Teachers will say the darndest things!
A teacher stopped by today and told me about the cutest thing that happened while she was giving a test for the 3rd grade this morning.
She hands out the math test and explains the directions:
"put your name and number on the top. then put the number of the problem with your answer, and show your figuring on the side."
So she steps right outside the door to speak with another faculty member who has stopped by to give her some info, and she hears the kids talking. She goes back in, extrememly indignant, and instructs that they take their test in silence.
She returns to the person outside her classroom, and she hears them talking again. So, totally shocked and pissed off, she storms in and demands an explanation.
One of the kids, wringing his hands and looking very worried and distressed indeed, speaks for them all:
"Well, we didn't know what kind of FIGURINE you wanted us to draw on the side. Did you want like a ballerina or something?"
So the whole class was just completely baffled and thought she wanted a drawing of a FIGURINE on their math test. She's from the south and has a bit of a southern belle accent and says "y'all," so she assumes that they just didn't understand her usage of the word FIGURING.
She hands out the math test and explains the directions:
"put your name and number on the top. then put the number of the problem with your answer, and show your figuring on the side."
So she steps right outside the door to speak with another faculty member who has stopped by to give her some info, and she hears the kids talking. She goes back in, extrememly indignant, and instructs that they take their test in silence.
She returns to the person outside her classroom, and she hears them talking again. So, totally shocked and pissed off, she storms in and demands an explanation.
One of the kids, wringing his hands and looking very worried and distressed indeed, speaks for them all:
"Well, we didn't know what kind of FIGURINE you wanted us to draw on the side. Did you want like a ballerina or something?"
So the whole class was just completely baffled and thought she wanted a drawing of a FIGURINE on their math test. She's from the south and has a bit of a southern belle accent and says "y'all," so she assumes that they just didn't understand her usage of the word FIGURING.