Quote of the Day (McDonalds)

"You just go in there and you get fat." - Comment from a high school student to her friend about McDonald's. (11/5/2014)

Quote of the Day (notes)

"That's because I knew how to do it right after you showed us [the problems] in class." - A high school student's reason for just writing down the answers after I asked him why he didn't write any notes on how to do the problems for the unit I taught last week. (11/3/14)

Quote of the Day (costume)

"Mister, did you dress up as a math teacher?" - Question from a high school student who noticed that I didn't wear a costume for class on Halloween. (10/31/14)

Quote of the Day (trace)

"Mister, if I pay you two dollars, would you trace something for me?" - Question from a high school student trying to finish his project before class. When a few of his peers and I rejected his proposition, he exclaimed, "Why are there no people who believe in kindness?" (10/30/14)

Quote of the Day (rap)

"Mister, you have to read this to all your students in your next class." - Demand from a high school student who wrote the following rap verse on my whiteboard. (10/29/14)

"♫ Don't do drugs in the bushes with the bugs, or you'll be ugz and most likely to get mugged...rolled up in a rug, by a real-deal thug who's feeling fresh and smug...cause you don't need weed and you don't need to feed on mary-j plants that you stash in your pants, feeling so fanc...y, antsy and kind of dancy, getting footloose at Sadies with a moose. Flapping like a goose cause you did drugs uce...you should put it down and represent your town, not with a frown, looking like a clown, cause clowns do ice, they think it will suffice, but it doesn't do the job, you stand there looking like a fob, all square like sponge bob...Living in his pineapple under the sea...feeling high like the peeps in the yellow submarine...puff the magic dragon can't help you now, your doing drugs in the bushes looking like a cow...like how do you do that? Drugs and stuff...I think we all have had enough...so stop doing drugs, throw it down and swerve! Something something something you just got served. ☺︎ This rap was made by a sober person. ♫"

Quote of the Day (birthday)

"And sometimes if you're lucky, you get two." - Comment from a student who was eavesdropping on a conversation I was having with her peer about birthdays. (10/2/14)

Quote of the Day (out of character)

"Mister, today I'm going to do something that no one would expect me to do." - Announcement from a high school student said with a mischievous smile before his classmates entered the classroom. (10/27/14)

Quote of the Day (tired)

"Mister, were a lot of your other students half dead today?" - Question from a high school student at the end of the day after he recognized that a lot of students were in a quiet stupor since the football game ended at 11:30 the night before. (10/24/14)

Quote of the Day (vampire)

Student 1: "Imagine Mister as a vampire."
Student 2: "I can't. He's too Asian."

(10/23/14)

Quote of the Day (friend)

"Mister, are you his friend? He needs a friend. He needs someone to talk to; he's always talking to himself." - Question/commentary from a high school student about one of his teachers. (10/21/14)

Quote of the Day (passion)

"Mister, can you please teach all my other classes. I'm failing...with a passion." - Whiny plea from a former student who visited my class while I was grading papers after school. (10/20/14)

Quote of the Day (lesson)

"No I didn't. I taught him a life lesson." - Reply from a high school student after her peer whined to me about being tricked into giving her some of his food. (10/17/14)

Quote of the Day (smile)

"You know Mister, maybe if you smiled more you'd have more students that want to take your class." - Comment from a high school student after I refused to pose/smile while she interrupted my class to take pictures for the yearbook. (10/16/14)

Quote of the Day (scale)

"On a scale from one to...punch someone in the face, that's definitely a nine." - Venting from a high school student about the immaturity of her peers. (10/3/14)

Quote of the Day (parabola)

"Is that like the disease, ebola? I thought this was a math class." - Comment from a high school student who was kidding about our lesson topic: parabolas. (10/14/14)

Quote of the Day (repetition)

"Hey! You asked him that already." - Chastisement from a high school student to her peer who asked me "How was your break?" twice in 10 minutes on the first day back from Fall Recess. (10/11/14)

Quote of the Day (change)

"Bye Mister. Have a good break. Thanks for sitting and working with me today." - Parting greeting from a high school student who originally stated at the beginning of the class that she didn't want to be here since it was the last day before Fall Recess. (10/3/14)

Quote of the Day (break)

"Well, I kinda like school." - A high school student's reply after I asked her why she was complaining about the upcoming end of the quarter and its accompanying break. (10/2/14)

Quote of the Day (white van)

"White van!? That's so cliché!" - Surprisingly adept use of an uncommon word from a high school student talking about the recent reports of a stranger trying to entice young kids to ride in his vehicle. (10/1/14)

Quote of the Day (lawsuit)

"Then I'll sue the computer." - Comment from a high school student when I told him I would no longer be his teacher if he followed through with his (playful) threat to to sue me for accidentally flashing my attendance up on the projector. (9/19/14)