Silly pun, I know - if you're too old to remember passing periods in Jr. High/ High School, try teaching or substituting at a public school. I'm short. I see and hear a lot out of 13 through 16-year-olds ... and THEN they see me! (Evil laugh.) I just love these guys! They keep me on my toes!
So, as students are expressing serious concern about how much they're learning in Algebra (and how much they're not learning) and how they're not going to be able to pass the state standards for class... Speaks one brilliant mind:
"Did you know you can take a bus apart with a phillips-head screw driver?"
Urgh?
"I'm going in the boys' bathroom to cut it off, and then I'm gonna' turn his nasty in."
At which point I just stopped and HAD to hear what the explanation was:
"You know how ... kissed me? He told me it didn't mean anything? Well, he just did it again and than he told me the same thing. Again! I swear..." And here it got a little too explicit for my delicate sensibilities!
Guys - this is not how to enamor yourself to the girls.
Girls - if his face is inches from yours, you know what's coming next! Duck and run if it's all that bad!
"Ms. _______, Are we gonna' be doin' enythin' 'mportant fer the next 2 week? My mama's takin' us to the beach."
First of all, no one ever does anything important in school! It's really all a conspiracy to keep kids from having fun. Secondly - I don't think I'd be rubbing 2 weeks at the beach in the face of an overworked, underpaid teacher who probably wants to be at the beach even more than that kid does!
I am a mom and a wife, a hobby farmer and flower-gardener, a voracious reader, a sometimes journaler, a techno-addict, a teacher, and a learner. Teaching is not my first career, but it is by far my favorite (in spite of the pay!).
