“Rocking on your chair – they break and then I get replacement chairs that don’t match and that actually bothers me more than the actual rocking. I’ve often made kids stand for the period to stop them from rocking!” -Julie Bryniczka

“Students asking how many centimeters are in a meter.”

-Peter Kupfer

“Morning announcements in general are a big pet peeve—they take up time from class, are too lengthy, no one seems to listen to them etc.  Specifically those that are repeated so many times throughout the year (ex. students need their IDs to pick up things from the main office; Poms will be selling Culver’s in the cafeteria after school, etc.)”

-Aaron Rogers

“My biggest teaching pet peeve is when a student is absent and when they return, they ask if they missed anything.  I say, no, we stopped class to wonder why you weren’t there.”

-Jennifer Ventrelle

“Things that are beginning to break and don’t get fixed, only to be broken beyond repair. Usually this is a student’s instrument that would have been an easy fix, but was not taken care of early.”

-Josh Thompson

“Students who wear hoods and hats in the building-aside from being against the rules it is just rude and disrespectful.”

-Bob Knuth

“When someone wearing Uggs drags their feet across the floor!  Move with purpose people!”

-David Harmon

“Pestering about when things will be graded: When students hand in something late then ask when it will be graded by, or students turning in an assignment and asking the next day if it’s graded yet.”

-Jaclyn Dispasquale

“Making out in the hall.  Gross.”

-Michael Bale

“My pet peeve is when you tell students to get working on something, and they pick up some random object and pretend they’re working. Especially when their iPad isn’t even on.”

-Michael Kaufman

“It drives me nuts when I walk through the cafeteria after the lunch periods. All the trash on the floors. So annoying.”

-Christopher Bennett

“I would say that my pet peeves are putting on makeup/brushing hair in class and eating meals (not a snack) in class.”

-Lauren Katzman (not pictured)