{"id":1195,"date":"2017-01-19T07:01:29","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T07:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2017-01-19T07:01:29","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T07:01:29","slug":"real-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/?p=1195","title":{"rendered":"Real Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real Teachers<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Real teachers grade papers in the car, during commercials, in faculty lounges and have even been seen grading papers in church.<\/p>\n<p>Real teachers cheer when they hear April 1 does not fall on a school day.<\/p>\n<p>Real teachers drive older cars owned by credit unions.<\/p>\n<p>Real teachers clutch a pencil while thinking and make notes in margins of books.<\/p>\n<p>Real teachers can&#8217;t walk past a crowd of kids without straightening up the line.<\/p>\n<p>Real teachers have disjointed necks from writing on boards without turning their backs on the class.<\/p>\n<p>Real teachers are written up in medical journals for size and elasticity of kidneys and bladders.<\/p>\n<p>Real teachers have been timed gulping down a full lunch in 2 minutes, 18 seconds. Master teachers can eat faster than that.<\/p>\n<p>Real teachers can predict exactly which parents will show up at Open House.<\/p>\n<p>Real teachers never teach the conjugations of lie and lay to eighth graders.<\/p>\n<p>Real teachers know it is better to seek forgiveness than to ask permission.<\/p>\n<p>Real teachers know the shortest distance and the length of travel time from their classroom to the office.<\/p>\n<p>Real teachers can &#8220;sense&#8221; gum.<\/p>\n<p>Real teachers know the difference among what must be graded, what ought to be graded, and what probably should never again see the light of day.<\/p>\n<p>Real teachers are solely responsible for the destruction of the rain forest.<\/p>\n<p>Real teachers have their best conferences in the parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>Real teachers buy Excedrin and Advil in bulk.<\/p>\n<p>Real teachers will eat anything that is put in the workroom\/teachers lounge.<\/p>\n<p>Real teachers know secretaries and custodians run the school.<\/p>\n<p>Real teachers hear the heartbeats of crisis; always have time to listen; know they teach students, no subjects; and they are absolutely non-expendable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Teachers &nbsp; Real teachers grade papers in the car, during commercials, in faculty lounges and have even been seen grading papers in church. Real teachers cheer when they hear April 1 does not fall on a school day. Real teachers drive older cars owned by credit unions. Real teachers clutch a pencil while thinking &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/?p=1195\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Real Teachers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1196,"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions\/1196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}