SUMMER is almost over and the grip of reality now aims to bring us back to the coming of the new school year.
To prepare for the outpouring of school work that the next academic calendar brings, students should sit back and acquaint themselves again with the different kinds of teachers they have previously met in the past school year and watch out for those who will be with their journey when they go back to school.
Brace yourselves, the teachers are coming.
JC. He’s no Jesus but he’s quite a gentleman. He’s the kind of teacher that makes one want to go back to school for more... lessons. He seems to be the answer to one’s prayers to make classes more interesting because this eye candy makes classes worth attending. JC may mean “Just Cute” or some other name students often call for when he comes to class. He motivates students just by coming regularly to class wearing a V-neck or a tight shirt or even skinny jeans which makes both the boys and the girls just gasp...
Undercover. One should be careful who he talks to because this kind of teacher may be lurking in the corner. He’s already a regular teacher but he looks like a student because of the fact that he graduated and maybe passed the teachers’ board exam at a very early age. One should keep himself from blabbering too much or backbiting other teachers on the first day of class because the “student teacher” might be pretending to be a seatmate. Yikes.
Medusa. A teacher who has this natural hate for boys and reprimands girls who wear too much makeup or short skirts. She probably just endured a breakup or a summer fling that didn’t end as well as expected, so this teacher will most probably lash out in class when reminded of some past experience she had to endure from her ex-boyfriend, or specifically point out that your red lips will soon match your red grades. Harsh.
Hulk. This teacher is the most flexible teacher of all because he changes his mood and attitude every time he enters the classroom door; like it’s a portal to the underworld because outside the classroom he walks the corridor with a smile that contains a seemingly neverending compassion for struggling youngsters; however, as he enters the room, his smile turns into a frown and he turns into a student-eating kind of species.
Supreme overlord. She’s the kind of teacher who never fails to hold her class every day even if it needs to be suspended due to inconveniences. She often comes to the first day of school even if enrollment and adjustments are still ongoing and even grades attendance most especially if you try to leave the classroom only because of the swaying walls and the noise of the alarm going off. If one can’t attend her class simply because all flights and trips have been canceled due to a very dangerous storm coming her way, she had better start paddling because this teacher will mark her with a failing grade. She will hold her class and consume every second of it until the bell rings and the only excuse one can give her is a death certificate.