Quote of the Day (future)

Student 1: “I promise. I’ll come in at lunch tomorrow.”
Student 2: “Where were you today? You were supposed to come in at lunch today”
Student 1: “I was hungry. I went to go get food.”
Student 2: “Yeah, but now you’re gonna fail this class, then you’re not going to go to college. You’re not going to get a good job, then you’ll be homeless...with no food. It’s like you gave up all your food in the future for lunch today.” (11/29/18)

Quote of the Day (rating)

“Remember the time that [teacher name] got all mad and yelled at us after they found out we gave them a bad rating?” - Comment from a high school student during a discussion about the teacher rating surveys that were administered this week. (11/29/18)

Quote of the Day (minus well)

“Is it ‘minus well’? Or is it ‘might as well’?” - Question from a high school student during today’s lesson. (11/28/18)

Quote of the Day (Canada)

“I don’t get it. Your parents don’t even allow you to drive.” - Comment from a high school student to his friend. The friend just announced that he was going to Canada by himself over Winter Break to visit a girl that he had met at a summer program. (11/27/18)

Quote of the Day (germ-x)

Student sneezes into his hands.
Me: “Bless you.”
Student [approaching me with cupped hands filled with sprayed saliva]: “Aaaaahhhh! Germ-x! Germ-x!”
Me [pointing to a stack of paper towels]: “Ew! Go wipe your hands first.”
Student [confused]: “What do you want me to do?”
Does that mean he just wanted me to squirt some hand sanitizer in his hands so he could mix it with all the spittle? (11/26/18)

Quote of the Day (boyfriend)

Student 1: “Did you see [student name]’s new boyfriend!?!?!”
Student 2: “Yeah. Compared to her ex, that’s like going from an iPhone 1 to a...uh, iPhone that’s unreleased!” (11/21/18)

Quote of the Day (pimple)

Student 1: “Whoa! Student 2, did you get stung by a bee?”
Student 2: “No, it’s just a pimple.” (11/19/18)

Quote of the Day (cartridge)

“Mister, you’re like the third person who thought that.” - Comment from a male high school student after I told him that he needed to stop carrying the small perfume bottle that he had found like an electronic cigarette. (11/19/18)

Quote of the Day (21)

“If I take it 10 more times then I might get a 30!” - A high school student’s excited response after he learned he got a 21 on the ACT, an improvement of 1 point from the first time he took it. (11/16/18)

Quote of the Day (mood plot)

“Wow! It looks like you could plot [teacher’s name]’s mood swings with this graph.” - Comment from a high school student during our lesson about the fluctuations of a sine curve. (11/15/18)

Quote of the Day (louder)

Student 1 & Student 2  both find the answer to a problem and say it out loud.
Student 1: “Ha! I said it first.”
Student 2: “Yeah, well, I said it louder.” (11/14/18)

Quote of the Day (ice)

Student [motioning to his swollen hand]: “Mister! Do you have a bag of ice?”
Me: “Huh? Oh, you should probably go to the health room.”
Student: “No, thank you. I just need a bag of ice.”
Me: “I know. You can probably get one from the health room.”
Student: “But I just thought you would have one.”
Me: “Why would I have a bag of ice?”
Student: “Because you have all kinds of things.”
Me [intrigued]: “Like what?”
Student: “Well, you have calculators, paper towels, pencils, computers, and you gave me an eraser one time.” (11/13/18)

Quote of the Day (more)

Student 1: “Hey Mister, is it true that if you take four or more AP tests, then you get to pay less for each test?”
Me: “...”
Student 2: “No, it just means you have to pay more overall.” (11/8/18)

Quote of the Day (notes)

Student: “Mister, is it alright if I use [student’s name]’s notes on the (open-note) test?”
Me: “That’s a strange request. You know why I might say no, right?”
Student: “I promise I’m not cheating. I forgot my notes and [student name] takes good notes so I asked him if I could borrow them for the test.”
Me [looking over the notes for anything suspicious]: “I guess you can. Thank you for asking first.”
Student: “I thought it would be good to ask before I just started using them.”
10 minutes into the test...
Student: “Argh! These notes are all wrong! Why did I even ask him for these? I would score better if I don’t even use [student’s name]’s notes!” (11/7/18)

Quote of the Day (tattle tale)

Student 1: “Hey Mister! You know what Student 2 did in class the other day?”
Student 2 looks at me, smiles sheepishly then looks away.
Student 1: “She called you Mr. Lau.”
Me [trying to make Student 2 not feel so bad]: “So? A lot of people do that.”
Student 1: “No! But it wasn’t like those other times.”
Student 2: “Stop. You don’t have to tell him.”
Student 1: “She was talking to her friend like, ‘Hey, are you going to take Mr. Lau’s math class next year? I’m in Mr. Lau’s class right now.’ And the whole time she kept calling you Mr. Lau.”
Me: “Wow! That is pretty bad.”
Student 1: “I know. I had to walk over there and correct them, ‘Oh? You mean Mr. Hwang?’” (11/2/18)

Quote of the Day (bet)

Student 1 [to Student 2]: “I bet I’ll get a better score than you on the test.”
Student 2: “Oh yeah? OK I bet you if I score higher than you Mister will give you an F.”
Student 3: “Ooh! Don’t do it!”
Student 1: “OK, if I score higher than you then Mister gives YOU an F.”
Student 2 [looking at me]: “And if we both score the same then you can give us both an F.” (10/31/18)