September 2009
18 posts
WatchWhat you may not know about Steven Chen is that he is a massive, massive Tyler Perry fan. For real.
After this video, though, who wouldn’t be?
the first month..
CM: “So did you hate your life when you started teaching?”
Matty: “Yes”
CM: “Like get up really early and just watch the clock dreading that you had to leave sooner?”
Matty: “Yes”
Cm: “When does this stop?”
Matty: “November?”
CM: (wide eyes, mouth gaping) silence
Notes! Notes! Notes!
After collecting a note from a student having finished her test:
“Didn’t you say we could do anything as long as we didn’t talk?”
“I did say that.”
“Well I wasn’t talking.”
“Hmm, yeah. You’re right. Go ahead and pass that note!”
“Really?!?”
“No. Notes are never allowed.”
Real guns sound fake
So apparently after the football game, the “pop gun” I heard was actually a real gun. About 50 feet away.
Police have identified two suspects in an incident following a football game Friday night during which several gunshots were fired on the Forrest City High School campus.
Police have recovered the gun believed to have been used in the incident, but no arrests have been made. The...
Charlie Ward
So, I just found out that our football coach is Charlie Ward. He was a Heisman trophy winner from Florida State and also played in the NBA. He later became an assistant coach for the Houston Rockets. Why is he at our school? I don’t know. But, I think it’s cool and wanted to share!
Fearmongering WORKS
Fear mongering WORKS, damn it, and this is PROOF. Down with Obitler/ Obalin/ Mussobama/ Barack “Hussein” Obama/ George W. Bushama/ Darack Vadama/ Maobama Bar Akung (in China, they FLIP NAMES… crazy Asian fascists)/ Count Barackula/ Mahmoubama Barackinijad/ Genghis BaraKhan (coincidence? I think not)/ Yokobama/ Polbama Pot!! Palin 2012!
Ugh
“Thinking about my kids in school having to listen to [Obama’s speech] just really upsets me,” a suburban Colorado mother, Shanneen Barron, told CNN affiliate KMGH-TV in Denver.
“I’m an American. They are Americans, and I don’t feel that’s OK. I feel very scared to be in this country with our leadership right now.”
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I love a good Friday quiz
One of my students, having just completed a quiz, is now using the tattered scraps of his just-discarded scratch paper as a covering for his eyes. Naturally, as he presses the balled up paper into his eye sockets, he sways back and forth, making small humming noises. Oh sixth grade, how I appreciate the fact that this is the time when even the most embarrassing, boring activity can be transformed...
Body
best observation so far...
Students finish reading article about how statistics can be misleading. The article states thats 100% of people who eat bread die! (eventually of course).
The teacher is trying to draw out a student to say that they didn’t die from eating bread and the statistic is worthless.
T: So what can we say about this?
S1: Bread makes you die
T: But is bread the reason you die?
S2: No, but bread...
Mr. K's Student Quotes
Student 1: (With hand raised) Mr. K!
Mr. K: Yes?
Student 1: (Gestures with his hand, as if to tell me to come closer to hear a secret. I approach his desk. He speaks in a controlled whisper.) You’d better take care of everyone else’s questions first, because mine is about videogames.
Mr. K: Oh, okay. Well, thanks for telling me that.
Best / Worst Student Decisions in a Classroom
I can’t compete with the best quotes, but today I did have a student attempt to jump over a desk in my class. It went badly in several ways for him, and resulted in (among other things) a bleeding toe. I think he could’ve avoided that part if he had been wearing his shoes…
And to think, this year is *better* than last year. :)
-Ginny
All-Time Favorite Student Quote
GMLjr: So what do you think that this poem (“A Dream Deferred”) about, based on the title?
NG: It’s like when a dream doesn’t go your way.
GMLjr: Good, good! What else?
NG: Well it’s like, see. You’re having this wet dream, right? And things are going great, and you’re getting with this girl… And then you wake up, and you have AIDS....
