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@catslippers5910
August 19, 2025 at 7:52 pm
As a teacher I agree with almost everything she said. The one I actually disagree with is the “life skills” class. After taking basic algebra, you should be able to figure out how to do your taxes. After taking an English class, you should be able to read a formal document and look for context clues to discern meaning or use a dictionary to look it up. We do teach “life skills” because we teach the basics and critical thinking. If you want to learn to cook or change a tire, take a FACS class or car shop class. The reason why we don’t teach them is because there is a belief that families will teach their children these basic things. Unfortunately that means some kids will not get that knowledge, but we still arm them with the tools to seek out that knowledge if even their parents don’t help them.
@2consciences
August 19, 2025 at 8:51 pm
im wondering if the reason why classes feel useless to students is because our culture tells us that literally nothing you do or learn matters unless it directly helps with you making money
@quixoticallyQ
August 19, 2025 at 7:56 pm
To be fair, life skills like keeping a house and such should be taught by your parents/family
@REVPilot-q9v
August 19, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Hands down the best video i’ve watched, maybe ever
@AdamNeal
August 19, 2025 at 8:16 pm
Get this teacher back for parts 2 – 100.
Seriously.
Right now.
Don’t wait.
To find someone this passionate, honest and caring about TEACHING when she deals with administration that doesn’t care, parents that yell and scream because their kid didn’t get an A+ and could only answer 1 out of 20 questions correctly, and everything else that goes on every day and still is upbeat….. That is amazing! Meanwhile, my area has teachers leaving the profession in thousands every year.
@KekPafrany
August 19, 2025 at 8:19 pm
Taking away phones resulted in kids getting bored so they begun bullying in person again – teachers still don’t pay attention to that. There are things that never change :
@Timmah200
August 19, 2025 at 8:21 pm
Teacher here. Families should be teaching life skills. Unfortunately, that doesn’t happen 95% of the time in the modern day world. Having said that, I DID have life skills classes in middle school back in the 90’s.
EDIT: The more I listen to, the more I realize that there is a lot of a) bad information she’s giving or b) inaccurate information she’s giving. Some of it is good, though.
@AS-kq7hw
August 19, 2025 at 8:26 pm
Lots of “cool mom” energy going on here. But yeah, never had a teacher like this. Like, ever.
@Trainmate345
August 19, 2025 at 8:29 pm
As a new teacher I stopped to answer these questions myself and was so happy to hear every answer of mine aligned with hers. I hope to become as wise and keep my compassion as I grow in my profession
@beenaplumber8379
August 19, 2025 at 9:10 pm
New teachers are the best! Not stuck in your ways, you’ve just finished a program of learning all the latest in effective teaching and assessment methods, plus your subject if you’re a secondary teacher. Stay fresh and flexible!
@rainzerdesu
August 19, 2025 at 8:31 pm
1:48 I feel like part of homework is because of all the helicopter parents that think homework is required for learning and if the parent sees the kid not doing homework, they assume the teacher is not doing their job. I especially feel this is the case for schools that are considered the “best” schools.
@TheHumanRanger
August 19, 2025 at 8:33 pm
(25 years ago) Private high schools in Canada allowed students to personalize their class choices MUCH more than public schools, and you can essentially take better co-op and pre-college courses so you are better prepared for college, or trades or whatever else you want to do. Also private high schools have more options of courses, and arguably better teachers and equipment. 2 of my good friends went to private and I went to public, they ended up taking trade jobs and I went into engineering, so I would have loved to go to a private high school to prepare for it
@jamesguilliams8619
August 19, 2025 at 8:34 pm
Stop wining. The phone is so parents can keep in touch when you shut down because of shootings.
@DeoMachina
August 19, 2025 at 9:13 pm
Has that ever improved a situation?
@anthonysees5015
August 19, 2025 at 8:42 pm
I’m a high school teacher in CA. My school district still starts 1st period at 7:10am. My district gets around the law because we are considered a “rural” district. Apparently there is a carve out in the law for rural districts. I hate our start time.
@alessandrodecamilli8695
August 19, 2025 at 8:43 pm
You inspired me
@dontdodrugs75
August 19, 2025 at 8:45 pm
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, The median annual wage for high school teachers was $64,580 in May 2024, and you get three months off. public school teachers are doing fine as far as money goes. I worked in a small private high school only making $35,000 a year with unpaid summers.
@Sara-ii7bz
August 19, 2025 at 8:46 pm
This video made me tear up! If I had a teacher that was interested in how I was doing during high school, it absolutely would have changed my life. As a childcare provider, I hope to follow her example!
@kayleeparker14
August 19, 2025 at 8:46 pm
So much respect to you Mrs. Fox
@bookforhire
August 19, 2025 at 8:47 pm
Disagree about homework and “life skills” in school.
@adamh2395
August 19, 2025 at 8:48 pm
She was so much fun to listen to! I am glad we have some teachers like her in school still. ❤
@patlussenden4536
August 19, 2025 at 8:54 pm
We have to teach them how to go for it and make mistakes. Also there are many great careers in trades. The AI will do the math but someone has to build, plumb, wire, paint, and maintain the building the AI will live in.
@ohotnitza
August 19, 2025 at 8:59 pm
I have 2 arguments against taking cell phones away 1) schools regularly have active shooters and the only way we know what is going on is through our kids’ texts. Get rid of guns, we can get rid of phones. 2) some students need to take photos or videos of the board or teacher to re-review later. Most families don’t have cameras anymore. If the school provides a camera that can take video, then we don’t need phones for that.
@jamesshin1729
August 19, 2025 at 9:11 pm
I tuned out after the “we got rid of phones”. Are boardgames and crosswords not distracting? Are students unable to connect with others, play boardgames and the like on their phones?
Surely the educational goal is to get students to focus, rather than giving up possession of their property for a pro-1908s ideological approach to education.
Have a look in a team meeting – how many adults are on their phones?
@DeoMachina
August 19, 2025 at 9:25 pm
Social media is poison and my honest opinion is that allowing kids to use it is abuse
@t0rnt0pieces
August 19, 2025 at 9:12 pm
If high school starts super early it’s usually because they’re staggering the buses and high school is getting bused first. Also I’m surprised she seems to think graphing calculators are new? I graduated almost thirty years ago and we had graphing calculators back then.
@letarogers6380
August 19, 2025 at 9:16 pm
31:17 and this is why year round daylight saving time is a terrible idea
@brianlane723
August 19, 2025 at 9:17 pm
We don’t teach taxes because it would be out of date every year.
@water8422
August 19, 2025 at 9:19 pm
As a teacher, I’m glad they put this one out.
@SharkWitchMeruna
August 20, 2025 at 4:52 pm
I wish my teachers were like here. I only had one good teacher that she reminds me of. I hope she’s doing well. ❤
@gravitationalslipstream
August 20, 2025 at 4:54 pm
Interesting she says she doesn’t know college math. Hey if you don’t know, let’s say, collage algebra, should you be teaching high school math?
@kylievictoriasalvini3752
August 20, 2025 at 4:59 pm
Need more teachers like this❤
@williamsutton6738
August 20, 2025 at 5:10 pm
Me when my grandma could die at any minute and I can’t be informed of her last moments to leave and say goodbye because I can’t use my phone:
Me when I can’t use my phone so I just find a new way to avoid learning and be disruptive:
@psychique13
August 20, 2025 at 5:38 pm
Enthusiastic teachers are the most precious resource on the planet, you guys change kids lives and are so so so important. I wish your income was even remotely commensurate with how impactful you are to humanity. This was great to watch, thank you for doing what you do.
@barkerrhett
August 20, 2025 at 5:40 pm
Ms. Fox, I will never forget your love of sinusoids! Thanks for being a great teacher.
@amberwilliams2951
August 20, 2025 at 5:57 pm
Please do one on Chiropractic with a Chiropractor!
-xoxo a Chiropractor
@JackSiepman
August 20, 2025 at 6:05 pm
She is so rezl
@dontcallmegus
August 20, 2025 at 6:32 pm
She said she enjoyed Professional Decelopment so shes not a real teacher haha
@thegameczar
August 20, 2025 at 6:39 pm
I was an elementary school student with ADD in the late 70s. Because I was a noisy ball of energy, my desk was placed between the back wall and a filing cabinet. I heard this was so the teacher could focus on the “real students”. I was told I had potential, but I didn’t apply myself. Not once was I told how to apply myself. I was pushed through grade after grade until I dropped out of school and joined the US Navy in my junior year.
I have been a software developer for 35 years. I filled in a 12×12 times-table correctly, for the first time, when I was 55 years old. This was due to my wife suggesting that I use the math curriculum created for my son with autism. For years, I hid the fact that I struggled with math. The truth was, I learned my own way of doing math. I just never learned the vocabulary of math. It turns out, I just needed the right tools for my style of learning.
@MBeast2
August 20, 2025 at 6:43 pm
As someone who does grade essays: yes, we do read them. And also, “???” Is what we put because we’re not allowed to actually write “WTF is wrong with you?” in the margins of your paper – but it’s usually what we mean.
@weenyoo
August 20, 2025 at 6:45 pm
I’m so glad y’all found a sweet teacher for this segment. She’s a good representation of a typical teacher who loves (and is probably good at) what she does.
Many teachers, by nature, are trying to streamline the process and make it more efficient, such as eliminating homework. The best teachers ARE out there adapting to new ideas, using new technology, adjusting to teaching trends – like homework.
And I know she’s a teacher for sure because she said modalities. 😛
@goobarthur3047
August 20, 2025 at 6:49 pm
What a phenomenal woman. I used to be a teacher, training in 2019/2020, and I had to leave to protect my mental health. I have nothing but awe for educators who continue for so long, with such passion. It really is the most brutal, yet beautiful, vocation. She is the teacher that I hoped I could be, compassionate, progressive and all about the best experience for the students. Hats off to you Ms. Fox!
@gopronomad4381
August 20, 2025 at 6:54 pm
8:45 I feel like she’s a progressive teacher. IQ test would’ve been an intelligence test. May not test for all types of Intelligence, but it covers the student’s capacity to learn things.
@BernardBetelgeuse
August 20, 2025 at 7:02 pm
About curves. If every class had the same distribution of ‘learning success’, then curves would be the way to go. But I can’t imagine the distributions are all the same. Very large classes will come the closest. Small classes will vary more. So (and here I want to establish a student rating of scoring, 1 to 5. It’s very general but will suffice for my hypothetical examples) curves allow for situations where a ‘3 Student’ might be put in a class where their peers are all 4’s and 5’s. ‘3 Student’ would likely get an F because it is likely that all their peers will score higher. Of course the opposite can happen: ‘3 Student’ will get A+’s if put in a class with mostly 2’s and 3’s.
I favor a common standard for all students. So everyone if they do well enough can get A’s.
I am totally with you that the student shouldn’t be backed against a wall to pass everything in one year (per grade). I favor a multi-track system (which I know has been proposed in various places but I don’t know if it was ever implemented anywhere) where a student can leap ahead with what they’re good at, and be allowed to take their time for subjects that they find challenging.
Just my tuppence. 🙂
@zlee11
August 20, 2025 at 7:09 pm
She’s awesome. Thank you
@chieflegend850
August 20, 2025 at 7:36 pm
When the phone law came into place, I was actually happy. It helps a little bit with the phone problem in my school, but there are still quite a few of students who just don’t care enough to follow the rules. I recently came across a kid a had several “back-up” phones if a teacher took his. Phones can be a huge benefit to schools, but it just really needs to be used in the right hands.
@billbraski
August 20, 2025 at 7:42 pm
0:55 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@mesquitegirl2013
August 20, 2025 at 7:43 pm
❤❤❤
@coldcaption
August 20, 2025 at 7:44 pm
i’m out at ai-boosting; nopes for days
@nysanysanysa
August 20, 2025 at 8:27 pm
the lighting being less harsh than usual is the perfect teacher tell
@zach-bm1im
August 20, 2025 at 8:36 pm
her chipper tone when she says “ball swinging maniac” 😂
@noodler7764
August 20, 2025 at 8:48 pm
She sounds like a fantastic teacher
@snarp98
August 20, 2025 at 9:15 pm
@36:02 – I feel like she lost credibility right here. School provides the foundations for communication, mathematics, and science. Everyone likely uses all three daily without much thought.
@floydpeterson5669
August 21, 2025 at 3:56 pm
I am going in to teaching I am never going to use ai the planet is not worth question a computer makes especially cause I am going to be a history teacher
@kittinplus4
August 21, 2025 at 4:09 pm
The fact that school (and other mass) shootings are normalized because some yahoos like to think they can take on the no1 army in the world with their tricked up peashooters is beyond me at this time and age. “Oh, it’s more nuanced, it’s people with mental issues” no, it’s the guns. Too many and too easy to acquire for anyone.
@Here2shtpst
August 21, 2025 at 4:10 pm
Watching this as a teacher…the amount of bs is painful.
@kylieross5498
August 21, 2025 at 4:12 pm
Wish I had a teacher like her
@crazymogara2934
August 21, 2025 at 4:21 pm
I have safely concerns about not letting kids have phones in school because if someone needs to call 911 and they can’t well there dead
@julieveras2839
August 21, 2025 at 4:33 pm
I loved this! But as a teacher myself I think you should do an episode specifically with an elementary school teacher too. They’re wastly different 😅
@yeajic
August 21, 2025 at 5:31 pm
As a teacher, I disagreed with a lot of these answers
@katherinerichardson2273
August 21, 2025 at 5:32 pm
seriously we need to stop with the AI because the more we use it the more it’s going to take over
@katherinerichardson2273
August 21, 2025 at 5:37 pm
what nobody gets to watch movies anymore
@katherinerichardson2273
August 21, 2025 at 5:38 pm
I’m literally ASD and I could not tolerate watching something like Love on the spectrum is cringey as that is
@EJBradley
August 21, 2025 at 5:41 pm
I hate it when teachers point to cellphones as the be all end all problem with the education system. I graduated in 2013, cellphones were not a major problem in schools back then. I personally didn’t have a smartphone until I was 18. The system was broken. Maybe it’s more broken today, but it wasn’t some sort of utopia before.
@jakeshapiro389
August 21, 2025 at 5:58 pm
she’s my favorite kind of teacher, I had a math teacher like her and it was my favorite class even though I was trash at math. Our teacher also taught us how to count cards
@EhNothing
August 21, 2025 at 6:35 pm
Absolutely terrible advice to just “be yourself” and don’t worry about a career and making money. This is how you get a bunch of kids with C- averages who can’t do anything beyond whine on reddit all day that communism hasn’t come and saved them yet.
@nikeak
August 21, 2025 at 6:37 pm
Boohoo.
@GeodeCrowley22
August 21, 2025 at 6:49 pm
I would have LOVED to have her as my math teacher for a year, and it was incredibly touching that she accepts trans and nonbinary students?? Magnificent, thank you, keep strong!
@JustPaulPlays
August 21, 2025 at 6:55 pm
Ball swinging maniac 😄
@Queersailorscout
August 21, 2025 at 7:10 pm
4:23 we need more funding so we can include those classes
@EH23831
August 21, 2025 at 7:24 pm
No! Life skills should be taught by parents!! Surely that’s their fricken job?!
@EH23831
August 21, 2025 at 7:28 pm
One of my 6th graders used AI for writing a persuasive text! It was sooooo obvious! 😂😂 He really thought I wouldn’t notice! 😂😂🙄
@kervennewong5769
August 21, 2025 at 7:30 pm
I agree with most of the things she said, however as a parent, I would want to have my kids have their phone with them, for 1 reason ONLY. Just the fact of how UNSAFE the states in right now makes me super paranoid everytime my kids go to school. Have their location shared and emergency call in 1 button instead of CRAWLING to the locker or wait for someone to reach to their 1 phone out of many are simply unimagineable…
@kevnerx
August 21, 2025 at 7:48 pm
Wait, she answered those questions without checking the back of a textbook, is she really a teacher?
@jvonodom1343
August 21, 2025 at 7:49 pm
I hate the fact that she said that going to school in the 80s is a good thing considering the fact that this is 2025 and kids will grow up in different ages of technology no matter what age you want it to be it will always be now and they need to accept that banning cell phones is just a denying the fact that it is the 2,000s
@ZeroEscape2074
August 21, 2025 at 7:49 pm
where were teachers like this when I was in school? man she’s a delight, her students must love her, and I am jealous as a 33 year old lol
@robunderwood7689
August 21, 2025 at 8:27 pm
I’ve been teaching high school and middle school science and art for 23 years. I agree with pretty much everything you said, but one small point I would make(responding to around 36:00, what HS should study). I think that even though you may not use most of what you learn in high school, it is important to learn complex subject matter in order to strengthen the brain. It’s like lifting weights. You don’t do it because you plan on carrying dumbbells around for a living. Also, it helps with the critical thinking skills, which I think will be more and more important in this age of misinformation and scams!
@brunodcora
August 21, 2025 at 9:15 pm
this is the best tech support video by far, the world truly needs more like her, I wish I was like her
@aquietdragon5671
August 21, 2025 at 9:15 pm
honestly, the ONLY anxiety i have about giving someone my phone is that they’re going to drop it, break it, give it back to the wrong person, etc
i see people around me carelessly dropping and breaking their phones all the time and it blows my mind how someone can be so careless with such an expensive piece of technology
@alienartpop
August 22, 2025 at 10:20 am
Having your kid tell on a bully will make it much, much worse. There isnt much a teacher can do even though assault is a crime at any age. I was just teaching my kid this morning that bullies only prey on those that wont defend themselves as they are easy targets. If you hit them back in the face even one time it will dramatically change the bullies’ minds. I was raised to turn the other cheek and be a Christian. But now I’ve noticed that even over 50 I still think about the bullying and all I had to do was fight back. My only regret in life is that I did not stick up for myself. I dont have to let people walk all over me to be a Christian. My kid will also only be annonymous on social media. If you are letting your child on social media you are an awful parent. Stick up for your kids even when THEY dont want you to. You are the adult!!
@maryannejcarey5876
August 22, 2025 at 10:46 am
Love her perspective. I am 32 and still use math and writing skills I learned in school every day.
@cstucka6232
August 22, 2025 at 11:27 am
Wish there was more teachers like her
@megas.nikolas
August 22, 2025 at 11:45 am
Whatever they’re paying her, pay more! Her students are lucky to have her…
@Kaythought
August 22, 2025 at 11:51 am
Imagine not wanting phones in school IN AMERICA
@lopbunnyboy
August 22, 2025 at 12:04 pm
against phones in schools but not AI btw
@c_gaudet90
August 22, 2025 at 12:16 pm
In seventh grade, I had a Social Studies teacher who made us all pick a job out of a hat. It had your job title and your salary on the paper. We had to use real sources (newspaper clippings, grocery store ads, links to websites) to budget our assigned necessity categories. It was a fun, real world, assignment and I still remember it now.
@TinaBeck-w5r
August 22, 2025 at 12:17 pm
Parents should teach lifeskills! Parents are ultimately responsible for all learning – it is their child and their responsibility. Don’t have children if you think the rest of the world should raise and prepare your child that you chose to create!
@Jermick85
August 22, 2025 at 12:25 pm
She needs to come back
@senhan2159
August 22, 2025 at 12:44 pm
“If the policy is zero tolerance, why is it still such a problem?”
Because not everyone follows rules. The US government has a zero-tolerance policy on the topic of murder for decades (at least). For some reason we still have to deal with it as a problem.
@quor2243
August 22, 2025 at 1:00 pm
How far we have fallen with our education. Career exploration used to be standard typically starting in middle school, and yes it was sometimes parents or local volunteers coming in to talk about their careers. Then there was also elective classes that would teach you real job skills that was also standard in most school districts, that is pretty much all gone now. Sad to see her talk about it like it’s some new cool idea, when it all used to be the norm.
@danielareiner2420
August 22, 2025 at 1:20 pm
Homework is great for studying
@carlsmeller7177
August 22, 2025 at 1:27 pm
Shouldn’t parents be teaching children to cook, clean, and do their taxes?
@joelvautour567
August 22, 2025 at 1:30 pm
Wired’s casting team deserves a raise. EVERY single professional you choose, this woman included, is just fabulous.
@MarySunshine25
August 22, 2025 at 1:42 pm
Wired pls bring Ms. Fox back, she was amazing. 💜💜
@mjsteele42
August 22, 2025 at 2:21 pm
Nope. I’m not putting in hours upon hours to try to make an assignment AI proof. Kids need to stop being so lazy. You don’t learn anything by having a computer give you all the answers
@estrogencow
August 22, 2025 at 2:57 pm
13:31 the money is going to the sports team, the quality of which doesn’t matter but for whatever reason sports’ pockets are lean with green
@masterman9999
August 22, 2025 at 3:33 pm
No bullying is common because the student defending themselves is always the one in trouble not the bully.
@EyesBrown92
August 22, 2025 at 4:04 pm
I’m 33 now, but when I was in high school in Mississippi, we actually did have a class like that, it was called Applied Math. It taught us how to take out a mortgage, negotiate car payments, pay taxes, save for a rainy day, and really think about money and responsibility. We even had to “clock in” like a real job, get paid in classroom money, and manage our lifestyle based on the choices we made.
Funny enough, the reason I was placed in that class is because I kept failing math. They mixed the students who were too good at math with those who struggled the most, almost like a science experiment. But once math was tied to real life, I actually outperformed some of the students who were acing calculus. I realized I am good at math, when it’s applied to everyday living.
That class completely shaped how I look at life. I became the first sibling in my family to buy a house, and to this day my family comes to me to help negotiate prices or handle finances. It was one of the best, most practical courses I’ve ever taken.
I wish more schools offered this type of class, it’s well needed and could truly change students’ lives. Maybe it’s time for parents and communities to start advocating for more “applied life math” courses in schools.
@ZosynPipTazo
August 22, 2025 at 5:00 pm
Fantastic! 100%
@taWay21
August 22, 2025 at 7:03 pm
i swear. Teachers like her were just like all the teachers i had in the 90s. its like a personality type.
@Queen_Drew
August 22, 2025 at 7:31 pm
I truly believe that dismantling the DOE will lead to the rise, and overtake, of (often unregulated) private schools, which will, in turn, lead to even greater levels of educational disparity than we are already seeing, especially within disenfranchised communities.
@melanierosalez6989
August 22, 2025 at 8:02 pm
This was immediately interesting!❤
@JayTemple
August 22, 2025 at 8:18 pm
About the “expert in your field” question: So, are middle school math teachers only experts at middle school math? When I got my degree, there was a single degree for math education, and there were certifications for primary and secondary, but not middle and high school.
My question, as a fellow math teacher: Why do we get the brunt of the “still haven’t used it” remarks? Not to diminish the other fields, but the people who need to know the major battles in WWI and the people who need to know the valence number of nitrogen are probably at least as scarce as those who need to know what a rhombus is.
@issac9613
August 22, 2025 at 8:43 pm
Who has her as a teacher 🥹🥹 you’re lucky
@slbarbieri1725
August 23, 2025 at 11:51 am
At my highschool in the 1980s in Pennsylvania, we had metal detectors at the main doorways. It is rated one of the best school districts in Pennsylvania. Not a ghetto area. I don’t think twice about that.
@julianakarasawa315
August 23, 2025 at 12:06 pm
Whoever does casting for this series deserves a big big raise
@ThomK-TBF-IRL
August 23, 2025 at 12:15 pm
I 100% agree with all the stuff she said that we need to do to improve education.
It is still using a SEVERELY outdated system, it SERIOUSLY needs to get with the times.
LIFE SKILLS CLASS, YES! A class that teaches you how what you learn in school applies to real life, as well as teaches you how to look after yourself, how to cook, how to clean, how to get used to all those routine things you’re gonna need to do.
Yes, we need better regulation on teacher-to-class-size ratio so teachers are not TOO swamped with kids.
And it is CRIMINAL how little our educators are paid compared to other jobs, ESPECIALLY considering how demanding a job like teaching is, coz kids of any age can be a handful.
@Kanephan
August 23, 2025 at 12:34 pm
Suzy has untreated ADHD.
@Scenepackroyalts
August 23, 2025 at 1:08 pm
how are creative kids supposed to have a hobby if ai takes it? smh
@Kiku91
August 23, 2025 at 1:32 pm
With that last question, I thought of my German language teacher. I was not the best student, but I loved her classes; all four years. And in my Junior and senior year I started translating songs into German for fun (sometimes instead of doing my actual German homework, heh) and she would still take the time after school or during breaks to go over them with me. It’s always the teachers who made you feel like a person and helped you in spite of your flaws who you remember the best.
@robthornton1704
August 23, 2025 at 2:01 pm
She’s boring
@JanWilde1
August 23, 2025 at 2:20 pm
Wow—what a great teacher!! I would love to be a student of hers. I had a few teachers that really made an impact on my life. They are definitely under-appreciated and underpaid.
@SillerSpiller
August 23, 2025 at 2:25 pm
i wish she was my teacher when i was younger
@limaa222
August 23, 2025 at 2:32 pm
i love that they watched love on the spectrum
@Piggieherdvids
August 23, 2025 at 2:47 pm
What a lovely teacher with down to earth pragmatic views. Her students are lucky to have her.
@Egl0929
August 23, 2025 at 2:51 pm
I like her, Thanks!!
@isabeloliver9480
August 23, 2025 at 3:12 pm
As a teacher, I do agree with a lot (probably most) of what she said but she does not speak for all teachers. I disagree with what she said about being on time to class. You absolutely need to be on time, and as a teacher I have a right to give consequences when there is a student who is chronically late. It’s a matter of basic responsibility and respecting others’ time. She also said that students aren’t misbehaving, their bodies are just not wired for school. That is true some of the time, but sometimes there are kids that are just straight up rude and disrespectful or who bully others and there is no excuse for that. Just my hot takes I guess 🤷♀
@ekennedy6038
August 23, 2025 at 3:27 pm
immediately started off the video on an unpleasant note
@jcisonutubee
August 23, 2025 at 3:38 pm
9:53 PUHLEEEEEEASE 😭😭😭😭😭
@Nonesie
August 23, 2025 at 5:34 pm
The point about AI being a non-issue because it won’t help students once they’re in the classroom hinges on you actually being allowed to fail students who don’t prepare. That seems to no longer be the case.
@kevintyson9059
August 23, 2025 at 5:38 pm
As a future teacher, this is my favorite of these episodes.
@clairesquared2491
August 23, 2025 at 6:49 pm
Our staff room is used for eating, sleeping, crying, and laughing, likely all in equal measure 👍
@hughjazz4936
August 23, 2025 at 7:42 pm
Maths tutor here. Mrs. Fox is a teacher after my own heart. My dog’s name is Curie (named after Marie Curie because there aren’t many known female mathematicians) and I’ll get a tattoo of the Penrose tiling soon! Glad to see more maths nerds in teaching!
@YakAttack915
August 23, 2025 at 7:45 pm
The phone ban is not a horrible idea by itself, but there has to be flexibility. Letting the kids shut off the phones and keep them in their backpack is fair. With all of the school shootings going on and the tragic failure of the police in situations like Uvalde, you’re not going to deny my child the chance to make an emergency call something happens. Out of sight, that’s perfectly fine. But depriving them a chance to make contact if there was ever a big emergency, I don’t think so
@Frostbite-nb3wb
August 23, 2025 at 7:56 pm
I think the phone ban is a good thing, too. My only issue with it is the increased rate of achool shootings. I know its morbid, but students should be able to contact their parents or the authorities in a situation like that, and having phones confiscated even if theyre not being used could prevent that necessary communication.
@arat2376
August 23, 2025 at 7:57 pm
To answer the thumbnail..
Because self defense is a trait that the indoctrination centers, aka schools, want to beat out of you. Thus whenever someone decides to fight back, they are punished.
It is the precursor to how when someone attempts to rob your house and you $l-l()()T THAT M F IN THE FACE LIKE HE DESERVES, you are atacked by the law.
Becauase the people in power arent affected by crime, but a large amount of people willing to defend themselves is a threat to them, or will be eventually.
In the short term, prosecuting the victim of the robbery is also more profitable, as he will have more assets to be taken, whereas the black who did the robbing wont.
Once you dispense with the lie that school is for education and law is for protection, much becomes clear.
Not that 95% of you will do more than laugh and keep voting for the State.
@liroku
August 23, 2025 at 8:00 pm
“Why don’t we teach life skills?”
Because the standardized tests don’t test for those akills, and the standardized tests are how the school/teachers get rated and funded. If my job depends on how accurately you can identify a gerund, why would I risk teaching you how to manage your credit score?
@miashinbrot8388
August 23, 2025 at 8:30 pm
Speaking as a 73 year old who went through the US school system, learning how to be social was exactly what I did not learn. Kids who are bullied probably in general do not learn it — because it’s hard to bully a kid who is with friends, so the ones who are bullied are specifically the ones who don’t have friends. How does anyone learn to be social if they don’t already know, sort of, how to make friends? I suspect this is particularly a problem for autistic kids.
@jimbobcramden
August 23, 2025 at 8:38 pm
3:53 because were underfunded
@MarsBat-y1v
August 24, 2025 at 8:45 am
it was so satisfying to hear about how bullies will get suspended if they continue their behavior. just really nice to know.
@jillhagen
August 24, 2025 at 9:54 am
6:41 I love this!
@ashleyostrout4592
August 24, 2025 at 9:58 am
Whenever that TV came out we knew it was going to be a good day lol
@jillhagen
August 24, 2025 at 10:01 am
11:31 I think Suzie has ADHD
(I say this as someone with ADHD and is late a lot for no particular reason)
@shmeli
August 24, 2025 at 10:19 am
It’s not common. The very premise of your entire video, as stated in the title, is false.
@TH-20-S
August 24, 2025 at 10:32 am
I really like how this video in particular is so BEEFY duration wise.
@Savi-o1w1q
August 24, 2025 at 11:06 am
As a student in a school that has phones regulated, I actually agree with her opinion. In my school we are only allowed to have our phones during non-institutional hours like lunch or study hall. If you are in a class then you aren’t allowed to have it out unless the teacher says otherwise. The only place that we are allowed to keep our phones during class is our backpacks. Honestly this has helped me focus and even make new friends during class. Moreover, if there is an emergency our phones aren’t locked away and we can use them. I feel like this is a better compromise then just allowing phones everywhere or banning them completely. 😅
@mzzzzzzday
August 24, 2025 at 1:16 pm
She’s right. Some kids are teacher kids and they just come to you. Those are my favorite lmao
@MagsKnepper
August 24, 2025 at 1:40 pm
We have a whole-school “phone jail” (if they have an urgent call to make, they can ask us)
@Nolan_Brian
August 24, 2025 at 2:13 pm
Speaking of the career exploration class. The middle school I go to has a class just like that.
@skacey42
August 24, 2025 at 2:31 pm
Wow – so many things I want to say. We had graphing calculators 30 years ago. Bullying was absolutely a problem when it happened in person. We had metal detectors at the schools in the 90s and violence was much worse. She’s probably a great math teacher, but maybe not so much for history.
@heatherrodgers7326
August 24, 2025 at 2:49 pm
I think it should be required, if it’s not already, that teachers take some type of training on how to effectively teach students with ADHD and other disabilities. Three out of five of my children have ADHD and they struggle a lot to both “behave” and learn and I just want them to be given a fair chance.
@iluvshortbread
August 24, 2025 at 2:53 pm
Im a pedagogy student and Im so glad to be able to hear her talk. Incredible. Thank you Miss Fox <3
@MonsterKitty418
August 24, 2025 at 3:24 pm
I LOVE this series but this is my favorite video by far. As someone with a high school teenager and a toddler I really hope to see drastic changes by the time my little ends up in school – especially high school. I’m already upset that kindergarten is not what it used to be like the 70s/80s. It was supposed to be a transition period. But now prek is prep and kindergarten is essentially what first grade used to be for us. Let kids be kids. And no, little kids should not be given homework. It’s not developmentally appropriate for their brain.
@RichardThe3
August 24, 2025 at 3:50 pm
Really happy to know that this person is a teacher!
@terrancekayton
August 24, 2025 at 4:39 pm
15:24😊
@terrancekayton
August 24, 2025 at 4:45 pm
🤣 they talked to someone’s boyfriends sister. — adolescents 🤦🏿♂️
@AttnDefDis_
August 24, 2025 at 5:04 pm
Okay, she won me over immediately with the phone collection. “Trick or treat.”
@steel.apotheosis
August 24, 2025 at 5:45 pm
11:37 wow I just got called out (my name is Suzi and I’m always late, ADHD time blindness is real)
@leo-um3pj
August 24, 2025 at 7:19 pm
1:45 classwork in high school i agree. homework in uni i agree, different environment yup yup
@jliller
August 24, 2025 at 7:39 pm
A few years ago I asked a retired elementary school teacher I knew what surprised her most about teaching. Her answer: how much she had to be a parental figure to the students.
Schools aren’t failing children anywhere near as much as PARENTS are failing their own children.
@barbnoren
August 24, 2025 at 8:10 pm
as a teacher myself, the gathering phones at the beginning and discussing it at the end is SO spot on. we can’t leave a learning experience unutilized
@aleksandrrozentsvit8390
August 24, 2025 at 8:17 pm
I would love this: ASL teacher answers ASL questions! And conduct in all in American Sign Language! ASL teacher here!
@aleksandrrozentsvit8390
August 24, 2025 at 8:45 pm
At my school we had this amazing teacher whom taught middle school for 43 years until she passed away recently in February 2025. She refused to retire and said “I won’t retire until I die”. She did not retire at all but was on medical leave until lung cancer emerged and she passed away. She was 77 and showed how much she cared for the students. She loved her job so much and I had her. She was the best and cared for the students. Although there were some rumors that she was planning to retire at the end of the academic year.
@AC-fy7pm
August 24, 2025 at 9:15 pm
Wrong. It does matter if you are late, being on time is an executive functionality skill, that has applications is any sphere of life; even if you are one of those 8 people in the room.
@limaa222
August 25, 2025 at 11:59 pm
the way she says that there was a bomb threat and an active shooter, that they have armed security like its the most normal thing ever….. THATS NOT NORMAL!!!!!!!!! NOTHING ABOUT AMERICA IS NORMAL!!!!!!
@liquidcuddlepug7506
August 26, 2025 at 12:02 am
Please tell me they still watch bill nye 🥹
@McBennys
August 26, 2025 at 12:10 am
I do think kids should be allowed a phone to be in their bags though (just incase of an emergency at the school. For example; school shooting, natural disasters medical emergency. Just incase you can’t get the school to contact your guardians.) but I 100% agree that the phones shouldn’t be used throughout a school day.
@partimeninja5388
August 26, 2025 at 12:22 am
@2:03 is exactly how I felt at college lol
@MakiTako
August 26, 2025 at 2:39 am
I love her so much she made my week feel much better 😭❤️
edit: I reached the end of the video and I she’s my favorite, thank you for being such an awesome lady ❤️❤️
@reveoncelink6133
August 26, 2025 at 2:58 am
As an Indian, we don’t allow phones in schools and I always thought why did Americans and Europeans have that culture.
@agnimitraa
August 26, 2025 at 3:50 am
She is the definition of an ideal teacher, l would’ve been very lucky if l had a teacher like her
@chuchubag
August 26, 2025 at 5:36 am
TW: Self.H.
I felt it in my soul when she talked about all the different hats you’re forced to wear as a teacher! I remember during my first year of teaching, I had a student accidentally stab his friend in the eye. I had to rush him to the clinic, his eyes bleeding, but thankfully no permanent damage was done. Then in that same afternoon, in one of my middle school classes, I had a kid just suddenly start slashing her… you know… and her classmates were so calm and casually told me that it’s a common occurrence. I had someone call the nurse and the counselor while I accompanied her, and we just sat in silence outside the room, because I was so afraid that anything I say might exacerbate the issue. These are things that just catch you off-guard and you adapt.
That’s not even counting how you’re also essentially a service worker when dealing with parents, a continuous learner, sometimes a gofer for higher ups, an events planner, a tour guide on class trips, etc. etc. It was a rewarding profession for sure, and the joy of seeing your students succeed in the things they do is one of the best feeling ever, but you really need to have a passion for it, love for the job, and a great mental to deal with the toll on you. Mad respect to teachers like her who stayed long in the job and didn’t become jaded!
@harane
August 26, 2025 at 7:07 am
i’m gonna miss this video when i click off. phenomenal episode, thank you wired for giving ms. fox the opportunity to be on the show! ♥♥
@zowwwiie
August 26, 2025 at 11:09 am
I loved listening to her though my only issue is the phones – I think phones shouldn’t be used in school but with the school shootings we’ve had, I feel like students should have their phones to call police, family, loved ones and so on. We should not cut students contact with their family or loved ones.
@jolie7neige
August 26, 2025 at 5:09 pm
I agree with you. It would be better to teach the students to have correct phone usage etiquette. Also, I have heard many kids get burner or dummy phones to hand over and secretly keep their devices on them anyway.
@benandjerrys9147
August 26, 2025 at 11:39 am
im so deadass my cat has eaten my homework before
@bipolit
August 26, 2025 at 12:48 pm
What a coward
@masqueradinglampshade4369
August 26, 2025 at 1:00 pm
It’s clear she’s a fan of Boston University athletics by what she says at 15:49
@zakuga
August 26, 2025 at 1:14 pm
How horrible to encourage kids to use AI.
@noahajrfan7598
August 26, 2025 at 2:07 pm
Your school doesn’t have Family Consumer Science classes?
Also I think the apple thing might have to do with the Bible as the apple is the fruit of knowledge
@MarkJrReacts
August 26, 2025 at 3:13 pm
I’m gonna be honest, if I had teachers like her in high school, i probably wouldn’t have dropped out of HS, and gotten my GED.
This is the kind of teacher, that genuinely understands what it means to be in charge of the education and social well-being of teenagers.
@wesman422
August 26, 2025 at 3:17 pm
As a teacher, I’m terrified to read these comments!
@deaalexandris
August 26, 2025 at 3:43 pm
Lol. I was bullied all throughout school and there wasn’t a single time the teachers around me didn’t know it.
Only 1 of the many teachers I had bothered to intervene. Just because they aren’t doing it in front of you doesn’t mean it’s not happening in front of your coworkers.
@stynkanator
August 26, 2025 at 4:30 pm
I’m disappointed she didn’t mention how awful parents are.
@furiouspicklelol
August 26, 2025 at 4:46 pm
Should’ve gotten another teacher
@SeraEMS
August 26, 2025 at 5:31 pm
The problem i have with cell phones, is genuine emergencies which is something to worry about nowadays in American schools. I think they should replace that with having access to the equivalent of burner phone. Essentially can only make phone calls. Someone could even take that a step further and monetize a type of phone that can do NOTHING else but make emergency calls to family and 911. I think a version of this exists but its geared to kids who want phones for this reason and parents dont want them having access to social media. But burner type phones could be a solution for people that are like i was in high school. I disobeyed the rule for the sole purpose of being able to make emergency communication if the need arose. F*ck the rules at that point, if theres a school shooter or my kids insulin pump is low. Id rather them be able to contact me. The only thing i agree with is teenagers as a whole have issues with being chronically online. My “solution” is 2 birds 1 stone
@psuvik
August 26, 2025 at 7:38 pm
35:00 Her answer to, ” What Should a High Schooler be Studying now?” This whole answer is on point.
Question Authority and It’s Not* always about learning the curriculum of the topic.
This teacher really gets it’s. 👏 👏 👏
@smacdonald08
August 26, 2025 at 7:50 pm
oh she was one of the “nice teachers”
@PigeonPlaysRoblox
August 26, 2025 at 8:06 pm
ai is not a answer it is a tool
@ivyindigovlogs5312
August 26, 2025 at 9:26 pm
My teachers saw/watched me be face to face verbal and physical get bullied. They did nothing. They SAW it, they only stepped in, when I defended myself by blocking their hand with my metal bottle, suddenly I was the problem.
@rothanarae
August 26, 2025 at 9:30 pm
She is amazing. If only every teacher were like her. If only every person were as kind.
@Hexagoras
August 26, 2025 at 9:38 pm
24:40 This made me spit my drink, so funny
@vivid3605
August 26, 2025 at 10:03 pm
I totally love you! I wish you were my math teacher. For some reason, math teachers in my day weren’t so cool. There were more likely grumpy calculators. 😂 YOU gave great advice. Sending this to a teacher friend
@sylvia_joy_
August 26, 2025 at 10:07 pm
Would be nice to get a few teachers to respond to the same prompts and see if responses are similar or not. I used to teach math and like data analysis 😁
@hayesromanosky712
August 26, 2025 at 10:32 pm
my school has a required personal finance class
@Sophiliatea
August 27, 2025 at 12:36 am
0:33 the question we were all waiting for
@PrunusNigra5586
August 27, 2025 at 1:23 am
Wish she was my Teacher!! She’s funny but logical and very creative.
Her class is blessed to have her.🤩
@arjunvadrevu
August 27, 2025 at 2:42 am
It’s interesting… if you believe that every student should learn at their own pace and meet academic targets when they are ready, what’s the purpose of comparing them to everyone else in their age group by grading on a curve?
@clemente3966
August 27, 2025 at 6:56 am
For many things she’s 100% correct, but my god is she close-minded about phones and being online!
And, mind you, she’s not off the hook by saying that it’s her fault if AI can do the homework she assigns, or if she allows the use of AI in class to check -which btw, if she’s taking phones away at the start of class and there’s no computer in her classroom, how are the students supposed to be using AI to check the answers?
Because how would a student be able to contact a member of their family if THEY need to do it, or if a member of their family needs to directly contact them, urgently? And no, I’m not allowing calling the school to pass on the message, it can be something private and urgent.
Then, there’s the question of bullying. She says that nowadays, bullying is done online, but wake up! Just because it *also* happens online doesn’t mean that it can’t happen offline at school either! And what then? She didn’t answer for that part.
No one is perfect, and for her, the flaw is showing much.
@jenniferrogers2981
August 27, 2025 at 8:12 am
I was with you until you started lying about bullying and it not happening where you can see it at school.
That is a lie.
@rsbandbj1
August 27, 2025 at 8:29 am
My niece’s 1st grade teacher, was the my sister’s 3rd grade teacher. It was an interesting though for the teacher that she has been working for so long.
@pjemje
August 27, 2025 at 8:49 am
6:05 I agree with her here. Getting good grades just means you understand how to play the game. It means you’ve learned to limit yourself to ONLY think within the boundaries of what you were taught. You may come to very different, more nuanced answers had you done your own research beyond school books. If something genuinely interests you, you might just end up doing that and failing your tests. You may know “too much” and find the flaws in the school’s test questions. Good grades = good loan worker / office worker who takes no initiative.
@DrAngelKins
August 27, 2025 at 9:19 am
Tbh, phone ban in school is good depending on safety protocols (they must be strict to prevent ANY SHOOTINGS, BOMB THREATS, OR FIGHTS, and not the so-called “no tolerance policy”). I have had enough of students getting bullied because of their habits or styles… and you can already see the issue of bullying on social media.
@JorgeTorresH
August 27, 2025 at 10:33 am
6:44 this part made me smile and brought tears to my eyes, thinking about those really good teachers I had. Imagine all the teachers out there changing lives with a similarly beautiful attitude and approach. Teachers rock!!
@AbelONuallain
August 27, 2025 at 12:33 pm
How would we even communicate or hang out after school lol. Last I checked we don’t have house phones
@lyannastarkweather
August 27, 2025 at 5:01 pm
My opinion on phones in school has shifted significantly in the last year or so. I graduated in 2014. My classmates and I were just starting to get smartphones for the first time and even then we were constantly trying to text each other. I had no idea how much worse it’s gotten with social media.
@brendaking2362
August 27, 2025 at 5:18 pm
6:44 I was the highschooler who asked my math teacher “what am I going to use this for?” Now, I’m an accountant.
@brennan508
August 27, 2025 at 6:29 pm
As a teacher, the only thing I take umbrage with here is learning styles. Time and time again, research has proven that learning styles are a myth. There is no such thing as a visual or auditory or kinesthetic learner. Research has shown that learning according to your “learning style” does not increase understanding, retention, etc. Now, you can have a preference, sure. But that does not mean that your “preference” is more effective. Additionally, it is important that we don’t mistake anecdotal evidence as empirical. That also does not mean that my class isn’t fun or enjoyable either, and it doesn’t mean that my students don’t learn. But we have got to dispel the learning style myth eventually.
@mackgutierrez1942
August 27, 2025 at 6:51 pm
In a country where students fear getting gunned down, no phones should not be banned.
@deezombiedude
August 27, 2025 at 8:04 pm
2:33 Smart, socially awkward, and obsessed. Yep, teachers can be nerds.. her too. Speaking as someone teaching at university 😝
@bogdanjamal1703
August 27, 2025 at 8:11 pm
She is so great. Most teachers are not like her, or so it was when I was in school.
@KhanhNguyen-hd7ws
August 27, 2025 at 8:27 pm
No phones? Yeah when there’s an active shooter tell me how that pan out
@BlankSplice
August 27, 2025 at 9:01 pm
4:19 “We should have a class like that.”
WELL IN THE STATE OF LOUISIANA…
@SSJKenpachiZaraki
August 27, 2025 at 9:27 pm
13:16 maybe we need a **School Administrator Answers School Administrator Questions** video.
@palyername
August 27, 2025 at 9:34 pm
I wish I’d had more teachers like her. I did have several wonderful teachers that I still think about 10-20 years after having been in their class and they were probably among the most supportive adults in my life while I was growing up. They made me feel seen without making it a spectacle for the whole class, they made me feel capable and competent, and they respected my intelligence and my ability to think independently. The only thing I’d push back on here is commenting on a habitually late student being on time – the number one way to make me never try to do something again has always been to point it out as abnormal behavior, especially when it’s something I finally did right (and ESPECIALLY when I was a teenager). Privately giving positive feedback/acknowledging the effort is fine, though, and interactions like that are what made me feel safe with my favorite teachers.
@AlexDeVries0
August 27, 2025 at 10:58 pm
Wish I had more teachers like her growing up. She seems like a great teacher
@phillipshukites6391
August 27, 2025 at 11:08 pm
This woman is amazing. I could have listened to her for a longer time for sure
@CaptHayfever
August 28, 2025 at 12:08 am
Schools _do_ teach the skills it takes to do taxes: reading (instructions) and decimal arithmetic. The only other thing to teach would be the forms, but the forms change almost every year, so by the time current students are in the workforce filing tax returns, they’ll be different anyway.
Generative AI is inherently a problem because of its horrific ethical issues, its horrific environmental effects, its horrific use in deepfake propaganda, & its documented horrific deterioration of mental health. Do not refine those algorithms by using them _at all._
The SAT is _not_ supposed to test how well you’ll achieve in the future in college; it’s supposed to test how prepared you are for _entry level_ college courses. (It doesn’t, because standardized tests are educationally invalid, but at least get the STATED purpose right.)
I only show movies when I have an education-related reason. And I have to justify its value with my admin.
I don’t mind keeping the door open when I’m helping a kid. What I mind is people who don’t know anything about what schools are like making up wild conspiracy theories about what we’re doing there.
Bullying still happens in person, but the bullies are (usually) smart enough to make sure the teachers aren’t looking.
@CaptHayfever
August 28, 2025 at 1:04 pm
“Everything you’re learning, you’re never gonna use again” isn’t true. They’re gonna use SOME of it. We just don’t know WHICH parts yet.
If you do another Teacher Support, please bring in another teacher.
@carinbarbanel9356
August 28, 2025 at 6:44 am
Speaking as a mom of three, I’m so glad she wasn’t my kid’s teacher. O e majored in math, one physics, one is in med school
@amisterblah
August 28, 2025 at 8:56 am
Second question I disagree with (at least as far as the US). While, yes, it’s beneficial for students to be in an environment where they can actually pay attention and learn, the US’s school shooting problem makes having a phone on your person a necessity in a life or death situation
@donotenter4842
August 28, 2025 at 8:56 am
She is def an AI. Math teachers always sound like army sergeants and does not have fun in their vocabulary. And most of all math teachers always want GRADES GRADES GRADES….She is not all that-
@48boltz15
August 28, 2025 at 1:58 pm
You’re one of the most amazing people that I’ve ever heard speak. Can you please run for president? I promise to vote for you.🥺❤❤
@joeymosteller6787
August 28, 2025 at 3:42 pm
I wanted to watch this video but I had to put my phone up before Mrs Fox caught me looking at it
@normanilyrics1311
August 28, 2025 at 4:09 pm
I wish they would take my child’s phone off his or her body. My child will be more than enough disciplined not to take it out at the wrong times. But to completely snatch these childrens’ phones when we live in a country where the guns are more important than lives is crazy
@MadeleineUrbanik
August 28, 2025 at 5:26 pm
I’ve had bullying happen to me, reported it to several teachers, and they decided to believe my bully’s point of view instead. The truth is, most teachers don’t give a crap. Counselors don’t care. They think ignorance is the cure when dealing with sociopaths.
@Kennystudytool
August 28, 2025 at 5:39 pm
I wish she’d be my mum….
@OrangeYouSuspicious
August 28, 2025 at 6:05 pm
Ok, I love this lady!!! ❤
@EldritchMushroom
August 28, 2025 at 8:10 pm
Cyberbullying is a thing, but I wouldn’t say it’s the most common. I’m a high school student, and I’ve seen plenty of verbal and physical bullying at my middle and high schools. I was the victim of verbal and physical bullying, and after escaping it years ago I know it whenever I see it. I told the teachers what happened to me and my bullies never got any repercussions. I’ve also heard of many fights at my schools where the person defending themselves got the same exact punishment as the person who attacked them. So there’s definitely a lot of it happening in broad daylight that gets ignored by the adults in charge.
@ninottorracastanyes8996
August 28, 2025 at 8:10 pm
“Bullying is common because of phones” lol okay then I guess that ten years ago phones didn’t exist.
@gingersnap5961
August 28, 2025 at 8:46 pm
Protect her at all cost, I would’ve loved to have her as a teacher when I was in school. She’s so different than the teachers I had
@thelazylynx9803
August 28, 2025 at 9:01 pm
You had me until the pro ai stuff. You absolutely should not use ai in the class, not just because it answers stuff for the students without their effort, but it’s just generally horrible for the environment because of the power the servers require to run. Screw ai!
@Wat3r_L1ly
September 21, 2025 at 5:09 am
Lowkey want her students reactions to this
@gossamer999
September 21, 2025 at 11:12 am
Susie is a mood. Girl is living life at her own pace. Absolute queen.
@Pekuvi
September 21, 2025 at 1:23 pm
I seldom post comments in YouTube. I have no idea how Ms. Fox was selected for this but she’s an AMAZING ambassador for what good teachers should be. In my opinion, she would be great at mentoring other teachers on growth mindset, humility and relatability.
Cheers,
@christinegen3236
September 22, 2025 at 12:49 pm
If I had you as a math teacher I would’ve probably passed a lot better then a C- . I had a math teacher BOTH years that spoke in a mono tone and was the most boring and rude teacher I ever had. He once accused my friend of recording him bc her phone was sticking out her pocket…. Off .. and also sent a kid to the office for “gang affiliation” bc he had his wallet attached to a chain on his pants loop .. 😅 he shouldn’t have been a teacher tbh. And he still works at my old high school smh 😢
@ravenm6443
September 22, 2025 at 3:12 pm
31:29 I always did better in summer school because it was more relaxed and had a later start time. It didn’t feel so suffocating.
@MJFish
September 22, 2025 at 3:29 pm
I don’t agree that all teachers are nerds. (Fellow teacher here.) Many of my colleagues are former “struggling students” that wanted other students to struggle less than they did.
@MJFish
September 22, 2025 at 3:33 pm
Kids don’t have computers in the class anymore? Maybe not in your class, and if that’s the case, I seriously applaud you and your admin! My kids have an online math curriculum. They have to use their computers for math. And almost every core class.
@MJFish
September 22, 2025 at 3:41 pm
I actually think they were asking about creating a curriculum. Math has a mandated curriculum, but other subjects do not. It sounds like that person is new to homeschooling and doesn’t realize that some of the curricula are written for you. But maybe she meant pedagogy!
@MJFish
September 22, 2025 at 3:49 pm
There is in-person bullying all the time. ALL the time.
@MJFish
September 22, 2025 at 3:52 pm
OH MY GOSH. If there is a school shooting, HOW is the cell phone going to help? It isn’t. If they all have the opportunity to call/text, the lines will be overloaded and no one will get through. If they are able to get away, THAT is what their focus will be. Calling mom or dad is NOT going to help them in that situation. It might actually get them killed. It is a false sense of security for you as the parent.
@Drum7239vt
September 22, 2025 at 9:21 pm
1:04 um no as a 8th grader I hate this new rule 😂
@2005VolksWagenbeetle
September 23, 2025 at 9:39 pm
We were not even allowed to even bring our phones to school or they would be confiscated for a week even if the parent asked for it 💔
@mariafoster1569
September 22, 2025 at 9:39 pm
I was bullied face to face and beaten up. The teachers saw what was happening and did nothing. It was every day for a whole term until I was forced to move schools
@ThatOneHarry
September 22, 2025 at 10:01 pm
14:05 my history teaching uses AI to create slides and grade papers
@time932
September 23, 2025 at 2:25 am
12:02 This. Your students sure are lucky to have such an empathetic teacher.
@sooziqusie
September 23, 2025 at 9:01 am
I love, love, love this woman, and I wish all teachers could be like her. Her students must adore her!! ❤❤❤
@joshkadosh5636
September 23, 2025 at 9:52 am
She’s amaIng, i would have loved to have her as a teacher in high school!!!
@cutsiepartyrituals
September 23, 2025 at 10:28 am
after watching this i realize just how passionate some of my teachers are compared to others, im very grateful for those teachers!
@nonamesleft136
September 23, 2025 at 12:06 pm
Paid peanuts? Maybe in your region, but definitely not here. Teachers definitely break six figures, AND get benefits and summers off. Not disparaging the profession, but it was hard watching the teacher’s union demand raises during the recession while I, the local journalist covering the board meeting, had been stuck on the same tiny salary for years.
@DavidPat
September 23, 2025 at 12:48 pm
There’s no chance that teachers know how to do taxes. 😅
@azloii9781
September 23, 2025 at 2:40 pm
She basically confirms in her answer that bullying won’t stop and she is probably not going to do anything about it either :/ very disappointing
@skimpyrooster
September 23, 2025 at 4:19 pm
When I was young I had a lot more respect for a teacher that could admit when they didn’t know something or that they were wrong and use it as a learning experience. We always knew when they started preaching bs acting like they knew something and then wouldn’t admit it.
@p00pjeezusfartswag
September 23, 2025 at 4:46 pm
ahh! she reminds me of my high school advanced algebra teacher!! this is the kind of teacher mindset we need today
@tedhand6237
September 23, 2025 at 6:08 pm
The reply about bullying is preposterous. ive been subbing for 15 years and see and report plenty of bullying. It continues because there are no meaningful consequences. I can count on one hand the number of times there has been any followup to one of ny reports.
@phageling9949
September 23, 2025 at 6:48 pm
3:50 because your parents should be teaching you that. School is supposed to prepare you for careers more than anything.
It is the responsibility of the parents to ensure their kid is ready for the real world and I wish we could hold parents responsible if they aren’t prepping their kids.
I mean, teach you how to clean?!? Really!?!?!
@aysenxia7774
September 23, 2025 at 7:57 pm
Her claim about bullying being mostly online only is simply ridiculous. It always existed even before cell phones and social media consumed every kid’s mind. Even back then it was always a ‘no tolerance’ policy. Nothing was ever done about all the in person bullying that was done when kids passed each other between classes. I really don’t understand how teachers still think otherwise.
@lilowilliams9455
September 24, 2025 at 8:59 am
It was like going to school in the 80s and then there was a shooting and then it wasn’t like going to school in the 80s
@L_tuna
September 25, 2025 at 2:33 pm
True, imagine being abducted and gone missing. That was more rampant during the 80’s.
@eliannyi
September 24, 2025 at 7:43 pm
In my school in CT we do actually have a career exploration class for freshman year and the next three years you have a class that’s about the career you chose! 18:30
@ej2099
September 24, 2025 at 8:03 pm
What a great teacher. I had good teachers too but man I’m jealous of her students.
@Triforce1018
September 24, 2025 at 8:07 pm
29:14 Shoutout for including nonbinary there
@danpanther
September 25, 2025 at 2:12 am
Taking a phone is never permissible, it’s not your property, hands off!
@Solanauniverse
September 25, 2025 at 7:08 am
I freaking love this woman! Amazing teacher and amazing human!
@Vanessita411
September 25, 2025 at 1:08 pm
I wish I had her as a teacher. She’s great. You can tell she is passionate about teaching and genuinely loves her students. ❤
@imike3
September 25, 2025 at 4:31 pm
I appreciate and respect her honesty and wisdom. I went into this video skeptical of what answers would be given, but I’m pleasantly surprised. Would have loved to have her as a teacher. She is very down to earth, analytical, and empathetic.
@Foggen
September 25, 2025 at 4:45 pm
Curves are valid in high-rigor environments where it’s not expected that students be able to answer every question and where the class itself is meant to weed out students who can’t perform at a high level. So if the highest grade in an exam is a 60 with an understanding that that person did well, that exam needs to be curved so that it’s fair for *anyone*. In high school the expectation is that the tests be fair as written, such that an 80% B is the expectation for a decent student. Downward curves are never fair because they penalize students who did well, and amplify the statistical noise of individual deductions.