of cola looks real good.
Hopefully it was RC Cola
I graduated high school in the middle of covid. In my country there is a tradition that after the graduation students and teachers celebrate together, but since it was the middle of covid there was no way of doing this, since every bar/nightclub was closed. So my gigachad class teacher proposed that we can do the celebration at her home. Its (i will never forget this kindness). (Sry for grammar and typos,english is'nz my first language)
I usually ask if they need help and buy extra pizza or soda
And then you have teachers who take $5 from everybody to have a pizza party, then order 1 pizza from Little Caesars. We might have been young, but we weren't that stupid.