July 28th, 2023
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Every year these kids come back with a new annoying quirk… “coin boys” are apparently the new thing
In my tenth year of teaching mostly freshmen and I s2g ever since the pandemic (and honestly like 5 years before that) there’s always a new “thing” students bring to school that they learned over the summer from the internet or wherever.
The newest thing here is a flock of self-proclaimed “coin boys” who carry a quarter on hand at all times and constantly flip it. They have their entire personality revolve around coins, coin flips, and chance. When we went around doing an ice breaker, 4 or 5 of the kids said some variation of “I live by the coin and die by the coin” as their fact.
Just about an hour ago, when I assigned the first assignment of the school year, one of the coin boys was bold enough to say “heads I do it, tails I don’t.” I told him if he flipped the coin he would be getting a call home on the first week of HS. He flipped it anyway and it came up heads (thank god for that at least).
But then the other coin boy in that class flipped his coin and it came up tails. He said the coin has spoken and he’s not doing it. I say very well, enjoy your 0 and your call home— what a great way to start off the school year and your high school career.
I really hope this dies off soon. I haven’t seen anything online about this when I googled it, so I’m guessing it’s just a local friend group thing, unless one of you has some more info…
July 28th, 2023
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Prof_Augustus
I was fully expecting Op to be a middle or elementary teacher then they said “high school year” and now I’m worried for the start of the semester next week…
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drkittymow
9th graders are just big middle schoolers
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ItsCalledanAutocycle
A LOT of college freshmen are just big middle schoolers
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TheNerdNugget
I don't even have kids yet but I'm absolutely going to tell everyone I do just so I can use this line
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Jaishirri
Niece, friend's kid. Make it work for you!
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Imaginary-Prize-9589
I keep using this line on my 26 year old coworker
"Oh yeah, my 10 year old nephew is really into that"
But he doesn't get the hint, unfortunately haha
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rhinofinger
Do it for someone who’s old enough and it might have the opposite effect of making them feel like they’re cool and youthful and “with it”
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NeighborhoodVeteran
Oh, nice! My mom really loves that.
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Wifeofsleepymoody
Genius
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And I didn’t even think it though when I said it bc honestly my six year old was also doing it. I don’t remember what it was and I found it annoying as hell but thankfully six year old moved on to something else and my 9th graders stopped doing it. It took my a few days to put it together too. 😂
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red5993
Oh damn that is good.
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stevejuliet
I haven't seen this one.
A while ago the fad was to play a high pitched tone on their phones that I couldn't hear and most of the boys couldn't, but the girls could. One time all the girls were turning to one boy and telling him to stop. When I told him to turn it off, he asked me to prove he was doing anything.
I told him, "if you truly believe you aren't going to be in trouble because I, personally, can't hear that noise, you're too dumb to be in high school."
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CyberCaw
I remember this one, and it was so annoying. I could hear it, but my older colleagues couldn't. Every time I would walk into the library I had to walk around until I found where it was coming from and take their phone. Very obnoxious.
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impendingwardrobe
I could hear it too. I would turn my back to the room to write something on the board and call offhandedly over my shoulder:
"To the student playing that obnoxious high pitched noise, I know who you are. You can turn it off now while my back is turned, or we can discuss this with your parents after school today. "
Happy to report that no one ever called me on my bluff. That would have been a real pain.
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Just_Cayden17
It’s always so hard to pinpoint the location of the sound too because it sounds like it’s bouncing around.
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BreakingUp47
Wasn't that the mosquito sound? Super high pitch. I couldn't hear it. My tinnitus drowns out most noises.
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VGSchadenfreude
I’m in that weird gray area where I can’t so much “hear” it, as just sort of…sense that it’s there? Like something’s scratching at my brain.
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mightylordredbeard
Reading these fads and realizing none of the cool ones came to my school. Just a bunch of teenage and preteen boys making exaggerated orgasm sounds during that “ooohyeeeah” phase. So glad that one’s over. Definitely nothing I want to hear ever.
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ErgoDoceo
It’s over? God, I hope so.
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WildLemur15
That one migrated down to elementary school! They didn’t even know why it made the adults uncomfortable.
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lotioningOILING
One of my male coworkers would ask the student if they needed to go to the nurse since they were moaning… worked pretty well.
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Thanks for the heads up. I think you can flip this by using a coin toss to “decide” what their homework is etc.
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LuciusDickusMaximus
If it doesn’t go away within a weeks time, I’ll plan on this. Sometimes you have to steer into the skid I suppose.
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bassman314
And make it patently unfair:
Heads - 1000 word essay on
Tails - Take-home quiz. 90% is passing
If the coin somehow manages to balance on the edge, you can give them the night off.
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Longjumping-Cell2738
I cracked up at the last part! Even in Vegas it’s not 50/50…. Have that one green number!
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Thanks for the “heads” up haha
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LuciusDickusMaximus
I was considering doing this as it would be very badass. But I am not very coordinated and worried I would accidentally slap a student, which would be not so badass.
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bruh408
win-win right?
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Anchovieee
Oh my God. I accidentally backhanded a kindergartener at the end of the year last year. I felt AWFUL, though if anyone was on my list to backhand...
The kids were working on a group project on the floor. Scissor skills, gluing, drawing from observation. They were putting together a big flower bush, and they were cutting and designing leaves and flowers to add.
One little girl comes up and shows me her work, asking what to do next. With a Wonka-esque sweeping gesture for fun, I say "glue it on!” and swing my hand behind me to gesture open palmed to the group base.
Naturally, the other girl had spun around while standing up to leave, and I absolutely slapped the hell out of her. In retrospect, it was hilarious, since she didn't get hurt. However, this is hands down one of the most dramatic kids I've ever taught, so i was expecting an email. No, thank God, because the mom knows her kid.
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Mo523
I've done that before now than once. Not like super hard, but more than a touch. (Very accidentally. I teach kids whose faces are the height of my hands moving to point. ) Fortunately, they were all cool kids with cool parents who understood it was completely accidental. I felt so bad.
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Paramalia
Even just fumbling the coin would be… decidedly un badass lol
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jlt6666
Don't try to catch it. Just straight up NBA shot block it across the room.
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Remember the water bottle flipping of 2016? I flipped a water bottle straight into the trash. Two years ago I had a student bring a balloon into my class and all hell was breaking loose. I walked up with my scissors and that was the end of that.
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Paramalia
I had a kid throwing a water bottle around recently. I was like “woooow… water bottle flipping, haven’t seen that in a while.”
That was such a weird little trend.
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I always hit them with the “Oh, cool, is it 2016 again already?” and usually their friends respond with something like “Ohhhh you just got burned by Mr. West Xylophone!”
They usually enjoy their friends getting roasted by the teacher more than their distracting behavior.
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Raikit
I didn't notice your username until this comment and now I'm sad that students today won't understand the reference.
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IndieBoysenberry
Still happening at my school.
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It never seems to go away.
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agoldgold
This comment prompted me to fail at water bottle flipping and now there's water from condensation on the bottle all over my desk
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AllNotKnowing
In my tenth year of teaching mostly freshmen
I pretty much knew the rest of the story after the opening line.
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Weekly-Bedroom-3896
Freshmen are terrible. This is the start of my 20th year teaching and I would quit before I taught freshmen again.
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ARayofLight
I'd scroll for too long before I saw a comment along these lines.
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jlt6666
Remember ALF?
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tits-4-brains
I'm sorry but the concept of these kids calling themselves coin boys is so fucking funny. I only browse here because I'm a volunteer teach for pretty small classes but I'd take coin boys any day over the weird or extremely disruptive one whose parents are clearly only taking advantage of cheap classes at a nonprofit for free babysitting. or straight up brainwashed bigoted ones.
Honestly I'd BE a coin boy any day. This is how I will make every small decision I run into for the rest of my life.
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the-igloo
I am a 30 year old who found this post on r/popular and from this day forward I have decided to dedicate my life to the coin.
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Bidoof2017
I live by the coin and die by the coin
Fucking badass bio 🤣
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Kuildeous
'one of the coin boys was bold enough to say “heads I do it, tails I don’t.”'
Trends can be so silly. Good way to explain averages though.
"Hey, so if on heads, then you could get as high as 100%. If on tails, then you get 0%. So best-case scenario is that a coin flip gives you an average of 50%. Know what that is? That's still a fail. You should bet on a sure thing instead."
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Marawal
I love you for this.
I'm in France. Trends like this one usually comes in about 2 to 3 months after the U.S.
We will go back to school on september 4. This gives me time to establish this coin thingy as something embarrassing that old people do.
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Mingablo
Yup, I'm in Australia and this is one of the reasons I frequent the sub.
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faireducash
« Ça marche pas avec l’Euro faut avoir un quarter » Nice try gamin
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Prudent_Substance_25
That's hilarious. Now I'm inmagining students on here doing counter intelligence.
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philosophyofblonde
Hhhhhaaaa oh no this is a good one. I’d play along.
“Heads, everyone gets a pop quiz. Tails you get an essay.”
“Heads I email your mom, tails I call your dad.”
Walk down the hallways smirking and flipping a coin yourself. Keep it going the rest of the year. Either you’ll be cool or they’ll lose interest and stop. It’s a win-win.
Edit: lol I didn’t expect this comment to blow up. Thanks for the awards! May the snark be with you in the upcoming year.
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Kaiisim
Honestly engage in any meme and you will ruin it for them lmao.
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littleb3anpole
My kids last year kept repeating that “EMOTIONAL DAMAGE!” thing. Drove me insane. The main kid doing it was looking over his maths test at one point and realised he made a small error which stuffed up his whole answer. He was like “oh damn, I can’t believe I missed that” and I went “MATHEMATICAL DAMAGE!”.
He cracked up, the kids enjoyed it and slowly the “emotional damage” meme started to die out as they realised that when their teacher is in on it, it’s no longer cool.
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otterpawprints
Similar but I had a kid who refused to take off his sunglasses all day. When he finally took them off he said the light hurt his eyes. I replied with "Eye-motional Damage!?" And that was the end of that meme.
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4kFaramir
I had that same problem in high school. But as I got older I've learned to handle my weed better and it's not an issue.
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littleb3anpole
I had a student with that once and it really sucks that your student didn’t have a 504 so everyone understood what was going on, or some other alternative to sunglasses. Mine had a diagnosed issue (can’t remember what it was) and he wore glasses with tinted lenses, which lessened the glare of the fluorescent lights for him. In winter he wore them outside and in summer he switched to sunglasses outside. We all knew that it was a real medical issue and not him being a dickhead and refusing to take his sunnies off.
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Yep! Nothing like a teacher “getting sturdy” to ruin that dance for them haha
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HolyJeezmo
Pretty sure I single-handedly killed "the griddy" at my school by doing it constantly. The kids loved me for it, and my whole second semester was griddy free.
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And that’s how we win! 🤪 a moment of silence for the “onneee two … buckle my shoe!!!” guy also lol
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melbox93
Remember the time when they would moan out loud “oh yeah” did any ever figure out a clap back for it 😂😂 I usually just ignore it and move on
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There was at least one big thread about this with tons of replies and hilarious advice. My favorite was calling a parent right there in class to let them hear it
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philosophyofblonde
“Wow. Didn’t know you guys were so into the material. Let’s have some fun and substitute a project for the next test!”
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FoxtrotSierraTango
South Park covered this quite well: https://youtube.com/shorts/3YztZTW4iOM
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Zes_Teaslong
Some people here really lost their spark and sense of humor. But you definitely havent. I’m using this idea if any coin bois show up
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philosophyofblonde
New PD class next weekend: “Troll or Be Trolled”
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Zes_Teaslong
Finally a PD that Id actually stay for
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MistaJelloMan
"Creative clap backs that won't get you fired" needs to be a mandatory PD.
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I've often thought basic improv "yes and" training should be part of teacher training
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Seriously. Probably the most useful skill in crisis management is the ability to just be more ridiculous than the other person.
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Lmao I love it! This is definitely a key skill in crisis avoidance but once the crisis is already in progress, please dear god don't try to be more ridiculous than the kid flipping desks and a screaming bloody murder that they'll kill you all lol
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Eh, ridiculous and violent are not the same thing. Sometimes just confusing someone when they're freaking out gets them to stop. I once sat next to a kid threatening another, pulled out my phone, and started debating what color of Jordans I wanted. Confused him so much he stopped yelling to just ask "huh?"
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married_to_a_reddito
I had a 13 year old girl threaten to stab another girl. I didn’t know what to do, so I put up my fists, hopped all around, and said “Let’s go tiger, just you and me!” For context I’m a 270 pound, 40 year old Mrs. Frizzle wannabe. She started laughing, I started laughing, the class busted up, and then she and I stepped into the hall and I gave her a big hug.
What a day.
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Yeah you're probably right. I'm a school psych, so all my crisis situations are after it's bad enough to call the office and send out a signal for backup/help on the walkies lol. Once when I was a prac student I barked at a student to get them to stop acting wild, and it worked great 🤷♀️
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fishtruckbaby
It really should be. One of my classes in my ese program was taught by a student whose thesis was on improv in the classroom. It was the best class I ever took.
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alwaysinnermotion
One of the improv games my troupe has is a purely heckling based game. One player stands up and talks about a crowd sourced topic and the rest of the troupe roasts and tries to distract them. It's the best teaching prep ever.
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This is seriously awesome, any chance you know where to access it? I regularly am forced against my will to give PD sessions to teachers and this would be a great topic (compared to others lol)
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MistaJelloMan
“Im John Wayne at the first thanksgiving, pilgrims.”
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My bio class lost their collective little minds when Queen Elizabeth's death broke during our class. I let them be excited for a few minutes and then roped it into the material we were doing by talking about hemophilia and inbred European royalty.
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MistaJelloMan
My proudest moment was when a student was trying to talk with his friends about Fortnite mid lesson.
“Corey! Nobody wants to hear about you taking L’s in Fortnite. Please pay attention.”
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RosenButtons
Does the nurse even have ointment for a burn like that? Or did he just get an ice pack like everybody else?
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One kid in my class decided to make a pretend flip phone out of paper while they were supposed to be writing. I walked over and picked up the “phone” and said “hey this is so and so’s teacher, he can’t talk right now because he’s working on an assignment. Bye!” My class thought it was so funny 😆 admittedly, I still think about it and laugh too lol
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clownfacedbozo
Comic: "Name a place."
John: "The offices of Charlie Hegbo!"
Comic: "Okay, seriously, sir, I just need a location."
John: "Ferguson, Missouri!"
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No-Attention-9415
Actually got this training at an Ed camp 😂😂😂
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That would be more useful than every PD I attended over the last 4 years combined.
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kihraxz_king
Seriously.
I was in a 5 hour pd earlier this week on project based learning. 3+ hours in, in response to a question from another teacher:
"Yeah. Math is by far the hardest subject to use pbl with. All of your standards are so rigid. 'Graph this quadratic equation'. I mean, how are you supposed to build a project off of that."
21 years teaching. 16 I math. 5 in p.e. easily 90% of the pd I have been forced to go to has been literally unusable by me or anybody teaching my subject.
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LittleCaesar3
I'm not a math person - that's a moronic answer right?
Like, you could totally do PBL in math with quadratic equations? I'm not going insane?
(I'm going to blame my doubt on my heavy distaste for PBL and not my poor math skills lol).
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prosthetic_brain_
Yeah. The only reason math exists is to solve real life problems. Someone at some point got tired of making marks on a piece of wood to say how many sheep or whatever he was going to sell, and people came up with numbers.
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P4intsplatter
The true joke of the PD "Troll or be Trolled" is that when everyone shows up, signs in, and the speaker takes the podium they say:
"NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP, NEVER GONNA LET YOU DOOOOWN.... alright. Everyone go home."
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Sitting_in_a_tree_
And then a previously hidden, free wine bar with tapas comes out from behind the curtain. And err-body just gets a little schwifty…
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violetsprouts
I bought a qr code sticker that directs you to a rickroll. It's on my teacher laptop.
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burgerg10
Finally a Pd put to use immediately
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melbox93
This is what I need, teaching high school is no joke gotta also be roasting them or get roasted
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Mahershallelhashbaz
There was this one class that no one wanted to work in. It was in a religious community and the kids were extremely disrespectful. A sub would walk in, someone would shout "fu you" and the sub would quit and walk out. Detentions never seemed to fix the problem.
Then they hired my sarcastic ass. I walked in and a student shouted "fu you", so inturned around looked them all in the face and said "sorry, none of you are attractive enough."
None of them.knew how to respond and I subbed in that class 3 months straight...
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Nuallaena
I'd have done the whole sick cat gag at them lol. You absolutely have to be able to shit talk of you teach MS or HS and in some cities other wise they'll eat you alive.
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SlippingStar
“Ew you’re children” to really piss them off 😂
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LittleCaesar3
That is the correct answer, and if I said it I would be fired. :(
Well done!
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super_soprano13
Honestly, though, it's true. I always tell people, the reason the mean kids don't like me is because they can't make me feel bad and when I give it back to them, their friends decide I'm the cool one.
Like, sorry, not sorry, kids. I grew up queer, fat, disabled, and poor in a rich kid school in the Bible belt. You're going to have to wake up earlier to get one over on me and put in study in several languages to even chase at my heals.
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groovyfaery
I would attend that one and actually take notes.
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Find an oversized one that exaggerates the whole process so you can exert dominance in the coin realm.
If they are using quarters get a silver dollar.
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thecooliestone
It's the best way. I did whole class sheeeeeeshes and was the only one who wasn't interrupted with it. I'd see a kid in the hallway and hit them with a sheesh.
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hdvjufd
Yeah I made them all do their very best “gnarly dude” when that started up at my school. Like we spent 10 minutes on it, whole class. Then they never did it again because I made it into work lmao
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ampacket
Yeah, I do stuff like this all the time. The illusion of choice (or magician's choice) is something I use as much as I can. Both for my kids in school, and my little ones at home.
You get a "choice," but it's always going to be something that I want either way.
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Same. This is the only "off-season" prep I need.
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kihraxz_king
Seriously. I teach freshman. I was unaware. Now I will go in armed with a ready response.
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37MySunshine37
“Heads I email your mom, tails I call your dad.”
I love this! 😂
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HappyThreatening
Yeah, now I’m actively hoping for a coin boy so I can use this! Lol
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Stunning-Note
Heads I email the adult of your choice, tails the adult of my choice
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PikPekachu
This is the move. Take their thing. Annoy them with it.
I’ve defeated bottle flipping, fidget spinners, bombastic side eye, and so many horrible catch phrases this way.
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Round-Ice-3437
We almost need t-shirts that say "I survived (Whatever stupid trend)"
I think mine would be. "I survived a year of kids speaking like Napoleon Dynamite"
That was a loooooooong year
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Chilli-byte-
Better yet, treat it like scouts and get patches as a teacher. "Change-d ways" awarded for culling the coin boy trend, "Covid-eo teacher" for surviving online teaching. And a variety more!
All sewn on to a tweed jacket or something and worn to teaching events, serving as icebreakers.
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rollerskatetomato
Can you bring me my chapstick?
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Shoddy-Umpire-3294
Not as long as the year everyone did Borat impersonations
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TheDebateMatters
Heads, everyone gets a pop quiz. Tails you get an essay.”
I LOL’d at this one. The best part of these types of retorts is that they instantly turn the peer pressure firehose on to the guy disrupting class.
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dryerfresh
Almost always, playing along is the best bet. Instead of getting kids to stop throwing stuff into the garbage can from wherever they are, now it is a game. As soon as I see someone wind up, I stop them and give my terms.
If they throw it and make it, the whole class gets some extra credit/a small bump in score on the next quiz. If they miss, they need to spend a lunch in the classroom cleaning up. They may also choose to not throw it at all.
I have given some extra credit, I have had some desk cleaners. Either way works for me.
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EduEngg
I've been doing a version of this for years... if they make it, no harm, no foul. If they miss, they have to come in at lunch, and they can't go until they make 5 in a row. I tell them that it's because they need the practice. They have to shoot from the same spot with the same piece of garbage (yes, that means they have to fish it out of the trash). The shooting at the garbage stops really quickly.
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AEWWC
Time to get a set of rigged coins.
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mxc2311
“OMG! How does this teacher ALWAYS get heads?!”
🤣🤣🤣
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Nop277
Is that you Harvey Dent?
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AggressiveSpatula
State quarters can be pretty good for this. Toy around with it, but some are very easy to tell heads vs tails with just a thumb rub. I’d flip the coin, catch it, swing my arm back and rub my thumb over it in the process, and by the time my hand was back in front of me I’d know the orientation. If you get good at it, you can give them the choice. You can even let them declare if they want it flipped or not depending on your slight of hand abilities.
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lcs1790366
And then show up as Two Face for Halloween!!
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Sheepdog44
Yes! This is the kind of thing I’ve been trying to tell people on here for about a year. If the old disciplinary tools aren’t working stop doing them. Get creative and try and find a way to push the right buttons.
Don’t cede control of your classroom because you feel you have to do things a certain way.
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melbox93
I love this! Lol make sure you have a quiz or essay prompt on deck for when they lose 😎 gotta follow through so they know you’re not a punk 😂😂😂
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livetodayy
This is hilarious! I’m still laughing at the post itself about the “coin boys”! Love the idea of playing along! Lol
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StoicFable
Heads i win, tails you lose.
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Omg, this was my first thought, and you corporealized it perfectly.
Is it bad if I look forward to having one of these kids now.
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Particular-Singer-64
Get yourself a trick coin so it always goes the way you want lol
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trying2win
Jokes on you, I don’t have a dad!
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Adventerous_Fox
“Alright then, heads I call your mom or tails I email your mom”
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rvralph803
Put a jar at the front of the classroom.
Get a double heads coin.
Any time one of these doofuses says something about coins, pull yours out and say "heads I get your coin and do your work, tails you take mine and do what you want."
When you win, proclaim "the coin has spoken" and get them to put theirs in the jar.
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SpankinDaBagel
Also get a double tails just incase they catch on. Switch it up here and there.
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hippyengineer
This guy scams children😎
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Logswag
Scamming children is the best, I'm working as a tutor right now and my go-to strategy when I have a kid being particularly obstinate about not doing their work is tell them "ok, how about we play a game of tic tac toe? If you win, we can stop for today, but if I win or we draw three times in a row, you have to do your work without complaining." They always agree, and since it's impossible for me to actually lose tic tac toe, I never have to hold up my end of the bargain but they usually hold up theirs
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Givingtree310
I just watched The Dark Knight this weekend so this is some funny shit
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hippyengineer
Make sure to do something positive with the money, like buying a candy bar for the student who gives you the least trouble, or donate it to somewhere, or at least say you will. Otherwise you are just stealing money from students, and that could look really bad on paper without context.
Also, probably want to get two coins, one double heads, the other double tails. Switch them out from time to time otherwise they will pick up on the fact that it’s always heads, and you always win.
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trytrymyguy
Very true! Unless they keep it going and it keeps getting reactions from others, they would then just know it’s the teacher lol
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"Oh yeah, I saw that on Facebook."
Devastating.
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MydniteSon
Thanks for the heads up. (Pun intended)
I figured nothing could be more annoying than "shadow boxing." Like someone else posted, you can really fuck with them with this one!
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taylorscorpse
My middle schoolers are really into this, to the point that it interrupts almost any activity I try to do with them. I will usually walk over and say “stop flirting” or something along those lines, and they get embarrassed, so the shadow boxing will stop for at least an hour or two.
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tjackson_12
This one during class… I can’t wait for this to die
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alexmo210
I had three juniors(!) last year with those “finger skateboards”. If they fell on the floor, I grabbed them. So annoying.
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Philyphreak3
I couldn't believe tech decks came back. Those were big when I was in 7th grade 16 years ago
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Viele_Stimmen
(When I taught middle school) 2018/2019: vsco girl. And I oop and I opp sksksksksksk 2020: sus, sussy, among us. Sheeeeeeeeesh 2021: thats cap. On God.
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ntrrrmilf
Every kahoot game had a Leroy Jenkins.
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queso619
The only one of those that kind of made me smile was the stupid among us characters I’d find everywhere
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queso619
Incorporate it into your slides and it immediately becomes super embarrassing for them.
“Come on everybody, say it with me! Mm, avogadro’s number, so good!”
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Lolololol. Yes. They freak out if we try to get in on their inside jokes. We have homework tonight, yes yes yes!
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Make them repeat the quadratic equation every time you give them a cookie. Tell them it’s an NPC line. Pavlov the children.
Just buy the bulk off brand Oreos. They have multiple flavors and they’re fairly cheap.
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yes yes yes yes yes yes
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mikeycknowsrnb
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Laur_duh
Lol biiiig 6th grade energy. My class of 6th graders went through a phase of screaming “cheese touch” at each other. Weirdos.
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Quietforestheart
Ahhh, the ‘cheese touch’. ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ has much to apologise for.
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painefultruth76
LMAO
Edit after recovering:
Get a Bigger Coin. Start Flipping the coin for their grades. Could also use this to introduce statistics and what 'random' actually means in relation to computer logic and/or Heisenberg Uncertainty.
You might have the next Newton or Einstein resting the future of humanity on a coin flip.
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lavahot
What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss, friendo?
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Grainbow88
Come on. This one is funny. I may come to regret saying this, but I hope I have a few coin boys when we start up in a few weeks.
I will take coin boys over misogynistic boys, homophonic boys, transphobic boys, racist boys, generally unkind boys, or egotistical asshole boys any day.
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ohbonobo
Just chuckling a little bit about the homophonic boys that could show up...
A bunch of buoys somehow carted into your classroom and placed in seats...
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Grainbow88
Ah man. That’s a good one. I’m just over here enjoying my last few weeks of summer brain.
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Ein_grosser_Nerd
You assume those things are exclusive
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feliperisk
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Adventurous_Ad_6546
I’m enjoying the thought of them 20-30 years down the line, cringing whenever they remember their “coin boi” phase. This is the sort of thing that pops into your head when you’re trying to fall asleep.
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BeginningLow
lol
It seems like such a 1920s thing. I'm envisioning urchins with newsie caps and knickerbockers flipping these coins.
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Adventurous_Ad_6546
Hey, fellas, wanna see a real berry of a coin trick that will impress all the dames?
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Speedking2281
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Paramalia
Except cleaning the bathroom. Why can’t that be the next tiktok challenge?
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The YouTube video would be titled "CLEANING BATHROOM PRANK IN THE NUDE GONE WRONG!!! (THEY CALLED THE COPS)"
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yourfunnypapers
Because TikTok is engineered that way. In the Chinese version of TikTok kids are shown positive things like kids excelling at their hobbies or schoolwork
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Rough-Month7054
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No_Cantaloupe_8281
Act extremely concerned that he is in pain and send him to the nurse. Do this every time and hopefully he will get tired of it.
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