Quote of the Day (donkey)

"We need one regular education teacher to stay till the end of this meeting. DANIEL! You always volunteer, so I know you enjoy staying after school for these meetings." - Infuriating assumption from a coworker during a meeting. Listen, I volunteered in the past because your (lack of) preparation for these kind of meetings was a lawsuit waiting to happen © (12/1/11)

Quote of the Day (mix 2)

"I'm from the country and the ghetto, I'm countr-etto." - Another amalgamation from the same intermediate student that came up with "Samo-ngan" the other day. (11/28/11)

Quote of the Day (mix 1)

"Is he Samo-ngan?" - A student asking his peer about the nationality of their classmate. When he sensed my confusion he added, "That's when they're Samoan AND Tongan mixed." (11/29/11)

Quote of the Day (gains)

"It doesn't look like you gained too much weight Mister." - An intermediate student's observation after we talked about how our Thanksgiving weekend went. (11/28/11)

Quote of the Day

"Can I trade you my notebook for a bento?" - Freudian slip from a student seeking to give me collateral to borrow a pencil. (11/23/11)

Quote of the Day (eyes)

"For real Mister? You can't roll your eyes?" - A student's reaction after I jokingly told him that I can't roll my eyes because they're too small. Can you guess what my response was to his question? (11/21/11)

Quote of the Day (car)

"Do you have a yellow camaro?" - A silly question from the same intermediate student that thinks I look like Max from Hawaii 5-0. (11/21/11)

Quote of the Day (contagion)

"Stop breathing!" - A friend's playfully unsympathetic solution to prevent me from spreading germs after another one of my coughing fits. (11/19/11)

Quote of the Day (difficulty)

"Mister, is Algebra II harder than Algebra I?" - Question from a slightly confused student. The sad part is that the student who asked this is in my Algebra II class. (11/18/11)

Quote of the Day (career)

"I'm glad that you didn't do that." - A student's compliment after I had just explained that I was actually a Botany major (with a pre-med emphasis) before deciding to become a math teacher. (11/17/11)

Quote of the Day (surprise)

"WHAT?! Mister?! How come you gave me a zero?" - Response from an intermediate student, who refused to do any work solely because one of her peers took her seat after she came into class late. Her friend had caught a glimpse of my grade sheet for today and laughingly blurted out the score to her. (11/15/11)

Quote of the Day (mnemonic)

"Just remember that hyper starts with 'high'." - Unfortunate mnemonic device from an educational video about hyperglycemia (& diabetes). Doesn't hypo(glycemia) also start with "high"? Or maybe I'm just cranky because I had to stay an hour after work to sit through the most unorganized presentation ever. (11/14/11)

Quote of the Day (germs)

"Mister, if I get sick, I'm blaming you." - A student's words of sympathy after I suffered a major coughing fit while teaching. (11/14/11)

Quote of the Day (catch)

"Mister, this is SO..." - Self censoring from the student who claimed a few days earlier that my problems were so easy then proceeded to make mistakes on the next three questions. (11/10/11)

Quote of the Day (violence)

"Can I slap him for you?" - An intermediate student's offer as he sensed my growing frustration with the increasingly childish antics of his classmate. When I declined his offer, he asked, "Do you want me to kick him instead?" How did he read my mind!?!? (11/9/11)

Quote of the Day (bragging)

"SO EASY! Watch this Mister." - An intermediate student's enthusiastic request for me to supervise his work. He then proceeded to get the next three questions wrong. (11/8/11)

Quote of the Day (del)

"Wait Mister, don't delete that!" - A loud plea from a frantically writing student as I was about to erase an important formula from the board. (10/21/11)

Quote of the Day (notes)

"Mister! I think I forgot my notes!" - A student's sudden realization at the beginning of today's test. Normally it wouldn't have bothered me that much, but I had stayed an hour after school to help him make those notes less than 24 hours ago. (11/4/11)

Quote of the Day (surprise)

"Wait! There's a test tomorrow?" - Question from the same student that had been suffering from a Halloween (candy) Hangover despite it being posted on the board every day this week and announced at the beginning of each class. (11/3/11)

Quote of the Day (w/ picture)

"Mister, where did you get that dinosaur TV?" - A high school student's (belated) observation of the size/age of the TV in my classroom. (11/2/11)