#and you can't ALL have had super shitty math teachers

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Genuinely I think we as a society need to figure out why 90% of the population is unbelievably bad at math and hates it like why have we demonized truly one of the most important subjects in school

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hey cas! how are you?

before we go any further — the obligatory YOURE AWESOME because you are :))

okay, now onto the ask ahaha. so, youre a teacher! thats really cool! im going to uni this september to start a maths with teaching course to work in a high school afterwards, and wondered if you had any advice for a future fellow teacher? i know you teach a different age group than i will be but anything at all would be super helpful!

thank you, and have a wonderful day! <33

Hi! <3

So, I'm gonna give you some realistic advice, because I think sometimes people glamorize teaching and sometimes people make it out to be the worst thing in the world. It's neither. It's in the middle.

Don't settle for working at a shitty school. There ARE good schools. Don't be afraid to move around until you find your right fit.

Don't stay at school too late. You'll run yourself down and you won't be your best self. Give it an hour after school, and then go home. Take care of yourself, your relationships, your life. Your job is not your life.

Give your energy to the kids that both need and WANT it.

When you have a bad day, don't blame the kids. It's usually not their fault. It's the system.

Have fun with the kids sometimes. It will feel like there never is enough time, and that's true. But both you and the students deserve some fun.

Set boundaries and stick with them. You'll thank yourself later.

Make positive phone calls home. You'd be surprised how often parents say they NEVER hear good things about their kids.

Find a mentor. Having someone on your side is so important.

Make friends with the administrative staff, the custodians, the paraprofessionals, etc. They will SAVE you in tough situations.

Save positive notes from students and parents. Look back on them and be proud of how awesome you are.

Remember that the job is sometimes tough but you ARE having an impact, even if you can't see it.

I genuinely hope these don't scare you, but it's my best advice lol. I wish you all the luck and I'm here if you need anything! <3

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okay ngl with the pics you posted it does give young teacher vibes BUT there's nothing wrong with that at all! I SWEAR one of my high school math teachers wore that EXACT outfit on the bottom right and im getting flashbacks lol But one again its not a bad thing, if it makes you feel good and you feel comfortable in it, THATS ALL THAT MATTERS! plus they look cute!

Also Im so sorry that people in high school made you feel like you were below them just because you didn't have certain clothing items :( It truly IRKS me when people do that! I despise it! Not everyone can afford trendy clothes or keep up with trends! Plus even if people can afford them that doesn't mean they have to wear them! the clothes and items that one may have to do make the person "better"! Ugh i hate that you were made to feel this way :( even if it may not affect you rn that is still so shitty to go through! But Im glad college was where you discovered many things!

Now my style currently does not exist lol Currently in my era of trying to tap into my feminine side again(another long story for another time lol) along with trying to love it for the way it is! But my usual everyday go to is either a baggy t-shirt/sweatshirt/hoodie with leggings or shorts bc its hot where i live! My campus is huge so it just makes it easy to walk in. Plus i love that leggings now have pockets like i LOVE when women's clothing have real pockets! Anyways when I "dress up" i love wearing dresses and skirts! I love florals and I kinda love eccentric patterns too! Thrifting is something i enjoy too and i often find hidden gems! But I also do love going towards an alternative aesthetic too! Im emo at heart so i cant let that go lol plus i love a good platform shoe lol Idk if you've seen the show The Nanny but my style sort of mimics hers minus the animal print lol Side note that show is where I found the first British actor I had as a child lol

oh you're not prying! I will definitely be adding that to my application lol It's fun to be a bit petty and mean once in awhile!

The concert was for Kelsy Karter and The Heroines! I really enjoyed it! It was a small venue so I love how intimate it feels and she performed so many of my fave songs! Im sorry your weekend was exhausting :( Hopefully spring break will give you the break you deserve! AND THE ECLIPSE WAS MADE FOR THE SPACE GIRLIES! Im glad you got to enjoy it!

No you are like funny! I love when you include it in your stories!

My day today was not good bc my period came early and I was so sad about that lol But im okay rn lol BUT hope you had a wonderful day!-💜

No it's okay. It's super embarrassing sometimes tbh hahahaha my style is very boring. Yeah being a poor girl was tough but it's alright. I have a shopping addiction now to make up for it.

Your style sounds so cool! A bit of everything! I love that!!! You really get it all and that's cool. It's nice your rediscovering your feminine side! I def had a tom-boy phase myself. I told my sister I was going to wear sneakers to my wedding (before it was trendy) and she made so much fun of me and threatened me. But now you can't get me out of wedges 😂 I LOVE pockets!!!! I've actually never seen the Nanny outside of pictures.

I love that for you! So nice you had a good time. Sorry about your period. That's no fun :(

I'm alright! Very much looking forward to my break. I'm kind of not feeling so hot rn at this moment either and i'm very excited to go to bed. I'm nursing a ginger ale rn lol I feel like I wasn't very responsive the way I wanted to be but I'm feeling drained and as much as I wanted to write more I think I just need to go to sleep.

thank you for your message as always 💕

xoxo

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HI HELLO do you remember that au we played with with the yoga class + assassins !!!!!

Boy do I remember yoga class assassins! Thank you for this, truly, thank you. [This is part of an AU ask game, send me an AU and I'll tell you five facts about it... or ramble extensively under the guise of telling you five facts, who could say?]

Yoga Classassins basic premise: Taako is a yoga teacher who specialises in assassins. In, and within a mile radius of his studio is neutral ground. No fighting, no murdering, just stretching out all the murder limbs because they're knotty from skulking, crouching in wait, and lying on cold roofs wiith sniper kit. 1) Kravitz starts coming to class because his shady organisation stopped paying for the fancy gym he liked and this is the only place that has any classes which fits his schedule and they're all Taako's. He's right grumpy about it because he's used to doing really intense HIIT classes and smashing the fuck out of punch bags. Then he sees the teacher and, surprisingly, he decides he might quite like yoga actually... and maybe that Zumba class he mentioned doing... 2) Taako has a policy about not hitting on his students ever, no matter how beautiful they are. No matter how much he definitely knows they're checking him out. He's not sure he trusts himself to correct Kravitz's posture etc. without it feeling skeevy, so he does it minimally and Kravitz (mistakenly) thinks he's super good at yoga. 3) Taako's classes have a very loyal following because a limber assassin is a less injured assassin. Gotta make sure you do your stretches, can't go murdering people if you have strained muscles and you're off your game. Recovery time is bounties lost! This does mean he has to be super careful about what he says. The first 'accident' sure did solve the issue he was having with his shitty landlord, but after the boss at his second job disappeared the day after he mentioned the overtime he was stiffed out of he had to caveat any minor gripe with a "no murdering anyone about it!" 4) Kravitz gets assigned a job, there's this scientist right, he's about to make a breakthrough which is going to revolutionise clean energy, a new kind of engine, it's going to dramatically reduce the need for fossil fuels.

5) He's doing his scoping work like any good assassin, and oh fuck, is that Taako? Is Taako married? Is Taako married to the guy he has to eliminate???? Wait, why is there two of Taako? Fuckballs. He already felt weird abou this one, but the pay could get him out of the game and fund Raven's community centre...

6) (Because maths isn't the boss of me) Kravitz has such a packed schedule because he helps Raven (basically his adoptive Mum although they didn't do the legal bit) and her wife Istus run a community centre which absolutely saved his life. Raven definitely knows what he does for a living but just doesn't ask about it.

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I'm just gonna rant here for a sec sorry about that:

I'm like weirdly excited today for no reason at all :D

And idk if I told you (my memory sucks) but I'm doing a Halloween event thingy and I'm kinda nervous but excited for it?? I think it might help me get back into writing and hopefully will give me some inspiration with my Fitz fic (that's fun to say lmao)

Anyways I hope you have a lovely day or night <3

i'm glad you're excited!! and good luck with your halloween event thingy!!! inspiration is lovely, we love inspiration <3

this is. very sweet of your to say. but for the most part your hopes were dashed because my day was kind of shitty. putting my ranting under the cut because i just need to get it out, but i care about strangers on the internet to not forcefully clog up their dashes with it. you're welcome. (but also if you scroll past my ranting you can see pictures of my science teacher's axolotl. just saying.)

i went into fake it until you make it mode about not being sick and convincing my mom i was fine was a little bit stressful but not too bad. school itself was kind of a fucking nightmare. i walked in and almost immediately found out that i'd missed out on even more work than online backup courses had told me i'd missed, from finding out math had gone faster than i'd thoght it had and finding out there'd been an english quiz no one had told me about. almost had a breakdown in math because i'd missed five lessons in the four days i was gone. and math is my hardest class. art i was being a perfectionist over a simple drawing assignment and making it harder than necessary and stewing about family issues because my brain is fun. the only part of my lunch i got to eat during the lunch period was my sandwich, which i scarfed down while waiting to get my coffee before going to my math class to work on shit i'd missed with my teacher. ate only some of my pretzels during my social studies class because that teacher's nice about snacks. found out i wasn't as behind as i thought i was in that class, which was good. science my teacher wasn't there and there was a sub instead so i couldn't ask the questions i needed to ask to catch up on a lab assignment the class had done while i was out sick, and ultimately didn't end up finishing the assignment that the rest of the class started and finished that day (it'll be easy to finish, but still). english was ultimately one of the easiest classes that day because i found out that the two assignments i need to finish in that class have lax deadlines, but it still sucked a lot because i got teamed with a guy that was super disruptive and making it SUPER FUCKING DIFFICULT to maintain my sanity and get work done. i'm a pretty chill person most of the time, but i was literally this close to picking up my metal water bottle and smacking this guy who thinks we're good friends even though i kind of despise him as hard as i fucking could with it because of how much he irritated me, suspension be damned. and my best friend that was there for all the days i'd been sick wasn't there the day i finally got back, and i'd been looking forward to seeing them again, so that sucked. and another good friend was there but i couldn't talk to it very much, which sucked because by the end of the day i just really wanted to ask for a way-too-long hug because i was in that mood of 'do i want to disappear from existence where my problems can't find me or do i want to burn the world to ashes?'. and now i'm back from school and just got done with HOURS of going through math homework that has bludgeoned my brain into a zombie state (which would've beat me up worse if my mom hadn't helped me so much, so shoutout to my mom for being an angel.)

BUT. ON THE BRIGHT SIDE. ON THE BRIGHT SIDE THAT I AM CLINGING TO LIKE A FUCKING LIFELINE. I FINALLY GOT TO SEE MY SCIENCE TEACHER'S AXOLOTL. HIS NAME IS GANDALF AND HE'S SEVEN YEARS OLD AND HE'S FUCKING ADORABLE.

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Hope it’s okay to just kinda rant a little here but UGH so sick of seeing middle aged men especially who back in the day say they had a house at like 23 or something bc they knew what they wanted to do and ‘worked hard’ and they ‘contribute’ to do it like I know I sound pathetic but as someone who struggled w anxiety around a lot of people in my teens and I mean, I still do to an extent in stressful situations I had legit breakdowns a lot when in retail situations so I wouldn’t like pursue that anymore and then I had no idea what to do until like last year so idk i also had like stress eat or not eat and feel super faint or something when in those situations and idk I am just so exhausted hearing people say like ohhh yeah well I knew so everyone should go ahead and do it jsjsjsjdj

NO FOR REAL THOUGH Im glad someone ranted about this!!!!!

I honestly fucking hate how people make out its as simple as working hard.

First of all, do they know even one thing about the exploitative capitalist system we currently live in? 0 hour, minimum wage culture means people can't ever save enough money to leave their shitty jobs, they have no leverage at all, some companies litterally make it impossible to unionise. Working hard no longer = climbing the social ladder.

It didn't really mean it in the 90s but it meant it far more than it does now.

There are jobs which require doctorates which only pay £19,000 a year.

The thing that gets me most about this is that in the 90s when my parents saved for their first house, my mum had no a levels, hadn't been to uni, my dad barely had gcse's. To do my mums job in 2022 you need a good degree. To do my dad's job ur looking at a poorly paid apprenticeship (I've seen apprenticeships pay like £3 an hour these days).

Their combined income was like £40,000 a year. The deposit they had to put down on their house was £3000.

Now, in 2022 I'm more qualified than both my parents but I can't get a job that isn't minimum wage paid hourly. B has been looking at salaried jobs, he has a masters degree, hes looking at a £19,000 a year salary.

I am on roughly £13,000 a year.

If we want to put a deposit down on a flat (A FLAT) it will be like £8,000 - 10,000.

I'm not much of a maths person but I know for a fact that proves me and B who work really fucking hard, are far worse off than my parents were in the 90s.

The average income in the UK is somet between 20 and 25k a year. The cost of living is rising sharply, taxes are rising sharply (but our public services are shrinking drastically), house prices are going up, the economy is supposedly growing, but wages are stagnating. Its getting harder and harder to rent, landlords are parasites, it's impossible to save for a house when youre renting but most people have to move out their parents homes because their parents now live in inustryless husks where there are no jobs thanks to, guess who, you got it, thatcher and every tory that's ever looked up to her since.

1 in 5 people in the UK live in poverty. Most of those people are in what we call working poverty. That means they are WORKING but they still can't afford to live. Teachers, nurses, social care workers are reliant in food banks.

Anyone and I mean anyone who tries to tell me that all you need to do these days to buy a house is work hard.

I work really fucking hard thank you very fucking much.

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hey jazzy how did you make math like.. make sense? do you just have a natural inclination for math? do you have any tips on understanding?? pls enlighten????

im asking bc no matter how hard i tried in my math "classes"*, the concepts never clicked sjfjjf it kinda eats at me since im able to understand the concepts in other academic areas fairly easily 😭 (fairly bc physical sciences are a Thing) [ * = the only attempts at learning math after i started high school dkfjkfkg ]

i think an issue was w who was teaching? bc the teacher in 9th grade got pissy w me for asking so many questions bc i didnt get it; my school was a rly small one so we had one math teacher and we had two different ones in 10th; 11th grade was outright lgbt-phobic; and 12th was a neurotypical cishet white man who made me feel unsafe just by being in the same room as me and he was a shitty person all around. i already struggled w understanding math before but these guys def made it even harder ;;;;

pls take a pic of my cats as an apology for my babbling sjkfjgks ty ily

omg firstly don't u ever again apologise for talking to about maths, or talking to me at all sndbwjsb <333

idk I've just always loved it??? I remember in primary school I used to help tbe kids who were in my grade who weren't good at maths, like I would teach them how to add fractions n stuff bc I just Got It and they struggled. as a hs maths teacher now, I think a lot of kids fall short bc their basic understanding of numeracy is lacking. it's how the concepts get to introduced to u the first time u learn it that shapes how u feel about it, or so I've noticed with many students. like take algebra in particular. kids have no fucking clue why they're suddenly using letters in maths and if they don't understand the point of it, of course they're not gonna understand how to do anything WITH algebra if they don't even know WHAT algebra is, and then they fall into the horrible cycle of nothing making sense and everything getting more complicated and still not making sense and hating the subject and doing badly at it and hating it even more etc etc

but yeah what u said about the teachers is definitely true, that can have a huge impact, especially on teenagers who are super emotional in general, having adults who don't appear open or friendly or empathetic or in ur case, it sounds like, downright against u, obviously makes it very hard to learn anything 😪

i can't tell u how I got maths to make sense to me bc for the most part, I just got it. I was lucky. BUT since i do teach it now to the highest level u learn in high school and obviously i majored in it at uni as well, i can always help u with anything if ur doing courses now 👀

AND THANK U FOR THE CATS AHHHHH I LOVE SEEING PPLS PETS, FEEL FREE TO DROP CATS IN MY INBOX ANY TIME <3