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TOP 12 SIGNS YOUR SCHOOL IS TOO BIG

12. It is a 25-minute walk from your car to your classroom.
11. Your classroom is at the end of the "Blue Concourse."
10. Your students are lobbying for a light rail system.
9. Itinerant teachers are writing a grant for jet-packs so they can make it to their different classrooms on time.
8. Your highlight of your day is seeing a student you know while supervising passing time.
7. Your third-period class has been assigned twelfth lunch.
6. You've lost 8 lbs. just walking to the office every day to pick up your mail.
5. By the time you get your cup of coffee from the teachers' lounge to your room, it's cold.
4. It's hard to tell what period it is because parts of the school are in different time zones.
3. All of the staff wear identification badges, which is good because you only know a couple of hundred of them by name.
2. When you send a student to the office, you have to give them a sleeping bag, a sandwich, and a flashlight - just in case they get lost.
1. When you're late, you always get an upper deck, obscured-view seat at faculty meetings.

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