Quote of the Day (bomb)

Student 1 [playfully]: "If the hurricane doesn't hit, I'm going to bomb this class so we don't have to come to school."
Me: "Nobody's that interested in what grade you plan to get in this class."
Student 1: "...Hey! That's not funny."
(8/31/16)

Quote of the Day (salmon)

"Mister! Are you eating salmon?!" - Question from an overly curious high school student as he peered into my lunch and saw a piece of sausage that was cut so thinly that it could be stretched out to a full meal. (8/30/16)

Quote of the Day (history)

Student 1: "I hate Miss [teacher's name]."
Student 2: "Why? I like her."
Student1: "She's so boring. She just talks all period. All she does is talk about old stuff."
Student 2: "Duh! She's a history teacher."
(8/29/16)

Quote of the Day (full)

"Should we go 'full nerd' and sit in the front or 'half nerd' and sit somewhere in the middle?" - Question posed by a high school student to her friend as they were deciding which seat to take for my new seating chart. (8/24/16)

Quote of the Day (unfinished)

"What do you mean it's not done? Can you help me?" - Questions from a high school student who stayed after school pontificating the finer details of the Rocky movies instead of getting help to finish the work that was just handed back to him because several problems were missing. (8/25/16)

Quote of the Day (fan art)

"It's fan art." - A high school student's description of this portrait of me. (8/24/16)

Quote of the Day (college elevator)

"I really hope the college that I go to has elevators." - Complaint from a high school student who was out of breath after climbing to my class on the third floor. (8/23/16)

Quote of the Day (recommendation)

"Mister, you saw me do all the extra practice problems, right?" - Self-promoting question as class ended from a high school student who had asked me to fill out a letter of recommendation form at the beginning of class. (8/22/16)

Quote of the Day (lie-fi)

Student 1: "Hey! Did they change the wi-fi password?"
Student 2 pulls out phone to check: "Yeah, I can't get on anymore. Well, I guess I won't be on my phone so much in class."
Student 3: "What!? What are we going to do?"
All eyes turn to me.
Student 1: "I bet Mister knows the password!"
(8/16/16)

Quote of the Day (America)

Student 1 gleefully enters class pointing to his garish red and blue hat covered in white stars: "U-S-A! U-S-A! Look! I'm patriotic today."
Student 2: "It was probably made in China."
Student 1 takes off his hat to check: "Mister, do you have a pair of scissors so I can cut off the label?"
(8/15/16)

Quote of the Day (phone call)

"That was my mom. She was calling to tell me how proud she was of me." - Comment from a student shortly after she asked to step outside of the classroom to take a phone call while her peers worked to finish a short assessment. Apparently she sent a picture to her mom of her score just a few minutes after she finished her assessment. (8/15/16)

Quote of the Day (stress)

"I have so much stuff (to worry about) it looks like Sharknado, but with stress...STRESSNADO!" - Comment during a visit from a former student after I mentioned that it must be a lot less stressful to be on campus now that she's done with school. (8/12/16)

Quote of the Day (peanut butter)

"Is peanut butter made from peanuts?" - Question from a high school senior that elicited strange looks from both me and her classmate. After realizing how stupid that question sounded, she exclaimed, "I don't know! They need to teach us these things in elementary school!" (8/11/16)

Quote of the Day (excuses)

"You never taught us this." & "I forgot my calculator." - Two of the best (worst?) excuses from students after they bombed a placement test following a week of reviewing some prerequisite math skills (fractions, radical expressions, graphing rational functions) necessary for the advanced math class they chose to enroll in. (8/10/16)

Quote of the Day (song)

"Hey! This is the one that Miss (Former Teacher's Name) taught us? You know, the song." - Exclamation from several students as we reviewed the quadratic formula in an advanced math class. (8/9/16)

Quote of the Day (old)

"It was nice to come back and see my old teachers...WAIT! I didn't mean to say that you were old." - Comment from a former student who came to see me for the first time since he graduated in May. (8/8/16)

Quote of the Day (stats)

"Is AP Stats and AP Statistics the same thing?" - Question from a high school senior who is currently enrolled in one of those two classes. (8/5/16)

Quote of the Day (goal)

"I need to work on leaving class faster... to maximize my recess time." - Ambition of a high school student that I overheard after she apologized for making two of her friends wait for her as she packed up her books long after everyone else left for recess. (8/4/16)

Quote of the Day (return)

" *sigh* It's like we never left." - Complaint from a high school senior as I had the class begin on their first assignment after summer break. (8/3/16)

Quote of the Day (ruining)

"I felt like telling him, 'Go away! Stop ruining my summer!'" - Comment from a high school student after she told me that she ran into her "favorite" teacher over summer break. (8/2/16)