What It's Really Like

From the bestselling author of Teacher Misery comes a collection of unbelievable stories from teachers all over America. If you want to know what it's really like to be a teacher in 2020, this book will give you the full picture. In this book you'll find a bit of everything, including the usual helicopter parents and awful admin, horrendous student behavior with no consequences, crazy-ass parents and their insane requests; but you'll also find weirdly entertaining stories about a little kid with a foot fetish, a group of teachers chasing a naked kid around the school parking lot, and two pregnant sisters fighting over the same baby daddy in the hallway. There's plenty of gross stuff, like all the strange places kids put their poop and dirty maxi pads, a Barbie in a butthole, and kids who masturbate in class and hump desks. But there's also a sprinkling of tales that will break your heart and a few that will give you the warm and fuzzies. This book is entertaining, shocking, heartwarming, sad, gross, and sometimes inspiring because that is what teaching is really like.