Nobody ever writes snarky things about teachers. It’s completely and totally unAmerican and they will probably kick you out of the country for it, buuuuuuuuut when somebody who knows my situation goes out of their way to talk to me about how awful it is that they have to go back to their classrooms after ten weeks of vacation … well … stand back! Oh I hold it in most of the time, but today, I am writing this instead … and if it makes me an awful person then so be it. I have been called much worse.
I was not a good teacher. I will be the first to admit that. I really didn’t teach much and I was doped out of my mind most of the time. I thought that I had to be buddies with my students and I honestly didn’t care what people thought of me. I probably should have been fired after the first year. Oh yeah … bat shit crazy is not a good thing.
Now I would be a kick ass teacher! I am fairly intelligent, my humor has returned, and I don’t text people just to tell them to go eff themselves. It’s a huge improvement. But because the whole “mess”, I can’t ever go back. EVER. I am not allowed to be a teacher, but so many worthless ones still get to. You should see me at parent/teacher conference time … oh yeah … I want to smack a few of them around (but I refrain, because that would be a felony and I already have one of those).
So this time of year absolutely breaks my heart and makes me want to beat things with sticks. So don’t bitch to me about losing your retirement when I have none. Don’t bitch to me about having to work until 3:30 when I get home two hours later than that. Don’t bitch to me about a slight increase in your health insurance when I don’t have that benefit at all anymore. But most of all, don’t tell me how lucky I am to not have to deal with being a teacher, because some days it’s the one thing that I miss more than anything in this world and I know that there is nothing that I can do about it.
I just posted this on Twitter and it pretty much sums up how I feel during the entire month of August
@slappyintheface gina
Nobody ever writes snarky things about teachers.
I do.
In fact, I sadly cannot imagine myself ever having the pleasure of writing something positive but one can hope.
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Snarkiness is next to Godliness in my book
Don’t feel bad, seriously, don’t! I have a really good friend that is a teacher and I get pissed at her when she starts bitching about stuff like that too. You aren’t a bad person at all. I often have thought the same things you said out loud.
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The really tough thing is that I have to drive by the school where I used to teach EVERY SINGLE DAY. It’s easier during the summer when I don’t have to see the cars and the school busses there.
Yes it sucks that you cannot teach anymore and I can so understand why it is that you get annoyed when you hear such comments there are such idiots around who do not think before they speak……..
Well the person who does it just isn’t a very nice person anyway – one of those that feels better when they make others feel worse – so I try not to have a reaction, but it’s tough sometimes.
I make sure to go off about my kids’ teacher like all the time. Too bad I homeschool them. Makes for an awkward time when I’m using a mirror.
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baaaaaaahahahaha… thank you for making me smile this morning
Well, I have limited respect for teachers. Most of them have debilitating tunnel vision (they only think what they teach matters, believe their class is the only class each child has) and are completely clueless when it comes to everything else in the world. And I tripped over their drunk asses every time I left for class in college. Some are “called”, but most just want summers and breaks off. And don’t worry, I’ve said this aloud every chance I’ve had.
… and that is one of the many reasons that I love you!
Last year, Bryce was flunking Geometry. He told us that he didn’t understand it because the “teacher” didn’t actually teach them anything, he just wrote some examples on the board. So Bryce didn’t bother to do the work (and we didn’t really blame him for it since he wasn’t taught how to do it). Well …. the “teacher” actually told me and Derek in a parent teacher conference that if the students write ANYTHING on their assignments then he will give them a 100. WTF ???? Then he allowed Bryce to “make up” the assignments and he gave him 100s on every single one … he went from flunking to a 92 average in one week.
…. I was beyond angry … Derek had to actually grab me and pull me out of that classroom before I went completely ape shit nuts on this idiot … and he gets to teach and I don’t !!!
I love that you post snarky things about everyone, teachers included. There are way more shitty teachers now than good ones. They bitch about having to do inservice days, they bitch about having to do things in their classrooms. I would kill for a 10 week vacation every year, man.
I had the good fortune to be taught by nuns for my first 13 years of school…those bitches aren’t messing around. YOU WILL LEARN, DAMN IT.
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