Category: The Teachers’ Lounge
We have a way of romanticizing teachers in our society. From the Hollywood movies to the inspiration books, we love to hear stories of teachers overcoming the odds to inspire a classroom full of hard to reach students. But the fact of the matter is that all teachers …
When he's not writing for HoboTrashcan or drinking himself into a gin-soaked stupor, Ned Bitters spends his days molding the minds of today's impressionable youth. As a high school teacher, Bitters is there every day in the classroom with America's teenagers and - surprise, surprise - it's nothing …
Many movies have been made about heroic teachers getting through to difficult students in the classroom. One thing you never see, however, is an inspirational teacher movie set in a high school cafeteria. That's because, as Ned Bitters explains this week, high school cafeterias are godless hellholes.
Normally, high school teacher Ned Bitters makes us wait until the end of the year for him to share his funniest stories from the classroom. This time, however, he has decided to give us regular updates throughout the school year.
Throughout the year, high school English teacher Ned Bitters has shared some of his favorite moments from the classroom this year. This week he is back with his final installment, which focuses entirely on dumb things his fellow teachers said and did.
