A good looking man?

I am a teacher. A middle school teacher. The most common responses when I tell people what I do are, "I'm sorry," or "You must be a saint." But really, I like my job.*

Part of keeping my sanity as I teach these energetic middle is being able to laugh at them sometimes instead of letting them make me upset when they get a little bit off task.**

This weekend E and I were watching the John Adams series by HBO and it reminded me of one of my favorite funny school stories from a couple years ago.

At the time, I was teaching an 8th grade government class, and we were talking about the presidency.

One of my students commented on how ugly she thought President Bush was. My response to her was something like, "Look in the back of your textbook at the pictures of all the presidents. There haven't been a lot of good looking presidents."

Another of my students raised her hand, so I called on her. "There have been some good looking presidents," she said, "I mean that one guy, George Washington, he was HOT!"

Comments like this*** are the perks of my job :)

*If you talked to E about this, he might tend to disagree, because he is the one who listens to all my complaining about my job. But I do like it, I promise!

**My mom says I'm a teacher because I'm a little bit of a control freak. She may or may not be correct.

***And not working in the summer, on any major holidays, or many of the minor holidays.