The Bobby Bones Show - Weds Post Show (04-19-20)

Episode Date: April 19, 2023

Bobby welcomes everyone to the post show. Why Bobby had a rough morning today that caused him to show up to work differently. Bobby accidentally said something inappropriate to someone on DMs on Instagram. We bring in the teachers who are visiting from Massachusetts and came to see Bobby at the Opry. We talk to them about why they became teachers, what’s the hardest thing about being a teacher and how they want to get tattoos while visiting.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We're not asked to do it. We're not told. We have to do it. We just do it out of love for you, the listener. That's all. Straight love. That's all. We could go home right now.

We could? Oh, I didn't know that was an option. That's a lot better option. See, I hold them hostage to do this podcast for you. That's watching this either on Facebook or if you're listening to the podcast, we really appreciate that. We're going to bring in the women, the ladies.

The teachers? The teachers. Why is that so weird? Can we call them the Boston? They're just girls. No, I was like, these girls flew in, and I felt nothing weird about it, but then Amy's like, you can't call them girls. A woman?

I didn't say that. I did not say that. Like, honestly. But you acted like saying girls was kind of an insult. I didn't. Your tone was like, oh, my girls. No, I never said anything. Guys.

I agree. Wait, he's just agreeing with you to agree. No, I just feel like... Yeah, it was tough. Should we call them the Boston Babes? I just... I think that's the point. No, but I can just like feel it from your time.

I'm coming up with a nickname here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, they'll just be in a minute and they're going to come hang out. This morning, a little rough at the house. If you... I haven't been out from behind this desk much today, but I have on, like, what my grandma would call house shoes,

slippers that only stay at the house. I was walking through. My wife's obviously asleep. I stepped on a squeaky toy. that Ella had my dog had brought in there. Quick, quakey, squeak! And so I'm like, oh, God. So I just try to grab whatever shoe, and they were, so did that.

I know it woke her up for a second. And then I threw on whatever shoes were there. They were house shoes, flipper shoes. I want to go back in and wake her up again. So you know what? That's what I showed up into work today. It was that kind of morning. I was out late last night.

I did the opera. Late for me. Performed last night. I guess I didn't go on to almost nine. So I didn't get home until close to 10. That's late. Then worked on the show. And so, yeah, it was a late one.

Tuesdays are tough. The Tuesday operating nights are tough. I'm happy to do them. And they're usually the better shows, honestly, the Tuesday night ones are because not always, but Friday and Saturday, most of the more prominent current artists are on the road. They're touring. So Tuesday nights are like massive because last night Craig Morgan was there, Breeland was there. I kind of forget.

Haley Witters. Haley Witters. Talked for a long time. Yeah, talked to her side say. She performed right after me. Thank goodness wasn't before me. I wouldn't like that. Because she's really good.

She's really good. So, yeah, it was a pretty cool night, but it was kind of a rough morning this morning because of that. Let's see. I said something inappropriate on Instagram to somebody. I didn't mean to, and it's kind of, it's not dirty, but it's, the joke was not the cleanest joke. Well, this is what happened.

It was in a DM. One of my friends had posted an Instagram story of one of his buddies, like up near this wall, and he was like, why is he, what's he doing? He's already skin. And I was like, it's probably the glory hole there on that wall. Now, a glory hole is not, it's hilarious, but it's like an old school thing from like the 80s or something.

I don't even, I've never even seen one. Oh, no, no, no, no, I've never seen one. Do you know what, yeah, me? You know what it is? You taught me. Like, you taught her. I guess some cool lesson. You didn't teach me about it.

I think it came up and I had to like explain to her what it was. So what is it, Amy? No, no, no. You put your thing through the whole. but you don't know what's on the other side. And so it's kind of like, when it's at a, like, like church camp,

when you reach in and fill the worms and you don't know what it is in there. No, you know what it is. No, in the glory. I'm talking about when you put your hand in and they're like reaching their seat and it's like, oh, does it feel like brains or whatever? And you're like, but.

No, I just feel like it's a mystery. Anyway, the point was, I didn't realize his social media person was running that account, not him. Oh, no. Oh, no. So that joke, probably offensive. Hmm.

Yeah. But I'm not supposed to know his social media person is running the account, not him. That's like one time? I don't have a social media person. You know, so I run my own stuff. So I just assume that people are running their own stuff

if I don't know any better. Yesterday I posted that I was in the school pickup line and someone sent me a message, are you picking up your kids or Caitlin? Your daughter, your daughter, Caitlin. It's like Ray? Are you going to say Ray? No.

The Squares game? No, no, no. I was going to say one time, somebody needed our password for something or your password. And it was someone from a company. And I said, yeah, hold on. Let me ask Bobby. And you gave me the dirtiest.

I don't think I cursed. No, but it was dirty. But I was like. No, I don't say what it was. It was something like Eddie licks butt 69 or something. Some dirtier. I don't remember. But Eddie just says it.

He goes, Eddie licks butt 69. Yeah, Bobby says what it is. And I'm laughing so hard that Eddie even said that to whomever it was on the other line. And then they said, I put that in, it didn't work. And then he's like, no, you idiot. That's not it. That was all for comic. That was all for comedy.

That was such joy. Like, I remember having pure delight when he said. I couldn't believe he said it. I was just passing on the information. I was just like, you know, Eddie eats poop 32. And he's like, okay, yeah, it's Eddie eats poop 32. I laugh so hard. The other thing.

Yes. When Ray Mundo, we had this squares game with our buddy Mike Sines. Oh, God. Oh, boy. This is a bad one. Ray thought it was just like all the boys. Yeah, the dudes. And whenever the boys are just the boys, the boys get to be the boys,

we don't worry about really offending. Because it's like how stupid and moron it can you be? It's the funnier you get, the boys are the boys. And so you make your team name, and mine's like Bobby's team. It's just a square game, the Super Bowl, whatever. And Ray, what was your name but just using the popcorn slayers? Okay, yeah, yeah, that's good. It's not popcorn.

It's not popcorn. The kitty cat. Yeah. Yes. His name was the kitty, the kitty cat slayers. Why? Why? So what happened was my science is like grandma was in it, his aunt.

It was a family pool. It was a family pool. And all these people are like, why are the kitty cat slayers? Ray about all these squares. Oh, I laugh so hard. Did he change his name? You can't. You can't change.

I think it's there. It's there. A meme all was in there Meemal's like Why are they slam the cat? That's so And it's so fun for like us guys It's so funny

That's like when I had my Eighth grade though man My fantasy football team Of the San Francisco 69ers And my mother-in-law is like Let me see your fantasy team And I had it up there She was like

The 69ers And I'm like dang it I didn't realize That I had that up there She was like I thought it's a 49ers Like yeah That's a typo.

Typo. Yeah. But we're never not idiots. You may think we've matured because we act less idiotic in public and around people that aren't our core group. We're never not idiot. You know who the biggest idiot is in the world? No. Who?

These nuts, right? See, that's never not funny. Got her. That's never. And once someone starts it, we're together, it exists the whole time. And you're like, you're both like, I hate this because now I go to watch it to say who. But then when somebody gets it, you're just like, Oh, it's crazy.

It's like the most fun game I've ever played. Remember when he got you? It was awesome because he... I'm not falling for it again. That was the... That's just I slipped. I should have known better. That's right.

Okay. So I was a guest on tomorrow's show, which you booked, which is cool, which I thought was really good. So I'm glad you were bringing them in. Yeah, you're trying to get me to say, what are you talking about? I don't know. Did he really get arrested? He did. Yeah, he did.

He did. believe it. Yeah. Okay. Oh, we got both of them. I knew. I'm playing.

No, you can't get Bobby. I'm playing the game. I'm like old vet. I'm like Tom Brady. I'm thinking about going into retirement, but I still got a little left in the tank.

Yeah, you're impossible. Okay, let's bring in our Massachusetts three teachers that flew all the way in and just talk with them for a little bit before we end up.

I don't want to bring them here for that conversation. I don't want to hear Ray's. Kitty cat slairs. But they are around kids all day long, So they see a lot of immature things. First grade and fourth grade.

And so that was it. And that's how I felt about the Constitution and the year 1732. There they are. There are our teachers. Yeah. So we're just talking about American history and founding forefathers.

So what did you guys do in the break from the show to right now? Oh, our mics aren't on. Hold on. Go ahead now. I'm sorry. We just want to get some coffee and some breakfast. Where'd you go?

Anywhere good? What was it called? The well. And we met someone that was just listening to us on the radio. We were like, oh my God, they're famous. How did that come up, though? We talked to strangers sometimes.

So you just went up to somebody and said, were you listening to us on the radio? We're like, we were on the Bobby Bone show. We tell everyone. But did they really have no idea, and they were just playing along? No, they knew. We were like, oh, your dog's really cute. And then Nicole's like, we were just on the Bobby Bone show. I didn't know where you just hit him with it.

I like that. He asked where we were from. We said we were from Massachusetts, and he asked what we were doing up here. So we just threw it at him. And then he asked if the story was true. We were like, yeah, we wouldn't lie. Of course not. You're not paid actors that we brought in here.

No. They could lie. Oh, they could lie for sure. They could be from Memphis. And they're like, we're flying in and trick us off. So you're here until Friday? Friday morning, yeah. So Amy asked you guys this, but what are the,

you have to have a couple like core staple things you're going to do that you've planned? You want to ride a bowl. Oh, yeah. But a fake one. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. So you're gonna, when there's a bar to, there's a bar to have that, right?

Yeah. Easy. What is it called? I don't know. We found one yesterday. The underground, yeah. The underground. Okay, so you're gonna ride the bull.

You're thinking about getting tattoos. Oh, wow. What? After a couple drinks last year. You're gonna sign your arm? That's tough decision. Yeah, I don't know. No, this is a memorable trip.

Yeah, they want to get our signatures. No, don't do that. What would you get that? Yeah, I don't know. You got any ideas for us? I don't know. Do you guys have like, what was your, you went to the same school, though?

You didn't go the same school. If I were to get a tattoo, it would be with my sister or something like that. Okay, whatever. Sorry. I'm sorry. Yeah. Well, this got awkward. I wouldn't get tattoos.

That was the alcohol talking. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely was. I already have one I regret. It's fine. What is it? It's a lotus flower, but it looks like a substance that's illegal.

You can say it. Marijuana. It looks like a weed plant. Yeah. Oh, no. I know. Wait, did it not look like that when they made it? Well, he was like, do you want this on your body forever?

I was like, yeah. I was like 18. So, I have my students. It's very geometric looking. Can you get your money back if like you don't, you don't have happy with the tattoo? I don't know. I think I've only ever paid afterward. Okay.

Because I have one, two. I think I did too. I just was like too scared to speak up. Yeah. Now I've learned. But would you black it out and go over it? I mean, at least you can't really see it a lot, so it's fine. Are there rules about being teachers and tattoos or are there, I don't know,

suggestions about if you have tattoos on your arms? to cover them up, anything like that? Not really. I feel like it's more accepting nowadays. We have teachers that have tattoos that are visible all the time. Any neck tattoos on teachers? I feel like they're like kind of like more like not appropriate but just like I can't think of the right word.

But teachers, I feel like it's more accepting now for them to have tattoos. So why be a teacher? Good question. Yeah, what's the best part about being a teacher? Let's do that. The best part. And you teach young. You teach first grade, right?

Yeah, I teach the littles. My little firsties. I love them. I think the best part is watching them get something, like click and just them feeling so proud of themselves and like knowing you had a part in that and seeing them grow throughout the year and just see how far they've come and their confidence and just make, like we have fun and we just make special memories together and I just hope. Like I remember my school.

I remember going through elementary school and loving my teacher. teachers and having, like, I can just talk all day about my experience in school and it was so positive, so I hope, like, I can do that for my first grader. So just making memories and things like that. What about fourth grade? Um, so I'm in a district where our kids come from a variety of different backgrounds, um, but for a lot of them coming to school every day is like the best part of their day. It's so exciting. That's where they feel safe and, um, super loved. So that's like one of the things that's been most rewarding for me, I would say. It's just like being able to be that person for them.

That's so hard. To like not jump in. I try to fix stuff. Yeah. It can be kind of heartbreaking. But just knowing that you're like a part of that every day, making a difference in their lives. Yeah, I feel like I would struggle with that part. I would be like, oh, let me just help you.

That's good for you. And then what about teaching high school? What's the best part? Yeah, you guys are so cute. You're saying all the good stuff. No, it is really rewarding. Like, I love history. So when the kids actually get into a lesson and, like, get off their phones and take their AirPods.

Can they have their phones in class? Yeah, because we don't have great technology at our school. So sometimes we use them for lessons. And then it's hard to, like, monitor whether they're on Snapchat or not. But most of my kids are pretty good. And when they actually get excited about it and interested, I love that. Are there any rules that you just can't, if you're not using your phone, like, they have their phones out if you're not using it for a lesson.

It's just so hard to monitor these days, like AirPods constantly, like them hiding them and stuff and like Apple watches. And it's just different than even when we were in school not that long ago. Yeah. I mean, it's hard to do that on this show with them. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, their lunchbox is on Facebook.

Always. No, Facebook has been a thing of the past. I've done so good without not chatting on Facebook this year. I've set a new goal on it. Have you seen at all? What were you guys looking at this computer? Were you looking over the shoulder? What was he looking at?

I don't know. It looked like it was for work, though. I saw a little ESPN, but. Oh, he's always on that. Yeah. I was checking my fantasy baseball. Just in case I came to the show, I'd be like,

how's your fantasy team doing? Yeah, I just want to make sure you knew. Yeah. What's the hardest thing about being a teacher? Go back to first grade. I would say. Pee in their pants. No, they're...

That happens at the beginning of the year. That's not the hardest thing, though. The hardest thing, I think, is at the end of the year. Like, when they... Like, I'm going to... I miss them. Like, I don't know. I try to make personal connections with each of them and like sending them off.

Like I'm happy that they're moving on. But it's like, it is sad. Like you only have these like kids for a year and like you grow to love them and they mean so much to you. So I hope to come back and visit. And I think that's the hardest part. And I think with COVID too, like some behavior is like social emotional aspects can be challenging. But you have, I don't know. Do you have students that you still keep track of?

Like how long have you been a teacher? So I taught pre-K for two years and then I've been teaching first grade for two years. So. Okay. So they haven't really. been out long enough to really. Yeah. I hope they come back and visit. I see my like now second graders from last year in the hallway and they always

come in. They asked to read a book to my first graders so it's cute. Oh, that's cool. What about you? Fourth grade? Kind of along those lines. Like being able to meet all of their needs. I don't have a lot of help in the classroom all the time. So like I have kids at all different levels. And so the struggle just to like be able to make sure that doing the best job that I can for all of my students, not just the ones that are working on grade level material,

making sure that it's challenging enough, but also helping bring up those kids that are working a little bit below. It can be a lot of pressure sometimes. And your kids speak all different languages. She's trying to learn Portuguese. Really? Yes. And you probably don't have to.

You probably just doing that to, like, create a better bond. Good for you. These are good teachers right here. And then what about you? What's the hardest? I would think phones would be so hard. Just make it so hard. Like distractions.

Yeah. There's the aspect of like them not caring as much about the material because it's like a vocational school. So they're all going on to work in different professions. They're not super fired up about U.S. history like I am. And then like the social emotional like Christina was saying, I think a lot of kids are struggling since the pandemic coming back into school. So that's a real thing.

Oh, you can tell. Yeah. In my opinion. And if all three of you say that, you're just a three different level. So I believe it. But what is the struggle with kids who are coming back? Is it because they've just been not around other kids? Is that like social skills?

Social skills? Like coping strategies. Definitely coping strategies. Yeah, across the board. Also, if they haven't interacted with a lot of kids their age, so just like navigating even like sharing, like simple things like that, navigating how to talk to kids, how to problem solve at their age. They just, they haven't had exposure to that.

Do you feel like bullying is lesser than it used to be because, or that's still the same? I just go through ages because bullying was pretty prevalent where I was. But we read these stories, but our kids are like, yeah, we made a bench to hang out with somebody if they're also bullying. So these are new things that we're finally hearing about because we have social media now. But do you feel like in even the last few years or since you were in school that bullying has changed at all for first graders? I think first graders, I wouldn't say there's like a lot of bullying. I think there's just like a lot of trouble navigating social, like their social situations and some feelings get hurt, but I wouldn't say it's like necessarily on purpose.

I try to incorporate a lot of like stories and we'll like turn and talk and share about. There's like social skills to give them skills they need and we talk about kindness a lot. Like they know my huge word is empathy. Like they know what empathy means. So just I don't know. I wouldn't say like bullying. There's a lot of disagreements in first grade And tattling

Tattling like little things like that On this show too, a lot of tattling here. What about fourth grade? Do you start to see bullying there? There is a little bit. I think the word bullying gets thrown around a lot more Than what it actually is But like she said, we focus a lot on the social emotional aspect Just because they've missed out on a couple of years

And they don't have all the strategies that they need So, like, we do a morning meeting every day where we focus on all of that stuff and, like, practice using those strategies so that hopefully when they go out to, like, lunch and recess, they can use those. I don't know that there's more or less bullying than, like, when we were growing up. But, I mean, there's always teasing. I agree with you, too. I think bullying is thrown around way too much. It's just a word used for when any kid has any sort of resistance anywhere by anybody. you're like, well, that's bullying.

Well, in life, sometimes, things don't go your way. And if you don't have those at a smaller level, then when they become a medium level and then a big level, then you're like, what do I do? Right. Like, that's part of the adjustment to just life in general. Not that there should be a lot of it in first or fourth grade. But what about when they get to, because I think online

would be a big part of it now. Like, where people are like angry or mean or harassing each other on whatever the social media platform is. Is that happening more with high schoolers? Right. I don't really see it in the classroom. I'm sure from your experience, like, no one's going to be mean in front of the teacher, really. We say it in like the hallways and stuff a little bit, and I think it is more online. But I will say like this generation of students, Gen Z, seems more inclusive in some aspects than maybe generations previously, whereas things like we would have been bullied for in high school are like cool now. So that's one good thing.

Yeah. And then you guys' social media, is there a standard that you have to keep obvious? You're not going to do a keg stand on your social media, right? Are your accounts private? What's the deal? Yeah, we learned that in college. They told us to block everything, so there's no aspect. Sometimes kids will go on a search. I get a lot of message requests.

They try to find me, but it's all blocked. They can't find it. Well, like, they can find my name, and then they try to follow me and I deny it. So all private, everybody private? Yeah. Do you still, though, go, I know it's private, but I still got to, everything could get out. Yeah. I try to make sure that what I'm posting is appropriate for the most part.

Definitely, I don't have as many people trying to find me as you at the high school level. But once in a while, and once in a while, parents will try to friend request. Oh, yeah. I don't really cross that way. I was just trying to ask about parents. Like, what is it like for y'all with parents? No, high school dudes, I bet her are hitting on her. I mean.

Well, she said that that their ages were close. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So I bet you those seniors are like. I'm not talking about. Hold on. Let's talk about parents for dealing with parents. What's he talking about? I bet there are some that you guys are on the same path with, and they understand that you understand that they understand. There's some, probably it's like their kid could do no wrong, but their kid is doing a lot wrong. Bulldozer parents, that's what we call those.

Really? They just, instead of helicopter. How do you handle them? Are you just like, you know what, you're right, but really they're not? I don't get too many. Math teachers get a lot of those. Our parents, unfortunately, don't care as much about education, I would say, is some different districts. Do you ever hear, yeah, he says you hate him?

You must hate our kid because he says my teacher hates him. So that's why he gets bad grades. No, but that was a thing. Teacher hates me. You guys ever do that? Yeah, my fourth grade teacher hated me. Absolutely hated me. I went home every single day and told my mom, Miss Kangis hates me.

You need to get me out of her class. She didn't hate you. She was frustrating. No, no, no. There we go. Or she wanted more for you. She hated me. And my mom volunteered for Valentine's Day, and we were doing worksheets.

We weren't even out of a party, and my mom will tell you to this day, she should have taken me out of that class. To this day? Yeah, year and a half later, Ms. Kangis quit teaching because she was not good at it. Maybe then you would have graduated college. Who? Got them. I mean, my mom did say after fourth grade, that's when school was not a priority for me. So that really shook you up, huh?

Yeah, fourth grade. What about dads? Are they ever flirtatious? I mean, for us, most of my communication with parents is over this messaging app. So we meet them usually like the first day of school when they drop their kids off. And then like from there, unless they want to meet to talk about something, I usually don't have a lot of face-to-face contact with parents. It's mostly just messages.

What about you guys? Dad's ever like, what's up? Mine's mostly the students. And then I create boundaries. But someone's dad, one of my girls' dads, bought me a coffee after school on Friday. So that was nice because I saw my Dunkin' Donuts. But he bought your coffee or did you buy your coffee? There's a difference.

There's a difference. Hey, I like to buy your coffee. You're a great teacher. You really influenced my kids' life. I'd like to buy your coffee. She was there, so I think it was. I was making a difference. Final question about teaching.

What do you think is missing? What could you guys use that you don't get that would make your job a lot easier? That seems like a fundamental thing that you probably should get. What are you missing? First grade. What are we missing? I think overall, like across the board for teaching, just more support. Like teachers' aides?

Yeah, teachers, aides. I'm all by myself in first grade, which is, it's fine. Like, I do the best so that I can. But I think, like, even the younger grades, like, you could benefit from extra support just to make sure you're accommodating all the needs of your students. Classroom budgets are tricky. You guys spend a lot of your own money on stuff? Oh, yeah. I feel you on that.

Yeah. What? do you spend of yours on what? On stuff here. What? Like bits and stuff. Like I got to put money in the stock market. No, you ask us for money.

Businesses. We put our... No, don't hijack what they're talking about right now. I'm just saying. I relate. That's okay. Do you guys... What could you use fourth grade?

Same? Definitely support. Like my next-door neighbor teacher, she has half of our class are special education students this year. And she just doesn't have the support that she needs. there's just not enough people that want to sign up for that job and definitely money to use for our classrooms.

We make a lot of projects online that people can fund if they want to support us, but we otherwise spend a lot of our own money sometimes. What was that saying? There's a place you can go to help fund things that we said? Is it like your classroom specifically? You can make a profile and make your sort of like wish list and then if people want to support you. Is that like fill the list or whatever? Amazon?

Yeah, you can make Amazon wish lists or a lot of teachers use donors, not donors shoes. No, it's donors choose. It's donors choose. And you guys all have one of those? I have an Amazon wish list. I don't use what you guys just said. I have a donor's shoes. You do have a donor shoes?

Do you have one? I don't fortunately because my school does have good funding. I am. Right. Do you guys get paid enough? Well, she was talking about paraprofessionals and like teachers' age and teacher supports and substitute teachers. They don't get paid enough.

Maybe nor do we. But so there's not enough of them. So we're spending our time substituting for other teachers when they're out on the press and stuff like that. Dang. Lunchbox, do you get paid enough? No. See how easy that is? No, everybody says they don't get paid enough.

I mean, that's the thing. And it's no disrespect to teachers, but. Well, anytime you say no disrespect. There's going to be disrespect. Disrespect is coming. Should we even go there? Should we even go there? No,

there's nowhere to go. Do we want to open that can of worms? But there's nowhere to go. Lunchbox, would you want us to teach your kids? Sure. I would love that. You don't care that much?

That sure is like, yeah, why not? Yeah. I don't, I mean, what's the difference between them and the next teachers that come in here?

They're all teachers. Oh, there's some better than others. What's the difference in you and another person on a radio show? They're not as good. Okay.

But that's what I'm saying. teachers, here's the problem with paying teachers more. Who are you going to, which teachers are you going to pay more? All of them? Because not all of them are good. First of all, I would say if you pay them more, you will have the better teachers thriving. Secondly, you'll have people to go, you know what, I should teach. I can actually make a better living wage and get out of this career where I could give back. You'd have people moving over to the teaching profession that think, okay, well, I need that money to survive.

I can now do that job. So yes, you would have other folks coming into the, the profession that could be great teachers that aren't there now because the pay is so low. So then what are you going to do with the crappy teachers? They're going to be unemployed. Then they'll go find a job somewhere else. That ain't my problem. That'll get filtered out eventually. You can't. They can do your job. That'd be cool.

No, I doubt it. Unfortunately, though, there is a teaching shortage. Teachers are leaving the profession left and right. There's been like, I feel like nowadays, too, there's like a lot of higher expectations for teachers. And it's just like, that's sort of singing a minute ago was how y'all were talking about meeting the needs of each kid and it's almost like you have the curriculum that you have to teach but at the same time I know this as a parent like there's times where you have to

step in and you're almost like a therapist or your mom yeah so many juggle so many things um yeah I just think about that part but I love that I heard from each of you that you are concerned about their their well-being in that way because I'm sure that's not the case for every teacher um do you're also you probably just get burnt I mean not you know not you're you guys, but teachers just probably go, all right, this has been a poor situation for a long time. Why do I care so much? I'll just keep teaching and just will just keep going. Why do I care? Why am I going to put an extra effort if they don't put an extra effort? Time, money, support. And you're like, I'm in this career. They don't care that much about me, obviously. So I'll just do

minimum and just keep going. I think that's probably something that happens in a lot of professions, but I can see it especially happening in yours where you constantly have to give away more than you're getting, regardless of how much you're getting, because it's just not enough from the directions you need it from. And also lunchbox, you want to do public speaking, right? You should take that on the road, that theory, and that thought. About teachers? Yeah, I think that's really, you do well with that. Yeah.

You're like, what's the difference? Another one comes in and just takes their place. Where's he speaking to speak to side? He keeps looking for a topic to really go on the road with. I think he's finally found it. I mean, there's a lot of things you can say about teachers. Like what? I mean, look, they're great people, but they're easily replaceable.

I think there's a shortage. Easily replaceable teachers are easily replaceable by how their ability to teach, to bond, to help. I think generally that's what it is. But what if you raise the salary and all the teachers that weren't good are like, well, we can't keep up with what we're supposed to do now. We have all the support. Our students need to hit a certain level. What if they can't keep up? So then other people go, wow, now are getting paid, let's say, a million dollars a year.

I'm going to leave my job here doing this. Then everybody would become a teacher for a million dollars a year. I was just putting a number out there. But it would only be the best of the best, because the more money you give them, the better. the teachers are. And thank God you have teachers that are still like it don't matter about just the money. But there are a lot. They just probably give up and go, I'll keep teaching, make the check, but I'm not going to really put in the effort. I just think that teachers go to teach and, you know, they get paid what they get paid because there's a million of them.

Teachers go to teachers. Yeah, they both have their master's. I don't know if they're easily replaceable. That's a lot of schooling. So you have two. Yeah. Masters. Yeah. And they're teaching fourth grade. Right. And that's awesome. So that isn't that who you want teaching your kids? But here's the thing. They knew what they were getting into when they signed up to teach fourth and first grade. But that's right. Of course they did. But that's a pandemic happened.

Yeah, they're not complaining at all. They said they want to get paid more. But don't you want people who know what they're getting into and what they're getting into is a more stable teaching job where they have support and more money? And you have more people getting into it who know what they're getting into who are better, who have master's degrees who have lived life in different careers. They can bring that to it. When we signed up for this, we knew that we weren't going to be making a million dollars a year.

So you just like to love what you do. We can dream. Yeah. Don't you want more money? Yeah, the lottery. Everybody wants more money. Any job you go to, they're going to say they're underpaid. Every job.

All my dreams came true today when I got to be here. You're right. That's what we do. And that's why we get paid the big bucks. But you say you're underpaid. And you had nothing to do with it. Okay, look, we've spent a lot of... I hope this has been cool for...

Huh? Oh, yeah. I feel like we brought the energy. No, no, that was it. We just generally have questions about teaching. I think you gave us a nice little gift here and our listeners, too. I just had a lot of questions. And so, no, we appreciate you guys coming in.

I hope this was fun for you guys. Hope you had fun at the opera. This was amazing. Hope your Nashville trip is good for the next couple days. And thank you for like gutting through the cancellations and the weather. What's the weather in Massachusetts? It was foggy. God is.

It was like we had, what, two cancellations and a delay. So we went to three different airports. We went to three different airports to get here. What? We went, we went like traveled all over Mass. We started in Worcester. We went to Boston. Then we went from Boston to Connecticut Airport.

Really? Yeah. The fog was. that bad? Well, this was like across the span of 24 hours. We were just trying to get the fastest flight and cheapest flight here that we could and ended up working out. We didn't know that we were going to

end up. Yeah, definitely cheap is because you guys don't get paid enough. I agree with that. Don't fall for his trap because he he's like a fly trap. Once you're in, you're stuck to it and you're like now I'm here for a while. So don't, don't bite into it. Well look, thank you guys for coming. Appreciate what you do. Thank you for having us.

This is a dream. Outside of this place, we really appreciate what you guys do as teachers at different levels too. I like that you guys all could lend your perspective from young, middle, and older kids when it comes to school. And that's what's up. Amy, anything you want to say before we go? Yeah, no, thank you all for what you do. I hope you don't take lunchboxes comments. Yeah, please don't. He's just trying to get attention. I'm thankful. By the way, we don't tell them to say this stuff. You guys are in the room. You saw the whole thing. Did I go ahead. We've heard worse.

But it's like why even bring that up? up. He's like, I'm not going to say it. Well, we know eventually it's going to come out because you're going to find a way to cram it in there. Look, I'm not saying teachers are bad people. Like, thanks for what you do. We need teachers, but don't, you know what you're getting into when you go into it. That's what I find out.

But what if people knew what they were getting into and it was a better situation they were getting into it. So if they raised the top, you'd have people going, I know what I'm getting into. Oh, boy. It doesn't stop. Enough enough enough. You're going to pay them more, and then your taxes are going to be more and people don't want to pay more taxes.

It's just how, until X, there's a whole thing on how. I mean, I can shout out my teachers. I have some great teachers. Ms. Butler, what up? Amy, he's running this argument because he's louder. Ms. Curry. Ms. Curry, kindergarten, Ms. Anderson, first grade. Ms. Butler's second grade.

Oh, boy. I don't know. Tim, I was just say it could be more boiled down to, maybe your taxes don't have to go up. It could be distribution of funds and that we reallocate. There are certain things. There are things to be priority. Yes, which is sad because teachers should be a priority,

especially knowing, yeah, now I'm, yeah, I'm thankful as a parent to hear each of your perspectives and just to think of what y'all are pouring into them besides just the curriculum. Absolutely. They spent half their lives with you guys. Like that's a big deal. Thank you.

So yeah, thank you. Glad you guys could come in. Let's say it collectively. Thank you. They do like they do. Thank you. Thank you. You both.

All right. That's it for today. And yes, we are in therapy, Amy. Oh, yeah, I did us say. You have to be. Right. Because I would feel like go home and like, ah. All right, that's it.

Thank you guys. Thank you. Oh, you guys are good. Hold on a second. We're going to take pictures and stuff. You don't have to leave. All right. We'll see everybody tomorrow.

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