This song is dedicated to those pressure-releasing moments in the faculty lounge -- often crammed, as they are, into the confines of a short lunch break. Oops! I have to run. My class is waiting.
The faculty lounge is a place where teachers can let down their hair; where generally innocent complaining and venting can help one make it through the rest of the day. Sometimes the conversations center on serious pedagogy, but more often than not, they are comprised of a litany of the mornings woes and travails.
All around the faculty lounge, the teachers are complaining.
Its just a thing that teachers do -- teaching is draining.
A teacher tells the story of, how a certain student drove her
To the brink, and so it goes.
Oops! Lunch is over
The conversation centers around, the feelings theyve been storing.
The students never turn in their work; the meeting was boring.
I dont have time to write reports; Im not somebodys gopher.
Thats the ways the story goes.
Oops! Lunch is over.
Ive got a million papers to grade; a test to write for Monday.
My kids are driving me up the wall; today is not a fun day.
Jack he never figures it out, and Jill she is a loafer,
Thats the way the story goes.
Oops! Lunch is over.
Administrators dont understand; theres never time to do things.
They think that we have nothing to do; theyre always adding new things.
And then they say theres no extra time; no chance to smell the clover.
Thats the way the story goes.
Oops! Lunch is over.
Its just a part of teacher life -- some innocent complaining.
We need a place to open the vent when tensions have been straining;
Some friends who are simpatico, who understand and know for
All that we complain about
Oops! Lunch is over.
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Article by Eric Baylin
Education World®
Copyright © 2008 Education World
09/30/08
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