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Girl with a Lesson Plan: Today I was mistaken for a student. →

positivelypersistentteach:

jennywriteshere:

Again.

I went to walk across the floor of the gym to stand with all of the other teachers at the pep rally, but one of the administrators almost stopped me, but then he saw my badge.

I guess it’s good to look young for your age, but it gets kind of annoying sometimes.

Most of us get that.  I’m closer to 30 than 20, and I still get comments about how I must be getting excited about going to college.

I’m 28, and I teach at my alma mater.  The lunch ladies still sometimes double take when I go through the line.  (And then I get a free cookie.)

People thought I looked 30 at age 20, and a student who came to one of my presentations brought sugar cookies to my office. Does that still count?

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   taught at a middle school. A sub was supervising detention one afternoon (yeah, I don’t know how that works), and when I...

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    Wednesday, the day before I went back to work officially, I was at the school. One of my soon-to-be students came in...

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    Try being a teacher when you look like you could also be a student— well, not at the age that

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    I HAD to join in b/c I get this so much too. I was subbing...teacher next door...

16. academicadventures reblogged this from girlwithalessonplan and added:

    a lot of my friends, this is an everyday occurrence....mater (undergrad) and I’m sure...

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    I’m already past 30 and I still get mistaken for a high school student. Not a college student. A high school student. I...

19. jbizzle329 reblogged this from pencilblots and added:

    People just see me as I am…AWESOME. Just kidding, everyone calls me the “baby” at my school.

20. tygerkitty reblogged this from world-shaker and added:

    This year, I’m not mistaken for a student because the school is so small… but the past two years I definitely was! My...

21. upstandingdelinquent reblogged this from driftingfocus and added:

    If my tattoos don’t show, I’m often taken for a 14 or 15 year old and when the tattoos do show, I usually get as high as...

22. pencilblots reblogged this from world-shaker and added:

    I recommend growing a beard. I did that while I was in high school, and I got mistaken for a teacher. More than once.

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    I’ve got a similar situation...teachers that taught me see me in the hall (especially on...

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    my life. People think...in middle school.

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    People thought I looked 30 at age 20, and a student who came to one of my presentations brought sugar cookies to my...

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    I was at my sister’s high school graduation...my sister’s teachers all thought

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