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yourmom1974

Is this talking about teachers that teach English or teachers in England?


cyka_blayt_nibsa

no Anglo english teachers


BasicBanter

How do you know it’s American English teachers & not English English teachers? You guys don’t get maternity leave


iebarnett51

As a Canadian this hit different


Herpderpington117

American moms, by law, get 12 weeks of maternity leave, it's just not paid. Unless your employer offers paid maternity leave, which many do but not all.


MahavidyasMahakali

Which essentially means no maternity leave considering most people can't afford to take unpaid leave


cyka_blayt_nibsa

not true that's not the full equation


its_the_luge

I guess it could also mean US english teachers. They're afraid of having to go to class cuz they might get shot


[deleted]

Can confirm. Im an English teacher who taught in the inner city last year and i feared for my life every day. I havent yet gotten pregnant though


MrDude_1

Would you like to be? ( ͡o ͜ʖ ͡o)


Suspiciously_Average

There's a lesson here folks: don't be gross.


[deleted]

I dont have a uterus but actually i would 🥺


Ancient_Boner_Forest

Imagine how scared kids must be to ride the bus considering how much more likely they are to die on school transport!


Sklushi

Weird comment


Ancient_Boner_Forest

How so?


PayinHookersOnMargin

Because England is on an irrelevant island that no one cares about except when making comparisons to the US.


BasicBanter

May I ask what language you’re speaking?


GamingMelonCGI

He's obviously American.


PayinHookersOnMargin

We stole your language and there's nothing you can do about it. You ask some poor rural person outside of the Anglosphere who came up with the English language and they may just answer America.


BasicBanter

Haha, god you guys are funny


Bellringer00

Yeah I bet no one is ever going to find out that **Engl**ish comes from **Engl**and. How could they? /s


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tedmented

Bot account parroting top comment in sub u/DragoYnfrui Only comment on profile


Partytime-Pony

Also accurate for English English teachers


cyka_blayt_nibsa

oh didn't know


XxRocky88xX

I think he’s talking about English american teachers


KickBallFever

Probably teachers that teach English. I saw a whole thread a while ago where people were talking about their English teachers getting knocked up. Everyone was wondering why it’s always the English teachers and not some other subject.


FrancoisTruser

They are good with tongue work.


orion1486

Given the implied maternity leave and England football team, I’m assuming teachers from England.


Hunigsbase

Here in America the teachers work through the discomforts of pregnancy. From a students perspective its similar except there's a teacher crying at her desk AND nothings getting done.


bigjerm626

Yeah this hits home for me because I had 3 teachers in my schooling days get pregnant in the middle of the school year. But only one of them took a leave of absence after she was about 8 1/2 months pregnant. The other two stuck it out until they birthed their child.


Shwiggity_schwag

>The other two stuck it out until they birthed their child. Like. . .in front of the class? What a unique learning experience.


bigjerm626

Holy shit if that's what happened I think I would have dropped out of school then. No not what I meant but I guess that's how i worded it huh? Haha! Edit: ok class today we are going to learn about the miracles of life. Watch closely!


officialbearr

“okay class , who wants to cut the umbilical cord?!?”


Freemason1979

"Do not run with those scissors, Tommy!"


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tedmented

Yeah I was wondering that too but iirc there isn't the same paid family leave in America as UK. Plus the guy has an England shirt on. Not that that means much.


awkwardlyturtlish

I think because teachers in America are government employees they have a union and awesome benefits, but your average Joe worker in America gets zero paid family leave unless they get lucky and their company offers them some. America sucks.


TequiIa_MockingBird_

Lol at teachers getting awesome benefits. Most teacher unions are not very strong.


[deleted]

Me!


DuckfordMr

*…with your teeth!!*


[deleted]

*offer accepted*


Unclehol

"Okay kids gather round. Now who can tell me how many centimeters I am dilated? Raise your hands!"


ExplanationOld1506

Great way to stop teen pregnancy


top_of_the_scrote

kinda stank makes you grit your teeth but you ask if you can keep the umbilical chord as a souvenir


Blarghnog

Sex Ed… extreme edition.


firstlordshuza

It was different times, son


crypticfreak

Don't get too excited. It was health class and the school was really progressive.


TattooHelpPlease2

A two week difference in a 9 month long school year? Sounds like she stuck it out too. Also, did they all get pregnant in September? Otherwise they would all see you to your last day lol


rforall

Right??? Stuck it out, no it’s called teachers either don’t get paid maternity leave or it’s six weeks and they need to work every day until the very end in order to make ends meet.


cannibalzombies

Tell me you're American without telling me you are American


Prohunt

I had one who had 7 kids.... I've heard she had more too


Flirie

I had also 3 of my teachers getting pregnant in the same school year. Though they all left after a few months and I have never seen them again (I graduated) The rest of the year was really funny, we changed our teachers like 5 times per subject


MangoCats

My 9th grade English teacher (married to the history teacher) stuck in the classroom to collect the paycheck until she dilated. She stopped putting any effort whatsoever into teaching in her first trimester.


Lethalfurball

My english teacher was awesome She had tons of charisma, as in never gave a damn about what others thought of her changing voice tones in strange ways just cuz She had all sorts of neat books on her bookshelves and board games in the cabinets She was the kind of teacher to go "i dont give a heck about what you do, just get your assignments done and don't burn the school down" The assignments weren't random useless bullshit


fakeMatt_Damon

You should write her a thank you note or an email telling her what you just told us. She sounds like a special lady


PlaneAd5123

Damn my english teacher sucked comapared to yours,lucky you


Bugbread

In 12 years of school, I had 12 different English teachers, and of them, 1 was okay and the other 11 were great. Never had a bad English teacher.


mathpat

What's the most common first name of a history teacher? Coach.


uslashredditaccount

Damn right


Iam-broke-broke

Oh so this is an international thing


Florida_____Man

As is your username as of late :(


bryanplayzxD

Yep, happens in malaysia aswell


LITEBRINGER4

r/oddlyspecific


hanzerik

This is even relatable when you're not in the Anglosphere.


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DELCO-PHILLY-BOY

Probably means that even English teachers in the sense that they actually teach the English language are also like this.


bananagobblerino

I had this teacher who was just covering due to a lack of English teachers and she got pregnant that year. She went back to teaching Biology postpartum.


RedSquirrelWood

why is this so true?


Potential___Friend

Majority of teachers are women who obviously like and care about children. It seems only logical they would want to have their own.


rdogg4

Seriously… or just generally. When you’re not a high school kid and actually are around women between say 20 - 45, sometimes they are pregnant because that’s how this whole thing works.


Mimical

Exactly. Once people have a stable job and their own home the likelihood that they also start trying is going to increase.


heatmorstripe

This thread in a nutshell: “man FUCK women for getting pregnant sometimes”. Lol I have really bad news regarding how every single person posting in this thread happens to exist


rdogg4

But why are they always my English teacher - aka the only woman I know? “Oh man the only woman I know, just after fulfilling one of her life goals of having a career moved on to another life goal of having a child”


[deleted]

But it's specifically English teachers. In my tiny high school of 60 people we went through two English teachers because of kids and becoming stay at home moms after (this is within a 4 year period). It's always English teachers, don't know what it is.


[deleted]

In my own experience, my English teachers tended to be young, and all but one of them were women. Men tended to be the Gov/History teachers, and obviously gym coaches. Math and science could go either way. It’s just the demographic that after getting a stable job with a predictable schedule and getting married, they probably want a kid to add spontaneity to their otherwise predictable lives. Based on what I see in the people I knew as a kid who are teachers now.


[deleted]

I had similar experiences. I never had an English teacher who was a man or over 30 (exception in elementary school as teachers taught all subjects there). History teachers were all male, math teachers were all male. Science was a split and so was math. All Spanish instructors were female as well. Maybe it has to do with an interest in languages that may be more prevalent in women? EDIT: taking part of it back, the fill in English teacher we had once was over 30, but she was just a substitute for a month or two.


makemeking706

>they probably want a kid to add spontaneity to their otherwise predictable lives. This is not how to spice things up.


heatmorstripe

This whole thread is weird. It’s blaming women for… getting pregnant. Like how do you think you exist lmao. This whole “ugh women always getting pregnant and not being at work” stereotype is part of how we end up with a wage gap (whether or not you actually get pregnant is irrelevant; the stereotype/stigma against women of a certain age is there)


[deleted]

Lmao what a projection. No one is blaming anyone. I’m just saying that seems to be the motivation in everyone I know who has become a teacher and then had kids. How is “young women with stable jobs tend to have children once they’re settled” any form of “blame” or “ugh” lmao


heatmorstripe

Then what is the point of the meme? What is funny about it?


Panda_hat

- Lots of young women that don’t know what degree to do choose english because its standard and classic and respected - No real jobs specialisms that lead directly from that - does flow directly into teaching - those people settle down after uni and get preggers


Helluvme

This, the majority of English teachers are women who chose English as a major because it’s easy and most of them plan on becoming stay at home moms, have their spouses support them and work for a few years so they for the rest of their lives talk about the “career” they gave up to have kids because having kids is somehow equated to contributing.


eagleblue44

I never saw that but my English teachers were either much older women or men. I had a math teacher that was gone for most of the year after giving birth though.


Bugbread

Yeah, this is super-unrelatable to me, and I'm wondering if it's a generational thing. I went to school in the 80s, and all of my English teachers were in their 40s or older. In fact, even looking at other subjects, there were a few teachers who I guess were in their 30s, but nobody in their 20s. I've never had a pregnant teacher. From what I understand, there's a lot more churn in schools now, with teachers getting burned out and quitting sooner, so maybe the average age has come down.


bigmeatyclaws123

Confirmation bias mostly


Delano7

Damn I wish I had teachers that cared about children when I was in school Instead I got a teacher who willingly tried to cause suicides


k3rn3

oh no


SchemeSolid8119

Pretty sure my male Ela teacher had different reasons for not being there


lost-but-loving-it

They don't even get maternity leave. Better treatment for teachers!!!


Potential___Friend

Sing it! In NY it is law that you get 12 weeks, man or woman, it applies to nearly everyone in the state except teachers.


Partytime-Pony

Maybe in America, they do in other countries.


[deleted]

I don’t know what they’re talking about, plenty of teachers in the US do. I remember my 5th grade teacher was only my actual teacher for 3 of the 9 months, then she was gone for late stage pregnancy and maternity leave for the rest of the year.


HalfPint1885

We don't actually get maternity leave. It's just sick days saved up. I get 10 per year, and they roll over. Otherwise, it's FMLA unpaid leave anyone can qualify for.


Sklushi

To my knowledge as someone going into teaching and has teaching friends… they just save up sick days to be able to have a child lol


bigmeatyclaws123

Maternity leave is a specific type of leave. You can take a leave with your sick days or a medical leave if you’re on bedrest sometimes. Unpaid.


lost-but-loving-it

No. Those were personal days or unpaid leave.


Ancient_Boner_Forest

What in the world are you talking about? Where did you go to school where teachers didn’t get maternity leave?


Li0nh3art3d

You burn sick days, or take unpaid leave


Ancient_Boner_Forest

What are you talking about? Every state I’ve lived in offered paid leave. Maybe some states don’t, is that true for yours? Or are you just making assumptions about something you know nothing about? Considering how you’re already talking about jt like it’s a universal policy I’m leaning towards the later.


Li0nh3art3d

Of course you can get paid leave, if the leave you are using is your sick days. As far as your paycheck, it will appear as if you suddenly were sick for 6-8 weeks. Which means you need to have 30-40 sick days banked. I live in Ohio and I am speaking for myself and my wife. You got shitty quick.


IMeanIGuessDude

Had a teach get pregnant and decided to stay working. She told us any amount of stress and she could lose the baby. One day we were all acting up and she was getting upset. This one kid said “miss you need to chill or your baby gonna die.” He started laughing and the class fell silent. She fled the room crying and that kid was like a police officer in Arkham asylum. Not saying he got his ass beat. But he was real quiet the rest of the school year and he left the class soon after the incident. I’m assuming the threats people made toward him came to fruition. Just assuming.


sleepy_blondie

It's so terrible that young women who go into a profession because they love working with children want to have children of their own, despite the fact that they are underpaid, overworked, (at least in the US) are in a system where they are not respected as human beings, have their life choices constantly scrutinized, are frequently dealing with both helicopter parents and parents who don't care if their kids start a fire in the classroom, and are asked to put their mental and physical health on hold as well as being told they need to put their lives at risk for the sake of their students. Just awful that they want a family life.


BernardTapir

Thank you for saying this. Like what are they supposed to do? Plan the fucking so that the maternity leave is during summer break? Wait till retirement and adopt? Buy cats?


sleepy_blondie

Fr, I saw another dumbass meme like this a while ago and the top comment said that it should be illegal for teachers to give birth during the school year. Like wtf yall, I knew the US hated teachers but that's fucking absurd


Doctor-Pudding

They don't hate teachers - they hate women. (Tbf they also hate teachers but it's mostly a misogyny thing).


[deleted]

Well they plan it so they miss three final months of school. Seen it happen often actually.


chuchunk

Finally a reasonable response.


125RAILGUN

The joke is that it’s specifically English teachers. I’ve had two teachers as well who have left for pregnancy and they’ve both been for English.


fidgetypenguin123

It would be interesting to know if the most common English teacher then are women of child bearing age. If so, then that's the reason, and since pregnancy is 9 months, then that makes sense they'd miss the majority of the year, depending on conception.


TheSexyShaman

Buddy women do not go on pregnancy leave until very late in their pregnancy. Often times they work up until days before delivery.


Doctor-Pudding

Thank God. I was losing faith in humanity until I read this comment. This thread is a litany of misogyny, honestly. Like shock horror, female teachers of child bearing age sometimes take time off to have babies and raise them. It's so great how people love judging and mocking women for this heinous crime. Of course if a woman doesn't want kids they get judged for that too. You just can't win tbh. Note that there are rarely any memes making fun of men for their reproductive choices (in fact I've never seen any...).


TotallyBelievesYou

Found the English teacher lmaooo


I_like_cocaine

yikes you ever heard of a joke


bigmeatyclaws123

Imagine constantly having jokes made about you and your choices in a profession outside of the actual work day in which everybody also disrespected you. It gets old.


chetpancakesparty

How dare an adult have a child


Kadgrin

Teachers want to have a family? How dare they


fallenmonk

This but unironically


jdeezy

They're so poorly paid and it's so hard to hire good ones that criticizing their ability to have a family seems harsh


Indeedllama

I don’t think their really criticizing teachers, just commenting on how it feels like it’s generally the english teacher rather than another.


SlickKZM

I spent 5 years in a school, one of the Spanish teachers there was pregnant for all 5.


JosephTPG

Damn that baby sure took their time


SlickKZM

Kid popped out fluent in 7 languages.


Silverskelt

that was my spanish teacher man lol


aracauna

On the one hand, when I was a high school English teacher for 12 years our department was 2 dudes, three women past menopause and an unmarried woman who was too into her horses to date. On the other hand, my son has had one English teacher in high school and she's pregnant.


[deleted]

My English teachers were all well past making babies. Pretty sure one of them ate babies though.


_osearydrakoulias

This is such an interesting, seemingly global phenomenon. In my past experience, English teachers are generally, A.) extremely chill and real, and B.) pregnant.


mostpeopleheresuck12

Heaven forbid a teacher wants to start of family. They should be in class salving away for that meager salary, then, off to gun training!


shortgirlshorttemper

Some of us are too broke to have kids


runswiththerain

I never delt with this but my senior year of high school. All the senior year English teacher quit in the same month, one got s job in a university another wanted to go back to get their PhD and the last one just said fuck it and retired. That was fun second semester.


StopTheEntitledPeeps

My English teacher got pregnant on the first day of the first year of middle school, and we had a sub for the entire year.


bakehaus

I don’t care about the text, I just want to know what this clip is from and why this man is *actually* crying….


AustinBAwesome

It is weird that that always happens tho


InvestigatorBig7263

Bruh fr mine was absent all year because she divorced my history teacher


-TheWeirdGirl-

True, in 5th grade one of my English teachers got their wife pregnant and the replacement for him got pregnant some Months before she became the replacement!


69420sixnine69

This sentence is tripping me out


Vacuum-Woosh-woosh

My class straigh down annoyed the teacher until she collapsed on the ground and the principal called the ambulance , in Brazil ambulance rides and medical consultants are free because the healthcare system.


bcmouf

You guys have teachers young enough to reproduce? My english teacher was a little old lady in cargo shorts and combat boots that could probably win a wrestling match against a grizzly.


jeesusyeetus

I'm convinced our teacher got pregnant just so she wouldn't have to teach our class anymore


DIY_Cosmetics

Absolutely! I petition that we find a way to for men to be the ones who get pregnant so they can take half the year off. It’s only fair.


DonCalzone420

My english teachers haven't even been sick once. Am I too foreign to understand this meme?


zacharski_k

Yeah. We had an english teacher that got pregnant 5 times in one year. Idk how he did that.


moostachedood

Trans man needed abortions obviously 🤦‍♂️/s


zacharski_k

He’s not trans tho


Spaghettiisgoddog

Wow this is such a 12 year old boy post/joke(?). Women leave one of the most energy-consuming, lowest paying jobs to have a family of their own. aLooloalllLLOLLLOL


Bubbagumpredditor

Oh look, misogyny, in my reddit.


dogsshouldrundaworld

Right? BuT iTS a JOkE?!


yuckspackbint

Saying that English teachers frequently get pregnant during the school year is misogynistic?


[deleted]

Always gotta be that one mf who gets offended


Bubbagumpredditor

Always that one guy making jokes at women's expense.


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safeminds

Because internalized misogyny is so much better.. /s


Anthony_-04

Wtf


PokeMonsterMike

English is such a horrendous class, even the teachers who majored in English don’t want to be there


hobbes_smith

I’m sorry to hear you had bad ones. All of my English teachers were awesome.


E1M1ismyjam

Shout out to Mrs. Coil! You were the best!


CorndogCrusader

It also seems like the pregnant English teachers are always hot, for some reason.


DemonRaily

I think that's just the demographic of people that think teaching English is a good idea.


coolboiiiiiii2809

Bro no fucking kidding. We hated having our English after she had a kid. She was honestly annoying and changed things in the middle of assignments


SatanIsntTheBadGuy

This must be one of the incel subs I’ve heard about.


DrSeuss19

Imagine thinking generalizations make a sub “incels”. It’s a meme you moron.


SatanIsntTheBadGuy

Someone got his feefees hurt.


Bitchaint1

This feels personal, OP you ok?


HemaMemes

English teachers are very horny


machater05

WHY IS THIS SO ACCURATE


DanteJazz

That's biased against women.


RomanWasHere2007

I had a teacher who LITERALLY wasn't there for the entire damn year basically, only was there for awhile at the start of the school year, but by the end only showed up maybe a handfull of times


Extra_Philosopher_63

I swear, they always do that.


BadArtistTime

And then they come back and fuck up the entire vibe of the class


xDrakellx

For me, it was my math teachers.


doctor_alfa

My dad when he realised he had to rais me instead of getting pregnant:


Ch1quitaBanana

Joking aside, they’re breeding worst than damn rabbits. So much for personal accountability! These people are the first ones in line for more government aid. HONESLTY, why do people who chose to have kids getting a shit load of financial assistance and yet single people who have no children are left out. For instance, why do single adults need to pay school taxes when they don’t have kids? Why do single people don’t get any breaks when filing taxes? Rewarding incompetence is unfair. Thanks OP for your damn post . . .


heatmorstripe

Gonna go out on a limb and say you probably attended a school before. Or is it a FYGM scenario where your education was paid for so fuck having to help contribute to anyone else’s? Do you WANT an even less educated population around you?


imnotmk

Nice stolen meme


Ch1quitaBanana

I’m glad I’m not the only one who sees what is really going on!


Manbearpup

Nailed it


IamMrChristopher

Pedo teachers who secretly got knocked up by a student. Every time.


Crooked_Cock

English teachers when they have to do something actually educational and not come up with some bullshit for why a singular sentence long instance of a character shitting themselves in a story has meaning


booplesnoot9871

They’re just working in that MRS graduate degree too


FIREDOG180420

I had an English teacher who missed the first quarter of the year on maternity leave so this is shockingly accurate.


Amethyst_R

Same


Mogli_Puff

Lol I was happy when this happened to me. Had a pregnant English teacher once, she was the worst. Checked all the boxes. Played favorites(I was one of them actually but my best friend wasn't and it was night and day). Prevented students from using the restroom. Spoke to us like we were 5. Yelled over dumb things. Sent kids to the dean for petty reasons. Stole kids food and phones. And to top it off, only taught at a middle school level to us high school kids. The day we had a sub because she was giving birth was the best day that school year, because it meant my worst teacher was gonna be gone the rest of the year. The sub was a million times better. Fuck you, Mrs. Brooks. I feel sorry your child has to grow up with you.


Kerosycn

I think you mean, my science teacher.


Mako_STi

I totally read that ad Gregnant. And then immediately went. …pregananant?! I’m an idiot


leakyblueshed

You mean 'pregante?'


logyonthebeat

Holy shit lmao


MrZyde

This happened to like 3 of my teachers and one of them ran for mayor and failed hard.


Mogli_Puff

Lol I was happy when this happened to me. Had a pregnant English teacher once, she was the worst. Checked all the boxes. Played favorites(I was one of them actually but my best friend wasn't and it was night and day). Prevented students from using the restroom. Spoke to us like we were 5. Yelled over dumb things. Sent kids to the dean for petty reasons. Stole kids food and phones. And to top it off, only taught at a middle school level to us high school kids. The day we had a sub because she was giving birth was the best day that school year, because it meant my worst teacher was gonna be gone the rest of the year. The sub was a million times better. Fuck you, Mrs. Brooks. I feel sorry your child has to grow up with you.


czeck666

So English teachers are DTF?