Actively Hating Students: How to rebalance your classroom

Teaching through Emotions: Teacher Mental Health · Apr 16, 2026 · 1h 10m

In my experience, most teachers — hell, most people — don’t want to admit they hate anyone. “Hate,” they say, “is a strong word.”

As if there’s a problem with strong words. (Like “love,” for example.)

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But people do hate. And when they hate irresponsibly, when they refuse to process that feeling and assume it has more to do with the object of their hatred than with themselves, they can do grave damage.

In this episode, Joe and I talk with a…