Teachers will not turn down an opportunity to eat free food. It doesn't even matter what it is, really. If it's free, they'll scarf it. Studies have shown that a plate of brownies left in the teacher workroom will be completely consumed in 11.2 minutes on average. That average takes a sharp drop to 5.6 minutes if the brownies are warm and/or freshly baked. If you have a bunch of leftovers in your fridge, particularly after a party or a holiday weekend, and you want to get rid of them, just put them in your child's backpack before school. You'll make a lot of teacher friends, and the teachers will probably wash your Tupperware for you.
Master teachers have a sixth sense for locating free food in the building. If a plate of brownies is placed in the workroom at the southeast end of the building, it will take 3 seconds for a master teacher in the northwest end of the building to detect their presence and only about 10 seconds for her to sprint to the workroom and eat a brownie without anyone knowing that she has just blown her diet (hungry teachers can be quite stealthy).
Some teachers don't have any scruples about taking food from colleagues. I have had teachers take many snacks--most commonly almonds and popcorn--out of my hands on several occasions. A word to the wise: if you pop a bag of popcorn in the workroom, all the teachers in the building will know. They will follow the scent to your room and stick their germy, been-too-busy-to-Purell-this-morning mitts in your popcorn, and help themselves to as much as they want. It's probably best to just go ahead and give them the bag at this point. It was your fault for not locking the door.
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