Dr. Black Girl Magic
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If you want to see me act like a professional, follow my professional page: @TakiahTeaches . This ain’t that. 🤣
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I’m not dimming my light for anyone.
If you don’t like me, that’s a you problem.
I’m dope af.
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One thing I have learned during my 10 years of teaching is that schools be worried about the wrong things.
Hats, hoodies, holes in jeans, no outside food, teachers wearing jeans…why do those things matter?
What does any of that have to do with teaching and learning?
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Y’all do realize AAVE is a thing, right?
Some of y’all BE so racist.
I have 3 degrees and 1 on the way.
I have published a book and can write circles around most.
I understand correct grammar and will still use AAVE. Because. I. Can.
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Bonuses should not be taxed. Bonuses should not be taxed. Bonuses should not be taxed.
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New Principal: I’m not going to judge you for leaving work on time. Go home and be with your families.
Some of you know what it’s like to be shamed for leaving work in time.
I love being treated like a professional!!!
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Today has been a rough one.
I’m struggling. I feel unloved and it’s the month my mom passed from cancer.
She was 39.
It’s hitting harder now that I’m in my 30s.
I have been crying off and on since I got home.
Anyway, send some love my way.
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Y’all ever accidentally write on your whiteboard with permanent marker?
Hypothetically, how does one get it to come off?
**Asking for a teacher friend whose name rhymes with Dr. Rakiah.
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I’m tired of folks making decisions for teachers and students without talking to teachers and students.
I’m also tired of them making more money than me while making my job more difficult.
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Serious question:
How are y’all sustaining yourselves, teachers?
I’m so stressed and burned out by the end of the day.
I feel like a broken shell of the teacher I once was.
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Yesterday, my therapist told me that what I’m describing sounds like a PTSD response…to work…to teaching.
I denied it because who wants to hear that?!
However, I think she’s right.
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I miss getting Christmas bonuses.
Instead, I got 10 passes to wear jeans.
Jeans passes pay the bills, ya know. 😇
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This job [teaching] almost took me out yesterday.
I almost walked away for good.
I was in so much physical pain from the stress.
And mentally…I was not in a good place.
No more.
I’m doing what I get paid to do and going home to my family.
My word for 2022:
#Boundaries
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I’m not arguing with anybody who does not understand that students and teachers NEED summers off.
Anybody saying otherwise hasn’t been in the classroom, so their opinion is dust.
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Anyone feel like crying at the end of the school day just because you’re overwhelmed? Nothing is wrong. I’m just mentally exhausted. Just me?
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Do y’all get consent when before you post your students’ pics and videos online?
I keep seeing so many teachers posting students on their personal social media pages and it is making my skin crawl.
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I just thought about how many KN95s I had to purchase out of my own pocket and got pissed.
Why aren’t schools providing these masks?
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Why is teaching so traumatic?
It should not be this way.
It’s not fair.
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Teaching sucks the life out of me daily.
It wasn’t always this way.
It sucks that this is what education has become.
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Y’all better start making teaching attractive again or folks gonna keep walking out…nobody wants to deal with this mess on top of not getting paid.
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People shouldn’t be allowed to become admin with less that 10 years of teaching experience.
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To be left alone to teach.
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Some of you Ts need to get out more. Y’all do realize that not every state has a union, right? Y’all do realize that not every teacher works under the same conditions you do, right?
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I miss what teaching was like before C-19. I’m mourning the loss of normalcy. We can pretend all we want, but it’s not the same. 😞
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Y’all.
Today was a great day.
I haven’t felt this good about teaching in a long time.
Sometimes a change in environment is exactly what you need.
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I remember an old principal having an issue with the material of my skirt.
Another principal had an issue with me wearing khaki pants.
I’m 99% sure it was because I have thighs and a booty.
Stop policing women’s bodies.
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Not to toot my own harm or anything, but uhh, I submitted my dissertation for publishing today. 🥹
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Y’all ever have so much to do but don’t know where to begin so you just sit there staring into the abyss?
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Someone (not admin, but in a leadership position) made a comment about how teachers who leave at 3:25 (our day ends at 3:15) don’t care about their students and I LOLed.
Clearly some folks live in an alternate reality where Ts don’t have lives outside or school because WHAT?!
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My therapist gave me a lot to think about today.
This doesn’t have to be it.
I deserve better. Teachers everywhere deserve better.
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I have graded everything and posted final grades for the semester.
I’m going into the break with no work on my plate! 👏🏾
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Some of y’all are trying to lose your job and/or get sued.
You don’t get to decide you’re just not going to implement a child’s IEP.
Y’all are telling on yourselves and it’s gross.
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Districts are holding job fairs and school starts back in 2 weeks.
There will be hundreds of long-term subs this year, I guarantee it.
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Today, I was announced TOTY.
A coworker came up to me and said: “I didn’t vote for you. I voted for _______. But congratulations.
Lmaooooo WHAT?!
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I accepted a summer teaching job...then I realized that money isn’t everything and I NEED to rest to recover from the year.
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I don’t like how teaching has made me feel the last two years.
I want things to go back to the way they were.
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The first day of the 2022-2023 school year starts tomorrow for me.
Year 10 will be a great year!
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I have on this shirt today.
My white coworker read it and asked “What it I wore one that said white” and the proceeded to tell me she uses shea butter too…I just looked at her. Not today Devil.
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I don’t care if folks think it’s pretentious. I earned my doctorate with blood, sweat, and tears. My friends can call me Takiah. I don’t even mind students calling me Ms. But adults who KNOW my title and refuse to use it? Absolutely.
ESPECIALLY if I don’t like you.
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Admin: What makes y’all pack preplanning full of meetings?
Y’all don’t think we need time in our classrooms?
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Unpopular opinion: I do not want unvaccinated doctors and nurses delivering my baby.
#sorrynotsorry
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Being tired is not an excuse for not reading or implementing a child’s IEP.
Anyone defending it is suspect to me.
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All teachers are TOTY material for putting up with this bs during a mf pandemic.
Don’t let your district make you feel otherwise.
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And I guarantee 95% of teachers will be maskless next week and I’ll be looked at like I have 3 heads for wearing a mask.
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Prayers for Tay. I picked her up from daycare and she has a temp of 102. Currently at Children’s. 😮💨
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I wish district leaders would show teachers appreciation by giving us more raises…instead of things we do not want and did not ask for. 🙄
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Parent: I love your classroom. It feels like good vibes in here.
Me: 😭😭😭😭
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The thing is, I don’t know what else I would do…what do people who leave education do???
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I have had more than one person comment on my middle school being hard tweet to tell me that all grades are hard.
I never said teaching other grade levels wasn’t hard.
I taught 11th grade for yearssss. That was hard.
Teaching middle school is still hard af.
🙄
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I haven’t missed a day of work since October.
I’m taking a mental health day tomorrow.
I desperately need it.
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EOY teacher tired is a different level of teacher tired.
My brain and body are done with this year, lol.
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I have mastered the art of looking like I have it all “together” while simultaneously having a panic attack.
Yay me 😂😂😂
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Teachers: Take your days whenever you want and need to and stop explaining yourselves to piss poor leaders who haven’t been in the classroom since 2006.
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Whew, chile, some of y’all teachers are just…whew!
Literacy has a place in EVERY classrooM across ALL content areas.
Students should be reading and writing in all classes.
Jesus Dontarius Christ.
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Are any other teachers March/April tired?
Students came back 8/3 and I am exhausted.
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The last two years of teaching were awful for me…so if I share something that makes me feel good about where I’m at, can y’all PLEASE keep your negative comments to yourself?
Let me have this.
Negative Nancy’s.
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I just came to tell y’all I’m 8lbs from my goal weight. 😍
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Back to work tomorrow.
Mask mandate has been dropped.
I’m gonna keep my mask on, drink my water, stay in my classroom, and mind my business.
I don’t have the energy to be outraged anymore.
People gonna people.
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I will continue to take mental health days when I need them, guilt free.
I don’t know what man is going on about.
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I just saw someone say “Remember, God knows best” in response to someone losing their child. 😡
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New Teachers: Please do not let any teacher, admin, etc. disrespect you by talking to you crazy.
You are an adult and a professional and should be talked to and treated as such.
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I have been going to the gym 4x a week and making better food choices for a month.
I look better. I feel better. I have less body fat and more muscle.
But, I gained 4lbs and I want to cry.
I really need to stay off the scale.
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In other news, teaching The Giver is reminding me of how good The Giver is.
I’m enjoying rereading it with my students.
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I really thought this school year would be better.
In some ways it is.
In many ways it isn’t.
I’m trying to hold on to the good moments.
I hope they sustain me til May.
Most importantly, I hope 2022-2023 is a better year for all of us.
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I have been on the fence about posting that I passed my dissertation defense because I am taking a class this semester and won’t finish with it til April….but to hell with that and congratulations to meeeee! 🎉🎊
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I saw a video that said to hug someone if you notice they are having an anxiety attack. I’m here to tell you, don’t touch me while I’m having an anxiety attack lol. Talk to me, yes. Touch me, and you may be slapped.
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So tired. So burned out. I guess this is teaching now.
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How do you maintain a level of professionalism with trifling people?
Education has some of the most trifling people I have ever known.
It gets under my skin because I’m not trifling but I have to interact with trifling people regularly.
I just want to be left alone to teach.
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I love my Twitter Teacher Friends. Y’all remind me that not everyone is a vile human. 🥰
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Y’all been telling on yourselves all week.
First, defending Mr. Orange Bulletin Board.
Then, defending plastering your students’ faces all over TikTok for clout.
Now, defending teachers who don’t read IEPs.
This cannot be real life. Can’t be.
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Y’all better stop taking these folks who never taught in a pandemic seriously.
Protect your peace.
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I hate when my school open house overlaps with my child’s open house.
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Jesus. This hit me in the chest.
You shouldn’t need therapy and medication to cope with your job.
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I brought my LDL cholesterol down 50 points without meds!
I changed my diet and lost 14lbs.
I’m so proud of me!!!
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Moms have it harder than dads. I said what I said. Fight me.
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Because guess what? They aren’t cursing ME out.
Some of these babies act out in one class and not others.
YOU just may be the problem.
I see it everyday b.
But let me drink my water and mind my business before I have to cuss one of y’all out on this good Saturday.
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Admin….can you all help me understand why 50-11 of y’all go into a teacher’s class room at once?
Like, what is the purpose of that amount of people observing a teacher?
*This did not happen to me recently, but it did happen to a friend.
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Today was a great day of teaching…I love how engaged my students are as we read The Giver!
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I finally got my baby and toddler on the same nap schedule.
Big flex.
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We are all tired af.
That does not mean we don’t read a child’s IEP.
That does not mean we get to choose not to implement a child’s accommodations.
Like, what?!
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Y’all ever tried to unlock the door to your house with your classroom key?
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Y’all ever taught with cramps? It really is one of the worst things.
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Grades have posted. I officially have one more semester to complete before I am Dr. Ogunlusi.
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I feel like the only people who understand anxiety disorders are people who also suffer from anxiety disorders.
Explaining a panic attack to someone who has never experienced one is annoying, lol.
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One photo that makes you go “I did that”
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Summer time makes me want to unzip my boobs and throw them out a window.
It’s too hot for boobs.
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My dissertation research and findings are super heavy and I always cry when I sit down to write.
I know I need to do this work but it’s so draining.
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I had my account protected because folks police social media where I work.
I’m not doing that anymore.
I said what I said. I wrote what I wrote. I tweeted what I tweeted.
Write me up. I’m not signing it. 🥰
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I like to read. My kids like to read. We went into Barnes and Noble and…🥹
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Salon called me and asked if they can push my appointment back because the client coming before me is running late.
I told them absolutely not.
SHE’S late.
Push HER appointment back.
🙄
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I got my hair done and I hate it so much.
My students called me Rosa Parks and Harriet today…I have a hair appointment at 7 because they not about to talk about me for the 6 weeks 🤣🤣🤣
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When the teacher with the cute classroom tells you your classroom is cute! 🔥🔥🔥
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I carry the trauma of being bullied by an older Black woman teacher my first year because I didn’t know things. She wasn’t trying to teach me. She humiliated me every chance she got. I left that school after the first year.
Hold each other accountable but be nice.
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Today has been a dumpster fire.
No amount of toxic positivity will make it okay.
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This may ruffle some admin feathers, but I’m gonna say it anyway.
If you are going to keep students in the same room for 4 hours, you cannot expect engagement or instruction to be happening that whole 4 hours.
It’s unrealistic.
Adjust your expectations.
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It’s effed up maternity leave is only 6-8 weeks. It takes several months-year to heal postpartum. I hate it here.
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Today is the first day the toddler is in underwear and she peed in the toilet!
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