Signs that Teachers, too, Are Ready for Summer Break

Thursday is the last day of school and no one is happier than educators. Teachers need a breather just like the kids. How can you tell?

We:

- start talking like our students, referring to each other as dawgs, text messaging "Sup?" and professing a profound desire to tap that ass.

- come dangerously close to throwing dry erase markers and saying, "Only an idiot would ask that question."

- look forward to staying home for two months with our own children.

- come to believe Jay-Z is as important as Mozart.

- answer requests from adults with, "I don't know. Can you?"

- ran out of sick days three months ago.

- believe field trips to Disney World comply with Sunshine State Standards.

- giggle inappropriately at faculty meetings when the principal says "duty".

- rummage through garbage cans, overflowing with discarded trash, for next year's classroom supplies.

- enter the Teacher's Lounge looking for grown-up conversation.

- pick a fight with the AP hoping to get suspended.

- take a chance on cafeteria food because "what the hell?"

- pack up our rooms before Spring Break starts.

- refuse T-Payroll due to emotional issues.

- convince department head that Monty Python movies really do fit the curriculum.

- start asking students for financial advice.

- create MySpace page for summer under pseudonym "Party Whore".

Feel free to add your own.