You Might Be in Education If...

[maridee]

You believe the teachers' lounge should be equipped with a Valium salt lick.

[TwinkldyTeacher]

I would need it after a day like today. :)

[tammy_wilson92]

I hope it is really not that bad. I have 3 semesters to go until student teaching. Should I be afraid?

[Boxcar]

I think that, as with any job, there is going to be stress. It is going to frustrating and exhausting at times.

Nonetheless, there are also amazing and wonderful moments too. One little thing can make your whole week.

A lot of teachers say that it is the stuff other than the kids that is the worst. Others disagree.

I think the best advice is to keep prespective.

[busbus]

You believe the teachers' lounge should be equipped with a Valium salt lick.

I have read this post several times and I always say to myself, "Teacher Forum" is the Valium salt lick! So I decided to post my thoughts. :)

Here, teachers can vent, ask questions, get ideas from each other, discuss topics having nothing to do with education. It is a venue that allows us to unwind.

So, in my opinion, the teachers' lounge is the Valium salt lick. It provides us with the opportunity to have that short-term relief from the problems of the day.

[MsCoffeeLover]

Since I am in a trailer, the teacher's lounge for me is like meeting at the water cooler. Coffee is in there as well as the copy machine. It is a great way for me to meet up with fellow team mates.

Typically I am a gracious person in the teacher's lounge and tend not to talk as much as the other teachers. In fact, I have always been a talker, but I have just discovered that just about all the teachers on our team talk A LOT and REALLY FAST. I seriously can't get a word in, so they think I am the best listener.

However, if that moment has hit me, the teacher's lounge is there for me to vent, and on a rare occasion I actually cuss, watch the look of shock on people's faces, and, for some reason, cussing in the teacher's lounge gets me a whole host of new friends. Never understood that. Regardless, I get it out in the lounge, grab my papers, take a deep breath, and that smile returns to my face as though nothing happened.

[Bananas]

For me it would not be the cussing, but an irreverent thought or humor, which they wouldn't expect of a pastor's wife. That is just one feature they love about me. ;)

I swore of my swearing (pun always intended) after sticking my thumb with the diaper pin while hubby was an intern pastor. We were already running on the late side for the Thanksgiving service. Daughter had an extremely messy diaper, and I was trying to clean her up and change the clothes quickly. I said that sh-- word in front of her, and I drove around the church block at least ten times while my angelic toddler sweetly sang her own song with that vile word.

So I sometimes go around saying fudge. I then tease that I probably put on a pound just thinking about that word.

[MsCoffeeLover]

For me it would not be the cussing, but an irreverent thought or humor, which they wouldn't expect of a pastor's wife. That is just one feature they love about me. ;)


That is funny bananas! One of the teachers on our team is a pastors wife or a deacons wife. None one ever expects her to cuss, but every now and again she shocks us and asks us to forgive her at the same time. Keeping a straight face is really hard to do.:D

[Boxcar]

lol.

Sometimes being consider the best listener can be a really good thing, MsCoffeeLover. You get to hear the most interesting things...

[Bananas]

Sometimes being a good listener is not getting a word in edgewise. I have a colleague who I think of as Julie McCoy, your Cruise Director. Given the chance, she is the director of conversation in the teachers' lounge. She will call a teacher by name when she can control the conversation. I am allotted two to three sentences per stretch, if she has any power over it I don't quite know why she singled me out as her competition in our building. I am so easy going and get along very well with folks in our building. Unfortunately, teamwork was not a part of her vocabulary. :rolleyes:

[Bananas]

I forgot to add my very own one that I am guilty of.

You might be in education if you repeat your directions multiple times!

My own two children would tell me that they heard me the first time. Of course, I have to repeat myself repeatedly with my husband. The male selective hearing and being hard-of-hearing on top of things. So when I repeat something to hubby after getting no acknowledgment, he will tell me he heard me the first time. ;)

[MsCoffeeLover]

lol.

Sometimes being consider the best listener can be a really good thing, MsCoffeeLover. You get to hear the most interesting things...

You are so right, boxcar. It is amazing all the things people tell you and are having no problem sharing when you are in the room even when they are not directly talking to you. It's not even just in the 7th grade teacher's lounge, but all over the school from the front office to the cafeteria.

Because people talk to so much, they also never ask anything, but because I can never get a word in, they also think I am a good listener as well as a person that can keep a secret. I can keep a secret because I don't like to gossip, but it is easy to smile at the irony.

I have so much information, but I am last person they ask, which is fine with me.

[Boxcar]

It is sad that people don't give you a chance to share about yourself. That is one of the things I try to be careful about. When getting to know someone, I try to learn as much about that person as they do about me. This works well for me. I'm so curious about people anyway.

[irish223]

You might be in education if you feel compelled to correct other people's spelling and grammar.

(I don't do that, but I have a few friends who do!)

[teachercbelle]

You might be in education if you feel compelled to correct other people's spelling and grammar.

(I don't do that, but I have a few friends who do!)

What does that say about me if I've been doing that since I was 12!?!?!?!:D

[dangercat]

As a student going into the classroom and veiwing what teachers deal with every day it is very overwhelming. It hasn't changed my desire to be a teacher, but my latest classroom that I am working in is very trying. There are at least 5 children out of 23 at any given time that are causing problems.

I guess what I am really trying to say is that it's good to see that others feel as I do...that there are good days and really bad days.

[gilmore.gal]

You might be in education if you feel compelled to correct other people's spelling and grammar.
Haha! That's me right there!:D

[jsfowler]

This would save a lot of money on insurance if they went a head and provided it for free in the teacher's lounge. I know most of the teachers at my school would use it.