I don’t know about you, but I didn’t envy my teachers when I was at school. Even as a teenager, I could tell that most of them were overworked, underpaid, and forced to deal with often ungrateful children all day. It’s fair to say it was never a profession that appealed to me. We’ve got to be thankful that this isn’t the case for everybody, though, because we need those educators who valiantly step up to the plate and give our kids the knowledge they need to make their way in the world. 

This involves finding a way to deal with problem students, which one middle school language teacher experimented with not too long ago. When a persistently annoying eighth grader remarked that «teaching is really easy», he had the boy prove it by attempting to lead the class in explaining some grammar that they had just learned. It’s fair to say that the student was soon eating his words, much to his teacher’s amusement.