On a quiet morning of a school day, Matthew sat up from his bed reluctantly, walking out.
“Morning, Mom,” Matthew said.
“Good morning, son,” his dad said, walking out of the bedroom, yawning. Mom was placing the plates onto the table.
They sat down and started to eat their breakfast. After breakfast, Matthew left home and went to school. When he was walking on the sidewalk, his head got pressed down by some mystery power, but he looked at his back, there was nothing behind him.
Matthew turned his head back, but he suddenly realized something: everything works in reverse. All the birds were flying backwards; the trees’ roots were above the ground…
Matthew walked to school and saw that every teacher was chatting at the locker area, and his friends were talking at the teachers’ office. He realized another thing: the jobs of students and teachers switched. He followed his friends and entered the office, like he did that everyday. He chatted with his “teacher friends” until the bell rang. Matthew went to his homeroom, and he saw that all his teachers were waiting outside the room. He invited his “students” into the classroom.
“Emm… Okay… I will take the attendance now,” Matthew stammered.
“Michael?” Matthew asked. He felt so weird because he never did that before, and his students were taller than he.
“Here!”
“Zander?”
“Here!”
Finally, Matthew completed his first piece of work. “Phew!” He sighed. He was also happy, because he didn’t have to do homework!
“Hum… These guys gave me a lot of homework before. Now, I am the teacher, I can give them trillions of pieces of homework! Hee-hee!” Matthew thought, smirking.
Matthew went back to his office. He checked the schedule. His first class was science for parts of the 6th graders. Not only he, the other teachers also didn’t know how to teach, so they finally came out an idea. Give the students pop quizzes. They quickly used AI to make some quizzes and printed them out before the bell rang.
Matthew grabbed the quizzes and zoomed to his classroom. He did the weird attendance again.
“Okay, students, today we will have a quiz,” Matthew announced.
“OH NO! POP QUIZ!” Sam yelled.
“Be quiet! Sam!” Matthew ordered, mimicking what Mr. Sam usually said in science class. Later, Matthew passed out the quizzes, then he was playing his phone for the rest 40 minutes.
Matthew and all the teachers make their “students” have quizzes for all the subjects in the morning. Then the best thing for the students to be teachers came—lunch.
All the students burst out off the classrooms and dashed to the cafeteria, but for Matthew and his friends, they didn’t need to rush to there and they could randomly give any students lunch detention because they were running.
“Hey! You with the blue jacket! What’s your name! No running in the building! Lunch detention tomorrow!” Matthew pointed to a student. Then the student walked away sadly.
They sauntered to the cafeteria. No crowd, no waiting, nothing sold out.
While they were eating, they saw Mr. Franklin, the school principal and Mr. Zander were throwing tomatoes at each other. Matthew called Benjamin, the “school principal,” to restrain them. Michael walked to them and said, “YOU TWO! DEDUCT TWO CONDUCT MARKS EACH PERSON!”
For the rest of the day, the “students” finally had PE to rest their brains from doing tests for a whole day. The students made that day “The Day of Testing.”
The next few days, the students became noisier and noisier, and the class became uncontrollable. Matthew yelled at them but it was not usefull.
“Matthew, wake up!” a quiet sound said. It was coming from his brain.
Matthew rubbed his eyes, and he found that he was on his bed.
“What! That was a dream!? No way! It was the best dream I ever had!” Matthew sat up sharply. “Noooo!”
“Argh, I still want to give my students a bunch of homework, but being teacher is also not always good. We are even more louder in the class than the “students” in my dream!” Matthew thought, walking to school.