Personally, I think teaching is the BEST. JOB. EVER. We get to build relationships with an exponential number of students. We sing, dance, and laugh. We get frustrated, leave work exhausted, and get to come back the next day and do it all over again. We build relationships with colleagues who speak and understand the same language—the language of learning.
We experience things on a daily basis unlike any other profession.
The ACRONYMS alone! Right?
I surveyed various social media groups and found teacher input on the things we experience on the daily that non-teachers could not understand.
Read on to see how many you’ve personally experienced as a teacher!
30 Things Only Teachers Understand:
Not wanting to take a sick day because it is more work to write sub plans.
Having an odd love for school supplies.
Carrying a bag full of papers home and bringing them back to school the next day, untouched.
Being able to silence a room full of students with “the look”.
Being a teacher, nurse, counselor, police officer, EMT, and mom all at the same time.
Correcting other people’s grammar.
The urge to save egg cartons, paper towel rolls, and shoe boxes.
Seeing students out in public and they act like you are famous.
Walking backwards.
Reading upside down.
Setting an alarm to remind you to submit in attendance and then forgetting.
“If you can hear my voice, clap once…”
Using your teacher voice with kids who are misbehaving in public.
Saying “this year” or “next year” or “last year”, but not for the calendar year, for school years.
“You get what you get and you don’t throw a fit!”
Finding grammar and spelling mistakes on posters, advertisements, all written or posted comments, or on the televised news feeds.
Having to make 10,000 decisions (big and small) per day.
Saying things like, "Please don't lick (insert: your friend, desk, the wall, etc). Every day.
Saying “what the ----” in your head 15 times a day!
Avoiding Walmart & Target during the month of July because seeing back to school supplies gives you anxiety!
OR getting excited when the school supplies are out in July.
Two months with no paycheck.
Keeping all the family secrets students tell you.
Teacher Tired.
The Sunday Scaries.
Prepping work at home, so you can do the work in class, and then taking the work home to finish it.
Incredible bladder capacity because you have to use the restroom on a schedule.
Ticonderoga, Crayola, Sharpie, Flair pens…enough said.
You have to work before you get to work, so you have work to do at work. Then because you had no time at work to do the work, you work on the work after work.
And of course the ACRONYMS:
Do you have anything to add to the list?
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