For those with no children in school, the following might be a surprise. For children, young and older, that are students and that think teachers don't have a life outside of school, I know this will be a surprise.
The break that you had, or are still having; the time away from the prison you call school playing, video gaming, romping in the snow or surf, watching movies, or playing sports. Many teachers didn't get one of those breaks. I have a stack of essays to finish grading before I can finish posting grades for a class. Grades for some students who started thinking about the Christmas break in September, and their grade reflects their direction of focus. Maybe they can cruise through the class better the second or third time.
After the essays I get to prepare for one of my favorite classes--Junior English.* Great literature and a great novel to read that speaks to us especially today--To Kill a Mockingbird.
*This is when I get to explain among other facts that the British won the French and Indian War because there wasn't a United States of America at the time. Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't free the slaves, Lincoln really did give the Gettysburg Address in a little over 2 minutes after listening to the main speaker speak for over two hours, and Hitler did participate in the Holocaust. That all came later after the Revolutionary War.
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