Teachers are naturally alert. Nobody knows this better than their phone-obsessed pupils…and any lovebirds attempting to conceal a budding romance in the teachers’ lounge.

Here are five telltale signs that will lead to outing your budding relationship to the entire school:
 

1. Volunteering for the worst trips
   You both opt in for yet another trip to the local town to do a traffic survey in the rain. Who knew counting cars could be such a blast?
   
   
   
   
    
2. Offers of help with correcting papers
   Because there’s no more tender a moment than when your hands reach for the same red pen. You almost wish you had assigned the students 5 more pages to write so you could savor each passionate underline and circle.
   
   
   
   
    
3. Regular trips to the copy room
   What a coincidence that you’re both planning the exact same lessons involving an entire tree’s worth of Revolutionary War themed bingo cards at exactly the same time!
   
   
   
   
    
4. Inane giggling at bad inside jokes
   While nobody else so much as cracks a smile until the exams are over, you’re both still laughing about that time so-and-so did that thing on the traffic survey trip. Humor is so sexy.
   
   
   
   
    
5. Loud discussions about your mutual “lack of plans” for the whole year.
   “I have NOTHING to do all weekend. I’ll be catching up on sleep and being boring. I’m soooooo single and boring.” Wink, wink. 

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