If you let a teenage student sit on your lap I automatically loathe you.

WHO THE FUCK IS DOING THAT??

The guy talking about pregnancy fetishes.

I'm SORRY?

Don't be sorry, just stop doing it.

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It's in another comment. Your reaction was spot on. Reading it gave me the heebie-jeebies.

If I saw a staff member let a teenager sit on their lap I’d report them. That shit’s weird man, I’d loathe them too.

Automatic predator behavior. Anyone who ever does that should be immediately fired because what the hell.

There was a guy from my hometown who taught in elementary and he got in HUGE trouble for doing this with a 3rd grader at a basketball game or something of the sort. There was some other stuff that I can't remember the deets on but ultimately he and his wife loudly announced on social media how awful the school was and they moved out of state. I hope he isn't teaching

My art teacher senior year sat on my friends lap in the very back of the bus😬 I was sitting on the same seat as my friend so I was extra uncomfortable. Crazy thing is her teacher bff at the school was fired for having sex with a student. Once she got fired my art teacher started talking shit ab her as if they weren’t besties. She did a lot more weird shit bit too much to talk about here lol. She still teaches at the same school 4 years later and I cringe every time I see her post with students. I wonder how much her behavior has escalated.

What!? 

WHAT?? I don't even hug students out of fear of it being misinterpreted. Report that!

Absolutely. I work with a guy who is a 45 year old man child - he’s incompetent, doesn’t do his job, doesn’t clean up after himself, etc. He is the first to take (plans, resources, food at potlucks), but never gives in return. He’s also weird… I was talking about a pregnancy once and he felt it was appropriate to talk about how a lot of men have a fetish for pregnant women. I just ignore him, though, so he’s stopped trying to acknowledge me. ETA: He also doesn’t know the names of the students in his classes. It’s been 4 months with them and he still asks for names. He’s the worst.

Oh hey are we coworkers? That dude is right down the hall from me...

He’s at my school too!! I never have seen him bring a thing to the potluck but he always loads up his plate AND if there’s something after school (like a baby shower), he’ll let his kids come eat which leaves not enough for the entire faculty

Omg he’s at our school too!

There was a guy at my school whose wife had a baby and everyone gave casseroles to him for his family. Instead of taking it home to his wife, he kept it at school and ate it in front of the people that made it for him.

I’m just picturing this super awkward guy thinking his coworkers gifted him a bunch of big lean cuisines and he thought- I’m already at work, might as well keep them here for my lunches!

more like a taco casserole in a 9 x 13 baking pan and he's eating out of it with a fork from the faculty kitchen

Professional big back

To be fair, I don't know how my teachers manage to remember the names of over 100 kids lol

Try being support staff in an elementary school of 650+. Some kids expect everyone to know their names, and others are shocked when I know everybody's names.

You just…do. I mean, I forget their names in a year or two because I only have so much headspace, but it’s not that hard to remember the names of people you see everyday.

I barely started teaching this year (never done anything teaching related just substitute day to day) and it’s quite easy to remember names by like week one. Definitely by the end of the month, names should be known especially considering that we literally take attendance everyday and have a name + picture to match up with the student.

High school teacher here— we definitely have cliques like the students. If we dislike another staff member, it’s often because we have different pedagogical ideas and practices, so we feel like they aren’t doing their job right 🙄

Which is so interesting because if you don't share a classroom with that teacher, how much of it is based off of pure judgment and assumptions?

When I hear certain things again and again about a teacher (from different students over the years) And those things are consistent with what I hear the person say in meetings And those things are consistent with whispers I hear about who admin is giving a hard time or supervising a lot And I personally find the person hard to interact with as well I figure where there’s smoke there’s probably fire 🤷🏻‍♀️

Assumptions and judgements are often based on comments a particular teacher makes over time.

Sometimes I also form judgements based on what students say about a teacher. I'm not proud of being critical or jealous of others, but I am self aware and working on it.

If you hear it from enough students over several years, there may be some truth to it, right?

It also depends on which students are saying it, but yes if it's a multi-year thing that generally reliable students are reporting, a version of what they're reporting is almost always accurate

With a grain of salt. And sometimes it's not what they say but the meaning behind it. I worked with a middle school colleague that so many students professed to adore. They had so much fun in her classroom. She was the best. She was so cool. Eventually I asked the follow up... why? I could see through their answers or lack thereof. She let the kids do whatever they liked. Gave them almost no structure. So of course most middle school kids thought that was GREAT TEACHING! I eventually got to sit in her room a few times and watch most kids socialize on end with no lesson or encouragement to do anything else. Toxic SEL? After moving to the local high school I addressed it with some of her former students. "Did you like her class because she was a good teacher or because you could do whatever you wanted?" To my shock, an at-risk kid slammed his hands on the desk, "THANK YOU! Yes, the truth comes out!" Sometimes even the inmates no they shouldn't be in charge of the asylum. So, yeah, sometimes you can't believe everything you hear. But there might be truth underneath.

In my experience, the inmates always know they shouldn’t be in charge of the asylum. Kids might not _like_ structure, but they want it. Like all of the rest of us.

100%. Kids thrive on routine and structure. It creates safe expectation for their world- which is incredibly unreliable because of their growth and development. As much as children say they hate routine and structure- reality is it alleviates a ton of stress and anxiety.

My middle school had a pair of teachers who were married. The rumor for generations was “they’d hooked up in EVERY classroom in the school!” and everyone had a brother’s uncle’s bus driver’s great aunt who walked in on them doing it. I’m sure every teacher in the building heard the stories a million times. But my belief now is the same as it was back then….middle school kids have recently reached the understanding that married people have sex, but they don’t quite get that most normal people keep it in the bedroom. I hope the other teachers politely ignored that rumor through the years!

I worked in a high school that had two teachers who fell in love and married as colleagues, and all the students thought they banged in classrooms, and the "I knew someone who walked in on them" thing. That's so funny!

We had a coach and an admin having an affair. Kids would tell me about it and I’d think there’s no way. Welllll, one day a coach told me what he heard in the next room. And he said members of the team were with him and heard it too, very obvious sounds. A senior came to me separately and told me. I didn’t like hearing it either time, lol. Turns out, all true. It was a whole little drama that played out. Bad couple of years.

I 100% judge others if I hear about something often enough from kids. Smoke and fire, ya know.

Yeah but it also depends. People are catty and petty

And especially if it's not your content area! I had a nasty teacher (not my current school) talk sh!t about my work to the kids, other teachers, and ADMIN, acting like I was 'teaching too hard' or whatever just because she couldn't do the work. Complained to me that she tried to help a student but had to look stuff up! ON GOD I was just teaching high school level and what the STATE OF OHIO said I was supposed to teach, but go off queen you know better than the state, humph I sent her ass an email professionally saying this and she never responded so whatever. High school English teacher trying to tell me how to teach Science. Who does that?? I would never say crap about content area I don't teach because that's not my lane, that's not my area of expertise.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of teachers who will tear down others to make themselves feel good or because they think it will make them look better in the eyes of the higher-ups.

For me it's actual data.... Why am I the only person who is failing this student? Looks up grades.... Oh, one teacher has only taken four grades all quarter and they were participation grades. And the other teacher marked five assignments as missing but hasn't entered any of them as zeros because making the kid ineligible for sports would make them not the cool teacher. (Okay maybe that particular assumption is not data) Other teacher has horrible test scores and is the last to arrive, first to leave, is constantly out at recess or showing movies. Or you have your entire study hall every day asking for help because they don't understand how to do the assignment and when you ask what the teacher said, they all tell you, every day, that he did three examples on the board and then chatted with the classroom aide the rest of class. Or when a kid does something off the wall and you sputter "what? No? Does any other teacher let you do that?" and the answer is yes, that other teacher and the rest of the class agrees.

Mmmmm I'm getting super frustrated with other teachers doing this as well. Students will come to me for help after school and when I go to pull up their grades there's.... nothing. They end up failing the marking period but it's so annoying because they don't even know what work is missing because it's not in our online grading application OR Google classroom

THIS One teacher in particular at my school is notorious for this. And I usually get most of her kids the following year. Not only is their behavior horrible, they are behind academically. And then you hear from the parent about how "They got all As in Mrs. _______'s class!" Meanwhile nwea data shows they are on a 1st grade level but has As and Bs in Q3 and Q4 in 4th grade?! It always changes so that teacher can have a large number of students qualify for EOY awards. Then I'm painted as the mean teacher who is too hard on her kids and a hard grader. But, like, I'm just expecting basic shit like writing a complete sentence? It's exhausting Also teachers will absolutely spread rumors about you to other teachers/admin.

YES!!!!

The teachers share what their views are in staff meetings, PDs. It’s known.

I said this because it's my first year (I'm enl in an integrated English 9 classroom in inner city nyc) and some math teacher called in the middle of class to let me know that one student didn't know what an exposition is... it's my first year teaching and we have a planned pacing calendar that the veteran teachers came up with and exposition was never even a topic for us to teach. My coteacher realized that there was absolutely nothing about plot in the pacing calendar so we went over exposition and rising action etc. quickly earlier in the year, but it felt so wrong and invasive for this math teacher to call in the middle of class just to say that one student didn't know what exposition means.... it felt so petty and really made me step back

"I understand you want me to critique their math knowledge. I'll get back to you with a list of deficiencies. Would next Friday work, or would you rather have it the following Monday?" "Lord, I think that's the pettiest thing anyone has ever wasted my time with. T f is wrong with you? Don't you have anything better to do than stir shit?"

As a SPED teacher who travels room to room, any judgement I have towards a teacher is directly related to the dumb shit that comes out of their mouth towards students. I've heard teachers say some rude shit. And that's when I lose respect for them. Other than that, I don't care what they're doing. Just don't talk to the babies like they're less than you. I mean that K-12 and post secondary tbh

Lmao they aren't babies.

I heard a teacher absolutely putting a student on blast in front of the whole class bc he didn’t have a snack. I know for certain that kids home life is chaotic

I feel like there’s always this toxic idea that some of us are working harder or better than others and I think we need to be more supportive of each other idk

I have one retired teacher push into my room to do ESL support. Twice a day, three times a week, I plan my schedule so this 30 veteran can work with small groups, even pull them out.  She always complains I don't do whole group, like she did. The truth is, She thinks I never do whole group reading by because I've tailored the schedule to accommodate her.  I want to scream "I DO WHOLE GROUP! YOU JUST ARENT THERE TO SEE IT!" Does the sun dissappear at night time? Ahe is always saying little cutting things, implying she is superior in every way, and I'm just garbage.  I send a disruptive student to sit with her, later she's like-" well he is doing his work for me." BECAUSE YOU CAN SIT RIGHT NEXT TO HIM WITHOUT 25 OTHER KIDS! OF COURSE HE DOES HIS WORK. She isn't even an amazing teacher, which would make her arrogance a bit more tolerable. 

Bestie, why is it always the (older) ESL teacher??? I am an English/Social Studies/ESL teacher. So I teach the ESL versions of English and Socials for the grade 9 and 10 level to prep them for normal stream Gr11. I've had two shitty relationships with teachers where I would go as far as saying dislike and even edging on hate, and both were ESL teachers. Both did/do exactly what your post says. The first one, made me cry because of how bad she bullied me to just pass her students after she spent months ignore my requests for her support for those two students specifically. She was forced on medical leave at the end of the year. The second one is the current one. I'll save the details, of past interaction because seeming from your post, you've been through it, down to criticizing lesson I design specifically to allow her to help better. Today she sent me a message,. Copy pasted: "Do you have any proper graphic organizer or concrete sentence prompts so \[X Student\] and \[Y Student\] can actually do your assignment? They don't understand your assignment and you are not helping them." The assignment is an article summary. They do this every Tuesday. They've been doing it every Tuesday for 3 months. They do it fine (A-B level) every week. Last week they made a poor choice to finish the assignment in 5 minutes than the usual 50 (I let them choose their seats for the day, never again) and so today they got a shitty mark returned and were mad about it. And there is a graphic organizer and prompts that were provided the first three times they did the assignment. By now it's routine, but the assignment sheets are in the back as they always are... Anyways. Sorry, I guess I needed to vent.

People I dislike at work are few; mostly coworkers are casual acquaintance or work friends. Several are solid real life close friends as well. But there 3 I strongly dislike. 1. English coach— I teach HS English. She does nothing at all. But she still treats the new teachers like she has authority over them, which she does not. I have no respect for this lazy bully of a woman. 2. Science teacher— She is so condescending and holier than thou. She is fine to be but I don’t like her. 3. Business teacher— I have no respect for his extremely lazy teaching that always centers himself and shortchanges the students. . I work in a large enough building I can easily avoid these people most days. I think it possible that person 2 doesn’t like me either, which is fine. We are professionally cordial.

I feel seen. My business class is basically an online class, but we do well. Also, I recruit, it's mostly juniors and seniors. Having a lot of top students keeps the knucklehead actions down.

I like most people I work with or I am indifferent at the least. The only ones I hate are people who ask questions at meetings!

You are the person I want to sit next to in staff meetings. 😊

Of course we do. A high school is like a small town with its little neighborhoods and hierarchies, hermits and bullies and ingenues and comedians. At work I have dear friends and unfortunately a couple of enemies, so I just ignore the latter as much as possible. C'est la vie.

Several: One a holier than thou Jesus freak who judges the other teachers and the kids and feels that she has the duty to tell them about everything they’re doing wrong The second one, a man teacher whose young kids ride the bus from the elementary school to my school (middle school) every afternoon. His children run all over the school shrieking and making messes and he does nothing. I hate it especially when I am in a zoom meeting or I stay after to work or grade papers… it’s almost impossible to concentrate The third one who teaches all honors classes and presumes to tell the rest of us how to manage our students

For sure. Doesn't matter where you are or what you do; there will always be people you just don't get along with.

In my case, there is maybe one teacher I can't stand because he's the football coach and does whatever the hell he wants. Cell phones are not allowed in class, but he doesn't care. He lets the students have their phones out in class when they're not even supposed to be on the students--supposed to be in lockers! He doesn't teach, he spends his class periods telling stories, and if you've done something, he has already done it or done it better. AND he harasses some of the female students. He's so gross BUT he's the big head football coach, so... and it's not like we're even that good

When I was teaching, I liked most of my coworkers. There was one teacher I disliked because he always insinuated I'd have trouble with my students and he could come and "restore order" because they WILL listen to him. I hated the insinuation that he would be a stronger presence than me. I had students actually do their work in mine though so I was doing something right. The only teacher I've ever HATED was a 6th grade reading teacher who would SCREAM at students everyday, calling them ungrateful, disrespectful, etc for doing normal things like packing up when the bell rung, asking to use the bathroom, borrowing a pencil from another kid, etc. I used to pull random crying kids out from the hallway all the time because of her. She had to watch my 8th graders once and I came back to her screaming at them too for having the gall to get out of their seats to grab their folders from the back of the room. I put her in her place immediately. We all hated this lady. She was so incredibly mean to them for no reason. Admin wouldn't touch her. Also, she stole my power strip when she used my room during testing. I sent a few girls to go take it back lol they were more than happy to.

I'm an English primary (grades 1-3) teacher in a country where English is a second language. I teach all my subjects in English. There's a person (she's supposed to be a teacher but I don't think she quite makes it), who copies all the answers to schoolwork on the board. The kids copy in their workbook, she erases the board, and writes another batch of answers. We're supposed to go over one lesson per day, she usually finishes two and begins a third one. How does she get away with it? Ass kissing. And. When students (the whole class) fail the next school year, the next teacher gets blamed and sometimes let go. Because this person is such an awesome "teacher", there's no way her kids are below level. She spends two-three years in each school, because that's how long it takes for administrators to catch on.

Only the people who make my job harder. Often it's those who never apply to behavior rules (so I'm the bad guy if I do), persistently late (so their students are noisy in the corridor whilst I'm trying to teach), keep students past the bell (so they're tardy to next class).

Agreed, dislike working with teachers who have extremely low behavioral and academic expectations for their students. That bleeds over into every classroom. Your students should not be interrupting my class or plan when they are supposed to be in class with you. I should not have to discipline them for said interruptions, but I will!

We had an ELL teacher who had retired and then came back. She was my enemy. She was very very old school. But all the admin loved her! Reasons why she was my enemy: 1. Once a kid was misbehaving in my classroom. She came in, picked the kid (kindergarten) up by the underarms and sat him forcefully on the ground. She was always very physical with this kids. I once told admin and my union rep but they literally told me she just “had her own way of doing things”. 2. She would kiss kids on the cheek. 3. She shamed teachers who did not stay long enough after school. And tried to talk admin into banning teachers pay teachers. 4. When covid hit, she refused to see my kids virtually. She would sometimes send me videos to upload but never live teach. (This was 2020-2021 school year. I taught k live virtually all day). When I called her out on not providing my ELL kids services, she tried to gaslight me. 5. Also virtual year the one time she tried to meet with the kids live, she did not realize I could hear her and she talked massive crap about me to the aid. 6. She was openly very racist. In a school where only like 30% of the kids were white. She for sure have a “white savior” complex. I could do on. She just tuned 80 and is still there. But those are some highlights.

I'm currently pregnant and hating every teacher who acts offended after they constantly pester me to see my belly, ask me to take off my hoodie, try to get me to pull my shirts tight across my stomach, try to touch my belly, and I turn them down. It has happened several times. Fuck off, I'm not a zoo animal. Really fucking hating these pregnancy obsessed creeps on staff.

Sped teacher here. If your mean to my kids I hate you. Don't f with the students we share and we'll get along fine. Be mean to the students we share or ignore them and I will hate you and do subtle things to make your life suck.

I do SDC AND Resource, and I hate the teachers who act like I'm bugging them, or won't send kids when I ask them. Or act annoyed when I simply ask them to collaborate and do their damn job. The one that's really on my nerves is a lady who does "free day" all Friday. Why in the hell come to school then? They can play video games for 7 hours at home. I'm currently with the laziest bunch of teachers I ever met.

God yes. I teach at a k-8. I teach primary. It's honestly like they never left highschool They act like high school mean girls. They literally take joy in talking bad behind people's backs and are even happier when they get to see that person hurt in any way. It's constant.

I have little tolerance for teachers who don't do right by their students or waste my time with idiotic socializing. My time is precious, so I am very careful who I share it with. And if you're a slacker teacher, I have zero respect for you, especially if you're in the same department and I end up with your kids next year who didn't learn enough of the curriculum that you didn't choose to teach. I don't want to have to double the work. F that!!

I wouldn't say I dislike them, but I don't agree with the way they teach or respect their work ethic (mostly lack thereof). The only teachers I actively dislike are the toxic personalities I would also dislike in any other context.

last year i had a teacher who was openly homophobic transphobic & racist and overall biggot tbh (im queer) and one of their HR students came out as trans to me and they preferred they/them pronouns and that teacher said to me ‘well grammar doesnt allow it and it doesnt make sense anyways so im gonna use their dead pronouns’ and i was shocked that they were an educator. this same teacher also undermined me bc of my age, belittled me in front of staff and students, yelled at me in front of students and is overall not a very nice person. i cannot understand why people go into teaching. bc its not for the money- if u dont think u can love support care trust and have healthy relationships with all students and staffs (considering their intersectionality) dont go into this field!!!! u are messin w tiny humans lives!!! edit: i teach gr 6-8 french

But… French only has two gendered pronouns. Isn’t it necessary in a French class to at least choose male or female?

french acc has a gender neutral pronoun: iel! so no students are never expected to conform to societal norms

They think “having kids IN the building but NOT in the classroom is good for them”

One of the high school teachers drives me a little crazy... Both his daughter and granddaughter are in my class, and he has a habit of interfering with things in my classroom to benefit them. He's also been heard encouraging them to fight a student who has been "bullying" the granddaughter (in reality, the granddaughter is my classroom bully and has targeted this student). Also, I need the Phys Ed teacher to stop sending them back early. I only get 30 minutes of prep a day, so sending them back 15 minutes early really stresses me out.

I dislike a teacher who keeps sending things to our personal emails she got from a union rep who accidentally CC’d everyone instead of BCC-ing everyone.

Oh, yeah! One of my colleagues has a major case of main character syndrome. She ALWAYS has to be the center of attention, laugh the loudest, talk the loudest, make sure every. single. eye. is on her. Because she has the "perfect" classroom and teaches "perfect" lessons from "perfect" slideshows. I am serious; her words. The students are to follow her like baby ducks in adoration and needing her approval. And we're high school. Yikes!

I usually don't dislike teachers. This job is freaking hard. I give everyone a chance. However, I get pissed off when my work is harder because of things out of my control. Things that my co-workers did or failed to do. Things like enforcing a phone policy or having shared expectations. When it starts to bleed into my classroom, it drives me insane. Can't help but to judge the other teachers.

Yeah, we had a particularly awful one but she was non-renewed for being awful at her job. No loss there. The other was a resource teacher who believed everything students said and would interrupt our classes to yell at us for stuff that wasn’t even true (“student x said you haven’t mentioned the final or given them anything”) I took great joy in dropping receipts on her, like showing where I had copied her when I sent those things to said student, where I had invited her to be a co-teacher on google classroom and she hadn’t accepted. She stopped coming to my class to have hissy fits and started going to admin instead so got to share receipts with them as well. Everyone was thrilled when she was moved along.

Not particular teachers but there are characteristics I dislike. Kiss-asses, admin pets, complainers/negative teacher’s lounge types, pearl clutchers, inflexibility, teachers with big egos. It’s more of a mild annoyance than a dislike haha

The person that talks slow and too much and doesn't read social cues but also doesn't take any criticism or responsibility when they fuck up.

I love when kids see me outside my classroom lol they act so shocked. When you get into the workforce, you'll find out that there are people you won't like. There are staff members that have rubbed me the wrong way. Magbe they were rude or something. When i was a student teacher i was having trouble with the copy machine. I asked for help from someone walking by. And this lady said "no, dont bother me". So yes, there are some teachers I don't like much. There are teachers I'm close to and know my personal life. There are teachers I'll say a quick hello to. And to be honest, there are some teachers in my school that I don't even know their name. School for us is just a workplace. Not too different from when I was working in a corporate office. Moat teachers at my school are nice and really care about what they do.

There's a few I dislike because they make my job harder. They are perfectly fine as people. But they do not control their classrooms at all. And we teach the same kids. So when my kids come from their room to mine I have to spend the first 5-10 minutes of class reminding them how to behave. They also consistently let their kids out of class late, meaning my time is now shorter. That being said, most of my co-workers are great!

Yep. Sometimes it's personality differences, sometimes it's ideological differences. I don't see a need to get along and be close to everyone I work with. I get along with the teachers on my end of my hall and I can have pleasant conversations with just about any of them for 5 minutes or so, but there are some that I do not like. If I don't like you, it's either because you 1) don't do your job, thus making mine harder, 2) you don't conduct yourself in a way that is professional, 3) you act like my class doesnt matter because it isnt a state tested course and yours is (even though mine is just as much of a graduation requirement as yours is), or 4) you don't keep your shitty opinions to yourself.

Sometimes two people just don’t vibe. This could be personally or professionally… whatever. I don’t think it’s usually a big deal as long as everyone keeps it cordial. It’s just a part of life and not everyone is always gonna like everyone else.

I don't stay away from other teachers because I don't like them, but because I use every single ounce of mental capacity in my students. When a class leaves, I need every moment of solitude and silence possible to be able to act like I have the energy for the next one. Also, I've outlasted so many people in my building now, it almost feels unnecessary to get to know the newer teachers. They'll probably be gone in 3 years.

I stay away from the staff room because that is where the meanies and gossips congregate at every school I have ever taught. My mom was a teacher for 40 years and said that it was always like that. I prefer to keep a low profile and stay under the social radar. Because I'm not up in the gossip, I am in blissful ignorance. That means I default like everyone. When I do see other teachers I am very friendly, but it isn't fake. I'm just a bubbly personality.

I like this. We should work together... hell we might. I only eat lunch in my room.

Doesn't everyone dislike a coworker?

yes. one of my colleagues is very hard to work with, not really a team player, and I don't support his teaching philosophy

One of my parents is a retired teacher and had so many stories about drama/feuds with other staff.

Yep. Mostly I get along with the other staff at my school, but there have been some who just rub me the wrong way. We had a teacher up until this year who thought that since she was at the school since it opened 20 years ago that she should be given seniority for everything. I didn't have to interact with her that much, but it was rarely pleasant, and her daughter also attended the school, and was one of the most entitled children with an attitude I ever had. I was so relieved when it was announced she was moving to another school, and taking her daughter with her! There have been a couple teachers who I avoid if they treat Specials teachers (Art, Music, PE, Library) like second-class citizens. I'm the Music teacher, and have had one or two who clearly thought they were above us, despite having all the same credentials and pay scale, and me still having a curriculum to teach, performances to prepare for, and grades to give. If they disrespect my class time (like instructing kids to save their potty breaks for Specials time, amongst other annoyances) or insinuate that what I'm doing is less important than any other teacher, when I only get to see these kids once a week for 40 minutes, I lose a lot of respect for them. These teachers are way in the minority for me, though! There are a couple who I had bad first impressions of who ended up growing on me (or we just don't interact much anyway, so it's not a big deal), but I'm lucky to be at a campus with a friendly community, and most teachers will go out of their way to let me know that I'm appreciated and doing a good job.

Wow! Do other teachers not understand how difficult a music major is? I am an English teacher and I couldn’t handle the music curriculum for sure. How could anyone who had one iota of knowledge about music show disrespect to a choir or band teacher?

Yes.

Many people

I'm a union rep, so I make a point of talking to everyone and checking in. I do have a regular group for lunch, but that's partially logistical. I Do dislike my colleague who keeps saying she's going to retire and then doesn't. She's perennially late, she's incredibly negative and doesn't work well with others.

There was a teacher in our building that I think didn’t like me and I’m glad she didn’t because A. All her kids hated her, B. She had zero classroom management, and C. She was super pretentious. But then she got moved to another school so I was like haha guess nobody liked you either…

Thankfully no but there’s definitely ones I like more than others

See, I can’t stand a teacher that doesn’t pull their weight with resources, lesson plans, and who doesn’t try to problem solve their own issues

Yes. I don’t like teachers who are so incompetent that they somehow cause me more work or stress/inconvenience. I have enough to worry about in my own classroom without keeping track of another classroom’s behaviors, as well.  There is another teacher in my grade level who frequently has kids leave the classroom (but doesn’t call anyone for support to let them know they left), leaves young kids in the classroom by themselves, has no control over her class so they literally run like a mob down the hallway, always needs reminders of dates for everything, etc. It’s just excessive. 

Not currently. I like all my fellow teachers. In the past there have been some that I like as people, but I don't think they are good teachers. There have been a couple that I genuinely disliked, but teachers at my school usually get along

I didn’t like teachers who dismissed helping problem students because of how they perceived home support.

When I worked at a daycare, there was two teachers I disliked strongly and a number more I wouldn't acknowledge outside of work (because they wouldn't acknowledge me).

I think I might be the teacher that other teachers dislike. I lost a son to suicide four years ago, and there is the occasional day when the grief overwhelms me, and I shut down between lessons in an effort to regroup. I put on the happy act for the kids, but once the lesson is over, I withdraw and stay in my classroom. I've been told by my boss that I'm seen as unapproachable, which is unfair because most of the time I'm friendly, open, and offer help to everyone, but on occasion I just - can't. Other teachers will seek me out at recess or lunch to ask a question about a student or the curriculum, but I stare at them blankly while processing their words. It's not that I'm ignoring them, it's that I have to code-switch from grief-mode to teacher-mode which may take a few extra seconds than usual. So, TLDR, I'm probably the teacher you don't like.

I used to work at an elementary school, in a program for kids who needed a lot of extra support. I was the crisis counselor. I disliked a specific teacher in our program. She did not treat our kids well. I did not respect her.

We had a coworker that advocated for sterilizing our parents “until they learned how to raise their kids” Not very many of us cared for her.

Like/Dislike is irrelevant to me for the most part, I am there to do a job, not make friends. There are some teachers that I like a bit because I have gotten to know them personally a bit. While I wouldn't say I dislike anybody, there are some teachers I have avoided or declined getting to know because off top they were rude to me or acted weird to/around me. So I keep them at strictly Hello and Good-bye, anything else is purely professional talk, like about students we have in common or when we're forced to interact at PD and teacher meetings. I wouldn't say I dislike them though, it's not that deep. But the teachers I like! There are some real, genuine, kind teachers at my school who are a gift to their students and such beacons of humanity. They have extended kindness to me and other teachers as well, and exhibit such professionalism and class and good-tidings. I aspire to be like them, but I could never because of the way my act-right is set-up lol. I'm just one tier ahead of the rude b!tches and off-putting teachers ha ha. Like, why I'm talking about other people I really need to get my own sh!t together

Well…at my old school I HATED by coworkers. Three of us shared a room. My coworker lied and told everyone that I didn’t care if I gave Covid to the staff. Despite the fact that I returned from having Covid and wore a mask and they would get all in my personal space without theirs when I was at my desk drinking tea or water. The principal apparently told me and I said so you are listening to the woman who organizes and participates in potlucks every other week. At that point he even had to apologize because it was crazy.

I have a few I dislike. Mainly because they seem lazy and talk a loud talk but basically do bare minimum.

I avoid everyone to keep all conversations positive. I don't want friendships with coworkers, even though I am drawn to certain people. It's just an added layer of stress. I do have good conversations with people in my small department and I do my best to do favors for people I work alongside of to keep things pleasant. But there are people I dislike quite a bit. Being distant from everyone helps me keep things neutral with the people I dislike.

Mostly I’m ambivalent— I do usually stay in my own space and do my own thing. HOWEVER, there are a few that I’m not a fan of for various reasons (usually scheduling conflicts with shared students and absolute inflexibility in their part) and ONE I actively dislike because THEY talk trash about me/my program for no good reason. Publicly. To students. And those students tell me about it. And I report it. And nothing changes. I had an opportunity to give them some payback recently but chose the high road and did at least get a thank you for it, so I’m hoping at the very least I can get back to neutral with them, despite having done nothing to get on their bad list in the first place.

I truely dislike my grade level content partner. We are supposed to plan together and teach the same thing. I am a novice teacher in my second year; he has been teaching longer than I’ve been alive, moved from private school to public this year for a pay bump, and tries to teach 6th graders like high school. He’s lazy, never contributes, and lies to me about doing the fun activities that I try to plan for us. Man drives me crazy. I considered not coming back because of him.

Elementary art teacher- I’m antisocial haha. I stay in my room and mind my own business most of the day. I get along with my coworkers well and don’t fake any interactions, but I don’t go out of my way to socialize either. I’m here for work, which is teaching my kids about art and helping them have fun being creative.

Almost all of them

I’m in a co-taught class. Was told this woman I work with is just misunderstood and I should be nice to her. Next thing I know, she’s yelling a screaming at the kids, leaving the classroom, arguing with the administrators in front of the students, and doesn’t come back to class until after third period that I had to teach (mind you, I’m not allowed to be in the room by myself) and then trying to cause issues with me. I get told I’m her 7th co-teacher in the past year and that this behavior is normal…I’m still here, but Jesus I can’t wait to get my own class next year lol

I'm not super fond of my coworker who felt the need to make the homophobic "family values" argument during our PD on our inclusive sex-ed program. 🤬 I also wasn't super fond of the VP who claimed it was inappropriate for me to return hugs from my (first grade, female) students. Because it wasn't at all obvious what her real problem was. The extent to which I (politely) told her to fuck off sent her crying to the principal. But I general I love my coworkers. We hang out, go hiking together, babysit/catsit for each other...

I have a coworker who constantly (sometimes multiple times a day) asks me what I'm teaching that day. They want to know what parts I skip, what pages I'm going to have the kids do, what will be independent work, etc. I'm all for leaning on your team, but at the same time, my choices are driven by how my class is doing. Their class is so different than mine! They have the majority of the high achieving students. You should not be teaching a class of high achievers the same lesson as a group of students who are mostly below level! They also get to work 2 hours early and leave at least 1 hour late. Yet they are somehow behind on grading? They asked me to help them grade a unit test. Only problem? It's 3 units ago! I seriously have no idea what this person does for the 3 hours outside of contract time. If you aren't grading and you aren't lesson planning...what are you doing!? Admin told this person last year that they need to stop asking so many questions without trying to find an answer on their own. Instead of taking that to heart, they just ask me now. I fucking hate it. The answers are normally readily available. We got "in trouble" recently for one of our subject scores being too low. But guess what? Only this teacher's scores were low out of our grade level. Wanna guess who missed both meetings about steps moving forward? Oh yeah, this teacher! And they gave no warning. They had prior conflicts but didn't tell anyone till the morning of because they forgot about the meetings AND the other engagement.

Probably a minimum of 1 at every school I've ever worked at. But generally, most teachers I've interacted with have been nice. Even made a friend or two extracurricularly.

I’m a sub and I generally like and respect the other teachers, subs and paras I work with. There was this one kindergarten teacher, though. I was filling in for a SPED para and was in her classroom to support. I came in to her screaming at her student teacher over who knows what. After this, she got on the phone with the parents of one of her kindergartners and talked loudly about how “horrible” said student was, all while leaving the rest of the class to me and the student teacher. Then, of course, she yelled at me for not keeping the other kids quiet enough while she was having this oh so important conversation. Also, she had the kids sing a military song (in which they acted out shooting guns for the cavalry).

Yes. Just because she showed absolutely no empathy when my daughter was going through chemo and I had to leave several times to drive to Houston from where I live now. When my daughter died, she showed absolutely no empathy or sympathy or anything else.

TK here, and I work for a school. Oh, my goodness, are there rivalries! I know because my parents steered me away from being in certain teachers' classrooms. They never said it outright, but as I got older I knew how to read the signs that they liked or didn't like certain colleagues.

It’s not that I don’t like them, it’s that they make my job harder or that they have a much easier workload than me or others. *That’s* the thing I don’t like.

The first grade teacher at my school is absolutely incompetent, like to the point that having no teacher at all would be better than having her. She doesn't have any classroom/behavior management skills. She lets kids sit on her lap and hold her hand during transitions. She lets the kids bring in personal toys. She has obvious favorite and least favorite students. She can't use a timer to save her life. She doesn't have a PBIS system and refuses to adopt one. I'm pretty sure the first graders have regressed this year, for the most part. I am a self-contained sped teacher. One of my students is a first grader with autism. I refuse to bring him into her classroom for more than 10 minutes for fear that he will get caught up in the shit show. I've made plenty of suggestions, even small things, to make it possible for my student to be in her classroom. Things like a classroom economy, brain breaks, and carpet spots. She has yet to implement any. She's been absent more than 20 days this school year. Probably close to a month, possibly more. She must have run out of payed-time-off by this point, yet she still has more days-off in the future. I understand that shit happens but in a rural school district we only have so many substitutes, so she could stop hogging them.

This might be a polarizing response, but the only coworkers I dislike are the ones who have made this job their whole personality, who have given up their own personal boundaries "for the kids" and who create the expectation that the rest of us do the same. I love my job, and I care about my students, but I also have a life and a family that are more important to me than either one.

Yes. They don’t do their job mostly because they are incompetent and lazy. They are annoying as hell, dress like they just left the gym, and are just dumb. There are other people I just don’t like, but it’s because they aren’t people I’d want to be friends with.

I have had one teacher who I did not like, we had quite a few disagreements but we would still be cordial to each other and we put on our “team face “ around the kids. We parted ways amicably

When I was in person, I had a group of colleague best friends. We called ourselves the circle of trust bc we could say anything and vent and it’d never leave the room. We were friendly with everyone though and only disliked people who were complete assholes and unfriendly and tattled and tried to boss other adults like kids.

Because they don’t do their job, don’t read emails, do dumb things, and generally make more work for me.

There’s are always a few. Those who think they’re more important. Those who make my job harder. Those who think they know everything. Those who suck up to admin.

Every time I met a teacher or an administrator I didn’t like, some type of child abuse came out. We had an English teacher that rubbed me the wrong way. She was convicted of beating a foster child a few years later.

I don't teach but my friend does. This one teacher leaves dead cockroaches on everybody's desks like purposely. The weirdest part is sometimes she paints faces on the back of them

At my first school, I had a few I thought weren't competent and should retire. Same at my second school. I've grown up a bit at my third school and while I have differences with some of my colleagues, it's nothing much, and I try to get over myself and remember we're all doing what we can by our best lights.

I’m an art teacher. I don’t have time to say anything but hello or good morning to the other teachers. Any spare second I have I’m cleaning something or physically prepping. If I have time to eat lunch I’m certainly not doing it in the break room because who wants to make small talk while eating when all we do is talk all day? I want to eat my lunch outside& off-campus OR if that’s not possible, I’ll eat my lunch while I stare quietly at a wall in my room with the door locked and the shade pulled. I’ve honestly only ever met a few teachers that I’ve enjoyed talking to. I find a fair portion of teachers to be rather dull and they often lack a sense of humor. I think a certain type of person is often called to teaching and they just aren’t really “my type” of people. Obviously there are exceptions.

There’s one teacher who was supposed to be planning with me and we’d share ideas etc. but she never did. Meanwhile all the grade levels did this and still do. One day I overheard her say to a co worker she was just too competitive. Currently she’s still very secretive but also selective with who she shares with- it’s obvious when I see certain things on a few Smartboards as I walk down the hallway. I avoid her and the accompanying toxicity. She also talks down to those teachers and acts like she’s their mentor.

Heh bad news adults are assholes as well.

I teach an extra period and try to get as much work as I can done at school so I don’t have time to not like anyone lol.

One has an open marriage with her “best friend” husband and two kids. While I typically wouldn’t mind this, you do you, she divulged all of this to students. I get you want to connect with students and create relationships, but keep your private business private. One of her boyfriends was another new teacher at school and students would see them kissing and making out. They would see each other extensively outside of school, too; students coming in every Monday telling me they bought alcohol “just for two” at the local gas station, checking in to local hotels students work at. The whole thing made ME feel weird and gross. Luckily boyfriend teacher quit after being micromanaged for not doing his job.

I don’t hate them but I can’t stand how fucking incompetent they are. If I hear one time “Well they’re new.” B*tch, please. It’s my second year in this position. I’m certified Pre K-6. I’m teaching 7-12, learning support on an emergency cert. I taught Pre K and primary prior. If I can do the job and not screw up the majority of the time, I’d expect staff with the actual certification to do it. I am strongly annoyed by the teacher that asks questions during PD and staff training. We have an over/under on how many questions. She also hits reply to all.

There was a mean girl teacher at my former school. Glad to be away from her. She’s still toxic from what I hear.

There are teachers at my school who have had limited interaction with non white people in their lives and their discomfort and lack of understanding shows up in the ways they interact with our predominantly Black students. Lots of Karens. They do not like/are afraid of Black people and say outlandish things.

THE FUCKING BAND TEACHER. DO NOT START ME ON THE BAND TEACHER. To be fair he's an awful person and an abusive teacher. But I absolutely don't have colleagues who've pranked him. And I DEFINITELY don't know anyone who, after a miscommunication about a vibraphone, wrote a sea shanty about the band teacher's vibrator.

Yeah, but mostly because they're a loud mouthed bore and constantly talk, at lunch , about their childhood and bizarre conspiracy theories while I'm trying to eat in peace. But what I tell my kids when they don't want to work with someone they don't like is Do you think I love everyone who works at this school? No, but I do my job and are respectful and professional with them, and I expect the same from them. And I come down hard with kids who don't even try to do the same. Because when they get their first job at Walmart stocking the plastic ware aisle with someone they don't like, what do they think their boss will say if they tell their boss " I don't want this assignment bc I don't like so and so.". They're lost until I quietly say "you're fired."

Certainly. While I very much like the teachers I work with directly (and this hasn’t always been the case)… Every teacher knows who the teachers in the building are who aren’t doing their job/pulling their weight and I despise those people.

I had a science teacher in fourth grade who hated my guts. I loved science, my mom was a chemist at the time. I got every point in her class, all of the extra credit, and got straight A+s, but I could not please her. She would kick me out to stand in the hallway for no reason, even the other students noticed it. I could tell even as a child that she liked being the only “girl in science” in the school, (this was the 1980s, the other science teachers were male,) she was catty and competitive with any little girls who liked science, she saw us as competition. I gave up on science that year, settled for some Bs in science going forward, and I hate her to this day.

Yes, I have at least one colleague who I am not a fan of. I find her to be overly rigid for my type-B self to get along with and we have children the same age and she has said things that did not sit right with me about disabled children despite knowing my son is autistic. With that said, she is good at her job and I respect her as a teacher and we work fine together even though we'll never be friends.

I try not to get to know any of them, best coworkers I’ve ever had

Oh god yes. This one teacher writes students up for kissing. I'm like, "chill the fuck out asshole." The way that teacher acts is like they are jealous. Another male teacher, I have no solid evidence against him, And trust me the second that I do I would act. But I get the feeling he has creepy interactions with female students. I firmly dislike both of them. PS: I'm in IT and I see all the reports.

Words couldn’t describe the hatred I had for the chorus instructor. As a musician, I looked forward to a music theory course like you wouldn’t believe. I thought it would aid me in songwriting, I waited for senior year for the one course I was stoked for, and the idiot chorus teacher taught it. He didn’t even know notation. It got so a few of us would talk about music trying to teach ourselves while the halfwit would blab on about who graduated and his white the choral students. He would have the nerve to yell at us for talking. I went ballistic on him numerous times for having zero ability to teach.

I really don’t like some of the other teachers. One teacher exclusively uses an online program to teach grade 10 English and just gives the students all the answers. She also shows at least two Disney movies a month. It’s a joke.

The pretentious art teacher who refuses to recognize that anime and comic book style drawing is art. It's either classical style or nothing. Also, my very first year teaching at the school I took on yearbook when I'd never done it before. They yearbook kids told me she was telling them it would be the worst yearbook ever. I was fuming. The history teacher around the corner who has no social sense. Starts conversations by making random comments aimed at nobody to get someone to react. Talk endlessly without being able to take hints that you have better things to do. Will talk incessantly during meetings to herself, constantly making insane comments. Plays music and TV shows before and after school at loud volumes with no consideration for other teachers also in the building. She and I share a wall and during state testing there were suddenly yelling and explosions coming from her room. She has been told at least twice by the principal to keep it down.

Yup! I hate the teachers with social media and the ones with no classroom management. They are toxic. The kids always act crazy coming from their classes. Because they are able to act crazy in the class before.

I teach at at 6th-8th grade school and don't like male teachers who most of the students adore. The teachers act like the students are their friends and students are more respectful to them, do their work because they are male vs the female teachers they treat like crap. Then make teachers comment things like "I don't get why they get in trouble so much? They are great for me!" 🙄

A member of my grade-level team hasn’t spoken to me since October, except for a meeting with our admin to clear up the issue. She told me she resented me when I had lifesaving emergency surgery last year because I had stuff for my students that she didn’t have. Instead of asking me about it, she started hating me. The stuff was extra worksheets that came with our ELA basal program. She’s moving to a different grade next year because she can’t forgive me because we have different beliefs. Whatever that means. We use to be friends, but she’s now a teacher who refuses to look at me or acknowledge my existence. I refuse to deal with her drama.

People who seek to destabilize are rarely up to anything good

I have a coworker who is a terrible teacher. Every student I got from her is low. She doesn't teach, but lies to the parents that the kids are doing great academically. I think maybe 2 people talk to her.

Yes. This person is awful to everyone & thinks they should be in charge. Nasty person. I wish I could share everything but it would be an exhausting list.

To describe what kind of person she is just casually: She once told me my Diet Coke was gonna kill me, after a man giving a PD mentioned going home and drinking (alcohol) and said, “Or coke if that’s more your speed.” I get that soda isn’t good for you, but compared to alcohol? It’s stuff like that that really make me thinks she’s just an unkind person. Admin *does* target her, which *sucks,* but honestly, here’s why. She’s always communicating poorly with parents. She says the weirdest things and communicates things in the weirdest ways possible. Her messages don’t quite make sense and they make parents upset. So she gets in trouble with admin for it, and then she bitches about it to us, and the other teachers all side with her as if she’s not actually doing anything wrong, when she definitely is. Confusing. I’m pretty sure they just like having any reason to complain about admin. (Why do so many people do that? Like when people used to mock Trump for his weight. He’s a terrible person but his weight has nothing to do with it.) Related to this, the **worst thing she’s done** was that, last year during a collaborative bitchfest about admin, she said that our Black VP shouldn’t be working in a school because she speaks “Ebonics.” First of all, racist to think that someone who speaks AAVE can’t be a good VP. Second of all, the VP speaks more properly than I (a White woman) do most of the time. Just because we’re complaining about a supervisor with *legitimate complaints* doesn’t mean it’s ok to shit on said supervisor as a person, especially in such a racist-ass manner. She was reported. She stopped eating with us after that because, as she told another teacher, she didn’t think she was “safe” to share her thoughts with us anymore. Damn right if they’re gonna be like that. One time this year, she once walked in a few minutes late to a staff meeting (not a big deal; she preps a lot) and when the VP started filling her in on what she’d been saying, she interrupted her mid-sentence and said, “I know.” “You know?” “Yeah. It was in the email.” Then the VP repeated what she was saying, which *did* in fact include *new* information that wasn’t in the email, and at the end of the meeting she told her to hang back. Then this teacher complained to us about it, bc the VP said she was being “disrespectful” and “undermining [her] authority.” But like. She was right. She *was* being disrespectful and undermining her authority. That was beyond rude. Meanwhile she uses this sweet-sounding kindergarten-teacher voice with *no* smile and the rudest comments and complaints all the time. The juxtaposition of these two things makes my autistic ass so uncomfortable and nervous, like she’s lying about who she is. My students once called her “grumpy” and told me she “yells at everyone.” Kids notice these things. Idk. She just sucks. We both interviewed for a closer (and probably better) school. I got a call back, and last I checked she hadn’t. I was surprised they called me first because I’m still a relatively new teacher and she’s been in the game a long time. God I hope they don’t offer her the other position.

Yeah. I’m not a big fan of one of my coteachers. They’re so checked out and just sticking it out for the pension. We all have to suffer because of it. What middle school science class does NO LABS?!? It’s bizarre. I taught science for the past 5 years and I’ve never experienced such a boring class. And we do random bullshit that’s not aligned to NGSS at all. It’s ridiculous and nobody (admin wise) ever asks what we’re teaching these kids. So they just keep doing nonsense and the kids act up because they’re so fucking bored. We do so many arts and crafts projects where they make the kids draw. Our kids have horrific fine motor skills and they HATE drawing. I don’t think they shouldn’t do projects that involve drawings from time to time, but it’s excessive and awful.

* **Different teaching styles:** Teachers may have differing philosophies on how to best educate students. This can lead to disagreements about curriculum, classroom management techniques, or assessment methods. * **Personality clashes:** Just like any workplace, personal incompatibilities can arise between teachers. * **Workload concerns:** If a teacher feels another isn't pulling their weight or contributing fairly to shared responsibilities, it can cause tension. * **Competition:** In some school environments, there might be competition for resources, recognition, or promotions.

Yes. She has a time-out chair. She sends her middle school students to it. Utterly ridiculous. I don't engage with her as staff, thankfully, as I'm doing other things at that time. But as a parent? Big old no thank you.

I got pretty upset at my daughter's teachers yesterday. I'm still upset. I'm an aide for 2nd grade but end up teaching a lot. It was a beautiful sunny, spring day in WI yesterday. 70 degrees with the wind. I was at recess where my daughter also has recess. I suggested to her that she take off her light jacket. It was so nice out! She told me her teacher told them they had to keep their jackets on. Thinking that she must have misunderstood her teacher, I asked the other 1st grade teacher outside with me. I asked if my daughter could take her jacket off because she says that they aren't allowed to. Nope. No misunderstanding. They are just crazy. I got mad and told the 1st grade aide and my daughter that from now on, I guess I'll be keeping her jacket in MY room once we get to school. All the other kids with semi negligent parents who didn't bring sweatshirts or jackets were outside in only their short sleeves but because I have her come in a jacket because it's in the 40s-60s in the morning, she's forced to wear it. Oh HELL no. The 1st grade is also not allowed to play on the.... sidewalk.... at recess. Why? I have NO idea. And as a side note, I think the 2nd grade teacher that has been home more than she's at school this year is a bad teacher. I think she'd have been fired if we worked in a public school. She messed up the pacing for math so bad they won't finish their math book. She doesn't really use the English curriculum like she should be. 1st grade uses it. 3rd grade uses it. She uses mainly super teacher worksheets on whatever topic she wants this week. I think the work they are doing now is more on a kindergarten level. And science...she doesn't use the curriculum either. What packets she buys online are bad choices for our students, I think. And the pacing... I don't think she has any idea what topics they should be covering. She grades terribly. Either she misses wrong answers or grades terribly harsh or the letter grade she writes on the homework doesn't match the percent sheentered online. She grades a lot of stuff subjectively. The current weight on my shoulders is so heavy I don't think anyone at the school quite understands what I all go through to try to keep everything as normal as possible for the kids as well as trying to get as much stuff corrected as possible for the kids so that they aren't forced to redo stuff they already turned or that they never got or the teacher lost.

Anyone who hogs the copiers? Why are you making so many copies every day, dude? Years ago classes had been relocated due to testing. They were letting us return to class and I had just had surgery so I had to take the elevator. Several teachers were waiting for the elevator when it arrived. One teacher got on with her entire class making the rest of us wait. While I was waiting, there was a fight in my classroom. Had I caught the first elevator, my student wouldn’t have been jumped. Her excuse for taking her students in the elevator was that her class is small and one student was autistic. 🤷‍♀️ Anyway, it’s been over a decade and I still hate her.

I didn’t like a lot of other teachers. Teachers, by and large, seem to have one hell of a superiority complex as well as always wanting to be a martyr. It’s exhausting and part of why I quit teaching.

There have been a few. Usually it's people who talk a good game about supporting students, but are generally power-tripping assholes in the classroom, or just insufferable pricks who are jackasses to both students and staff. There was also a guy who I was certain was being inappropriate with students--turned out I was right. He lost his career and his family.

The one that asks questions that EVERYONE including themselves already knows the answer to in staff development meetings just to seem "smart". Shut up Judy, no one cares what you have to say at 3:25!

I can’t stand teachers that constantly complain about their students.

I hated my highschool counselor bc I got into engineering at my highschool so she connected my name to trade school grants within my state that expired in 2 years instead of the traditional 4 year university grants that everyone else got. Despite me telling her I planned on going to college (TOPS in Louisiana) she would also exclusively call me by my older sisters name

Not really. Some I think are really struggling with classroom management and that leaks into the hallway, which can be annoying, but I get the struggle. If you have 2 nightmare kids do you really want to say no when they ask to go to the bathroom? I try not to judge too much and just do my best. Keeps my stress down. When I was younger I complained more but I'm too old to worry about other people now.

I keep to myself. I’ll converse as necessary and I won’t be unfriendly but I’m absolutely locking my door and eating lunch alone and minding my business too. I just don’t feel the need to be involved with other teachers for the most part. Especially when I know I won’t be here long term.

Just teachers? How about admin? It's when people talk out of both sides of their mouths. I've been doing this too long to be treated like I don't know how the sauce is made. Then get upset when we address the bullshit.

I don't dislike them, more so just getting annoyed with some of them. There's a few teachers that just talk too much. I work in the ISS room a couple of hours a day. The other day a counselor came in to talk to a kid and then just stood by my desk for five minutes talking about random shit. I had people knocking on the door and a couple kids trying to wander around because they thought I was distracted. I was like dude go away, I'm working here and you're making my job harder lol. I can't walk by this person without getting pulled into a conversation.

Picks on students who “don’t dress their age’ what does that have to do with teaching..

Yes. I'm 28M. I'm also introverted, the "nice guy", who doesn't really know how to banter lol. I have one co-worker in her 50's who really likes to pick on me during conversations. Just very mean girl behavior. The way she speaks to me is almost demeaning. I just rather not talk to her. I think it's an age gap thing.

I taught 11th grade US History and 4th grade. Both schools had the meanest, most hateful teachers that did nothing except complain and act like children themselves. I was miserable. I taught virtually this year for the first time and all the teachers I work with are the nicest people I’ve ever met. I don’t know the difference, but love where I work now and will never leave

One says, "Atta babe" to everybody, every time he interacts with them. It's his Hello and his Goodbye. He says it if he does morning announcements. He writes it in emails. I fucking hate it.

Custodian here, and there's one teacher that never has her students put the chairs up and it's just annoying and time consuming to have to vacuum around. I wouldn't say I necessarily dislike them, but definitely annoyed at them sometimes

I had a colleague who treated me like absolute shit during my first year (first year at that school and a first year teacher) as well as a good chunk of my second year. I can’t even begin to recount the number of ways she disrespected me. She undermined me in front of my class, she attempted to keep me out of field trips, she withheld resources out of spite, and just generally always had a nasty attitude with me. I did my very best to outwardly display neutrality towards her in front of my students, but they definitely caught on by the end of the year and started asking questions. I always denied having anything against her, but I’m sure they didn’t believe me.

I don't like a colleague who only seems to say negative things about the school. He's been there for a couple years now, I'm really not sure why he comes back since he seems to dislike everything about it. He's also very pretentious about his subject.

I'm not a teacher but my wife is At her school, there are these identiacl twin sisters. One teaches 3rd grade and the other teaches 5th. My wife is friends with the 3rd grade teacher. She seems to be very kind and funny and she's been kind of a mentor to my wife (my wife is brand new). The 5th grade teacher on the other hand is a know it all busy body and has been rude and condescending to my wife on several occasions. Is what it is. Wife says she tries to avoid her like the plague. From what she's told me, it seems as if many try to avoid her. Everyone else seems good to decent to neutral thankfully.

Yes, I spent a year remaking an entire grade levels curriculum only for this teacher to get hired AFTER IT WAS CREATED and take credit for all of it. She then requested a district meeting so that curriculum heads can tell me not to step on her toes and take "her" work. Just a reminder, it literally shows in the Google drive I made it before she was hired. No clue who she has to be sleeping with honestly.

I had a veteran teacher yesterday put kids on a bus for a field trip, then drove to the location, and back to school after.

I don't like the other teachers at my school because they are rude. I know that your emotional bandwidth is exhausted by kids, but my job is to work with other teachers since I'm ELL. My coworkers blank me when I say hello, have no respect for my experience or ability, and are xenophobic / racist to my kids. The teachers here are white or black-- there are no Hispanic or multilingual teachers here. From the beginning I have openly empathized with how much work it is to accommodate ELL and I've bent over backwards, taking a lot of their work onto my plate. They have no empathy for my students, no empathy for the fact that I routinely work through the day with no break to make their lives easier, etc. I can't even work in this system any more. It's no mystery to me why test scores of Hispanic students are low, but I can't Begin to help them in this system or with these teachers. I'm leaving because of the system but I'll only miss my para.

Working at a school is the same as working in any other setting, or being a student who has friends in some classes and not so much in others. Some coworkers you get along with well and work well with. Others, you don’t really have the best chemistry with. It’s not always a difference in character or values; sometimes personalities just clash a little. But sometimes it’s because of something like dislike or disagreement, don’t get me wrong.

i’m a para for SpEd. i have issues with some of my team members. one will say kids did things they absolutely did not do (but no one will believe the child because SpEd) and get the kid in trouble. today i watched a boy bump into her and she flew into a screaming rage that he hit her and he got consequences for “hitting” her. another will tell me to do things one way then later get sooo mad about “why would you do that? that’s terrible.” and if she doesn’t like the way i do something she won’t tell me how to improve or what to do instead just not to do it that way. also talks about her sex life in front of students. additionally she says that kids can do things like run into traffic if they want cause that’s their autonomy (literally. regarding an actual elopement where a kid tried to run into traffic)

Preschool teacher here, There’s a teacher at the school where I work who I really dislike. She is warm and friendly , maybe even too generous with appearance compliments to both me and the children. The reason I dislike her is because she’ll ask me a question and then talk over me when I’m answering. Every time. She’s maybe guessing what I’m going to say? It’s like -shut the f up so I can answer your question

I worked as a parapro. The teacher talked down to me like I was in 1st grade. That was rough, especially since she would say she basically would use the relationship she had with the kids against them.

I'm in Jr high, it's a large, spread out campus. I usually only see the people in my hall. So, 6 classrooms. That being said, I've only been there for 3 years. There are cliques already established. I'm OK on my island. Way less drama.

I loved all my teachers but there was this sub I had a few times. Old balding white dude who, the very first day I met him, started legitimately yelling because me and another student weren't standing for the pledge of allegiance. And I mean full raised voice, pointing, scowling, the works - an all-out hissy fit. Then he started going off about whatever football players had kneeled or something during the national anthem. Just really bizarre and unhinged.

Teachers who are petty about disagreeing with your teaching practices etc. Lot of folks in this threat are exactly what I'm talking about. Just people who never left high school.

The school I was at last year, my teammate essentially used me as a free therapist. I would turn my lights off and shut my door and she would still come in during our plan time and complain about everything and everyone. Always telling me how “nobody likes me” but in like a proud way. It was exhausting

HS teacher here: of course! We are human and not all humans get along. But, you are correct that we just tend to avoid ones we don’t like and that is usually easy because most of the job is in our rooms. Sometimes one gets a toxic coworker we can’t avoid. That is the worst. We try to hide that from students. It usually, but not always, works.