How about the kids that hand you a trip slip tha says they are leaving period 4 and you are the period 1 teacher? I can't tell you how many of those I have refused to sign. The kids look at me like I am nuts and tell you that all the other teachers sign them.
I have a love/hate relationship with hall passes and hall pass books. When I subbed, I don't know how many times I caught students handing me someone else's book to sign or a note like pissedoffteacher mentioned in the above post. Not only would I get the "all the other teachers" excuse, many times I would get a new interpretation of the school rules that, if I followed them, would have removed me from the good graces of that teacher and school for future subbing requests.
I caught a kid one term holding a recorder up to the bell. When I questioned him, he said he was recording the bell so he could use it in his English class to get out early. He said the teacher was so clueless she never caught on.
I have to admit I'm one of those teachers who signs anything a kid give me without reading it. I think I've adopted a few of them over the years.
My school is OBSESSED with absense notes. The weirdest was a kid who was absent almost the entire year. His note said that the family had gone to Hong Kong to investigate a murder....ah, ok.
So your students have secret lives as detectives? Sounds like a new show for Nickolodeon.
In a sick sort of way, I love their initiative- esp. the one recording the bell. Priceless.
I get completely bogged down with the red tape, so I find myself signing whatever comes my way when I'm busy. We have late slips, absent slips, appointment slips, report to the counseler slips, tardy referrals, absence referrals, blah blah blah blah blah.Now, because of a grafitti spree, students must sign out on a separate sign-out sheet in addition to having their planner signed. The planner is their hall pass. About half of the kids do not have one.
I have a kid who's skipped 11 times already.He tried to tell me he had come late every one of those days.
Of course, he tried to tell me this when I hauled him out of his classes he has after mine. And then he tried the same thing after he skipped my class, but I saw him during lunch duty.
Yeah, I AM that stupid....
i LOVE the kids who write their own excuse notes and their mom "signs" it. today i got a note from a kid that said--and i quote--Edwin had the flue.
the other day it was a note that said "michelle has a blatter problem, so she must leave class whenever she wants"--this was written in michelle's handwriting.
once i got a note actually written by a mom. it said--no lie--"please ecuse my son. he had to stay home and help paint the bathroom."
UGH!!!
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