Students Are Sharing Pics Of Teachers Leaning Over And Sitting In The Weirdest Positions In Class (26 Tweets)
Teachers are unsung heroes: they spend all day filling students’ minds with knowledge and all night grading papers. But there’s something else that teachers tend to do—they lean against desks in very bizarre and seemingly (un)comfortable ways.
Well, Twitter user Karla_villegas wanted to share this interesting feature with the world, so she posted a photo of her old geometry teacher leaning on a desk with his legs in a peculiar position. Twitter loved the photo, Karla’s thread went viral, and other people started sharing pics of their own teachers leaning.
Scroll down, upvote your fave leaning-teacher photos, and let us know in the comments if your teachers acted the same way, dear Pandas!
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I'm surprised no one has made any jokes about him being a geometry teacher yet.
I do this (not a teacher though) It's actually pretty comfortable, like you're making your own chair lol
That's a teacher struggling to find a comfortable posture while working at that low table...but why is every student on their phone in class??? That would never be allowed here
I do some version of this pretty regularly. It's weird but comfortable
Pull up a freaking chair or sit on the floor. Why must this be a thing?????
Ummm the chairs are connected to the desks. And.. sit on the floor... wtf???
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Karla’s thread had a whopping 378.6k likes at the time of writing and more than 28.5k people retweeted it. The amount of attention the post got just goes to show that more teachers tend to act the same way than we realized!
But why do teachers lean like this? One explanation could be that desks are positioned at a weird height and teachers have no other choice but to lean like they’re in the middle of a ballet warm-up. Another reason could be back pain.
Sometimes I have to do that to stretch my legs out. After 2 back surgeries I cannot sit for long periods. And that stretch feels soooo good.
Teachers spend extended amounts of time standing and sitting and this can cause back problems if there’s not enough movement and variation between the two. In addition to standing, they have to keep bending down to help their students. The issue is especially prevalent among primary school teachers because the desks are far smaller.
So leaning in a weird way can be some teachers’ attempt to reduce the strain on their backs. Something else that can help protect their health is having standing or proper-sized desks for students to work at.
Choosing to sit on a high stool instead of standing for hours on end can also remove part of the strain. This upside is better back health; the downside is seeing less awesome leaning pictures on the net.
In think most of them do an excellent job to literally be on eye's height with the students. bowing or squatting may not work continuously through a day, particularly for teachers with back issues.
Also, if they were to just bend down with their legs straight, that might lead to labeling it as inappropriate sexual behaviour in class (showing a*s off). Also, no one wants to have a teachers a*s in their faces, so these are great workarounds, and they're quite comfortable.
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I hope these students asked for the permission before taking and publishing these (funny I admit) pics...
1. Standing and walking on a concrete floor all day is hell on you legs and back, regardless of your shoes. 2. Teachers are encouraged to be at eye level with students as much as possible.
they were probably tired after standing all day.. but why are they doing acrobatics and twerking ?
GUYS has anyone else noticed the fact that pretty much all of them are guys
It's hard for teachers to get into a good position. Standing over students is a bit us-and-them. Bending at the waist means you point your bum at someone, and risk students looking down your top if you're a female teacher. I challenge any student to find a comfortable way to get to the height of people sitting down, and maintain that pose for several minutes at a time.
As someone who gets a lot of sciatica pain, I get it... and am now worried that I also look funny all the time.
In think most of them do an excellent job to literally be on eye's height with the students. bowing or squatting may not work continuously through a day, particularly for teachers with back issues.
Also, if they were to just bend down with their legs straight, that might lead to labeling it as inappropriate sexual behaviour in class (showing a*s off). Also, no one wants to have a teachers a*s in their faces, so these are great workarounds, and they're quite comfortable.
Load More Replies... I hope these students asked for the permission before taking and publishing these (funny I admit) pics...
1. Standing and walking on a concrete floor all day is hell on you legs and back, regardless of your shoes. 2. Teachers are encouraged to be at eye level with students as much as possible.
they were probably tired after standing all day.. but why are they doing acrobatics and twerking ?
GUYS has anyone else noticed the fact that pretty much all of them are guys
It's hard for teachers to get into a good position. Standing over students is a bit us-and-them. Bending at the waist means you point your bum at someone, and risk students looking down your top if you're a female teacher. I challenge any student to find a comfortable way to get to the height of people sitting down, and maintain that pose for several minutes at a time.
As someone who gets a lot of sciatica pain, I get it... and am now worried that I also look funny all the time.
