What It's Really Like: Outrageous Stories from Teachers Around the Country

by Jane Morris

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Education. Nonfiction. HTML: 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. .… (more)

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A collection of short stories, lists, email snippets and more that talk about "what it's really like" to be a teacher. Honestly, I hated this book. With few exceptions, the teachers complaining about how hard the job is sounded like jerks. More, Morris just comes across horribly - entitled and pretentious. There's irony in the fact that she revels in calling out students incorrectly turning a phrase but then manages to botch a phrase herself - and I'm assuming she had proofreaders. (

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Sean191 | Feb 23, 2023 |

I received an ARC copy from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review

Teachers are definitely the unsung heroes we don't deserve. Reading this book I laughed hysterically, sobbed, became enraged (all of it sometimes within 2 pages). I think this book is necessary. Jane Morris offers an inside perspective of what it is to be a teacher today, with tremendous obligations and pressures from administration, parents, and students while receiving little recognition or compensation. With What It's Really Like, Morris shows us the reality of being a teacher without the need of becoming preachy or standing on a soapbox; she does it with the most infallible of weapons: humor.

GrettelTBR | Nov 15, 2022 |

Shocking, encouraging, mystifying, frightening, horrifying. All words that can be used to describe this book. Chock full of short stories and observations on teaching. I thought that I had seen a lot in my own career, but holy smokes, teaching is something else! After reading this, I have a whole new level of respect for teachers. Out-of-control students, demanding or uncaring parents, and little to no support from administration; it's all in here. I honestly do not know how teachers can keep their sanity, much less their jobs. A really good read! I have already recommended this book to several teaching friends. (

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1Randal | Jun 12, 2020 |

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Education. Nonfiction. HTML:

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.

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