Quote of the Day (Face)

"I don't give you the stink eye; that's just my confused face." - A student's defense after I teased her for always giving me weird looks whenever I make a mistake on the board (which is quite often). (2/15/12)

Quote of the Day (kisses)

"Mister, do you want some kisses?" - Offer from a male student. When he saw my stunned expression, and heard his classmates giggling, he quickly clarified by adding, "Uh...Hershey's Kisses. C'mon guys." (2/14/12)

Quote of the Day (martial arts)

"You better watch out! Mister has a black belt in karate, kung fu, judo, tae kwon do, jiujitsu, and...and kumon." - A student's playful warning to his friend about why students shouldn't mess with me. This made me laugh every time I thought about posting this. (2/13/12)

Quote of the (what) Day

"Weekend? Oh! I forgot that today is Friday." - A high school student's confession after she overheard me wish another student to have a good weekend. (2/10/12)

Quote of the Day (tissue)

"Miss, do you have any napkins?" - An intermediate student asking for something to blow his nose with. When told that I had none, he spied my stack of newspapers and asked if he could use them instead. Contributed by Carol. (2/8/12)

Quote of the Day (impression)

"My friend called me, and I forgot that the ball was coming." - A student's explanation of how she got "stitches" on her head. It turned out that it was just a deep impression of the softball stitching from where she got hit on the forehead. (2/8/12)

Quote of the Day (lights)

"Ooh, can we turn off the lights?" - An upperclassman's request after our lockdown/shelter-in-place drill started (by closing all windows and doors). I didn't realize that anyone wanted to see a dark classroom. (2/7/12)

Quote of the Day (opposite)

"Can I come in during lunch to finish it? It's too noisy; I can't concentrate." - A student's response after I asked her if she was going to even finish her test following a reprimand to stop chatting with her friend. (2/6/12)

Quote of the Day (drop)

"Aw Mister, on the favorite teacher scale, you just went from here to down here." - A student motioning my drop in popularity because I accidentally left her hanging for a high-five. (2/1/12)

Quote of the Day (Sharing)

"Here! I'll just break my pencil in half so we can both have a pencil." - A student's kind offer after I chided his friend for using a pen on his math test. Only one problem: there's no pencil sharpener in the classroom. (2/2/12)

Quote of the Day (question)

"Do you really think I'm smart?" - Question from a student a day after I said he was one of my smarter students in front of his family at the supermarket. (1/29/12)

Quote of the Day (stalker)

"Mister, I know where you live. You live in a white house, right?" - Disconcerting comment from a student who claimed to know where I live. He continued, "The one with the clean yard, right?" It was then that I knew he had absolutely no clue where I live. (1/31/12)

Quote of the Day (sub)

"Do we have a sub today?!" - A student's cheerful question when she didn't see me as she entered the classroom. In contrast, another student later said she was glad that I was "the first real teacher" she's had in her classes all day due to a lot of teachers being pulled out to attend a meeting. (1/27/12)

Quote of the Day (memory)

"Not even once did you yell at us all year." - Compliment from a student reflecting on when I taught him two years ago and is now my student again in a different class. (1/26/12)

Quote of the Day (DLWOP)

"Take this furlough and shove it." - A coworker's commentary on the priorities of our local government. (1/25/12)

Quote of the Day (light)

"Mister, what is 'ambulance light'?" - A high school student's question to me after he overheard me use the phrase 'ambient light'. I'm not surprised since a student in another class called the discriminant (for the quadratic equation) the 'discrimination'. (1/24/12)

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)