An Article for Retiring Teachers: What Time is it, Anyways?

Well ladies I hate to be the one to inform you,Due to a wrinkle in time, from when you first
but Father Time has caught up with you. The firststarted until now, the time has arrived for you to
time you set foot in this school you found outdouble time it out of here. We have had some
real fast that you would not just be killing timehard times together and some high times, also.
and you would have plenty of time to do all theWe have spent many lunch times and meal times
things you wanted. At the time you thought thatenjoying each others company. But there is a
it would be a long time before it would be time totime for all things and now it is time for you to
go.enter a new time zone. The timing is just right.
The principal expected you to be on time, takeTime after time you have wanted to do
time for outside duty, know the time of day andsomething and time and again you couldn’t
you were to take very little time off. Sometimesbecause you had to go to school. Now you can.
after a hard day and the district wanted you atIt’s play time, you can have a lot of personal
an after school workshop you felt like you weretime, and there is no time limit.
in a time warp with no down time. You haveYour time is up and you need to take time off.
helped kids learn their times tables, learn how toEnjoy your retirement before you start living on
tell time, and repeated a thousand times” thisborrowed time. Take some personal time before
time you are in time out”. You have spent soyour time runs out. Kill some time it is not against
much time getting not paid for overtime that itthe law and they can’t put you in jail for
has become a past time. You have spent a lifedoing so. Take time to enjoy your life before you
time preparing lessons, a stitch in time doing whatrun out of time. And, in due time you will not
you wanted and felt like you were running out ofwake up before the alarm goes off, roll over in
time about this time every year.bed and say What time is it anyways?