Quote of the Day (signs)

"Hey! That's what I was thinking during today's [standardized test]!" - Exclamation from a high school student as a slide came up during a lesson about suicide awareness. The slide discussed what suicidal thoughts might sound like and included quotes such as: "I wish I was dead.", "I'm going to end it.", "I just can't go on." and "It would be better for everyone if I just wasn't here." (4/29/15)

Quote of the Day (scrAPPz)

"Mister, I'm going to make a fighting app." - Comment from a student who playfully picked a fight with one of his friends after class. He continued, "It'll be like tinder. Swipe left, swipe right. Your opponent is 5 miles away." (4/29/15)

Quote of the Day (forever)

"OK, bye Mister. Goodbye forever." - Parting comment from a high school student before she left the classroom to take a dreaded standardized test. (4/28/15)

Quote of the Day (gross)

"MISTER! High school is the grossest place ever!" - Comment from a student as she entered the classroom. Apparently someone was coughing in the hallway and had turned away from his friend only to cough into the face of my student. (4/27/15)

Quote of the Day (sub)

"Mister, we had a sub today, and it was her first day teaching. Do you know what she told us?" - Question from a high school student in the middle of class. He continued, "At the beginning of class she said, 'I've heard that this school has the best students.' Psh! Where did she hear that?!?" (4/24/15)

Quote of the Day (problem)

"Mister, don't you want to figure it out?" - Prodding from a student who wanted to work together to figure out a problem I had skipped on an AP practice exam I was having my students take. The inspirational thing was that the request came after school with the knowledge that this wasn't for points/credit. (4/22/15)

Quote of the Day (oppotenuse)

Trying to get a student to answer "opposite" and "hypotenuse"
Me: "Sine is made up of what two sides of a [right] triangle?"
Student 1: "Oppotenuse?"
(4/21/15)

Quote of the Day (making)

Me (as Student 1 enters class with a big smile): "Why are you so happy?"
Student 1: "Because I just ate something good."
Student 2: "What!? You were making out?"
(4/21/15)

Quote of the Day (shower)

"Looks like your mangoes are getting a shower." - Comment from a high school student/neighbor who looked out the window and noticed it had started raining. (4/20/15)

Quote of the Day (recovery)

"Mister, I like that shirt. The color of it really brings out your eyes." - Compliment from a high school student who just seconds earlier told me that I have a really mean stink eye. I guess that's two compliments. (4/17/15)

Quote of the Day (precious)

Student 1: "Awww. I wish I could go to Jupiter or Saturn to see it rain diamonds."
Me: "Excuse me?"
Student 1: "According to this article, it says that it rains over 1,000 tons of diamonds over there."
Student 2: "That's because the heat and the pressure there are probably so high that you wouldn't really want to be there anyway."
(4/16/15)

Quote of the Day (brains)

Student 1: "See, Mister? I'm the brains of this group."
Student 2: "How can you be the brains when you lost..."
Student 1: "No, Mister! Don't listen to his lies!"
Student 2: "Mister, she lost 2 ID cards in the span of one lunch period!" (4/15/15)

Quote of the Day (binoculars)

"It helps. I promise." - Defensive comment from a high school student who convinced two of her peers into making binoculars with their hands to better see the small print on the board. (4/14/15)

Quote of the Day (pizza)

"It was a sugar cookie dough based crust." - Description of a high school student's favorite pizza that led to a strange debate on the true definition of a pizza. (4/13/15)

Quote of the Day (request)

"Can we do another one!?" - Request from a few high school students after taking a quiz. I guess it helped that the quiz had crazy nicknames, bright colors, silly music, and visible scores. (4/10/15)

Quote of the Day (trouble)

"Wait! Mister! Don't mark me late!...(whispered in between deep breaths) I'll get in trouble." - Plea from a high school student who ran into class right as the bell rang. (4/9/15)

Quote of the Day (longjugate)

"I know! It 'long-jugates' the graph." - Enthusiastic response from a high school student after I asked the class about elongating the period of a trigonometric function. (4/8/15)

Quote of the Day (least)

"MISTER! You're supposed to tell me that I'm not." - Plea from a high school student who had just openly claimed that he was my least favorite student. It was hard to maintain a straight face as he continued begging me to tell the class that it wasn't true. I finally broke when his classmate cheered, "Yes! That means I'm probably the second least favorite student." (4/7/15)

Quote of the Day (parents)

"Geez, you sound like my parents." - Complaint from a high school student after I reminded her that the reason she was falling behind everyone else was because upon entering class, she chose to socialize rather than grab her book & start the assignment right away. I countered by looking up her full name on the roster and proceeded to use that to address her for the rest of the period. (4/6/15)

Quote of the Day (team)

"I'm making him do it." - Comment from a high school student during a group assignment after I asked her why she wasn't doing any work when I passed by. She had gotten fed up with her "friend" who had always waited for her to do all the work then just copied all the answers. (4/2/15)