Teachers: Episode Two Review

January 20, 2016

Day 205 as an Oklahoma Teacher

     Let me introduce the teachers working at this school. There is the Gothic teacher who always wears black clothes, day eye liner, and dark eye shadow, the narcissistic teacher who is always worried about her looks, the teacher who feels that she never wins anything, the average looking teacher, the lonely, single teacher, and the insecure teacher. Yes, I know it's wrong to label these teachers, but that is how they are portrayed in the show.
      It was picture day at the school, and the teachers all try to look their best. The narcissistic teacher applies tanning lotion all over her body which makes her look orange and splotchy. The average teacher has a unibrow, so the narcissistic teacher decides to wax her eyebrows in front of the class. She waxes off all of the eyebrows and leaves nothing on her face. The lonely, single teacher does everything she can do to get this single dad to come up to school; she even uses the dad's son as part of her plan. The insecure teacher has to deal with sexual harassment by the photographer while another teacher has to help her students deal with the deaths of the class lizard and the grief counselor. Their drama just goes on and on and never has any resolution. There were some parts where I laughed because of the ridiculous way the events were presented in the show.

     This show makes teachers look unprofessional, narcissistic, insecure, and helpless. I have not seen in the first two episodes any math, reading, English, or history lessons given in the classes. There is no curriculum, there are no strategies presented in the class, and there is no structure. The focus is on the teachers and their personal lives. The only planning that is facilitated during the day occurs in the teacher's workroom.  The principal is portrayed as inept, and no one is collaborating, innovating, and creating in a serious way. No teachers is concerned about the safety of the children. For example, the photographer who made the sexual remarks to one of the teachers stayed at the school all day; he took pictures of all the children. What would have kept him from making inappropriate comments to the children.  The teacher should have told the principal about the situation, but she just told the other teachers. One teacher did confront him about it, but it was all about how she was treated during her teenage years. He should have been arrested and removed from school property. That's what would have happened in my school. This show makes me want to make a video showing the daily lives of real teachers and how much work is put into learning new ideas.