On Vox: kids say the darndest things
SCHOOL STARTS NEXT WEEK.
While I am semi-prepared and semi-excited about it, I think the thing I'm most looking forward to is some of the ridiculous things the children say.
I went back through my entire Twitter profile a couple weeks ago, and found that I tweet about it being freezing cold in my classroom and quotes from children the most. Here are a few gems, copy/pasted from my Twitter profile.
- 7th grade boy, in reference to a child who kept walking in front of the camera during our concert: "Come on parents, HANDLE YOUR YOUTH!!"
- me: "guys, what did i say about quiet?" 6th grade boy: "to be it."
- "miss, would you hate fridays if they were the new mondays?" I DO NOT HAVE THE TIME FOR YOUR MIND GAMES, CHILDREN.
- me to 7th grade boy: "you just made up a cereal name." 7th grade boy: "i'm not smart enough to make up 'frank n berry'"
- kid 1: "hey, kid 2 - who's your only friend on myspace? tom?"
- wow, the children are super intense and super annoying this morning. all up in my grill and etc.
- i swear i just heard a child use the term "buttgoblin." NEW FAVORITE WORD!!
- to get my attention, one of my beginning girls just PATTED MY STOMACH. WHAT.
- "achilles had a bad knee. that's how they killed 'im, shot him in the knee." - 8th grader. *headdesk*
- "there is an appropriate time and place for the macarena, and this is not it." - me, to a child doing the macarena instead of getting ready.
- a child just asked me "miss, what size are you in the foot?" i just stared at him.
- "miss, let's go to narnia!" exam week has clearly fried their brains.
- "ms. [my last name], we should play 'stairway to heaven' for festival." BEST QUOTE EVER. (FUNNY STORY: I actually bought an arrangement of "Stairway to Heaven" for them to play this year!)
- "you're cold like cereal and milk on a tuesday." DIRECT QUOTE FROM A BEGINNER. WHAAAAAT.
I hope that I can get a Twitter gadget that works on my iGoogle page, so that these kinds of tweets can continue to happen. Going back through them made me laugh so so so much.
Originally posted on newandhorrible.vox.com