What kind of teacher always acts shady even when the sun is shining brightly overhead?
A geometry teacher
The humor stems from a playful pun linking shading techniques with mathematical shapes. A geometry instructor spends all day drawing angles, polygons, and shaded geometric proofs on the chalkboard, making them perpetually shady.
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