If you didn't realize already, your kid's teachers are already imagining themselves reading by the pool with a big hat, sunglasses, and a margarita, while your child's ungraded final project sits on their desk. Summer may seem like it's just around the corner, but teachers have been counting down the days until we're free of the yoke of the education bureau since before Christmas break. It's not that we don't love our jobs, but wrangling a classroom of feral hooligans after lunchtime isn't exactly for everyone. Do you know what suits the tired teachers of the world? Cocktails on a tropical beach somewhere.
So as the class clown scribbles with permanent markers on their desk in the back and the studious angel students sit quietly in the front, teachers everywhere are biding their time just to survive until summer vacation. We only have a few more bank holidays and three-day weekends standing between indentured teachertude, but soon every educator will live out their summertime fantasies, burning hot and fast over the 2.5-month vacation. Lord knows they need it.