Teachers of Reddit, what moment in class made you worry about the future of this world?

So I've only taught a couple of classes so far but I'll be a full fledged teacher in about a year's time. Even without being a fulltime teacher some highlights include:

  1. Students calling me mom, I'm a man, in my 20s. This was in highschool.

  2. I had a student trying to fill out a worksheet in crayon. Apparently they had been doing this all day because they didn't have a pencil and didn't think to ask someone for one.

  3. When going over the U.S. Presidents, one student asked why George Washington was elected so late when the country was founded almost 500 years ago. I have no idea where he got this information.

  4. One student called me a lying lib-tard because I was explaining the horrors of enslavement in the Americas and Caribbean.

Beside all of this I still am excited to make this my full time career.

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