Well, I have to admit this sounds very crazy. But yes, it IS true – grade school teachers are in fact human beings. I didn’t believe it at first either. But just because I now know, don’t take my word for it. Go see for yourself to know it’s true.

All it takes is one perusal of facebook and you’ll find at least one of your very own classmates (who of course is a normal human being with kids and a family and feelings and everything!) that now teaches Math at the middle school you once attended. That’s how I came to know and you can too.

Quite odd, actually, that for all those years I never really saw the human-ness behind the desk. In fact, mere memories of almost robotic-like rhetoric masked the naivety of my youth.

Seriously, ever wonder why your 8th-grade English teacher hated you so much and why she always sent you to the hall even when everyone else was acting up just like you. Maybe it’s because she was human, she could see right through your cover, and she could tell that you had been taught better. Or maybe she was actually acting in revenge because she once dated your dad and then he dumped her.

Either way, I have an entirely newly-found outlook (and respect) for the human beings that were my teachers.