These students of mine make it oh so easy...
I ended 6th period a few minutes early so I could sign the many permission forms that are due tomorrow so the 8th graders can go on their end-of-year trip. While I was busy signing forms, a student wrote "Mr. Chanman is a faget" on the whiteboard on the other side of the room.
I looked up from signing to check on the class, and that's when I noticed what the student had written. Naturally, the rest of the class was waiting with part trepidation, part anticipation to see what my reaction would be. Without missing a beat, I said, "Uh, Moron, you misspelled that last word," and then I went right back to signing more permission forms. Instead of laughing at me, everyone looked at the student who obviously had written the spelling-challenged insult and made fun of him instead.
Moron.
Good Day to You, Sir
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free... it expects what never was, and never will be." --Thomas Jefferson
A family legend has it that my father's father, a high school Physics teacher in California's Central Valley long long ago once gave a student a "C" for answering the test question "What did you learn in this class this semester?" with "Not a dam thing".
ReplyDeletePoints taken off for spelling, sentence construction and grammar would have given a grade of "A".
(Kids now days think they have it tough. My father's mother taught grammar school and was his teacher a lot of his grammar school career.)
I had my mother for English my senior year in high school.
ReplyDeleteI got a "B"
Me didd not eva take speling and I grudated from scool with deploma.
ReplyDeleteI would have gotten up, grabbed a red marker, corrected that shit, and gone back to signing. :)
ReplyDeleteYou handled it quite well. :)
L. O. L. !!!! Once in awhile, students in my class come across some grafitti along the lines of "F--- Polski". When the discovering students tell me about it, I sometimes reply, that I at least hope it was a female student who wrote that!. I know, BAD, BAD, BAD. Ya gotta have thick skin to teach.
ReplyDeleteI remember many years ago, in Illinois, I lived next door to a beauty parlor. On Halloween, one of my genius students wrote "Fuk you XXXXXX" on their window. I never saw it, as far as he was concerned.
ReplyDeleteNicely done. An artist always wants appreciation for his work. This "oxygen processor" didn't get his recognition. A bitter pill to swallow I'm sure.
ReplyDeletechanman: Great comeback. I use techniques like that everyday. CONGRATS AND TAKE A BOW!!!
ReplyDeleteFor the senior prank, the seniors TP'd the front of school and wrote messages in chalk. One was "king of the shcool".
ReplyDeleteThe vice principal took a picture.
The faculty lounge agreed we should find this one and tell him "we're sorry we made a mistake, you're really not ready to graduate."
Well done!
ReplyDeleteKudos to you, Chanman; this late in the year it is hard to keep your wits about you when dealing with young'ns.
ReplyDeleteI remember having to correct a young man's work one day to inform him that a woman of low virtues was not the same thing as a garden tool. He looked at me incredulously and asked, "you mean it starts with a "w"?"
Ahh, the joys of educating!
You rock, sir.
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