Teaching’s fringe benefits.

I’ve reconciled myself with the fact that teaching preschoolers will never reap me financial rewards, except perhaps if I owned the school and implemented a sizable tuition fee. However, while I face my small paycheck every fifteen days, there are so many fringe benefits that make it worth my while. These are the things I really have to think about when I finally bid teaching preschool goodbye:

• Teaching preschool keeps me young. There’s something about the joyous laughter of children that really taps into your inner child and as such, translates to a more youthful “you”.
• Long summer breaks, holidays and semestral breaks! Yes, when classes are out, classes are out for teacher too We do have some administrative work to attend to, but we don’t have the same rigid schedule all year round.
• Seeing students succeed. This is one of the best fringe benefits for me.
• Running around the playground, squatting and sitting in the teeny-tiny chairs of the classroom, picking up the kids (and after the kids too!), as well as cleaning up and repainting the school during the summer sure beats the best  fat burners in the world! Well, unless of course you counterbalance it with mega-binges after work!!! Seriously though, most of the co-teachers I’ve had are tiiiiiiiny!
• Of course a fun fringe benefit are Christmas presents, flowers, drawings and expressions of love from my kids. Where else do I get kissed by a bunch of boys on a daily basis, right?

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