SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Oct. 24, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Teachers
across the nation are liking, sharing and commenting on
Horace Mann's faux reality series,
"An Extreme Calling." Horace Mann
(NYSE: HMN), a multiline insurance company providing insurance and
financial services to the education community, released the series
on Facebook, YouTube and its website, and teachers have been
reacting to this humorous spin on challenges they face every
day.
The latest episode in Horace
Mann's video series, "Rubber Ducky Round-Up," features
teacher trainees working to impose their will on an unruly group of
rubber duckies and is featured on Horace Mann's Facebook page and
horacemann.com.
"We did this series as a way to show teachers we get the
challenges they face," says Dawn
Klintworth, Vice President of Integrated Marketing.
"Educators have really enjoyed the videos and are very engaged in
our social communities. They're sharing the videos with
friends and colleagues, and many are relaying their own humorous
stories about daily challenges they encounter."
The first episode, "Two-minute Ingestion," featured teachers
training for an extremely short – if not sometimes non-existent –
lunch period. "Beat Back the Bladder," the second episode, showed
teachers undergoing the bladder training needed to handle a day
with minimal bathroom breaks. And in "Learning the Lingo," the
trainees tried to crack the code of the sometimes confusing lingo
of their students.
"We are champions of the potty dance," says one teacher on
Horace Mann's Facebook page in
reaction to the "Beat Back the Bladder" episode. Another
teacher wrote, "Wish I had a spare bladder."
Horace Mann's Educator Advisory
Panel's survey responses inspired the series when they shared the
funniest things about being a teacher that only other teachers
could understand. The survey also generated a comic series
called, "Classroom Fun-da-mentals." Several of the comics have
already been released, and you'll find them at horacemann.com in
the "Recess Time for Teachers" section.
To get an up-close view of "Life as Teacher" as described by the
Educator Advisory Panel in the company's June survey, check out the
full survey results at horacemann.com.
About Horace Mann
Horace Mann (Horace Mann Educators Corp.
(NYSE:HMN) is the largest national multiline insurance company
focusing on educators' financial needs. Horace Mann provides auto and homeowners
insurance, retirement annuities, life insurance and other financial
solutions. Founded by Educators for Educators® in
1945, the company is headquartered in Springfield, Ill. For more information about
the company, visit horacemann.com.
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