Sunday, March 16, 2008

Top 10 Signs You’re Subconsciously Ready To Quit Your Teaching Job

10) Your students know more about Texas Hold’em than History.

9) When you come across a fight in the hall, instead of breaking it up you prefer to take bets.

8) When you get caught in the bathroom smoking, you refuse to remove the cigarette from your lips before you tell the principle to “bite me!”

7) You love to teach the kids of the “good ol’ days” by constant use of corporal punishment.

6) You can lecture for hours on the qualities of navel lint whilst extracting samples along the way.

5) Your favorite object lesson includes Nazi uniforms, the parking lot, and a giant pile of burning books.

4) When a parent comes to talk to you about why their child is doing poorly the only explanation you can muster is, “Well, stupidity breeds stupidity.”

3) Your way of “preparing kids for the real world” is by administering the occasional sucker punch, and stealing their lunch money.

2) You stopped bothering to learn names long ago and now just refer to all your students as “Numb-Nuts”.

1) In a year end self evaluation, you give yourself an F.

17 comments:

Joe Puente said...

Shame on you for #5. ;-)

And do your students read your blog at all?

skcoe said...

You know, McDonalds is hiring...maybe it's time for a career change?

theriddle said...

What you need is a Paradigm Shift.

Talk about how you talk...

Ashley said...

lol hilarious :) Oh btw I have a 2nd blog, www.bosssanders.com :) It's a more personal one...lol

I love your blog ...you crack me up!

Nissa said...

hahaha I love #2.
Maybe you should be a bootcamp instructor instead. You'd fit right in with our military teachers. ;)
Numbnuts is wahat you get to call the 'good' students!

Daryl E said...

Oh you are funny ..

thanks for stopping by .. i think that ladybug cow serves its milk shaken .. not stirred...;-D

Casey said...

And my blog isn't nearly half as fun as yours.

The end.

Kellan said...

Those are all funny!

Thanks for stopping by - so nice to meet you. Have a good afternoon - hope to see you soon. Kellan

Huckdoll said...

Bahaha! This reminds me of my 8th grade math teacher who used to throw chalk at us and my 10th grade french teacher who bribed us with MONEY to submit the best project...teachers are awesome :)

Thanks for popping by today, hope to see you around more.

Pam said...

Thanks for stopping by my blog! Your list was too funny! I loved it and could relate to it so well! You crack me up!

about jenji said...

#2 You stopped bothering to learn names long ago and now just refer to all your students as “Numb-Nuts”


That's some good stuff right there!

jenji

Bringhursts said...

Would you feel this way if it paid $1.5 million a year? Just wondering.

about jenji said...

bringhursts said:

"Would you feel this way if it paid $1.5 million a year?"

It's hard to be happy when you're not one of nor able to relate to the village idiots--yet Hollywood executives manage to be happy--or wait, are they the village idiots? Now I'm confused.

jenji

Jeff B said...

My favorite one is, the one about refusing to take the cigarette out of your mouth... That is probably the funniest thing I've read in a LONG time!

Amy said...

This list was awesome. And I'm scared to think how true! Whatever, I'm still not homeschooling my brats!

Babe in Boysland said...

Are you sure you made the right career choice? Well, you can't quit now because then you wouldn't be able to post all the moronic things they say and I don't think I could handle that. I guess you better make the most of it.

BTW are you too good for me now? Whatever.

Jordan said...

I used to be a teacher, myself. One of my favorite is the Hobo Teacher blog. www.hoboteacher.com/blog

It's great for those days when I feel like going back to teaching might not be so bad...