> why is everyone so stressed bout everything these days?

Seriously? Ongoing civil strife driven by grifters claiming that an election was "stolen" while offering no proof? A global pandemic? Historic levels of attacks on women, minorities, and LGBTQ+ people? An economy that is suffering from serious inflation for the first time in decades, leading to insecure employment? Long term damage from suffering from COVID? Culture wars being drummed up to a fever pitch by the right?

A better question is "Why AREN'T people more stressed, upset, and snappish?"

You’re the one not reading. School districts, shared budget, sport focus, no money for preschools in general.

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100% this is the best plan.

Go to every thrift store in the area and buy them all. Even write her name on the bottom of all of them. Slowly increase the schools population of cups. Leave them laying around random places until administrators start telling her to not leave her cups lying around.

Slightly misspell it though just to tweak her nose.

We have a saying in the automotive sector.

" If you can't do, teach. "

This other teacher is definitely going to make trouble for you, by telling her side behind your back, and probably by complaining to an administrator. People like this thrive on rumormongering and "justified" bullying.

Does nobody here read shit anymore?

PRESCHOOL!

Are 👏 you 👏 doing 👏 that 👏 for 👏preschool 👏 aswell 👏 questionmark 👏

DO YOU REALLY TAKE PRESCHOOL SPORTS SERIOUSLY BECAUSE IT INCREASES FUNDING OF PRESCHOOLS???

I would love some malicious compliance. Any links or pictures of the cups? I would love to send a couple dozen cups to the schools address lol

Yeah yeah, i also meant him to call the police imo

Teachers have to buy classroom supplies?

Double down and write her name in sharpie on the new ones as well. Try to do it exactly the same as she did so that she thinks it was, in fact, her that wrote on all these new cups.

I agree but that’s not what I meant. This is definitely something you should go to the police for. Not something you should just brush off; It’s really fucked up.

For a teacher, you would think she would have more logical reasoning skills and the basic ability to count how many cups she has

I sure hope she's not a math teacher..

Did you ask her?

This. Buy tons of them. Use nothing but these cups.

Then ask her to stop her cups from mating - They're starting to cover the floor. "I would stop putting them there but I can't possibly be buying them, so it couldn't be me. They're your cups and only your cups."

Or, better yet, gift a set to every class. Watch her implode when EVERY class has "her cups."

I'm more shocked that you have to go and buy basic things like cups for your class yourself ?!? WTF?

If this actually happened recently, you probably want to talk to your school administrator about this before she does, just to make sure that they get the right facts, and to make sure that they know what’s going on.

There’s an old saying that you should never attribute to malice what stupidity can explain, but the flip side is advanced enough stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.

Going to the administrator and mentioning it will help if she goes on the warpath. Because trust me, she’ll show the names in the cups as proof and leave out the whole she wrote them on afterwards part…

Some of the dumbest people I have known in life are teachers.

Most public schools in the US are all one big school district. Like the state budget is the same for all of them. Then it's divided up by counties, then cities and towns. The state won't allocate much budget to a preschool, and the schools they give most of the budget to spend it on sports programs. Most teachers in public schools are expected to buy their own classroom supplies. Our schools are criminally underfunded and the leadership is corrupt. If the budget were increased it'd still probably just be funneled into the sports programs. New uniforms, equipment, remodeling the gym, football field, etc.

I mean we are adults. You shouldnt react like this or fall into depression because of something so insignificant.

Lol don’t worry, our school really does have a lot of cups available. They provide paper and plastic options, which I choose not to use. I also get reimbursed for anything I buy, but there is a budget. I can afford the cups and more, which is why this is so particularly stupid.

That’s why it’s so dumb right… to clarify, I get reimbursed for these things, and can easily buy more. Our school provides plastic and paper options, but we’ve chosen to be more environmentally aware in my classroom. We use silverware, ceramic plates, etc. Things break from time to time, but the children learn to be careful and can see natural consequence.

>preschool

but its preschool, no? Or is the preschool in the US going to an age beyond 6 years? H ere in germany preschool is before 1. class elementary school and you enter elementary at age 6.

Who takes preschool sports serious?