To Teach Like Mad Eye Moody
What I’d Really Like To Say When Teaching
Oh, to teach like Mad Eye!
When those Show Offs, Know-It-Alls, and I Want To Be Firsts
whine in my class.
Those students who think they‘re better than sliced bread
and the best thing since penicillin.
I’d like to wave my wand and transfigure them into
a ferret or a spider
and have a teachable moment.
These pint sized bullies
who make their presence
in class miserable for all.
I’d like for them to hear
how I long for them
to be absent if not for a day
but for the entire school year.
I’d like to tell them they’re not
the Golden Ones and I don’t want anymore
Mommy and Daddy notes telling me
I’m a mean teacher.
I’d like to send them into hours of
insufferable detention.
After their winching,
I’d like to growl and respond,
”Suck it up, kiddo. This is the real world.”
About the Creator
Rulam Day
In another life I was a pirate, a race car driver, and a spy. But those are stories for another time. Rulam Day is an anagram of my name, Mary Daul. I publish under both.
Comments (2)
LOVE IT!!! And so true! Very well written.
Lol, it'll be so fun if you could actually do that. Loved your poem!