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"No! I didn't say 'eagle'." - A frustrated cry from a student after i deliberately misheard her question of what an ego is. (4/29/11)

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"I should probably close my mouth huh?" -- An eleven year old as she swatted bugs as they flew overhead. (5/1/11)

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"I was carrying around one chicken and then it took a ****" - My student's response after I asked him why he had such a ratty looking backpack compared to the nice one he had just a few days ago. (4/28/11)

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"Mister. Why does it say 10 on there?" - A student pointing out to me that I wrote the date on the board as 2010. Almost 5 months into 2011 and I still can't get it right. (4/27/10... I mean 11)

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"It's the only place we can play without getting caught." - A (male) 7th grader's reason for playing pogs... in the bathroom. (4/25/11)

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"My ex boyfriend was stalking me. Then I found out he's now dating my worst enemy." - I don't know what's more worrisome: my 12 year old student already has a stalker, or that she already has a nemesis, or the fact that she told me all this before greeting me. (4/25/11)

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"You usually don't know you're dehydrated till you're dehydrated." - Common sense advice from an acquaintance who is used to working long hours outdoors. (4/23/11)

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"Why not? You're single." -- A friend's response after I told her I couldn't afford the $100 she was demanding I leave in an Easter Egg for her to find. (4/21/11)

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A female 7th grader to her (male) friend, "No, if you like guys, you're gay, but if you like girls, you're lez." I wonder how well they're paying attention in health class.  (4/21/11)

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"Oh! Today's Wednesday." -- The sudden realization from a coworker who had called to warn me about server problems the school's testing site was experiencing. I was scheduled to have my students take the test...on Tuesday. (4/20/11)

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"Mister, it's not letting me log in." - Same quote, same situation, different reason. Last time we took the Hawaii State Assessment on the computers, I had a student say this to me since she had typed her full name in the field that says: First Name. This time, a different student called me over only to find he had typed his student ID number in the filed marked: First Name. (4/19/11)

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"You have the roots of a 16 or 17 year old." - My dentist explaining why my teeth are always so sensitive while pointing to the abnormally large roots on the x-ray image of my molars. (4/18/11)

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"And then he rewound it three times." - An intermediate student's recollection of her science teacher showing a birthing video that grossed out all of the students so much that I could hear their squeals a few classrooms away. (4/15/11) 

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"I found out every time they come, we pay them $2,900... each." - An administrator's lament over the amount of money being spent for 3 educational consultants to come to our school due to No Child Left Behind. (4/13/11)

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"Most teachers are a gregarious bunch, but she won't even say 'hi' to me." - A friend's complaint about one of our coworkers that he greets as he passes by everyday. (4/13/11)

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"Why is it in quotes?" - A friend's observation of a new restaurant's name that was printed on paper that was already starting to fall down. (4/7/11)

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"How do you stay so skinny?" - Compliment from a coworker upon seeing my stash of treats that I brought to a meeting. (4/5/11)

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"Can you please turn that off!?" - A student's plea to his peer the day after she got her first cell phone and was trying to secretly text in class...it's not that he was so intent on learning, but rather she had no clue how to turn off the keypad tones. (4/6/11)

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"Daniel said it was worthless." - A friend's interpretation when asked by another coworker how yesterday's meeting went. All I had said was that I didn't remember much from the uneventful union meeting. (4/6/11) 

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"Can I at least take a picture of it? My mom won't believe me without proof." - Excited reaction from one of my students upon seeing her test score. (4/5/11)