Today is the Teacher's Day in Estonia (it's a kind of moving holiday here -> end of the first week in October).
For the school it usually means that the 12th-graders are appointed the leaders of the school and they do all sorts of crazy things like ask teachers to fold a paper plane and throw it out of the window or test their drawing skills etc. etc.
I've been a pig-tailed pupil drawing with crayons on a Teacher's Day in my previous workplace making hell of the student-teacher's life :)
By the way, the Teacher's Day is not on the same day in every country (if you didn't know that yet)!
In Turkey it is November 24th;
In Malaysia May 16th;
In India September 5th
and they spend it, like Estonians do, on a working day.
In some countries the Teacher's Day is considered the national holiday.
In some countries the Teacher's Day is celebrated to commemorate somebody's death or birth - in China the birthday of Confucius (28.09) or in Czech Republic the birthday of Jan Ámos Komenský (28.03) also known as Comenius.
Hi Tea! In Argentina, Teacher's Day is celebrated on September 11 to commemorate the birth of Domingo Sarmiento, a think-tank who introduced the whole education system in my country.
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