My Two Writing Teachers colleagues and I are hosting the 14th Annual March Slice of Life Story Challenge, in which teachers from around the world participate in posting a story per day.

I have to renew my teaching license this year. Anyone who has ever been a teacher knows what a pain in the butt this is. It’s one thing we can all agree on.

I could complain about a lot of parts of the process, but here is my main complaint.

Why the heck do I have to get new fingerprints done every three years?

It makes no sense!

In Vermont, where I live, the fingerprints are DIGITAL. They are IN THE COMPUTER.

Isn’t that the whole point? My fingerprints are already ON FILE so that if I rob a bank, they can look up my DIGITAL fingerprints IN THE COMPUTER and match them up and say Yikes that lady is a teacher. Better revoke her license! We can’t have bank robbers working with kids!

Right? Isn’t that the point of getting them done?

So, if the entire point is to keep them on file, where they can be pulled up at any point - I know they already have them. So WHY OH WHY do I have to waste a morning (and a bunch of money) going to the sheriff’s office to get them done AGAIN? Fingerprints don’t change! That’s the WHOLE POINT!

AAAArrrghgghghghgh! Make it make sense!

That’s my angry rant slice of life for today. Thank you for listening.