Quote of the Day (predictable)

"When I heard that, I thought to myself, 'I bet that's gonna be in Daniel's blog.'" - A coworker's comment after the word that had been created/used by an administrator in a meeting last week ("generized") came up in our conversation today." (1/23/12)

Quote of the Day (Holiday)

"It was my birthday." - A student's answer after I asked him why he was absent the other day. (1/20/12)

Quote of the Day (spelling)

"How do you spell Alex? A-L-X?" - A student asking me how to spell a classmate's name. (1/19/12)

Quote of the Day (Two Wrongs)

"If you get generized [sic], then the kids get generized." - An administrator's admonition to teachers to stay calm during a crisis. (1/18/12)

Quote of the Day (muscles)

"Do you lift weights?" - A newer coworker's first question to me this morning. (1/17/12)

Quote of the Day (tact)

"Mister, you're really red." - One of my new students after I bumped into her and her family at a restaurant after we had finished a beach clean up. (1/16/12)

Quote of the Day (neighbor)

"If I lived next-door to you, I would come over all the time and ask you for help." - A student's response after I told him that I recently found out that I live next door to a student from one of my new classes. (1/13/12)

Quote of the Day (back up)

"Tell her Mister! Nine is an even number, right?" - A high school student's plea for me to support him in an argument with his friend. (1/12/12)

Quote of the Day (limit)

"There SHOULD be a 5 minute limit." - A student's muttering that I overheard as one of his peer's presentation just passed the 20 minute mark. To be fair, the long presentation was extremely meticulous in its explanation, and there had been no mention of points for brevity on the grading rubric. (1/10/12)

Quote of the Day (impression)

"Are you super smart or something?" - A student's question in my newly acquired class as I helped his friend with a powerpoint presentation using really technical (but appropriate) jargon. (1/10/12)

Quote of the Day (confused)

"Oh! This isn't 7th period?" - Question from a student after I had asked her if she was a recent transfer into my 6th period class in which she was now sitting. When I explained that it was now 6th period  she quickly started packing up her stuff. Her flustered excuse as she flew out the door: "I'm so confused. I guess I'm on Wednesday's schedule." Um...today is Friday. (1/6/12)

Quote of the Day (routine)

"Eat, sleep, repeat." - A student's response after I had asked her what she did over the break. (1/5/12)

Quote of the Day (seasick)

"I think I'm getting seasick!" - A student's reaction as she watched her peer's (overly dynamic) zooming and swooping presentation that he had made on prezi.com. (1/4/12)

Quote of the Day (KDrama)

"Korean dramas are ruining marriages." - An aunt's proclamation as she detailed all the extremes she has gone through to watch her favorite soap operas the moment they air. As if to prove her point, approximately 15 minutes after she said this, she disappeared from a family New Years party. (1/1/12)

Quote of the Day (core)

"Are you in core?" - A question blurted out from one intermediate student to her peer. Irritated that her classmate didn't understand what she was asking, she persisted, "RIGHT THERE! On your shirt, it says core!" I looked up to see what the commotion was and saw that the student was wearing his shirt for the school's choir program. (12/15/11)

Quote of the Day (inaccuracy)

"I don't think I learned this." - An intermediate student's wrong way to ask for help on a problem on the end of the semester exam. She's right. She never learned it, but I'm pretty sure I taught it. (12/14/11)

Quote of the Day (S)

"Mister, I thought it was spelled Tuesday, with the S in the middle." - A confused intermediate student who mistook the listing of the number of days left for the day of the week. I had written 'Two days'. (12/13/11)

Quote of the Day (wrong)

"Does that mean it's not right?" - Question from a student who worked through a fairly difficult problem doing all of the steps correctly only to find out he had copied down the question wrong. (12/12/11)

Quote of the Day (synonym)

"Hey strange man, I hardly see you around on campus anymore." - A coworker's greeting to me after not seeing each other at work for almost the entire semester. Unless she really was trying to drop the hint that I'm odd, I'm pretty sure she meant 'stranger'. (12/9/11)

Quote of the Day (misreading)

"Mister, what does 'me noose' mean?" - Completely baffling question coming from TWO different intermediate students today. When I looked at where they were pointing, I saw the source of confusion, the word "minus". (To be fair, I did give them a strict time limit in translating word problems into math symbols and numbers that caused them to read quickly) (12/7/11)