A short but amusing and introspective piece, "Teachers Go Wild" looks at what the teachers at one school do for fun after the final bell rings.
The piece starts out by mocking kids' attitudes about their teacher's inabililty to cut loose. ("Fun?" one teacher asks in mock horror. "What is fun?") From there, upbeat music leads into a montage of voices, each describing their leisure activities - some fairly commonplace, like reading and doing the laundry, and some particularly revealing and perhaps a bit creepy (going to Vegas for the adult entertainment, or, as one woman admits, "I spend time with my kids, but I don't really like 'em"). One man does his (not very good) Tom Petty impression. But the most entertaining quotes are from those teachers who share the same interests as their students - going to metal shows and joining the mosh pit, clubbing, and singing are all mentioned. Despite the way they lord over us in the classroom, the message this piece overwhelmingly sends is that, at the end of the day, teachers are really just like us.
Review of Teachers Go Wild
Emily Raymond
Posted on March 26, 2006 at 07:33 AM
A short but amusing and introspective piece, "Teachers Go Wild" looks at what the teachers at one school do for fun after the final bell rings.
The piece starts out by mocking kids' attitudes about their teacher's inabililty to cut loose. ("Fun?" one teacher asks in mock horror. "What is fun?") From there, upbeat music leads into a montage of voices, each describing their leisure activities - some fairly commonplace, like reading and doing the laundry, and some particularly revealing and perhaps a bit creepy (going to Vegas for the adult entertainment, or, as one woman admits, "I spend time with my kids, but I don't really like 'em"). One man does his (not very good) Tom Petty impression. But the most entertaining quotes are from those teachers who share the same interests as their students - going to metal shows and joining the mosh pit, clubbing, and singing are all mentioned. Despite the way they lord over us in the classroom, the message this piece overwhelmingly sends is that, at the end of the day, teachers are really just like us.