Friday, 28 June 2013

When Teachers Were a No Show

Is it just me, or were there a number of occasions in high school when the class would arrive for a lesson and no teacher would show up?

At the time, this created a very awkward situation, where there would be a stalemate between the nerdy kids who clearly thought the right thing to do was to notify someone of the issue, and the "cool" kids who were likely to beat anyone who dared to even suggest that the relevant authorities should be notified.

I seem to recall a large number of occasions where at least 20 minutes of a 40 minute lesson would be spent in this chaotic teacher-less state before a stressed looking principal or admin assistant would rush in and "take control".


So this got me thinking. How did it seem to happen so frequently that there would be no teacher for a lesson and no one seemed to know about it? Isn't having a teacher for each class a pretty fundamental requirement of running a school? And when a teacher wasn't coming in, were they not informing someone who could rectify the situation?

I'm not sure if this is still as prevalent today. Surely with the advent of more technology, there would be someone tasked with tracking schedules and making sure this doesn't happen. If so, I must say I'm a little sad that kids these days don't get to experience those character building situations for themselves.

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