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Caitlin 🚗 🧀 Driscoll
@TeacherOnTopic
Half dad on my father's side. Unionized. Personal account, tweets are my own views. I teach little kids and coach big ones.
Ohio, USA
Joined November 2013
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    Caitlin 🚗 🧀 Driscoll
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    Aug 19, 2022
    First day of school with students was today. My day went somewhat off the rails before I even left the house. I was zipping my backpack, getting ready to leave so I would be at work five minutes early, when there was an urgent pounding on the door.
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    Caitlin 🚗 🧀 Driscoll
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    Jan 9, 2025
    Today I told the "why is six afraid of seven" joke to a class of first graders who had either never heard it, or just suddenly understood it. Three kids literally fell out of their chairs and rolled on the floor. Apex moment, never topping it.
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    Caitlin 🚗 🧀 Driscoll
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    Jul 5, 2022
    Me: So my husband -- First grader: You have a husband? Me: I do, the whole time you've known me. First grader: Oh. I always thought you were feral. Me: Er, do you mean 'single'? First grader: Whatever the word is that you use for stray cats. 🙀
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    Caitlin 🚗 🧀 Driscoll
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    Jan 27, 2023
    The best baby age is when they say "baby" when they see another baby as though they themselves are not in fact also a baby.
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    Caitlin 🚗 🧀 Driscoll
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    Oct 12, 2023
    Today I was helping a kindergarten teacher assess whether students could count to 20. One student told me she could count "really high" so I said "well then we'd better get comfortable." She sat me on the floor and then laid down on my lap like a cat and counted up to 112.
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    Caitlin 🚗 🧀 Driscoll
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    Sep 8, 2023
    Two of my nephews call me Potatochip. One of them started kindergarten last week. He was telling me a story from school. "Potatochip! Today in kindergarten - " My sister said, "You know, Aunt Caitlin TEACHES kindergarten." Nephew said, "Sorry. MISS Potatochip..."
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    Caitlin 🚗 🧀 Driscoll
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    Sep 28, 2022
    Today after I left a classroom, a kindergartener chased me down the hall, saying, "You forgot something!" As a traveling teacher, I do forget things sometimes, so I stopped and turned around. Kindergartener ran up, gave me a hug, said, "There you go!" and ran back to his room.
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    Caitlin 🚗 🧀 Driscoll
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    Sep 14, 2024
    Firefighters do hardcore outreach to young kids in communities because kids may need to be explicitly taught that firefighters/firetrucks are not scary. In a fire, many kids go into "hide" mode, and gear-wearing firefighters don't resembly people to them
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    emily may
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    Sep 14, 2024
    just took my children to "touch a truck" in a grocery store parking lot and there was a city firetruck, concrete truck, garbage truck, and it was a *dream.* the firefighters played with my three year old for an hour 😂 NOT ALL HEROES WEAR CAPES.
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    Caitlin 🚗 🧀 Driscoll
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    Oct 12, 2023
    Today a kindergartener walking in a line told me, "Good job drinking water!" when he saw me drink water. The line kept moving and every kid after him echoed a similar comment. "It's healthy to drink water!" "It's important to stay high-dated!" And so on.
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    Caitlin 🚗 🧀 Driscoll
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    May 7, 2021
    Today a first grader told me that she doesn't need to learn what I'm teaching because she wants to be a pineapple when she grows up.
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    Caitlin 🚗 🧀 Driscoll
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    Jan 9, 2025
    Replying to @TeacherOnTopic
    For folks who never heard the joke before: Why was six afraid of seven? Because seven eight nine! (It sounds like seven ATE nine.)
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    Caitlin 🚗 🧀 Driscoll
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    Oct 12, 2023
    Replying to @CodingWCulture
    She actually might have gone higher but a classmate interrupted to say, "I bet you could count to a billion!" She accidentally said 130 instead of 113 and started skip-counting by tens! Missed the moon but still a 🌟
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    Caitlin 🚗 🧀 Driscoll
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    Jun 10, 2024
    What's the best/worst non-school place you've used your teacher voice. I once very firmly told a chainsaw maniac on the haunted hayride "no thank you, we are all quite scared enough already" and he left
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    Jay Wamsted
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    Jun 10, 2024
    The hardest part about being a teacher is remembering that you can’t just correct any random kid doing the wrong thing out in public School = Fine Some Place = Weird Old Man
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    Caitlin 🚗 🧀 Driscoll
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    Jan 9, 2025
    Replying to @mrs_g_rider
    The LIGHT in their EYES when it DAWNED on them. I will spend the rest of my career chasing this feeling.
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