Stop the car and pull it over, the driver heard.
Two schoolteachers and a school speech therapist,
jumped out of the minivan in a bank parking lot.
The van’s radio played, “Girls Just Want to Have Fun.”
These three educators were dancing and singing.
They weren’t drunk (yet) and just wanted to have fun.
It was summer and they were on vacation.
They had come to Cape Hatteras to relieve stress.
They wanted to have fun before the school year started.
Fun before teaching in behavior-problem classrooms.
Fun before these troubled kids beat on them.
Fun before the kid’s parents disrespected them.
Fun before a school board of businesspeople and realtors,
who had never taught told them how and what to teach.
Fun before new contract negotiations
that would still make them underpaid.
Fun before the taxpayers would vote against
even renewing the present school levy.
Fun before returning to their thankless jobs.
Fun, fun dancing to thank the Outer Banks sun.
Same time next summer.
“Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.” ~ Julius Erving
Elecpencil 