Would I get fired for this?

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I started my first day at a new district yesterday and the day was HORRIBLE. The other district I worked at was great and had such respectful students but the students at this district were extremely difficult to handle and I was not used to that. The entire time I had to make sure they behaved. If I was to go up to the board and start teaching then they would start misbehaving or start talking with their friends across the classroom while I am teaching and would just mock me if I asked them to be quiet. I even started having students reading the passage that I was supposed to read to them because I knew if I took my eye off them for a second to read the passage they would start acting crazy and talking over me but these students were barely able to read and pronounce the words (they were in 6th grade so I genuinely thought they would know how too). It took them a while to even read the passage and they were just making fun of each other for not being able to pronounce the words while people were trying to read.

After that they had to work with a partner and answer questions and I had to sit at the back table and help the students who needed extra help. When I was with the students in the back table the other students were being mean to each other and I didn't even notice that 2 kids were having an argument (since I was in back helping a few students) until one kid came up to me and told me a student was crying. Another student even asked me if she could call her mom to pick her up because she felt like crying because she felt like students were being really mean that day and that they were just acting like that cause there was a sub.

The only times I didn't have any behavior issues was when they were working on iReady because I would walk around and give jolly ranchers or tickets to the good students . If I was too busy to walk around give rewards than they would use that as an opportunity to act crazy.

After lunch I tried to go over math with them and they were also having conversations across the class and just laughing when i told them to be quiet again. A student told me that their teacher sends students outside if they don't behave so I sent a disruptive student outside and made them write "I will not disrupt my class 50 times" so they would stop and told the class that I will start sending students outside to do that if they continue acting the way they were. That worked for a while but after that students thought it would be funny to try to get their friends in trouble so they can watch their friend go outside and it was just more of a disaster. I genuinely couldn't handle it I had to call admin and admin did talk to them and it helped a lot but I was just so overwhelmed and stressed with how chaotic everything was I wasn't even sure if i taught them everything correctly and felt like I was being a bit passive aggressive to the students towards the end of the day (I didn't yell or call them names but I felt like my tone was bit rude to them.)

It did seem like they were trying to get me upset tho because when I first got there a student asked me if I ever yelled at a class and I said no because I never had an issue at the other district I subbed for.

I felt like I had a very bad start with this district and I could've handled it better if I wasn't so stressed at the time and I'm afraid that I might get fired because how badly things went.

Posted Mar 1, 2026, 1:55 AM UTC

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