Oh those crazy kids...
Some of the recent ridiculousness I've had to put up with from my second and third-grade students lately:
¤ had to explain to one boy just exactly why he couldn't go around accusing other boys in his class of being "lesbian"
¤ made a kid cry by accidentally laughing at him while telling him he most definitely could NOT do his book report on a Bakugan book
¤ confiscated some paper hat origami which had been drawn all over to designate its status as In 'N Out employee hats
¤ spent nearly an hour and a half trying to get one boy to answer his homework prompt about "a time you were scared to do the right thing," until I finally gave up and just spoon-fed him a story about finding a five dollar bill on the ground and turning it in; had to have him re-do the second half of his story when one of his classmates spontaneously transformed into a monster that supposedly chased him across the playground
¤ had to deal with boys insisting their name for the day was Michael Jackson / Tortilla / Gun Boy / Sasuke Uchiha /etc.
¤ had a boy cry huge crocodile tears and refuse to do any work for the first 45 minutes of class because he lost the Slinky he wasn't supposed to have brought to class in the first place
¤ had to explain to one boy just exactly why he couldn't go around accusing other boys in his class of being "lesbian"
¤ made a kid cry by accidentally laughing at him while telling him he most definitely could NOT do his book report on a Bakugan book
¤ confiscated some paper hat origami which had been drawn all over to designate its status as In 'N Out employee hats
¤ spent nearly an hour and a half trying to get one boy to answer his homework prompt about "a time you were scared to do the right thing," until I finally gave up and just spoon-fed him a story about finding a five dollar bill on the ground and turning it in; had to have him re-do the second half of his story when one of his classmates spontaneously transformed into a monster that supposedly chased him across the playground
¤ had to deal with boys insisting their name for the day was Michael Jackson / Tortilla / Gun Boy / Sasuke Uchiha /etc.
¤ had a boy cry huge crocodile tears and refuse to do any work for the first 45 minutes of class because he lost the Slinky he wasn't supposed to have brought to class in the first place