Elementary School Teacher Gothic
You list the students alphabetically by last name in your grade book. ย When you go to calculate grades for the marking period they are listed alphabetically by first name.
ย Every day one particular girl arrives with neatly braided hair. ย By the end of the day her hairstyle has completely changed. It is perfectly neat. She says she didnโt touch it.
You have sixteen students in class. ย You print twenty notes to go home anticipating some will be lost. ย You personally put one note in each studentโs folder to go home. ย You have six left over.
You sharpen a brand new box of pencils and keep them in your desk for later. ย By the time you take them out three are missing, two have no eraser and all have bite marks.ย
It is 2:45 and you read a story to the class to fill some time before dismissal at 3:00. ย You read another story, and another. ย It never gets to 3:00.
You find three more copies of the note to go home.
One custodian only ever appears at the end of the hallway. ย He is bent over his broom sweeping the floor. ย He never gets any closer.
One student asks to go to the bathroom. ย Another student asks to go to the bathroom. ย They all ask to go to the bathroom. ย You never teach the whole class because someone is always in the bathroom.
Your desk is buried under copies of the note to go home.
You have sixteen students in your class. ย When you are outside on a fire drill you count them, there are seventeen students on line. ย On a firedrill you always have seventeen.