The One With The 'Perks' of Dating a Teacher

I always see nice lists all over the internet entitled

‘The cons of dating a guitarist,

‘How does it feel to be a Chef’s wife’ 

or

‘Why you should date a reporter’. 

So I was like ‘HEEEYY! HEEEYYY INTERNET!!! TEACHERS EXIST TOO’.

So I searched the nets to look for a list on ‘Reasons to date a teacher’, and found MAAANNY reasons (yay Net), most of which were wanting (boo NET). 

So, I decided to compile a list of my own of the perks of dating a teacher, from a teacher’s Point of View.

Here’s the original list I got from this 'ere website:

Here are 15 reasons to date a teacher:

1. They’re conversationalists. All day long, teachers work to connect with students of all kinds of backgrounds, intellectual levels and work ethics.
2. Teachers can charm parents. They meet with them a lot, and know how to put people at ease. Date a teacher, and you won’t have to stress about the inevitable meet-the-parents dinner.
3. Teachers adapt quickly, whether it’s welcoming new students or embracing new curriculum. Change doesn’t faze them.
4. Teachers can explain the same thing in a variety of ways until a point is made effectively, making sure that miscommunication doesn’t hurt the relationship.
5. Teachers are patient. At least the good ones are.
6. Teachers are great with kids. So if you’re looking for the parent of your future kids, a teacher is a great candidate.
7. Teachers are up on the latest lingo and pop-culture trends. If you want to know what’s hip with kids these days, your date will know.
8. They have the summer off — and all holidays.
9. Coming up with fun, creative solutions to problems is part of their day job. Teachers make problem-solving fun!
10. Teachers have great — and predictable — hours. You can plan consistent date nights with ease.
11. If you had a crush on a teacher as a youngster, now’s your chance to finally date one — legally.
12. Date a teacher and you’ll be dating someone who is shaping future leaders. Yes, your date is super-influential.
13. Teachers don’t tolerate bullying or intolerance. They stand up for those around them.
14. Everyone has a favorite teacher they look back on fondly. You’re likely dating someone’s hero.
15. You’re a respectful, mature adult. At the end of a crazy week, your presence will be a welcome break from adolescent angst.

So cute, but really you know, not entirely true. And according to the internet, apparently we’re this:

Here’s a true depiction of that list.

1.    Apparently we have meaningful adult conversation because we interact with kids from different cultures all the time and when the chance comes, we love grown-up intellectual convos.

2.   We really don’t. Really, we work with KIDS all day long. The only convos we have go like “W0rrZ@p Miz G G, wot da FCuk is dis?”. Yeah, very intellectual.

3.   Apparently we can charm parents coz we deal with parents daily.

4.   Ermm...we’re teachers not super beings. Meeting the parents is still the same, if not scarier.

5.   Apparently teachers are good at explaining the same thing in several ways in order to communicate effectively.

6.   That in a relationship is called Nagging, no?

7.   Apparently were patient.

8.   PAHAHAHH!!! seriously weren’t your teachers some of the most impatient people ever?

9.   Apparently we ask straight forward, real questions and would never beat around the bush while dating, because we’re teachers.

10.               You must remember conversations like...

Teacher: Why are you late?

Student: errmm..

Teacher: I don’t want to hear any excuses”.

Or

Students complain that nothing that was taught is on the test.

Teacher:it’s not my job to teach everything that will come on the test.

Or

Teacher: You, what are you doing?

Student: Sir I’m..

Teacher: DON’T TALK BACK AT ME!

11.  Apparently we love kids.

12.               Teachers hate kids.

13.               Apparently we care loads for ‘moulding the future generation’ so much so that pay doesn’t matter.

14.               Laughs.

15.               Apparently we have loadsa ‘free’ dating time (good hours)

16.               We do, but everyone else doesn’t.

17.               Apparently we’re cool, trendy and stay in touch with the latest ‘lingo’.

18.               Laughs again.

19.               Apparently we’re respectful, mature adults who like respectful mature adult time.

20.              Are you not reading this blog?

But Hey!! Atleast 11.689% of teachers are pretty, and not fat, old or wear dusty old tweed coats and teacher pumps. 5% are dating. 98.333% are married. And 2% are sorta rich/cool/doing well for themselves/not weird. And the other 0.15% have a blog.

So I have hope?

The One Where The Pool On Holiday Reminds Me Of The Kiddie Pool on swimming day.

Thursday is swimming day! The day that instills both dread and dread (it's really just dread) in my heart. However, the antics that happen at the pool crack me up, from the wailing, to the "I could be a professional swimmer and throw myself into the big pool though I can barely walk" stunts. But those are stories for another day.

I had a week off from work(it’s called midterm :-/ not something grown-up like leave) and decided to pack up my backpack and head on down to the coast (wow, don’t I sound like the spontaneous backpacker?

In reality,

this trip had been planned for a couple of weeks and I packed my suitcase not a random satchel and compass-so I am not a  spontaneous backpacker).

Being by the pool triggered sooo many images from our swimming lessons with my class (ranging from age 1 and a half to 3 year olds) and I couldn’t help but notice how a typical holiday destination pool is so similar to a Kindergarten pool.

There is always the INNAPROPRIATE HALF NUDE PERSON. Sometimes, my kiddies don’t have their cossies packed but still really want to swim. Even if it means in the buff.

And swim they do, with their little tightey whiteys or sometimes..they just put on their birthday suits and jump into the pool (by jump I mean crawl in whilst burning on the hot ground).

By the poolside at the coast, there is also that grandpa with microscopic speedo pants, or grandpa with her loose, unstrapped bikini. And ofcourse she goes through that awkward woopsie moment where the string comes untangled and we see abit too much of grandma than necessary.

Funny thing is, she never sees anything wrong with it, so we all casually act like life is normal and we’re not experiencing a mini heart-attack within.

Then we have the HIDER. Some of the lil kiddies are petrified of the water, and only show their petrification once we've struggled to change them, inflate their armbands and splash their bodies with sunscreen.

Then they hide.

ANYWHERE.

Likewise, there is always that person who puts on their bathing suit, sunscreen and hat then peeps from the shelter of their room balcony and sneers at the pool, the sun, and the people frolicking in the pool. Next time maybe take your holiday in the mountains instead of wasting your money on sunscreen and flippers to just hide in your room.

There is always the SLEEPY HEAD. As I said in this post kids sleep anywhere, and several times I’ve had to pick up children who're fast asleep by the pools’ edge(or in the pool) and take them to the safety of dry land. The same goes for holidayers on holiday. Not just anywhere, but also, the WHOOLEE day as well.

Like, why did you leave the room in the first place?

Then there is the person with ALL THAT PROTECTION. Because kids are kids, they need their sunscreen, hats, lifejackets, armbands,  ring floaters and all that until you can barely see them.

Sometimes they’re sooo bundled up though, I feel that all the inflatable items on them will carry them away when a strong gust of wind comes by. Then there are those who, due to either religion of morbid fear of sunburn(and/or drowning) bundle up from head to toe with hats, snorkels, fins, full body suit cossies that look like they’re about to attend a black tie event.

The one who TAKES THINGS TOO SERIOUSLY. There is always that swimmer who thinks this is the Olympics, and takes every damn thing a tad too serious.

And I always have that child who thinks every swimming lesson is a chance to drown their classmate, and prove that they learnt how to kick the hardest or ‘tread the water’ the best.

Unfortunately, all other comparisons got lost due to sunburn and heatstroke.

Learn to swim folks!