Quote of the Day

"This is such BS!" - Angry reaction by a student after seeing his poor test score (19%). This is the same student who draws in class and refuses to do more than one classwork problem because, "I got this." (9/30/11)

Quote of the Day

"You should make this your 'Picture of the Day'." - A reader's suggestion for today's entry after a coworker doffed his shirt so he could read the text on it for us at lunch. (9/29/11)

Quote of the Day

"Because it sounded funny when you said it." - A student's reason for grinning as I chided him for telling Yo Momma jokes instead of doing his work. I guess it was because I called it a "your" momma joke by accident since my mind was in proper English mode. (9/28/11)

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"Oh good. I'm glad it's not just me." - A teacher's reaction after finding out that the student who is driving me insane is doing the same thing to her. (9/27/11)

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"I had to go home and take a dump." - A student's uncomfortably loud response after I quietly asked him why he was 20+ minutes late to class. (9/23/11)

Quote of the Day pt . 2

"Maybe they've never grown a plant." - A friend's comment after he heard my story about a coworker's use of the word "butt" in the idiom: nip it in the bud. (9/21/11)

Quote of the Day pt. 1

"We're gonna have to nip it in the butt." - A coworker's malapropism during a meeting about a student's recently developed truancy problem. (9/20/11)

Quote of the Day

"Hey! Where are the kids?" - An 11th grade student's expression of surprise when he noticed that three 9th graders were absent from class today. (9/21/11)

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"Last year my teacher taught us how to find the greatest common factor, but I didn't get it. This is the first time I get it now." - An intermediate student's honest confession that felt a whole lot more like a compliment. (9/20/11)

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"Hey! It's the Teacher of the Year." - A coworker's playful assumption that the reason why I was late for lunch was because I was sacrificing my time to help students. I was late because I made students stay after class to clean up a mess they made. (9/19/11)

Quote of the Day w/ Link

"No! It's 87!" - An intermediate student's argument with my co-worker about the answer to a multiplication problem. What two numbers were being multiplied? 8 and 7. This almost replaces the infamous "IDN" Quote of the Day as my new favorite. (9/16/11)

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"Mister, was Math easier when you were young?" - An intermediate student's question after completing his work on a particularly difficult topic. When I asked if he meant to ask me if I was good at Math when I was younger, he replied, "No. I was just wondering if there was less to learn back then." (9/14/11)

Quote of the Day

"If I don't finish my test, can I come to your house and finish it?" - A 7th grader who likes to show off to his peers that he knows where I live. (9/14/11)

Quote of the Day w/ photo

"Why is the floor crooked back here?" - A student's observation after I asked him to move to the back of the room. (9/6/11) Note: The desk in the back of this photo is completely level if it's moved to anywhere else in the classroom.

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"We are experiencing internet problems district wide" - Memo sent out to the faculty today...via e-mail. (9/12/11)

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"And my hobby is... (pause)... being a nerd." - Part of a friend's self introduction during a meeting this afternoon. (9/11/11)

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"McDonald's was slipperier." - A friend's witty observation as I mentioned that the reason for my struggles on the trail was the slick roots. We both had shared stories earlier of nearly slipping and falling in separate incidences at the same McDonald's restaurant. (9/10/11)

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"I almost banged this little old Asian lady in front of school this morning." - A high school student's somewhat inappropriate sounding exclamation as he entered the classroom. Before he could find out why his friends were snickering at his distressing near-accident, I told him to stop trying to run over my mom just because he doesn't like my class. Crisis averted. (9/9/11)

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"How come you never picked me to be in your class this year?!" - Question from a former student that I ran into on campus. I wasn't aware I could draft students into my classes. (9/7/11)

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"I know what it is!!! It's Lindsey Lingle." - A student's enthusiastic response before I could answer his classmate's question of what our Principal (Donna Lindsey)'s name is. (9/7/11)

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"Ew! You touched a maggot." - A student who was in my room before school started and saw me pick up the larva (with a napkin). (9/6/11)

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"Really? It doesn't look that clean." - A friend's biting observation after I told him that I had just finished cleaning my yard before he came over. (9/3/11)

Quote of the Day

"And that was an 8th grader that did that!" - A coworker's surprise twist ending to a story she was telling me about a student who matched the font type and font size of a (mid-quarter) progress report, pasted the print-out to the progress report then xeroxed the whole thing in an attempt to dupe the parents into thinking he/she got straight A's. (9/1/11)