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Every school has one. You probably already know who yours is.

She gripes about every little thing. But it's never her fault. The students come to her and they just don't know ANYTHING. The Powers That Be expect far too much of her. She stays late at school to get her grading done because HER tests are never multiple choice and she gives them her full attention.

Yes, I'm talking about That Snide Bitch. (Yours might be That Snide Bastard.)

She finds fault with everything. Anytime she hears someone with something positive to say, she just has to pop their little happy balloon, either by criticizing or one-upping.

• There's a book on the table; it's probably This Teacher's - she's always leaving her stuff out.
• There are never any pens here because That Teacher always walks off with them.
• Make sure you wait for the coffee to perk because Another Teacher will pour herself three cups from the pot, leaving none for anyone else.
• It's also probably Another Teacher who leaves the coffeemaker on after pouring the last cup, breaking the pot.
• So-and-so needs to walk her class to lunch because they're always so loud in the halls.
• Why should I bother to remind my kids to be quiet on the way to lunch when no one else apparently does?
• I can't allow students in my class to be interviewed for school publications; pull them from another class (when the interviewer is ALSO in another class).

The one that ticked me off enough to begin this post was when she said she wasn't going to "waste a quarter" on the school newspaper, because we had failed to notice that a letter had not been capitalized (think the C in LeCroix as an example) and she didn't want to support shoddy workmanship.

She's moving. And let me tell you, Disney World is not the only reason I'm counting down the days to summer break...

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