Quote of the Day (old)

"I remember when I turned thirteen. I thought, 'Wow! I'm a teenager. I'm so old.'" - Comment from a high school junior. (6/2/15)

Quote of the Day (follow up)

"Man, how are we going to top that?" - Question from a high school junior during a discussion with her classmates about the recent graduation video from our school that went viral. (6/1/15)

Quote of the Day (yard work)

"Bye Mr. Have a good weekend...try not to worry about doing any yard work." - Parting greeting from the same high school student who had tried to shush his classmate the day before. Yesterday during class his friend had commented on how messy my yard was without realizing that it was messy because I had put off cleaning it in order to type and upload notes daily for their class. (5/29/15)

Quote of the Day (math club)

"I was standing with the Math Club when the camera passed." - Proud statement from a high school student after a video shoot on campus. Our school doesn't have a Math Club. (5/28/15)

Quote of the Day (Oregon)

"Wait! Aren't you from Oregon?" - Question from a high school student after it was revealed that I grew up two towns away. (5/27/15)

Quote of the Day (AP Calculus)

"Mister, am I going to be in your AP Calculus class next year?" - Question from a high school student who is getting a D in Trigonometry. (5/26/15)

Quote of the Day (sorry)

"I feel sorry for you." - Comment from a high school junior to one of the high school seniors who was anxiously waiting for the the last class of their last day to end. (5/22/15)

Quote of the Day (hate)

"I'm sorry. I know you must hate me." - Habitual apology from a student who finally finished her exam from two weeks ago an hour after school finished on her second to last day of school. I gave up trying to hide my irritation after the second Friday in a row that she pulled this same stunt in order to get off grade check over a month ago. (5/21/15)

Quote of the Day (rice)

"Mister, are you going to eat the rest of that rice?" - Question from a high school student who was eyeing my food as he asked for help during lunch. (5/20/15)

Quote of the Day (program)

"Mister, do you want to know what I did to Miss' calculators?" - Question from a student after school today. Apparently, he typed "[His name] is hot" as a program on ALL of my colleague's calculators. (5/19/15)

Quote of the Day (documentary)

"Mister, we're filming a documentary, and I was wondering if we could film you saying a few sentences about ____ in front of your students." - Request from a high school student interrupting my class. (5/18/15)

Quote of the Day (glasses)

"My friend has them." - Answer from a high school student after I asked him where his glasses were since he was struggling to see the board. (5/15/15)

Quote of the Day (names)

"I think I would give him a middle name like Frodo or Danger." - Response from a student after I joked that I would hate to see what she would name her future kids upon learning that she has a cat named Kitty and a blue fish named Bluey. (5/14/15)

Quote of the Day (tested)

"I don't know whether to laugh or throw up." - Exclamation from a high school student after she just finished taking two Advanced Placement tests back-to-back on the same day. (5/13/15)

Quote of the Day (middle name)

"Mister, what's your middle name?" - Personal question from a high school student that was trying to make a quiz about me. After I refused to answer the question, she included it in the quiz anyway. According to her quiz, my middle name is Pablo. (5/12/15)

Quote of the Day (unorganized)

"Ugh, this thing is so unorganized." - Complaint from a student who was viewing the the answers and work that I had typed up, uploaded and linked to all the homework questions for my students. I deliberately typed it out of order without any problem numbers next to it to prevent people (like this whiner) from just scrolling down and copying all my answers. (5/11/15)

Quote of the Day (eagles)

"Do eagles eat humans?" - Question from a high school junior after a wounded bird flew into the classroom as she worked on finishing her exam during lunch. (5/8/15)

Quote of the Day (fault)

"MISTER! It's all your fault." - Accusation from a former student as I passed by his classroom. When I asked him what he was talking about he replied, "The EOC (End of Course Exam). We had bad scores because you left us." (5/7/15)

Quote of the Day (instructions)

"C'mon Mister. Listen to instructions!" - Playful scolding from a student as she came by to pick up the recyclables in my classroom but realized that I had failed to take them out for disposal as instructed. (5/6/15)

Quote of the Day (snicker doodle)

"Mister, I saved you one. I promise it doesn't have any peanuts." - Greeting from a high school student who offered me a cookie as he entered class today. (5/5/15)