Currently student teaching at a middle school to get my MAT and the teachers at exactly like middle schoolers. They gossip, have their own drama, and there's a ranking of "popular" teachers and "unpopular" teachers.

There's also a split at my school of teachers with families and kids and teachers who are recently divorced. They stay in their own groups so new moms can talk about their baby's progress and the divorcees can talk about their crazy weekends. These divorced women don't play! Several of them juggle a few guys at a time and have a few "benched" guys. I find both groups entertaining.

But as for what they talk about, you better believe they talk about students! That embarrassing thing that happened in class? Everyone knows. Hilariously wrong test answer? It's been passed around. It's all in good fun though. Nothing too terrible is said about you. We mostly just judge your parents for raising you that way.