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[Olivencia]

Can't say I ever have but I came real close once.

[Goon-Yang]

If you fall alseep, you mustn't be much of a teacher. I pity your students.

[Olivencia]

I admit I'm not a "real" teacher. I just fake it.
The reason it almost happened once was I was working at a school who used to do "room inspections" (student dorms) at 11pm or later at night. Had a Senior girls PE class that came to class totally wiped out the next day. So I just took them all to my classroom and let them sleep. What prevented me from sleeping too was people would say I slept with them and I would have to go about explaining what happened.

[Goon-Yang]

So instead of teaching you let all your students sleep. Nice.

I still pity your students.

[kinerry]

you're a good teacher

I'd kill myself if I went through the crap they do

[Olivencia]

It is not very healthy at all to do physical exercise when one is that physically exhausted....and in this case through no fault of their own.
So Goon-Yang the only thing for you to pity is your stupidity. Take your cavalierism and shove it!

[hellofaniceguy]

I fall asleep every single day in class! Soon as class lets out and I have an hour or so between classes....I snooze!

[litebear]

[Olivencia]

Room inspections sometimes passed midnight and if they "fail" they have the wonderful punishment of doing exercise (that ought to constitute their PE class). School started at 7:50am and got out at 5pm - required (extra) ESL class for everybody at 7pm. Believe me there were other things that would add to the fatigue. The school advertised their meals as "buffet" but the students were told they could only get one serving and it was a pitifully small one at that. They allowed the teachers to take as much as they wanted so I would go up and secretly give my food to as many students as I could. Sometimes when I went out at night I would stop by and pick up some food for my students (out of my own wallet). One time they tried telling me in the cafeteria that I am only allowed to come up once. I went up a second time and just took as much as I wanted. Had an argument with the boss about it and I told her that if you advertise to everyone at the school that it is a buffet when it really isn't that is wrong. Her response? Well it's not really a buffet but it's "a buffet style"

[Mr. Pink]

Seriously, if you are in a position where you are close to sleeping, you aren't teaching.

If the topic was rephrased, I could say I almost fell asleep while proctoring an examination. It was hours long and too damn quiet for me. My head was nodding.

I've known Korean teachers that did take the desk face plant for a few minutes in such cases.

[Olivencia]

I'm teaching how to fight back against the stupidity that was going on. Oh yeah...the Philippines is very hot...the school decided to shut down all AC during the night (of course without telling us) so I woke up at 2am with hot air blowing from the vent. No fans in the room, no screens on the windows...nice.
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You people weren't there and didn't experience it...so no matter what you say it's all just a bunch of garbage. So typical on Dave's - all these "teachers" try to analyze every possible jerk-off excuse as to why you should just teach and do things right.

[djsmnc]

[Olivencia]

Thanks man.

When I saw those looks of sincere appreciation from my students (not the "we just got away with something" kind) I felt both good and bad. Good because I know I alleviated alot of the turmoil and junk they went through but bad because it should have never come to this.

[frankly speaking]

twice it has happened to me.

First time I was extremely ill. I had a high fever, vomiting and all around exhaustion. I was still forced to work. It was about 5:45 PM and almost the end of my shift. I could barely stand and kept dozing off while students read a very boring story in monotone. I never actually fell asleep but nodding off for a few seconds was bad enough.

The next time was a few years back. It was over 104 degrees in the classroom and the school's air conditioner broke down. Again we were reading a very boring story in monotone. I kept dozing off as were most of the students. So I had everyone stand up, and we did some exercises to keep our blood pumping to the brain. After a few minutes everyone started dozing off again, so we played the sleeping game. Everyone pretended to sleep for about 20 seconds. That allowed me enough time to close my eyes and get strength to finish the lesson. I went out and bought some ice cold bottled water for the next class.

[Sadebugo1]