How Do You Know You Are A Teacher? The Complete List
Posted by schoolspirit on 26 February, 2008
Although I posted this topic a week or so ago, I didn’t realise that the nine points I posted then were just the first nine of a list of twenty one reasons that you know you are a teacher. This Monday, the rest of the list found its way into my pigeon hole via the back of the weekly staff bulletin and timetable. So now, here is the complete set.
Once again, I don’t know where this list originally came from, but there are so many accurate sentences here it’s almost scary.
How do you know you are a teacher? Here you go!
1. You can hear 25 voices behind you and know exactly which one belongs to the child out of line.
2. You get a secret thrill out of laminating something.
3. You walk into a shop and hear the words ‘It’s Ms/Mr ______’ and know you’ve been spotted.
4. You have 25 people that accidentally call you Mum/Dad at one time or another.
5. You can eat a multi-course meal in under twenty-five minutes.
6. You’ve trained yourself to go to the toilet at two distinct times of the day: recess and lunch.
7. You start saving other people’s rubbish because most likely, you can use that toilet paper tube or plastic butter tub for something in the classroom.
8. You believe the teachers’ staffroom should be equipped with a margarita machine.
9. You want to slap the next person who says it ‘must be nice to work 9 to 3:30 and have summers off’.
10. You believe chocolate is a food group.
11. You can tell if it’s a full moon without ever looking outside.
12. You believe that unspeakable evils will befall you if anyone says “Boy, the kids sure are settled today”.
13. You feel the urge to talk to strange children and correct their behaviour when you are out in public.
14. You believe in aerial spraying of Ritalin.
15. You think caffeine should be available in intravenous form.
16. You spend more money on school stuff than you do on your own children.
17. You can’t pass the school supply aisle without getting at least five items!
18. You ask your friends if the left hand turn he just made was a “good choice or a bad choice”.
19. You find true beauty in a can full of perfectly sharpened pencils.
20. You are secretly addicted to hand sanitiser, and finally,
21. You understand instantaneously why a child behaves a certain way after meeting his or her parents.
All so very, very true…
Personal favourites… numbers 11, 12 and 21. You may have others…
Cheers.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Good list, says a lot about teachers (ha ha ha).
Liked the cricket story too.
Can you tell Mrs G (Year 8-12 English) pulled her hair out with my lack of proper sentence structure?
February 29th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Aw, I’ll let it pass this time.
Thanks for the kind words and the patronage, eh?