A Teacher Has To Know ft. Tom Pease, Bill Harley, Sally Rogers, Alina Celeste & Susan Salidor Lyrics

Teachers have to know how to write a sentence

Teacher have to know how to add a sum

Teachers have to know how to take attendance

And that June is bound to come

How to deal with a cranky parent

And keep the desks in a row

So many things a teacher has to know

Teachers have to know when kids are restless

Know when they need a break

They teach how to make good guesses

And to learn from a mistake

How to upload a report card

When the system's running slow

So many things a teacher has to know

How to deal with the behaviors that drive them nuts

How to reach every student with their ifs and ands and buts

Teachers have to know how to read the data

Teachers have to know how to give a test

Teachers have to know that love and kindness

Are a measure of success.

When to push high expectations

And when to just let go

So many things a teacher has to know

You can say that schools are changing

And who's to blame

But standing in a room of children

Is different but still the same.

Teachers have to know how to lead a lockdown

Or an active shooter drill.

practice running in a zig zag

Though they pray they never will.

And we've seen them use their bodies

To protect and take the blow

So many things a teacher has to know

A school is not a fortress

Where you can hide

There's magic going on

If you look inside

It's not what they signed up for.

It was never on their mind

When did the front of a classroom

Turn into the front line

We've got to work to stop this madness not keep the status quo

For our teachers and our children That's one thing I know

Teachers have to know how to end a sentence

Teachers have to know how to multiply

Teachers have to know how to take attendance

And look each child in the eye

Look each child in the eye

They see their students' faces

Sometimes a shadow grows

So many things every teacher knows