It's just my job, five days a week..........

For the next 6 weeks or so, this is who I am!

Between 8.55 a.m. and about 4.00 p.m, five days a week no one will call me Cap and Gown, Love, Dear or Dad, some people might call me Kieran, but the majority will call me Sir/Mr.G/Mr.Goldsbrough maybe even bastard or some other derogatory term (but obviously not in my hearing)!

I'm back at work and now I'm just "That Science teacher with the Space man tie",
Local shop assistants etc who for 6 weeks have seen me in jeans and T-shirt now see me in trousers, shirt and tie, maybe even a jacket, and they look and puzzlement crosses their faces "Where have I seen him before?"

Don't get me wrong, I like my job and the people I work with (well...most of them anyway), but why do I need to tie a piece of cloth round my neck to do my job? I've been at the same school for 31 years so why do I need a name badge? And as for the electronic "key", don't get me started. Every day I rise, get dressed, go downstairs, clip the name badge to my shirt, clip the "key" to my belt and put on the tie and I change into Mr. Establishment.

I thought one of our staff had rebelled today, he was wearing jeans and a sweat shirt....but it turned out he'd just imagined we had a training day and no pupils were in school ....the numpty!!!

Today was the first day for the new year 7 (11 years old) and I found one today hovering outside my door.
"What's your problem?"
"Sir, I'm lost"
"Ok, where's your timetable?"
"Here Sir"
"Ok so it says you should be with MrXXXXXX, in the LRC doing ICT"
"But I'm still lost, Sir"
"Ok, the LRC is along the corridor and upstairs"

PAUSE

"Are you sure Sir?"


A thousand replies flashed through my mind but I settled for,
"Yep, I'm pretty sure that's where the LRC was last time I looked"

"Ok Sir! See ya!"

It took me back a few years to a little lad who seemed to be permanently lost but who had a homing device for my lab. At least once a day he'd be there at my door about 5 minutes after a lesson had started and the conversation always went the same way.
" Sir I don't know where I am"
"You're here again"
"Yeah but I don't know where I am"
"Ok give me your timetable"
After a quick consultation I'd direct him on his way and he'd depart with..
" Thanks Sir, I'll probably see you again tomorrow"

Kids eh?