You know how some jobs have a fridge full of sodas and snacks for staff and paid-for Christmas parties and big bonuses for doing a good job and holidays when you want them and heat in your workplace even after hours and technology that usually works and that nice thick, two-ply toilet paper that flows luxuriously off the roll… you know, the kind you can’t see your knees through?
These are the perks for some jobs and professions, but not for teachers.
We get snow days.
A rare, once-in-a-blue-moon gift of a paid day off where we end up feeling elated as we sit and sip our coffee, tuning the world out, as we sit in beautiful silence with a laptop on our knee, lesson planning.
Why? Because we’re kind of crazy like that.
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A snow day might be a perk for some, other than lesson planning teachers, but reading your piece is a monumental perk for me. Your humour and brilliance light up my brain cells and take me back to the good old days of teaching. The children made it all worth the lesson planning for 4 hrs after school, every weekend including the long ones, winter/spring breaks, summer holidays, oh and on the non-perk snow day perk days.