Who knew that the simple glimpse of a line of kids climbing onto a bright yellow school bus would prompt such a smile or a hand clap from an observer?
That was the overwhelming feeling this week as area youngsters headed back to their classrooms. The emotion was similar, too, for families whose children were assigned to a kitchen table seat in preparation for learning online.
School was open again after a hiatus of nearly six months because of coronavirus-related health and safety directives.
While uncertainty remains as to whether the school year will progress as hoped, there is one common sentiment – there can be a lot of funny moments along the route.
One school administrator suggested on the first day that a joke circulating throughout one building was this: “Hey!” said mom in greeting her youngster as he got off the bus. “That isn’t the mask you were wearing when I sent you off to school.”
Here are a few more items, gleaned from conversations as well as online, to tickle your funny bone:
– Administration to teachers in 2020: Please be prepared to teach online, in person, both simultaneously, on a moving train, while juggling, in a burning building, under the sea, during a wrestling match with a T-rex, as a hologram and riding a unicorn. Also, be safe and we value you.
– If you thought reading a six-year-old’s homework was bad, wait until you read the 60-page reopening plan your school has.
– English teachers, once schools reopened, are waiting to give assignments on writing “about your quarantine days in 300 words.”
– Homework is the cure. Who needs emotional support, a cure for coronavirus or literally anything else when you can just get a whole chapter of math to do?
– Suddenly, the schools that made teachers literally buy pencils are going to have money to keep the schools clean with masks and hand sanitizing? Yeah, right.
– I can’t wait to go back to school but I don’t want to do any school work.
– Here’s to another nine months of hoping your children’s homework isn’t too difficult to figure out.
– Shout out to old people for graduating high school without Google.
– Homeschool parents’ reply to parents dealing with virtual online classes for their kids: welcome to my circus. P.S. I got your back.
– Oh, so you’re a politician who has never taught a class? Tell me more about how schools should be run.
– Summer is over. Time to officially remember what day of the week it is.
– I was absent from your class yesterday. Did I miss anything important? No, we just sat around and waited for you to come back.
– Dear parents, If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens at school, I’ll promise not to believe everything he says happens at home. Love, Teachers Everywhere
– No! I don’t want to go back to school! I know, honey, I know but you have to. Why? Because you’re a teacher.
– Sending the kids back to school makes me want to cry … tears of joy.
– How am I supposed to give my students “the look” with a mask on?
– Teacher: When state officials believe that we can fit 30 students in a classroom while simultaneously keeping them six feet apart at all times, I want to ask, “Who taught you math?”
– Parent: what type of wine goes well with back-to-school?
– Mom: Of course, I am sad you’re going back to school because I have to stay home all alone where it’s quiet and I can do whatever I want.
– My kids are back in school. I need a couple of days to process my devastation.
– Practiced our school morning routine today, so I hid one of each kid’s shoes, spilled cereal, and had the toddler throw my keys into the trash.
– First year teacher: writes lesson plans on neatly organized, color-code binder. Experienced teacher: writes lesson plans on computer and saves them for future use. Teacher in 2020: writes lessons on Etch-a-Sketch because things change every two minutes.
– Remember those couple of weeks during quarantine when teachers finally got the appreciation they deserved? Those were the good times.
– So our plan for reopening school in the fall hinges on students practicing proper hygiene at all times? We are doomed.
– Parents who tell teachers how to do their jobs, this is your moment to shine!
