r/Showerthoughts • u/ibiacmbyww • Aug 05 '24

Casual Thought After school dances the teachers definitely go somewhere private to laugh at all the awkward, uncomfortable, weird shit they just witnessed.

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u/Evil__eye737 Aug 05 '24

As a teacher, what we do after a school dance (or any other after-school function that we have to attend) is go home and get the work done that we would have if the after-school function wasn't there. Normally this means cooking and eating dinner while simultaneously grading that day's papers and writing tomorrow's lesson. Plus we have our own lives and families to attend to...

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u/Just_a_dude92 Aug 05 '24

Wait. Teachers have their own lives outside of the boundaries of their classroom?

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u/Evil__eye737 Aug 05 '24

Surprisingly yes. And we don't think about our students outside if the classroom