The Teacher's Lounge

The Teacher's Lounge at CLP is a rather small painted cinderblock room (as is most of the rest of the school, built in the 1940s.) There are two microwaves, two restrooms, two small tables and chairs, a pop machine and a fridge. There is a door leading back to the copy room, as well.

I have lunch period with some of the nicest teachers around. They are all very talkative and pretty funny. They like to tell horror stories, adventure stories, teaching stories, long bus ride stories and just about anything else that will get a laugh.

We have a group of 8th and 9th graders in our 1st period that put together the CLP News twice per month. The kids do little stories about upcoming events, sports, new teachers, etc. They did a skit this week that should come up to be very funny. It is "Inside the Teacher's Lounge." Instead of going to the teacher's lounge, they came down to the media center, where there are a bunch of couches and lounging chairs. They took about 5-6 kids from our 1st period Computer Skills class and had them in the video with some willing teachers. Teachers are shown lounging on the couches, while 7th graders fan them and feed them grapes, etc. Then, the art teacher, Mr. Hall, comes in from offscreen, wearing nothing but a towel saying, "Boy, we really need to turn up the heat in the sauna!" It should be pretty amusing, especially since it the exact opposite of the real Teacher's Lounge.