New Teachers Want a Male Teacher

The new teachers wanted to hire a male teacher He will be able to control them, they argued. He will be forceful, they will listen to him Some of us who have been around awhile Tried to tell them that gender does not matter But who are we? Old dinosaurs, who are invisible. So, we got outvoted and they hired Mr. Mumbles. On the first day the second graders stole his lunch Burned his briefcase and put thumbtacks in his fanny pack. He thought he had misplaced his phone, but we knew The seven-year-olds probably had it. He had to pay $150 to have a new car key. "Hiring a male teacher fixed everything," I said to another dinosaur. We laughed all the way out of the school building.