Hallway Humor

As I’ve mentioned, I currently teach two days a week in an elementary school. My room is a converted bookroom on the fifth grade hall. Every time I walk out of the door from my little makeshift classroom, I see this sign:

And I giggle a little. And I think of how the mighty have fallen. Decades ago when I began teaching, we used to tell our students to set lofty goals… to aim for the stars…

Now, we count it all joy if they will just aim for the toilet…