Tell me what you really think.
Why oh why didn't I ever have a teacher like you? I'd be 10 times as educated and have some wonderful memories of getting that way.
I envy your class, wish I could find a teacher 1/2 as cool for my grandson, he's in the first grade and hates school already.
I wager that your students will remember that class for the rest of their lives, and they will lovingly remember you as their "human" teacher. I love it - I wish I had been there.
Lordy, Jane. You make me want to go to Community College. But I have a feeling that there are no teachers as cool as you here. Wanna move to North Texas?
Oh, my. I learned long ago I should never draw in public. Yeah you for being brave enough to do so and handle the consequences!
BTW-what the hell was Buffi doing up at 2:14?
too funny! i can envision the whole thing! good for you- remembering that laughter is the best almost EVERYthing!
I remember a rather unfortunate typo in an English text in your junior high classroom.
The word was supposed to be "public."
I still laugh heartily at your description of how quickly it traveled through the school.
WF
Whoever writes math problems about "nuts and bolts" for middle school kids should be shot. Of course, I didn't think about it when I was making my lesson plans last night, so I had to say "we don't even care about the nuts" more than once. Sniggling and snickering ensued.
However, not as bad as the time a few months ago in PreCalc when we were using Kepler's law of planetary motion to predict the orbital period of Uranus. Even if you mispronounce it "*yur*-a-nis", they still know why and giggle.
Not to be blunt, but lesser men with shortcomings might have been stiff about your teaching methods. Butt, what harm can there be in pricking the funny bone? As long as the thrust of your meaty lecture wasn't lost.
Most Europeans, not just the Poles, like a good stroke of fun. Who wouldn't, after what they did to those tenors? Have things ever come to a worse end?
Someday they will erect a statue in your honor. Until that glorious climax, keep up the great, important, and life-giving work, Jane.
So, in my school in Pennsylvania, we compensate for the standards test by also giving the Stanford assessment. It has a listening section where I am to read the story and the students are to answer the questions that I read aloud. I also have to read the questions, but they can see them.
Since tests work so hard to include all ethnicities in them, I began to read the story of Consuelo and Kenisha. Fortunately, my eyes scanned ahead to the next line before I read it to the class, so I was able to change the shopkeeper's name from Mr. Wang to Mr. Smith. I thought that I had gotten away with it until I was reading the answers and saw that Mr. Wang was clearly printed in their booklet. This, of course, led to 10 minutes of laughter that began as suppressed snickers and ended up in uproarious guffaws. I was masterfully ignoring it at first until one bright bulb said, "what's so funny about Wang?" That did it. I am SO glad that my principal was not around to ask me why we were all laughing. When my bright bulb repeated his question, I told him that it was all about word associations and that maybe someone would tell him when he was old enough.
I swear this story was written by the same committee that thought including the words grope and booty in the same 8th grade vocabulary lesson was a great idea!
Mamacita, back when I was playing D&D in Cal State Fullerton classrooms over the weekend, it became a tradition to leave some blackboard "surprises" for Monday's first incoming class. (Kind of like your "global penis glowing like a poster in a black light hippie parlor", but a bit more tame. If you can call D&D notes, maps, and character caricatures tame.)
The one I remember best was altering an existing "Anthropology 101" announcement on the chalkboard to "Anthropophagy 101".
Hilarious! And the comments are good too.
Did the students get the humor of the Unix comment? Did the director say that, knowing what was going on in the classroom? If not, what a unbelieveable coincidence!
OMG I CAN'T QUIT LAUGHING.....BAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA
I had to come back and reread it again....BAHAHAHA. I threw myself into a coughing fit. BAHAHAHAHA.
Ahem. "Testify!" Jane!
Get it?
Please don't be testy with me for plumbing the depths with my sense of humor. It can be hard to swallow at times. A shrink might help. I just need to get a grip. Onward and upward, Jane.
Bonnie is in full mode here and then she did swing over to my neck of the woods and added a phallic comment on my plant of all things.... I keep telling her she needs to come up with a "Pun"ny game for Milton Bradley.
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